New Anime For Gainax (Creator of Neon Genesis Evangelion)

Gainax, the studio responsible for hits like Neon Genesis Evangelion, made an appearance at the Tokyo International Anime Fair, where they revealed Sadon-Desu and Akubi wo Suru ni Wake ga Aru, two anime projects that aren’t in production yet.

The first project is Sadon-Desu, an anime adaptation of the four-panel manga drawn by Kyo Hatsuki. The manga, which has been serialized in Kodansha’s Young Magazine since last November, is centered around a high school girl named Koume who enters a tea ceremony club. The name Sadon-Desu is pronounced the same way as “sudden death” in Japanese, although...