A Kannagi Festivl in the US?!? That Would be Nice!

The update this week for the Kannagi Fansite was pretty interesting. In it is a video of the director expressing his wish to have a Kannagi festival in the US as they did in Japan. I am thrilled with the idea; what it would look like and you would do I have no idea, but the prospect itself is enough to get me pumped! If the idea actually goes through it’ll probably happen at one of the big anime conventions. I hope everyone who hasn’t already joined the club, will join soon; same with the DVD. We need to show some support for this series if we wanna see some of the fan love they’ve been showing in Japan!

Kannagi Fansite Update: We Can Finally Get a Membership card!

The membership card design

After hearing about the whole membership card thing that the Japanese fans got, we North Americans finally get one too!…………but it’s a print-out version. Though if you print it out in color and laminate it, it’ll look really nice. When I printed mine out I was the 1834th member. So hopefully we can print this out and it’ll come with some perks later on!

Kannagi Promo Video up on Official Fansite

So this week, they put up a Promotional video up on the Official Kannagi fansite. Could this possibly mean that the series will be licensed soon? Hopefully someone good will pick it up; it’s a shame Geneon no longer exists in the US market, but I’m fine with Bandai and Funimation picking it up since they do a good job. Well regardless of who picks it up, if the people who are working on the fansite also work on the localization it should be fine. I mean the Haruhi and Lucky Star localization went great, particularly the extras that went inside the limited editions and I hope we can expect as much from a Kannagi localization.

PS. If you’re wondering why I didn’t put ADV as a licensor I’d want to license Kannagi, it’s because I don’t care for ADV for a few reasons. They’re like the Microsoft of anime licensing to me; sure they do a lot, but there’s no heart. It feels like they have a quantity over quailty business plan, and while it works for others it simply doesn’t work for me. The other bigger reason is because of articles like the ones found here. I’ll let you form your own opinion on it, but as an anime fan  I think ADV’s behavior is unacceptable in this matter.

Kannagi Website Update: Videos Added

This week the Kannagi Official fansite added, 2 videos. One is a video of a Nagi cosplay dancing; apparently in the coming weeks, a dance contest will be announced. The other video features the drawing process of sketching Nagi.

So a Kannagi dance contest eh? I can see girls doing it, and I can see guys doing it; though for the guys it’ll either be ridiculously funny, or ridiculously disturbing………… I believe I’ll con a few friends into doing it while I tape them and judge if I can make something doable. For guys, the obvious choice would be to have an effeminate male cosplay as a girl and do it. There’s also the option of cosplaying as Jin, Akiba, and Daitetsu and dancing in a suggestive manner (Kannagi dance, Hard Guy style!). Anyone think they’d enter a Kannagi dance contest, I assume the choreography will be based on Nagi’s moves in the anime opening.