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NEWS: Wake Up! Girls Anime Unveils Footage As Haruka Tomatsu, Kana Hanazawa Join Cast




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RyanSaotome



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PostPosted: Sat Nov 30, 2013 2:30 am Reply with quote
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The television anime series will premiere on January 10. A film titled Wake Up, Girls! Shichi-nin no Idol (Wake Up, Girls! The Seven Idols) will also open in Japan that same day. The film's Blu-ray Disc will then go on sale on February 28. The Wake Up, Girls! Stage no Tenshi (Wake Up, Girls! Stage Angels) idol-training simulation social game will debut before the anime next year.


They are really banking hard on this being a megahit.
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mgosdin



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PostPosted: Sat Nov 30, 2013 7:15 am Reply with quote
I hope it does hit for them. You always get nervous when it looks like someone is betting the farm on a project. Shocked

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Mr. Oshawott



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PostPosted: Sat Nov 30, 2013 7:28 am Reply with quote
I'm hoping Wake Up! Girls really becomes a success. I'm having a feeling that the folks may have a bit gone overboard putting that much stake into the show...
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Megiddo



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PostPosted: Sat Nov 30, 2013 8:11 am Reply with quote
Idol anime are pretty much a guaranteed hit.

And with the guy directing it being the one to generate the Hare Hare Yukai dance craze (and the one to save anime), it would have to be one utterly spectacular failure for it not to be a hit.

Personally, I was already gonna watch it with the initial voice cast announcement considering it'll have Emiri Katou, Minami Tsuda, and Yuka Ootsubo and I enjoy seeing the YRYR cast get more and more voice work. Adding Haruka Tomatsu certainly doesn't hurt either since I'm a Sphere fan as well.
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jojothepunisher



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PostPosted: Sat Nov 30, 2013 8:43 am Reply with quote
Is this made by A1-pictures? character design similar to SAO.
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Sacto0562



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PostPosted: Sat Nov 30, 2013 11:30 am Reply with quote
One thing I'm going to watch for is whether the voice acting is done in one of the Touhoku dialects, especially the Sendai, Yamagata and Akita dialects....
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Jamie38459



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PostPosted: Mon Dec 02, 2013 1:32 pm Reply with quote
Huh, I wonder if this'll be a hit like The IdolM@ster or a flop like Lovely Idol Lovedol... I guess only time will tell...
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