Media Blasters Snags Night Head Genesis
If you’re looking for a series with a bunch of attractive people (particularly guys) designed by a prominent yaoi mangaka and don’t want to watch Gundam 00*, good news! Anime on DVD reports that Media Blasters has licensed Night Head Genesis, which is about a pair of brothers with psychic powers and, uh…some other things.
…I can’t say I recommend the show. I watched the first five or six episodes and had no idea what was going on (in the bad way), and the two brothers just sat around (or ran around) and bitched a lot. They were very very pretty though. It’s actually a retelling of a live-action series called Night Head that I never saw. But yeah, I thought the show was impressively mediocre, personally.
But if you like supernatural mysteries and hot guys, well…maybe you’ll like it better than I did?
(* Yes, I know that most of Gundam 00 character designer Yun Kouga’s work isn’t officially “yaoi,” but she HAS done yaoi doujinshi and clearly aims for that market with many of her mainstream work, so nyah. The yaoi mangaka who designed the characters of Night Head Genesis is You Higuri, of Gakuen Heaven / Gorgeous Carat fame.)
Tags: gundam-00, Licenses, media-blasters, night head genesis, you higuri, yun-kouga
February 14th, 2008 at 12:00 pm
I watched the full series, and I can’t say I would recommend it, either. And, mind you, it’s only designed by a yaoi mangaka. Readers should get excited that anything actually HAPPENS in the show. ‘Cause nothing does.
It seems like an odd choice given the industry slump.
February 14th, 2008 at 12:39 pm
@Kitsune: I’d say that Media Blasters is less likely to be in trouble than many anime companies. It has a thriving manga department, and it also has porn (manga AND anime)– both of which keep them pretty stable.
They also have a pretty good relationship with the yaoi fanbase, thanks to their releases of a number of harder-core and kinky titles.