You didn’t think I was going to abandon you guys all weekend, did you? I’d have been blogging hours ago if it weren’t for that whole flying-to-Portland-and-returning-home-to-a-freezing-apartment-with-broken-Internets thing. (Damn broken Internets.)
Moving on, Keion! (or K-ON!), a 4koma manga strip is being developed into an anime. The series revolves around four girls who are members of the Keion Club (keion as in keiongaku, or classical/traditional/acoustic music), which is being forced to shut down.
And the third new series is Phantom ~Requiem for the Phantom~, which is based on the visual novel Phantom of Inferno by Nitro+. Due to the different name, it’s unclear at this point whether it will be a direct adaptation or something set in the same world. That said, some staff has already been announced, including director Koichi Mashimo (.hack, Tsubasa Chronicle) and a number of artists who are working on the character designs, such as Mutsumi Sasaki (creator of Happy Lesson and character designer for Myself;Yourself) and Yoshimitsu Yamashita (character designer for Blade of the Immortal’s anime).
So there you have it, three new titles to look forward to—a sweet, melancholy CLAMP title, a high school comedy, and what is probably going to be a rather dark romantic drama. Which one sounds best to you? Let me know in the comments!
