

The Ambition of Nobuna Oda is continuing to live up to its reputation as being the best looking of the season with the latest episodes full of all manner of svelte sengoku damsels, with ever increasing amounts of bust on display and production quality at uncommonly high levels for such a title.
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Bishoujo jidai anime Oda Nobuna no Yabou (“The Ambition of Nobuna Oda” – not to be confused with historical warlord Nobunaga Oda) may prove the surprise hit of the season – largely thanks to its superb art and immaculate production values, and in spite of its distressingly generic male protagonist and overused timeslip plot trope…
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Noted anime producer Madhouse has been reduced to the laughing stock of the industry after it emerged that the company is stuck producing an anime adaptation of an office comic for Chinese TV.
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Highschool of the Dead director Tetsuro Araki has spoken of his earnest desire to fill his anime with jiggling, swaying, bouncing and rippling breasts.
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America’s National Hockey League is said to be discussing a partnership with such top Japanese anime studios as Kyoto Animation, Madhouse and J.C. Staff in a deal which could see Azunyan and Kuroko promoted against the unlikely backdrop of gangs of burly men whacking each other with sticks.
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The artists of top anime studios Production IG, Gainax, Madhouse and Bones each provide an image comparing the most iconic characters of their studios – just which studio is victorious is doubtless in the eye of the beholder.
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Marvel, having decided to produce anime adaptations of both Iron Man and Wolverine, has just released some impressive trailers of both.
You can see them below:
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The mysterious appearance of a political message in the currently airing anime “Rideback” threatens to cause a storm; the message is widely interpreted as calling for the removal of the current Korean President.
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Coming from Rondo Robe 2008 is the news that the next instalment in the Hellsing OVA, Hellsing V, is set to be produced by Madhouse (Trigun, Claymore, Lodoss, Texhnolyze, and dozens of other great titles), with heretofore OVA producer Satelight having lost the rights (Macross, Geneshaft, and not much else); whether this is due to some humdrum commercial reason or sheer incompetence is not revealed. In such hands there would appear to be little worry of the series going downhill.
2ch seems to have little respect for Satelight, but the same goes for Madhouse too (“Made in Korea”), so nothing but the usual ravings there then. Via Playlog.