noitaminA Block Stretches to One Hour

 I've talked about noitaminA enough that I think most of you are familiar with the concept: it's FujiTV's highly-respected 12:45am to 1:15am Friday morning timeslot, known for its strong anime titles such as Honey and Clover, Nodame Cantabile, Toshokan Sensou, Eden of the East, etc etc.

There have been a lot of changes at noitaminA lately, including its first live-action series-- a live-action version of Moyashimon, which it previously aired the anime adaptation of --but now word at Comic Natalie is that starting in April, the timeslot will become one hour long, featuring two shows. This may explain why they already have four pending titles for 2010 with only three seasons left!

This April, Noitamina will begin airing both the Masaaki Yuasa series Yojouhan Shinwa Taikei-- which many of you may remember from yesterday's trailer --and Saraiya Goyou, aka House of Five Leaves, an anime based on the manga by Natsume Ono (of Ristorante Paradiso and Not Simple fame), for which a trailer just hit yesterday.

 
 

I, for one, think that this is really cool. With one notable exception-- 2006's Jyu-Oh-Sei, a poorly-paced adaptation of an otherwise spiffy shoujo sci-fi series --everything on the list of Noitamina series has always had a pretty strong reputation, and/or was something I absolutely fell in love with. A little more of that can only be a good thing. (You can catch a full list of said Noitamina series on our wiki page for the slot.)

So, now that you've seen both Yojouhan Shinwa Taikei and House of Five Leaves' trailers, are you interested either? Or both?