Random Musings - Neo Romeo And Juliet Edition December 10

Filed under Ayakashi Ayashi, CODE GEASS, Miscellaneous, Random Musings by Omni | 64 comments

A few news items and updates - which you may or may not have already heard about - on this tenth day of December.

  • Neo Verona… A winged horse… An armored Juliet fighting with a sword… Well, this is a lot different from the Romeo and Juliet I remember reading years ago in junior high. For those of you who haven’t heard, GONZO is going to be animating a version of Shakespeare’s work and is calling it RomeoXJuliet. They still credit Shakespeare for the original story, but this really couldn’t be more different. GONZO’s version is about Romeo as the son of the oppressive Montague dictator and Juliet as the daughter in the Capulet family who rebels against them, all set in an aerial city. It would seem that they’re really only keeping the names and the basic star-crossed lovers concept the same. The reason I’m mentioning this now is because the official site now features a trailer for the show, and it really made me sit up and pay attention. I assume the tragic ending will still be kept intact, but that doesn’t mean that this won’t still be interesting to watch because of all the changes. RomeoXJuliet is set to air April of next year.
  • The official GEASS site and blog have announced that Jinn (of Blood+ OP4) fame will be handling the upcoming second OP and SunSet Swish (of Bleach ED6) fame will be performing the second ED. I’m a bit uncomfortable with Jinn because OP4 was my least favorite out of all the Blood+ songs, but I have high hopes for SunSet Swish.
  • The few of you who still watch Ayakashi Ayashi may have noticed that I didn’t blog yesterday’s episode (never mind last week). I’ve been fairly busy with finals and have an important one coming up Monday, so I decided to go ahead and do OtoBoku in the time I had to spare. Hopefully winter break will allow me some time to catch up.
  • AnimeBlogger needs Donations! Our network administrator Maestro has recently hit some hard times, so I’m once again asking for donations on his behalf to help keep these sites going. All donations would go directly towards our hosting bill, so there’s no danger of money being misused. Even a small bit will go a long way. More information can be found on Maestro’s own blog, which also explains alternate ways to donate if you don’t have a Paypal account through which to do so.
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    1. Gil at 4:36 am on December 10th, 2006

      Hmm, GONZO?

      That’s enough evidence for me to watch it.

    2. Gil at 4:46 am on December 10th, 2006

      Just saw the trailer.

      A floating city and pegasus? Hmm………

    3. random conscience at 4:49 am on December 10th, 2006

      nice…

    4. mokokits at 4:52 am on December 10th, 2006

      O.O .. trailer .. one word .. awesome, well I’ve got something to look forward to. =]

    5. Atashi at 4:55 am on December 10th, 2006

      I quote someone significant in my life, “Anything with Kawasumi Ayako is worth a look”, and I’m a sucker for classical works, even if it’s a way outta there spin-off, so I’ll watch an episode or two of Romeo X Juliet at least.

    6. kigg at 5:00 am on December 10th, 2006

      how many hits does this site get on average per day?

    7. Random stuff at 5:44 am on December 10th, 2006

      hey the trailer looked really cool!!! i’m looking forward to it when it comes out!! its a shame that they both might die in the end.. but still looking forward to it!! ^^

    8. Random stuff at 5:46 am on December 10th, 2006

      juliet looks sooo coool!!!!

    9. Mutio at 5:51 am on December 10th, 2006

      Hmm, guess Romeo x Julient won’t be a series for me since I’m a fan of happy endings and comedy/romance.
      Poor Maestro! I sure have some money left on my paypal account, I’ll donate right now!

    10. Maestro4k at 5:51 am on December 10th, 2006

      I’d have to check to see how many hits the site gets but it’s averaging 10GB of bandwidth a day. That’s just Random Curiosity alone and doesn’t include the bandwidth used by all the other blogs and the main site.

    11. Mutio at 5:54 am on December 10th, 2006

      Sorry for the double post, but the donation site seems to be down!

    12. Loikol at 5:55 am on December 10th, 2006

      Gonzo, when was the last time they made something worth watching? I wont have any high expectations that’s for sure.

    13. shojo at 5:59 am on December 10th, 2006

      The trailer looks really good, and that’s something to look forward to. The character designs are much simpler than I thought, especially the 2 protagonists. Anyway, will give this series a shot once it’s aired.

    14. Maestro4k at 6:09 am on December 10th, 2006

      Mutio: It seems to be working now, but DreamHost is having some trouble with their web panel which might be causing intermittant problems at the moment. >_

    15. Naga at 6:16 am on December 10th, 2006

      What? I love Jinn’s Raion for Blood+! I like SunSet Swish’s My Pace fine, just didn’t like the Mod Souls so much. (I mean the ending for Bleach. But heh, that was out of the topic.)

    16. MoonDoggieBuiscuit at 6:23 am on December 10th, 2006

      If it’s Gonzo, it’s good! If it’s based on a Shakespear, it’s good! If you forge two good reasons and a whole lotta twist…

      “BANG!”

      A masterpiece is born!

    17. MoonDoggieBuiscuit at 6:29 am on December 10th, 2006

      My comment:

      SUGOI DANE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    18. svm at 6:38 am on December 10th, 2006

      just had to point out that Gonzo even used Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet piece for the trailer background music

    19. ๋ำJenose at 7:00 am on December 10th, 2006

      I get some information from internet that tell Gonzo is creator of this anime, it’s good and make me waiting for see soon

    20. Ahuri at 7:03 am on December 10th, 2006

      New OP and ED for Code Geass sound kind of… ugh. They’re probably my least favorite songs from Bleach and Blood+ (plus you can hardly get better than FLOW and Ali Project). Here’s hoping some good new animation may come and make up for that. Or maybe I’ll just be able to stand Jinn’s singing this time…

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