Full CGI TV Anime 'Arashi no Yoru ni' Announced

by Naruleach
Oct 10, 2011 4:44 PM | 24 Comments

According to Anime!Anime!, a full-CGI anime series of Arashi no Yoru ni was announced to be aired on TV Tokyo from April 2012. It's an international collaboration project among Bandai Visual, Duckbill Entertainment, Sparky Animation (Singapore) and The Media Development Authority of Singapore. Amino Tetsuro will direct the 11 minutes x 52 episodes series.

"Arashi no Yoru ni" is a picture book series first published in 1994. An anime film was produced in 2005.

Source: Anime!Anime!

Arashi no Yoru ni: Himitsu no Tomodachi on MAL

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mikael123 said:

Tustin said:
It's going to be interesting to see how they handle Mei in this series. In the books, Mei was neither male nor female; in the movie, he was most definitely male. By the look of the artwork and the sneak-peeks, Mei appears to be female in the series.

Could be good... or it could give the furry community even more material with which to ship Mei and Gabu.

the first episode has already aired, it even aired with dual audio which is rare. And to answer your question the anime decided to go with a female Mei.

Now there's a surprise about the dual audio. Even though it's nothing to do with TBS, I wonder if the demand generated by my unofficial English dub of the movie could have had any bearing on that decision. That might just be wishful thinking.

Turning Mei into a girl though? Seems like a mistake to me. The author of the books always saw Mei as male, the movie had him as male, so suddenly making him female seems like a cop-out to me.

Apr 10, 2012 4:11 PM by Tustin

the first episode has already aired, it even aired with dual audio which is rare. And to answer your question the anime decided to go with a female Mei.

Apr 9, 2012 11:19 PM by mikael123

It's going to be interesting to see how they handle Mei in this series. In the books, Mei was neither male nor female; in the movie, he was most definitely male. By the look of the artwork and the sneak-peeks, Mei appears to be female in the series.

Could be good... or it could give the furry community even more material with which to ship Mei and Gabu.

Apr 9, 2012 8:20 AM by Tustin

I hope its as good as the movie! <3
and gets translated....-.-;

Mar 16, 2012 1:03 PM by Twitchy-Tail

I just hope Narimiya Hiroki will again voice Mei. ^.^

Feb 26, 2012 7:35 AM by cristinaradu

52 episodes.... T__________T although it's really 26.

Feb 23, 2012 11:34 AM by firebound12

Obviously it's aimed more for a child audience, but I think that I'll watch.

Feb 14, 2012 5:43 AM by 09890

jmal said:

fertygo said:
Winter's season line-up is garbage isn't that surprising tho. Its rather traditional.

And yet I may end up importing as many as seven shows because there's so much stuff I want. Opinions differ on the subjective enjoyability of entertainment? Well, yeah.

Winter tends to be smaller, just like summer, but I actually find Winter has been pretty damn good for its size in the past few years. Winter 2011 was relatively weak in comparison to 2009, 2010 or 2012, but it gave me Madoka and Hourou so I can't complain.

What show that you interested to import?

At first I'm set to fanboying Symphogear for this season until feel its not as good as I expected, only fall in love with Lagrange for this winter, altho I'm enjoying such like EVOL and Ano Natsu.

Shame you disable your profile comment, forced to answer this at here lol.

Feb 14, 2012 2:10 AM by fertygo

Fai said:
Nice, nice and nice. 2012 is shaping to be a great year, better than current season.

Winter's season line-up is garbage isn't that surprising tho. Its rather traditional.

Feb 13, 2012 11:14 AM by fertygo

Nice, nice and nice. 2012 is shaping to be a great year, better than current season.

Feb 12, 2012 3:47 PM by Ahenshihael

Oh wow, newsflash for me! Which is odd since I adore this movie! I would be so happy to see this in episodes! ^^

Feb 12, 2012 1:35 PM by Klabautermann

Loved the film so definitely checking this out.

Feb 10, 2012 5:01 PM by SlaughterChichi

It's my favourite anime movie, so... Please, April, I need you xD

Feb 9, 2012 4:25 PM by Wildcat17

Will it or will it not have the same amount of gay tension that permeated throughout the movie? That is the question.

Oct 14, 2011 9:10 PM by Claptrap

So... will there be a Japanese word for "Pixar", by which Americans will take and mess up the definition again?

Oct 14, 2011 8:45 PM by Kyuu46

It sounds good; I'll check this out.

Oct 11, 2011 1:39 AM by AlexSadist-sama

I remember this had some fun while watching this.
I'm looking forward to see how this will play out.

Oct 11, 2011 1:33 AM by tkmeta

Looking forward to this, the movie was great!
Though I'm interested in how are they going to make such a long series, the movie perfectly wraps up the story...

Oct 10, 2011 11:37 PM by Half_Bl00d

Interesting I guess I'll check it out since it looks like it will be unique.

Oct 10, 2011 6:10 PM by Roloko

A wolf befriending a lamb? I must watch this, it will be mindblowing beyond belief.

Oct 10, 2011 5:08 PM by Sanguis

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