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NEWS: Saki Mahjong Manga to Get TV Anime from Gonzo in 2009




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MrAnimeSpecialist



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PostPosted: Thu Dec 04, 2008 10:34 am Reply with quote
I had a hunch that this would get turned into an anime. Hopefully, Akagi will come her before then.

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Manabu Ono (Dragonaut - The Resonance, Transformers: Cybertron) will direct


That is not a good sign! Shocked
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 04, 2008 3:37 pm Reply with quote
"High school freshman girl" is NOT what I expected for a Mahjong anime protagonist.

This could be interesting.
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hexenkessel



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PostPosted: Thu Dec 04, 2008 5:10 pm Reply with quote
big surprise, another mahjong anime series, this one with a little girl for a main character. now the pedos can get into mahjong as well.
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 04, 2008 5:58 pm Reply with quote
We already had a show about 4-player Mahjong called Akagi. The question is, what can this show deliver that can be significantly different from Akagi?
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 04, 2008 6:23 pm Reply with quote
Sounds somewhat like a much more lighthearted Shion no Ou. Maybe Gonzo's slump into Linebarrels and Rozario will reverse itsel-
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... or not.
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 04, 2008 6:49 pm Reply with quote
KabaKabaFruit wrote:
We already had a show about 4-player Mahjong called Akagi. The question is, what can this show deliver that can be significantly different from Akagi?

It will most likely cater to the pedos.

I bet this will be horrible - didn*t Gonzo want to improve its quality?
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walw6pK4Alo



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PostPosted: Thu Dec 04, 2008 6:58 pm Reply with quote
MrAnimeSpecialist wrote:
I had a hunch that this would get turned into an anime. Hopefully, Akagi will come her before then.

Quote:
Manabu Ono (Dragonaut - The Resonance, Transformers: Cybertron) will direct


That is not a good sign! Shocked


Akagi will never get licensed.

edzieba wrote:
Sounds somewhat like a much more lighthearted Shion no Ou. Maybe Gonzo's slump into Linebarrels and Rozario will reverse itsel-
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Manabu Ono (Dragonaut - The Resonance[...]) will direct
... or not.


Hah, exactly. I feel the only good thing GONZO does consistently are make extremely nice and large breasts for their characters.
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MrAnimeSpecialist



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PostPosted: Thu Dec 04, 2008 8:42 pm Reply with quote
walw6pK4Alo wrote:
Akagi will never get licensed.


Maybe so, but at least Kaiji (the original author's other work) will get streamed on Joost.

walw6pK4Alo wrote:
I feel the only good thing GONZO does consistently are make extremely nice and large breasts for their characters.


I've heard some good things about their adaptations in general (Linebarrel and Rosario+Vampire aside).

It's original properties that they have problems doing right.
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Jedi General



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PostPosted: Thu Dec 04, 2008 8:49 pm Reply with quote
Wow, that's a great cast! Now if only the production staff and studio were as stellar and I'd be sold for more than just the first episode ...

KabaKabaFruit wrote:
We already had a show about 4-player Mahjong called Akagi. The question is, what can this show deliver that can be significantly different from Akagi?


Character designs that are considerably easier on the eyes perhaps? While I like both Akagi and Kaiji, the art style in both series never ceased to bug me.

walw6pK4Alo wrote:
I feel the only good thing GONZO does consistently are make extremely nice and large breasts for their characters.


Heh. Interestingly enough, the character designer for Saki has had only one other character design gig, and it was for a hentai. All for the sake of consistency, I guess ...
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edzieba



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PostPosted: Fri Dec 05, 2008 9:35 am Reply with quote
MrAnimeSpecialist wrote:
I've heard some good things about their adaptations in general (Linebarrel and Rosario+Vampire aside).

It's original properties that they have problems doing right.
My experiance has been the opposite. Their original properties (e.g. Blue Submarine 6, Last Exile, Blassrieter, Vandread) are generally rather good, their novel adaptations (e.g. FMP, Yukikaze) are middling, and their manga adaptations are a pile of crap (e.g. Hellsing, Linebarrels).
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 06, 2008 5:21 am Reply with quote
Learned mahjong when I was 8 but rarely play.
How the heck can that be action-packed? Laughing
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Talon87



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PostPosted: Wed Dec 10, 2008 1:11 am Reply with quote
enurtsol wrote:
Learned mahjong when I was 8 but rarely play.
How the heck can that be action-packed? Laughing

Somebody's never watched Akagi or Hikaru no Go. Razz Wink

And if they can make a successful children's television series about spinning tops (Beyblade), I should hope that they could make engaging television about mahjong. Granted, mahjong may not be as "moichandizable" as spinning tops or children's card games, but then again, Akagi ain't exactly for kids, y'know. Wink

I dream of a day when I can walk into an American games store and find a good Chinese Traditional-style or Japanese-style mahjong set and not (a) none at all or (b) cheap plastic American mahjong sets. A and B have pretty much been my only outcomes so far. Anime cry Anyone in the Chicago area know where I can get a good set that's compatible with Chinese Traditional and Japanese mahjong?

Anyone ever find this?
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enurtsol



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PostPosted: Wed Dec 10, 2008 3:40 am Reply with quote
Talon87 wrote:
enurtsol wrote:
Learned mahjong when I was 8 but rarely play.
How the heck can that be action-packed? Laughing

Somebody's never watched Akagi or Hikaru no Go. Razz Wink


How about Chess? Laughing
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Talon87



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PostPosted: Wed Dec 10, 2008 2:24 pm Reply with quote
Close to it: they had a shogi J-drama recently, but I don't know that it fared very well. Ultimately these high-intensity game stories rely more on plot-created tension (like betting one's life or limbs in Akagi) than on the inherent-but-small tension of winning or losing at a game of tiles or cards. Wink

But that's NO DIFFERENT from the tension you get out of watching a movie about NASCAR or about college basketball. Movies like Hoosiers have their fanbases but is it really about the basketball game? or is it about the basketball team? I think it's the latter. In a racecar movie, you're excited about if the hero is going to win or not -- not for the race's sake but for the consequences later (getting the girl, beating the bad guy, whatever. I wouldn't know: I hate racing movies Laughing ). I suppose when somebody watches a film like that for the cars and not for the plot, what he gets is The Fast and the Furious 3: Tokyo Drift. I definitely couldn't get into that, but my car enthusiast friends definitely did. Oh well.

Poker can be a dull background scene in an old western or it can be the front-and-center high-tension scene of a film like Casino Royale.

And as for chess? I seem to remember enjoying Searching for Bobby Fischer when I was a kid, though admittedly I only ever watched it the one time when it came out at the rental video store so *shrug*.
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