Many fans are like that during adolescence/adult teen years. I used to be the WORST kind of Hunter x Hunter fanboy. Many grow out of that mindset, however I find I have this somewhat irrational hatred towards those who haven't. Likely because it reminds me of myself in my younger years and makes me cringe.
As someone mentioned, some of the sakuga community have contacts within the industry. He and another popular sakuga member mentioned JJK's studio being MAPPA in advance (at the same time as Yonkou iirc). I dont see it being 100% factual but I see it likely to happen imo.
People that are passionate about the makings of anime. Some of them only have a great knowledge about animation and are aspirings animators (some even manage to work on some projects), but some of them also have contacts in the industry. The most well known one is kViN, he runs Sakuga Blog.
as far as I'm aware Crunchyroll had no controversy with the anime and I'm sure they have a much larger audience
I follow them since they give detailed info about an animator/staff or an anime scene. About the aniplex thing, its the first time I've seen him giving that kind of info. So who knows, let's wait for further details.
The big implication is that studio and staff would be very, very likely to change. Whether this leads to a complete reboot or not remains to be seen, unlikely due to the amount of episodes that would be required though imo.
I don't think the manga rights are included. However, if they were to buy the manga rights too, I can only assume it's to gather more profit. But when talking about the anime, it means new production committee, new studio, new tv station, basically everything anime related is new if they want to (even a complete new adaptation). It probably also gives them the rights to make events for the series, not to mention toys and games.
Probably just anime and game rights.
would probably just be anime rights. In general I don't think Aniplex really does long running stuff that's not split so we'd probably get 26 episodes at a time max (if it is to make new anime). Unless Viz's contract still covers new stuff with a new committee Aniplex of America would likely license it here which would mean Rightstuff exclusive expensive BDs and Funimation/Wakanim/Anime Lab 1 month exclusive streaming. Both Viz and Aniplex use Bang Zoom to dub so I don't think dub cast would be impacted.
You could easily do a volume an episode later in the series without it feeling too rushed. I'm not even exaggerating.
It's a surprise in the fact that they're choosing NOW to do it. I feel this would have made more sense years ago.Aniplex buying the rights to Bleach isn't even really a surprise considering they've always been involved with Bleach in someway
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Yeah, I'm still surprised we didn't get an adaptation of the final arc as promotion for the live-action movie. It seemed like the perfect time for it.
1 volume per episode seems like a bit too much, even though i agree the bleach manga had pretty fast pacing
An explanation that I've seen thrown around a lot is that they waited for the license to expire, I don't know how much truth there is to it though.
There is a big difference in being involved in some way and buying the IP rights altogether tho. It would be a surprise since it would entail change in studio, director, possibly VAs changing and everything else about the anime.Aniplex buying the rights to Bleach isn't even really a surprise considering they've always been involved with Bleach in someway
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Yeah. As a avid Bleach fan, I've been mislead early last decade by people like him.
They could always cut out, skim over, or move around stuff too like Ushio + Tora.
Toriko does deserve another adaptation tho. Hopefully at some point in the future, that can happen. Lesser known series have gotten second adaptations years later. So never say never
Don't forget the part where you also get flamed by the community for not giving their series "justice", despite not being given the time or resources to do so in the first place.