So Honya finally started the sec­ond round to the anime fam­ily project. Yay! It also means it’s time for me to pub­lish this post that I started two months ago. About time. There’s been quite a few changes in my anime fam­ily, reflect­ing upon how my views have shifted over the two years since Honya’s first anime fam­ily project startup. But I think this time, a few more of the char­ac­ters have entered the frame to set­tle down permanently.

The bestest true end I wish for

The anime fam­ily project is, in a nut­shell, a selec­tion of char­ac­ters from anime, manga, vis­novs, et cetera, that are assigned to roles in your ideal fic­tional family.

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My excite­ment has exceeded boil­ing point!

New trail­ers from the Angel Beats! web­site as the infor­ma­tion finally breaks out to KEY lovers every­where. Orig­i­nally con­ceived as a joint project between KEY sce­nario writer Maeda Jun and char­ac­ter designer Na-Ga, the 13 episode anime, com­ing April 2009, will be a joint pro­duc­tion between Visual Art’s KEY and the ani­ma­tion stu­dios P.A. Works (True Tears) and Ani­plex (Honey & Clover, Kamichu). Just by those three past titles plus the sheer awe­some qual­ity of KEY goods I have absolute con­fi­dence in this series to be a masterpiece.

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