| This story turned out to be false. Source: Yahoo Sports Information credit: zombieguy #================================= According to Bleacher Report, National Hockey League (NHL) commissioner Gray Bettman admitted the leaked document about the negotiations between the League Office and Japanese anime studios for the partnerships. Bettman said it's one of the options to propagate the sport of hockey and nothing has been fixed yet. Experts believe the candidate studios are Kyoto Animations, MAD HOUSE Studios, and J.C. Staff. The preliminary deal includes new anime episodes aired on TV and scoreboards in the breaks between periods of games, and anime appreciation events collaborating with NHL. Professor Scott Galloway (New York University) said NHL will gain numbers of new viewers if they succeed in the partnership because the demographic of anime fans overlaps little with current NHL fans. Source: Bleacher Report |
dtshykApr 20, 2010 6:13 PM
| I'm not an American and I'm not into ice hockey, but I wonder how this partnership would work. I don't want Madhouse to be wasting resorces on anime about ice hockey, unless there's a lot of money in it for them; a lot being the entire budget of the project plus a little more. Also, shouldn't Sunrise be considered too? Imagine Gundams playing ice hockey, that really would be awesome to watch. |
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| Yes I have to admit this too interests me. I don't watch Hockey either, well, not on a regular basis, but I do from time to time. I think it can be said this is at least an interesting concept. |
| If this is at all similar to what the NFL did with Eyeshield 21, I'll be interested in seeing the results. |
dtshyk said: Kyoto Animations ....lawl. |
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| I am canadian, so you already know my position on this matter. |
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| I'm Brazilian but I simpatize with Pittsburgh Penguins because e root for the Steelers,let's see what the project will become. |
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| Definitely must do this series.... I love Hockey... =3 |
| I am Canadian as well. Oh, and there's plenty of money in hockey, I am sure they can finance a show or two. |
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| lolwut hockey anime? |
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| For real? ; w ; I wanna see that, it would be nice to change baseball/football once for the hockey's sake 8D Hope their partnership will work. |
| Somebody linked me to this article a little while ago and I thought it was a joke... Ovech-kun~ |
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KayChan4U said: dtshyk said: Kyoto Animations ....lawl. in b4 moe on ice. |
EikoApr 18, 2010 11:16 AM
Eiko said: KayChan4U said: dtshyk said: Kyoto Animations ....lawl. in b4 moe on ice. At least i wasn't the only one who Loled at the first choice |
| If your going to complain that Yu-Gi-Oh! Mangas are on the top NY times manga best sellers, you must not realize how popular Card games are(as well as the fact that you get a free card). |
| ice hockey anime?? i dont really like hockey... then again, i dont like soccer but still like soccer anime so ill prolly end up watching it anyways ~w~U |
| animu version of Mighty Ducks stories ? DO WANT. |
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| Hockey and anime? My two favorite things combined into one? Hell yes! |
| I would come. So hard. I love hockey. So very, very much... |
| I do like hockey, but I can't help but wonder if this won't hurt them. I mean, if they start showing anime inbetween periods I know there will be more than a few people in the stands saying WTF. With that said, Bettman has an ability to make a great thing horrible so keep your fingers crossed and hope for the best! |
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EternalKnight said: I am canadian, so you already know my position on this matter. |
| If it's not moe on ice, DO NOT WANT. |
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dtshyk said: MAD HOUSE Studios Mad House did One Outs, soooooooooo if they can do a Hockey version of it, then I'm all for it :3 Which is a much better idea than K-ON! on Ice. edit: Actually, seeing a moe moe girl get her face smashed into glass is just as entertaining. |
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| That actually sounds pretty awesome. |
| And the dude from The Lake House is all "WHOA!" |
| a Hockey Anime.. hmm... Sounds nice. |
| I dont think I've seen a manga hockey that I have liked -_-... Justicles said: Mad House did One Outs, soooooooooo if they can do a Hockey version of it, then I'm all for it :3 Which is a much better idea than K-ON! on Ice. edit: Actually, seeing a moe moe girl get her face smashed into glass is just as entertaining. Yes if its like one outs I might like it.. Although seeing some k-on or any other moe character get smashed might be interesting for a min or two. |
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| Meh I already watch Hockey... Yay the Toronto Failper Leafs... :( Meh go pens go. Sid-Kun |
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cr4sian_phil said: If it's not moe on ice, DO NOT WANT. This^^ considering I'm not a big hockey fan would be the only way I would watch it. |
| I always wanted to see a anime about hockey. Make it happen and FUND IT. |
| I'm Canadian. So if this was made and was true I would watch if it had no moe girls. Too bad the news is probably fake. I wished not too long ago for this sort of thing to be made since there are anime about baseball, soccer, american football, tennis, figure skating, sumo wrestling, roller blading, volleyball, boxing, basektball, wrestling, golf, dodgeball, racing, gymnastics, cycling and ping pong. |
ClaptrapApr 18, 2010 4:39 PM
| Probably fake news. Bleacherreport is an unreliable site news-wise, not to mention if it really were a statement made by Gary Bettman, it would pretty easy to find something else about it. Eyeshield21 is the only reason to remotely believe in the possibility |
fertygo said: animu version of Mighty Ducks stories ? DO WANT. I didnt want, until I saw this post. Now DO WANT. As long as its not Kyoto Animation. |
| Anime fans for the most part don't like sports. Sport fans don't like cartoons. Where is the market for this? |
| don't really care |
| I'm American but I don't watch hockey, nor am I really all that interested in it. I guess it's cause I live in the South. But this does sound pretty cool, can't wait to see how it goes.~ |
| As a Canadian, hockey is the only sport I care about. |
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| I love hockey and I would like to see where this goes. This is one of the few decisions Gary Bettman has made that sounds reasonable, given his inability to promote hockey the way it should be here in the States. |
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| This Veronin said: As a Canadian, hockey is the only sport I care about. and who knows, japan did beat Canada in sledge hockey( ice hockey for legless ppl ) this Paralympic. maybe they wanna increase interest of hockey in japan. |
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| as a canadian, i would love them to make an anime with beavertaisl. yum... |
| whoa! hockey and anime? lol that would be so interesting. just imagine a hockey anime scene would be like this with the hockey song.... |
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| If it's KyoAni, then they may just get them to produce an anime about ice hockey with moe girls, except instead of playing hockey they spend most of the time chatting, eating cakes and sipping tea. When they do get to a match it will cut to a music video instead of the match itself. I'm sorry, I just had to get that out of me. On topic, I am curious other possibilities this partnership would result in. Does this mean we see JC Staff anime chara's promoting the sport? Will Hinagiku playing ice hockey banners be distributed? Will there be To Aru Tanoshimi no Ice Hockey posters? |
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| KyoAni - moe on ice, drama on the side Madhouse - serious hockey anime, manly men fight for glory JC Staff - epic OP/ED, then the anime is about field hockey |
| FUCK YEA! FUCK YEA! Although I try to avoid watching hockey for various reasons. I'll fucking watch a Hockey series by madhouse. HELL YEA. |
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| This is probably fake, it's already gone from Bleacher Report, and as someone else said, that site isn't exactly reliable. Would have had the potential to be awesome, though. I've always wanted there to be an anime that overlaps with one of my other interests. Knowing Gary Bettman, though, he'd fuck it up, he's such a dumbass. FYI, there are already two manga about ice hockey (both of which suck and were published in the 90's). Also, for those that don't know, Japan does have a considerable number of ice hockey players and their own pro league. There was also a successful tv drama about ice hockey that I haven't watched, forget what it was called. |
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