Sentai Filmworks has formally revealed its acquisition of distribution rights to the Akikan!, Kami Nomi zo Shiru Sekai, and Soredemo Machi wa Mawatteiru television series and the Towa no Quon motion picture series.
The 12-episode harem comedy from 2009 Akikan! is based on Riku Ranjo & Hiro Suzuhira’s light novel series about a young man who begins living with aluminum beverage cans that have magically transformed into human girls that need daily transfusions of carbon dioxide from kissing to survive.
The first The World God Only Knows (Kami Nomi zo Shiru Sekai) anime TV series based on Tamiki Wakaki’s manga premiered last year. A second season aired this year. The romantic comedy revolves around a master of dating simulation games charged with seducing real girls to capture the runaway demons hiding in the girls’ hearts. Sentai has not clarified if its acquisition license includes the “KamiNomi” second TV series or OVA.
The fall 2010 Soredemo Machi wa Mawatteiru off-kilter slice-of-life comedy will be released domestically under the English title “And yet The Town Moves.” The adaptation of Masakazu Ishiguro’s manga revolves around the daily lives & whimsical thoughts of high school girls that work part time at a small, suburbian Japanese café.
Towa no Quon is Studio BONES’ ongoing series of six original sci-fi/action short movies that pit teens with supernatural powers against a shadowy government organization that considers the teens a dangerous threat to be eliminated.
The SoreMachi license is a nice treat.
(AnimeNation)