ReBoot, sorry to say to all of you animephiles out there, was the reason I became addicted to Toonami. Sailor Moon? Just a side benefit. I adored the CG and the snide comments that undoubtedly would have not fazed me a bit had I been watching it at the tender age of seven. And the rabid fanaticism that I managed to glean from that point in time hasn’t really left me.  (Seriously, ReBoot fanfiction is the only type I’ll read.)

Much to my delight, one of my favorite ReBoot fanstations (my word, okay?  Don’t laugh) on the Internet, Slack & Hash’s Domain, tipped me off to this gorgeous comic-book style poster of the ReBoot characters.  I nearly cried, I was so filled with emotion that ReBoot may actually return!  Imagine how good you’d feel if Lennon and Ringo Starr rose from the dead to do a reunion tour with Paul and George.  That’s just about how optimistic I felt.

Okay, so it was only a poster.  I poster that I coerced my mother into buying for me for that wonderfully commercial holiday-Christmas.

But that wasn’t the end of it.  I would have been happy if it were.  But, no.  My fangirl hopes have been elevated by RoadBoot, the blog that effectively shows have fanatical ReBoot fans are.  They posted that Jim Su, a former animator for Mainframe, announced an artbook will be released in February 2007:

And that artbook will contain new material such as ReBoot re-imagined by leading comic book artists, as well as reprinting original character designs, CGI rendered images, promotional stills, and even some stuff that even the most hardcore ReBoot fan will have never seen before.

So paint me fanatical.  Paint me whatever you want.  But I know what I’ll be getting in February 2007.

Posted on December 4th, 2006 by Joy
Filed under: Television