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NEWS: In Another World With My Smartphone Light Novels Get Summer TV Anime

I feel like I already read light novels and manga getting TV Anime like Clockwork Planet, Death March, Armed Girl's Machiavellism and including this one. I wonder if Gun-Ota also get anime .

Two Light Novels that I mention the Death March and Gun-Ota have Fantasy, Other World and Reincarnation genre/theme.

The ONLY way this anime can turn out to be anything but a horrible, generic, pile of crap is if it's a MASSIVE parody of the genre.

Toshihide Masudate (Papillon Rose), Masahiro Sekiguchi (Rainbow Days chief animation director), and Miyako Nishida (Rainbow Days) are all credited as character designers and chief animation directors.

Surprisingly, J-novel Club says the Japanese publishers actually requested them to translate Smartphone, a rarity where most times foreign translators have to approach the Japanese.

The overall maturity of users on ANN these days had terribly worsened, especially on articles like this, which will be avoid by me in the near future.

This could be stupid fun or it could be the next Sky Wizards Academy I'll reserve judgement but I know Anons on /A/ over on 4chan are already ready to carve this series up because it's another Isekai series with a harem element to it. I haven't read it so I can't comment.

Considering that Production Reed is animating, I can't help but wonder if they chose this title simply because it's a safe bet. Production-wise, I can sort of understand their decision.

On the other hand, I assumed Shieldbro won't get animated because the novels have already ended? I understand how it's good though.

zztop wrote:

Surprisingly, J-novel Club says the Japanese publishers actually requested them to translate Smartphone, a rarity where most times foreign translators have to approach the Japanese.

Now I'm curious. I wonder why.

Afezeria wrote:

The overall maturity of users on ANN these days had terribly worsened, especially on articles like this, which will be avoid by me in the near future.

Jokes aside, I guess people are just tired of the Isekai genre.

Jimmeeeh wrote:

Afezeria wrote: The overall maturity of users on ANN these days had terribly worsened, especially on articles like this, which will be avoid by me in the near future. Jokes aside, I guess people are just tired of the Isekai genre.

Which doesn't makes much sense considering that the 10 or so Isekai animes that came out in the last four years were quite liked by the majority (Examples: Hataraku Maou-sama, No Game No Life, Overlord, Hai to Gensou no Grimgar, Konosuba, Re:Zero and so on).
To me it's just seem like they are saying things like this just to fit in the hate trend, the complaints doesn't makes sense for several reasons but the hate must go on for the sake of it.

It's also possible the publishers chose Reed.
The J-novel Club translator says the Smartphone novels sell quite well in Japan, so maybe the publishers think it can be sold to an overseas audience. A rare display of proactivity from the normally reserved Japanese market who prefer staying in their borders.

The Shieldbro novels are still ongoing at 17 volumes, which would require multiple anime seasons to fully adapt. Its source webnovel has long ended, but readers say the novel is a much better read than the WN, and even has a novel-original arc in the middle.