Basquash!

Title: Basquash!
Japanese Title: バスカッシュ！
Genre: Mecha, Basketball, Sci-Fi, Drama, Action, Romance (in the background)
Premier: April 2009
Animation Studio: Satelight
Original Creator: Satelight, Shoji Kawamori and Thomas Romain
Director: Shin Itagaki
Project Director: Shoji Kawamori
Series Composition: Tatsuo Sato
Screenplay: Tatsuo Sato, Yuki Enatsu and Yuuko Kakihara
Music: Kei Yoshikawa
Character Design: Kazuhiro Soeta, SUEZEN and Takahiro Yoshimatsu
Art Director: Thomas Romain
Color Setting: Yuichi Kuboki
Mechanical Conceptual Design: Thomas Romain
Official Website: http://basquash.com/

Shoji Kawamori (Macross, Escaflowne, Aquarion) is collaborating with France's Thomas Romain (Oban Star-Racers) in this Satelight project that combines robots with basketball. Kawamori is developing this project as a deliberately lighthearted counterbalance to the more serious work he has done. Romain developed the conceptual designs for the mecha and the art direction. The series will premiere on Japan's MBS television station and its affiliates in April.