January Anime News Round-up

For the most part, January was a pretty quiet month on the anime announcements front. After brushing aside some idiotic / kiddy projects into the Ignore Bin, we're left with a fairly manageble selection of new titles. Conveniently leaving us just enough time to catch up on the trailers front. Oh yeah, we had plenty of those, and still plenty left to post here.

- Cross Game - based on a baseball manga about a grade-school boy whose family runs a sports store. And, more importantly, the 4 daughters of the family who runs a nearby bathing batting center. Begins in spring 2009.

- Elementhunters - a Japanese-Korean sci-fi adventure / educational anime aimed at children to teach chemical elements. Fascinating. Begins in July 2009.

- Kanamemo - based on a 4-koma manga about a middle-school girl who - having lost her parents and grandmother - ends up living and working at a newspaper delivery office. An office full of "charming, self-assertive bishoujo", by the way! Sounds loli enough.

- Lupin III vs. Detective Conan - just a TV special uniting the two titular characters for a "legendary match", in an original story revolving around some treasure.

- Seitokai no Ichizon - confirmed to be in the works, following last year's rumor.

- Sora no Otoshimono (Lost Property of the Sky?) - based on a "heartful" comedy manga about a fallen - and rather hot looking - angel, erroneously classified as an "unidentified mysterious animal" (UMA) at first.

- Suzumiya Haruhi-chan no Yuuutsu & Nyoron Churuya-san - set to begin streaming on Kadokawa's YouTube channel from February 13.

- The Sacred Blacksmith (Seiken no Blacksmith) - based on an "unconventional fantasy" light novels series, about a former noble's daughter who joined a knighthood. While on the lookout for a blacksmith who can repair an old sword she inherited from her father, she teams up with a man who possesses the power of... ah, whatever, you'll see.