The people who actually matters will still return to work on s2, so I don't expect this to result in any dramatic changes.

>>28239609
People who matter don't work on Strike Witches.

AIC did the bruntwork for Seto no Hanayome.

If they'd ever need a Gonzo speciality, they can just outsource the task to them.

>>28239675
The team will remain mostly the same, I heard.

>>28239675
Zing!

GOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNZZZZZOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

AIC isn't bad.
We'll miss you Gonzo ;__;

And so, Gonzo's legacy goes on.

Beautiful.

will there be Tomoko in S2?

I don't care as long as I can haz Eila...

>>28240028
...And Sanya...

>AIC

FUUUUCK YEAH

>>28239927
AIC isn't just bad, to me it's the best studio out there, they were the guys who were worked with Gonzo to make Last Exile and Seto no Hanayome.

They've also made certified classics such as Now and Then, Here and There.

If there's a studio that's ever underrated when it comes to anime, it's this.

>>28240153
On the other hand, if there's going to be something that's going to be dropped with AIC doing SW.

It's the pantyshots and the fanservice, not like that bothers me.

Delicious Eila.

>>28240191
> implying there won't be pantieshots in a show where women's pants look exactly like panties

>>28240153
AIC is one of the best studios out there.

When they have the budget.

Watch Sora no Otoshimono if you doubt them at all. It's one of the best executed series of the decade.

>>28240243

>Implying they are even wearing pants at all.

>>28239927 We'll miss you Gonzo ;__;

>>28239859
That will be the biggest loss in SWS2. The glory days of GONZOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOing at the crazy shit pulled. Saki was the last time, and other studios don't have the same ring to their names.

>>28240286
AIC != AIC A.S.T.A.

Or rather, AIC A.S.T.A. is an offshoot of AIC, but either way they technically aren't the same production company.

>>28240286
ASTA and AIC are not the same thing

>>28240191
Are you sure you're watching the same Sora no Otoshimono that I am?

>>28240365
See >>28240340 and >>28240349.

>>28240191

As long as they do at least one more iteration of Episode 7, I don't care if they cut out all the fanservice.

They're already wearing panties all the time anyway, there will simply be less conveniently-placed camera angles.

S2 in... what? 2013?

>>28240340
Wikipedia says that they are just two different divisions of the same company.

AIC has worked with Gonzo in the past, and is also capable of decent art on their own.

>>28240365
No bro, I'm watching Nyan koi.

I'm glad Gonzo drop that nekomimi meoblob horseshit.
Saki season 2, NOAW!

>>28240465
But the world will end in 2012 so that's too late ;__;

I only hope season 2 comes out in the near future.

Wasnt this shit pretty popular, why dont they get there asses in gear and start working.

DAMN

Maybe Strike Witches S2 will go on to become the Duke Nukem of anime.

Supposedly, it's slated for Spring.

We'll find out in a few months though. I mean, not too long ago there were rumors (aka 2ch posts and Shitkaku taking them as news) that SW2 was coming this Fall. But it's been a reasonable amount of time now between seasons, and so it wouldn't surprise me that it would come out at least sometime in '10. At least they're not like Sunrise and as quickly as possible, power-shit out a fucking abortion of a second season if a show turns out popular (Gundam Seed, Gundam 00, Code Geass etc)

>>28240537
Don't think so bro.

LA was supposed to break apart in 1998.

I need my Sanya fix. Hurry the fuck up.

AIC are rapidly becoming the best studio that regularly produces shows again. Finally getting the form back from in the 90's when they made Tenchi Muyo 1&2, Bubblegum crisis, battle athletes and photon (awesome under-rated OVA)

>>28240945
Now that movie seems corny.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/k1tmxdjzey4/Strike witches profiles.rar
New updated version (Mjr. Miles, the Red Pants and alternate Mio)

There will be no noticeable difference between the seasons. This isn't a big deal.

I hope it will air next summer actually. For some reason, SW feels like an anime that should be aired in the summer. Makes no sense at all, I know, but it wouldn't be the same if it aired in the spring.

>>28241301
Oh god, Nipa better show up and grope Eila from behind in season 2.

>>28241406
I refuse to get my hopes up.

>>28240526
I don't think you quite grasp the situation here, sir.

>>28240526
Haha, wat.

Actually the better question would probably be what will happen to possible continuation of Saki, Strike Witches S2 has already a pretty stable position.

>>28241737
Presumably AIC will also take it or Gonzo will have recovered enough to handle it.

70 years since the beginning of Winter War now.

>Thoughts?
Great. Instead of doing crappy fanservice shows to appeal to the pedo otaku shitstains that are destroying the industry, they could atleast try to make a good show.
Gankutsuou was brilliant, and Last Exile was great. What the fuck happened?

>>28241961
Too bad it didn't provoke any related fan art in pixiv.

>>28241974
Uh... they didn't make enough money.

Not that they sold poorly, I don't think, but they didn't make enough because Gonzo was hemorrhaging yen hand over fist into a spectacular failure of an online gaming company which sucked the company dry.

>>28242244
I have never heard of this, more info?

>>28242244
Seriously. A show like Strike Witches is great for building revenue.
People who whine about fanservice don't realise it's usually paying for the shows they like.

>>28242306
http://www.gonzorosso.jp/english.html

Gonzo Rosso was a subsidiary company of GDH holdings(the overall Parent company that owned the Gonzo we think of when we say Gonzo, Gonzo KK the animation studio, since reabsorbed into GDH[Gonzo Digimation Holding] and all renamed back into just Gonzo).

The company mutates like a fucking amoeba:

* September 1992: GONZO Inc. established.
* May 1996: Digimation K.K. established.
* May 1999: GONZO Inc. changed its company name to GONZO K.K.
* February 2000: GDH established.
* May 2000: Creators.com K.K. established.
* April 2002: GONZO K.K. and Digimation K.K. merge; the combined company is renamed GONZO DIGIMATION K.K.
* November 2003: Future Vision Music K.K. established.
* July 2004: Gonzo Dijimation K.K. changed its company name to GONZO K.K.; Creators.com K.K. changed its name to G-creators K.K.; GONZO DIGIMATION HOLDING changed its company name to GDH K.K.
* July 2005: GONZINO K.K. established.
* September 2005: Warp Gate Online K.K. becomes subsidiary.
* December 2005: GDH CAPITAL K.K. established and Warp Gate Online K.K. changed its company name to GONZO Rosso Online K.K.
* February 2006: GK Entertainment established.

>>28242493 504JEW
You know Mussolini's Italy had some high-ranking fascist Jews before they allied with Hitler's Germany. I wonder if they're counted as the victims of Nazism/fascism in the history books and memorials.

>>28242623
...You do know it's actually JFW, right?

>>28242161
Do you know the day when WW2 started? Why should you anyway?

However, Japan has made a very interesting looking and, alas, so far unscanned doujin that seems like genuine not-a-drill Suomus vs Orussia witch war.

Discovery's documentary about Winter War:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-G59ilVg6ZE

Not that I've even watched it myself, yet.

>>28241875 Presumably AIC will also take it or Gonzo will have recovered enough to handle it.

Gonzo are gone, dude. They ain't coming back.

>>28242721
That's what the Elders of Zion want you to think. The Kiketrix has you, Neue!

Moar 504 JEW pls

>>28242161
SA~NYA~

>>28243011
They were made public like 2 days ago.

>>28243060

>>28243011

As long as I get more Sanya and Strike Pantsu season 2 it should be fine.

>>28243277 who let the granny in?

Luciana is the best Red Pants.
Martina is fine to. Fernandia is dull.

>>28243507
She reminds me of Chitose from Hanjuku Joshi.

Actually, Picture Magic, the company that did the last 7~10 episodes of Saki, would probably be the company to do a second season of that.

... I think this is the last of the Redpants crew pics I have.

About GONZO:
"Shoji Murahama, one of the founding member of Gonzo, has left the studio this April to set up his own company Lambda Film, and some anime fans must've been wondering what he's got in store next. "

guess what?

pic related

http://en.gigazine.net/index.php?/news/comments/20091202_goldfish_scooping/

>>28243512

post the other two as well pls

>>28243815
>>28243864
I am happy that Japan has taken to her and the little one. Middle one is fine but "seen it."

>>28243864
Why Macross Frontier?

>>28244037

WHAT IF THE HARUHI SUZUMIYA SERIES WERE MADE BY AIC, INSTEAD OF TROLL-ANI?

>>28244208
close to the RL truth, methinks.

btw, RL Malvezzi on the right

i imagine it'd b a lot like nyan koi

>>28244310
AND YOU DEFINITELY WOULDN'T WANT TO MESS WITH THE CARDINAL

I don't mind.

>>28244454

I'd hit dat crotch.

>>28242874

World War 2 doesn't really have a start date. I mean, the obvious one is September 1 1939 but there was plenty going on prior to that. In the Pacific Theater, the war really started with the Manchurian Affair in 1931. Incidentally, September 1 1939 also marks the end of battle of Khalkhin Gol in Mongolia between the Soviets and the Japanese.

>>28240456

I just hope they actually focus on the plot instead of just jamming it all into the last few episodes.

Minna/Mio, Charlie/Lucchini why are there no doujins?
Japan, why do you suck at yuri?

>>28244886

What a strange person

>>28244959
Nah, more plot would be nice.
It's already got default fanservice running constantly so working on the plot a bit more would be nice. The cast is easily good enough to carry a plot driven show.

>>28245095


i guess you're right. i mean, come to think of it i also like the constant WWII references (as in, not just the setting. things like spam and sten guns and the like)

>>28242874
Um, why should I know the start date of World War? ...The subject was WINTER War, not World War. Winter War began with a Soviet offensive on 30 November 1939, about three months after the second World War began. Meaning almost exactly 70 years ago.

That being said, I humbly request sauce for that doujin.

>>28245177
I was actually really impressed how accurate the depictions of weapons and planes and shit were.
Gonzo definitely did their homework.

Sanya's ninebarreled rocket-lawnchair was kinda retarded though.

>>28245270
His point was that most people don't know when a fuck huge war started, let alone a fairly obscure conflict.

Fanboy-pandering shit

>>28245352
That, I understand. I was merely being hopeful.

>>28245329
Except that it was based on a real weapon, the Fliegerfaust:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fliegerfaust

Just upscaled.
And guided by Sanya's Moedar ability.

>>28245329
That's explained away as being invented by Erica's twin sister.
Don't ask how it explains it away, it just does.

I'm waiting for a witch to be using this;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lahti_L-39

>>28245490
It still looks sort of retarded.

>>28245270
SAUCE: 「月光」 黒汐物産
i dunno if that's the title or 「circle」 + title, but it's in toranoana and melonbooks

>>28244925
Why do some people call Shirley Charlie? I know Charlotte -> Shirley might not make a whole lot of sense, but it's even spelled out that way on her airplane in episode 11.

>>28245671
I do it because the people I've known named Charlotte all shortened it to Charlie.
Shirley struck me as a nickname rather than a shortening anyway.

>>28245593
Never disputed that, just saying they didn't just pull something totally out of their ass, there was a historical basis for it (grossly inefficient as it was).

They can't all be winners.

>>28245611
Thanks, must keep an eye on it. Stuff like that is rare.

As long as Mio returns, I'm satisfied.

I only hope they don't turn SW into typical "oh noes war is awful, why can't we just get along?" shit that's the Japanese standard for handling war themes. SW should be about "oh darn, war is pretty awful, but these aliens will ruin our happy lesbian orgy by annihilating our very species if we won't tear their black honeycomb heads off and skullfuck them."

>>28245711

"Shirley is not a diminutive of Charlotte"

General Yeager's only major complaint with the show.

>>28245967
Dude, S1 had the Neuroi make a strike witch to try and kidnap Yoshika.
The whole moral was "Fuck if it looks friendly, kill that shit."

>>28245967

Strike Witches started as a "war is bad mmmkay" (at least for yoshika) and turned into a "well that may be so but these robot thingies are pretty bad too so lets get rid of the fuckers"

personally i never got how there was any moral difference between the robots and tin cans as far as targets go.

>>28246043
The novels support that theory, as it's happened before, but the way the Neuroi was going about doing it in this situation was... quite odd, at least once it had actually gotten Yoshika into the hive.

>>28246094


they probably have to do some sort of brain washing to get it to where they can successfully "turn" a witch rather than just kill it.

>>28246094
It probably decided the Warlock was a greater threat so played the two factions against each other.

>>28246145
The stuff being shown to Yoshika didn't seem like propaganda, though. In fact, it almost seemed like the Neuroi Witch was telling Yoshika about the Neuroi core that ended up being used in the Warlock.

>>28246182
Except that happened before the Warlock even appeared on the scene, and once the Warlock DID appear, it immediately stopped what it was doing and tried to protect the hive.

>>28246182

seems likely.

>>28245990
Yeager has actually commented about the show?

>>28246094
Hartmann and Eila even mention rumors of a humanoid Neuroi appearing in Suomus. It's pretty clear where her intentions lie; Neuroi-tan is a cunning ploy by the producers to brainwash not just Yoshika but everybody who hasn't read the novels.

Oh this can only end in rape....

I hope that when they finally get around to trying to retake Europa we get some cameos from the Patton Girls

>>28246447
It's entirely possible that it's really that simple, but I, for one, see enough odd things about the situation to hold off on judgment of that specific incident until we get more information on it, either in season 2 or via some other manner.

>>28246464
Not rape, "research."
It's okay if it's for science.

>>28246464
Oh no, I think I've seen the next pic in pixiv.

>>28246516
(Hell, it's entirely possible that Neuroi-tan was trying to bring Yoshika to the Neuroi side by showing some of the more unsavory things that the human side was doing.)

>>28246513
Afrika would make a good 45 min OVA.

>>28246642
Complete with Racism!

UMBABA UMBABA DABOOBOO

At pixiv, I think I saw a few rough sketches of a doujin-in-making in which Neuroi-ko manages to kill Mio in their shoot out at ep 9 which makes Yoshika lose her optimistic idealism about the Neuroi. Minna kicks her out and Yoshika returns as 17-yo officer with a katana and a serious face ready to avenge Mio.

>finally get around to trying to retake Europa

I wish, but by the looks of it, the new season will take place in Fuso.

>>28246761
Really? I thought current theories placed S2 in South Europe, possibly in Greece.

>>28246595
Well, yeah, that's like Brainwashing 101. "See? Your allies are jerks."

Yoshika proceeds to return to base and the rest of the Witches at least start to doubt their cause because she came home unscathed and within a week Britannia is in flames.

>>28246761
Is there even a Hive near Fuso?

China is a giant hole in the ground in this universe.

>>28246959
You're thinking of the Redpants, I think. They come from Italy.

Oh god, I hope they stay the fuck out of Fuso. Japan won't be able to resist the urge the engage in a pacifist OH NOES WAR IS BAD, THE BOMB WAS BAD pity-jerk at Pacific front.

I hope they animate novels or something that takes place in Suomus sometime in the distant future. The concept is to be milked dry, maybe we'll be seeing all kinds of interesting stuff in the long run.

>>28247018
There sure is. It's mentioned a lot in the light novels as the "Fuso Incident."

The amount of Eila makes me wonder, just how many finnfags do we have in this thread?

>>28247097
No, I just remember ages ago something being announced for S2 that sounded similar to how the War unfolded in Greece.

>>28247163

Libertania will try to help Fuso against the Neuroi forces, fights them back only for neuroi to deploy two bombs at Nagasaki and Hiroshima.

But SW is merely Touhou WWII edition

>>28247175
if I have understood correctly those were just scouts and out-dated garbage Neuroi compared to what they have 'today' in continental Europe

>>28247183
Everyone loves Eila.

I thought that was common knowledge.

>>28247183
Eila and Sanya have a huge following here. Sometimes it seems like the whole of Finland is on /a/.
I put her popularity down to her voice personally.
Aural sex right there.

>>28247175
Fuso Incident happened years ago and I haven't seen mention of a repeat after it was over.

>>28247183
Reporting in.

>>28247183
I like Eila and I've never been to Finland (or plan to go, as I'd imagine it is fucking cold).

>>28247367
Well sorry to break your imagination, but it's not cold anymore in our country.. which sucks...

>>28247367
Not that cold bro, except in the north during winter.

>>28247576
That sucks. I love cold countries.
Fix your country Finland! Fix it now.

>>28247576
I blame global warming.

Define "not that cold"

I've had a Russian guy tell me 5 Fahrenheit (-15 Celsius) wasn't that cold. Fuck that.

>>28247616
The problem is universal.. it's global warming.. heck the past 3 years have been so fuckin warm in winter, before that I could've spent everyday on snow from November to March..

A lot of Eila in here, but little Sanya.

So here's some Sanya. A lot of Sanya.

>>28247756
I'd call -15C cold if you're not wearing proper clothes, maybe some wool underneath your sweater and pants, and maybe a coat if you're a sissy.

>>28247833
Yeah, it's weird. In childhood we had long winters and shit. I hated skiing but at least there was that possibility. Nowadays it's hardly even worth it to freeze water for ice-skating. But there's still a couple of really cold days in year every now and then.

>>28247163
This. Is my fear. I'm not really basing my theory that s2 will take place in Fuso on a lot. The first reason would be that I try to expect the worse. Secondly, some characters seemed to be heading toward Fuso at the end of the Himeuta CDs, which I presume takes place just before the start of s2. Thirdly, some guy involved in the project gave us a few hints at a concert with the voice actors back in... October, I think, saying that Barkhorn's sister Chris won't be in it, and Sakamoto's old buddy Takei will.

>>28247324
Which makes it a perfect way to kick off a new series. The Neuroi invade en masse, Yoshika launches a desperate defense of her village because Fuso's Witches are all engaged elsewhere, Takei saves her after a long battle, they retreat as Yoshika's hometown becomes a Hive, the 501st is reformed to make up for Fuso's losses, cue ep.1 credits.