Yes, it’s that time of year again. That glorious day when we all set off fireworks in hopes that one of them will spook the codgers in Parliament bad enough to give them all heart attacks, or at the very least a vomit-chain-reaction sort of thing, and so the Catholics will stop being mistreated. Also, I personally use it is a good time to re-watch V for Vendetta. Anyway, I’ve finally gotten caught up a bit on my anime. I’d forgotten what great fun it is. So let’s Rollup some media. Oh, and I’ll be on Japanator’s podcast. It will be their best episode ever.

• THIS JUST IN! GONZO and Nitro are making a new original show called BLASSREITER -genetic-, and the character designs will be by the guy who did Demonbane. Lots of big names involved anyway. It promises to be a badass bit of anime. More updates as the come in.
• Takahashi “I’m-Incapable-Of-Ending-A-Story” Rumiko’s boxing manga One-Pound Gospel is being turned into a live-action drama. Hurray! Unlike the story itself, it won’t take the drama 20 years to come to an end. Nice work, Rumiko.
• Cobra, a classic manga thingy, is getting an anime. Why? WHO KNOWS! The Japanese do what they want.
• Biohazard is getting a two-chapter manga, most likely to promote the upcoming 3DCG anime. The art looks a bit slap-dash.
• Here are some girls in bikinis for no reason.
• Production I.G is working on a show with Masamune Shirow. It’s called RD Senno Chosashitsu. YAYYY! I don’t care. It’s out in… April of 2008.
• Mnemosyne -Mnemosyne no Imouto Tachi-, a new sci-fi things from Xebec and Genco, was announced. It’s going to be an OVA looks like, or six episodes anyway, so might as well be an OVA. Also it’ll be full 3DCG. The site looks quite intriguing.
• Zenryoku Usagi, a mascot character thing, is getting an anime series. It’ll be mixed into some other show, so no reason to get all excited.
• And lastly, kure-nai has a first look thing up at the official website. That is to say, the background is now anime art instead of light novel art. Also there’s a blog and some other things. Like a drama CD, links to the novel site, etc, etc. Very sexy stuff.

And that’s it. I will do figures later tonight, and probably collapse under the weight of the amounts of trash that’s getting released. AMAZINGLY BAD STUFF IN THERE. I might skip some things, just for time and quality sake.