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NEWS: 4 Japanese Literary Masterpieces Get Aoi Bungaku Anime




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Dargonxtc



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PostPosted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 10:54 am Reply with quote
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The retailer website for the Japanese publisher Shueisha lists the new anime adaptation of four Japanese literary works as a 12-episode Aoi Bungaku (Blue Literature) television series. The anime series will premiere on October 10.


I wonder if they will be three 30 minute episodes, or run more like a TV special with OVA style lengths ≈ 45-90 minutes each?

Ever since I saw Figure 17 a long time ago I kind of miss the 45 minute runs. Wink My gues is they will handle it more like Ayakashi though. I guess it all depends on how long this works are, because I have no idea.
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I hope this doesnt make Kubo Sensei's manga suffer in quality (whoooops too late!)
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 11:46 pm Reply with quote
The works all sound so fascinating. I'm definitely gonna be keeping an eye out for more news on these. Best of luck to Obata, Kubo, everybody. Sounds like this could be somethin' special. Mr. Green
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 12, 2009 2:40 am Reply with quote
Dargonxtc wrote:
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The retailer website for the Japanese publisher Shueisha lists the new anime adaptation of four Japanese literary works as a 12-episode Aoi Bungaku (Blue Literature) television series. The anime series will premiere on October 10.


I wonder if they will be three 30 minute episodes, or run more like a TV special with OVA style lengths ≈ 45-90 minutes each?

Ever since I saw Figure 17 a long time ago I kind of miss the 45 minute runs. Wink My gues is they will handle it more like Ayakashi though. I guess it all depends on how long this works are, because I have no idea.


Uh, hehe, you kinda quoted the format it'll be in. It's 12 episodes, and starts on 10/10, meaning it's a normal tv series, so it'll be the standard half hour show. I doubt they could make twelve 90-minute episodes from 4 stories.

bleachigo66 wrote:
I hope this doesnt make Kubo Sensei's manga suffer in quality (whoooops too late!)


And I'm getting so sick of seeing these kind of comments... how is Bleach right now, any different from how it has been through its entire run? The artwork is just as good, if not better, than at the beginning of the series, the battles are bigger, the way he jumps between fights is the same, and he still develops all of his characters at some point, though usually on their deathbeds. It seems to me that the majority of complaints are actually about the pacing/plotting of the series, not the art, so him doing extra character design work for an anime series on the side won't affect the artwork of Bleach... and also, "quality" of manga is subjective, as imho, 99% of all shoujo looks like trash and is repetetive and boring, but the same can be said about shounen by someone who doesn't like the genre. Yay for "the internets", where personal opinion = fact... Rolling Eyes
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Not to be a skeptic but is it in fact an indesputable fact that all four of these works are, in fact, masterpieces?
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 12, 2009 10:43 am Reply with quote
teh*darkness wrote:
The artwork is just as good, if not better, than at the beginning of the series, the battles are bigger, the way he jumps between fights is the same, and he still develops all of his characters at some point, though usually on their deathbeds.


Lol, apparently having no backgrounds is still "good art"

Bleachfags need to read some actual decent manga with decent art before even thinking Bleach has any sort of decency. It's the worst, most wasteful garbage on paper from an untalented hack.

Even artists like Araki know that vomiting white space over a comic book is bad practice, and he's a manga specialist.
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teh*darkness wrote:
Uh, hehe, you kinda quoted the format it'll be in. It's 12 episodes, and starts on 10/10, meaning it's a normal tv series, so it'll be the standard half hour show. I doubt they could make twelve 90-minute episodes from 4 stories.


No, there have been examples of the opposite holding true. The show I mentioned for instance, Figure 17, was a normal TV show and 13 episodes long. Also shows labeled as TV specials break the mold all the time, many of them have inconsistent times and range from 1-16 episodes 30-60 minute blocks being the most common.


I guess I just find it odd that they would condense 'masterpieces' down to 66 minutes (59 without the OP+ED) to fit them in a 30 minute block.
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NDenizen wrote:
teh*darkness wrote:
The artwork is just as good, if not better, than at the beginning of the series, the battles are bigger, the way he jumps between fights is the same, and he still develops all of his characters at some point, though usually on their deathbeds.


Lol, apparently having no backgrounds is still "good art"

Bleachfags need to read some actual decent manga with decent art before even thinking Bleach has any sort of decency. It's the worst, most wasteful garbage on paper from an untalented hack.

Even artists like Araki know that vomiting white space over a comic book is bad practice, and he's a manga specialist.


Angry much? The person complains about a shot and you bark like a rabid dog. I may not fallow the current Bleach or anything to know what is being referenced, but right now you seem like the only person that needs to keep themselves in check.
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[quote=ANN Article]No Longer Human recounts a person's deepening alienation from the rest of the world[/quote]

This one is so obviously trying to appeal to the otaku crowd by showing stuff like this. I'm tired of the "social reject" type of manga. If you want the real story that isn't sugar coated like Genshiken, Ressentiment is what you're looking for.
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KanjiiZ wrote:
ANN Article wrote:
No Longer Human recounts a person's deepening alienation from the rest of the world


This one is so obviously trying to appeal to the otaku crowd by showing stuff like this. I'm tired of the "social reject" type of manga. If you want the real story that isn't sugar coated like Genshiken, Ressentiment is what you're looking for.


Dazai wrote his No Longer Human novel in 1948. While social rejects have existed long before then, they were not called otaku (and that term was not linked to manga) until 1983, 35 years later. It may have an manga adaptation, but No Longer Human is no more of a "otaku" manga story than Yukio Mishima's works are.
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bleachigo66 wrote:
I hope this doesnt make Kubo Sensei's manga suffer in quality (whoooops too late!)


And I'm getting so sick of seeing these kind of comments... how is Bleach right now, any different from how it has been through its entire run? The artwork is just as good, if not better, than at the beginning of the series, the battles are bigger, the way he jumps between fights is the same, and he still develops all of his characters at some point, though usually on their deathbeds. It seems to me that the majority of complaints are actually about the pacing/plotting of the series, not the art, so him doing extra character design work for an anime series on the side won't affect the artwork of Bleach... and also, "quality" of manga is subjective, as imho, 99% of all shoujo looks like trash and is repetetive and boring, but the same can be said about shounen by someone who doesn't like the genre. Yay for "the internets", where personal opinion = fact... Rolling Eyes[/quote]


Yes the battles are bigger and the art is better than at the start, but for the last 50 chapters that is all it has been IMO. no story just big clashes that have no depth to them! We clearly look for different things out of manga and I can respect your opinion.
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 12, 2009 8:51 pm Reply with quote
bleachigo66 wrote:
bleachigo66 wrote:
I hope this doesnt make Kubo Sensei's manga suffer in quality (whoooops too late!)


And I'm getting so sick of seeing these kind of comments... how is Bleach right now, any different from how it has been through its entire run? The artwork is just as good, if not better, than at the beginning of the series, the battles are bigger, the way he jumps between fights is the same, and he still develops all of his characters at some point, though usually on their deathbeds. It seems to me that the majority of complaints are actually about the pacing/plotting of the series, not the art, so him doing extra character design work for an anime series on the side won't affect the artwork of Bleach... and also, "quality" of manga is subjective, as imho, 99% of all shoujo looks like trash and is repetetive and boring, but the same can be said about shounen by someone who doesn't like the genre. Yay for "the internets", where personal opinion = fact... Rolling Eyes[/quote]


Yes the battles are bigger and the art is better than at the start, but for the last 50 chapters that is all it has been IMO. no story just big clashes that have no depth to them! We clearly look for different things out of manga and I can respect your opinion.[/quote]
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 10:11 am Reply with quote
Egan Loo wrote:
KanjiiZ wrote:
ANN Article wrote:
No Longer Human recounts a person's deepening alienation from the rest of the world


This one is so obviously trying to appeal to the otaku crowd by showing stuff like this. I'm tired of the "social reject" type of manga. If you want the real story that isn't sugar coated like Genshiken, Ressentiment is what you're looking for.


Dazai wrote his No Longer Human novel in 1948. While social rejects have existed long before then, they were not called otaku (and that term was not linked to manga) until 1983, 35 years later. It may have an manga adaptation, but No Longer Human is no more of a "otaku" manga story than Yukio Mishima's works are.


Exactly. Alienation has a very long tradition in japanese literature. long before anime/manga invention, and their audience.
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 18, 2009 1:45 am Reply with quote
Proman wrote:
Not to be a skeptic but is it in fact an indesputable fact that all four of these works are, in fact, masterpieces?


The first two, Kokoro and No Longer Human, are the two best-selling books in Japan, ever.

Soseki is undisputed as a master of Meiji-era fiction, and Kokoro is an amazing, amazing novel. I'm honestly glad to hear about this series just to give me a chance to re-read it. It's usually considered his masterpiece, anyway, though I Am A Cat and Sanshiro also enjoy popularity all over the world.

No Longer Human is another one that is easily a masterpiece. It came after Dazai wrote The Setting Sun and right before he committed suicide. I haven't read Run, Melos!, but it's his earliest notable work and sounds decent. If his two famous novels are anything to go by, it'll be good.

Akutagawa is like the Japanese Edgar Allan Poe. Hell Screen is just one of his many amazingly weird short stories. If you've ever seen the film Rashomon, by Akira Kurosawa, it was inspired by two of Akutagawa's short stories. He's really psychological, so I expect this one to be good in the series.

Anyway I love Japanese literature and can't wait for this series. Kokoro has me especially pumped.
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