What’s Up With 801-chan?

08/28/08 0818 hours

From an anime adaptation announcement to KyoAni animating it and now to…cancellation? Moon Phase reports that the official blog of the Misenobashi 801 shopping center– whose mascot was the inspiration for the titular furry creature that Tonari no 801-chan’s heroine becomes in fangirl-mode –claims that the new anime is cancelled. But the blog post has been deleted since then.

But wait, there’s more! The official site for the anime is gone, and the official site for the manga has been purged of all references to the anime.

What could happen in (*checks watch*) about 10 days to go from putting up an official site and announcing that Kyoto Animation was announcing the show to cancellation? Hopefully more information will become available soon; I also have an e-mail out to Ohzora Shuppan (just in case).

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KyoAni x Fujoshi = Win?

08/18/08 0757 hours

The Moon Phase diary reports that Tonari no 801-chan, the tale of a fujoshi whose yaoi fandom is represented by her turning into a little furry monster (…no, really) which is being developed into an anime, will be animated by none other than Kyoto Animation.

Now, KyoAni has not in the past animated more than one series at a time, and 801-chan is set for a run at some point during 2009. What does this mean for Haruhi season 2? Time will tell…

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The Melancholy of Ikari Shinji

09/22/07 1051 hours

A friend pointed me to this Anime Desho post regarding “predictions” for anime in the next ten years, and one commenter offered: “KyoAni remakes NGE after prying the rights from Gainax’s cold dead hands.”

So, I decided to run with the idea.

  • Aya Hirano would play Shinji.
  • Asuka would keep making Rei (and Shinji) wear maid outfits.
  • That one episode where Asuka and Shinji do “synchronized fighting” would be SERIOUSLY EPIC. (And the ‘fighting’ would also be an extended version of what they do in the OP or ED sequence.)
  • Shinji would inexplicably always have a figure on top of his television; who the figure was of would rotate regularly.
  • Misato would make the :3 face a lot.
  • Gendou’s new hobby: photography. Of Rei and Asuka. A lot.
  • Asuka would have an ahoge.
  • Misato would, on occasion, make some kind of cute sound. I vote “hugu~” (ugu+hunga~!)
  • Minori Chihara would play Rei (…wait, actually, that really might work)

    …Wheee.

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