Madman Entertainment was busy this weekend as well at the Brisbane Supanova Pop Culture Expo 2013 as they had four new anime acquisitions to talk about for their 2014 release slate. Details for LAGRANGE -The Flower of Rin-ne- and ZETMAN are minimal at the moment as they’re expected in 2014 but not much more is known beyond that, though both are expected to be bilingual and at least on DVD. When it comes to the other two titles, there’s a bit more information available. Good Luck Girl is set for a March 2014 release at the moment on both DVD And BD while Karneval is slotted for an August 2014 date on DVD and BD.
Karneval: Armed with only an abandoned bracelet as a clue, Nai searches for someone dear to him. After a run in with a pick-pocket named Gareki, the two find themselves involved in a government set-up that leaves them wanted criminals. Desperate and on-the-run, Nai and Gareki turn to the country’s most powerful defense organization – “Circus” – for help.
Good Luck Girl: Ichiko gets lucky a lot. She’s rich, beautiful, smart, stacked, and better than you at everything. There’s a reason life always goes her way. She unwittingly steals happiness energy from everyone else! Momiji—a poverty god with a freakishly huge syringe and a bunch of oddball charms—has to take Ichiko’s extra good fortune and return it to her various victims of circumstance. Like an Adderall-raddled cat-and-mouse chase in a funhouse full of pop culture references, the spirit of shortcomings and her self-absorbed subject stick each other with jabs, gags, bizarre bets, and dirty tricks aplenty. It’s a side-splitting ride, and everyone’s seatbelt is defective. But how many blows to the ego can Ichiko take before she grows a sympathy gland and stops hogging all the happiness?
Zetman: Jin and Kouga may come from very different walks of life, but both boys are searching for the real meaning of justice and what it means to be a hero!
Jin may be poor, but he lives a happy life with his grandfather – until the day tragedy strikes and changes his life forever. Kouga, born into a wealthy family, is in line to inherit his family’s power and fortune. But what is true strength? What does it really mean to be human? Jin and Kouga’s fates intertwine in their struggle to harness the power that lies within each of them!
Lagrange: Madoka Kyono is an energetic girl who is full of passion. As the proud – and only – member of the Kamogawa Girls’ High School Jersey Club, she goes around helping people in need. But Madoka’s life is turned upside down when she is suddenly asked by a mysterious girl named Lan to pilot a robot. Motivated by her desire to protect the people and city of Kamogawa, Madoka agrees to pilot the resurrected Vox robot to fight against extraterrestrials that have come to attack Earth.
