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According to Weekly Morning magazine, Yamada Yoshihiro's historical manga Hyougemono was announced to get a TV anime adaptation. It will be aired on NHK from next April.

Source: Scan of Morning

okay i lol'd when i saw the picture of the manga
he is like "i am gonna rape some body today! " xD

will give a try for the 1st episode

uh... i dont get it i read the descrpition for the manga and lol... i havent a clue whats its about... philosophy and the search for tea?

Its not moe, ecchi and its historical = will watch it.

The synopsis doesn't interest me.

Sounds like House of 5 Leaves all over again

I hope it's more interesting instead of "I watch this for the OST and visuals"

Well that's a surprise. A very good surprise, I would hope.

Reminds me that I need to find where in my house I stuck this manga.

No. Sounds over 9000 times better than this crap.

And much better than most of the stuff announced lately.

Historical/Seinen.

Haven't had one of these lately (except for House of Five Leaves).

ill check it out

Historical samurais with drama, oh how boring.

So from what i've read this is about a guy who is interested in tea ceremonies?
Hmm maybe I will check it up.

Legendary picture of the month indeed.

And sengoku-era references ? i need more info before deciding whenever i want this or not

I wonder why they're still trying to make anime out of these series. It was proved so many times that a series will not sell if it don't have mecha, ecchi or moe.

It's not that I mind it, I like seinen shows, and this one looks interesting as well. I just think it's strange that they're still trying.

Well the synopsis is rather confusing but since its historical, samurai and seineni might watch...

I wonder if this tea anime will be the highlight of the spring 2011 season? Well, I guess that depends on how Appleseed XIII and Moshidora turn out, but I will be following this for sure.

Derp.



Yeah, God forbid someone actually makes something not for profit, but for creative and artistic purposes.

It's also worth pointing out that the left pic has more seinen in it anime than the right one. Eureka Seven, Gundam and Gurren Lagann are shounen and Natsume Yuujinchou is a shoujo, leaving 4 seinen anime in the right pic (DMC, Mushishi, Mononoke and Stand Alone Complex).

The other pic has Hanamaru Youchien, Momoiro Sisters, Kanamemo, Chu-Bra!! and the Sacred Blacksmith, 6 anime which are all "seinen" (read as targeted at hardcore otaku)

The remaining 4 are Natsu no Arashi (a shounen that actually got pretty good critical reception, even by SHAFT skeptics) Akazukin Chacha (a shoujo from the pre-DVD era of the 90's), Mahou Tsukai Tai (god knows what demographic that's aimed that, but it started just as DVD players were started to be produced) and some generic harem that I can't identify that has a 50/50 chance of being seinen (with the other 50 for it being shounen)

Tl;DR
that chart shows that cartoons aimed at children sell better than cartoons aimed at adults, unless they were hyped by a popular prequel (Mononoke had the Bakeneko arc of Ayakashi, Stand Alone Complex had the GitS movie) or have a (persumably) popular manga to adapt from (DMC, Mushishi, possibly Hyougemono), which is what we knew all along.

Now get me the DVD figures for original, non-otaku, adult-orientated anime like Serial Experiments Lain, Haibane Renmei, Paranoia Agent, Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 etc, and then we will talk.

I'll watch it just to understand what the synopsis were about.

Cool wall of text, but we aren't taking into account target demographic, but simply if a show contains ecchi and/or moe elements. Shows on the right do not, and they did sell well.