The official Sekirei manga site at Square-Enix’s Young Gangan Magazine brought the announcement last night: as previously rumored, the bishoujo fighting-themed manga from Gokurakuin Sakurako (Ashika Sakura) will become an anime some time this year! It will be directed by Kusakawa Keizou (recent directorial work includes Nanoha StrikerS and Inukami), script from Yoshioka Takawo (Sky Girls, Ikkitousen Dragon Destiny, Zero no Tsukaima), character design from Tomooka Shinpei (Inukami), and animation production from Seven Arcs (the Nanoha series, Inukami, SHAFT’s Negima, Red Garden, Zero no Tsukaima II, Da Capo II, the Yakin Byoutou series). The official anime website will be at Sekirei TV.com when it’s established; we’ll be keeping a close eye out for further news on the series as it develops. Update: The show’s official site is now online, and while it doesn’t offer much information beyond what we already knew we do get a first look at the anime character designs, and the cover of the 6th volume of the manga, due out on March 25th. (no more)
heey..I just started reading this lol
Sounds like some great people are behind production (Yakin Byoutou animation house?? I guess they’ll have no problems with jiggling). This might be good for some fanservice in motion, since honestly so far, I’m not really feelin the manga lol. Only a few chapters in though so maybe it’ll get better.
Does this mean that it’ll soon be like Dragon Destiny in terms of figure releases? In that case, I welcome it openly. Though, I guess my wallet’s gonna be screaming in pain. 8) So far, we’ve seen 4 figures from Sekirei. DD has at least that many figure releases in a month. 8/
Not digging the anime’s version of the charcter design, it seems they placed too much emphasis on the bust without enlarging the rear!