Gonzo Redeemed with Strike Witches Second Season
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Apr 29, 2009 15:04 JST
- Tags: Announcements, Gonzo, Pantsu, Production Controversy, Strike Witches
Troubled pantsu anime studio Gonzo has been given a lifeline with the confirmation that they will retain the rights to animate the hit pantsu-laden WWII influenced mecha musume series, Strike Witches, after earlier speculation that they would lose the franchise…
Gonzo’s getting the rights to the new season, tentatively named Strike Witches 2-ki (second season), was confirmed in Kadokawa Shoten’s Nyantype Magazine
Also confirmed was that most of the original staff will return (that the seiyuu will reprise their roles goes without saying) for this project, including linchpin director and character designer Takamura Kazuhiro, script supervisor “Striker Unit”, and also military advisor Takaaki Suzuki.
The studio has been on the brink of closure for a while now, and Strike Witches might be just the project they need to stay afloat, albeit for a while.
Fans will be heaving sighs of relief that this will not go the way of notorious anime Minami-ke, but with the bugetary constraints potentially facing the gutted new Gonzo, it may be too soon for them to relax…
Those looking for a potential sign of things to come might want to look closely at Eila’s foot in the above close-up on the official announcement’s accompanying art. A disturbing omen?
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Another series coming back to life, I guess.
FUCK U BITCH
Fuck you too bitch
cant stop laughing lol
FUK YOU ALL
Ahh why not; FUK U! Hahaha!
Delicious.
Hartman, Barkhorn, and Sanya :3
Erica's MINE!
More pantsu action to fap on.
you can say that again!!
More pantsu action to fap on.
One moar tiem plz.
Wow.. Gonzo strikes back? Hope they don't rush this and ruin the quality though.
Gonzo was never a good studio. Shut down, and stay there.
"Gonzo was never a good studio."
Except for Speed Grapher and Druaga.
And Strike Witches.
and seto no hanayome
and Vandread and its 2nd Stage
and Gate Keepers and GK21
and the original Full Metal Panic! series
and Chrono Crusade
and Seto no Hanayome and Saikano and Gravion(微妙) and Samurai 7 and Black Cat and Romeo x Juliet and Bokurano!!
If you can firmly say you have never liked any of the above, then the problem here is clear. It's not that they aint good, it's just YOU ARE PHAIL!
and Last Exile
and Dragon Ball Z
*Sarcasm-immune*
Dragon Ball Z by GONZO? GJ, genius, that just made my day.
You kidding me? DBZ was one of Gonzo's best shows. The amount of Bulma pantsu was just right.
Rosario + Vampire was certainly interesting, in any case.
Gantz is one of my favorites, and Welcome to the NHK is hilarious!
And everyone always forgets Kaleido Star.
I thank every Anon for posting their crappy animes I will never like, and show that their recommendation is that of some adolescent teen wanting to feel grownup.
So let us see who fails, because clearly is the bomb to spell something the wrong way.
We have some cool kids here.
Bright-slap!
Ah, yes, the 'Insult the opponent's language when incapable of offering a proper point of retort.'
You had me lol-ing at you, good job.
It seems that we have made enough of a point with impact that you actually took the effort to make an entry on your 'attempt-at-a-blog' about how you got slapped around here?
Seriously, if so many people are slapping you at the same time, it's time to wake up your ideas that it's not the company side's problem, but yours.
'The only defense I get for GONZO is name of animes that did terribly financially, and reviewed terribly, and that is why GONZO is almost closing down. Please come up with some substantial argument to deter me to think otherwise.'
Okkkkkk, so I guess that includes Full Metal Panic!, Speed Grapher and Chrono Crusade, yea?
lol but can also say the same for us for replying to this anti-fanboi, rofl
Anon > you forgot about the age part!
always 1.)Age 2.)Language 3.)Race/Type!
Whoa even more cool kids. I guess you learn how to use the word "retort," and reply with a wall of text that still proves little if any reason why GONZO is good. Everyone can like something, but than that just means the masses are ignorant. If you heard of Obama I am sure you get the point. And I laugh because you wasted your life defending a company that is going to fail. Oh, but I forgot. Is easier to be anonymous defending your point and only show your opinion on the internet, because clearly being meek and timid in real life is how you get by. And the counter argument is naming more animes?
Spectacular jobs geniuses.
Don't feed the troll!
Yeah I agree with you. I wanted to like them, but Gonzo was always so hit & miss with what they pumped out.
Go baptize yourself in the flaming depths of hell you ignorant fool.
FLAWLESS VICTORY!!
気持ちわるい！
鏡見ながら言うな…
It's A - Okay... As long thar's no censorship :3
I'll wait for DVD/BD versions to spare myself from the lensflare madness.
Oh damn the cencoring, I can miss it this time round.
Long live Strike Witches.
Hooray more Perrine~! (´ω｀)ノ
I agree with the sentiment contained in the above post.
Indeed they are a horrible studio. They didnt even fix the art work for NHK DVD, uh, why do we have to suffer.
awwww... I liked the idea of lucky witches too >_>
Eila? Pshaw! Any true fan knows that Francesca has the cutest feet out of all the Strike Witches!
This is not up for debate.
agreed!
More Yoshika and Barkhorn please.
It really doesn't look like a big toe to me, more that they randomly decided to add a nail.
I have high hopes for season two, I don't see Gonzo screwing this up.
Any new characters? I hope not, cuz they always ruin things, but I know it's inevitable yet important because it enhances the show a little sometimes.
Actually a new witch was introduced in the last episode of the original series, so she will probably be one of the new characters. I got the feeling that the original series had too many characters and couldn't really introduce all of them properly.
hard to draw foots and feet.
My 2cents is its probably going to be in Orussia...
Awesome. Have been waiting for this.
GONZO! HELL NO! I'm sick and tired of Gonzo and their censors...
But then again... Strike Witches season 1 was nice... I just hope they don't screw this one...
I can't believe how stupid people are. Censorship is not done by the animation studio itself. It goes through whatever bureau, company, or something that's supposed to do it when they pass it onto stations that require their version to be censored.
So if you're going to blame someone for censorship, blame whatever the hell is between it coming from the studio to you.
Do some goddamn research, you lazy retards.
Of course I know this you retard... Its just that among the censors that has been happening. Gonzo has the most annoying censors.
KUMA and BATS! FUCK YOU!
"Fans will be heaving sighs of relief that this will not go the way of notorious anime Minami-ke, but with the bugetary constraints potentially facing the gutted new Gonzo, it may be too soon for them to relax…"
You do know that the first season was made on a very, very low budget right?
At least at that time they were not in a dire monitery problem as they are now.
Needs more Erica.
x2.
Needs more Erica
needs more Sanya
needs more Eila
needs more Trude
needs more Lynette
needs more Minna
needs more Lucchini
needs more Shirley
needs more Perrine
and needs more Mio
needs more Lucchini.
"that the seiyuu will reprise their roles goes without saying"
Yet you still said it!
finally, sanya is back !!
surprise no one thought the news of gonzo losing SW could had been a rumor.
Strike Witches has a "military adviser"! Why? What part of Strike Witches is remotely realistic or historically accurate?
the machine guns and strike unit names.
more Strike Bitches! Yay!
oh yay!
Fuck yeah, more Erika Nakai! Also, I really don't see what's so strange about Eila's toes in that pic. Is it that her little toe looks bigger than her fourth toe or something? Compared to Hartmann's toes, which looks nothing like toes at all, it seems like a very small and non-important detail, but yeah, okay.
Strike Witches = Gonzo's life preserver
Best news I've heard all week long.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with Eila's foot. That is how the smallest toe really looks when it's curled, especially when you just took off a shoe.
Oh noes, mai waifu has a reverse foot~~ Looks like more like a bent toe to me..
Is Afro Samurai not making them any money over here: I mean yeah it was cliched as hell, but no worse than any other popular anime. What about Full Metal Panic, are they losing money on that too? I thought Gonzo generally turned out pretty good stuff, I can't think of a lot of garbage that they put out.
Am I really the first to call for some Minna boobage? She was the only one we didn't see the first time 'round.