…And just like that my intrest in anime was re-ignited!!
Basquash!
Title: Basquash!
Japanese Title: バスカッシュ！
Genre: Mecha, Basketball, Sci-Fi, Drama, Action, Romance (in the background)
Premier: April 2009
Animation Studio: Satelight
Original Creator: Satelight, Shoji Kawamori and Thomas Romain
Director: Shin Itagaki
Project Director: Shoji Kawamori
Series Composition: Tatsuo Sato
Screenplay: Tatsuo Sato, Yuki Enatsu and Yuuko Kakihara
Music: Kei Yoshikawa
Character Design: Kazuhiro Soeta, SUEZEN and Takahiro Yoshimatsu
Art Director: Thomas Romain
Color Setting: Yuichi Kuboki
Mechanical Conceptual Design: Thomas Romain
Official Website: http://basquash.com/
“Shoji Kawamori (Macross, Escaflowne, Aquarion) is collaborating with France’s Thomas Romain (Oban Star-Racers) in this Satelight project that combines robots with basketball. Kawamori is developing this project as a deliberately lighthearted counterbalance to the more serious work he has done. Romain developed the conceptual designs for the mecha and the art direction. The series will premiere on Japan’s MBS television station and its affiliates in April.”
Well hoo-wii!! Yes, something lighthearted, fun and quirky to get into this season! It’s been a while since I’ve watched a series like this, and the last one I can think of that stuck with me was Diebuster/Gunbuster 2.
This is what we love about Japanese animation, oodles and oodles of noodles and noodles of style. Style that we wretched, western devour’ers wish we could exude for our lives. If only life had a sprinkling more of effortless style… Heh. Effortless style actually takes too much effort, uniquely to look effortless, bull fucking shit.
The soundtrack to this series looks set to be awesome with a hip-pop feel and lots of breakdancing mechas… How is breakdancing mechs not EPIC WIN?
Trailer:
I’ll be doing a review/analysis of Rideback over or after the weekend.
Decrepit breath, vile in its stench
A world in decay
Transgressor is as one
