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Gainax, Nobuhiro Yamashita Create Live-Action TV Show EA's Rock
posted on by Crystalyn Hodgkins
The animation studio Nobuhiro Yamashita. Gainax describes the show, titled EA's Rock, as datsuryoku-kei (ennui-style), a genre of comedy that depicts the listless minutiae of everyday life. The tagline on the show's promotional image (pictured at right) reads "Avant-garde? An ennui-style hero comedy."
The show's story follows the former of the "Kankaku Senshi Gokan Five," a super sentai group that successfully protected the Earth's peace and now goes about their daily lives in other occupations due to a lack of hero-related work. It will take place in Tokyo's Shooting Bar EA, a combination airsoft shooting range and bar, with Gokan Red, 45 years old, working at the bar owned by the former Gokan Blue as a bartender. Momoka, a 17-year-old high school girl, s the team part-time as a waitress and Gokan Peach.
The series will contain 13 15-minute episodes, and the episodes will air on various television stations in Japan in April as well as on Nico Nico Douga.
Yamashita previously directed the live-action films Yasuhiro Takeda (The Notenki Memoirs) and Yoshinori Asao are listed as producers.
The show will star Shōhei Uno, and Yoshimi Nozaki.
[Via manuloz]
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