These AnimeSuki folks are so clever! Okay kids, last week we speculated that one of Gainax’s new projects is Ghost Rhapsody based on several clues: a character who grows up in England and becomes a rock star, based on a shoujo manga, and Gainax’s Hiroyuki Yamaga brought the director and character designer to England for research.

Tadashi Hiramatsu, who has worked with Gainax before and who states on his blog that he’s working on Ghost Rhapsody’s adaptation (announced in ‘05), also recently mentioned that he was back from England, and Ghost Rhapsody involves the ghost of a British rock star. So, there’s that. But now board member manuloz has spotted another returnee from England: Akemi Hayashi, who did character design for Fruits Basket and Peacemaker, as well as doing animation direction and key animation for shows like Gunbuster 2 and Gurren Lagann (Gainax connection!).

So, that leaves our speculated movie at:

Project Title: Ghost Rhapsody
Producer: Hiroyuki Yamaga
Director: Tadashi Hirametsu
Character Designer: Akemi Hayashi

…We shall see, my friends. We shall see. (And yes, I reused the image from earlier. SHH! There’s not a lot out there of this manga even in Japanese…)