Seikon no Qwaser Anime Announced
In Japan there are tons of manga magazines. The most well known one to us in America is obviously Shonen Jump, but there are plenty of others. One in particular, known as Champion Red magazine, constantly tries to push the boundaries of how much they can put in their manga stories without getting the "18+ Only" seal. Surprisingly, they can get away with a heck of a lot. Even the Japanese are shocked that the stuff they show in there hasn't gotten the adults-only treatment.
The latest June issue of Champion Red was leaked early over the weekend, & it revealed that one of its stories will be getting a television anime adaptation- "Seikon no Qwaser," by Hiroyuki Yoshino (the script writer for the Mai-Hime & Mai-Otome anime series). Qwaser lives up to its Champion Red heritage by including some very mature fan-service content. Check out the summary for details:
The story takes place on the grounds of St. Mihailov Academy, a Japanese Eastern Orthodox school, and draws heavily on religious references from the aforementioned religion. Here it follows the trials and hardship of two of its students, Oribe Mafuyu and Tomo Yamanobe, until the encounter with a mysterious, silver-haired, Russian boy named Alexander, or Sasha for short. This pits them and the whole school in an all-out war between the Church itself and the so-called “Adepts”, a sect of individuals wielding powers linked to the elements of chemistry. Though based on the common magical girl concept shown in series such as Sailor Moon, the story diverges in depicting extreme acts of bloodshed, brutality and perversion, and also makes heavy use of fanservice.
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One important and controversial theme of the series is that of the sacred substance known as Soma, which allows the Qwasers to draw upon their powers and wield their elements in battle. This is connected to the main goal of the Adepts, the Theotokos of Tsarytsin, an icon depicting the Virgin Mary breastfeeding an infant Jesus which, according to their belief, holds the secrets of the Sacred Mysteries, such as the Messiah’s resurrection. Linked to this is the fact that the Soma is, in actuality, breast milk, and that the Qwasers have to replenish themselves by means of suckling it, a process which apparently derives pleasure and tires heavily those women who nurse them.
So yeah, basically it's about fighters who gain their strength by sucking on women's breasts. Oh, & it isn't mentioned in the summary, but one of the fighters is a loli who keeps an older girl as her sex slave & forces her to do some crazy stuff (pretty much against her will, but she's had chances to escape but stays with her young mistress anyway).
Obviously, fans are curious how such a story can be adapted into an anime series that's going to air on TV. I've heard people say, "It's just another Queen's Blade," but from what I've seen of Seikon no Qwaser I have to disagree. Yes, the fan-service can get pretty extreme when it wants to. (Though the manga even censors itself, I guess to make sure Champion Red stays below the 18+ mark. They can show other people sucking on girls' breasts, but when a girl does it to herself they can't show it. & when one girl talks about going down on another, her dialogue is even censored.) But the plot in Queen's Blade is just there as an excuse to show fan-service all the time, while that's not really the case in Qwaser. The fan-service really doesn't show up all that often, only a few pages per chapter in the manga. The story seems a lot more important than the ecchi content, very unlike Queen's Blade. Though the promotional art for the anime announcement seems to beg otherwise.
Source: http://www.moetron.com/2009/05/16/seikon-no-qwaser-tv-anime-announced