Some are old, most are new, some are
copy-pasted borrowed, none are blue. But they're all worth an editorial catch-up, and a select few of them should even be worth getting excited about. Unless you've had enough of
Horo - in which case you might want to go see a doctor.
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428: Fuusa Sareta Shibuya de - the upcoming Nintendo Wii visual novel game from Sega is getting an anime adaptation done by studio P.A. Works (
Ghost in the Shell: SAC - Solid State Society,
Darker than Black). Meanwhile, Type-Moon is already producing a bonus anime scenario for the game, whose story involves a detective, a young man, a virus researcher, a freelance writer, and a cat mascot character.
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Asura Cryin' - based on the semi-serious supernatural school action light novels of the same title. Begins in 2009.
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Black God (Kurokami The Animation) -
confirmed to be in the making at studio Sunrise, as first
revealed during the summer.
Looking good, though it sounds a bit
Shana'istic - not that it would be a bad thing, no sir (
website).
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Devil Kings (Sengoku Basara) - an anime adaptation of Capcom's action-adventure game franchise, in the works at Production I.G. Begins in 2009.
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Evangelion 2.0 - now officially titled Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance, with a tentative release date set for early summer 2009. All thanks to the recently relaunched
website, which also promises that the second movie will feature the fan-favorite character Asuka, the EVA-02 unit, "new Evangelions", "added items previously unknown to anyone", "a shocking new story, and new visuals" (via
ANN).
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Floating Moon - "an original environmentally aware sci-fi" anime feature produced by Marvin Media, a
newly-formed independent licensing, development and production firm. Begins in 2010.
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Oblivion Island: Haruka and the Magic Mirror (Hottarake no Shima: Haruka to Mahou no Kagami) - tentative title for a new Production I.G computer-animated film. From their
press release, it sounds like a family-oriented thingie, driven by the tagline
"Where do all your childhood's treasures go when you grow up?". Begins in summer 2009.
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Spice and Wolf 2nd Season - hell yeah! The foxy (or rather wolfy?) Horo will return in a new TV anime, as
confirmed on the series'
website. The potentially-bad news is that the sequel is being animated by studio Brain's Base, not by Imagin (who did a great job on the first season).
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Street Fighter IV - a 50-60'ish minutes long
anime feature produced by Studio 4°C, based on Capcom's upcoming ass-kicking game; not to be confused with the in-game anime cinematics created by the same studio. You can get a taste of it by watching the
Street Fighter IV trailer shown a few days ago at Tokyo Game Show 2008.