The episode title is a bit of a misnomer. Sheryl doesn’t actually go anywhere at all - admittedly she sings a farewell rendition of Diamond Crevasse, but it’s not like she actually leaves just yet. Besides, it’s looking extremely doubtful that she’s got anywhere to go, seeing as the Macross Galaxy has quite [...]
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<object width="520" height="411"><param name="movie" value="http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/x5sn3n&amp;related=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/x5sn3n&amp;related=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="520" height="411" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always"></embed></object> The first Gurren Lagann Parallel Works video, which you can see at left, is out. For those of you who haven't heard about this, various members of GAINAX's staff are pairing Gurren Lagann music with new, alternate world animations. This first one is animator Watanabe Keisuke's, and it combines the song Rap wa Kan no Tamashii da! with a fantasy setting. In it, Simon, Kamina, and Viral are attacking a fortress to free Nia, and they run into Yoko and the woman who was in Viral's dream sequence from episode 26. It's a lot of fun to watch, and it's rekindled my memories of how much I liked the Gurren Lagann OST (i.e. I've got it on my playlist now). The next one video is set to be released June 23rd. Thanks konart Dengeki Online has pictures from the Ranka Lee/Nakajima Megumi mini-live at Odaiba VenusFort that I mentioned earlier this week. She performed four songs: Ai - Oboeteimasuka, What 'bout my star?, Neko Nikki, and Seikan Hikou. It's also worth pointing out that some of the images match the choreography from the Seikan Hikou video on the official site. In more Macross Frontier news, it was announced yesterday on the staff blog that there is a special short movie in store for purchasers of the first volume BD/DVD. It's called ALL THAT VF and will feature many of the Valkyries from the Macross series in commemoration of its 25th anniversary. The first volume is set to be released on July 25th. Canned Dogs has a survey of what people are saying in the ongoing flap between Konjiki no Gash!! mangaka Raiku Makoto and publisher Shogakukan. If you find anything that you think I should mention on any particular day’s Daily Dose, please send me an email with the words “ANIME NEWS” somewhere in the subject line.
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Toshokan Sensou, or to go by its neat translated title of Library Wars, is simultaneously lightweight fun, and thought provoking and serious. As I outlined in my last post regarding the Macross franchise, you don’t have to forgo brightness and humour to make a serious point; get the balance right and you can have it [...]
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So, the school year’s winding down. Euro ‘08 just started (I’m still pissed over Germany loosing to Croatia…), prom’s in a couple hours, finals start next week, I finally caught up with Macross Frontier (the OST is amazing, can’t stop listening, will write, will write, promise) and I’m stuck doing my technical drafting project at [...]
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Do these Meltraedi/Zentraedi/whatever they are people eat when they are full size or when they’re mini? I was just wondering about the economics of farming enormous cows; if the aliens are able to miniaturise themselves whenever with generally little consequence, do you think they save money by buying huge slabs of meat or massive [...]
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Ranka enters the Miss Macross contest and, mildly surprisingly, doesn’t win, even with a rather wonderfully animated rendition of Watashi wa Kare no Pilot, one of those very rare anime songs where the lyrics actually make some kind of semantic and narrative sense! Meanwhile, Alto joins the SMS and concurrently goes through a fairly intense training [...]
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According to MOON PHASE and a listing on studio ingresA's website, a Tales of the Abyss anime is in the works by Sunrise with Kodama Kenji as the director and Hishinuma Yoshihito as character designer. Also according to MOON PHASE, Nagai Gou's Z Mazinger (a retelling of the classic Mazinger Z) is getting a 26-episode anime produced by Palm Studio and directed by Imagawa Yasuhiro. Next week's finale of The Tower of Druaga ~the Aegis of Uruk~ will be accompanied by a simultaneous broadcast of a live chat with the main staff members. The special one-hour GyaO program starts at 1AM JST Friday night/Saturday morning, 15 minutes before the episode begins airing on tvk. This technically isn't news, but worth seeing if you haven't already: NEC Direct is selling customizable CODE GEASS-themed laptops. For ARIA fans, the ARIA The ORIGINATION PS2 game's website has uploaded a two-minute video of the game's fully animated OP. The game goes on sale June 26th. The Japanese blog MUSIC ROOM has put together a list of the top selling anime song singles for the first half of 2008 (stretching from mid-December of last year to last week). Number one on the list is the Shion no Ou ED, My dear friend by Aoyama Thelma, in part because Soba ni Iru ne, a song featuring popular artist SoulJa is also on the CD. Number two is CODE GEASS's OP, O2 by ORANGE RANGE, and number three is Macross Frontier's ED, Diamond Crevasse by Nakabayashi May. You can find the entire top 20 list here. If you find anything that you think I should mention on any particular day’s Daily Dose, please send me an email with the words “ANIME NEWS” somewhere in the subject line. Image at left courtesy of maca on pixiv (account needed to access).
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Macross Frontier maybe be battling it out with Code Geass for the title of most popular show this season, but the one area it kicks complete ass is the Soundtrak. The first OST from the series is a killer album, and has made it into the top 3 albums list in Japan. So [...]
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Ranka is asked to participate in a movie and Altoh and Sheryl both are on the scene.
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The Macross Frontier website has updated with information about the Ranka Lee/Nakajima Megumi mini-live occurring this weekend at the Odaiba VenusFort. The website also now features a video showing Ranka's moves while singing her debut song, Seikan Hikou. On the topic of Macross music (mainly because this news came out before I started doing Daily Doses, and I've neglected to mention it till now), the second OP starting in July will be the song Lion, performed by both Nakajima Megumi and Nakabayashi May, and the new ED will be Sheryl Nome/Nakabayashi May's Northern Cross. Famitsu has a preview of Bounen no Xamdou, the upcoming BONES series. Still no official word on which season it'll be airing in, though I would guess this Fall since it's not going to be Summer. Popular singer Ayaka's song Konya mo Hoshi ni Dakarete will be used as the theme song to the upcoming Oshii Mamoru movie, The Sky Crawlers. The website for the upcoming Sekirei series has updated with airdates, a new 3-minute trailer (requires Internet Explorer), and the times of the advance screenings at various Comic Toranoana shops across Japan on June 28th. Sekirei is now set to premiere on TOKYO MX on the night of Wednesday, July 2nd. The Hidamari Sketch x 365 website has updated with airdates and opening/ending song previews. Hidamari Sketch x 365 is set to premiere on TV Tokyo on Thursday, July 3rd. If you find anything that you think I should mention on any particular day’s Daily Dose, please send me an email with the words “ANIME NEWS” somewhere in the subject line. Image at left courtesy of 瀬奈 on pixiv (account needed to access).
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