From the incredibly ancient and already scooped to death news division: last Friday Famitsu posted a bunch of screenshots and a cast interview from this summer's upcoming Moetan anime. While it's a bit sad when you can tell from the sample screens that no particular attention has been paid to anything but the characters, I doubt anyone watching this (myself included) will be doing so for the panoramic backdrops or pulse pounding THREE-DEE ACTION. For those repulsed by Famitsu's horribly artifacted .jpgs Galge.com presents a prettier alternative with much the same content. You know it's a moe sign when the three lead seiyuu respond to a question regarding the English they've learned recently with "apple", "this is a pen", and "Happy!" respectively... For the uninitiated, Moetan is a series of otaku-oriented English phrasebooks combining POP designs with quirkily translated references to anime and manga in a format that has proven to be both memetic and moetic. I hope rq will resurrect his random Moetan phrase script in commemoration of the anime, perhaps as a Wordpress plugin... (no more)
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