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Uchuu Kyoudai (Space Brothers)

The manga Uchuu Kyoudai by Koyama Chuuya was announced to get a TV anime adaptation.

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Synopsis:

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Originally Posted by Baka-Updates

One night in 2006, when they were young, the two brothers Mutta (born 1993) and Hibito (born 1996) saw what appeared to be a UFO heading for the moon. They decided that night to both become astronauts and travel out into space.

In 2025, Hibito has become an astronaut, and he's going to go to the moon. Mutta ended up following a more traditional career path with an auto development company. However, Mutta just ruined his career through a violent altercation with his boss. Now, not only has he lost his job, he appears to be blacklisted in the entire industry. Maybe this is a rare opportunity for Mutta to once again chase his childhood dream and become an astronaut like his little brother!

Nominated for the 2nd and 3rd Manga Taisho Award and won the 56th Shogakukan Manga Award and 35th Kodansha Manga Award in the General Category.

Animation Production: A-1 Pictures
Broadcast Date: Spring 2012
Website: http://www.uchukyodai.com/

As opposed to what I originally assumed, this shouldn't be airing on the Tuesday NTV timeslot since all signs are pointing towards an Aniplex production, which is fairly surprising. Might be one of noitaminA's future offerings after all...? Either way, I'm really excited for the adaptation, next spring is shaping up to be pretty damn promising (the amount of announcements this week has been overwhelming).

It seems like it will be aired on NoitaminA's slot.

A1-pictures is good news. Now I want to know who the staff is. Really loving the manga so far. Can't wait for the anime.

According to Moonphase Diary, Ayumu Watanabe is directing.

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Originally Posted by MisaoFan (Post 3969228)

According to Moonphase Diary, Ayumu Watanabe is directing.

Confirmed by ANN

Well looks like he'll have his hands full this spring with this and mysterious girlfriend X

So is A-1 confirmed or what? I don't see it stated anywhere. Is the director any good? He's only done Doraemon movies..

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Originally Posted by Haohmaru (Post 3970090)

So is A-1 confirmed or what? I don't see it stated anywhere. Is the director any good? He's only done Doraemon movies..

It hasn't been formally confirmed - it's something I went ahead and posted due to the fact that a whois request on the official website gave the domain as registered by A-1 Pictures when it was first created, right after the anime announcement. It has changed by now, maybe so as to hide it? In any case, sorry if I've jumped the gun too fast. At the very least, this is definitely an Aniplex production.

Ah thanks for clarifying.

Wow this manga has won lots of awards.

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Originally Posted by ahelo (Post 3970534)

Wow this manga has won lots of awards.

It is due. I just read the first chapter, and it is amazing. I'm looking foward to this.

Just reading the premise made me look forward to this. Chasing after a forgotten, or lost, dream when someone reach the lowest point of his life does resonate with me a lot.

I really like what I've read of the manga and I've heard nothing, but good things about Ayumu Watanabe, so I'm definitely looking forward to this.

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Originally Posted by Sheba (Post 3974045)

Just reading the premise made me look forward to this. Chasing after a forgotten, or lost, dream when someone reach the lowest point of his life does resonate with me a lot.

Believe me, this is explored sooo well in the manga. The main character is funny as hell too haha :D

Staff:

Series Composition: Uezu Makoto
Art Director: Katou Hiroshi
Sound Director: Kobayashi Katsuyoshi
Music: Watanabe Toshiyuki
Animation Production: A-1 Pictures

Cast:

Nanba Mutta: Hirata Hiroaki
Nanba Hibito: KENN
Itou Serika: Sawashiro Miyuki
Sharon: Ikeda Masako

The anime will start its run on April 1st at 7 am on NTV, which is to say in Beelzebub's current timeslot. lolwut? Well, it's not actually a bad timeslot, but the sudden switch in audiences is surprising to say the least. Besides, AFAIK Beelzebub was plagued with a low budget so I hope this doesn't show here... but I don't really expect this to happen.

Source with anime visual.

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Originally Posted by Katapan (Post 3977864)

Well, it's one of few seinen shows aired on daytime (beside AT-X titles).

This will probably be one of the best shows of the Spring. I have a question though: is YTV another station that is airing this because I saw a link for this on YTV's English version of its site.

Hoping that this will be a CR simulcasted series.

Whoa, hang on.

http://www.ytv.co.jp/english/sp05/index.html

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Originally Posted by English website

PREMIER DATE: April 2012 30' x 48+ episodes

26 episodes are also confirmed for Hiiro no Kakera, and only 13 for Zetman. Thanks for reminding me of the English website, AbZeroNow.

Year airing is quite a nice surprise. Just hope for a decent stream now.

Wow, year run = awesome.

Well, there are 16 volumes of manga material to cover.

I know he's always Sanji, but it's nice to see Hirata get more roles since playing Kotetsu, well at least it feels more than usual.

And yeah I'll be checking this one out for sure.