I’ve been looking at this one for a while, but I wanted to wait until an official announcement on when it would air was made. This past week that announcement was made: October 4th. Of course there is a movie of this being made, but I would almost rather watch the series first, then watch the movie, so the movie doesn’t spoil the series for me.

The movie, which is being made by Toei Animation (which did both the Air Movie and the 2002 Kanon series) is being put into theaters September 15th. The TV series is being done, once again, by Kyoto Animation which did both the Air TV series as well as the 2006 Kanon remake. There is no word on how long the TV series will be yet.

One thing that is different about CLANNAD over both Air and Kanon is that it was never released as an adult bishojo game. Both Air and Kanon started out as adult games, and then had a “clean” version released later.

CLANNED is also the biggest of Key’s visual novels, at least in terms of lines of dialog (which may suggest a full length season will be made).

From the few things I’ve read about it (I try not to spoil it), I haven’t seen anything that indicates anything of a mystical nature in CLANNAD, but given that this is Key, and such things have occurred in both Kanon and Air, it’s definitely not out of the question. In any case, I’m hoping for yet another success coming from both Key and Kyoto Animation.

The story itself sounds a little bizzare (what’s new witha anime), but I’ve already learned that sounding lame or bizarre doesn’t necessarily mean it actually is lame. Also, this seems to be a pretty well-liked series, so I’ll probably give watching it a shot at some point.

So I looked through my Netflix queue (which now has something like 40 series and movies in it) to find something that I haven’t seen, but has been on my radar for a while. It didn’t take long for me to spot on particular series: Stellvia.

Like so many anime on my list, I’m not sure when and where I first heard about Stellvia. However, this series has intrigued me for a while. First off, it’s been a while since I’ve seen a good old-fashioned science fiction anime series. However, it kind of looks like a “cute” type anime series, but it’s not my impression that it’s one that relies heavily on fan service (I guess I’ll find out for sure when I watch it). As for the feeling of the series, I’m thinking like Cardcaptor Sakura (minus the magic) meets Infinite Ryvius, though not as dark. I guess I’ll find out whether I’m way off the mark or not.

Stellvia was produced by XEBEC of works I haven’t seen very much of. There is Love Hina, which I despised, but they also did work with series like Noein and The Third which are both also on my to-see list. In any case, there isn’t much of a history based on the production studio that I can really go off of.

In any case, this series is bubbling towards the top of my queue and I’m looking forward to checking it out.

Given that I liked Placed Promised and I’ll surprised if I don’t like Voices, it’s a shame this isn’t coming to DVD until December. ADV is screening it at Anime Expo, and hopefully they’ll give it the same treatment at Otakon.