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NEWS: P.A. Works, Dengeki Daioh Make Nagi no Asu Kara Anime

That's unless you're a fan of the Key-like melodrama line in which case Anohana was the best, but that was produced by A-1 Pictures with director Tatsuyuki Nagai, whose other achievements include Toradora and Ano Natsu de Matteru.

And I've seen some seen some good to excellent adaptations where Mari Okada has been involved in - namely Toradora (good) and Wandering Son (excellent). But really, you can't give Okada too much credit for that since she didn't write the original material - that should go to the original source creator.

First things first, Toradora! and Ano Natsu de Matteru were done by J.C. Staff, the studio that gets bashed almost as much as Mari herself, not A-1.

But you do realise those are adaptations though right? I agree, Okada in adaptations are usually safe but give her freedom to write anime original material in even adaptations (see the latter half of Fate Stay Night or Black Butler S2) and she'll go ballistic. And once again, should you really credit for ADAPTING something over the original source creator? And her anime originals are also very schizophrenic.

No,neither Simoun nor new Lupin 3 are adaptations,and if you count Black Rock Shooter as an adaptation then you need to congratulate her cause she has improved it a LOT!

So, in summary, I'm very familiar with her involvements and I can tell you, in this past year she's been a total mess. Black Rock Shooter, Lupin III, Aquarion EVOL, AKB00048. All have been anime originals, all were pretty awful. Which is exactly why I'm pessimistic here because she has Buruki's character designs to write her characters with, which most likely means perv/bad fanservice.

So, in summary, I'm very familiar with her involvements and I can tell you, in this past year she's been a total mess. Black Rock Shooter, Lupin III, Aquarion EVOL, AKB00048. All have been anime originals, all were pretty awful. Which is exactly why I'm pessimistic here because she has Buruki's character designs to write her characters with, which most likely means perv/bad fanservice.

Ok for some reason when I was reading your post I apparently didn't see that(mostly cause you edited it later ).If you think Lupin 3 and Black Rock Shooter are awful you and I have pretty different taste,so this is where the discussion ends.From your first post I had the impression that you didn't see some of the stuff that I liked.

zensunni wrote:

First things first, Toradora! and Ano Natsu de Matteru were done by J.C. Staff, the studio that gets bashed almost as much as Mari herself, not A-1.

Never said Toradora and Ano Natsu was A-1, only Anohana. Please read more carefully.

And yes I'm well aware of how much JC Staff gets bashed. But really, they do largely deserve it. Long gone are the days when they made stuff like Azumanga Daioh, Honey and Clover and Nodame Cantabile.

Mixed bag director, nutjob writer, ugly designer, and consistently mediocre to average (at best) studio.

Will watch if it's a trainwreck or at least comically bad, like a Another.