> Announcement: The AMG TV anime series project has just been
>               started.  Anime production will be executed
>               by AIC, and the director is Gouda Hiroaki.
>               No on-air date yet.  Detail director
>               interview will be released in June issue of
>               Afternoon.  Present for drawing: 1 director
>               Gouda's illustration of Bell-chan (illustrated
>               on 2004/3/4).

Anyone have  word on who the voice actors will be?

Goodness I hope that they keep the original voice actresses for Bell, Skuld,
and Urd... They just all seem to fit the characters so well... Besides, I
just can't think of anyone that could do Bell better than Inoue Kikuko. I
mean just try and imagine if they used someone like Megumi Hayashibara (Does
the voice for female Ranma, Lina Inverse, and a host of other Uber Genki
tomboyish characters) or Mifugu Hiiragi (Martina from Slayers Next, and
Milly from Lost universe...almost always plays the role of the hapless
sidekick or comic relief type character) I mean, good heavens!

Also, I know it's all speculation,  but I'm curious about if they'll take it
down a different path than the manga or not.

Here's what I mean;

If you have been into the bit torrent scene, then you'll know that there's a
lot of groups out there like Anbu and Bakasan's group that are subing anime
the day it comes out in Japan and having it up on bit torrent sites within
48 hours or so, and what I've been seeing is that the anime adaptations are
using the Manga like scripts. Which for a purist as pretty darn cool. And
since a lot of recent adaptations of Manga have been remaining faithful to
the original source material. Take Naruto for example... if you've read the
Manga, then the Anime is just a moving version of it. It's amazingly
faithful to the original, I wonder if they are gonna try the same with AMS!
as a tv series. The reason I wonder is because I don't think it'd be a good
idea if they remain true to the manga for the storyline.If they do, there'll
be tons of filler eps that will just bore the watchers I fear

The reason I say that is because a lot of my reason for loving the series is
the stunning artwork and gradual story building (which seems to have stalled
in my opinion).. both of which are great for a Manga... but not so great for
an Anime. So while things like the recent broom race, and the Demon Angel
arc (and the angel eater arc) might be good for action... there are lots of
arcs that would just end up falling flat on TV (Ms. Keiichi, and stuff like
the hill climb race for example) not because they are bad stories, but
because they relied on visuals and story arcs that might not transfer well
to TV. For AMS! to succeed as an anime I think it'll need to give people a
unique reason to tune in for 100 plus eps (naruto is already up to 76 eps
and counting, and it just keeps on getting better), and I'm not sure that
the standing story'll be enough.

Thoughts?