Anime

[Michael Kerpan]

I generally love Science Saru's work -- but sometimes their projects just don't work for me -- like Devilman Crybaby a while back and last season's Sanda. In both cases I suspect it is because the underlying source material just was not my sort of thing....

[colinr0380]

This is bizarre: Studio Khara did an "Evangelion 30+ Anniversary" short film focused on two Asukas from different versions of Evangelion teaming up to try and find a better ending for her character out of the various series, films and rebuild films, and only intended it to be shown in a limited theatrical showing. However people inevitably filmed the screening and began putting the footage up online, which led the studio to try and suppress it from the internet by issuing takedown strikes on channels. But to prove that they owned the short film Studio Khara sent a link containing the HD quality full short out, which immediately spread the footage even wider, and in better quality!

So they have given up on trying to suppress the short and have just put it up in full on their official channel.

[cantinflas]

Ghost in the Shell is about to get a new TV series produced by Science Saru (Maasaki Yuasa's production company) which looks from the brief glimpse of the animation style that this may be going back to the original Masamune Shirow manga style. The other big difference is that this is going to be the first piece of Ghost In The Shell media that doesn't have Major Motoko Kusanagi voiced by Atsuko Tanaka, as Tanaka passed away in 2024. So this might necessarily be quite a break with everything that has come before.

Here's the second teaser trailer