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Summer 2011 Anime Preview: Uta no Prince-sama
If there’s an animation studio that I pay attention to with their projects, even if it seems like it wouldn’t be one I’d like, it’s A-1 Pictures. They’re back this summer with a new series called Uta no Prince-sama – Maji Love 1000%, a twelve episode TV show based on…
Summer 2011 Anime Preview: Kaito Tenshi Twin Angel
After an OVA series that was released in 2008 with animation production by Nomad, this series is back as a TV series this summer from JC Staff based off of the original work by Sammy with Kaito Tenshi Twin Angel: Tokimeki Paradise!! The original OVA was a pretty simple magical…
Summer 2011 Anime Preview: Kamisama Dolls
Brain’s Base has a new series hitting this summer that’s being adapted from the eight volume manga series of the same name, Kamisama Dolls. The manga, beginning in 2007, is from Hajime Yamamura, who has had several manga series to his name but this is his first one to be…
Summer 2011 Anime Preview: Dantalian no Shoka
A relatively recent new light novel series is getting the anime adaptation nod this summer from Gainax with the studio working on Dantalian no Shoka for TV Tokyo. The light novel series, which has a couple of manga series that kicked off in 2010, started back in 2008 under the…
Summer 2011 Anime Preview: R-15
AIC has certainly had its ups and downs over the years as an anime production studio, but they in one form or another have been responsible for some of my formative shows. They’re back this season with a new show called R-15, based on the light novels of the same…
Summer 2011 Anime Preview: Ikoku Meiro no Croisee
Period piece anime does tend to show up over the years in interesting places, such as this past years Gosick and earlier incarnations such as Emma, Chrono Crusade and Baccano! all working fairly recent history, at home and abroad. The latest one that hits this summer is that of Ikoku…
Summer 2011 Anime Preview: Ro-Kyu-Bu!
Everything you could probably want to know about this series can be told from the one image that we’ve got here. Cute young girls from a sports-comedy series. That’s either going to make you squee in pleasure or scream as you run as far away from it as you can.…
Summer 2011 Anime Preview: Kami-sama no Memo-cho
J.C. Staff is generally a pretty busy and diverse production company and one series that they have hitting this summer is Kami-sama no Memo-cho, which is based off of the light novel and manga series of the same name which literally translates as God’s Memo Pad. The original work was…
Summer 2011 Anime Preview: Yuru Yuri
This will be a tough show because right off the bat, I want to just write Yuri Yuri! Yuru Yuri is a new show airing on TV Tokyo based off of the manga of the same name by mangaka Namori. The twelve episode series has its origins in the manga…
Summer 2011 Anime Preview: No. 6
Some shows have just a very simple premise to them that makes you wonder why it was greenlit in the first place. With No. 6, that can definitely be felt as the basic idea is that it’s about a young boy that lives in a futuristic society where he ends up…