Phantom website announces new crossdressing anime

4:30 PM on 07.16.2010   |   Bob Muir

I love how easy the internet has made it for information to haphazardly leak out. One minute, you think you're safe with your announcement-covered website because no one knows it exists, and then the next moment, someone has discovered it by accident and told all their friends about it. You remove it until it's supposed to go live, but it's too late, the information is out there, and you can never take it back. Now your PR department feels unloved because their official announcement will be met with mild enthusiasm as everyone pats themselves on the back for knowing the information ahead of time. So let's contribute to that unloved feeling, shall we?

The existence of a new "otokonoko" - "male maidens," or boys in skirts - anime was leaked by the name of Mayo elle Otokonoko. The series was intended to have been announced in the July 24 issue of the magazine WAaI! boys in skirts, which is apparently a thing that exists. There's not much information about the content of the show so far, although you might care about the people making this thing. Keiichiro Kawaguchi, the director of the popular Hayate the Combat Butler is directing at the studio Actas, responsible most notably for Moetan. Kikuko Sadakata, who worked on Princess Resurrection with Kawaguchi, is adapting the character designs by POP. So while the show itself looks like a typical gender-bending romantic comedy without any other information to rely on, at least the staff involved with the production look like they have some competence.

Feel free to check out Google's cache of the now removed website. Anyone interested in this? Or are boys in skirts something that just don't tickle your fancy?

[via ANN]

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