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NEWS: World Trigger TV Anime Gets New Series in October

marvel knight wrote:

DontmesswithKarma wrote: noobster wrote: They chose to make original story for the the series because the current ongoing already catched up on the manga and the manga is currently in hiatus. Nah i'd say the main reason is because the manga isn't doing the best in the rankings. (been below Bleach for most of the year, that means its in the danger zone.) The staff is also quiet insane but were held back by adapting so this original series could be absolutely unreal. (Two of the main scripters of the anime have worked on Gundam, Code Geass, and Toradora.) Not to mention the director directed the great Outlaw Star and the person behind the music is the person behind the GITS and GITS Innocence ost's. If you had that staff and let them loose.... This new original anime could be insane..... Could be.... Where did you get that idea from? WT has improved in the rankings, at times beating Nisekoi and Toriko and has never been at the lower end below Bleach as far as I can recall. Bleach is always at the bottom, and WT isn't really ranked anymore considering the numerous breaks every other month/week due the author's poor health. It got a decent sales boost too, with it selling more than a million copies in the first half of the year if I'm not mistaken.

I'm looking at the rankings right now, from its latest rank to its present rank -
9th
13th
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11th
5th
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10th
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Do note that Nisekoi was always above it. And all of the series ranked below it (besides Bleach) have already been cancelled. Also, I got these from Crunchyroll

The B-rank wars are still ongoing in the manga right now. There was a natural stopping point...and the anime just blew past it.

Well this is certainly interesting but I'm also pretty sure it's not just going a filler arc like people are assuming. Since the anime's already heading into the manga's current story arc it's likely it'll have some kind of original ending for that and then go into this and diverge from the manga entirely.

This is what I think will happen: the B-Class Rank Battles Arc will end on a cliffhanger, when the last episode airs in September. This new series will take it's place for a while. The original anime will return afterwards, when the manga is further ahead.

Similar to how the Fairy Tail anime ended in 2013 in the middle of the Grand Magic Games arc on a cliffhanger, was replaced with re-runs for a year, and then the anime returns in 2014 picking up where it left off.

I'm pretty confident given the people working on the show can put together something decent. If Daisuke Ashihara is involved then you can almost guarantee a decent story.
However, given the anime is catching up pretty quickly, expect this filler to have very slow pacing.

As to why they're not taking a hiatus, my guess is that they feel they still need the anime to push manga sales. It has shown in the past, that no matter how bad the anime is, it will always increase manga sales.

AutoOps007 wrote:

This is what I think will happen: the B-Class Rank Battles Arc will end on a cliffhanger, when the last episode airs in September. This new series will take it's place for a while. The original anime will return afterwards, when the manga is further ahead. Similar to how the Fairy Tail anime ended in 2013 in the middle of the Grand Magic Games arc on a cliffhanger, was replaced with re-runs for a year, and then the anime returns in 2014 picking up where it left off. I'm pretty confident given the people working on the show can put together something decent. If Daisuke Ashihara is involved then you can almost guarantee a decent story. However, given the anime is catching up pretty quickly, expect this filler to have very slow pacing. As to why they're not taking a hiatus, my guess is that they feel they still need the anime to push manga sales. It has shown in the past, that no matter how bad the anime is, it will always increase manga sales.

Fairy Tail wasn't replaced with re-runs. It was totally substituted by Tanken Driland 100-nen no mahou anime. This anime got so much hate from Fairy Tail fans, just because of that.


What anime does is coverage for the franchise, the exact same thing as advertisement.
Advertisement role is bring potential clients to try the product. If somebody likes the product it will turn into a client. A client isn't influenced anymore by the advertisement.
The coverage is in the beginning massive, but with time it gets less and less, given the people that already reached previously; to the point of just getting 1 or 2 potential clients from time to time to try the product(take as an example Fairy Tail that stopped for 1 entire year its anime without any change in the manga sales and when the anime returned there were also no significant change in manga sales!).
World Trigger has almost 1 year of coverage, this means that most of the core of potential clients already tried their product and decided if they want to turn into real clients or not. So almost certainly the reason why they will do an original series isn't because its pushing the manga sales, but because it is profitable and inside, or surpassed, their expectations for that anime.

No, Driland only took it's timeslot. Fairy Tail re-ran select episodes for a year under the title 'Fairy Tail Best'. Had Fairy Tail not gone on hiatus, Driland would've aired in the Fairy Tail Best timeslot. So technically, it was replaced by re-runs.

Fairy dropped 300k-400k sales when the anime went. I admit the sales didn't go up that much when it returned, but that's because fairy tail returned in april, so it was 1-2 volumes short. The changes were not big or small, just moderate.
Manga sales rankings often show that sales go down without the anime.

Regular Transmission from October 12, 2009 to March 28, 2011
- Fairy Tail, Monday 19:30 to 20:00
(Note: Substituted Hikaru no Go Rebroadcast and was substituted by Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal, where it was transferred to another time-slot)

Rebroadcast from November 1, 2009 to March 28, 2010
- I can't wait until tomorrow!! Fairy Tail Sunday 9:00 to 9:30
(Note: rebroadcast of 20 first episodes.
Substituted a variety program and was Substituted by another variety program)

Regular Transmission from April 2, 2011 to March 30, 2013
- Fairy Tail, Saturday 10:30 to 11:00
(Note: Substituted Bakugan Battle Brawlers and was substituted by Tanken Driland 1000)

Rebroadcast from April 7, 2011 to March 29, 2012
- Recap! Fairy Tail, Thursday 17:30 to 18:00
(Note: Substituted Bakugan Battle Brawlers rebroadcast and was substituted by Shirokuma Cafe anime)

Rebroadcast from April 4, 2013 to March 27, 2014
- Fairy Tail Best!, Thursady 17:30 to 18:00
(Note: Substituted Shirokuma Cafe and was substituted by a medical information program)

Regular Transmission from April 5, 2014 and continuing
- Fairy Tail, Saturday 10:30 to 11:00
(Note: Substituted Tanken Driland 1000)

...
2011 -> 6 new volumes, best volumes: 570.446k, others volumes: at most 545.045k, Series: 4.701M
2012 -> 6 new volumes(only was counted 3 days of the 6th volume), best volumes: 586.015k and 581.767k, others volumes: at most 521,929, Seires: 4.128M
START HIATUS(In reality it started in the beginning of 2013)
2013 -> 5 new volumes(and sales of the 6th volume of last year), best volumes: 566.039k to 448k, other volumes: at most 422.566k, Series: 3.790M
END HIATUS
2014 -> 5 new volumes, best volumes: 561.376k to 503.333k, other volumes:at most 466.380k, Series: 3.276M

2011 - 2012 -> Increase of 15.569k copies in the best volume sold.
2012 - 2013 -> Decrease 19.976k copies in the best volume sold. The hiatus of the anime decreased 3.4% of sales(if we assume that the decrease is only due to the hiatus)
2013 - 2014 -> Decrease 4,279k copies in the best volume sold. The return of the anime avoided 2.6% of decrease in sales(If we assume that without anime the decrease in sales would be the same as last year).

I'm looking at the rankings right now, from its latest rank to its may rank -
9th
13th
absent
9th
absent
11th
5th
absent
colour page
10th
absent
absent

Do note that Nisekoi was always above it. And all of the series ranked below it (besides Bleach) have already been cancelled. Also, I got these from Crunchyroll

Just as I feared. They must have decided to extend the anime very late into its production then, because otherwise it would have made more sense to start the filler arc right after the large-scale invasion ended.