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Post by keiichichan on Jul 15, 2004 2:06:23 GMT -5
actually the series will be a continuation of the OAV,but this time it will stick closer to the original manga stories from the way it sounds. The Oav changed them up abit and crammed different ones together or came up with different stories based on old ones. Otarukun, I see what you're saying but later on in the manga it is told in long story arcs. The one shots,single issue story type haven't been present in the series for atleast the last 5 years. Plus I mean amg isn't the first story to be animated about mundane everyday life type things,Kimagure Orange Road for instance. I mean studio Ghibli became famous and stood out for placing importance on animating mundane eveyday life things. So I'm sure if it is done as well as it is in the manga ppl will be interested enough. There are tons of 'action' filled shows that are just plain boring and unoriginal and ppl lose interest in them completely. The manga is popular enough in Japan that it will deifnetly get enough fans to stop it from being cancelled for the first season but if it is popular enough to be an ongoing tv series will only be revealed once we see how well it turns out. Hopefully Hiroaki-san is working very hard at listening to what fans of the manga want and getting everything right for this series. I just want to see all the characters completely faithful to their manga counterparts. If that is done correctly as long as the storytelling is amg-esque enough fans most likely won't care too much if the stories are filler or created directly from manga ones. The biggest draw of the series is the storytelling and loveable cast anyway.
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Post by PerentieFan on Jul 19, 2004 16:20:42 GMT -5
actually the series will be a continuation of the OAV,but this time it will stick closer to the original manga stories from the way it sounds. The Oav changed them up abit and crammed different ones together or came up with different stories based on old ones. So the series will pick up after episode 5 of the OAV and continue from there using adaptations of plots from the manga? Where did you get this information? From what I've read nothing's been said about whether it directly continues the OAV or not, and indeed I've gotten the impression it is to be a completely new series using the manga more heavily.
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Post by AstroNerdBoy on Jul 20, 2004 16:54:53 GMT -5
Here's the cover of the latest Animedia with Belldandy's current character design: www.e-animedia.net/contents/book/animedia.htmWhile there are doubters in the US about AMG being made, the series appears to be "full steam ahead".
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Post by Timotheus on Jul 20, 2004 18:03:05 GMT -5
Most of the information about the new series seems to be coming from an interview with Mr. Ghoda on Japanese TV. He is reported as having said that the new anime will start from where the old OAVs ended and will follow the manga more closely after that. He has hopes that if the series does well they can do all the manga up to the movie.
I've just recently come to the conclusion that the OAVs actually end at Kodansha chapter 17 (Dark Horse II-3, Turkey With All the Trimmings), so if they just eliminate chapters 25, 32, and 33, the rest of the manga from chapter 18 on can be converted to anime by mostly just writing Skuld into the script.
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Post by PerentieFan on Jul 21, 2004 22:58:54 GMT -5
Most of the information about the new series seems to be coming from an interview with Mr. Ghoda on Japanese TV. He is reported as having said that the new anime will start from where the old OAVs ended and will follow the manga more closely after that. He has hopes that if the series does well they can do all the manga up to the movie. Sounds great! Though it does hamper my fanfictions a bit... I've always believed that the OAVs and movie were meant to be connected to each other. The anime books I brought that covered the movie each began with a "what came before" type page, which included a few spaces for various OAV events, the space for that recap decreased with each book as they went further into the movie.
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Post by rid_hershel on Jul 22, 2004 15:39:28 GMT -5
Well, I like how belldandy looks in that cover than in, the OVAs for example.
While I'm not a big fan of the OVAs, I'm happy to see the anime not starting from zero, because it would take them a lot of time to reach the latter parts of the manga, that I enjoyed more. I doubt they'll reach the Angel Eater saga, but I would like to see at least Keiichi's parents show up.
Speaking of which, has Fujishima ever been involved with the OVAs or the movie? Or he only allowed the animation studio to use his characters and story? I don't even remeber any Fujishima illustration for the movie.
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Post by Timotheus on Jul 22, 2004 16:23:17 GMT -5
Mr. Fujishima basically approved everything that went into the OAVs and movie. If you saw it there, it was because he agreed to it. He's very protective of his stories and charactors and won't let them be altered without his okay.
He pretty much wrote the scripts for them and worked closely with Mr. Ghoda, Mr. Matsubara and the rest of the production team (including the voice actors) in creating both OAVs and movie. (He was the one who organized the seiyu into the "Goddess Fantastic Club" and produced their songs.)
He's also a noted character designer in his own rights and has a lot of anime and game charactors under his belt.
So it's a safe bet he's going to be heavily involved in the TV anime as well, though by now he probably trusts the chief production people (Ghoda and Matsubara) to do a lot of the work on their own and he'll just oversee it.
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Post by lan on Jul 23, 2004 15:11:58 GMT -5
I love that picture, but I think the mouth is wrong, looks too much like a baby face pose. --- Hey all, just to let you know im from the dying AIC forums,
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Post by AstroNerdBoy on Jul 23, 2004 23:31:15 GMT -5
While I'm not a big fan of the OVAs, I'm happy to see the anime not starting from zero, because it would take them a lot of time to reach the latter parts of the manga, that I enjoyed more. I doubt they'll reach the Angel Eater saga, but I would like to see at least Keiichi's parents show up. You'd be surprised at how fast the anime can catch up to the manga, especially since AMG is published monthly. Take "Inuyasha" for example. The manga is published weekly and was started in 1996. The anime series started in 2000. It didn't take the anime very long to catch up to the current manga forcing the writers to have to introduce lots of non-manga stories. I believe roughly 3 Inuyasha manga chapters equaled one anime episode. Now, Kajishima-sensei's chapters tend to vary in length (IIRC) so that rule may not apply. That said, if the TV series goes 26 episodes, I don't think they'd be able to get to Keiichi's parents. That's not to say that his parents couldn't be introduced MUCH earlier in the anime though. One thing I've seen is that manga stories can be merged or modified to make an anime episode. New characters can be added or other characters taken away. It will be very interesting to see what they do. He's very protective of his stories and charactors and won't let them be altered without his okay. One wonders how much say he had in the live action "You're Under Arrest" though. Man, that was awful! *shudder* I only saw the first episode, but haven't been enouraged to see any more.
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Post by keiichichan on Jul 24, 2004 22:47:56 GMT -5
Which forums were those?
I think it will be interesting to say the least,since the animated amg has never followed the manga directly so far and I wonder how closely it will follow it this time..
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Post by AstroNerdBoy on Jul 25, 2004 2:56:20 GMT -5
AIC had its own BBS with sections for all of their titles (AMG, TM!R, Bubblegum Crisis, Armitage III, etc.). AIC has a new policy in place and as such are dropping their BBS. Heh! Well 5 OAV episodes and 1 non-manga movie don't leave a lot of room to do much (I don't count the mini-goddess series). Anyway, the new "Afternoon Monthly" is coming out real soon and my friend in Japan has promised to report to me as soon as he gets it. Once he tells me what's in it, I'll post it here.
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Post by keiichichan on Jul 26, 2004 1:42:39 GMT -5
Sounds good to me! I think the scanlations are like 2 issues behind the Japanese ones from what Jimmy told me.
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Post by AstroNerdBoy on Jul 26, 2004 11:00:47 GMT -5
Just so you know (I didn't make this clear, sorry) what T-san is going to tell me is the latest news on the anime series. I never ask him about the manga, and with the new project, I don't have to. ;D Additional: I forgot to mention this, but the June issue had Gouda-san reporting that storyboarding for episode 1 was ongoing. It will be interesting to see where they are now.
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Post by keiichichan on Jul 27, 2004 4:04:37 GMT -5
Ongoing. i thought they had most of this done already. WInter is just around the corner! Get it in gear Gohda-san!
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Post by rid_hershel on Jul 27, 2004 11:46:25 GMT -5
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