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Appleseed 2; Buso Renkin anime; Genshiken 2 cancelled

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With a lot of anime news coming in from Japan over the last few days, we’ve quickly summarised the biggest stories below.

  • Nobuhiro Watsuki’s (author of the popular Rurouni Kenshin / Samurai X manga) latest manga series Buso Renkin (a.k.a Armoured Alchemist) is set to be adapted into an anime TV series; with the Japanese TV premiere set for this autumn.
  • The second Appleseed CG movie is still moving ahead as planned and should be released in Japan during 2007, the first promotional image has recently appeared online. Appleseed 2 will again be directed by Shinji Aramaki and acclaimed Hong Kong action director John Woo (The Killer, Hard Boiled, Hard Target) is on board as a producer.
  • The previously announced second season of fan favourite otaku comedy TV series Genshiken appears to have been shelved in favour of a new Kujibiki Unbalance anime series. Ironically, Kujibiki Unbalance is an anime series spawned as a parody within Genshiken.

Paul

Washed up on the good shores of Anime UK News after many a year at sea, Paul has been writing about anime for a long time here at AUKN and at his anime blog.

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