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Geneon Announces 3 New Anime Series
'Starship Operators', 'Bottle Fairy' & 'Doki Doki School' Date: 5/3/2005 |
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According to the Anime News Network Geneon has announced the acquisition of three new recently produced series at Anime Boston. The oldest of the announced titles is Bottle Fairy, a series of thirteen 12-minute episodes, which aired on Japanese TV in 2003. The four ultra-cute protagonists in this all-ages moe series are fairies who live in bottles on their sensei's desk. The humor in Bottle Fairy comes from the sprites' attempts to come to grips with the human world based on the wildly mistaken notions of a neighborhood grade schooler, who is their prime source of information. Doki Doki School (known as Sensei no Ojikan in Japan) is another light-hearted comedy with a high cuteness quotient, but in this case the humor comes from the predicament of its protagonist, a high school teacher who is well under five feet tall and "cursed" with the face of a very young girl. The slice of life humor in the 13-episode Doki Doki School series, which aired on Japanese TV in 2004, is more mature than the all-ages laughs of Bottle Fairy, but is certainly suitable for teenagers. The third series announced by Geneon, Starship Operators, just debuted on Japanese TV in January of this year. Produced by J.C. Staff (Azumanga Daioh, ROD the TV), Starship Operators is an interesting take on the standard anime "cadets in space" science fiction offering. While these cadets are making their maiden flight on a new starship, their home planets surrenders to a powerful invading force. Naturally the space cadets will have none of that, but here's the twist, they arrange to pay for their war of liberation by arranging for a galactic television network to film the conflict as some sort of "reality" show -- sort of Gundam meets Survivor. |
| Source: ICv2 |
