This is just a minor project that shouldn't affect the schedules of other projects much: just an OVA coming out with v6 of the comic, next March.
Director Ishihara Tatsuya did
Haruhi. Perhaps this is his attempt to one-up Yamakan at something resembling
Lucky Star.
I have great confidence in lead writer
Hanada Jukki, who also wrote the adaptation of
Seitokai no Ichizon.
I'm glad to hear this is a bit weirder than LS. Perhaps more like, oh, say,
Seitokai no Ichizon?
Which is also a great place to go for a couple of seiyuus. I thought Honda Mariko was fascinating as Kurimu, and
Togashi Misuzu was good as Minatsu, too. Misuzu has also shown up singing
the ED to Fortune Arterial, singing as part of Lia's group, Veil (this is Veil starring Misuzu and Aoi).
Just looking at
her blog, she has a couple of photos of her racing on a cart track in Tokyo. It was a photo shoot:
