Sankaku Complex links us to some Newtype scans with details about the Lucky Star OVA, which will apparently revolve around the relationship between Konata and the Animate store tenchou (manager). For those of you who need a refresher, tenchou-san constantly tries to manipulate Konata’s purchases, only to be foiled. (Sankaku calls it a ‘rivalry,’ and it sort of is, except it’s ostensibly unknowing on Konata’s part).

No release date yet, but it looks like there’ll be a drama CD this summer, for you fluent Japanese-speakers. On a tangentially related note, Singaporeans get to enter a spiffy Lucky Star-themed contest and win a DS and some other groovy stuff. No fair!

Moetron reports that an OVA of Lucky Star, the very successful anime adaptation of Kagami Yoshimizu’s 4koma strip, will be announced in the next issue of Comptiq (L*S’s home magazine). (If you’re wondering about what it says about Type-Moon in that image, it says it’s going to have some details about their new project.)

Also, the issue is going to have Lucky Star magnets. *Adds to her amazon.co.jp to-buy list* ♥

So the Higurashi no Naku Koro ni live-action film is coming out on May 10th, and a sequel has already been announced. So what are they going to do with Higurashi next? Are they going to let it lay low for a bit, or maybe even put the series to rest to work on something new?

HELL NO! They’re (tentatively) going to make a third season OVA-style, according to Moon Phase. It looks like more details are going to be available in the June issue of Megami, but it’s going to be called Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Rei.

In unrelated news: happy birthday to Japanator’s John Martone! Aaaand I’ll be back later today. I have to go to the DMV and update my driver’s license ’cause I moved. God only knows how long it’ll take. @_@ But I have a giant round-up coming after that, so stick around. ♥

I kind of like “DigiDistro” as a shortened form of “Digital Distribution.” What do you think?

Anyway, GDH/GONZO issued another press release today announcing that they’re going to adapt the 90s dark comedy Hennako-chan, about a weird kid (”hen” => weird, “ko” => child, or can also be used to girl-ify a name, a la “Kyonko,” so the name could literally be “Weirdgirl-chan” or “Weird kid-chan”) into an anime consisting of six 3-minute episodes.

The series is going to be released online on GONZO’s YouTube channel, and it’ll also be offered with both English and Chinese subtitles simultaneously with the Japanese release, via YouTube and a service created by a company called Fujiyama that offers multilingual subtitle software.

Oh, beloved Google alerts. Picked up word on Muhyojo that a brand new Dragon Ball anime is going to be announced in volume 21 of Weekly Shounen Jump, along with a new One Piece anime.

But before you get all excited about new TV shows– it’s just short specials, coming out this fall as part of a Shounen Jump tour, though it may also be televised eventually.

anime!anime! reports that for the 30th anniversary of Cobra, Buichi Terasawa’s classic 1978 space manga-turned-anime (which sold over 30 million copies), a new OVA and TV anime are being developed. The 4-volume OVA will begin being released on August 29th, and it looks like the TV anime will air sometime after that, and be 13 episodes, and Terasawa is going to personally oversee it.

This marks the fourth time in the last couple of months that anime companies are returning to the classics, in case you’re keeping count. ♥

According to ICv2, the anime collection Batman: Gothic Knight, featuring works by Madhouse, Studio 4°C, and Production I.G, is going to premiere at Wizard World Chicago on June 28th. For anyone keeping count, that pretty well implies that it’s designed more for Batman fans than anime fans, but hey, maybe they’ll also show it at Anime Expo in L.A. the following weekend. (If not, I should think San Diego Comic Con is a gimme.)

By the way, the DVD will hit stores on July 8th, ten days before the sequel to The Dark Knight (the sequel to Batman Begins) appears in theaters.

So over at Topless Robot, Rob writes about the upcoming Lupin III: Green VS Red OVA– and notes something that I hadn’t yet heard. Apparently the OVA will feature “green jacket” Lupin (a.k.a. the nice one who rescues the girl in Castle of Cagliostro) versus “red jacket” Lupin (the harder, Bondian sex-and-stealing Lupin)…as in, literally.

Sounds like one for the record books, kids. I wants it, my precious.

Thanks to the zealousness of my half-brother, who is a giant Fist of the North Star fan (seriously), I’ve never really been able to enjoy the show. And now Aya-tan is going to be in an OVA for it.

I’m sort of feeling broken right now. *sniff*

Some of you may have spotted copies of a Gurren Lagann OVA episode. This episode came with the recent Gurren Lagann PSP game, and I can’t say I especially recommend it. The animation isn’t as good as the TV show, and it’s also just not very good.

Like, it kind of feels like if they took a really awesome movie and turned it into a bad Saturday morning cartoon. Except that the original was a Sunday morning cartoon to begin with. But you know what I mean? It’s episodic, kinda doofy, with random characters incorporated out of nowhere….yeah.

…But if you’re desperate for a hit of Kamina after all this time, well, by all means.