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Spring Anime 2007

Reideen

I’ve been out of the anime scene for close to a year now — haven’t watched anything since last year’s KEMONOZUME — and wasn’t paying attention much until I read that 50 anime series are premiering this spring (see a list here)! I just took a quick glance at some of the new shows, and so a few highlights:

  • REIDEEN, the latest from Production I.G, looks pretty (check out the trailer here, and here they talk about the series), and is airing on WOWOW (Saturdays at 19:00).
  • I guess it’s worth noting that an animated adaptation of the BLUE DRAGON game, featuring character designs by DRAGONBALL creator Akira Toriyama, is debuting in April as well.
  • I don’t know much about BOKURANO, but the character designs look nice. It’s from Gonzo.
  • THE SKULL MAN could be a good actioner — see the trailer here.

Update
Two shows to add: MOONLIGHT MILE (”a hard sci-fi about a developing space program”) and SEIREI NO MORIBOTO (fantasy from the director of GHOST IN THE SHELL: STAND ALONE COMPLEX).

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6 Responses

  1. Joseph K says:

    Hmmm… on that page, a couple of I.G. and Gonzo’s other productions, Seirei no Moribito, and Romeo x Juliet also look like they might hold something. Seirei moreso than RxJ.

    But by far the best thing there was sugarbunnies. Gogogo Sanrio~!

  2. this site not as good astokyopop but its a preety good site

  3. what dum people. you guys would reather go on this site thean go on tokyo pop. and joseph k is so dum. and so are all you people who go on this dum site.

  4. se whta i mean thay wont even let you say the same thing.

  5. Jean Snow says:

    Considering I write very few anime/manga-related posts here, I’ll take that as a compliment.

  6. Jean Snow says:

    Wow, I went from pretty good to dum in one day!

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