| According to Oricon News, a TV anime of Japanese idol group AKB48 was announced to be aired from next Spring. Draft Character Designs of the anime The voice actresses of the nine main characters will be selected from all the 200 members of AKB48 by an audition. General Director Kawamori Shoji said it will be a touching story with comedy, songs and dances. Staff: General Director: Kawamori Shoji Director: Hiraike Yoshimasa Series Composition: Okada Mari Character Design: Ebata Risa ("Macross Frontier") Production Studio: Satelight Source: Oricon News News credit: Ayuki-chan AKB0048 on MAL |
NaruleachNov 28, 2011 11:24 PM
| All that talent wasted on such lame subject matter. |
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| ... What is this I don't even... |
| I wouldn't have cared originally, but thanks to iDOLM@STER, I do. And I'll be looking forward to future information about it. (Probably end up watching it) |
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AccipiterF1 said: All that talent wasted on such lame subject matter. totally agree. |
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| Doesn't sound at all interesting, but I have to admit, the character designs are pretty darn cute. ^_^ |
| What.. |
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| They should look more like moeblobs in THE iDOLM@STER. |
| Superb animation, touching story and crappy seiyu. 100 x 100 x 0 = 0 |
| Jeeze my eyes vomited technicolor just looking at those character designs. Don't we have this exact same show already anyways? |
StreetFighterOct 17, 2011 5:50 PM
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| hmm...this doesnt even look interesting...anime is supposed to be an escape from reality, not basically making a bio or SoL of a music group...no...just no |
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| I don't have a problem with this but the problem is knowing facts that some of the members did porn (not good IMO for an Idol) and that a lot of the members are down dirty in their ways. So if it becomes a success is hardly a guess that plays a lot around what will people think if the Idols? I know that some who want them pure, though luck but not those. Not from what I heard around. So my take is that I will look at it since I do like Idolmaster but not sure I will like less it's like Idolmaster. |
| Yea........ No. Why now? |
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| Well I don't know enough about the anime to know that it'll be generic trash but "a touching story with comedy, songs and dances." seems like a large limitation for a theater group. Of course, that could just be because when I think "theater group" I imagine them putting on well known plays. |
| YAK DECULTURE |
| Ok™ |
| lolwut |
| LOL WUT? |
| The art looks creepy... |
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Denmark-Chan said: hmm...this doesnt even look interesting...anime is supposed to be an escape from reality, not basically making a bio or SoL of a music group...no...just no There's no need to arbitrarily limit the medium. Those are the types of barriers that need to be broken down. |
| I lol'ed at the character designs. |
| I'd rather have an adaption of the manga AKB49! /shot I'm sorry, it's a spur of the moment comment. Well I guess I'll check this out when it airs, maybe. Though this mostly just reminds me I still have to watch Idolmaster. |
| After two games on PSP, that AKB49 manga ("somewhat" related), we get an anime. Not sure about character design. |
| i don't know.....=.= |
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| .... not really interested o.o |
| The fuck... |
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| Well I bet most of you gonna dislike this, but this AKB really booming now in Japan. Not only to creepy otaku, but also most of teenage in japan love them. |
| If it's just about the AKB48, eh... If it's about the MANLY and HOTBLOODED AS FUCK AKB49, hell yeah. |
| Totally can't wait for the DVDs for this to go with my album collection! :-) |
| Real life Idolmaster? Sounds good. And for people complaining about talent working on this... Why would studios waste money hiring top talent working on stuff that won't make money, versus something like this which would see insane profits? Its same reason Idolmaster has a lot of great animators... they can afford it since they will be making tons of money from it! |
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| this surely sucks |
| Don't think this will become successful at all. |
| he couldn't be anymore original |
| It doesn't make sense to people here because they don't understand how much money this can potentially bring in due to the huge fanbase. I went into my JP PSN Store yesterday and front page had some AKB game. |
hakati said: Don't think this will become successful at all. You don't know Japan then. |
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| And so the copycatting of IDOLM@STER begins. It was never meant to be... My god those character designs... what the hell... |
| Lame-est shit I've ever heard from the anime industry. Dont get me wrong. I love Japan and its cultural products. But the concept of AKB48 and whatever it is associated with totally turns me off. |
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| Why don't they adapt that AKB49 manga instead? Its really interesting though. |
| And just when I'm going to get out of anime/manga/j-games, and back into Japanese music, they have to go and do this. Well, congratulations, Idol-fans, that's pretty awesome. |
| Not crazy. |
| ITT: People confusing what is good with what is profitable. There's no doubt it'll sell. Whether or not it's anything of quality is the highly debatable part. |
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| Not sure what to think of this..i mean i love some of the AKB48 and all but.. |
| What?! before it was manga about AKB girls, then now it's anime about them?! AKB girls are stealing the shows even though most of them are not really good. |
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| I'll just watch whatever hell is published, if it sucks, I'll say for myself after some episodes. But I have too agree, way to use iDOLM@STER popularity. |
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Koisola said: lol, @ haters here. Well, being the AKB48 fan that I am now, I can say that I am really looking forward to this. If Yukirin Shawako gets a VA role in this......this is going straight into my favorites even before it airs. |
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What the fuck happened to the original faces of AKB48? Why can't they just base the original character designs on the real AKB48? They instead went with Precure knockoffs. Of course this will sell, but I don't know if the true fans of AKB48 will appreciate how their idols will look like in this series. |
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| *facehell* |
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