Posted by: sidereelseiya on: April 15, 2011
Fujimi Shobo announced today that their light novel series “High School DxD” (DxD pronounced “dee dee”) will be getting animated.
Posted by: sidereelseiya on: April 11, 2011
Three new anime shows were announced recently, in vastly different ways. The most recent announcement, via a teaser website, was Persona 4 The Animation, based on the game of the same name. The cast stays the same as the game as well. Animation production will be done by AIC Asta (Sora no Otoshimono series), and [...]
Posted by: sidereelseiya on: February 10, 2011
Dengeki Bunko announced today that three of their light novel releases -”Rou Cube”, “Kamisama no Memo Chou” (“God’s memo pad”), and “Kyoukai Senjou no Horizon” (official English title “Horizon on the Middle of Nowhere”) – will get anime adaptations.
Posted by: sidereeldom on: September 16, 2010
It’s been a long time since the word takabisha got thrown around – it’s an older character archetype that predates tsundere. It means a haughty and overbearing girl, and it applies to Kirino of Ore no Imouto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai (“There’s no way my little sister is this cute”) far more [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: August 23, 2010
Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu fans like me are about to get a veritable smorgasbord of delicious BakaTest over the next year. The comedy series currently has a light novel series, a manga adaptation, two manga spin-offs, and a TV anime under its belt, and every one of those is running strong. Volume 8 of the [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: August 11, 2010
The Ore no Imouto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai anime will be upon us soon, and AIC has been gracious enough to release a minute-long trailer. The trailer introduces the main characters in 60 seconds, set to whimsically fast-paced music. As a reminder, the story of OreImo starts when a high school boy [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: August 2, 2010
Remember back in May, when they announced an anime for Kore ha Zombie Desu Ka? The first bits of news slipped out of publisher Fujimi Shobo today, announcing the main staff of the upcoming adaptation. There are some decent names on the list, though the number of times I see Seikon no Qwaser in their resumes [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: July 29, 2010
The latest light novel to anime conversion is Infinite Stratos, a relatively new and unknown series by rising author Yumizuru Izuru. The science fiction series has sold 400,000 total copies over five books so far, which is a modest success but nothing to write home about – for comparison, the To Aru Majutsu no Index novels [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: July 16, 2010
Dragon Crisis, come on down, you’re the next contestant on “Let’s Make a Light Novel Into an Anime!” Kizaki Kaya’s fantasy novels are on the fast track to the anime world, and a lot of anime veterans are conducting the train. The above image from Shueisha’s homepage highlights the three major announcements: Tachibana Hideki (Bleach: [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: May 17, 2010
The anime industry may be jumping on the zombie bandwagon a bit late, but when they hop on a bandwagon, they do it with both feet. On the heels of the upcoming Highschool of the Dead anime comes the announcement that the action-fantasy light novel series Kore wa Zombie Desu ka? (“Is this a zombie?”) has [...]
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