Melo Melo MELOOOOOONNN!!!

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The so-called epic failed anime Akikan!‘s green-litted OVA, to be a original of a trip to the hot springs has begun streaming its 75 seconds promotional video for the 9th volume in the Light Novel series, to be out on 23rd October later this year. As I read the relevant article on ANN;

ANN – Akikan! Hot Spring OVA Episode’s Promo Video Streamed

The official website for Riku Ranjō and Hiro Suzuhira‘s Akikan! romantic comedy light novels and anime has begun streaming a 75-second promotional video for the ninth novel volume, which will bundle an original video anime (OVA) episode, on Friday. The website had announced in March that production on the OVA had been green-lit. The new 25-minute anime episode, “Akikan!/Can Ippatsu!!? Onsen Panic,” takes the main cast to a hot spring. The television anime version ran in Japan from January 3 to March 28, and the pre-order limited edition of the ninth novel with the new anime episode will ship in October 23.

The story revolves around a typical high school boy named Kakeru Daichi and the can of melon juice soda that he bought from a vending machine. The can suddenly transforms into a beautiful but standoffish girl that Kakeru nicknames “Melon,” and more “Akikan!” (“empty can” or “A-Machine”) girls seem. However, Akikan! girls need to be infused with carbon dioxide from kissing to survive.

Source: Saishin Anime Jōhō

Let’s hope that the quality of the animation will improve this time, from its previous notorious TV broadcast…

Akikan! Abandones Anime

Perhaps after enduring all the criticism about the poor animation, this weeks “quality” anime Akikan broadcast takes a turn from the original animation filming to just a half-hour chat with the seiyus, it looks like after 6 weeks and episodes of quality Akikan it looks the end is nigh, not reaching the standard number of episodes of 13. Lets hope that next week the planned broadcast schedule gets back on track~

But hey, it could be worse, this mishap is kind of similar to what Kadokawa did in its YouTube channel by replacing the long anticipated scheduled broadcast of Haruhi parody anime Haruhi-chan with a 46 second slide-show of boats announcing that the video had not materialised, and nothing else. Only to be streamed for real a few days later.

Akikan! OVA Green-lit for Production

Yes, it seems as so that the Quality anime Akikan!‘s official website for the television anime adaptation of Riku Ranjo and Hiro Suzuhira’s Akikan! romantic comedy light novels has announced on Sunday that production on an Akikan! OVA project has been green-lit. Well since today is the day of the last airing of the anime (episode 12, which I’ll review later ^_^) it is a form of good news for the ‘fanbase’ (if there is one anyways..).

Summary of the whole plot (by ANN):

The story revolves around a typical high school boy named Kakeru Daichi and the can of melon juice soda that he bought from a vending machine. The can suddenly transforms into a beautiful but standoffish girl that Kakeru nicknames “Melon,” and more “Akikan!” (“empty can” or “A-Machine”) girls appear. However, Akikan! girls need to be infused with carbon dioxide from kissing to survive.

More updates to come~ (Apologies for the lack of updates for the past week I’ve been pretty busy due to large amounts and heavy school work and crap about my future, which I’m not fond of…lol)