Light Novel 'Kyoukai no Kanata' to be Animated

Amarrez said:
Can't wait for some delusional people to think that the Swimming CM might get expanded into a proper series because of this.

Vylash said:
you can fight it all you want, but our swimming overlords are coming, it's only a matter of time

Kitsu-nee said:
Wow, KyoAni is making anime without K-On! moe girls clones?! I won't believe it until I see it :O

symbv said:
And you see all the girls in KyoAni shows after K-On! as clones of girls in K-ON? I wonder what you have been watching....

Dalek-baka said:

In. terms of character design there is something clone-ish in their series.

Soooo KyoAni making another series that would try to move outside of "moeblobs" area.
it didn't go too well with Tamako so wonder how fans in Japan will react to this. There are some reactions?

Dalek-baka said:

In. terms of character design there is something clone-ish in their series.

RyanSaotome said:
Well, the reaction isn't too positive on Yaraon, which is a very otaku oriented site.
http://yaraon.blog109.fc2.com/blog-entry-15468.html

symbv said:


Summary of the novel:
The story is about a high school student named Akihito Kanbara, who was born between human and Youmu. One day he meets a young girl named Mirai Kuriyama on the roof top of the school as she seemed to be about to jump from there. Mirai is unique among members of the spirit world in having a "blood" ability and she has been fighting all by herself. Akihito sees a lot in common about himself in her, and he decides to help her. However, around them unsettling events start to develop...

RyanSaotome said:


Well, the reaction isn't too positive on Yaraon, which is a very otaku oriented site.

http://yaraon.blog109.fc2.com/blog-entry-15468.html

Senshoryuu said:
Fix'd. A synopsis would include spoilers and fully detail every partition of the novel in full.

Kaioshin_Sama said:
While the idea of a Bakemonogatari type series doesn't exactly fill me with anticipation (I absolutely loathe that franchise and find it totally unwatchable) the similarities are superficial at best so that's not an immediate turn off to giving this a shot.

Kaioshin_Sama said:
In any case it's interesting to see how rational expectations are here so far and how the news is being greeted. When I first heard this announcement I expected lots of squeeing in the thread and instant AOTY type declarations but so far it's pretty normal and honestly not to dissimilar to how I reacted to the news aside from more talk about that swimming anime commercial.

symbv said:
To be honest, I don't see how this is similar to Bakemonogatari except a guy bumping into a girl with some involvement from a spirit world (by the way, I absolutely love that franchise and I even credit it, together with a few other anime, for renewing my interest in anime after a long nadir). The girl did not bump into the supernatural but actually an excelled fighter. It is not one guy surrounded by a bunch of girls - I checked its website and I find one guy and one girl to add to the main cast, and all 2 of them are fighters too.

Kaioshin_Sama said:
Time to grow out of your reflexive sentiment against KyoAni and its supporters. Don't let it haunt you at the expense of your better judgment.

iLostReason said:
YEZ!.Finally KyoAni, finally! :D.Watched this CM so many times in 2012.

Kaioshin_Sama said:
In any case it's interesting to see how rational expectations are here so far and how the news is being greeted. When I first heard this announcement I expected lots of squeeing in the thread and instant AOTY type declarations but so far it's pretty normal and honestly not to dissimilar to how I reacted to the news aside from more talk about that swimming anime commercial.

symbv said:
That's precisely my point. If you just say "K-On moe girls clones" without specifying more you are talking not just the character designs but also personality, behavior, talking style, their interaction with other characters or the surrounding. This is what you'd call "clone", just looking similar in character design does not a "clone" make. Besides, even just the character design, where is the K-On clone in Nichijou?

Kaioshin_Sama said:
The less said about Bakemonogatari by me now the better most likely as I found absolutely nothing to like whatsoever. Total 100% turnoff and we'll leave it at that.

Kaioshin_Sama said:
I'm honestly all but ready to declare that era dead at this point and with good riddance. It's just kind of not happening that way anymore possibly do Kyoani's place in the industry normalizing and coming down to earth. The prospect of actually being able to have normal conversations with Kyoani fans (it's already started happening for months now) is something I never thought I'd get to see.

RyanSaotome said:
I think I'd be more interested if the main girl didn't look like a complete nerd without any attractive features. Maybe I'm shallow, but I still want to have good looking characters.. that will probably prevent me from watching this, even if the rest of the stuff looks solid.

RyanSaotome said:
The glasses is an absolute turn off, and big lips also are a turn off, and so are big noses

Basically, the character design focuses on a lot of the worst character designs there are.

RyanSaotome said:
Well if you guys like her, thats cool. To me though, if a girl has glasses that kills the rest of the character design off the bat, so nothing can really save her design at that point. I generally avoid any show with a glasses girl as the main character.

RyanSaotome said:
Well if you guys like her, thats cool. To me though, if a girl has glasses that kills the rest of the character design off the bat, so nothing can really save her design at that point. I generally avoid any show with a glasses girl as the main character.

Amarrez said:
Can't wait for some delusional people to think that the Swimming CM might get expanded into a proper series because of this.

RyanSaotome said:
Well if you guys like her, thats cool. To me though, if a girl has glasses that kills the rest of the character design off the bat, so nothing can really save her design at that point. I generally avoid any show with a glasses girl as the main character.