| 12:33am | Kiddy Grade 2 Pilot DVD available to preorder | | | | Amazon finally have the DVD available to preorder. The release date is given as the 25th May. [edit]Also available from CDJapan. According to them it is 7mins long, in widescreen and Dolby 5.1 and there is a first press bonus of some description.[/edit] [edit=2]Release date now mentioned on the official... |
| 3:54am | Kiddy Grade Ignition trailer and Klock Worx site | | | | Just a quick update*, there is now a trailer up on the official site and there is also a new minisite opened for the movies on Klock Worx site. Related links: Kiddie Grade -Ignition- Trailer Online (ikimashou) |
| 2:12pm | Gigantic Formula NTUSA article | | | | I've not updated on this show for a while, but since there's a mini article in April's NTUSA I decided now was as good a time as any. They refer to it like I have by the romaji title "Apo Mekhanes Theos Gigantic Formula". The basic plot is that, in a post apocalyptic future, a mecha tournament has... | | |
| 1:36pm | Kiddy Grade 2 - Newtype USA article | | | | The KG2 article from the February issue of NT was published in the April issue of NTUSA. If they are to be believed, the girl's names are "Ascule" and "Que Feuilles" but since these don't seem to make much sense I'm holding out for official confirmation. What they say: Sometime after a giant intergalactic... |
| 3:45pm | Kiddy Grade EX | | | | I've finally got the last few missing pieces of my collection (minus the audio novels): the super duper box, Continuity File EX, the EX3 bookmark and the Secret Affair and Pr1 novels. I also have a sizeable hole in my wallet and some stuff to sell on Ebay but that's another story..Secret Affair | | |
| 4:03am | Kiddy Grade 2 Megami article | | | | There's a small piece on the sequel in the March 2007 issue of Megami (vol. 82). http://www.kiddygrade.info/sca ns/articles/index.php?image=me gami82pg34.jpgI hadn't noticed the mid-dot in ク・フィーユ before (I think it is there in the Newtype article as well, but looked rather like part of |
| 9:59am | Kiddy Grade Ignition | | | | The Kiddy Grade site has been updated again. If I understand this correctly, the original series has been cut down into three 80-90 minute episodes for theatrical release entitled "Ignition", "Maelstrom", and "Truth Dawn". This will be a Director's Cut verion with new footage. They will be |
| 4:02am | Gocky Club Winter 2006 | | | | My copies of Gocky Club vols. 19 and 20 arrived today from SMJ.Volume 19, "Groundwork of Variety", features random pieces of conte from series that Gotoh has worked on, including Blood+, School Rumble 2, Nana, Aria etc. Also included is a fold-out colour poster of Éclair (2nd TV version) and B+W | | |
| 12:20pm | Kiddy Grade 2 theme | | | | I found out from Kano, who has updated her site for the first time in a while, that the theme song for Kiddy Grade 2 (the pilot DVD at least) will be sung by Minori Chihara (Yuki Nagato's seiyuu) as announced on her blog.From what I can gather, the song will be Snow White Sanctary |
| 12:13pm | Gemini Knives Volume 2 | | | | My copy of the second novel has arrived. As usual I can't make much of it, but I have managed to upload some scans of the new colour illustrations (which, to my knowledge, have not previously been published elswhere). I was using a different computer and scanner and the results are even worse then |
| 11:16pm | Gigantic Formula site | | | | The Gigantic Formula site has gone live now. Can't decipher much at the moment as not on a machine with Kanji support, but the lead male character has now been named as Shingo Suwa. Still no mention of gímik so I guess they have been employed as imdividuals to work on this, rather than this being | | |
| 9:00pm | Kiddy Grade Sequel Details | | | | Some more details were reported by Anime News Service on the 6th (corrections and amplifications by me):The rollout of K-G.2 (tentatively titled Kiddy Grade 2 although the title Kiddy Generation has also been spotted) will kick off with the release of a Pilot DVD scheduled for sale in Japan at the | | |
| 9:00pm | Kiddy Grade Sequel Details - Anime News service | | | | Some more details were reported by Anime News Service on the 6th (corrections and amplifications by me):The rollout of K-G.2 (tentatively titled Kiddy Grade 2 although the title Kiddy Generation has also been spotted) will kick off with the release of a Pilot DVD scheduled for sale in Japan at the |
| 12:07pm | Gigantic Formula update | | | | The site has been updated. New things are notice of a 40 page "Planning File" that will be made available at Comiket 71 (something else for me to scour yahoo auctions for when picking up Gocky Club) and there's also a new page with some character and seiyuu information (which unfortunately are |
| 10:24am | Kiddy Grade Site | | | | In the first update since 2004 there is an announcement that work will be carried out on the Kiddy Grade site between now and mid-January. It looks like it's just maintenance a server move, but at least it means that the site hasn't been completely abandoned and hopefully they will get the board |
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