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Rumor Squad: Japan Needs a Needless Anime

An unusual method of revealing a new anime adaptation, no?

OK, it took me a bit to piece this one together, but basically: Moon phase reports that an organization doing consumer studies may have unintentionally revealed the news that Kami Imai's manga Needless is being adapted into an anime directed by Princess Resurrection director Masayuki Sakoi, scripted by Sgt. Frog's Satoru Nishizono, and designed by CLAMP in Wonderland 2 and Kobato.'s Hiromi Katou.


The manga is an action/sci-fi/comedy set in a world where humanity is split into city-dwellers, and those who live outside the city and have developed unusual powers-- these outsiders are known as the “Needless.”

OkazukiIchigoon Feb. 10, 2009 at 8 p.m.
.....what?
RedRoseson Feb. 10, 2009 at 8:06 p.m.
Usually people with unusual powers end up being useful though. Why would this fictitious city label them needless...
CalAggieon Feb. 10, 2009 at 8:09 p.m.
It'd be a nice pun if there were a female needle user among the outsiders.
giaon Feb. 10, 2009 at 8:14 p.m.
RedRoses: maybe because they don't have needs themselves?
RedRoseson Feb. 10, 2009 at 8:24 p.m.
Ahh good point though if their powers are unsual, that doesn't mean those powers are useful so they still could have needs. But maybe I'm just reading too into it, I've never actually read the manga, I'm just purely speculating. It could just be a random label like in other anime for all we know.
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