the PV<\/a>, perhaps unsurprisingly at this stage, reveals absolutely nothing. Apparently there’s going to be more details in the issue of Megami out towards the end of this month (promptly ordered).<\/p>\nMy thoughts in the meantime pretty much amount to –<\/p>\n
Man, I want that poster<\/b>
\nNot that I actually have any room to hang posters…<\/p>\n
Ritsuko has the best pose.<\/b>
\nAbsolutely no character bias there, no-siree! She really needs to be pulling the Kurumi Erika face there, though.<\/p>\n
Why is Miki starting so longingly at Chihaya?<\/b>
\nPerhaps the iM@S movie will be a truly progressive anime, in which we have, for want of a better term, reverse-boob-envy<\/i>. Maybe it’s evidence that the plot will revolve around a Chihaya-Miki-Haruka love-triangle, climaxing in an incredibly stabby, Nice Boat ending? Maybe I’m just clutching at straws in order to find something to talk about?<\/p>\n
I don’t know, it’s a little difficult to fathom out what they’d actually do<\/i> with iM@S in a theatrical capacity. It’s not that I don’t have ideas, but they’re all somewhat a little thin. If nothing else, I’m pretty sure that they won’t be going for the “let’s go aboard!” plotline used in the K-On movie and so many terrible British sit-com spin-offs. What I’d like to see them do is maybe bring back the Shinkan Shojou – as some of the periphery material as threatened to do – in some capacity, or maybe do something with Jupiter which isn’t incredibly obnoxious, as long as it’s not too much of the central focus.<\/p>\n
Honestly, though, they could get away with doing something really dumb, like a movie-long edition of Namassuka, and I probably wouldn’t complain anyway. The thing with the iM@S TV show is that they jumped tones and genres fairly readily without it ever getting especially problematic (except for maybe the Hibiki episode, Hamzou pimp-slap aside), so they could get away with doing pretty much anyway. The biggest hurdle they’ll be facing is likely the fact that they’ll be feeling the need for everyone<\/i> in the primary cast to have something to do, which may get a little problematic when splitting a movies running time across more than a dozen characters.<\/p>\n
Best Result – The key-art and PV are trolls, and the movie is actually The Legend of Kotori.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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