announcements that caught my eye

[insaneneko]

From dgray_man, the D.Gray-man anime cast (copied directly from the entry, with some additions by me):

• Sanae Kobayashi as Allen Walker (also known as Lucy from Elfen Lied and Akira Touya from Hikaru no go)



• Hiroki Touchi as General Marian Cross (also known as Ovan from .hack//root, Gin from Hunter x Hunter and Gin from Ginga legen weed)



• Junpei Takiguchi as The Millenium Earl (also known as Phyllo from .hack//root and Dr. Laughton from the Metropolis movie)



• Katsuyuki Konishi as Komui Li (also known as Amidamaru of Shaman King and Agatsuma Soubi from Loveless) <--First and foremost he will always be gay captain of gay team in PoT (Kajiimoto) to me, but he's also Shibuya Shori from KKM



• Ryotaro Okiayu as Riba Wenham (also known as Kuchiki Byakuya from Bleach and Dark Mousy from DNAngel) <--Tezuka! Shigure! Too many to mention!



• Shizuka Itou as Linali Li (also known as Misa Kakizaki from Mahou sensei Negima and Himawari Kunogi of XXXHolic)



• Takehiro Sakurai as Yuu Kanda (also known as Cloud Strife of The FFVII Advent children as well as Haruka of Tactics) <--Also Ukiya Shun in Gate Keepers and Shibuya Yuuri in KKM

Kobayashi Sanae as Allen comes as no surprise at all. I wonder how different she'll sound from Akira? It's sad that I can't remember the character Okiayu plays off-hand. I suppose it's time to reread the manga. :P

From yamane_ayano:

Ikoku Irokoi Romantan is being animated as an OVA. I can't help but laugh over this, but I will definitely watch it just to hear Suwabe being suave Italian captain. XDXD

From toko_kawai:

Toko Kawai will be a guest at Yaoi Con next year, per the June Manga editor's blog. I do like Toko Kawai quite a bit, so I did perk up about this....but it's not like I can go or anything.

ETA: Okane ga nai is also being animated...I can't help but groan over this one.

Comments

[modorenai.livejournal.com]

Oh my GAWD, Okane ga nai is being animated!? I read a couple of chapters of that one and had to stop because it was so... so... words fail me at the moment. It's so terrible I can't even describe it. It's like the epitome of bad yaoi cliches... not to mention it totally goes against the concept of "love" as I understand it. And no matter how I look at it, I can't see how the uke can be considered to be a guy. -_-

How I wish they would animate something more worthwhile... though I suppose Okane ga nai has the "commercial" factor going for it. (aka pr0n)

[insaneneko.livejournal.com]

I tried reading the manga as well, and the only reason I was able to keep going as far as I did (possibly one volume or so?) was because a) the art was nice and b) the seme was mildly amusing. Too bad the uke is beyond pathetic...and not a guy. He's the epitome of the fully emasculated victim-type uke. *gags*

Personally I think this is more worthwile than say, Sensitive Pornograph. I saw about 5 minutes and had to stop. Now that was trauma. :P