So, while avoiding getting back to work, I had a little lightbulb go off over my head...
Looking at the staff/cast list from
Blade, I thought "who's missing?" Then I looked at the staff/cast list from the
Mirai Nikki rumor -- not a lot of detail there on the design & animation team, but not really any overlap either ('cept Mashimo himself, of course).
Missing from both lists is Bee Train veteran character designer
Yoko Kikuchi... that is to say, she's not on
Blade, but the role is conspicuously missing from
Mirai. Adding her to that staff list would seem to be the core Bee Train dream ensemble, wouldn't it? Almost an expected team that would be put together for a flagship series?
Hmmm....
To
really get into the most speculative of speculations, there was this line (badly translated) from the rumor:
In April 2008 from future diary stations nationwide U anime decision and announcement.
What if that doesn't mean the show was going to
air in April 2008, but be
announced then?!?!
That little clue was fermented in the dark recesses of my brain when reading about the long rumored Bones production "Bonen Xamdou", where there's just been an "announcement of an announcment" -- which will occur in April 2008.
Hmmmm....
Okay, okay, now I
really have to go back to work...
