ADV Films co-founder Matt Greenfield announced ADV's latest anime acquisition at the San Diego Comic-Con.  Wandaba Style, a 13-episode series that has just finished airing on Japanese TV, is the saga of a boy genius inventor who plans a trip to the moon via an environmentally friendly rocket driven by compressed air.  Greenfield noted, somewhat nostalgically, that the same team that created Devil Hunter Yohko, one of the first anime titles released by ADV, produced Wandaba Style.  Takamoto Nobuhiro, perhaps best known as the director of Record of the Lodoss War, directed Wandaba Style, which was produced at Studio TNK (Hand Maid May).  Greenfield did not provide a release date for Wandaba Style, but the acquisition of a short series that has just finished its run on Japanese TV gives further indication that the gap between when a series is broadcast in Japan and when it becomes available in the U.S. continues to shrink.

Wandaba Style mixes in plenty of humor (and a little fan service) with its outer space adventure.  The only folks willing to take the young hero's innovative rocket ship to the moon are the four hot babes who make up the idol group, Mix Juice.  Newtype characterized Wandaba Style as a combination of 'hard mecha, gorgeous girls, and racy jokes' -- a formula that is clearly targeted at the average otaku's major obsessions.