Saturday evening’s Macross 25th anniversary memorial concert was the stage for the announcement of the new official (yet still provisional) title of this fall’s upcoming Macross TV series, now dubbed Macross F (with the “F” for “frontier”). It also brought the news that heretofore unknown songstress Nakajima Megumi won the utahime talent selection grand prix and will star as the show’s heroine, Ranka Lee (guess as to the romanization of ランカ・リー). The staff list was also padded out, with Kawamori Shouji confirmed as helming the project’s original work, general management, story production and mechanical design. It will be directed by Kikuchi Yasuhito, who also directed Black Heaven / Kacho Ouji (HELL YES) with series organization from Yoshino Hiroyuki and character designs by Ebata Risa (!!) and Takahashi Yuuichi. Anime production is from Satelight. Any show that features Macross mechs, Black Heaven direction and [ERO] Hitozuma Kasumi-san designs has a fair chance of kicking my ass in the best way possible, so we’ll definitely be keeping a close eye on it as it develops. :3 (no more)
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This is already on my watch list, but to hear earlier today that Yoko Kanno is going to do the music and now see that it’s going to have characters designs similar to Hitozuma Kasumi-san makes my day. I cannot not wait for this to come out . . .
Hitozuma Kasumi-san is admittedly a stretch for what the designs will probably be, but even something like Gravion Zwei (from the same designer) would be insanely sweet (from my utterly depraved perspective). I can’t wait to see what they come up with.
Having her as the character designer, I have a feeling that the new Macross Frontier series will focus more in comedy than the earlier Macross series. May be it’ll turn out to be liked Gravion Zwei, she did the character design for that series too…
I can’t stop crying. It’s so beautiful!