Gainax Announces First Live-Action Series

Gainax has announced that its first live-action television series, EA’s Rock, will premiere in April. The “datsuryoku-kei” (ennui-style) show will be a dialogue-based slice-of-life subdued comedy starring the five former members of the Kankaku Senshi Gokan Five superhero team who now spend their time working at and hanging around the real-life Shooting Bar EA bar & airsoft gun shooting range.

The series of thirteen 15-minute long episodes will be directed by Nobuhiro Yamashita (Cream Lemon live-action movie, Linda Linda Linda). Yamashita is writing the series with Rikiya Imaizumi and manga artist Hiroyuki Ohashi (City Lights). Gainax’s Hiroyuki Yamaga and Yoshinori Asao are planning the series.

In its earliest days, Gainax produced a selection of short live-action tokusatsu parody films including Kaettekita Ultraman, Kaiketsu Notenki, and Aikoku Sentai Dai-Nippon.

Source: Anime News Network