Agreed. The falling from the sky part as well as kissing to activate.... is REALLY similar to Sekirei

The cast list is out, and it stars the seiyuu I am most enjoying right now, Yuuki Aoi. As one post on 2channel said, it's hard to imagine her in a "boing" (i.e., big-breasted) role. Her range of characters just keeps growing, from Murasaki to Riko to Ichigo to Mina to Korone to Yagyuu Juubei.

Both of the stars -- Yuuki Aoi and Kotobuki Minako -- are 18. There is going to be a radio show, and those two are good bets to be on it, since they both bring something special to their radio performances: in Ao-chan's case, verbal agility and sharpness; in Mina-chan's case, bizarre and entertaining outbursts.

柳生十兵衛：悠木碧 Yagyuu Juubei - Yuuki Aoi
徳川千(千姫)：寿美菜子 Tokugawa Sen (Sen Hime) - Kotobuki Minako
真田幸村：釘宮理恵 Sanada Yukimura - Kugimiya Rie
柳生宗朗：平川大輔 Yagyuu Muneakira - Hirakawa Daisuke
後藤又兵衛：小林ゆう Gotou Matabei - Kobayashi Yuu
シャルル・ド・ダルタニアン：小清水亜美 Charles de D'artagnan - Koshimizu Ami
柳生義仙：水原薫 Yagyuu Gisen (?) - Mizuhara Kaoru
直江兼続：豊崎愛生 Naoe (?) Kanetsugu - Toyosaki Aki
服部半蔵：後藤沙緒里 Hattori Hanzou - Gotou Saori
徳川慶彦：櫻井孝宏 Tokugawa Yoshihiko - Sakurai Takahiro

Terrific cast. Here is a poor but large-scale image of a couple of magazine pages with pics of the characters and their seiyuus. Click to enlarge:

http://img691.imageshack.us/img691/8...7381432.th.jpg

All the sources I see just say "2010" for the broadcast date, so I guess October is likely.

This looks good. I'll keep an eye on this.

oi oi oi, how come I've never seen anything of this till now?!!

girls, swords, exploding clothes and nakedness!!!

can't believe this has been off my radar till now.

Yeah, it will be interesting, I guess. :heh: Anyway, this is a sure "must watch". :D

Oh lol female Sanada Yukimura...i knew many version of Sanada Yukimura from mangas and games, like girly-like Sanada Yukimura from Samurai Deeper Kyo and the GAR Sanada Yukimura from Sengoku Basara...but female Sanada Yukimura.....

And to add its a loli.........

And its Kugimiya Rie!!

Looking...forward...to...this :heh:

Don't worry Daisuke, you will bring out Gar and HOPEFULLY would eliminate that Makoto trauma.

:confused::twitch:

Sanada Yukimura.

One of my favorite heroes from Sengoku Basara.

Is now a loli.

Voiced by....... Rie Kugimiya.

I have one thing to say.....

You better not sound like your typical Tsundere roles Rie or i will RAGEEEE!!:frustrated:

Because it is not a J.C Staff project like Shana or Zero no Tsukaima, but ARMS project.

:heh:

There's some online comics of this, but I can't seem to access it. It just loads to 99% and then just stays there forever :confused:
http://www.hobby-channel.net/images/...WF_Window.html
http://www.hobby-channel.net/images/...WF_Window.html

Loads fine for me. Try again.

There are 4 more characters from this series. These 3 will make their debut in volume 5 of the novel which comes out July 1st.
http://img37.imageshack.us/img37/3713/72053262.th.jpg http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/3647/83591395.th.jpg

The 2 in the first pic are Miyamoto Musashi and Sasaki Kojirou. Im not sure who the cat girl is supposed to be.

This character was introduced in volume 4 of the novel. I dont know her name either but perhaps it says so in the pic?
http://img249.imageshack.us/img249/7424/93466473.th.jpg

I wonder if we will see these 4 in the anime.

Need to struggle for the comics to work for me. This looks interesting.

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news...a-ryoran-books

The novels will be coming out in english :)

BTW, if the main hero kiss a girl then he will unleash her true potential?
What about girl kiss girl!? It's a mild case of yuri now. I hope only the main hero can do this, but i doubt that. :(

Found full body of the characters in their anime form.

http://gigazine.net/index.php?/news/...hyakka_ryoran/

I'll be interested to read the novels in English. :)

can't wait to see those girls stripped down queen's blade style. :heh: or is it going to be more on the Ikki-style side of things? :heh:
In both cases, this is pure WIN. :D

also, what is this:

those two are already my favs

aah, dam it, autumn season is still far away.. dunno If I can resist 'till then.. :heh:

hmmm just going by looks alone for now, I'm torn between Gisen Yagyū and Matabee Gotō. I mean how do I choose between a dual sword wielding, eye patched beauty with a gorgeous set of pins on her or a spear wielding, fundoshi donning beauty with a gorgeous set of pins on her!!??:help:

Well after them 2 it would have to be maid-chan(Hanzō Hattori) then Sen Tokugawa following after(really really looking forward to hearing Minako Kotobuki here:D)
And the rest in no particaular order follow suite.

Very much looking forward to this.

There's going to be a special broadcast of episode 1 on the 3rd of September, on Tokyo MX (about a month before the show starts airing).

After this airs, I bet we'll see spinoff games, like QB had