Anime Network brings the love in February!
Just in time for Valentine's Day, Anime Network is rolling out two new shows all about love:
(Well, a disfunctional sort of love...)
Maria Holic: Episode 1 starts this Thursday, 2/4
To Loveru: Episodes 1-4 start on Valentines Day, Sunday 2/14
For those of you who go a little over board with the the heart, roses and gushing nosebleeds, we'll bring you back into balance with a dose of darkness:
Congratulations to our friends at Sentai Filmworks!
All three of these shows were recognized by Mania.com for their superb DVD cover art!
Maria Holic
(Episode 1 starts Thursday 2/4)
It’s not easy to find the perfect girl, even when you’re the same sex!
Kanako thought attending an all-girls school would be the perfect way to meet the girl of her dreams... That is until her hot new roommate turns out to be a guy in drag with a rude-mannered maid and a gaggle of rabid fan-girls!
Complicate things with a cat-eared dorm leader,
an identical twin sister (who attends an all-boys school, of course), WAY too many attractive girls of questionable persuasions and the question becomes whether Kanako will die from frustration or nosebleeds!
Life would be so much easier if boys didn’t literally cause her to break out in hives!
Will Kanako ever find a non-polar opposite of a compatible non-opposing polarity? Let’s just say that the quest for true love will not run straight in Maria Holic!
To Loveru
(Episodes 1-4 start Sunday 2/14)
One should always understand other people’s customs before making commitments. Unfortunately, Rito Yuki had no idea that the planet Develuke even existed, let alone that touching a girl’s breasts is how they propose marriage!
Given that he was in his bathtub when Princess Lala teleports into his lap, and slippery soap suds being what they are... not to mention that she was naked... well, you get the picture
Rito’s sudden engagement to a beautiful girl with a pointed tail is only the start of his troubles. There's also the various aliens showing up, the idea of waging intergalactic wars, and an angry father who will destroy the Earth to deal with. Oh, and the girl that Rito REALLY loves is still completely unaware of his feelings!
Can a nice boy from Japan become the next King of Galaxy A or will he just end up feeling like a boob? Keep abreast of further developments in To Loveru!
The Skull Man
(Episode 2 starts Thursday 2/25)
Flesh Rots. Blood Corrupts. To Be the Ultimate Anti-Hero… You Have to Be Bad to the Bone!
Otomo City: where freedom and justice have atrophied to the bone; where conspiracy rules the day and death stalks the night… Death in the form of the Skull Man, a literal Grim Reaper whose skeletal grin presages grisly mayhem and murder, even to the monstrous mutants that haunt the city’s underworlds!
Now, to investigate a bizarre slaying, journalist Minagami Hayato and photographer Kiriko Mamiya must stalk this ultimate predator, through a festering cadaver of a city where the corruption flows in rivers as deep and foul as the sins of the reigning elite, and unearth a secret so shocking that an entire city has been turned into a tomb to contain!
In a nightmarish necropolis where nothing is as it seems, vengeance comes in the form of a living Death’s-Head in The Skull Man!