Light Novel 'Sekaiichi Hatsukoi - Yokozawa Takafumi no Baai' To Be Animated

Face_Faith said:

Maybe clubparadisee was talking about romance :O (From the phrasing of that I suppose this doesn't include the generic harem anime these days) How about more of both kinds of anime instead so everyone can be happy? xD

Liinah said:


@phoenixalia you quoted the wrong person.

Downgrade355 said:


on that note, i thought you weren't a fan of yaoi <_<

phoenixalia said:

Just cuz I defend/comment on something about yaoi doesn't make me a yaoi fan. :P
I'm part of a niche group myself. A girl who loves bishies but doesn't like yaoi.
Oh and I like shoujo too.

Downgrade355 said:

Well, bishies aren't as niche as they used to be, sure bishie stuff isn't mainstream like most current genres and stuff, but there's a crapton otome games on the PSP and the otome market keeps growing, slowly but surely. so all in all, you're part of a bigger crowd than the yaoi fans. there's a small yet big difference between them.

clubparadisee said:
fuck another yaoi....we need more guy x female wtf man

IZUMI64 said:

I know that feeling bro.
this fall season itself already have many softcore yaoi anime being aired.
most of those anime have ridiculous story than cliche general harem anime.
for an example, that motherf*cking [K]

phoenixalia said:

that makes me feel better. :D thanks. but where did you find out that the otome market is growing?

Downgrade355 said:


Lol i'm a big gamer, i follow every news and trends about consoles, right now the PSP is flooding the market with Otome games.

phoenixalia said:


really? O_O they're selling well? The last thing I saw selling well was Diabolik Lovers.

IZUMI64 said:

I know that feeling bro.
this fall season itself already have many softcore yaoi anime being aired.
most of those anime have ridiculous story than cliche general harem anime.
for an example, that motherf*cking [K]

phoenixalia said:

really? O_O they're selling well? The last thing I saw selling well was Diabolik Lovers.

shymel said:

While most otome games aren't breaking 100,000 copies sold (unless it's an Uta no Prince Sama or another big franchise), they're selling enough.

Downgrade355 said:


Well, they sell enough to keep them coming on the PSP, Diabolik sold around 11k or so, not bad for an otome game. most sell around 7-9k, which isn't bad either.



UtaPri sells around the 40-60k range. i belive there was an otome game that got close or broke the 100k copies, i think it's tokimeki memorial girl's side, its male counterpart sold 500k.

AutumnDream said:
Why are guys complaining about yaoi anime when there's about 15-25 animes with lot of romance and moe coming each months. Fangirls/fujoshi don't get much yaoi and bishie while guys get lot of moe girls and whatnot animes.

AutumnDream said:
Why are guys complaining about yaoi anime when there's about 15-25 animes with lot of romance and moe coming each months. Fangirls/fujoshi don't get much yaoi and bishie while guys get lot of moe girls and whatnot animes.

shymel said:

Yep the otome games to break 100k sold are TMGS 1-3, UNPSR, and Hakuoki Portable.
http://tokio-fujita.livejournal.com/23698.html#cutid1

Downgrade355 said:


Yup, those are probably the totals. those three are pretty much the top 3 selling otome games, though i'm not sure about UNPS selling 100k

http://www.siliconera.com/2011/09/21/this-week-in-sales-dragon-quest-anniversary-collection-goes-on-a-solo-quest/

That's the most recent chart it ranked on and it shows its total sales 73k, that week it sold 5k. so it's hard to say whether it actually did break the 100k or not, but it might be possible.

Those are like the holy trinity of Otome games lol.

jmal said:

Maybe not so much that it sells better, but that it's safe? After all, I don't think a lot of other yaoi TV anime adaptations have even been tried. Perhaps they want to get what they can out of what they know works before branching out into new (read, financially riskier) material.

Not that that's any consolation to the fans who want other authors' work animated though.

jmal said:

Oh no, I mean financially safe. As in, they know her stuff will reliably make enough money to be profitable, even if the sales aren't what anyone would call wildly successful. While on the other hand they don't know if any other properties will be profitable until they try them - and trying something new is risky in such a fairly niche market, as far as TV anime goes.

Meruru_Arls said:
Yaoi....no thanks.

oshiirion said:
Yessss guys! It's here!!
And if I see it good... it's 1st of August!! ;____;