Infinite Stratos Season 2 Announced

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Apr 212013
 

Ever popular mecha harem anime Infinite Stratos is getting a second season. Yesterday’s IS All-Night Festival event confirmed the news. You can watch a promotional video below:

Despite saying RE:BOOT in the video, its is not a reboot, as some sources have erroneously claimed. It is in fact the light novels that are getting a reboot, with longtime artist okiura leaving after volume 7 and CHOCO replacing him starting in volume 8, which releases later this week.

Otherwise, most of the voice cast will be returning. The video also introduces the students Takenashi and Kanzashi Sarashiki. Yasuhito Kikuchi is once again directing at 8-bit, but Kumi Horii is now handling the changed character designs instead of Tomoyasu Kurashima. CHOCO will be handling the mechanical designs, and Hikaru Nanase is back to score the music. 

As generic a harem show this may be, I’m excited. There can never be enough Charlotte.

Charlotte Dunois Figures Galore

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May 292012
 

Oh Charlotte Dunois, how I love you so! It’s a great time to be a Charlotte and figure fan. Why, you may ask? Well I was roaming AmiAmi this morning (as I do every morning), and something instantly caught my eye: a Charlotte Dunois bunny style figure (she’s nearly sold out in every store, and it hasn’t even been a whole day since she was made available!). I immediately jumped for joy as the figure is based on one of my favorite illustrations of Tomoyasu Kurashima, the character designer of Infinite Stratos. The said illustration is the one above. Here’s a picture of the figure itself, part of the 4-Leaves series by Kotobukiya:

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Character Spotlight: Charlotte Dunoa and Char Aznable

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Mar 152011
 

She's 3 times cuter!

Ok I’m not gonna lie–Charlotte Dunoa of Infinite Stratos has charmed her way into my personal top 10 female anime characters. For those of you unfamiliar with Infinite Stratos, I will be doing a review of it when the show ends on March 25th. Here’s a quick overview. Infinite Stratos is a comedy/harem anime, meaning there are lots of pretty girls and one lucky guy with plenty of outrageous situations. For good measure, mechs are also thrown in. This is as generic an anime as it gets; however, I personally love this stuff. In this show, the protagonist is a Japanese guy name Ichika Orimura, who happens to be the only guy in the world who can pilot the mechs of the series known as IS. As such, he is enrolled in IS Academy, which is naturally full of only girls. There he meets childhood friend Houki Shinonono of Japan, the snooty Cecilia Alcott of England, other childhood friend Fong Lingyin of China, the stern Laura Bodewig of Germany, and the topic of today’s discussion, the super cute Charlotte Dunoa of France. Continue reading »

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