Nov 27 2008
Early Winter Season Preview: Akikan!
Akikan!
Premiere Date: 1/3/09
Studio: Brains Base
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Story:
Based on the light novel series of the same name, this series follows a high school boy named Kakeru Daichi. One day he buys a can of melon soda from a vending machine that somehow turns into a beautiful girl that he nicknames “Melon”. Soon afterwards, more of these “Akikan” characters show up and all of them have to be infused with carbon dioxide through kissing in order to survive.
Artwork:
The animation behind this series is being done by ‘Brains Base’ whom you may remember from series such as last year’s ‘Kure-nai’, ‘Innocent Venus’ and ‘Demon Prince Enma’. There isn’t a lot of footage out there for fans to take in at the moment. The fifteen second trailer above seems to promise quite a bit of physical comedy that involves Melon overreacting to something and making something explode.
Early Reactions:
I’ve seen much weirder things become hit series and I’ll even gladly admit that I’ve been a big fan of even weirder. Granted, there is likely much more to this story than I am aware of and once I see the first couple of episodes my mind will be changed. At this moment however, there’s little about this series that makes me really want to sit down and watch it. It will get a cursory glance from me and if the first three episodes manage to do something amazing, I’ll stick around but this one is holding little more than potential from me.
Surprising! From that (admittedly very) short clip, Melon seems more feisty than I would have imagined. I mean, when I think melons…(juice, what were you thinking?! :P)..I think nice and cool. I’m definitely at least watching this a bit to see if it’s funny at all.