Archive for January 2009
Bakemonogatari in NewType Magazine vol.02
This month’s of NewType magazine has a two-pages feature on Bakemonogatari with two new official character designs: Sengoku Nadeko, the main character of Nadeko Snake and Hanegawa Tsubasa, the main character of Tsubasa Cat.
Staff comments in this issue includes Watanabe Akio (渡辺明夫), the character designer, Iwakami Atsuhiro (岩上敦宏), Aniplex’s producer, Ōshima Miku (大嶋実句), Shaft’s project planner and Takahashi Yūma (高橋祐馬) a.k.a. Yumacchi Yuma-san, a campaigner.
Bits from interview in NisiOisiN Anime Project site
On the exact second of 2009’s new year’s, the official website for NisiOisiN Anime Project has opened. Well, what else would you expect from a site that was scheduled to be launched on exact second of new year’s? Something big, obviously. I expected them to at least reveal a cast information for Bakemonogatari or even Katanagatari staffs. What we’ve got here instead is an interview with two producers and a scheduled broadcast date: Bakemonogatari in July 2009 and Katanagatari in 2010. Ugh.
Anyway, the interview between two main producers is quite interesting. Producer Iwakami Atsuhiro (岩上敦宏), who’s from Aniplex, is a person in charge of recent-hit anime like Kannagi or Kara no Kyōkai and also a producer of a recent Shaft-Aniplex hit title, Hidamari Sketch x365. The other person, Ōta Katsushi (太田克史) also one of Kara no Kyōkai producers, is an editor-in-chief of Kodansha BOX line of novels.
