Kobato. Anime Website Opens

In light of today's Tokyo International Anime Fair 2009 (TAF) inauguration, at least for business attendees, an official website for the upcoming anime Kobato. has opened its virtual doors. With it, comes the reassurance that the TV anime will begin broadcast on the NHK network from autumn 2009, putting to rest our doubts from the initial announcement.



The website includes some character designs and a larger artwork that I took the time to make into a wallpaper, should anyone find it worthy enough of his/her desktop. There's also a staff listing for the core team at studio Madhouse and the original manga's authoring quartet CLAMP, along with a brief story outline. But we'll turn to Manga Updates for that one.

"Hanato Kobato is a cute girl who has a mission: fill up a mysterious bottle she carries with her in order to grant her wish. For that mission, she's counting with Ioryogi's help, a little blue dog who seems very cute but who has a terrible foul mouth and bad manners. Now, Kobato-chan has to heal the people whose hearts are wounded. The only problem is that she doesn't really know how to do it. The more people / hearts she heals, the more her bottle fills itself. She only needs to take care to not fall in love with the person she's healing.
For what purpose Kobato needs to fill that bottle? Who sent her for this mission? Will she succeed?"