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NEWS: Aniplex USA Licenses The Asterisk War Anime

Aniplex usa always get the popular light novel adaptation anime like sao, monogatiri, oreim, mahouka. The male and female lead in this one are kind of different. The MC actually fight back from girls' attacks. And the main girl thanks the MC before she attack him for peeking.

Having understood that Aniplex seems to only dub shows that they think are highly popular, it'll be ages before The Asterisk War has an English version...if ever.

I kind of resent the fact that a lot of people lump all Light Novels together like that, to be honest. That's like saying, "Yeah, A-1 and Aniplex getting together to make an anime... that is so weird, I never thought such a thing would happen..." It's extremely vague and meaningless. Not all light novels are created equal, just like any other format or medium of entertainment.

For a moment I misread that title and now I am disappointed in the lack of Gaul villages fighting off Roman occupation.

I would have rather sentai got this. Its a show that I want, but its def. not a show like SAO or Monogatari or even Mahouka that I can imagine anyone spending AoA money on.

You're acting like A-1 gets to choose the series they animate. They don't. We have a production committee that almost certainly includes the LN publisher picking the animation studio that did an amazing job with another LN based fantasy / sword fighting anime adaption. It is so totally weird that doing a really good job the first time would make you a popular choice for something requiring similar visuals...

And I resent the fact that you're trying to preach about LN when your first paragraph makes it seem like you haven't even read that many.

What makes your ignorance even worse is that this isn't even Produced in any way by the Publishing company, which is when there's a vested interest in boosting published version sales. Like all the stuff Produced by Kadokawa which is one of the top three Publishing Houses in Japan AND one of the top two Anime Producers in Japan. This is done by Genco and A-1 Pictures (which is owned by Aniplex, which is owned by Sony). To put it simply, a Producer and Studio got (bought) the copyright license to adapt, from the Publisher, for a story that's currently very popular, then basically fudge you, we only care about our anime sales, because we just dumped millions into making this and we don't see anything from published version sales.

Little tip, that's a hugely ignorant misconception. Anime only intentionally try or go out of their way to advertise the main source when among the Producers are the Publishing houses. Like for example Kadokawa, which is among the top 3 Publishing houses in Japan and among the top 2 anime Producers in Japan. Madhouse is not only a studio it is also a strong Producer as well, like J.C.Staff. When the Producer and Studio have no ties to the Publishing house they see no profits from the main source sales so they have absolutely no interest in advertising it. Simply put, often times it's just buying the rights to adapt a popular story, then it's pretty much fudge you, we're only interested in selling the anime we dumped millions into making.

Aniplex has a massive amount of sway on any production they are involved with, and they tend to have a relatively discerning group picking the shows they want their subsidiary, A-1 Pictures, to animate. This just didn't seem like something they would pick... hence my original comment. I'm curious where it's going to go and why they picked it, that's all.

You seem a little too butthurt by my comment.