New Kotetsu Jeeg Anime .

[Black Valkyrie]

- Game News Site EG has revealed that Kotetsu Shin Jeeg, a

new version of Go Nagai's classic 1975 television series, will premier on

the WOWOW television network at 11 PM on April 5th.

Source: Moon Phase

http://eg.nttpub.co.jp/news/20070126_20.html

Original Work: Go Nagai

Director: Jun Kawagoe

Story Editor: Tadashi Hayakawa

Writers: Seiji Tonoike, Natsuko Takahashi, Yuuko Kakihara

Character Design / Animation Director: Akira Kikuchi

Mechanical Design: Toshiyuki Horii

Haniwa Genjin Design: Hiroshi Ogawa

Animation Production: Actas

Cast:

Daisuke Ono as Kenji Kusanagi

Kana Ueda as Tsubaki Tamaki

Susumu Chiba as Kagami Misumi

- Jun Kawagoe also directed all the Getter Robo OVAs, except the first three

episodes of Armageddon which of course were done by a certain "uncredited"

director.

Incidentally, Hironobu Kageyama recently announced that JAM Project will be

doing the themes to two shows this spring. Lantis is in charge of music for

this show, so it's pretty much a lock that one of those two shows is this

one. (Gigantic Formula is rumored to be the other one.)

- Press material describes the show as "A simple tale of 'Good versus

Evil' while at the same time [being] a robot anime created for the

sake of the adult core audience."

Plot

The story of Kotetsushin Jeeg takes place fifty years after the

original and features a new cast of characters—primarily the new main

character Kenji Kusanagi (voiced by Daisuke Ono), a high school

student who becomes Kotetsushin Jeeg to fight the sudden reappearance

of Haniwa "genjin" ("Phantom Gods," or clay robots) from the Jamatai

Kingdom ruled by Queen Himika. Other characters include Tsubaki

Tamashiro (voiced by Kana Ueda) and Misumi (voiced by Susumu

Chiba). New versions of the Build Base (commanded by Senjir & Shiba,

whose relation to Steel Jeeg's "Machine Father" is unknown) and Big

Shooter will also appear.

- Go Nagai talks :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2AGoLLWdMI&NR

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3gewCqMFMw