'Lycoris Recoil' Gets Short Movies

They're still squeezing every bit of hype, or the remains of hype, which the first series generated? Given this project is "different" from the announced new anime project.

this is not that leak movie project right? and the leaker of that was a staff member afaik

@deg Director and Chisatos VA confirmed that leaked new project is separate and still in the works. This one is separate.

@Softhenic03 My first thought was that they were just trying to buy time while they worked on something with varying degrees of success.

@Yubisoft This show's status as yuri bait and its "miling" is quite overrated. I would rather classify this as battle shonen-like shipping, where people's expectations affect the show's reputation in the eyes of others.

Overrated ? That why so many studios created and create similar original shows as Lycoris ? ... because people appreciated the ''shonen'' aspect of the anime ? Because I can guarantee you nobody watched it for the story which was all over the place. Seriously asking, have you stopped using Pixiv , Twiter/X, reddit , Youtube since Lycoris Recoil S1 started airing ?

@Yubisoft LOL what? Dude, you're confusing "this show isn't so yuri-bait as people think" with "this show isn't popular or successful." You yourself came up with my thesis for me and began to argue with it. And yes, with this logic, any battle shonen is an outright BL bait, because YouTube, Reddit and Twitter are flooded with BL fan content with them. And I can tell you that a lot of fuhoshi don't watch these shows for the plot either.

@RobertBobert This is an original show that also had a manga adapting the show , not the other way around . So Aniplex knew exactly what they were doing when they made this half baked story and character writing and mainly focused on creating as many Takina-Chisato scenes as they could and the reaction of people proves what is true or not. The social media for such shows is the easiest way and vital for the marketing team of Aniplex (and other studios' marketing teams) to get an idea of what people like and transfer this feedback to the main production team and the upper management to greenlight things like the manga and the above short movies.

@Yubisoft People love this ship, so this ship is obviously intentionally the only focus and point of this show, and any advertising for it is related to that. So if a show is popular, any popularity it has is associated with this ship - a classic. Further conversation is pointless.

More like you have absolutely nothing to can't counter my argument so you just prefer to stop the conversation like this . That's okay , no problem . Have a nice day!

How much short would these movies be each, to still be considered movies?
Like each movie an episode length?!

@Playcool Then they would just release a mini-series.

@RobertBobert what are you even saying? He asked about episode lengths, and you're saying something about a mini-series.

@ColourWheel Well, as stated above, this time they are "short" films and they seem to be separating this from the "true" continuation of the anime. But overall I agree that the selection of all these films was disappointing and somewhat killed the hype, at least for me.


Mod Edit: Removed quote of deleted post.

All of the Girls und Panzer and Princess Principal films are "short films" with the exception of "Girls und Panzer der Film" which was a stand alone full length feature. Like none of them are even over an hour long each if you cut out the intros and credits. The Average running time is around 45 to 50mins for each "film".

@ColourWheel But they weren't promoted as short ones, if I remember correctly. Or are you saying that if it's the same thing, Chisato and Takina are also ready to go into theatrical "limbo"?

@RobertBobert

likely... if history has anything to say about these type of Action Moe Anime franchises.

@ColourWheel Doesn't sound very optimistic. Although from what I've heard, the first season was such a big hit in Japan that they could afford a second season and a full-length movie without problem.

The same thing with Girls und Panzer. Though after the 3rd movie they started slow walking further productions all the while hemorrhaging popularity over time much like what happens with any Anime franchise where things usually don't get any more popular as time goes by.

@ColourWheel Does the transition from TV to a series of theatrical releases reduce the hype even in Japan?

@RobertBobert

Girls und Panzer was totally popular enough to drop another completely original 2nd season after it's TV series success in the early 2010s. I can't speak for the hype specifically for this franchise since I personally haven't lived in Japan for quite some time. But people in general gravitate towards new things and aren't likely to jump at long running media franchises that have been around for years. The thing about TV transitioning to theatrical specifically for this medium is the fact that it starts limiting it's outreach beyond their own domestic audience. Not a vast majority of Westerners are inclined to pay to go see even a full length Anime film at the theater and will simply wait till there is a domestic home release of if and/or when it eventually gets platformed on a streaming site. I for one didn't bother driving over hours away just to watch any of the Girls und Panzer short films when they released outside of Japan since none of them even came close to a "theater near me" (I actually don't think they even made it to theaters in the West, though I could be wrong). The 4th film released sometime last year and there is no word that I know about on when it will even be officially released Officially for the Western domestic market.

@ColourWheel That is, in your opinion, series are better maintained and fueled by hype due to the fact that they are much more accessible and visible to the widest audience than “I’ll wait until they appear online” films? Is that why Eupho slowed down a bit when deciding to split the second year into multiple films?

Well as an example, when the last Psycho-pass film dropped, I already lost much interest in the franchise and even forgot what happened in the previous films that lead up to it once it was actually officially available outside of Japan.

Looking back at Girls und Panzer I sort of lost interest in their short films too where after the 2nd film I realized a pattern about them where each one would always conclude the same way baiting the audience to go see the next film. Kind of like ending a film mid battle only for the next scene to be the credits rolling knowing in order to find out what is going to happen next one will simply have to wait a few years for the continuation. Stuff like that just gets old for me when it's just done over and over again the same way.

Even with Princess Principal there is clearly a way that each film is structured and predictable. While I still like both Girls und Panzer and Princess Principal franchises, I am not like dying to find out what will happen in the next films since I already figured out how they go about producing their story structures. I look at these Moe Action TV series in higher regards much like I do with a franchise like Psycho-pass over their theatrical counter parts.

@ColourWheel so, it's like a big battle shonen where you're forced to watch 20-30 episodes just to see when the MC will kick the villain's ass? But only once every couple of years?

@deg Director and Chisatos VA confirmed that leaked new project is separate and still in the works. This one is separate.

PLEASE make some of the villains women.... if its just more dumbass men, I can't get hype despite simping for Chisato

@Nachtwandler_21

Can you please share the source and links for this?

@Fluffygreygrass here is the tweet from Chika Anzai (Chisatos VA). It literarly says that these short movies will air while a new project is in the works:
https://x.com/Anchika_manager/status/1815771375682076859

Here is also the screenshot from conference but I am not sure what the text says:
https://imgur.com/XDcLakC

@Nachtwandler_21 thank you so much!

I used deepl and it has used “movie” for the new project. Is it a translation thing or the other project is a literal movie?

Very underrated concern. Aika did it right.

This show was at it's best when it didn't take itself seriously and was slice of life with cute girls in the first couple episodes.

Then the whole thing with the heart came in, and it was so ass.

It seems these movies are going back to the SoL aspect, nice.