Garasu No Kantai/glass Fleet

[grss1982]

Ripped this bit of news from animesuki:

Post is by Sonhex of http://forums.animesuki.com/showthread.php...ight=witchblade

Garasu no Kantai or Glass Fleet (subtitle 'La Legende du vent de l'univers' or 'Legend of the Wind of the Universe' ) is a 24 (tbc) episode mecha/sci-fi series starting 4th April. It's an impressive co-production between the ubiquitous Gonzo Digimation and fan favourite Statelight with character designs by Okama and mecha designs by Shoji Kawamori (who most recently worked on Eureka 7). Art Direction is by Takeshi Waki (Mushishi, Samurai Champloo). Cast includes Tsuda Kenjiro, Ueda Kana, Ishida Akira (Athrun from GSD) and Kaida Yuko. Music by Kousuke Yamashita (Xenosaga the Animation).

Official website is http://www.garakan.com (with some cool Okama wallpaper!)

Here's the blurb from AnimeNfo:

So an intriguing mix of space opera, political and religious subplots, a smidgen of romance and lots of grandiose space battles (hopefully).

There's a lot of potential here. I hope Gonzo doesn't screw it up. Their recent shows have been lacking to say the least. In a new season largely devoid of serious action fair I have high hopes for this series...

Sources: ANN, AnimeNfo, Anime-Days

I could'nt believe it an anime featuring the work of Shoji Kawamori and no one here in MW reported about it?

This post was like almost a month old over there at animesuki.

BTW, I used they keyword to find anytthing about this in MW, but I came up with nothing:

"Garasu"

"Glass Fleet"

"La Legende"

Edited April 22, 2006 by grss1982

[Project Phoenix]

If it mentions the Hory Froating Head is involved, I'm there. Designs comes first, story second.

[Fort Max]

This hasn't revcieved much attention from anime fans yet, and I haven't seen a fansub either.

[yellowlightman]

Any pictures of his designs?

Although I'm sure they'll be as lackluster as all his other recent efforts.

[chrono]

Any pictures of his designs?

Although I'm sure they'll be as lackluster as all his other recent efforts.

393281[/snapback]

If you would've looked, yes.

The first ship I saw had MATRIX written all over it, though later on it starts to look like a Viking styled ship. The second one was clearly a semi-ripoff of Yukito Kishiro's "Jupiter Fleet" designs. While the thrid looks like it's take from the game FreeSpace. The term 'lackluster' seems to be fitting.

Screen Captures can be found under the Story section.

http://www.garakan.com/

Frankly I'll DL the first ep. but I'll pass on watching the series because it looks like a Bishie styled 18th century French Space Opera, heavy on the 18th & French but sans the Opera or Space.

[wolfx]

I knew about this new anime but dunno it was kawamori designed. I just gave it a pass since it was Gonzo.

THe designs look like....Bohemian Cyberpunk? XD