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March 12th 2010 01:16
Mini-Skirt Space Pirates TV Anime Now Set for 2011 - Anime News
The Japanese publisher Asahi Shimbun Shuppan has revealed that the anime adaptation of Yuichi Sasamoto's Mini-Skirt Uchu Kaizoku (Mini-Skirt Space Pirates) space-opera adventure novels will run on television in 2011. Director Tatsuo Sato (Stellvia, Shigofumi: Letters from the Departed, Shingu: Secret of the Stellar Wars) will helm the project and supervise the series' scripts. Satelight, the studio behind Aquarion, Basquash!, and Macross Frontier, will produce the animation. Besides Mini-Skirt Uchu Kaizoku, Sasamoto also wrote the novel inspiration for the Ariel video anime, screenplays for the Dirty Pair video anime series, and The Venus Wars anime film.
The story centers around a spirited high school girl named Marika. She keeps herself busy with the space yacht club and her part-time job at a high-class retro café. One day, two men suddenly appear and claim to be subordinates of her dead father. They demand that she assume command of the space pirate ship Benten Maru. A privateer ship's compact was made during a war of independence a century ago, and according to that compact, the ship must be inherited by the captain's next direct descendant. Marika finds herself embarking on a new life as a space pirate.
The first Mini-Skirt Uchu Kaizoku volume was published last year as the first book under the brand-new Asahi Novels imprint, and the third novel, Mini-Skirt Uchu Kaizoku 3: Cosplay Minarai Kaizoku (Mini-Skirt Space Pirates 3: The Cosplay Apprentice Pirate) will ship in Japan on November 20.
Funimation Posts More Anime Series Online - Anime News
The official blog of the North American anime distributor Funimation notes on Monday that it posted more free episodes on its own website and on the YouTube and Hulu websites. The first 13 episodes of Soul Eater — the first fourth of the series — will ship on DVD on February 9.
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Voice actors Atsuko Enomoto, Nozomi Sasaki, Azusa Kataoka, Tomokazu Seki, Sayaka Narita, Wataru Hatano, Madoka Yonezawa, Tomokazu Sugita, and Emiri Katou will also appear at the event. Sugita and Katou will perform in an "anime song drama" for which more details will be announced later.
Joe Hisaishi, the composer of My Neighbor Totoro and most other films from Studio Ghibli and director Hayao Miyazaki, will write a song for the 60th anniversary outing of Kohaku Uta Gassen this year.
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