Forum - View topicNEWS: Crunchyroll, Adult Swim Announce Original Fena: Pirate Princess Anime for 2021
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Aura Ichadora
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I'm pretty curious about this! It looks like it might be an interesting show. Fena looks like a beautiful character, and I like the whole pirate/samurai thing going on here. Looking forward to watching this whenever it does premier!
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Emerje
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He sounded like he hadn't slept for a month and wasn't all that interested in this project in the first place. The way he was talking about all the stuff he had to do that he wasn't very good at made it come across very much like a contractual obligation. Emerje |
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Dr. Wily
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Your honor, I'd like to present exhibit A: 
Only one of these pirates looks like a typical pirate, yet they are. Anime pirates do not need to look like stereotypical pirates Last edited by Dr. Wily on Sun Jul 26, 2020 1:55 am; edited 1 time in total |
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Covnam
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Looks like it could be fun, though I'd like to know the rest of the staff, such as for the story.
As far as Fena's heritage, based on the summary and trailer, I'm guessing she's the daughter of British/European elite/nobility who was orphaned when her family was killed when pirates attacked. Now she's being forced into marriage or prostitution or similar and escapes that life to be a pirate because she's special for some reason which is why her ship was attacked when she was younger. |
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nargun
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?? + personal adornment: colourful clothes, jewelry, tattoos + armed, typically with short curved swords or pistols + no or light shoes + trousers, either loose-fitting or flared at the ankle (long divided legware rather than shorts, tunics, or kilts) + little upper-body clothes; at most a shirt and light vest and frequently nothing. + a headscarf or sometimes a broad-brimmed hat; sun protection. Pirate officers add a fancy coat (stolen). Pretty much everyone in OP wears that stuff, but it's also what you'll see in pirates of the carribean and older pirate content back to treasure island. Chinese content too, I think; they were wearing the same sort of thing in Project A. It's practical. It's basically occupational clothing for sailors in tropical climates, as was worn until the widespread use of mechanical propulsion, with the addition of some weapons and jewelry; the costume itself probably came to europe from the eastern med around the time of the crusades. (Chinese pirates seem to wear black and red, though. Japanese pirates turn up pretty rarely, but have their own distinctive iconography: wooden torso armour over bare skin. They turn up in 12kk and otogi zoushi, for examples) |
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Fenrin
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Not really understanding the lack of enthusiasm for this project, it looks interesting and really beautiful and I'm digging the character style. This is the first time I've been this excited about an original anime in a while.
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Scion Drake
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I know right. Like sure all we got at the moment is a minute long trailer but it is just a teaser, that successively gives out the basic hook of the show which is samurai ninja pirates which isn't really a bad concept. Nothing wrong with having some optimism & waiting for a new show to show off its chops especially since it has the rest of the year & next to further refine itself. I'm not saying it is but I feel like at least some of the negativity is due to the show being Western backed by Crunchyroll & Adult Swim. |
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Ermat_46
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Because the entire thing looks like one of those myriad of disposable Netflix original animes in the vein of B: The Beginning, Hero Mask and Sword Gai. |
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Ryuji-Dono
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Except B was actually good. |
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Kaori Makimura
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The good: it's the director from b the beginning
The bad: it's the director from b the beginning which means that season 2 is never gonna happen even though Netflix announced it two years ago. 
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Beatdigga
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This feels like the first generation of co-productions. Stuff like Samurai Gun where it’s more about the aesthetic looking cool, with the plot tacked on. For all the deserved shade Netflix can get, usually their stuff is based on existing works, or feels more...natural.
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Takkun4343
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B had two directors, so maybe Yamakawa will head up C: The Continuation while Nakazawa's busy with Fena. |
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ANN_Lynzee
ANN Executive Editor
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Well, a lot of the replies responding regarding the character's skin tone are ignoring what's written in the plot synopsis. If you blatantly ignore historical context written by the anime's creators (Crunchyroll) itself, people are going to assume that you don't know what you're talking about or are uneducated on the topic. Chattel slavery, specifically, is enslaving a human as personal property that is passed down the family line; i.e. if an enslaved person has children, they are automatically slaves as well. The main character is brought into chattel slavery by the British empire. Here's a four page .pdf on the British Empire's slavery history (http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/slavery/pdf/britain-and-the-trade.pdf). British slaves were African. Even the Barbados Island comment brought up earlier is referenced here: the Dutch brought African slaves to Barbados. Note: Yes, the British engaged in indentured servitude or used convicts for labor, but again, Crunchyroll's synopsis says "chattel slavery" which is not a interchangeable term for indentured servants. It is not the same thing. |
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donhumberto
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Same here. Really like the artstyle a lot and it's the most promising anime original I've seen in a good while. It's a shame there's a big (or at the very least very vocal) part of the anime fandom that's always going to complain whenever there's some kind of western involvement in the production of any series (be it CR, Netflix, Toonami...) 
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Beatdigga
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I’m not hating on Netflix, but some of their originals are...below par (Cannon Busters, Godzilla Trilogy), although that’s part of any service these days that wants quantity. Onyx has nothing to do with Japanese writers, directors, nada. It’s just another dime a dozen Avatar clone, and therefore isn’t anime. |
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