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Posted at 08:31 PM on January 07, 2009
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"The official Japanese website has launched for a new video anime remake of Rieko Yoshihara's Ai no Kusabi boys-love novels, more than 20 years after their first publication. The anime studio AIC (Ah! My Goddess, Bamboo Blade) already animatedAIC's new project will be 13 volumes long and will launch next fall. For the new project, AIC director Katsuhito Akiyama (Pumpkin Scissors, Guyver: The Bioboosted Armor) and character designer Naoyuki Onda (Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam, Blassreiter)
are reprising the same roles they performed in the 1992-1994 effort.
Yoshihara herself is supervising and writing the scripts. Nobuyuki Abe (Haru wo Daiteita) of On-Lead is directing the sound.
The story is set in the future
on the planet named Amoi which is controlled by a supercomputer named
Jupiter. Among the mostly male human population, the light-haired elite
class is allowed to temporarily keep the dark-haired "mongrels" as
pets. One elite member, Iason, encounters a mongrel named Riki in the
slums and decides to take him in. However, Iason keeps Riki longer than
it is socially approved, and rumors abound about their possible
relationship.
Sh?setsu June magazine serialized the original novel run from 1986 to 1987, and six volumes have since been written and published. Digital Manga Publishing announcedYaoi-Con in 2006, and has just released the fourth volume last month."
Hah! I think we might be provided with enough Yaoi OVA's for the next year or so.
After all Ai no Kusabi ain't gonna be airing till fall... having to wait for so long kills the fun... though we need some thing or another to keep us on our toes ;)
