New TV Series Announced

The sexy drama Onegai Teacher (Please Teacher), will premier on WOWOW next year. The production staff includes character design by Hiroaki Goda, supervisor on the Bubblegum Crisis and Ah! Megami-sama OAV series, story by Yosuke Kuroda who wrote Scryd and Kokoro Toshokan, and direction by Yasuki Ide who directed D4 Princess and Hanaukyo Maid Tai. Other staff members claim work credits on anime including Pretty Sammy, Read or Die, Trigun, and video games including Air and Kanon.

Yutaka Izubuchi, mecha designer behind Patlabor, will be creating a fantasy mecha TV series in the vein of Final Fantasy and Dunbine titled Raxephon.

Yasuhiro Imagawa, the director of Giant Robo, will be returning to animation next year with his new TV series Nananin no Nana (literally “7 Nanas”), a “superheroine” comedy adventure about a young Japanese schoolgirl known as “Original Nana” and her 6 clones, each with a different personality type.

Akira Kurosawa’s classic samurai film Yojimo will be returning to Japanese television next year as a drastically revised late night anime TV series called Kaze no Yojimbo (literally “bodyguard of the Wind”) that looks much closer to Cowboy Bebop than a Toshiro Mifune samurai film.

Broccoli has confirmed that a second season of the popular sci-fi & bishoujo TV series Galaxy Angel will premier on Japanese television next year.

Aquarian Age, the popular Japanese CCG featuring original characters by a multitude of popular anime and manga artists, will debut as a TV series next year featuring character design by Hishahi Abe, who provided the character designs for Petshop of Horrors.