Bakuman Anime Announced

[kewl0210]

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Bakuman TV Anime decided. ETV Fall.

Issue 3-4
Cover: Naruto
Color Pages: Bakuman, One Shot, Serialized Group 4-Koma Compilation

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa?
No, makes sense. Bakuman is not likely to be so long that it would need to have such a huge buffer and allow for filler. Plus with SO MUCH talking in each chapter it's not likely they'll even need to do 2 chapters an episode... So it's fine they're doing an anime with only 65 chapters. Also this isn't until almost a year from now it would seem...

That's all there is to go on until the Jump issue comes out. I already wrote my comments in that, it's quoted from the Jump TOC discussion thread.

It's early for a series to be getting an anime at 65 chapters, but it says "fall" so it means not till next year, and the series seems like it will probably be around the same length as Death Note, so the series will likely be over or close to it by then. It's not the kind of series that runs for 7~10 years and would need a large buffer and filler arcs.

Go crazy...
I like to post this sorta thing when it gets announced so I'm sticking it here, too...

[Negative Syndicate]

I'm happy that Bakuma becomes animation. But, I think Bakuman is fit more with a live-action drama than an animation.

[sekida]

wew, thanks! Thought there would be a scenario in bakuman that Ashirogi themselves will announce it LOL.

@muwlove, I really prefer anime than live-action.

[Kravmaga]

I love bakuman to death but I can't picture it being an anime...
That probably means I'll be pleasantly surprised once I see it, though.

[Kibate]

I can't wait, and i think it could work very well as an Anime
after all, they were able to do deathnote and hikaru no go too, both mangas in which they mostly talk or do other non-action stuff.
I guess they could pull out filler with the romance stuff

[Drmke]

I love bakuman to death but I can't picture it being an anime...
That probably means I'll be pleasantly surprised once I see it, though.

Same but then again I also had trouble picturing Death Note as an anime before it came out. Either way I'm pretty excited.

[CBlitz]

does anyone which studio is handling it? I hope its Madhouse again, their DN adaption was fantastic

[Negative Syndicate]

I hope Yamaguchi Kappei to be voice over for Niizuma (he also did L on Death Note).

[SHINOBI-03]

I hope Yamaguchi Kappei to be voice over for Niizuma (he also did L on Death Note).

Checkout my old topic to see my suggestions :amuse

http://mangahelpers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=46150

Anyway, Bakuman anime! YAY!!

I hope they won't mess it up like what they did to the scond half of Death Note where they made things short and lost some parts of the story.

[Mugiwara_no_Jack]

Awesome news.
Can't wait ^^

[anonymouse]

I hope it WON'T be Madhouse, I don't like their animation style (besides of movies like The Girl Who Leapt Through Time or Summer Wars). D: Shaft, or Bones, or Production I.G., or Gainax, or Sunrise plz. LOL
Anyway, about voices, Fukuyama Jun will be Saiko and Tachibana Shinnosuke will be Shujin? Like in this manga with voices on the site? XD

[CBlitz]

Gainax or Sunrise are unlikely because they usually focus on original works. lol at Shaft and I've never really seen much of Production I.G's work. But yeah, Bones Bakuman would be awesome

[Googlez_kun]

i hope they get good animators for bakuman,like the one death note had

[NAM61]

it is gonna be cool to see it animated

[Googlez_kun]

and when they get the anime,we will get the anime animated!:o

[xxgunxx]

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!!
CAN'T WAIT FOR IT! CAN'T WAIT FOR IT! CAN'T WAIT FOR IT!
Azuki's seiyuu should be the Takeshi Obata's gf ¬w¬

[anonymouse]

lol at Shaft

Whyyyy? It'd be epic XDD
Anyway, I was halfly joking with Shaft, Gainax or Bones. XD I really want to see it animated by Production I.G. XD I want to see a... loose? style, Madhouse's somehow... heavy

[Shrapnel]

o.o Would be nice if Bakuman ended with them getting an anime and it being released in conjunction with the end of Bakuman. -is bricked- XD

[LilaChan]

Whyyyy? It'd be epic XDD
Anyway, I was halfly joking with Shaft, Gainax or Bones. XD I really want to see it animated by Production I.G. XD I want to see a... loose? style, Madhouse's somehow... heavy

MADHOUSE is a pretty large animation studio, they have A+ teams to D teams. If we get the A or A+ teams, it'll be great.

I personally would like BONES or Production I.G. If BONES uses their Ouran team, it should end up pretty darn good. J.C Staff would be okay if they follow the original material, if they have the director of Toradora it should work out fine.

Shaft woud be interesting, but they should be working on KoyomiVamp for next year after the success of Bakemonogatari.

They better keep Fukuyama Jun, I can't resist Code Geass seiyuu jokes.

[anonymouse]

But, Bones will probably air and finish work with Heroman next year... I wonder what will they do afterwards... But I don't really see them doing Bakuman (I'd rather like Eureka 7 second season anyways... XDD ah dreaming's nice) ;_; I'm rooting on Production I.G., but J.C Staff would be fine indeed. 8D
Code Geass seiyuu jokes, huh? XD
...I can't imagine Saiko speaking with Lelouch's tone xDD

[D.Blue]

It's a shame the very moderator for Bakuman known as myself took so long to realise such gret news.

Please allow me to get excited.

HOLY SH*T NO F*CKING WAY
OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL ANIME OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG
HELL YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*cough*

On a more serious note, the anime has a chance of becoming an awkward representation that don't really translate well the series concept (a manga about a manga) as well as bending over some new ideas that might actually make the metalanguage work in anime form.

Like some suggested, they'll use the turn-into-anime idea to make an anime showing another. - Kinda like that play staged into Hamlet's play, or Metal Gear Solid 2 taking itself as a videogame and sh*ting over the fourth wall. It might be amusing.

[sekida]

Here's the scan source guys... courtesy of http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=142022

http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk82/PS3KICKS360/Scan_001.jpg

UPDATE!

According to Natalie (http://natalie.mu/comic/news/show/id/25046), the staff and the studio are as follows:

Series Length: 25 episodes
Directors: Kasai Kenichi and Akitaya Noriaki (episode director of "Code Geass - Hangyaku no Lelouch")
Series Organizer: Yoshida Reiko
Production Studio: J.C. Staff

[anonymouse]

So, J.C.Staff after all? Nice~ ^_^ and guys who were directing Nodame Cantabile and Honey and Clover, yay :'D I love these series. I can't wait for the next fall, then. >: D

[Googlez_kun]

So, J.C.Staff after all? Nice~ ^_^ and guys who were directing Nodame Cantabile and Honey and Clover, yay :'D I love these series. I can't wait for the next fall, then. >: D

it sounds as if the studio would be good,i'm glad^^
and Nodame Cantabile has an anime?awesome,love this series!!!:D

[sekida]

Another Update!

Series Length: 25 episodes

[SHINOBI-03]

Wha... 25?!

Oh God... not another anime that ends before the manga!!

((Unless... the manga will end soon... EEP!!!))

It's like Black Cat and Elfen Lied all over again!!

I hope it'll be more than one season.

[LilaChan]

Another Update!

Series Length: 25 episodes

Usually 6 - 8 volumes of manga would translate to 26 episodes. We have about 7 volumes of material now, by the time the anime airs we'll have another 3 volumes. So there is enough material. But how they would end it is still a wonder.

[Kravmaga]

Wha... 25?!

Oh God... not another anime that ends before the manga!!

((Unless... the manga will end soon... EEP!!!))

It's like Black Cat and Elfen Lied all over again!!

I hope it'll be more than one season.

Long running is over-rated as heck.
Long running manga authors simply aren't able to consistently keep the quality high; when you look at the anime counterparts, it takes the bad and makes it ten times worse.
I'd settle for a 5 part OVA if they could make it high quality. Most of the fans already know the story, they're looking to see if the anime studio can recreate the experience, which is hard as shit especially when you need to fit the plot pace into an episodic format which makes parts seem like it's dragging on and on but others feel totally rushed.

The guys who did FMA and soul eater also cut it short and apparently made shit up in their own endings (I think the studio was Bones, not sure) but despite the 1% of the audience who produced 99% of the cries of outrage, there is now the precedent that they can always go back and call re-do if they want, as long as the fanbase exists and its monetary pool talks loud enough. FWIW, I enjoyed both FMA and the remake.

[SHINOBI-03]

Usually 6 - 8 volumes of manga would translate to 26 episodes. We have about 7 volumes of material now, by the time the anime airs we'll have another 3 volumes. So there is enough material. But how they would end it is still a wonder.

Well, I don't know... Buso Renkin ran for 10 volumes, and it got covered in 26 episodes. I'm not sure how the later half went by as I skipped it to the final episodes because I didn't have the last volume at that time.

But it's a battle manga where you can make things short in the anime, unlike Bakuman where it's full of dialouge that you can't skip for it's importans to the plot.

[CBlitz]

Keikaku doori Saiko confirmed. Also, perhaps they'll take it slow with the content per episode, and make a season 2 if its popular?

[Pantsutastic]

Usually 6 - 8 volumes of manga would translate to 26 episodes. We have about 7 volumes of material now, by the time the anime airs we'll have another 3 volumes. So there is enough material. But how they would end it is still a wonder.

I don't think most manga have as much dialogue as Bakuman.

If Bakuman is as long as Death Note it should at least take 35-40 episodes to finish.

[Crude]

Awesome! Bakuman's getting an anime, though I can't say I'm surprised. 25 episodes seems too little for it though. The team in charge of it did Honey & Clover and Nodame Cantabile right? Didn't those anime get more than one season? I know the latter did, which could mean Bakuman may get one as well.

And as for the channel its airing on, NHK's educational channel? I know the series has taught me a lot about the manga world and how it works, but it still feels odd knowing that it'll be airing in an educational channel.

[Shrapnel]

Maybe it'll be an anime version of Art Attack. Teaching kids how to draw. -kidding-

[~FrienD~]

wish they'd give bones animation studio some shot for bakuman.

[Crude]

JC Staff is a pretty good studio though. There's no reason for BONES to do the animation seeing as this isn't an action series. That doesn't mean I would have liked to see them adapt this series though.

[LilaChan]

J.C staff can produce some good anime with the right director. We have Kasai here, the best director from J.C staff. Well known for directing Honey and Clover and Nodame Cantabile. They're also quite good on the animation side. I hope Tatsuyuki Nagai would direct an episode or two for the romance episode, I loved what he has done with Toradora.

ANN listed Noriaki Akitaya as the other director, but ANN isn't an official source. Most likely it would be correct. He worked as episode director for Code Geass and Shana, he also did the first episode for both of these shows. Code Geass episode 1 was a pretty good first episode, Shana first episode actually gave me the creeps in a good way. So right now I'm quite happy with the people working on it.

Although BONES with Ouran/Soul Eater's team would be pretty interesting too.

[CBlitz]

I kinda hoped that Mad House would handle this since they did a good job with DN

[Crude]

Madhouse would be a great choice if they used the same animation team they used on the "Run, Melos!" storyline in Aoi Bungaku.

[p1xel]

Very good,i like to see the colours.I prefer manga but when im catched up with chapters ill watch anime surely:) (bakuman can end soon though:(()

[Saint Markus]

i hope Eclipse fansubs picks up the series for us to watch online.

[kewl0210]

For the authors that made Death Note, there'll be tons of groups picking this up when it airs... Course we got like 9 months till then.

[LilaChan]

This is airing on NHK educational channel, so I doubt there'll be a legal streaming option. Bakuman probably would get over subbed, it doesn't look like the hardest thing to translate. It's going to be one of the more hyped shows I would think.

[kewl0210]

Actually it's quite the opposite, it's one of the HARDEST things to translate.
It has tons of talking and very little action or... things that don't have talking. It's a slice of life manga. And the talking isn't about what's on screen it's about lots of different subjects, characters talking about what they think is going to happens and their opinions on things and it gets very non-literal.

Still though, it's likely to get a couple big groups.

[Negative Syndicate]

I'm not sure whether this is real or not, but there is announcement for Bakuman's cast. So, I'll upload just in case if it is real (I'm sorry if this one is fake).

Mashiro Moritaka=Fukuyama Jun
Takagi Akito=Miyano Mamoru
Azuki Miho=Hanazawa Kana
Miyoshi Kaya=Mizusawa Fumie
Iwase Aiko=Sawashiro Miyuki
Niizuma Eiji=Yoshino Hiroyuki
Fukuda Shinta=Kase Yasuyuki
Aoki Kou=Hayashi Marika
Nakai Takurou=Itou Kentarou
Hiramaru Kazuya=Furuya Tohru

[SHINOBI-03]

Let's see the well known roles for those...

Fukuyama Jun = Kazuki Muto (Buso Renkin)
Miyano Mamoru = Light Yagami (Death Note)!!!! O_O
Hanazawa Kana = Mikan Yūki (To Love-Ru)
Mizusawa Fumie = Gidget; Linck (Eureka Seven)
Sawashiro Miyuki = Akane Serizawa (Pani Poni Dash!)
Yoshino Hiroyuki = Allelujah Haptism (Mobile Suit Gundam 00)
Kase Yasuyuki = Kankurou (Naruto)
Hayashi Marika = Adett Kistler (Overman King Gainer)
Itou Kentarou = Abarai Renji (BLEACH)
Furuya Tohru = Yamcha (Dragon Ball)

[sekida]

Did combine both post, I'm having hard time to read it out LOL. (look up, look down)

Mashiro Moritaka = Fukuyama Jun = Kazuki Muto (Buso Renkin)
Takagi Akito = Miyano Mamoru = Light Yagami (Death Note)!!!! O_O
Azuki Miho = Hanazawa Kana = Mikan Yūki (To Love-Ru)
Miyoshi Kaya = Mizusawa Fumie = Gidget; Linck (Eureka Seven)
Iwase Aiko = Sawashiro Miyuki = Akane Serizawa (Pani Poni Dash!)
Niizuma Eiji = Yoshino Hiroyuki = Allelujah Haptism (Mobile Suit Gundam 00)
Fukuda Shinta = Kase Yasuyuki = Kankurou (Naruto)
Aoki Kou = Hayashi Marika = Adett Kistler (Overman King Gainer)
Nakai Takurou = Itou Kentarou = Abarai Renji (BLEACH)
Hiramaru Kazuya = Furuya Tohru = Yamcha (Dragon Ball)

[Kibate]

giving examples of who they voiced is a neat idea, but considering almost no one watched all those shows together makes it kinda moot.

[Crude]

Its probably false seeing as Takagi was voiced by someone else in the vomic.

[fizban]

It would be weird if they cast Hiramaru before, say, all of the editors. They come into the story much earlier and play a much larger role.

[LilaChan]

considering almost no one watched all those shows together

You forgot FukuJun's most famous role. Lelouch from Code Geass. Miyano is also famous for voice Setsuna from Gundam 00 and Tamaki from Ouran. These two guys are probably tier 1 for male seiyuu idols.

You can always look them up on ANN or Wikipedia, so it's no biggie.


Its probably false seeing as Takagi was voiced by someone else in the vomic.

I wouldn't be too surprised if one or two characters are voiced by a different seiyuu, it has happened before (Pandora Hearts comes to mind in recent memories). I think Miyano Mamoru would do a good job, they might as well get a fangirl favourite seiyuu. Hanazawa Kana has one of the cutest and moe-est voice out of all the newbies, I approve of her. Sawashiro Miyuki always sound amazing, so no problem with her. I would love to hear more from Mizusawa Fumie, she's currently playing Erika from Heartcatch Pretty Cure <3.

I like the mixture of moe moe female idol seiyuu, moe moe male idol seiyuu and some veterans. But it doesn't look like they have any no-namers yet, I would like to see one or two of them.

[Kibate]

You forgot FukuJun's most famous role. Lelouch from Code Geass. Miyano is also famous for voice Setsuna from Gundam 00 and Tamaki from Ouran. These two guys are probably tier 1 for male seiyuu idols.

You can always look them up on ANN or Wikipedia, so it's no biggie.

yes, i know that, but it still doesn't make sense selecting a few specific examples from all those characters they voiced, that's all i was saying

[Crude]

I wouldn't be too surprised if one or two characters are voiced by a different seiyuu, it has happened before (Pandora Hearts comes to mind in recent memories). I think Miyano Mamoru would do a good job, they might as well get a fangirl favourite seiyuu. Hanazawa Kana has one of the cutest and moe-est voice out of all the newbies, I approve of her. Sawashiro Miyuki always sound amazing, so no problem with her. I would love to hear more from Mizusawa Fumie, she's currently playing Erika from Heartcatch Pretty Cure <3.


Shinnosuke Tachibana, the VA who did Takagi's voice in the vomic did a great job though. Fukuyama Jun is a great voice actor, but I found his Saiko a bit weak. I'd rather Miyano Mamoru voice him instead.

[LilaChan]

FukuJun sounded too cute cute for Saiko, since he was practically using his shota voice. Miyano Mamoru would sound too 'gentleman' like for Saiko in my opinion, anyway I'm not very fond of his too-serious voice, he's the guy to voice genki-non-shota characters. I agree with Shinnosuke Tachibana doing a good job, but Miyano has the idol factor (like they said in Bakuman, the industry likes to hire cute seiyuus, this doesn't just apply to female seiyuus :darn).

They're probably going to keep FukuJun for the sake of fangirls, knowing J.C staff (who practically hires KugiRie for everything). Personally I've been imagining Hiro Shimono for Saiko, but that's just me.

[R4n]

Mashiro Moritaka = Fukuyama Jun = Lelouch vi Britannia (Code Geass)
Takagi Akito = Miyano Mamoru = Light Yagami (Death Note)


*is late to the party*

funny, i have this image in my head where Lelouch and Light is teaming up... gosh... the world is seriously going to end :tem

...

or maybe not. Lelouch and Light will be too busy back-stabbing each other. :oh

[LilaChan]

^Oh my...I didn't even notice that! Lelouch and Light always been compared...Lelouch would probably geass Light, since it's quicker then Light writing Lelouch's name into his death note.

I still have no idea what audience this anime is targetting. This isn't exactly for young children, it has alot of casual fans, but no obessive fans. Also, it's not like long running shounen where merchandises and other stuff would make money. If it had noitamina's time slot, then it would actually make sense (or even KimiToke/Ouran's time slot). Because those are great timeslots for late night anime, especially for the older teenage group. This is airing on NHK educational channel (mainly for children), meaning the manga sales wouldn't really increase much either.

I'm being quite pessimistic. Even if the anime turn out to be good, I can't see it being commerially sucessful. But hey...weirder things have happened before. Durarara popularity this season REALLY surprised me.

[Rei Ayanami]

^Oh my...I didn't even notice that! Lelouch and Light always been compared...Lelouch would probably geass Light, since it's quicker then Light writing Lelouch's name into his death note.

I still have no idea what audience this anime is targetting. This isn't exactly for young children, it has alot of casual fans, but no obessive fans. Also, it's not like long running shounen where merchandises and other stuff would make money. If it had noitamina's time slot, then it would actually make sense (or even KimiToke/Ouran's time slot). Because those are great timeslots for late night anime, especially for the older teenage group. This is airing on NHK educational channel (mainly for children), meaning the manga sales wouldn't really increase much either.

I'm being quite pessimistic. Even if the anime turn out to be good, I can't see it being commerially sucessful. But hey...weirder things have happened before. Durarara popularity this season REALLY surprised me.
Young Children such as those who watch Pokemon?

[sir_arles]

FINALLY images were released! Be ready for bakuman's anime!!!

http://i657.photobucket.com/albums/uu299/lord_arles/th_Scan_041.jpg (http://i657.photobucket.com/albums/uu299/lord_arles/Scan_041.jpg)

[Googlez_kun]

IT...LOOKS...AWESOME!
The preview looks great and if this will be the normal quality for the anime,then this'll be an amazing anime.

[Negative Syndicate]

I found some staffs for Bakuman animation:

Director #1: Kasai Kenichi (Honey and Clover, Major, etc.)
Director #2: Akitaya Noriyuki (Inuyasha, Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion, etc.)
Screenwriter: Yoshida Reiko (K-On!, D.Gray-man, etc.)
Character Design: Shitaya Tomoyuki (Hatsukoi Limited, Tora Dora!, Kiss×sis, etc.)
[hr]
Sorry, looks like cast for Bakuman that I've uploaded before is fake one. I found a real information about cast, but it only announced two people.

Mashiro Moritaka (Saiko) = Abe Atsushi
Takagi Akito (Shuujin) = Hino Satoshi

[Akiyama]

Here are their pages at ANN Abe Atsushi (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=26846) - - - Hino Satoshi (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=15417)

I know Atsushi from Shugo Chara, I think he goes a great job in that anime. Satoshi has a long list of acting roles but I'm only familiar with him as Sai from Naruto. I like these picks.

[TheMoa]

When the first episode goes ou?

[Akiyama]

1st week of October since it's a fall anime.

[LilaChan]

The anime designs are identical to the manga, not sure whether it's a good thing or not. Detailed designs tend to have a higher chance of QUALITY moments. I'll take Toradora's simple designs with a high frame rate over detailed designs with a low frame rate. The colours looks kinda dull, but that might be because of the scanning.

FukuJun's Mashiro sounded somewhat odd anyway, so I'm not complaining. I hope they wouldn't replace Kana-chan.


I know Atsushi from Shugo Chara, I think he goes a great job in that anime. Satoshi has a long list of acting roles but I'm only familiar with him as Sai from Naruto. I like these picks.
Atsushi did a pretty good job with Index too. I forgot, J.C staff LOVES Satoshi. I should have remembered that. Shana, Zero no Tsukaima, Hayate no Gotoku, Kimikiss Pure Rouge, Nodame Cantabile: Paris, Nabari no Ō and Hatsukoi Limited...

Is KugiRie going to be in this? She's a J.C Staff favourite too...

[Crude]

I'm kind of dissapointed with the fact they changed the voice actors, although I always thought Koichi and Takagi were very similar. In fact I imagined Takagi having his voice before the Vomic came out.

[Kibate]

The anime designs are identical to the manga, not sure whether it's a good thing or not. Detailed designs tend to have a higher chance of QUALITY moments.
i was afraid of the very same thing before deathnote aired, but it can apparently work out if the studio does it right. In deathnote only 1 or 2 episodes were real QUALITY(as in lazy eyes and so on)

[LilaChan]

^But Death Note is already really popular before the anime came out, it had a a live action movie to boost its popularity. Hence they can give a nice good budget. Even if its DVD doesn't make enough money, the export fee would have been able to paid for the cost.

NHK education channel's anime tend to flop...like REALLY badly...(in terms of DVD sales). But J.C Staff tend to be pretty good on the animation side, hopefully this gets a similar budget to Toradora. I'm hoping J.C staff would pick the watercolours background team.

Some how...I imaged Fukuda with Squalo's voice (from Reborn). It's probably because of the white long hair and my fangirlness towards Takahashi Hiroki. Shizuka Itou comes to mind when I think of Aoki
[hr]
Wikipedia listed the anime adation seiyuu for Azuki and Miyoshi, which is translated from the official site (http://www9.nhk.or.jp/anime/bakuman/).

Azuki Miho-Hayami Saori (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saori_Hayami)
Miyoshi Kaya-Yahagi Sayuri (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayuri_Yahagi)

Azuki is suppose to be a terrible singer right? Hayamin is well known for being a really good singer... Although I wanted them to keep Kana-chan for the anime, Hayamin is okay with me.

[sekida]

Just saw someone post it on myanimelist.net


SEIYUU FOR NIZUMA EIJI HAS BEEN REVEALED!!

Okamoto Nobuhiko, he previously done Usui Takumi from Kaichou wa Maid-sama and John Brown from Ghost Hunt.. I think he can pull Eiji off. :3

Source: http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=142022&show=100#msg8483207

[Shindou]

Concepts:

http://www.nhk.or.jp/anime-blog/image/azuki.jpg

http://www.nhk.or.jp/anime-blog/image/miyoshi.jpg

http://www.nhk.or.jp/anime-blog/image/eiji1.jpg

http://www.nhk.or.jp/anime-blog/image/eiji2.jpg

I found them on the NHK's blog.
http://www.nhk.or.jp/anime-blog/

[Googlez_kun]

Looking great!!:D
Can't wait till August!

[Crude]

August? Its begins October since its a Fall anime. Don't worry, I also made the same mistake :). Anyway, those sketches look pretty good. Its just a shame they lack the expressiveness (is that even a word?) and emotion of the manga's art style. But then again, that tends to happen a lot with manga to anime conversions.

[daichi383]

the sites been updated with a link to this page http://www.nhk.or.jp/anime-blog/140/
the page includes this image and what i assume is the air date which seems to be october 2nd at 6pm.
http://i567.photobucket.com/albums/ss119/daichi383/bakuman_main.jpg

[Crude]

Finally! We get to see the official Bakuman anime poster! The colours seem a bit odd, but then they reminded me of Nabari no Ou's posters and DVD covers. Nabari's anime was also done by JC Staff, and it had something of a watercolour look, especially its backgrounds. Is Bakuman going to be one of those watercolour series like Nabari no Ou, Nodame Cantabile and Honey & Clover (all done by JC Staff)? I really hope so!

Here's an example of a Nabari no Ou poster:
http://img842.imageshack.us/img842/4008/51q1nl5vflss500.jpg

And here's what the watercolour anime look like:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5Vlq26L0Y0&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WseBlqBIBfY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7yLsamx3pg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rcmr-34T9g&feature=related

Then again, it is the Toradora! staff that's working on it, so who knows...

[sekida]

hope i will not be disappointed on how it look as an anime..

If it is, I wanna slap ohba and obata for not choosing anime staff wisely.

[shen jue]

hope i will not be disappointed on how it look as an anime..

If it is, I wanna slap ohba and obata for not choosing anime staff wisely.

Is that even part of their functions?

[susanoo13]

Maybe it's not the right place to ask this but i still will since it's a manga about manga which turn to anime and now turns to anime as well.
What kind of things does the author of manga decide in the stages of his creation turning into anime?
Does he have control of the studio?
Are there several studio's that might fight about a certain title and who does the title go for what reasons? (very likely that money paid but I wanna still think that there is something more).
Does the studio need to purchase the title maybe simply from the magazine and the author have no say or little say?
Where does budget come from and how come people say that one piece has little budget if it has such high success rate, wouldn't it be logical that it will get more budget since there is an extra profit?

[Kibate]

Maybe it's not the right place to ask this but i still will since it's a manga about manga which turn to anime and now turns to anime as well.
What kind of things does the author of manga decide in the stages of his creation turning into anime?
Does he have control of the studio?
Are there several studio's that might fight about a certain title and who does the title go for what reasons? (very likely that money paid but I wanna still think that there is something more).
Does the studio need to purchase the title maybe simply from the magazine and the author have no say or little say?
Where does budget come from and how come people say that one piece has little budget if it has such high success rate, wouldn't it be logical that it will get more budget since there is an extra profit?

Mangaka have usually very little influence on the anime
because, in the end, an anime is an anime
take bakuman fictional manga for example
crow is very very popular, they got a lot of offers of studios who want to make the anime, eiji(or his editors) can choose whoever they want, but usually its more like otters11, it only had one offer. They waited for another but nothing came, so they just choose what was there.

In the anime there is even less influence. The mangaka might say "i would like to have voice actor X as the mian character" but in the ends its the studios choice.
Though usually the mangaka could care less what the anime does, in the end most mangaka are happy that there IS even a studio willing to do an adaption. Over time some studios might want to work with mangaka, like with onepiece or bleach

But they also ask the mangaka for suggestions, like the characters colors etc. Here is a good insight on those meetings
(the example is from hikaru no go, obatas first huge success series, but this omake here is "drawn" by the author)
http://pic.tenmanga.com/comics/16342/151176/1ce83e5d4135b07c0b82afffbe2b3436.jpg
http://pic.tenmanga.com/comics/16342/151178/c1adf798f5416e70f35661541e02efb6.jpg

if you can't see the images, go here:
http://www.tenmanga.com/chapter/HikarunoGo120/151176-22.html
http://www.tenmanga.com/chapter/HikarunoGo121/151178-23.html

[shen jue]

... YEs, Kibate is completely right.

A good example would be, for instance, the Rurouni Kenshin anime, cancelled before animating the Jinchuu arc due to poor ratings.
They opted to cover a synopsis of said arc in an OVA named Seisou-hen, wih an ending which even the original author maligned.

The studios only care about ratings, I guess.

[susanoo13]

Yea but Kenishin had two studios doing it, at first it was studio Gallop (YGO, ES11) which did as far as I know the first 66 episodes, there was some disagreement about something and he didn't want to work with them which I wish never would have happened and then the show transferred to studio Deen (known for cancelling a lot of shows like Getbackers, Kenshin, Ranma 1/2, Rave master due to poor rating).

But all in all I really hope that some day at least some of those will be re-animated just for art without thinking about DVD sales or ratings.
Feel free to move this post if I went to much off topic

[shen jue]

Hmmm... I didn't know about that.

Was aware that this has a knack of happening to alot of Rumiko Takahashi's productions.
Also happened to Hikaru No Go, Saint Seiya, Kodomo no Omocha...

[Akiyama]

New blog entry http://www.nhk.or.jp/anime-blog/140/58930.html reveals the song artists.

Opening: Kobukuro
Ending: YA-KYIM

[darkkyotrace]

Man I just read somewhere that the Bakuman anime is ONLY going to have 25 episodes! Man I hope it's just a rumor! I don't care who's doing the animation but 25 episodes is a TEASER anime! I don't want Bakuman to be a teaser anime! I want it to long running, I mean come on!

[daichi383]

New blog entry http://www.nhk.or.jp/anime-blog/140/58930.html reveals the song artists.

Opening: Kobukuro
Ending: YA-KYIM

Kobukuro huh, they did the cross game opening. i like that song so i'll probably enjoy bakuman's opening too.

[Kibate]

Man I just read somewhere that the Bakuman anime is ONLY going to have 25 episodes! Man I hope it's just a rumor! I don't care who's doing the animation but 25 episodes is a TEASER anime! I don't want Bakuman to be a teaser anime! I want it to long running, I mean come on!

don't hold your breath just yet, it has happened before that they just do two seasons to see how well the ratings are and then continue to do some more

[llamaben]

Nice to see Kobukuro get the opening, I thought it would be hard to find an artist that fits Bakuman's style, but Kobukuro seems alright.

On the other hand, just checked out a couple of songs from the ed group, and they are a disgrace.

[DidCart]

don't hold your breath just yet, it has happened before that they just do two seasons to see how well the ratings are and then continue to do some more

Exactly... see K-ON or even Baka to Test as an example. There was a 12-episode season and they did great so K-ON received a 24-episode 2nd season and Baka to Test's 2nd season is coming in 2011.

Bakuman is a huge success in Jump... it'll probably have good ratings.

[rafaelinux]

I looked @ both bands.. Ya-Kyim has nothing to do with Bakuman, nothing at all...

[saladesu]

Slow to get wind of this but OMG KOBUKURO \o/ I happen to be listening to one of their songs right now and I was just thinking to myself, "it's been ages since their last release" and then I read this o____o Wow. I wonder if they'll do a faster song or one of their more signature ballads (unlikely). Never heard of YA-KYIM before though.

By the way, the blog also says that the songs "vividly" portray the worldview of Bakuman. Hmm.

[daichi383]

The site got a major overhaul http://www9.nhk.or.jp/anime/bakuman/
also has a preview pic of episode 1

[sekida]

wow hope it will stay as HQ as that..

btw, did google translate that page and found out the episode titles:

Episode 1, "Dream and Reality."
Episode 2, "stupid and clever." ( 第2話 「馬鹿と利口」)
Episode 3 "Family" ( 第3話 「親と子」 )
Episode 4 "key and when" ( 第4話 「時と鍵」 )

so,
Episode 1 = Chapter 1
Episode 2 = Chapter 2-3?
Episode 3 = Chapter 4
Episode 4 = Chapter 5?

[saladesu]

They also updated the theme song titles...


Opening theme 「Blue Bird」
lyrics & music／Kobuchi Kentarou
arrangement／Kobukuro
vocals／Kobukuro

Ending theme 「BAKUROCK 〜未来の輪郭線〜」(BAKUROCK ~mirai no rinkakusen~/BAKUROCK ~outline of the future~)
lyrics／ryow inukami
music／mitsuyuki miyake,naoto suzuki,hiroto suzuki
arrangement／hiroto suzuki
vocals／YA-KYIM

The title for Kobukuro's song sounds very Kobukuro, to say the least XD Kobuchi Kentarou writes great lyrics (he's the Kobu in Kobukuro if anyone's wondering), so I'm really looking forward to this!

And the 25 episodes length is confirmed, it's on the website (under summary) :(

Based on the episode summary/preview they've put up, it looks like they will be certainly be covering the whole of chapter 1 in episode 1 (because they mentioned all the way until Saikou proposing to Azuki ^^)

[DidCart]

When are we going to have a trailer? It's almost time for the premiere.

[LeDuck]

Probably posted already, but this was everything I could find:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfruFZ4mH98

Pretty disappointing, about every other anime got a decent trailer and Bakuman just a Picture Show. I'll keep my expectations low, because I have a very bad feeling about this :P

[v1nx]

Probably posted already, but this was everything I could find:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfruFZ4mH98

Pretty disappointing, about every other anime got a decent trailer and Bakuman just a Picture Show. I'll keep my expectations low, because I have a very bad feeling about this :P

It's fanmade. Youtube has tons of those

http://www9.nhk.or.jp/anime/bakuman/
There IS trailer box there, but no trailer itself, only a text summary

[LeDuck]

Thought it was something like that, was just a bit confused, because it was in a collection of trailers for every fall anime in 2010:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwImaFLmnN8

[saladesu]

Poor Bakuman, it didn't even have a preview pic when every other Fall 2010 anime did, so people had to use fanart, and now it doesn't have a proper trailer so people resort to making their own with slideshows D:

There's still no trailer on the official site. Their idea of a trailer is a summary of what's going to happen in episode 1 :/

[DidCart]

Well... they want to make us a surprise... ¬¬
Only 2 weeks to go, I can wait... or not... lol

[Akiyama]

Update
OP: 『Blue Bird』 Kobukuro
ED: 『BAKUROCK ～未来の輪郭線～』 YA-KYIM

and they added a PV to the site (http://www9.nhk.or.jp/anime/bakuman/), it's already on youtube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lp_mmMc3r9k).

[sir_arles]

The animations looks a little cheap... But the character designs are cool.

I hope they make a great anime, free of fillers please :P

[daichi383]

im shocked :( i expected better from j.c.staff. theres barely any movement and it all looks so static. i'll stop complaining now till i see a full episode (next saturday).

[Kibate]

i never expected anything to begin with, i am just looking forward to the voices(which i already like) and see how they do the manga drawing parts

[Newkerzy]

im shocked :( i expected better from j.c.staff. theres barely any movement and it all looks so static. i'll stop complaining now till i see a full episode (next saturday).

hello...... it isn't an action manga. So it's fine. It's not too bad really. As for the editors, I do wonder if at least one of them (RL editors) would be interested to voice their characters. It'd be a very unique anime.

Interesting that it's going to be aired at an educational channel. Looks like we'll get drawing tips after the show.

[daichi383]

hello...... it isn't an action manga. So it's fine. It's not too bad really. As for the editors, I do wonder if at least one of them (RL editors) would be interested to voice their characters. It'd be a very unique anime.

Interesting that it's going to be aired at an educational channel. Looks like we'll get drawing tips after the show.

i know its not an action manga :eyeroll but im a bit suprised with the way the animation looks cause if you compare this short trailer to the studios others series in this genre like toradora you can see where im coming from. but the plus side is they animated the mouths movements nicely :o

[LeDuck]

Good thing I kept my expectations low, probably have to keep them there till I finished the first episode.

[CannedJam]

Uhhh. Did you guys watch something else? Like a whole episode or something? I'm amazed you all were able to come to these conclusions or form opinions from roughly 30 seconds. The animation looked fine to me, but who can tell from something so short? Especially for an anime based on a manga that isn't full off constant movement.

[Kibate]

I'm amazing you all were able to come to these conclusions or form opinions from roughly 30 seconds.

Thats the thing, a trailer usually puts in the BEST scenes from the first episode(which usually is the best animation along with the last episode)
and if thats the best of the best, we can only assume that the rest looks like...musashi gundou

[saladesu]

I think the animation looks pretty normal. Nothing phenomenal or exceptionally good, but this isn't Sunrise or Bones or one of the other bigger studios so that's unavoidable I suppose. And like someone already said, it isn't an action anime.

But I must gripe about the voices... I don't think the seiyuu match @___@ Or at least, they don't match my mental image of how the characters were going to sound... Am I the only one who feels that way?

[Crude]

I'm pretty sure the first episode itself is going to look a lot better. And the voices will be in synch too :). JC Staff don't usually disappoint. They're a pretty great studio actually.

[Googlez_kun]

It does not matter if this is an action manga or not.K-ON! for example is not an action manga,but has great animation(it's from a different studio though...)

Anyway,we will see how the animation will be,but what i'm disappointed in are the dull colors.

[CannedJam]

Thats the thing, a trailer usually puts in the BEST scenes from the first episode(which usually is the best animation along with the last episode)
and if thats the best of the best, we can only assume that the rest looks like...musashi gundou

Haha. Thanks for quoting my post. I actually didn't notice I typed amazing instead of amazed. :P Anyway, I doubt the best scenes of the first episode amounted to roughly 30 seconds. If anything, it showed some great mouth animation and some good voice acting. I think those are the most important. Bakuman is a text-heavy manga. So speaking is going to be the main aspect of the anime...or at least I'd assume so.

[Kibate]

If anything, it showed some great mouth animation and some good voice acting. I think those are the most important. Bakuman is a text-heavy manga. So speaking is going to be the main aspect of the anime...or at least I'd assume so.

Someone else said that too, but i can't see it. So their jaws are moving, woopdiewoop, still "decent" at best

the main reason why i am disappointed is the "WHAO!" "WHAO!" scene, not only is teh quality horrible compared to the original magna picture, but also ironically the mouth movement looks soooo wrong, i can't descripe it in words.

I just hope the other reaction scenes will be better

[CannedJam]

the main reason why i am disappointed is the "WHAO!" "WHAO!" scene, not only is teh quality horrible compared to the original magna picture, but also ironically the mouth movement looks soooo wrong, i can't descripe it in words.

I just hope the other reaction scenes will be better

I had no problem with it. Primarily because I didn't judge it...because, y'know, its NOT the full episode. I'll form a full opinion when the first episode airs. I thought the trailer for the Fairy Tail anime last October was good, but the anime's first 40 something episodes have been awful (the animation is getting better). This 27-30 second footage could look bad and the first episode be TOTALLY AMAZING.

[Ustegius]

I just saw the first episode, and I were horribly dissapointed. And first episode should be the impressing one.

It looked quite cheap, nothing special. Few character designs butchered a little bit. Voice's were allright. I initially thought that starting with Heroman (or whatever) opening was a fun idea, but then they played the actual opening almost immediatly after. Which was horribly dull and clichee. Watching the same moon from different places, being back to back on a windy field and then turning and suddenly being face to face in a sunset. Blaah.

And ending was again just running with like 3 frames looped. Duh.

There wasn't really anything which makes me want to keep watching this adaptation.

[llamaben]

I was really impressed with the first episode. The atmosphere, the pace, the music and the voices were all top notch. The animation seemed low budget, but it wasn't too bad and the colour pallet was nice.


Nice to see Kobukuro get the opening, I thought it would be hard to find an artist that fits Bakuman's style, but Kobukuro seems alright.

On the other hand, just checked out a couple of songs from the ed group, and they are a disgrace.I really loved the OP, and I have to admit that while the other songs from the ED group were terrible, their song this time for Bakuman was quite good.

[Googlez_kun]

Where can i watch the first episode?

[perroloco]

So far so good, I liked how they animated the manga Mashiro was reading *I can't remmeber what manga it was.. Though it would have been better if he was watching the anime instead of reading the manga, I mean how can the manga have an opening?

Anyway what I have liked the most is that they used the U.S. Viz mangas in the anime!! When Takagi is explaining how manga is liked world-wide.

Googlez_kun check your inbox :)

[Googlez_kun]

I approached it with low exceptations,so what can i say....I loved it!I thought this anime would be crap,but it was great.The voices were fitting,the atmosphere was right and even the animation was more then acceptable!I hope the next episodes will get the same treatment!

[sir_arles]

There's new thread for discussing Bakuman's anime here (http://mangahelpers.com/forum/showthread.php?p=2101681).


See ya

Thanks! I was just going to announce it here, but you beat me to it. :p