ViggyNash posted:

That's honestly what I think they should do. As awesome as KLK's style is, the budget issues are really apparent. Maybe it'll be their Haruhi and they'll end up swimming in money, who knows.

Dehry posted:

http://www.moetron.com/2014/03/10/inou-battle-wa-nichijou-kei-no-naka-de-anime-adaptation-from-trigger/



This site actually has character preview images. I did a search for the manga, but it appears to be so unknown to the west that the announcement of an anime adaptation pretty much became the top result on Google.

aers posted:

Also KLK doesn't have budget issues.

aers posted:

megax can tell you more but anime doesn't work this way. Studios don't make a ton of money from LN adaptations due to the way anime is funded (production committees etc).

Also KLK doesn't have budget issues.

Cao Ni Ma posted:

The delays have nothing to do with scheduling. All the official non english translations have been delivered on time although the quality of them is pretty much speed subs more than anything.

Trigger does have staff that could pump really good animation, the issue is that they keep farming off people to work on other studios larger projects. I had assume that with valvrave and yozakura ending last season they could concentrate their efforts on KLK but instead opt in to work on yet another derivative LN adaptation .

"Justin Sevakis posted:

Anime TV production schedules are insane, and often times a new episode is finished only hours before it's supposed to premiere. That isn't enough time to translate, timecode the subtitle script, proof-read, submit for approval, wait for any changes from the licensor, implement those changes, and export. It's just not. Hence, simulcasts occasionally get delayed.

There are occasions where a non-English subtitled version gets put up before the English one. I'm not entirely sure why this is, but I do know that most licensors don't have staff that speak every language (usually just English), and so the approvals process for those languages is probably greatly diminished compared to English, if they even have to get approvals at all.

With that step removed from the subtitle process, things would indeed go a lot faster, and result in a lot fewer delays.

Dehry posted:

ultimatemegax posted:

From someone who knows a lot more about this than either of us:


With Samurai Flamenco of all things coming out on time (pre-screenings have reported that storyboards were shown because it wasn't done then), it points back to delays with Trigger being the cause. There's been weeks where an episode is on time and weeks where it gets delayed more than 36 hours, which really says "something's going on with scheduling" more than "something's wrong with Aniplex." None of the other Aniplex titles have been delayed this much (maybe a couple hours iirc).

The second half of your post points to why the scheduling is so poor: management has allocated too few people in little time to work on it. Nothing to do with "budget" at all.

Cao Ni Ma posted:

Trigger does have staff that could pump really good animation, the issue is that they keep farming off people to work on other studios larger projects. I had assume that with valvrave and yozakura ending last season they could concentrate their efforts on KLK but instead opt in to work on yet another derivative LN adaptation .

Cao Ni Ma posted:

I know that, its just that you are saying that the delays in the translations are directly attributed to that when thats not been the case for the other 4 languages the anime is getting simulcasted in.

I do not doubt that they are cutting it close, but this is an issue with just about every anime that gets released now days.

ultimatemegax posted:

When a show that we know has scheduling problems comes out on time every week in multiple languages, but another show is variable in its delay for English, that would indicate it has worse scheduling than the other show. That's really the only explanation that makes sense.

ultimatemegax posted:

When a show that we know has scheduling problems comes out on time every week in multiple languages, but another show is variable in its delay for English, that would indicate it has worse scheduling than the other show. That's really the only explanation that makes sense.

Irritated Goat posted:

a pervy mecha show.

Rodyle posted:

ADTRW Anime of 2014 Maoucdonalds taught me that no matter how dumb a LN premise sounds, it can still be good. I'll give it a chance for the Trigger part at least.

Rodyle posted:

ADTRW Anime of 2014 Maoucdonalds taught me that no matter how dumb a LN premise sounds, it can still be good. I'll give it a chance for the Trigger part at least.

Irritated Goat posted:

This season is the best and worst combined.

On one hand, we have Jojo and Mushi-shi. On the other, Dragonar Academy and a pervy mecha show.

Dehry posted:

The lower left girl has a healing ability.

Dehry posted:

(Totally not Rikka's sister)

Silver2195 posted:

Having a healing ability and not actually doing much with it seems pretty morally irresponsible.

Super Jay Mann posted:

I'm fully expecting them to find a rival club at another school that also has superpowers by roughly volume 4 or so. After about a volume of superpower fights or whatever they return to status quo except the MC gets 4 more harem members

Silver2195 posted:

Having a healing ability and not actually doing much with it seems pretty morally irresponsible.

4chan user posted:

Might as well add the names and power names, from top left
Hatoko Kushikawa, Over Element (五帝, Five Emperors)
Jurai Andou, Dark and Dark (黒焰, Black Flame)
Sayumi Takanashi, Root Of Origin (始原, Origin)
Chifuyu Himeki, World Create (創世, World Creation)
Not shown is the girl on the cover:
Tomoyo Kanzaki, Closed Clock (永遠, Eternity)

The Devil Tesla posted:

As you may already know, there are two ways to judge the value of a light novel: title length and covers. Lets begin by comparing title length to one good light novel and three bad ones:

code:

Inou-Battle in the Usually Daze
The Devil is a Part Timer
My Little Sister Can't Be This Cute
The "Hentai" Prince and the Stony Cat
I Couldn’t Become a Hero, So I Reluctantly Decided to Get a Job

As you can see, it isn't long enough to reach LN title hell, but it's still basically a synopsis. (worth noting: The Devil is a Part Timer actually has a great title in the original Japanese: Hataraku Maō-sama)

The second is how close the cover of the books looks like pornography. The Devil is a Part Timer actually puts the main, male character on there in a central role that goes beyond angrily peaking out behind one of the women. If you caught the covers for Inou-Battle, you'll see that holding one of those in America might get you arrested.

So yea, even before it became an anime The Devil is a Part Timer was a pretty good story based around a funny observation (that Satan would actually make a good part timer) and a cast that appeals to a wide audience. "They have superpowers, but they never have battles??" doesn't have the same kind of hook, and the cast is designed around the taste of narrow group of viewers.

One thing I notice tho: this a tragic choice for Trigger, but if KoyAni picked it up people might actually get excited.

Dehry posted:

I can't read Japanese all that well, but I thought I would try to discern what was happening from the images, but apparently that's an actual novel. Other than a picture of a girl drawing Neo-Dark Flame Master's weird tatoo thing, it coming alive and him opening a bag of chips while using his power level, I can't tell what is going on.

E: Some out of context illustrations

(Totally not Rikka's sister)

E2: I found a preview of the Manga (first issue is out on the 27th) and from what I am getting:

Dark Flame Master is just that.
The girl in the upper left seems to control a water element.
The lower left girl has a healing ability.
The lower right girl does a princess thing going on and has psychic powers.
Red haired girl on the cover has time control powers.

Dehry posted:

Book 3 has an illustration that looks like some new group


Her ability is introduced by healing a dead cat.

E:

Serious Frolicking posted:

...She can resurrect the dead, but spends all of her time doing some dumb larp harem poo poo? I thought that the line about her being reprehensible was a bit much, but now I kind of agree.

Allarion posted:

Chaika the Coffin Princess I'll probably watch out of the hopes it'll be good like Scrapped Princess was.

boredsatellite posted:

Yo dude are you seriously using the English translations to compare. Hell you even pointed that Maou Sama has a decent Japanese name. That's doubly silly.

Zorak posted:

Spring 2014 or later G-Reconquista
There is no way this is happening this season, QUIT LYING TO ME MOONPHASE YOU LITTLE poo poo.
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Guyver posted:

Apparently Tomino is going to have a little sit down at TAAF on the 21st and they're going preview a new gundam project. Considering there's another gundam announcement at AnimeJapan on the next day I doubt it's going to be Gundam-san or The Origin.