Third Season of Dog Days Announced

Nachtwandler_21 said:

Hmmm. I don't mind more Dog Days but I still prefer to see new season of Nanoha. Or at least Sekirei (((

Hoppy said:
Skip Beat is shoujo, shoujo anime don't sell anywhere and definitely not Japan, Shoujo manga however sells in Japan.

SilentTruth said:


+1

but it's kinda shame though that Shoujo anime aren't popular in Japan. There are some exceptional like Kimi ni Todoke and Maid-sama.

RyanSaotome said:


It just comes down to that female anime fans are generally more interested in hot guys than typical shoujo romances. Thats why the fujoshi stuff sells well. shoujo manga sells fine though

SilentTruth said:


Yeah, that part as well. Female are more interested in fujoshi than shoujo romance. Though does that term apply to boys as well? I haven't seen shoujo-ai or yuri stuff that sells well here so far (aside from Yuru Yuri)

NFlorianWirthG said:
I want reverse conditions for this one!
Meaning plot taking place in the "real" world!

saxophone15 said:
This please! There are so many anime that take place in an alternate fantasy world but hardly ever the other way around. I want to see Millhiore and Eclair experience the "real" world.

HauntingShock said:

I wonder if their tails would disappear if ever that happens :D

Haakonwale said:
The industry is in decline if this kind of shit is what's popular nowadays.

RyanSaotome said:


I find it kinda ironic seeing this coming from someone who has a Neptunia avatar, which is pretty much fanservice, moe and slice of life in video game form.

jmal said:

Depends what kind of yuri you mean. There aren't many shows focused on straight-up girl-girl romances. Most shows with heavy (canon or subtext/fandom fodder) yuri are not romances per se. Yuru Yuri is much more comedic than romantic. See also Strike Witches, K-ON!, Madoka Magica, Saki, etc. It's a significant element - in some cases more obviously than in others - for fans in a lot of very successful shows, but said shows are not "romance anime", strictly speaking.

GregZor9 said:
I was up late last night looking at merchandise images from the event and waiting for the announcement from FlonyaFest to come, but I ended up going to bed knowing when I woke up season 3 would be announced. When I woke up, it was right there on my Twitter feed. Feels good to smile so early in the morning.

The thing is, while I'm happy it's happening, I'm also rather sad as very few anime end up getting more than 3 seasons, and if Masaki Tsuzuki continues Dog Days after the third, it will more than likely be in manga form, which will not get translated.

I'm still excited for what season 3 might include. I'm really not too excited about the idea of them all going to Earth trying to blend in, as I think it would be too cliche and keeping Earth and Flonyard separate would help prevent AN ANCIENT EVIL THAT THREATENS BOTH WORLDS kinds of terrible writing.

Flonayrd has magic, ground birds, sky birds, etc. Now we need a faction that fights with tanks.

Also, since there seems to be sort of a monster-girl craze going on, they could announce an actual demon faction that Valerie is familiar with. The faction could be made up of all kinds of different monster girls like lamias, centaurs, slimes, harpies, etc, and bring even more people into the Dog Days fandom. We also could get a 9-tailed foxgirl.

That's what's so great about Flonyard, is the possibilities are endless, and they can really milk it for many seasons.

Now I'm just waiting for the announcement of the color artbook for season 2 so I can preorder it, and the announcement of the third season's name. I'm seriously hoping for Dog Days BarkerZ.

RyanSaotome said:


I find it kinda ironic seeing this coming from someone who has a Neptunia avatar, which is pretty much fanservice, moe and slice of life in video game form.

SilentTruth said:


Tell me about it.

Ejc said:

Looking forward to the new season :) Hopefully it airs much earlier in 2013.

jmal said:

Yuri is a general term for girl-girl relationships in anime. The division of "yuri is for explicit material, shoujo-ai is for platonic/romantic material" is something western fans just made up a while ago, and that is finally falling out of favor. Some when I say yuri, I mean it broadly, as it's used in Japan. It can be anything from two girls holding hands and blushing to being in committed romantic relationships to full on sex.

Not sure what you're asking about regarding boys. As the characters or the fans? In any case, most of the yuri content in anime is more of the "holding hands and blushing" variety, in anime that are not strictly about romance, though sometimes there's more to it. So I'd say yuri elements are popular in anime, and many successful shows contain them as major plot elements to various degrees, but not as much where romance is the main focus.

But then pure romance isn't a big seller usually anyway. It tends to be one element among many. Dog Days for example, has a heavy romance element but it's alongside all the action and comedy. Some nominally "romantic" harem anime sells well, but most don't, and fans of that seem to be more into the fanservice than serious romance.

outlawauron said:
Mizuki Nana needs to sell more albums.

RyanSaotome said:


I find it kinda ironic seeing this coming from someone who has a Neptunia avatar, which is pretty much fanservice, moe and slice of life in video game form.

Zmffkskem said:

Actually it's such a valid question I have to quote it without striking it out..

jmal said:

It got a sequel because:
1. It sells well and/or makes a profit through other revenue streams.
2. There is no lack of source material (or rather, no source material at all in this case because it's anime original).
3. There's a studio, staff, distributor, and investors available to, and interested in, producing it.

<insert show here> did not get a sequel because:
1. One or more of the above is not true.

It really isn't complicated. You're never going to get a more specific answer than that unless you go get an interview with major players in the production committee of <insert show here> and somehow convince them to explain their internal deliberations to you.

But people just asking over and over in every thread when something else gets a sequel are wasting their time.

jmal said:

It sold low end of average. 3,389. Not likely sequel range without huge boosts to the source material's sales.

RyanSaotome said:


Plus Drrr! sold far more (near 20k average iirc), so if either one gets a continuation, it would be Drrr. I think Baccano was just too "Foreign" to Japanese audiences while Drrr they could relate to more.

kuuderes_shadow said:
How can such words be truthful when they boil down to "other people have started liking different things to me, therefore the world is going to trash"?

jmal said:

Tastes in the 80s were different from the 70s. And 90s from the 80s. And 00s from the 90s, and they'll keep changing in the 10s.

Thousands of people before you were lamenting the 'death of the industry' and 'horrible taste of fans'. And they said it about all your favorite anime, and believed it as deeply as you believe it now. And thousands of earlier people thought those other thousands of people were all ruining anime too. On and on, on and on, through every era and into the future, ad nauseum.

If you don't like the anime being made today, that's really not our problem. If you want to "do something about it" then pay up and support (buying JP releases, to have a real effect) the things you like and just ignore the things you don't. If enough people feel the way, those titles will be economically sustainable and continue to get made. If not, they won't. Insulting the taste of people who dare to like things you don't will accomplish nothing whatsoever, other than introducing unnecessary friction and drama in the fandom, and just generally being mean-spirited.

jmal said:

It sold low end of average. 3,389. Not likely sequel range without huge boosts to the source material's sales.

RyanSaotome said:
Plus Drrr! sold far more (near 20k average iirc), so if either one gets a continuation, it would be Drrr. I think Baccano was just too "Foreign" to Japanese audiences while Drrr they could relate to more.

junglepenguin said:
My bad, I've made an assumption. Can we agree that the quality of anime has been falling, and has been for a long time? I'd like to believe that that is at least true.

jmal said:

It's very very tiring to get offended every time something you like doesn't sell, or something you don't like does sell. I love some total flops, and I hate some major hits. There are many shows that I would like to see sell more than, for example, IS or SAO or Index. But I just don't have the time to (or interest in) get upset about how much an anime sells. It simply does not affect my life in any meaningful way that SAO (or what have you) is a huge success.

jmal said:
people will buy what they like. Same as I said to the other guy. And that's precisely how it should work. I honestly can't see how you could run an industry any other way.