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I think part of the problem for me is that they're hyping it up as a bunch of huge comic book creators doing AoT, when I can only name one of them.

I'm sort of borderline on comics, so I imagine you'd have to be fairly deep to have heard of them.
 
Lutga said:
I think, for me, at this stage (aside from the inevitable second season) the one thing I think AOT could really do with/would get me excited about it again, would be if a terrestrial UK TV channel picked it up. While the whole 'why is anime not on TV' thing is pretty academic at this point - the people who watch anime don't really watch much traditional TV anyway - I think in the special instance of AOT (and AOT is pretty much the biggest 'special case' anime as a medium has had in a long time) it could really do with a proper TV broadcast.

Considering how much subtitled content (ie. Scandi thrillers) channels like BBC 4 show at the moment, it'd be interested to see if there was any uptake there in terms of them showing AOT subtitled as 'serious' content. Even if it was on at like midnight or something.
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All of the subtitled stuff on TV, with the possible exception of Fox's Braquo, is directly targeted at pretentious middle class people. Which obviously is not AoT's core demographic.

The fact it's already streaming and on home video probably doesn't help, neither will the fact the rights are owned by an obscure American company. Then there's the fact they'll probably have to use American English subtitles they didn't write, which would probably cause the BBC major problems and would probably not be ideal for other broadcasters.
 
The idea of them opening up an AoT anthology to western artists and writers intrigues me, but I've never heard of any of those people linked to it and the art in that promo image doesn't excite me either.
 
So Vertical announced one disappointing and one exciting thing at NYCC. The bad news, Kizumonogatari is delayed to December. The good news, is something they're calling audio light novels, which sounds like an enhanced audio book/radio play type deal. I bet we get region locked out of them though :(

From Todd DuBois' twitter feed:
New media format for @Vertical_Comics: audio light novels. Voice acting with music and sound effects, digital distribution. Spring 2016. Attack on Titan: Harsh Mistress of the City will be one audio light novel from Vertical. About to play a little demo clip. Kizumonogatari light novel is another audio title.
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One thing I'll be curious to see is how well the idea does, also if it affects the light novels they grab in future and if they might go audio light novel only for some things (although I'd very much doubt that personally).
 
That's a shame to hear about Kizu, but it doesn't surprise me as they only just revealed cover art for it, and I've seen very little marketing for it so far.

The audio light novel thing sounds interesting - I wonder if they'll get anime voice actors to do it, or just bog standard people who usually read audio-books?
 
I'm not sure - I thought anime VA's were supposed to be really cheap? Hence why many of them end up upping sticks and moving to LA to do video game work because it pays more.

Re. Black Butler - isn't there still at least 10 volumes of the manga that haven't been animated yet?
 
Lutga said:
I'm not sure - I thought anime VA's were supposed to be really cheap? Hence why many of them end up upping sticks and moving to LA to do video game work because it pays more.
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Yes, but I'm guessing audiobook reading is even cheaper.
 
Lutga said:
Re. Black Butler - isn't there still at least 10 volumes of the manga that haven't been animated yet?
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There is but not a lot of it is suitable for one-off adaptations as it all feeds into everything else too well, unlike the arc they adapted for season 3. I'd like to see another couple of seasons of stuff, but they'd have to put the effort in as a 13 episode season here and there just doesn't link together well enough (especially with all the random anime original stuff dropped in throughout the first two seasons).
 
Demelza said:
Lutga said:
Re. Black Butler - isn't there still at least 10 volumes of the manga that haven't been animated yet?
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There is but not a lot of it is suitable for one-off adaptations as it all feeds into everything else too well, unlike the arc they adapted for season 3. I'd like to see another couple of seasons of stuff, but they'd have to put the effort in as a 13 episode season here and there just doesn't link together well enough (especially with all the random anime original stuff dropped in throughout the first two seasons).
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It would be nice if they could redo the anime like what was done with Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood.
 
Huh, so I see that Kyoto Animation have been picked to do the animation for A Silent Voice's movie adaptation, with the director of K-ON set to direct. Not the choice I was expecting at all, but it should look beautiful at least. The manga is excellent and I hope they do it justice.
 
Ath said:
Huh, so I see that Kyoto Animation have been picked to do the animation for A Silent Voice's movie adaptation, with the director of K-ON set to direct. Not the choice I was expecting at all, but it should look beautiful at least. The manga is excellent and I hope they do it justice.
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I have faith in this, I hear their recent movie efforts (Tamako Love Story and Beyond the Boundary Movie 2) have positive reception.

Hype!
 
After some perhaps questionable sources 'confirmed' it earlier, FUNimation has announced there will be a third season of Tokyo Ghoul and a mobile game. One or both of them is set for 2016, FUNi aren't saying which.

Edit: Despite ANN reporting it, it still seems questionable, so maybe it's happening, maybe it isn't. Who knows? Anyway, the reaction at ANN seems to be give it to anybody but Pierrot, because [insert reason that probably has nothing to do with Pierrot here].
 
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