SHINA DARK (anime)
 

The seinen manga SHINA DARK by Nakayama Bunjuurou (story) and Higa Yukari (art) will be getting animated.

シャイナ・ダルク
SHINA DARK

Supervisor & General Director: Shinbou Akiyuki
Animation Production: SHAFT

The manga was serialized in the seinen manga magazine Dengeki Teioh, and continued serialization from the April 2007 issue of the seinen manga magazine Dengeki Daioh.
Covers of available volumes:



Story: Nakayama Bunjuurou
Art: Higa Yukari

Genre: Seinen, Fantasy, Comedy

The full manga title is:

シャイナ・ダルク ～黒き月の王と蒼碧の月の姫君～
SHINA DARK ~Kuroki Tsuki no Outo Souheki no Tsuki no Himegimi~

Story: Nakayama Bunjuurou
Art: Higa Yukari

Hmm, this could be interesting. That person who did the story also did Mahoromatic, and Shinbo/SHAFT productions are always fun to watch! :D

Here's the english wiki entry for SHINA DARK:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shina_Dark

The red haired girl looks a bit like Shana, and the blond girl looks like that Asparas from Nanatsuiro Drops.

Looks nice.

Youve been brainwashed with Shana vibes, Red haired sword girl existed way before Shana man.

The cover art of the manga has entranced me, so I'll be giving a shot to this anime for that and other two reasons:

1. The production for the animation is made by SHAFT, responsible for Tsukuyomi ~Moon Phase~, Negima!?, and currently, ef- A Tale of Memories.

2. So far I have taken a liking to the story after reading the overview of the entry at Wiki.

I made a topic for the manga~~
http://forums.animesuki.com/showthread.php?t=56708

heh, face of Shana and body of Margery Daw, now that's quite a combo. :heh:

The staff for the SHINA DARK anime:

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Supervision: Shinbou Akiyuki
Director: Konno Naoyuki, Tomooka Shinpei
Storyboards & Episode Director & Key Animation: Konno Naoyuki, Tomooka Shinpei
Music Producer: Lantis
Audio Director: Tsuruoka Youta
Producer: GENCO
Animation Production: SHAFT

Characters and their seiyuu:

Garet Fay Sowachu: Tomatsu Haruka
Christina Ray Holden: Naduka Kaori
Exoda C. Kurau: Ono Daisuke
Vincent Run Butler: Yasumoto Hiroki
Noël D Bûche: Kawasumi Ayako
Marple Matthew Malthus: Hanazawa Kana

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Source: MoonPhase

I'm not sure about the english names of the characters.

I'm pretty much going to watch anything SHAFT do, so I'm looking forward to this, might check out the manga in the meantime if it gets released.

Agreed I will watch anything SHAFT will do so im patiently waiting well maybe not that patiently i started the manga last night.:p

Could be Galette instead of Garet (since she's a woman).

Trailer

http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=iio8wC...ature=related:

Looks like it could be good. :)
Though the beginning introduction by some narrator was a bit funny...

Sounds like the narrator from Kaiji, haha. It does look sort of interesting, I like the character designs, so I'll definitely take a look at this when it's released.

The covers completely turn me off. I hope the contents can have something different from what the covers suggest, since the title name sounds more interesting than how the covers look. :uhoh:

I like the way the manga is drawn. It's very detailed and very clear (no to mention that I also like the artstyle). Story sounds fine (NEED MANGA).

From the trailer it looks as if SHAFT is going to use a color scheme that sort of parallels ef's as opposed the colors used in Tsukuyomi or Sayanora Zetsubo Sensei.
If anyone found that hard to follow. What i'm saying is
-Ef and Shina coloring for their anime is very clear and drawn with light effects
-The other coloring style is much more solid.

I'd love some scanlations of this manga, but for now, knowing that it's Shaft and Shinbo, plus the premise, means that I'm in anyhow.

A link to a better quality version of the trailer, having to watch a tv on youtube was annoying :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GOHbGaTaZs

Hmmm, this look like it'll be worth a glance.