So the anime industry piddles out a few new series in the next couple of months. Time to get the shots in early!
It’s an anime based on a card game. Unfortunately that slot is still ably filled by our favourite angular, Lovecraftian, and now cyberpunk, card game franchise. This show with generic soft faced moppets as its leads stands no chance in changing that.
La Corda D’Oro ~secondo passo~
Pretty boy “reverse harem” gets second season. I see on wikipedia it is in the genre Neoromance, which I read at first as Necromance, which probably is a genre. And if not a genre at the very least a band name.
This is a one off special, an adaptation of an ecological novel. It features talking animals in the vein of Watership Down and Animals of Farthing Wood. I HATE Watership Down and Animals of Farthing Wood. Talking cartoon animals should be trying to kill one another with anvils, outwitting Police Officers/Park Rangers/Zoo Keepers or battling evil aristocratic toads. This sort of animals in realistic peril cartoons are NO FUN.
More of the sort of smutty comedy that Shinichiro Kimura (Burn Up Excess, Cosplay Complex, Hand Maid May and so forth) does a lot of. Unfortunately his brand of smutty comedy tends to be more Carry On Girls rather than Carry On Cleo.
The promo image looks nice in a sub-Birdy The Mighty sort of way. But then you look at the staff and production company it becomes a lot harder to believe it’ll be any good. However NHK are funding it, and it’s an educational show. The similarly ostensibly educational Marie & Gali looked gorgeous, so there’s some hope here.
COBRA THE ANIMATION: Rokunin no YÅ«shi
COBRA. Madhouse. Osamu Dezaki. On paper this can’t fail. Dezaki’s original adaptations were great, the question is if the Dezaki of 2009 can match that work?