Anime Shorts: Ghibli, Yumeiro Patissiere, 6-Jouma

Before getting to the point (i.e. the blushing loli below), let's be done with the generic Ghibli stuff. Two more anime shorts are being created by the veteran studio for its Mitaka no Mori Ghibli Museum from Tokyo, to be shown there between November 20 and May 2011. The shorts are called Pan-Dane to Tamago-Hime (Yeast and Princess Egg) and Takara-Sagashi (Treasure Hunting). ANN has some additional details about these, and about some other fluffy stuff that's up for groping at said museum.



Next we have a Yumeiro Patissiere short anime film, subtitled Mune Kyun Tropical Island!. This one will be screened this summer at the "Natsu Doki- Ribon-kko Party 5" event, toured around Japan by Shueisha's Ribon magazine, starting from July 30. The same event is also screening a Hiyokoi short anime film, based on a shoujo romantic school comedy manga by Moe Yukimaru.

Now, about that loli... She appears to be one of the characters from Takehaya's Roku-Jouma no Shinryakusha!? light novel series, whose 5th volume is shipping in Japan this June 1. An upcoming anime adaptation is clearly hinted on its official website (via ANN), and this very brief trailer for some promotional DVD further teases in that direction. Nothing official yet, though.

And there's one more potentially-anime project announced this weekend, called Love Live!. Its official website isn't clear about the format of this "school idol project", but an anime is to be expected, given its production committee - the anime studio Sunrise, Bandai Visual's music label subsidiary Lantis, and ASCII Media Works' Dengeki G's Magazine - as well as the meta keywords listed in said website's code (including "bishoujo anime", but also "bishoujo game"). Whatever it is, we only have to wait until its June 30 debut to find out.