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So before I head into this week’s Catch Up post; recently I was thinking about something: What is old school anime? A question was brought up on a site asking fans to name their favorite ‘old school’ anime themes. A lot of the answers coming in were from titles that were less than a decade old which hardly qualifies as old school in my book. But then I didn’t fare much better as my choices were only a little older (Kiseki no Umi from Record of Lodoss War and the OP from Princess Nine if you were wondering). So what is old school to you? Is it a particular period and earlier such as anything from the 80’s? Is it more vague such as ‘anything that came out before I knew what anime was’? Share your answers in the comments or in an email to admin@otakureview.net as I’d really like to hear some thoughts on this. Anyways, on with the news…

New Anime of the Week

Gakuen Hakkenden: An anime adaptation has been announced for the boys love manga series, Gakuen Hakkenden. The series re-imagines the original novel, Nansou Satomi Hakkenden which takes place in the Warring States era. – Anyone read this? Because I’m getting visions of angsty bishie samurais dealing with high school drama.

Kuruneko 2nd Season: A new season of Kuruneko will premiere on July 3rd with actress Miki Nakatani taking over all of the voices for Satomi Kobayashi. The series of 5 minute episodes debuted last year and centers on a designer in her 30’s living alone with 5 cats. – Situational comedy about a not so crazy cat lady; hilarious!

Kuttsukiboshi: From the studio who brought us animated gems such as Training with Hinako and its stellar sequel, Sleeping with Hinako comes a brand new yuri themed release titled Kuttsukiboshi. Written, animated and directed entirely by Naoya Ishikawa; the first part will be released this summer at Comiket 78 with Part II scheduled to be released next summer. Details are slim right now but it seems that the story will be centering on two girls having a “risky” summer vacation. A trailer has already been posted to the official Primastea YouTube channel. – I don’t know, the animation doesn’t actually make this look that bad but I’m not getting my hopes up.

Princess Resurrection OAD: Already turned into an absolutely terrible TV series, the manga series Princess Resurrection is now scheduled to be getting a brand new OAD. Details will be announced with the new issue of Sirius Magazine on June 26th. – Terrible TV series. Horrible.

Seikon no Qwaser: Empress no Shozo: A sequel to breast feeding vampire series Seikon no Qwaser was accidently leaked by the official website earlier today. The announcement, which featured an image of the character Katja, was scheduled to be posted on the 20th and was quickly removed but not before the sharp eyed media had already seen it. More details will be available as soon as they’re done yelling at the guy who posted the news early.

Whew! Quite a bit of new anime this week though none of it is particularly exciting. That is unless you’re looking for a new yuri anime release and I don’t think we need to bashfully hide how many of us that applies to… right? Somebody? Anybody? Alright fine then, let’s move onto the other news of the week:

Yutaka Yamamoto Working on New TV Anime: So this isn’t being listed as under the new anime section because as of now, there isn’t really much to report beyond the headline. At a discussion event, Japanese sci-fi critic Tsunehiro Uno revealed that Yutaka Yamamoto (Kannagi, Haruhi Suzumiya, Lucky Star) is currently working on a project with Hiroki Azuma and Mari Okada and that it will air either next year or the year after. So yeah… keep your eyes peeled for that in about a year or so. – Anyone else wondering why Uno was the one to reveal this randomly at a discussion panel and not anyone, you know, actually involved with it?

A Certain Scientific Railgun & Sekirei Get New DVD Eps: According to official store listings for each series, both A Certain Scientific Railgun and Sekirei will be getting special unaired episodes on DVD later this year. The new 13’th (intentional apostrophe) episode of Railgun, titled Entenda no Satsuei Model mo Raku ja Arimasen wa ne (Being a Photo Shoot Model Under the Sun Isn’t Easy, Is it?) will be bundled with the official visual book being released on July 24th.

The bonus episode of Sekirei will be included with the first volume of the second season being released on August 25th. The second season makes its TV premiere on July 4th.

Well, it’s been about three months since the fall season began so you know what that means… it’s time for another Otaku Review Season Preview! The 2010 winter season is interesting this year for one big reason: just fewer than two dozen titles are actually going to be hitting airwaves over the next three months (and that includes a couple of titles which have already premiered).

Interestingly, a lot of the usual front runners are nowhere to be seen this season. Studio Bones are absent, Production I.G is busy with their part in Halo Legends and Studio Deen has their hands full with the Fate/Stay Night TV reproduction and movie. Leading the crowd instead with two series each this season are ZEXCS (Chu Bra and Omamori Himari) and Shaft (Hidamari Sketch and Dance in the Vampire Bund).

There are a still plenty of other studios which will also be contributing one series this season though so let’s start this thing already. As always, all information is pulled from ANN, MAL, Anime Vice, AniDB and official websites. Images retain original copyrights, information is subject to change, links to legal streams will be updated as they are made available, yadda yadda yadda. As always, be sure to keep checking back throughout the month for my initial thoughts and from all the new shows this season. I will be hitting the first episode of as many series as I can so stick around and let the rest of us know what you like as its airing. As always I’ve tried to fact check this preview as much as I possibly can but if you notice something that is still wrong, feel free to leave a comment and point out how much of a dork I am for not having everything 100% correct. ~_^

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Waking up this morning, this was not what I expected to find in my reader but Moetron is reporting that the very bloody, fan service laden, breast feeding action manga ‘Seikon no Qwaser’ will be getting a TV anime series. No details were made available other than that. If you’re not familiar with the story, I did some research and found that it’s a basically a war of the church versus forces that know how to use chemical elements as powers, the only thing is that they have to consume breast milk to keep their powers replenished (at least if all the plot summaries I’ve read are correct). It sounds like a very weird and twisted series and something that anyone who enjoyed ‘Queen’s Blade’ would jump behind in a heartbeat.