Kiddy Grade 2 pilot episode due in March
According to Moon Phase Zakki, a DVD containing the pilot episode of Kiddy Grade 2 will be released in late March.
More info after the break.
Original Work: gimik / Kadokawa Shoten
Director / Storyboard / Producer: Keiji Gotoh
Character Design / Animation Director: Megumi Kadonosono
Series Composition / Script: Hidefumi Kimura
Mechnical Design: Kanetake Ebikawa
Art: STUDIO EASTER
Animation Production: Aslead
Project Producer: Atsushi Itou
Content Producer: Kiyonori Hiramatsu
Official Site: http://www.kiddygrade.com/
ES Members Éclair and Lumière were involved in a battle to determine fate of the galaxy and they prevailed in the face of danger. However, years passed and now the galaxy has entered another era of chaos. The general feel of the Kiddy Grade universe remains unchanged and the story takes place after the end of the first series, though the exact time lapsed has not been confirmed yet. The new heroines are “Asukuuru” (resembles Lumière) and “Kufiiyu” (resembles Éclair). Look forward to possible appearances by characters from the first series. The limited edition pilot episode DVD is 7-minute long and cost ￥2,940.
All information taken from Moon Phase Zakki.
The names are direct romanization from Japanese (アスクール and クフィーユ), so they are almost definitely wrong. I tried googling around in French but couldn’t find anything close.
More sci-fi yuri action coming your way soon.
January 7th, 2007 at 1:57 am
2 940 Japanese yen = 18.7807736 Euro
holy …
Thats about 2,7 Euro per minute ! Woah… If you sum that up to normal film standards … A 120min DVD would cost a whooping 322 euro !!
Or even more.
1minute = 60sec = 60*23,97 frames
So you pay roughly 0,19 cent per drawn picture…
Alter kannich Geld scheißen oder was ?!?!
(sry for rant)
This is a LITTLE bit expensive… deshou?
January 7th, 2007 at 2:16 am
Yea that pretty much confirms that KG2 will be out! Looking forward to it!
January 7th, 2007 at 2:25 am
At least it’s still Gotoh Keiji.
January 7th, 2007 at 2:37 am
I watched Kiddy Grade once. I stopped watching after the first 3 minutes of the first episode.
January 7th, 2007 at 2:40 am
Haha KG is at best an average anime, but i just love the planes in it. No prizes in guessing which of the spacecraft i like
January 7th, 2007 at 3:10 am
They’re gonna milk ‘em otakus dry like this… O_o
Of course, I’m gonna get in line like the rest of em to try to get this baby… If them torrents fail me, of course *wink*
January 7th, 2007 at 4:23 am
This means…….. more AYA CHAN!
January 7th, 2007 at 9:36 am
YES KG 2 is finally out… WEEEEE
January 7th, 2007 at 9:41 am
Okay we got “believed to be Lumiere/Eclair” from moonphase, yet 2ch, mixi, and even beerman are reporting it’s not them at all. I don’t know what to believe anymore, hahah. But all I really care is YAY, more K-G doujinshi on the way ;P
January 7th, 2007 at 10:04 am
OMG the picture looks so tempting to copy right now my fingers are twitching with excitement! OMFG KG2!!!!
January 7th, 2007 at 11:26 am
Ops. It’s 思わせる instead of 思われる… so it’s more like “resembles” instead of “believed to be”. I shouldn’t translate stuff 2am in the morning.
January 7th, 2007 at 11:52 am
Oh boy~ Another great series to look forward to in 2007.
January 7th, 2007 at 6:07 pm
Nothing in dutch, english, french or german I can link to those names, weird stuffs! :P
January 7th, 2007 at 6:54 pm
no words on seiyuu jobs? Is it seriously going to be aya hirano doing “Asukuuru”?
January 9th, 2007 at 4:15 pm
Kiddy Grade 2!!! I love the character design very much!!!
January 9th, 2007 at 4:41 pm
exalt dragon: Yes.
January 10th, 2007 at 12:11 pm
I find it humerous that they’re no longer working with Gonzo. Though I can’t blame em.
Asread’s animation in Shuffle was pretty nice, I’ve got high hopes for KG2 in that department.
January 11th, 2007 at 4:32 am
Ah, so Asread worked on Shuffle!?
Gotoh worked on one episode of Shuffle! and a few of the other people named above did as well so that makes sense. Most of them have also worked on other Gonzo titles too.
June 6th, 2007 at 11:47 am
Very disapointing to see Kiidy Grade producers overlook again the greatest flaw in the original series.
‘Character confusion’
As an Éclair devotee…….My suggestion:
Mr Gotoh, take a close look at the original Éclair and Lumiere images… as seen in the first 2/3rds of the series.
You will observe 2 of the most adorable characters ever conceived (oh yes… and you may also remember… it was YOUR brilliant idea to introduce them in this form).
Now, after some careful study…. you will become familiar with how they originally looked. One thing you will notice is, Eclair has lovely red hair and amazing amber eyes, yes?
She wears a cute little dress with a cheeky upside down cross with matching boots…. yes?
Now, after familiarizing yourself as to what what Éclair and Lumiere actually look like….. please, un-confuse yourself…. and your fans…. and arrange to re-draw our girls to original specifications and speedily return them to us.
You can call it it KG-2 or even the ‘Continuing Adventures of Eclair and Lumiere’…. I dont care….. just make them look like themselves again….. please?????
June 15th, 2007 at 5:06 am
Al: Gotoh didn’t design the characters, they were created by Megumi Kadonosono. One of the show’s main features was that they were brave enough to change the designs of the main characters halfway through. Personally I prefer the epilogue version of Lumiere and.. probably the chibi 0318ver. of Eclair.
As a bit of trivia, in the very early character designs from 1999 Lumiere’s design was actually indentical to the SC0163 version (seen in episode 13). Her Eclair has essentially the same colour scheme but different hairstyle (think Nanoha from StrikerS but with the ponytail on the other side) and clothes.
April 19th, 2008 at 7:10 pm
I want more Kiddy Grade!!!^^