- Game News Site EG has revealed that Kotetsu Shin Jeeg, a
new version of Go Nagai's classic 1975 television series, will premier on
the WOWOW television network at 11 PM on April 5th.
Source: Moon Phase
http://eg.nttpub.co.jp/news/20070126_20.html
Original Work: Go Nagai
Director: Jun Kawagoe
Story Editor: Tadashi Hayakawa
Writers: Seiji Tonoike, Natsuko Takahashi, Yuuko Kakihara
Character Design / Animation Director: Akira Kikuchi
Mechanical Design: Toshiyuki Horii
Haniwa Genjin Design: Hiroshi Ogawa
Animation Production: Actas
Cast:
Daisuke Ono as Kenji Kusanagi
Kana Ueda as Tsubaki Tamaki
Susumu Chiba as Kagami Misumi
- Jun Kawagoe also directed all the Getter Robo OVAs, except the first three
episodes of Armageddon which of course were done by a certain "uncredited"
director.
Incidentally, Hironobu Kageyama recently announced that JAM Project will be
doing the themes to two shows this spring. Lantis is in charge of music for
this show, so it's pretty much a lock that one of those two shows is this
one. (Gigantic Formula is rumored to be the other one.)
- Press material describes the show as "A simple tale of 'Good versus
Evil' while at the same time [being] a robot anime created for the
sake of the adult core audience."
Plot
The story of Kotetsushin Jeeg takes place fifty years after the
original and features a new cast of characters—primarily the new main
character Kenji Kusanagi (voiced by Daisuke Ono), a high school
student who becomes Kotetsushin Jeeg to fight the sudden reappearance
of Haniwa "genjin" ("Phantom Gods," or clay robots) from the Jamatai
Kingdom ruled by Queen Himika. Other characters include Tsubaki
Tamashiro (voiced by Kana Ueda) and Misumi (voiced by Susumu
Chiba). New versions of the Build Base (commanded by Senjir & Shiba,
whose relation to Steel Jeeg's "Machine Father" is unknown) and Big
Shooter will also appear.
- Go Nagai talks :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2AGoLLWdMI&NR
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3gewCqMFMw