[merylsilverburg]

Sorry guys, I'd hate to double-post, but I just have a few more things to share.

In the April issue of the Japanese Animage magazine, there was a DVD included that had trailers of all the popular Spring 2004 animes soon to be shown in Japan. Well, I saw it the other day and:

Those who've seen the "Appleseed" movie trailer would know already, but....HOLY CRAP. The visuals are so unbelievable...I was so friggin' blown away, I just watched it over and over and over again. The 3-D Live Anime technology really shows in this movie and when you have CG characters (motion-captured), it's nearly a...well...CG movie. It's like "Final Fantasy: Spirits Within" except the characters have that drawn animation look. Some people might get turned off by this only because it really is more "eye-candy" at his moment...but if the story is good, hopefully it wouldn't be such a distraction. Simply stunning....you guys should check out the trailer if there is one out there.

Some of you may have heard of the Samurai7 which is the anime version or taken from Kurosawa, Akira's "Seven Samurai". Well, the trailer showed a lot of mecha...so, it's probably blended with sci-fi futuristic along with old fashioned swords. It looks good and visually appealing...but I somehow couldn't feel interested in it. I dunno...maybe it's just me. There were a slew of characters (seven of them) and they look pretty colorful, but nothing too out-of-the-ordinary or unique. I can't say much because I can't understand what they were saying, but hopefully some more news will reveal the plotline and if this actually follows Kurosawa's film. Does anyone know more?

This might not be too appealing to some, but if anyone enjoys those gothic or odd/mysterious animes, there's this OVA series called Cossette no Shouzou/"Portrait de Petit Cossette" or "The Portrait of Little Cossette" which debuts on April 28 in Japan. This is news to me; I haven't seen or heard anything about this series until I saw the trailer. Well, Cossette is a little girl dressed in black Gothic Lolita clothing and there's this young man who's apparently involved. From the trailer, there is a glass cup with images and I'm thinking this cup is very important or a key item of the series. This series seems pretty gory and dark; a lot of blood, roses, dark buildings (like castles, mansions), skeletons...all that stuff. I don't want to give out inaccurate information, but my guess is that this series might resemble the book The Picture of Dorian Gray? Who knows? Anyone else heard about it?

For those who are fans of GONZO's works, their latest one is called Bakuretsu Tenshi. There's more information on it somewhere, but I gotta go find it. More news on it later.

That's about it. If anyone else has any information, please do share!