Some interesting site updates have taken place on the Genshiken main page. You'll notice that Ogiue is now in the picture, per the last scene of the first season. And that there's some Kujian on the TV they are watching. The new style, not the old style. What does this mean?! Was the Kujian character update/series announcement a farce? Is there something more sinister at work here?! Either way, it looks like we might not be able to count Genshiken out just yet, but it's still too early to tell. I am noticing in the background that they used both the hold and new character designs on the posters. The Genshiken site's picture is a bit low quality though, which raises some concern. AHHHH! I WANT TO KNOW!
I'm writing the Weekend Rollup right now, this was just too important to wait on.
May 31st, 2006 at 8:02 am
Yeah, I noticed this too… and wondered.
May 31st, 2006 at 8:05 am
Sorry for double posting, but I just noticed: If you look at the list of companies, Palm Studio, the studio that did the animation production for Genshiken isn't there. Instead, they have Genco, who did Kujian…
May 31st, 2006 at 9:24 am
I remember hearing Palm Studio before about the old series, but there is also this page on the Genco site.
http://www.genco.co.jp/works/genshiken.html
Certainly the company does a lot of quality work (Elfen Lied, DearS[nice animation], Himawari, etc, etc.), and they are capable of pulling multiple projects at once, so it certainly doesn't rule our Genshiken as being produced in tandem, if that is what they're doing.
Anyway, Palm Studio is a subsidy of Genco(near as I can tell, anyway), so that's why Genshiken is listed on the Genco site and I guess also why Palm Studio was removed from genshiken.info. Though, it doesn't change the fact that they did production on the first series, so more questions get raised!