Groundbreaking ‘90s isekai shojo anime series Rayearth getting new anime adaptation【Video】 – SoraNews24 -Japan News-

Again to Cephiro we go as Clamp anime celebrates its thirtieth anniversary.

Final week, the large information within the anime world was the announcement of a new anime adaptation of Rumiko Takahashi’s Ranma 1/2. The ‘90s nostalgia is continuous to surge, although, as one other beloved traditional can also be getting a brand new anime, and this time it’s Magic Knight Rayearth.

Beginning off as a manga in November of 1993 from artistic group Clamp, Rayearth made the leap to TV anime collection lower than a 12 months later, premiering in October of 1994 and working for 49 contiguous episodes. Although a shojo (ladies) collection, Rayearth can also be an isekai fantasy journey collection, liberally borrowing its world-building blocks from role-playing video video games, and the combination of private emotional drama, spectacular motion sequences, and unabashedly frequent sight gags the place the forged goes super-deformed gave Rayearth a really broad enchantment, making it one of many first massive success tales for a shojo anime collection amongst English-territory anime followers within the mid-Nineteen Nineties.

“30 years for the reason that anime TV collection broadcast, you will note them once more,” guarantees the teaser video, with “them” little doubt referring to the three bizarre schoolgirls who cross paths on separate subject journeys to Tokyo Tower earlier than being whisked away to the magical land of Cephiro: main protagonist Hikaru…

…emotional Umi…

…and delicate Fuu.

The video consists of photos taken from the unique manga and TV collection (although not the 1997 alternate continuity OVA collection). As long-time anime followers will see, Rayearth’s character designs are very indicative of their mid-‘90s origins, and the teaser solely reveals the core trio from behind, saving their new facial designs for a later reveal. The orchestral background music additionally doesn’t give any trace as as to if or not J-pop vocalist Naomi Tamura’s unique opening theme “Yuzurenai Negai” might be coming again, nor if the opening animation for the brand new Rayearth, if it seems to be a TV collection, will as soon as once more be completed by legendary motion director Masami Obari. However with the unique Rayearth TV collection ending roughly half a 12 months earlier than the manga’s finale, it’s probably that the brand new anime might be a extra trustworthy/full adaptation of its supply materials.

Supply, photos: YouTube/TMSアニメ公式チャンネル
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