Announced in last month's issue of Newtype Magazine, Kobato will be animated by Madhouse Studios and be aired in Fall (Autumn) 2009 on NHK. CLAMP's own Nanase Ohkawa will be directly involved in the project by providing the character designs.
Kobato is roughly about a young girl named Kobato Hanato who needs to fill a strange bottle with the feelings of pain and suffering from people's hearts by making them happy. Along the way, she is accompanied by an ill tempered stuffed toy dog named Ioryogi.
The first time I remember hearing about this title was back in 2006 at Anime Expo during CLAMP's visit. One of them had a plushie of Ioryogi and mentioned it was their newest work in Japan. Some Americans probably already had a taste of this series as the manga had a brief appearance in Newtype USA running from June 2007 to May 2008 for a total of nine installments. I probably definitely will be checking the anime out, and fans of CLAMP will probably enjoy this.
Scans of the Kobato anime feature in Newtype Magazine are inside.
That's right, many have wondered when a Hare Hare Yukai dance of the Figma figures would be released and the answer is now! Apparently it took the creator 5 months to make it. If memory serves me correctly, Max Factory commissioned the original creator of the stop motion Gundam Hare Hare Yukai video to make this.
Full stop motion video inside!
ANN reports that the January issue of Animedia contained a quote from the production staff of Code Geass at Sunrise Studios:
"All of you have shown us much appreciation and made the DVDs as well as the CDs so popular. Really, we have been blessed with fervent fans…. Thank you very much. Like we have said before, [a major character development happened] but Geass cannot die. It just ended, but we think it would be nice if we can still do something more. In any case, when we can announce something, in the not-so-distant future…"
Whether an actual sequel, prequel, or simply a spinoff is unknown but definitely Sunrise is not going to stop milking the cash cow.
What better way to spend the holiday season than to see what's new airing this season in Japan? A bit late we know, but this has been sitting on our desktops for months.
Enjoy.
Announced last month, Broccoli emailed their fans last week in regards to their closing. There was much speculation on the survivability of anime in the United States with its decline partially due to fansubs and scanlators, and within the last few months many companies and corporations were hit even harder with the economic down turn and Broccoli turned out to be one of them.
Broccoli has just finished running several giveaways as well as selling off a large portion of their remaining items from their office and warehouse.They are currently still trying to keep some titles licensed in the US by discussing it with other publishers.
The people at Broccoli USA are wonderful people and we've enjoyed working with them in the past. This is saddening news and we wish them the best of luck in their future endevowers.
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