Kawamori Shoji's New Project 'The Fool' Announced

by dtshyk
Mar 21, 2013 2:25 AM | 46 Comments

According to Mainichi Newspaper, Kawamori Shoji has announced his new multimedia project, "The Fool", which involves anime and live stages.

The Fool official website

The first title "Nobunaga The Fool" will be shown this winter. It will be a sci-fi robot action featuring historical characters such as Oda Nobunaga.

Source: Mainichi

Nobunaga the Fool on MAL

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melina_putri said:

Laciie said:
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2013-11-07/shoji-kawamori-nobunaga-the-fool-project-gets-tv-anime
So it's getting a TV anime. I'm quite excited for this, the key visual looks great.

The original source is saying it is scheduled to air January 2014, I wonder if there is a better scan for it.

Interesting that ANN did not put this most important information (the schedule) in its article.

Official website: http://www.nobunaga.tv/

Nov 7, 2013 6:35 PM by symbv

Laciie said:
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2013-11-07/shoji-kawamori-nobunaga-the-fool-project-gets-tv-anime

So it's getting a TV anime. I'm quite excited for this, the key visual looks great.

Oh hey this looks cool.

melina_putri said:
The original source is saying it is scheduled to air January 2014, I wonder if there is a better scan for it.

Awesome.

Nov 7, 2013 1:20 PM by VioLink

Laciie said:
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2013-11-07/shoji-kawamori-nobunaga-the-fool-project-gets-tv-anime

So it's getting a TV anime. I'm quite excited for this, the key visual looks great.

The original source is saying it is scheduled to air January 2014, I wonder if there is a better scan for it.

Nov 7, 2013 12:42 PM by melina_putri

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2013-11-07/shoji-kawamori-nobunaga-the-fool-project-gets-tv-anime

So it's getting a TV anime. I'm quite excited for this, the key visual looks great.

Nov 7, 2013 12:30 PM by Laciie

I like that character. And I do like mecha.^^

Mar 23, 2013 2:52 AM by tofistig

Kazuki Yone is involved with the art? Consider me interested.

Mar 22, 2013 3:10 PM by shymel

phoenixalia said:
If this becomes an anime, I'll watch it for sure just for Kazuki Yone. Her art is AMAZING.

Totally agree- her art got my attention on the website *__*

Mar 22, 2013 2:40 PM by FiiFO

Just leave Nobunaga alone please.

Mar 22, 2013 1:44 PM by incompleteAEGIS

Perfect more Oda Nobunaga... -__-

Mar 22, 2013 9:44 AM by Meruru_Arls

So, Nobunaga is going to be some j-pop idol...?

Mar 22, 2013 5:28 AM by MillaMaxwell

Two of my favorite genres together!
Awesome! *really excited* Ah....too many
anime coming out this year that I'm looking
forward to. *_*

Mar 22, 2013 4:38 AM by YukiTsubaki

Kyo is that you ?

Kyo, looks like we meet again.

/KyoSamuraiDeeper

Mar 22, 2013 2:18 AM by FALLOUT4

UtsukushiiYume said:

NeoAnkara said:

symbv said:
Don't tell me Nobunaga is a cyborg this time round...

As always it will be moe gender bender.

Uh, Kazuki Yone's doing the character designs, so I doubt it. Plus ANN's article shows visuals of it.

This seems interesting and I'm kinda a fan of Kazuki Yone's art too. :D

I'm just joking.

BatoKusanagi said:

dtshyk said:

The first title "Nobunaga The Fool" will be shown this winter. It will be a sci-fi robot action featuring historical characters such as Oda Nobunaga.

Mecha Sengoku Basara? Yes, please.

But Honda Tadakasu is mecha?

Mar 21, 2013 11:29 PM by NeoAnkara

NeoAnkara said:

symbv said:
Don't tell me Nobunaga is a cyborg this time round...

As always it will be moe gender bender.

Uh, Kazuki Yone's doing the character designs, so I doubt it. Plus ANN's article shows visuals of it.

This seems interesting and I'm kinda a fan of Kazuki Yone's art too. :D

Mar 21, 2013 8:29 PM by Laciie

This is very interesting, just for being him :3

Mar 21, 2013 5:42 PM by saiyagok

ThangLong said:

symbv said:
Even that idol show has a lot of mecha, right?

Yea, imagine that! I wonder if he got hit by a toy robot as a kid.

I wouldn't be surprised if he got hit by an actual robot. ;)

Mar 21, 2013 3:08 PM by -Kenshin-

Another crazy sci-fi from Kawamori. Definitely would watch.

Mar 21, 2013 2:18 PM by Nachtwandler_21

dtshyk said:

The first title "Nobunaga The Fool" will be shown this winter. It will be a sci-fi robot action featuring historical characters such as Oda Nobunaga.

Mecha Sengoku Basara? Yes, please.

Mar 21, 2013 2:09 PM by BatoKusanagi

Only director I cares about. Kawamori-san is a genius. I'm down for this project.

Mar 21, 2013 12:31 PM by SageShinigami

You want Kawamori anime with no mecha in it? How bout you take one of the best 90s anime films and man's best non-Macross work: Spring and Chaos which is critically celebrated but obscure as fuck straight for tv special/film about life of Kenji Miyazawa.

Arjuna also has no mecha in it unless you *really* want to interprept kawamori's take on one hindu divine figure as mecha (it appears in anime whopping two times to boot). As for Kawamori shows Kawamori has created/written but not directed Kirumin counts as it is shoujo show about cute "animal detectives". Earth Defence Family is borderline case as it's more super sentai parody than mecha (though one episode features mecha unit for one scene)

As a rule Kawamori shows having mecha to one extent or another should go without saying because the man is first of all legendary mechanical designer whose CV is to largest degree filled with design work. He's creator in largest sense of term after that, director distant third.

In short Kawamori production without mechas is anomaly. Prima facie assumption should be that there will be mecahs.

Dizzee said:
What's next? "The Moron"? Seems like the amount original title names has run out.

tbh I wouldn't be surprised if The Fool is used iin sense of jester

ThangLong said:

Yea, he is good at designing robots. That's why I thought he got hit by one as a kid xD. But after being burned by Aquarion Evol, I'm not eager to jump at anything he creates anytime soon,

Watching AKB0048 should work as antedote for that. It's genuinely very good and fun show and way better than Evol trainwreck was.

Mar 21, 2013 10:16 AM by Xardie

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