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Synopsis:

Nishimi Kaoru has moved from city to city and school to school because of his father’s job. So the first day at his new school was just routine for him. Being intellectual and the new transfer student, he has always been seen as an outcast and all Kaoru had to do was bare it until the next time he moved. But things were slightly different this time. First, he started to get close to the class president, Mukae Ritsuko, and, secondly, unlikely as it seemed, grew closer to Kawabuchi Sentaro. Sentaro was infamous for getting into fights, skipping class and was an overall bad boy. Strangely enough, the three of them find common ground in music, namely jazz, and Kaoru finds himself actually enjoying the new town.

Staff:
Director: Shinichirou Watanabe (Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo)
Script: Ayako Kato, Yuuko Kakihara (Stitch TV series)
Character Design: Nobuteru Yuuki (Xenosaga)
Supervising Animation Director: Yoshimitsu Yamashita (House of Five Leaves, Hyouge Mono)
Music: Yoko Kanno (Cowboy Bebop, Macross Plus)
Animation Production: MAPPA (New Madhouse, not Badhouse) /Tezuka Productions

Broadcast Details:
Starts April 2012 on FujiTV, in the noitaminA slot.

Official Site: http://www.noitamina-apollon.com/
Trailer: http://www.noitamina-apollon.com/mp4/pv_ver1.mp4
YouTube'd: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8b8M4pO4tBs

 

[Regulus Tera]

Anime is saved. Holy fucking shit.

Spring Season > Winter Season by a fucking light year.

 

[duckroll]

I edited the missing credits into your OP.

Folks.

THIS IS THE REAL DEAL. MAPPA = MARUYAMA = REALHOUSE, NOT BADHOUSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[rollingstart]

I liked music anime. I'm down for this.

 

[Net_Wrecker]

OMMMMMMMMMMMGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG

 

[BlazingDarkness]

Awwyeahhh

Will watch

 

[duckroll]

Direct link to trailer: http://www.noitamina-apollon.com/mp4/pv_ver1.mp4

 

[Chiave]

Hellz Yeah!!

I'm so excited!!

 

[Tampinha]

Director: Shinichirou Watanabe
Music: Yoko Kanno

I'm in.

 

[duckroll]

 

[iavi]

OHHHH MYYY FUCKING GOOOOOODDDDDDD

 

[thetrin]

Er wait. Is this a series, or a movie?

 

[iavi]

ANIME IS SAVED WITH A HIGHSCHOOL DRAMA

 

[RawPower]

Yeah, I'm digging it so far.

 

[duckroll]

Er wait. Is this a series, or a movie?

It's one of the two noitaminA shows in April. TV series.

 

[thetrin]

I really dig that preview trailer. I'm down for this show.

It's one of the two noitaminA shows in April. TV series.

Oh gotcha. I don't know what noitaminA is (other than being Animation backwards), so I wasn't sure.

 

[BlazingDarkness]

It's one of the two noitaminA shows in April. TV series.

Out of interest, what's the second show?

 

[Rur0ni]

Oh finally decent anime?

 

[Regulus Tera]

ANIME IS SAVED WITH A HIGHSCHOOL DRAMA

Slice of Life is the new mecha.

 

[chronos4590]

Music: Yoko Kanno

Fuck Yes. I'm totally in on this now.

 

[Risette]

Looks too moe. Pass.

 

[duckroll]

Out of interest, what's the second show?

An unannounced new show by Kenji Nakamura (Mononoke, C).

 

[Regulus Tera]

Looks too moe. Pass.

After K-ON! I don't think there's any going back. Ever.

 

[Ezalc]

JAZZ?!
COWBOY BEBOP?!
YOKO KANNO?!

HNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNG.

 

[survivor]

Oh cool this got an anime adaptation? I knew the manga won the Shogakukan award recently and it's coming from a good director. There is no way this will be bad.

 

[K.Sabot]

Cowboy Bebop theme + add emo kid for 2012 relevance.

 

[Hellsing321]

ANIME IS SAVED WITH A HIGHSCHOOL DRAMA

Its a period piece high school drama which makes it classy.

 

[iavi]

That trailer was so good. I'm so fucking hyped right now.

 

[Askani]

Wow...out of nowhere. Let's do this thing.

 

[MetatronM]

*spit take*

What?!


I'm in. Hyped for an anime season for the first time in years.

 

[ollin]

Shinichirou Watanabe doing a shoujo anime. Will watch....

 

[Kinyou]

I'm not really eager to see a Highschool anime. The music got me a little hyped though

 

[jmdajr]

Putting talents to good use.

 

[EviLore]

what is going on

Is this real life

 

[FnordChan]

Oh, thank god. Watanabe has returned to save us from ourselves. I am officially all the way stoked for a high school drama about jazz.

FnordChan

 

[duckroll]

If Guilty Crown was the price we had to pay for this. I would gladly watch another 10 of that shit as sacrifice.

 

[LegendOfGood]

It's been a long time, Watanabe. I've been waiting for this day!!

 

[BluWacky]

Oh.

Oh my.

Oh MY.

There is a smile on my face right now.

 

[thetrin]

I love that drum work in the preview. Great animation, too.

 

[iavi]

Cowboy Bebop theme + add emo kid for 2012 relevance.

To be fair, Mugen, Jin, Spike, they were all emo bros at the beginning of the day. The melancholy in the rain is nothing new to Watanabe.

 

[VGChampion]

I don't watch much anime but I'll give it a shot. Would be cool if the kids played the Bebop theme in an episode.

 

[NihonTiger90]

What is this wizardry?

 

[duckroll]

This is really fucking crazy. After a year of Fractale, No.6, Un-Go, Guilty Crown.... we finally get real noitaminA back. I refuse to believe this is real. I'll wake up soon enough.

 

[ezekial45]

Love it!

Though it makes wish he'd do a re-imagining of CB. I seem to recall him saying that he had interest in doing like an alternate take on the story line.

But anyway, this should be pretty good. I haven't watched much Anime in a long time, so this should be pretty cool.

 

[HiroProtagonist]

 

[Net_Wrecker]

If we get full on Treme-like jazz performances in this I'll do something crazy. IDK what, BUT IT'LL BE NUTS

 

[Dambrosi]

WATANABE-SAMA HAS FUCKING RETURNED

...and he's directing an anime about...high school jazz musicians? ^___^;

Yoko Kanno is that good stuff, though. Can't wait.

 

[Tyree]

Im in.

 

[Omegasquash]

Thank whatever God you worship, people. This is the kinda news that puts a smile on everyone's face!

 

[jett]

What a nice coincidence, I'm currently on a Cowboy Bebop re-watch. Dunno about the subject matter(high school drama...meh), but still nice that Watanabe is back.