As always, translated from
MOON PHASE.
These are probably good so you're not allowed to make contentless posts about how everything sucks: Chevalier, Death Note, Kanon, 009-1, Ayakashi Ayashi, GEASS
Things with actual dates:
08/19 Chevalier - The Rose of Versailles, but the crossdressing happens in the opposite direction, and there's some secret society and a demon.
08/20 Riri to Kaeru to (Oto) - A guy goes to an amusement park and meets a talking frog, and then.. some stuff I don't understand and an adventure occurs.
This is on Animax so it's an art film.
09/01 Ghost in the Shell S.A.C Solid State Society - Pay-per-view showing of the S.A.C movie.
09/08 Lupin III: Seven Days Rhapsody - Probably just a one-shot, but still, Lupin III.
09/08 Black Blood Brothers - Vampire show. That guy doesn't look at all like Alucard, no way.
09/16 Silk Road - Shounen Yuto - 3D CGI kids' show
09/17 & 09/18 Taiyou no Mukishiroku
09/22 UFO Princess Walküre 4 - Somehow Arco's fault.
09/28 Pokémon Diamond & Pearl
09/-- (Kimi ga Nozomu Eien) Ayu-Mayu Theater
This is actually an internet radio broadcast, as far as I can tell. Why is it in the TV listings? Don't ask me, I just translate them.
10/01 La Corda D'oro ~Primo Passo~ (Kin'iro no Corda) - Quite possibly a shoujo romance about a girl who plays violin.
10/03 D.Gray-man
10/03 Death Note
10/04 Negima (Mahou Sensei Magister Negi Magi etc) - Animated by SHAFT (Tsukuyomi, PPD), not the retarded chimpanzees that did the last one.
10/05 Sasami & The Magical Girl Club 2 - The first one wasn't any good, in case you were wondering.
10/05 Mamoru-kun ni Megami no Shukufuki wo! - That means "Mamoru was blessed by a goddess", but nobody cares.
High school romantic comedy possible magical powers involved silly hairstyles etc
10/05 Kanon (Key/Kyoto Animation) - Same production team as AIR and Haruhi, better character design than AIR.
This is a 26-episode remake of the last production.
10/05 Asatte no Houkou - Triad-bait. I'm not confident enough to translate the plot summary.
10/05 009-1 - In the grim future of anime there is only war and a spy drama.
This is based on a work by Shōtarō Ishinomori, which is very good, but it's actually completely unrelated to Cyborg 009.
10/07 Pururun! Shizuka-chan - I... don't know.
10/07 Ayakashi Ayashi - A strange tale of the Tempou period (1831-1845).
BONES' new 50-episode show.
Clearly a ripoff of Gun Musashi, which was clearly a ripoff of David Gonterman:
http://www.commuterbarnacle.com/gonterman/441.html
(By the way, this
Shou Aikawa guy is clearly some kind of hero.)
But anyway,
10/07 Jigoku Shoujo 2nd - The last series ended up being very good. You just stopped watching before that.
10/07 History's Strongest Disciple Kenichi - I have the vague feeling I should know what this is.
October, but no more accurate date:
Kekkai-shi - You know, like Mushi-shi, but he -shis barriers instead of Mushi.
I'm pretty sure I read a chapter of this in Animerica and that it's shounen fighting.
Lovely Idol - I'm just going to pretend this doesn't exist.
Katekyoushi Hitman REBORN!
Usahana & Kerokerokeroppi - Two different things, combined into one entry because they have no website and are both named after Hello Kitty characters. (I have a perfectly good reason to know this okay)
Hataraki Man - From a 1989 hit fashion-industry manga.
Happiness! - Dating game adaptation, but with more annoying 4chan meme because one of the girls is a boy.
Busou Renkin/Weapon Alchemist - Shounen Jump manga:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busou_Renkin
Tokimeki Memorial ~Only Love~ - Dating game again. This one's FAMOUS, though. Even parodied in Excel Saga!
Yamato Nadesico 7 Change - Apparently not actually about anorexia. "Wallflower" in the US.
http://forums.somethingawful.com/sho...#post313675713
Yoake mae yori ruri-iro na Crescent Love - Great name. Unfortunately, it's a dating game, but at least the female lead is named "Feena Pham Ashura Ito".
CODE GEASS - Lelouch of the Rebellion - Really tall people (designs by CLAMP) fight each other in giant robots (designs by Sunrise). Bad trailer:
http://www.geass.jp/promo.html
In case you're paying attention to staff, practically everyone involved who isn't CLAMP worked on Planetes.
Otome wa Oboku-sama ni Koishiteru - Princess Princess.
Pumpkin Scissors - GONZO.
~Gift~ eternal rainbow - They're trying to sneak Da Capo up on us, aren't they.
Giniro no Orinshisu (no website) - Japanese Wikipedia says it's a light novel, and that it has illustrations by Hirashi "I can only draw one face" Hirai. No plot description.
Bakumatsu Kikansetsu Irohani hoheto - A picture of a guy with a sword.
Bartender - Yep, a bartender. He's tending bar.
Artificial Insect Kabutoborg - kids' fighting show
Ghost Hunt - Horror, with no real website. The author won a manga prize alongside Mushi-shi... for another manga.
Marginal Prince ~Gekkeiju no Oujitachi~ - bishounen
Movies
(These dates are pretty much useless to us, since they're not DVD release dates, but those aren't available yet.)
09/17 Mahou Sensei Negima! Summer Edition
10/01 Aim for the Top! & Aim for the Top 2! Combined Movie - D:
(I can't actually tell if this is one movie or two back-to-back. It's showing in Akihabara somewhere on that date if you want to report on it.)
It is a mystery
Bleach Memories of Nobody
New Space Battleship Yamato * Revival Compilation -
This should answer all your questions.
Mushi-shi - Live-action, directed by Katsuhiro Otomo
Makoto Shinkai's movie
5 Centimeters per Second comes out in 2007. Here's a very pretty trailer:
http://a.scarywater.net/triad/[Triad...er.mp4.torrent
OVA
Really, only NegativeZero cares about these, but here they are.
08/25 Stratos 4 Log Book
09/22 Stratos 4 Advance CODE 207
09/27 Kaleido Star
"Sometime this fall"
Strike Witches - Like Yukikaze, but moe!
"This isn't even fall season" bonus extra:
11/29 Maria-sama ga Miteru 3rd Season, OVA 1
Oh, maybe the Densha Otoko Mina extra thing (
http://www.gonzo.co.jp/title/mina/) will come out. Probably not though.
Bonus post-fall announcements:
Galaxy Angel II - Really. Entirely new cast too.
Kujibiki Unbalance
Super Robot Wars Original Generation
Nodame Cantabile (paging Hildgrim) - This may actually be live-action though.
Studio GAINAX - Maiking Breakthrough Gurren-Lagann
IDOLM@STER
Giant Robo
Emma, a Victorian Romance, second season - This is based entirely on one magazine article, but I think they just don't bother updating their website.
Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha 3rd StrikerS
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