Blade & Soul
 

Staff
Director：Hirotsugu Hamasaki、Hiroshi Takeuchi
Series Composition：Atsuhiro Tomioka
Character Design：Eri Nagata
Animation Production：GONZO

Cast
Jin Seo Yeon：Yuki Aoi
エル・カレン：Sayaka Ohara
ジン・ハズキ：Sora Amamiya
ダン・ロアナ：Ayahi Takagaki

Official open at Feb 10
http://www.tbs.co.jp/anime/blade/
http://i.imgur.com/vNBWpgx.jpg

Btw did the game released in NA or Europe?

They announced english release as far as I know.

Seriously? Anime announcement... before any god damn news on the NA game version. I give up.

^This

Been waiting on any news about it's release in the west for too long but you know what kinda looking forward to watching this for some reason, might be cause it's probably gonna be one of them animes that right up my street:p

Not XEBEC? I'm disappoint.

http://www.tbs.co.jp/anime/blade/
Jin Seo Yeon：Yuki Aoi
エル・カレン：Sayaka Ohara
ジン・ハズキ：Sora Amamiya
ダン・ロアナ：Ayahi Takagaki
(Their name should be more asian feel so not sure how to translate yet lol)

Don't we know their game character design at least, if there is such thing?

I wonder what kind of character Ayahi-san play this time. Well, Aoi Yuuki as bad guy sound like fun at least:D

Those designs don't really bode well for me, but I wouldn't miss anything from Hamazaki. He made Stein's Gate what it was for me, and then their's Texhnolyze/Shigurui.

I'll trust GONZO to make this a hit in order for an american localization. I'll trust Japan to not boycott the show as well just because of some baseless hatred for Korea.

Might check this out for a guilty pleasure watch, interested in the MMO a bit as well.

http://www.thecoli.com/styles/defaul...lies/mjlol.png

hahahahahhahahahahah

I have mixed feelings for this one, might check out the first few episodes to see if it clicks well with me.

My sides. About time. LMAO.

Those in the back are characters from MMO, so the front one is like a custom main character, I'm guessing? Just don't put a whining and wimpy main dude and I'll be happy with larger female cast.

This has so much fail written all over it, I'm sorry. Maybe I'm bitter because NCSoft was/is being lazy about bringing B&S to America (not that it exactly met my expectations, anyway), but... Just no. Ugh.

Game looks like it has relatively solid story, great action and lot of scenery porn. And with strong seyuu cast, I see great potencial instead of fail.

lol the game story is full of ass pull and stupid character

I've only watched the game walkthroughs back when it was still in BETA, so I only know of the story up to the first 'cliffhanger', but from what I've seen it had a HEAVY wuxia feel to it and can be easily adapted to a classical revenge story. I don't know if the plot goes bonkers after that point but I think it'd fit well as an anime from just the parts I've seen.

Aoi Yuki and Ayahi Takagaki? Looks like there will be familiar battle girls and rivalries here. :heh:

Take it with a grain of salt, but apparently NCSoft doesn't think it would do as well over here so they've focused their time/money on pushing Wildstar.