It’s been a long time since we’ve had Mamoru Oshii on the TV side of anime, going back decades, but we got the reveal in June 2019 about the VladLove anime series. The show was planned for the fall 2020 season but the social media side has updated to reveal that it’s being delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the time needed to get it ready just isn’t there with all the cascading delays that are occurring across the board. It’ll be sometime in 2021 for its twelve-episode run.
Oshii’s listed as creator and chief director as he works with director Junji Nishimura on the project. With Kei Yamamura on board to work on the scripts while Kazunari Niigaki is serving as the character designer, it’s shaping up well. The production involves Comic Animation along with Drive while Production I.G. is listed as production cooperation.
We have decided to push back the release date of #VLADLOVE to protect our staff from the coronavirus. We will be sure to announce the schedule as soon as it’s been determined.
Below is a message from the Executive Director, Mamoru Oshii.
— ぶらどらぶ & IA公式 (@VLADLOVE_ANIME) May 8, 2020
Serialized anime is not a cheaper edition of theatrical
anime! I wanted to do something that I can do only with
a serialized work. It ’s been fun to create the first
serialized anime in a long while. I ’m very interested in
how this comedy is received by the audience
Mamoru Oshii— ぶらどらぶ & IA公式 (@VLADLOVE_ANIME) May 8, 2020
Romi Park has joined the project in the role of Chihiro Chimatsuri. Check out her character promo below. The Japanese cast includes Ayane Sakura as Mitsugu Bamba and Rina Hidaka as Mai Vlad Transylvania.
Kanako Takatsuki is on board to perform the theme song as part of the BlooDye unit being created for the series. You can see them all together in the tweet below.
The series is scheduled for a spring 2020 run where it’ll run for twelve episodes as it focuses on a largely female cast that looks to have some touches of Lum from Urusei Yatsura to it, which tickles my heart.
Check out the official site and Twitter.
Plot Concept: The series is a slapstick comedy centering on a vampire girl named Mai and a high school girl.
