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Interview: Studio Bones President Masahiko Minami


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PostPosted: Tue Jul 19, 2016 11:30 am Reply with quote
This was a really fantastic interview, good job. Three more original Bones works though? Now I'm super excited to see what Bones has upcoming, hopefully they'll all turn out good. Although, I do still hold out hope for BBB season 2. Maybe one day.
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 19, 2016 11:44 am Reply with quote
Please let one of those originals be DTB 3. 10th anniversary is coming up and it's the perfect way to celebrate. The DTB director isn't even doing Blue Exorcist s2 anymore.
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 19, 2016 12:20 pm Reply with quote
Great interview! I always like hearing from Minami! BONES is my favorite anime studio and I've watched almost everything they've done but Eureka Seven is my absolute favorite! So it's nice to see that he shares this opinion with me. I hope someday that they can do an original 4 cour series again, but I know that will probably never happen... Also unless I read this wrong it sounds like My Hero Academia will be multiple seasons long. So probably a cour, then a break, a cour then a break, and so on and so forth. So it will technically be a long running series but just not a consecutive one. That sounds like a great way to cut down on Filler that usually comes with long running shonen series. I'm excited to see what their 3 original works are. I assume that isn't including their adaptation work as well. I hope we get a good mecha series from them. I quite like their original works even if in general the ending is really rushed. I look forward to what comes from them next!
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There's fujoshi shows: Bungo Stray Dogs, Blood Blockade Battlefront, Noragami.

The whole idea of "fujoshi shows" aside (can we please finally move on from that idiotic "girls only watch anime for the hot guys and BL" idea?), how on earth are Blood Blockade Battlefront or Noragami "fujoshi shows"?! Has the interiewer even seen these?
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 19, 2016 12:25 pm Reply with quote
I wanted to ask about Noragami being fujoshi or aimed at female audiences as well. Did you mean it because of the merchandise, just like with BBB, or are there any other reasons? Other than that, it was a nice interview!
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 19, 2016 12:36 pm Reply with quote
I am also excited to hear that 3 original productions are in the works. Bones is one of my favorite studios and from this interview, they seem to be doing well.

And I also don't see how BBB and Noragami can be considered fujoshi. The one Bones title for women, that was not mentioned in the interview, is Snow White with the Red Hair.

Calculus20 wrote:
Please let one of those originals be DTB 3. 10th anniversary is coming up and it's the perfect way to celebrate.

More Darker Than Black will be nice, but after so long I doubt Japan is interested in doing more. But if DTB is big in the West, I wonder if Funimation could pony up some of the money.
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 19, 2016 12:37 pm Reply with quote
I would also like another BBB but how should they make it? Include more new characters like Black and White?
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 19, 2016 12:37 pm Reply with quote
Calculus20 wrote:
Please let one of those originals be DTB 3. 10th anniversary is coming up and it's the perfect way to celebrate. The DTB director isn't even doing Blue Exorcist s2 anymore.
Oh my God, Tensai Okamura-sensei directing the long-awaited third season of Darker than Black again at BONES? Please also have Abingdon Boys School return for the opening song. Now, that is what I would call a wet dream!
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 19, 2016 12:53 pm Reply with quote
3 Original series is pretty cool. Bones is one of my favorite studios right now. They may target people who like hot guys a bit, but that's okay, most of them are evenly balanced enough. I didn't personally think Bungou was that pandering, but it is what it is. Thanks for pushing ConRevo Jacob. I was hoping to hear him talk a little more about that, personally, but he didn't seem too willing. Also interesting that he was so upfront about Space Dandy. I know it wasn't a huge hit, but it seemed successful enough.


angelmcazares wrote:

And I also don't see how BBB and Noragami can be considered fujoshi. The one Bones title for women, that was not mentioned in the interview, is Snow White with the Red Hair.


I think that fujoshi has sort of become a catch-all term for any shows targeting the female audience that have relatively hot guys, which is how I always interpret it when a critic uses the term. I don't really think it's nearly as big of a deal as a lot of people seem, but whatever.
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 19, 2016 1:04 pm Reply with quote
Very cool and interesting interview. Bones is my favorite studio, I watch pretty much everything they put out and I'm happy to see they're having success after a slump of low-selling titles. Really excited about those 3 originals, ConRevo was amazing

I was quite puzzled when both Jacob and Minami kept saying that Hero Academia was "oh so very long". Like, the whole issue with that series is that it barely has enough material to get adapted, it's barely been running for two years (the anniversary was literally two weeks ago). It doesn't even have 100 chapters. It's probably gonna become very long, but the way they talked about it made it sound like it was 400+ chapters already.

SHD wrote:
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There's fujoshi shows: Bungo Stray Dogs, Blood Blockade Battlefront, Noragami.

The whole idea of "fujoshi shows" aside (can we please finally move on from that idiotic "girls only watch anime for the hot guys and BL" idea?), how on earth are Blood Blockade Battlefront or Noragami "fujoshi shows"?! Has the interiewer even seen these?


Did you not read the full interview? Right after that answer, Jacob explains why he sees those as "fujoshi shows": because the merchandise for them is clearly aimed at the female audience.
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 19, 2016 1:33 pm Reply with quote
It sounds like they plan on adapting a lot more than 2 seasons of MHA. That makes me happy.
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 19, 2016 1:39 pm Reply with quote
Awesome interview! Bones is also my favorite studio because of their willingness to not just have soulless adaptations, but instead create new content and put their own spin on adaptations (FMA 2003, Noragami, BBB, etc.). Studio Bones is also one of the few anime studios (Like Studio 4C and Production I.G.) to really push for original anime productions, and I'm really looking forward to their three new originals since Bones original series are some of my favorite series of all time.
Cyclone1993 wrote:
I hope we get a good mecha series from them.

Bones had a job listing for mecha animators, so it seems there's going to be at least one new mecha show in their future. Whether it's going to be original or not is still unkown though.
CrowLia wrote:
I was quite puzzled when both Jacob and Minami kept saying that Hero Academia was "oh so very long". Like, the whole issue with that series is that it barely has enough material to get adapted, it's barely been running for two years (the anniversary was literally two weeks ago). It doesn't even have 100 chapters. It's probably gonna become very long, but the way they talked about it made it sound like it was 400+ chapters already.

Bones adapted about 2 chapters per episode on average (since Horikoshi puts a lot of content in each chapter), so it would take a little over a continuous year to catch up to where the manga is currently. I'd consider that a long series.
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 19, 2016 1:56 pm Reply with quote
SHD wrote:
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There's fujoshi shows: Bungo Stray Dogs, Blood Blockade Battlefront, Noragami.

The whole idea of "fujoshi shows" aside (can we please finally move on from that idiotic "girls only watch anime for the hot guys and BL" idea?), how on earth are Blood Blockade Battlefront or Noragami "fujoshi shows"?! Has the interiewer even seen these?

chito895 wrote:
I wanted to ask about Noragami being fujoshi or aimed at female audiences as well. Did you mean it because of the merchandise, just like with BBB, or are there any other reasons? Other than that, it was a nice interview!

I had the same reaction. I can kind of understand the BBB explanation but Noragami's promotion and merchandising was pretty gender-neutral overall, maybe skewing a little more heavily toward males.

On a similar subject, I love the interview but I now wish to hear his impressions about both seasons of Noragami. Mine was the manga and anime have been pretty popular in the west compared to Japan, though always seeming to fly under the radar.
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 19, 2016 2:26 pm Reply with quote
Interesting read, although:

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I thought it would be a lot more explosive feelings of happiness all over the world from watching


When you put it like that, I can see why Space Dandy didn't catch on (& I liked it)
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 19, 2016 3:52 pm Reply with quote
I've also noticed with other interviews with Minami that the interviewer continues to bring up the Fujoshi question despite Minami repeatedly not understanding the connotations of it. Sure Bungou Stray Dogs could be considered Fujoshi bait but I'd hesitate to call the others anything aimed at the Fujoshi market.

I wish some questions about Show by Rock would have been brought up. Especially since he mentioned in previous interviews that he didn't think BONES could do moe or cute shows and then SBR came out and was great. I feel like there could have been a lot of good questions about the production of that series and about his view of the changing anime industry.
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