CAA: Christian Anime Alliance

Jin Kobayashi's Natsu no Arashi to be animated in 2009

ANN wrote:The January issue (on sale on November 26) of Square Enix's Monthly Gangan Wing magazine will announce that Jin Kobayashi's Natsu no Arashi! science-fiction romance manga will be animated for release in 2009. This story from the creator of School Rumble centers on a boy named Hajime Yasaka who meets an older high school girl named Sayoko "Arashi" Arashiyama in an old town coffee shop. "Arashi" happens to have a secret that Hajime learns one fateful summer vacation.

Akiyuki Shinbo (ef - a tale of melodies., Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha, MoonPhase) will direct off scripts that Katsuhiko Takayama (ef - a tale of melodies., Ga-Rei -Zero-, Rumbling Hearts) will oversee. The anime studio SHAFT will produce the project.

[font="Book Antiqua"]
[color="Red"]
Col. Roy Mustang[/color][/font]

Sorry for the grave dig, but I wonder if anyone else has been following this.

I only read the first couple chapters of the manga, but I'm getting the feeling this anime is a lot more fanservicy than the manga... based on what I've seen. It's more fanservicy than School Rumble (another manga by the same author) for sure...

That's not to say 2 works by the same author can't be vastly different... Bitter Virgin and Girl Saurus had the same author, and that... goes beyond mind boggling.

I'd have rather had them animate the last 1/3 of School Rumble than this, to be honest... Particularly since the last 1/3 of School rumble is the most plot heavy of the series, I think it deserves more than what we got (2 episodes that even left out some of the last couple chapters, though I think the last Eiri / Harima moments in the Anime were more touching and final...) I also hope that School Rumble Z isn't just filler fluff, and it actually goes somewhere, but from what I can tell, it was just a nonsense thing that got abandoned.

I wonder if I'll be in Japan before it stops airing... I shouldn't get my hopes up, I suppose.

I've actually been watching the anime, as it's airing this season. It's even one of the titles on Crunchyroll.

I don't know how recognizable it is to the original manga, but has to do with time travel and it's been a mix of really strange comedy and serious moments in WW2-era Japan. So far, it's been pretty episodic, but I suspect that as the season finishes up, we'll get a string of episodes that act as the ending.

It's filled to the brim with SHAFT and Shinbo's weirdness. That probably turned a lot of people off in the first episode, and so I'm one of the few people who are actually still watching it. I'm glad I stuck it out though, since the following ones are pretty funny and the serious ones are well done.