Dog Days
 

From what I can gather, picture the offspring of Zero no Tsukaima and Nanoha's aesthetics.

http://www.dogdays.tv/

Website operational.

TVA「DOG DAYS」2011年4月より放送開始予定。
原作・脚本：都築真紀
監督：草川啓造
キャラクターデザイン：坂田理
アニメーション制作：セブンアークス
製作：PROJECT DD
公式サイト：http://www.dogdays.tv/（ドメイン所有はアニプレックス）

正式キャスト
シンク・イズミ：宮野真守
ミルヒオーレ・F・ビスコッティ：堀江由衣
エクレール・マルティノッジ：竹達彩奈
リコッタ・エルマール：水樹奈々
ロラン・マルティノッジ：子安武人
ブリオッシュ・ダルキアン：日笠陽子
ユキカゼ・パネトーネ：阿澄佳奈
レオンミシェリ・ガレット・デ・ロワ：小清水亜美
ガルウ・ガレット・デ・ロワ：柿原徹也
レベッカ・アンダーソン：高橋美佳子


Adding that to here.

Will be watching I think I saw a magical boy XD

Sorry to double post character designs here: http://www.moetron.com/2011/01/05/do...aki-confirmed/ so I don't look crazy when I'm talking about magical boy >.<

Ah yes, the elusive Mahou Shounen makes a rare appearance...

A second reading of that scan reveals the interesting fact that all of the females are named after sweet pastries, generally Italian ones... It's from Seven Arcs (Nanoha) and stars none other than Horie Yui and Yagami Light himself, Miyano Mamoru. This is relevant to my interests.

Is this a completely original anime?

Seems to me like it is >.> Unless it was a light novel or something... I don't think there was.

I'll have to check it out when it airs in April, sounds really interesting.

It's from the creator of Nanoha - basically another Aniplex attempt to create a big hit from scratch using successful talent (Angel Beats, Madoka Magica, Fractale, Anohana).

No, Fractale is a Asmik Ace title.

I hope you're not implying that it would, in theory, be impossible to do so.

Everything on your list there except for Angel Beats hasn't aired yet, and Angel Beats failed due to sheer incompetency on the part of its staff.

Time will tell whether sticking ten brilliant people in a room together can actually produce something of value, but I think at least one of those shows will succeed.

Angel Beats is one of the best selling anime tv shows of all time, if that's not considered a hit to the people who financed and backed the show I don't know what is. Going by this top 25 it would be in the 14th slot.. that list is of course dated and you have MF, Geass R2, two K-ON! series and two 00 series to have sold better.. but that only means it goes to being the 21st best seller for anime tv shows.

Bottom line for the guys putting up the money for Dogs Day, Angel Beats, Madoka Magica, Fractale, Anohana.. a critical hit but commercial failure like Baccano! would be a disaster, a critical hit and commercially successful production like Durarara would be fantastic, but if it sells as good as Angel Beats who cares even if it sucks according to critics.

When people are out to make a "bit hit" I doubt they care if the product is actually "quality", heck if it's popular enough in the first place they'll have legions of fans to argue why it's "quality" anyway..

I'm interested. Would like to see this magical boy in action.

Looking forward to this.

*has a little gander at the pics*

*spies a long sliver haired beauty with animal ears and a white corset*

*is officially sold*

*and then spies a super mega cute brown hair girl with animal ears and the cutest smile ever*

*is now zealous devout of the Dog Days anime!*

d(^_^)b

This looks very promising and well as one can guess I really love the way it looks:D
plus Miyano Mamoru is the VA for the MC.

While looking at the thread title, I thought Kane And Lynch 2: Dog Days would have an anime adapatation lol.

Is it just me, or does Shinku Izumi (majo shounen) look like a cross between Cless from Tales of Phantasia, Cou Van Giruet from Elemental Gelade, and Jaden Yuuki from Yugioh GX?:heh:

So this show is ZnT by the creators of Nanoha? Honestly, it looks like crap to me but it all depends on how they play it...

Very early 2000s, either way.

Maeda's popularity is in the gutter because of it, though. Poor Maeda.

Well, what I think Aniplex is trying to do is create the 'next Haruhi', in the sense of a production with high staying power and a massive, devout fanbase. So far they've failed to do that, at least from my point of view.

I think this may be the closest thing we get to a new Nanoha series for now! I'm in!

Hmm, Dog Days has nothing to do with Nanoha, even they are from Seven Arcs studio.

I don't recall saying it was. It's pretty much the same staff as Nanoha, so as far as quality goes, it's probably going to be along the lines of Nanoha.

The official site is up now!

http://www.dogdays.tv/

That's a lot of animal ears on the cast. Every one but Izumi sports a pair.

I have a feeling this series is going to be ridiculous, but I think I'll enjoy it. I hope a trailer comes out soon.

I wonder about that. Looking at how every character seems to be wearing the latest in Barrier Jacket fashion from the Nanoha universe, I wouldn't be surprised if they're connected somehow, however slightly. Sink (?) even seems to be brandishing an Intelligent Device. :P

Either that or TPTB are having a hard time coming up with original clothing designs that look like they might protect the characters in battle.

ZnT would have been fine if Louise hadn't been an insufferable character and the story had more substance.

I have confidence in the creators of Nanoha.

Hey Louise is awesome!

...She is the first tsundere character ever that had make me not support a tsundere in the romance department :heh:

I can't shake the feeling that it would turn out very much like Nanoha, for better or worse. :uhoh:

I can never support tsundere, because I don't have time for characters that are mental five year olds. I'm sorry, but you're a teenager/in your 20s. Act like it, and stop "pushing your crush into the dirt on the playground" like people do when they're in kindergarten.

But Louise set a new precedence at being an awful, awful, absolutely deplorable character. (Like, slavery. Not funny. Seriously. Wrap it in cute characters all you want.)

*shrugs* Depends on your view of Nanoha. It's my favorite series of all time, so should Dog Days end up like that? Neat! If Dog Days makes MSLN into a meta-series? AWESOME.

I have to agree kinda, I don't mind tsunderes on the whole, guess over the top ones tend to not work so well but I actually dislike Lousie quite alot.
I didn't mind her at all to begin with but after the 1st season it went down hill and she is now one of the few characters I dislike.


+1 I love Nanoha so something similar I guess I won't mind altho I am hoping for something new or at least different on the whole.
I won't mind if some ideas are taken from Nanoha.

Why are we comparing this to Haruhi? Haruhi was crap, so is K-on, which both succeeded on the market scale because of the blindness of KyoAni fanatics.

This MAY or MAY not have the potential of being a hit.

I hope it will be promising i liked nanoha series so meybe this will be good to ugh
so yeah of course i am talkin about dog days

And stasis tanks, stasis tanks everywhere.

You may believe whatever you wish, but both the degree of addict devotion and sales of the videos and secondary merchandise suggest that you are in something of a...small...minority. :rolleyes:

That being said, I'm looking forward to this one and hoping that it will make a name for itself on it's own merits. I get a bit tired of the "we included a character from series X, so this is part of that, honest" routine.

Poor Munto. FORGOTTEN FOREVER!

The Nanoha comparisons can continue. It's rumored Nana Mizuki is to sing the theme song.

Excellent. All is as it should be, then. (If it happens, that is.)

So, Mizuki will release a single for Dog Days under I've Sound (Geneon Universal), according to Moonphase's diary.

Definately seems that way, doesn't it?

She does the opening theme. Since the music is labeled by I've, I think that KOTOKO will perform the ending theme.

Well, that could vary. I've has lots of singers, including three new members. Juding from the art and such, it most likely will be KOTOKO, Kaori Utatsuki, or Larval Stage Planning.