On the flip side of this we have Gakuen Alice, an adaptation of a manga surrounding a school for students with special, supernatural powers. The first of these is Koi Kaze, a controversial but nonetheless heartfelt tale of a growing (and of course forbidden) love between two siblings who first meet before they even know they're related, and a series that takes a far more mature and reasoned track than the stereotypical anime adaptations that have incest as a key element in their plot. That focus on the dramatic and personal continued in a pair of manga adaptations which put Omori at their helm in 2004. With its quiet but dramatic character-driven focus, this series is arguably an experience that has defined some of Omori's later works, which seem to enjoy the same kind of focus upon character and substance over pure style while delivering its story with a simple effectiveness that doesn't rely on flashy visuals or heavy narrative twists and turns. Haibane RenmeiĪlthough Takahiro Omori has been active within the anime industry since the mid-1980s with roles including key animation work on the final episodes of Gunbuster, his first notable directorial role (for western anime fans at least, following a number of turns as director in the late 1990s) came in 2002 via his work on the much-lauded Yoshitoshi ABe series Haibane Renmei, where he worked as assistant director for the entire series as well as working on storyboards and serving as the episode director on one occasion. Omori's resume to whet your appetite for what we can look forward to over the next six months. Of particular interest in terms of the staff attached to the series is its director, Takahiro Omori - thus, to celebrate Anime Limited's big reveal we've prepared this brief article to clue you up on some of the more impressive aspects of Mr. The series in question is Samurai Flamenco, one of the season's two offerings to arrive as part of Fuji Television's noitaminA programming block, and an original series produced by Manglobe starring a wannabe superhero who is, for the most part, neither super nor heroic. Having cut their teeth with theatrical and physical releases, and dabbled with digital distribution of 009 Re: Cyborg, new distributor to the UK anime industry Anime Limited are now ready to enter the hotbed that is online streaming - and they have every intention of starting with a bang by snapping up one of the more exciting series coming to Japan this autumn. Samurai Flamenco and a history of Takahiro Omori
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