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NEWS: Boys-Love Manga Hitorijime My Hero Gets Anime

Why does it matter how many copies something already has in print and why do the A-1 Pictures of the industry keep announcing things like this (I assume it's them yet again on one of these because of the language involved, established cast and because some reason they think these things need to be a surprise or something). Shouldn't a plot synopsis or actual details be more important to run through or do the A-1 Pictures of the industry literally just see everything in how much something has circulated or sold in it's original format already and think that's how everyone else should think too?

Of course somebody is going to come in and say something like "Boy it's great that a lot of these boy's love things are getting adapted now" as if it's some sort of new development that the industry is going increasingly after Japanese fringe interest groups with big spender tendencies so I'll just preempt that by saying I'm clearly not the target audience for this, kind of like most anime that gets made nowadays. Amazing how 20 years of following something as a hobby can suddenly amount to next to nothing to watch anymore in most seasons and a rapidly declining interest with one ultra hard shift in the industries direction towards mainly targeting fringe whale demographics mostly brought about by the whims of one, maybe one and a half producers that get far too many contracts and have far too much say in what gets prioritized in the production line. Almost every project that gets announced nowadays like it's supposed to be something the average person or even anime fan would want to watch either has me asking ".....why?" or saying "yeah that's typical".

Alabaster Spectrum wrote:

Why does it matter how many copies something already has in print and why do the A-1 Pictures of the industry keep announcing things like this (I assume it's them yet again on one of these because of the language involved, established cast and because some reason they think these things need to be a surprise or something). Shouldn't a plot synopsis or actual details be more important to run through or do the A-1 Pictures of the industry literally just see everything in how much something has circulated or sold in it's original format already and think that's how everyone else should think too? Of course somebody is going to come in and say something like "Boy it's great that a lot of these boy's love things are getting adapted now" as if it's some sort of new development that the industry is going increasingly after Japanese fringe interest groups with big spender tendencies so I'll just preempt that by saying I'm clearly not the target audience for this, kind of like most anime that gets made nowadays. Amazing how 20 years of following something as a hobby can suddenly amount to next to nothing to watch anymore in most seasons and a rapidly declining interest with one ultra hard shift in the industries direction towards mainly targeting fringe whale demographics mostly brought about by the whims of one, maybe one and a half producers that get far too many contracts and have far too much say in what gets prioritized in the production line. Almost every project that gets announced nowadays like it's supposed to be something the average person or even anime fan would want to watch either has me asking ".....why?" or saying "yeah that's typical".

Show me exactly on the doll where the gay touched you.

Never heard of this one. I wish they would pick up more serious and higher quality bl than these fluffy pieces. They're just trying to draw in the unsuspecting consumer who will eat this stuff up without care for quality.

It's just more of anime making itself as exclusive as it possibly can towards multiple demographics which again just strikes me as a really weird and frankly dumb direction for this industry to continue to try to go in if it's actually serious about trying to expand it's operations overseas. So see I'm thinking of a lot more here than just whatever lame homophobic brush you're trying to paint me with.

Someone take one of Yamamoto Kotetsuko's series and do something wonderful with it, please?? There's an author whose works deserve to be animated.

Alabaster Spectrum wrote:

Why does it matter how many copies something already has in print and why do the A-1 Pictures of the industry keep announcing things like this (I assume it's them yet again on one of these because of the language involved, established cast and because some reason they think these things need to be a surprise or something). Shouldn't a plot synopsis or actual details be more important to run through or do the A-1 Pictures of the industry literally just see everything in how much something has circulated or sold in it's original format already and think that's how everyone else should think too? Of course somebody is going to come in and say something like "Boy it's great that a lot of these boy's love things are getting adapted now" as if it's some sort of new development that the industry is going increasingly after Japanese fringe interest groups with big spender tendencies so I'll just preempt that by saying I'm clearly not the target audience for this, kind of like most anime that gets made nowadays. Amazing how 20 years of following something as a hobby can suddenly amount to next to nothing to watch anymore in most seasons and a rapidly declining interest with one ultra hard shift in the industries direction towards mainly targeting fringe whale demographics mostly brought about by the whims of one, maybe one and a half producers that get far too many contracts and have far too much say in what gets prioritized in the production line. Almost every project that gets announced nowadays like it's supposed to be something the average person or even anime fan would want to watch either has me asking ".....why?" or saying "yeah that's typical".

Show me exactly on the doll where the gay touched you.

Damn, teacher-student relationships are definitely one of my 'no-no's, so I'll be passing on this as well. There are so many great BL series out there, and yet we keep getting power-imbalance or dub-con or NON-con...

Someone take one of Yamamoto Kotetsuko's series and do something wonderful with it, please?? There's an author whose works deserve to be animated.

#838774 wrote:

Alabaster Spectrum wrote: Why does it matter how many copies something already has in print and why do the A-1 Pictures of the industry keep announcing things like this (I assume it's them yet again on one of these because of the language involved, established cast and because some reason they think these things need to be a surprise or something). Shouldn't a plot synopsis or actual details be more important to run through or do the A-1 Pictures of the industry literally just see everything in how much something has circulated or sold in it's original format already and think that's how everyone else should think too? Of course somebody is going to come in and say something like "Boy it's great that a lot of these boy's love things are getting adapted now" as if it's some sort of new development that the industry is going increasingly after Japanese fringe interest groups with big spender tendencies so I'll just preempt that by saying I'm clearly not the target audience for this, kind of like most anime that gets made nowadays. Amazing how 20 years of following something as a hobby can suddenly amount to next to nothing to watch anymore in most seasons and a rapidly declining interest with one ultra hard shift in the industries direction towards mainly targeting fringe whale demographics mostly brought about by the whims of one, maybe one and a half producers that get far too many contracts and have far too much say in what gets prioritized in the production line. Almost every project that gets announced nowadays like it's supposed to be something the average person or even anime fan would want to watch either has me asking ".....why?" or saying "yeah that's typical". Show me exactly on the doll where the gay touched you.

LOL I was JUST thinking the exact same response. Anyways, to keep things on track, the article, yet again, neither references which image has the main characters for this anime nor who is who.

Ooo, great, visuals. Except I still have to GOOGLE who is who. You would think images for an article would have a caption like most "news" articles. I know ANN used to put captions to describe images or at LEAST point out who is who in images but that doesn't happen anymore if much at all it seems.

Sobe wrote:

#838774 wrote: Alabaster Spectrum wrote: Why does it matter how many copies something already has in print and why do the A-1 Pictures of the industry keep announcing things like this (I assume it's them yet again on one of these because of the language involved, established cast and because some reason they think these things need to be a surprise or something). Shouldn't a plot synopsis or actual details be more important to run through or do the A-1 Pictures of the industry literally just see everything in how much something has circulated or sold in it's original format already and think that's how everyone else should think too? Of course somebody is going to come in and say something like "Boy it's great that a lot of these boy's love things are getting adapted now" as if it's some sort of new development that the industry is going increasingly after Japanese fringe interest groups with big spender tendencies so I'll just preempt that by saying I'm clearly not the target audience for this, kind of like most anime that gets made nowadays. Amazing how 20 years of following something as a hobby can suddenly amount to next to nothing to watch anymore in most seasons and a rapidly declining interest with one ultra hard shift in the industries direction towards mainly targeting fringe whale demographics mostly brought about by the whims of one, maybe one and a half producers that get far too many contracts and have far too much say in what gets prioritized in the production line. Almost every project that gets announced nowadays like it's supposed to be something the average person or even anime fan would want to watch either has me asking ".....why?" or saying "yeah that's typical". Show me exactly on the doll where the gay touched you. LOL I was JUST thinking the exact same response. Anyways, to keep things on track, the article, yet again, neither references which image has the main characters for this anime nor who is who. Ooo, great, visuals. Except I still have to GOOGLE who is who. You would think images for an article would have a caption like most "news" articles. I know ANN used to put captions to describe images or at LEAST point out who is who in images but that doesn't happen anymore if much at all it seems.

I guess that just shows how creative people are with their replies to things on the internet and also I'm pretty sure things have never strayed from the track. It's a commentary page and people are sharing their thoughts and ideas. Also yes ANN has gotten lazy in recent years with it's reporting. Hell I'm just grateful it actually bothers to distinguish between news, interest and advertorial with it's labels.

Lol, I "guess" you just couldn't tell by how people were ALREADY responding to your posts.

Alabaster Spectrum wrote:

It's just more of anime making itself as exclusive as it possibly can towards multiple demographics which again just strikes me as a really weird and frankly dumb direction for this industry to continue to try to go in if it's actually serious about trying to expand it's operations overseas. So see I'm thinking of a lot more here than just whatever lame homophobic brush you're trying to paint me with.

This has nothing to do with you being homophobic and everything to do with a gross oversimplification of the industry and complete childishness over how this is being reported.

Our fujoshi club at my university is nearly 2x bigger than our anime club. Studios pump out generic shit because generic shit sells, and there is no genre where generic shit sells better. Look at all the shitty moe anime that is overflowing in the industry these days. That's the way it has always been, you just caught the highlights growing up and think that you had some special snowflake anime because nostalgia goggles. 70% crap, 20% decent, 10% amazing.

If ANN didn't report on this, you'd likely never know it exists and yet the audience is profitable enough that it is being made. Same as Super Lovers which 90% of ANN hates but it is very profitable within the niche.