noitaminA 2011 lineup announcements

ilmaestro

ilmaestro

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So, this should be happening today. noitaminA pretty consistently features the best anime of the season or thereabouts, and I'm particularly interested to see more info about their Spring season shows - C, which was briefly discussed in the Spring season thread we have, and Ano Hi Mita Hana no Namae wo Bokutachi wa Mada Shiranai, which is from A-1 Pictures and the main staff from Toradora!. But on top of that I figure they must have some cool stuff lined up to bother with a big announcement thingy, unless they did that last year too and I just didn't realize.
 
I remember there being some hysteria about live-action in an animation block last year, so maybe? Also, is there a shorter version of "Ano Hi Mita Hana no Namae wo Bokutachi wa Mada Shiranai" I can use? Toradora staff has piqued my interests. Ano Hana seems reasonable.

Got to say, I dislike the fact there's [a lot of] good anime again.
 
What's the reasoning behind Yotsuba not getting an adaptation? Is the author, assuming he has the power to, declining such a thing? Azumanga appears to do well.
 
Azuma's keen sense of comic timing was completely lost in the anime adaptation of Azumanga, and even though Yotsuba isn't a four-panel manga, I foresee the same kind of thing happening should that be adapted. If there's a manga so perfect in its original form that an anime couldn't possibly improve upon it, Yotsuba is that manga.

Bunny Drop is another one that doesn't really need an anime adaptation, but I'm kind of interested to see what I.G. can do with it.
 
Jayme said:
What's the reasoning behind Yotsuba not getting an adaptation? Is the author, assuming he has the power to, declining such a thing? Azumanga appears to do well.
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An author can withdraw his/her books from sale after publication and switch them too another publisher, stopping an anime is easy. Japanese copyright law gives the actual author far more control than they would have here.

Yes it's the author explicitly blocking it. On fears it just wouldn't work, I think. It's very very slow paced and uses a lot of long pauses, repeted frames for pacing in jokes would be very very hard to get right. Also rumors about having a spat with the lead seiyuu for Azumanga.

It's also unnecasary as far as the publishers concerned, it's their top selling manga anyway! (for ASCII Media Works, no. 2 for Kadokawa) No need for more publicity. Plugging works that are selling bellow market saturation (~50-100k per volume) type numbers is better. Yotsuba sells ~500k/volume anyway, it probably won't rise much if given an anime.

Keep them doing Angel Beats!, Index and Durarara! instead.
 
I almost felt like the "off" pacing of AzuDai became part of the joke before the end, giving it a different feel to the manga, but yeah Yotsubato! really doesn't need an anime.

There isn't anything crazy hype in these announcements compared to what I was expecting. Bunny Drop and No. 6 both have a very typical noitaminA feel to them (especially Bunny Drop).

But man, both the PVs for the Spring shows have me looking forward to them. AnoHana looks like a perfect Spring/early Summer atmosphere show and C looks way more outright exciting than I was expecting.
 
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