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Flared
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Great news, I can't wait for more existential depression.
Judging by the art, I wonder if this first film will just be an adaptation of the side story or include some of the main plot too. |
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Top Gun
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I don't know of anything beyond the anime so I'm not sure if these are meant to be side stories or a continuation of the canon plot, but I'm kind of hoping it's the former and not the latter. Film tie-ins seem to take way longer to get released stateside than regular TV shows do. I say this as a long-suffering Princess Principal fan who just got to the halfway film mark a full 6 years after they started putting them out.
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Pandsu
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I'm excited to finally get some news on a continuation, though I'm a little bummed out that it's a movie, that it's Part 1 of a series of movies and that the release window is so wide, with it possibly taking over a year to come out and god knows how long to get a home release so I can actually watch it.
Who knows how many movies there will be as well and how long it will take for each part to release. I really wish they had just made a third season. Then again, at this point I'm pretty used to waiting, even for manga chapters. And then those leave me somewhat unsatisfied and often pretty confused. Something about how they are drawn and presented is weirdly unclear sometimes and also doesn't really stick in my brain that much. I'm kinda struggling to really remember what has happened since the point where Season 2 ended. That's probably a me problem though. |
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Gurren Rodan
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I wonder if this is a decision made to space out the adaptation, given how slowly the manga has been publishing. The current arc since the Golden City is still in progress (and spoiler[is shaping up to quite possibly be the finale]), so maybe the studio/committee is trying to get the ball rolling without getting ahead of themselves with the source material.
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gsilver
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Given that the side story is a lead-in for Tepaste joining the main cast, my guess is 'both'
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Wyvern
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I kinda wish long-running franchises would stick to the My Hero Academia model of yearly seasons which adapt the canon manga and movies that serve as optional side-stories. Just makes it easier to follow than having to jump from show to movie to show to movie. It's getting to the point that some of these anime require a flowchart to know what order to watch in. Plus, as others have said, movies typically take much longer to get translated.
Of course, I'm mostly just kvetching. I'm happy to have more Made in Abyss regardless of the format. But it is getting kinda confusing around here. |
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Moerist
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I am not sure if Made Abyss could fit the MHA format, cause the manga has updates every 6 months. Perhaps the film is not a perfect adaptation, but considering the limited content from the manga, it's good. |
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Kicksville
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I would imagine sufficient popularity + less content to work = movie format is the most profitable to exploit. Maybe if conditions were like the 90's, this would've been an OVA.
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Nachtwandler
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THis way they can make more MiA content without going fillers. Perfectly understandable decigion. I just hope each movie is not 45 minuts long. Maybe 60-90 should wotk just fine.
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MarshalBanana
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MiniMarps
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I think the some of the misunderstandings in this thread are stemming from the anime-only fans not realizing how torturously slow of a pace the manga releases at. It's not actually that far ahead of where the anime left off at. If they were to wait for enough material to make a full Season 3 out of, we would be waiting for a very long time. With that in mind, I think this is a sensible compromise.
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RicketyBogart
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I would have preferred if they waited until they could do a full arc in a season, even if that took a very long time.
But I don't know how that affects the business side of things. Maybe it's not realistic. |
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Gurren Rodan
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Yep, exactly. I decided to do a little double-checking just to provide some hard numbers for context, and here's what BakaUpdates Manga has to say about it: - There are a total of 70 (translated) chapters in the manga so far, since the series began publishing in 2012. - The first anime season covered chapters 1-25 (25 total). - The Dawn of the Deep Soul film covered chapters 26-38 (12 total). - The second season, Golden City, covered chapters 39-60 (21 total). The current manga arc being published is 10 chapters in, starting at chapter 61 - and chapter 61 was published/translated in October 2021, nearly FOUR YEARS AGO now, and nearly a full year before the Golden City anime aired, with no clear indication how close we are to this arc's climax. My guess is, Kadokawa and Kinema Citrus are communicating with author Akihito Tsukushi to predict how this arc will go and determine the best way to stagger the adaptation, while getting the adaptation actually started before the wait for new animated content goes too long. |
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gsilver
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Woah. I had gotten behind on it and wasn't paying attention to what chapter it was at.
If the current arc is only 10 chapters in, we're looking a bit thin on material for a movie. I think that there's some side stuff that could be expanded, and they'd probably have to. On the other hand, there might be enough chapters by the time the movie comes out. |
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jdnation
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It's about time!
I honestly thought we wouldn't get a Season 3 until 2029... at best! I got tired of waiting and hopped on board the manga, and like others have said, the manga has not gotten very far from where Season 2 ended, although they are heading into the final layer, so the story is nearing the endgame. Foregoing a 3rd season in favor of movies is a better idea if you want anime content out faster. And there is the benefit of a bigger budget for animation, as things are looking pretty wild heading into the final layer and you'll want to get the anime to look right and preferably avoid the CG route of Season 2 if possible, though S2's production and visuals weren't bad, but S1 and the Dawn movie were far better. The poster indicates they are adapting the next main arc directly following season 2 which is spoiler[a short prequel (though technically, time in the real world versus the abyss are different) and doesn't really involve the main 3 cast members, similar to the start of season 2.] This arc isn't that long, if I'm thinking of where they will end it... spoiler[when our main cast pops up at the end and finds the body.] But it could be extended to fill up a movie's length with extended scenery/atmospheric scenes, extended action scenes, and I hope they will include side content. It is overall a very fascinating arc, expanding the world of Made in Abyss, and spoiler[showing more of what's been going on on the upper layers and surface while our main trio has been on their journey.] I imagine that we are likely getting 3 films in total to conclude Made in Abyss. So roughly by 2029 or so... |
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