Tetsuko no Tabi

[NeoSam]

鉄子の旅
Tetsuko no Tabi

Broadcast: 2007

http://www.tetsuko.jp/

Based on a manga thats serialized in the seinen manga magazine IKKI.
For now there are 6 volumes released of this manga.
Here are the covers:



Read about the manga here:
http://snogglethorpe.googlepages.com/manga

Genre: Seinen

[aorta]

What does Super Bell"Z mean?

[NeoSam]

Originally Posted by aorta

What does Super Bell"Z mean?

If I'm not wrong thats a japanese band.

Edit:

Read about this group here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SUPER_BELL%22Z

a group known for its "DJ Train Conductor" songs that lay announcements recorded from inside trains over hip hop beats.

Great, they have picked the perfect group for this anime

I'm loving this anime more and more now

[monir]

I'm sold after reading the synopsis in the Manga url you posted in your opening post. Will be looking forward to this!

[NeoSam]

The people that appeared in the manga because they read the previous chapters of the manga, I would really like to see these guys animated also, that would be so great (maybe even better if some of them are carrying with them Tetsuko no Tabi manga or even an issue of IKKI magazine ).

[NeoSam]

The circulation of IKKI magazine has dropped from 29,000 to about 18,500

[monir]

Few more relevant information on the title...

This show is slated to be a 13-episodes series. The director Nagaoka Akinori is an old school who also was the episode director for Rose of Versailes. Group TAC is the animation production company which is also old school.

Someone mentioned in another thread that this coming April can very well be the best April ever in the history of anime. Tetsuko no Tabi is one of the many shows I'm very much looking forward to this Spring 20007.

[gumbaloom]

I have 5 volumes of the Manga and I've love to translate it but I think it might be a bit beyond me unless I started translating the manga like RIGHT NOW.

If theres a translator out there who wants to do Tetsuko no tabi, come talk to me and I'd make sure that L-E picks it up as I'm an uuber huge Japanese train geek

:E

-gumbaloom

[ginko51]

What exactly is this about?

[monir]

There is a link in the opening post. You can get an idea about the show by following that link.

[NeoSam]

Volume 6 got out, so I added its cover to the first post

Ahh, broadcast will be in June 2007 >.<

[Sakuya]

Originally Posted by NeoSam

Ahh, broadcast will be in June 2007 >.<

Is that still considered part of the spring line-up? Shouldn't it be summer?

[gumbaloom]

Keey ya fingers cross that they follow the manga when this show airs cos if they do I should be able to translate this..

I've got 5 pages of the first chapter translated and boy it's some funny s**t. Anyone wanna cast any ideas about how they'll work this?

I somehow think it'll be like one journey per episode cos it'd be kinda hard to fit 2 journey's in to one episode considering the amount of detail thats put in. (Who here knew before reading this post that the length of the Kururi Line was curtailed due to a review of the railways after National Highway Privitization?)

-gumbaloom

[cyth]

Well, a short 30 second trailer got released on Family Gekijou's site. Jump

[Dop]

This sounds like it might be nice and quirky!

[GriS]

Another slice of life? Interesting... I can imagine what it's going to be like with mangaka being stuck in the train with a hardcore otaku.

[Fruitfly]

A non fiction anime? I never seen one of those
<- I made an avatar from the trailer
and another from website

[Kaoru Chujo]

Well, who knows. But I love the Japanese trains and the link in the first post makes this sound very attractive and unusual. The train otaku in the story was the first guy ever to visit all 4,636 JR stations (completed in 1995).

I remember once asking the stationmaster in a small end-of-route station some route info and our conversation lasting a few seconds past the train's scheduled departure time, and seeing the guy who was to signal the train's departure getting antsier and antsier as the seconds passed. Love it.

[monir]

The only show to look forward to from this barren month of June. Countdown to 4 days.

[Asai]

I just hope a group picks it up. It's the kind of quirky off-beat series that most groups seem to ignore. >.<