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NEWS: Yama no Susume TV Anime Adaptation Announced


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TheAncientOne



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PostPosted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 10:28 pm Reply with quote
A person with acrophobia climbing a mountain? I hope it has trees all the way to the top. (So says the guy with acrophobia that tried climbing a mountain once. I did fine until the trees thinned out).
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OniTasku



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PostPosted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 10:34 pm Reply with quote
I'm not sure what I should be more surprised about; the fact this got an anime adaptation, or that this manga even exists.

Sometimes Japan...
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Fletcher1991



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PostPosted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 10:40 pm Reply with quote
Who is this marketed for? lol
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dandelion_rose



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PostPosted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 10:42 pm Reply with quote
I'd check it out. Mountain climbing is great.
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 11:40 pm Reply with quote
Looks cute
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RyanSaotome



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PostPosted: Thu Jun 07, 2012 12:12 am Reply with quote
Fletcher1991 wrote:
Who is this marketed for? lol


Based on the artstyle and that its two younger girls, I'd say its for moe fans. It probably has yuri undertones too.

http://comic-earthstar.jp/author/

Looking at the official website of the magazine, it looks like a Seinen magazine.
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dandelion_rose



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PostPosted: Thu Jun 07, 2012 12:51 am Reply with quote
RyanSaotome wrote:
Fletcher1991 wrote:
Who is this marketed for? lol


Based on the artstyle and that its two younger girls, I'd say its for moe fans. It probably has yuri undertones too.

http://comic-earthstar.jp/author/

Looking at the official website of the magazine, it looks like a Seinen magazine.


It is for moe fans who desire to OVERCOME MOUNTAINS.

I'm just so stoked at the premise. Watch two adorable young girls, at the budding of their youth, learn about friendship and love, as they undergo the challenge of climbing a mountain to the very top!

I hope the 'mountain' in the title isn't false advertising. I hope there's lots of mountain climbing stuff.
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TD912



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PostPosted: Thu Jun 07, 2012 3:16 am Reply with quote
Whenever there's a new anime series announced based on some relatively unknown work (at least for us westerners), people quickly try to determine what demographic the anime is targeting, and then proceed to make fun of the series after reading a brief description. You could go back and look at any announcement article, and you'd see basically the same thing happen every time.

Some people also seem quick to latch onto the moe aspect of a series and quickly dismiss it as junk.

IMO, moe stuff is perfectly fine (and even good) as long as there's something else supporting the show. Sora no Woto/Sound of the Sky has great background art and setting and a decent plot. Saki has tons of unique characters in a mahjong competition. Heck, even K-On has the whole music thing going for it.

Then there's shows like YuruYuri which rely mainly on the cute factor to keep people interested.

Why not have a cute, possibly heartwarming story about 2 girls mountain climbing? Sounds interesting enough, it hasn't been done before, and it's not solely relying on moe to keep it afloat.

Oh, and here's a free preview of the manga from the Japanese publisher's website: http://comic-earthstar.jp/common/comicviewer/yamanosusume01/_SWF_Window.html
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kgw



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PostPosted: Thu Jun 07, 2012 3:54 am Reply with quote
TD912 wrote:
Whenever there's a new anime series announced based on some relatively unknown work (at least for us westerners), people quickly try to determine what demographic the anime is targeting, and then proceed to make fun of the series after reading a brief description. You could go back and look at any announcement article, and you'd see basically the same thing happen every time.

Some people also seem quick to latch onto the moe aspect of a series and quickly dismiss it as junk.

Because 90% of moe stories (as the 90% of everything) is junk.

EDIT: I did follow the link. Now I feel dirty. :p
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dragon695



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PostPosted: Thu Jun 07, 2012 6:39 pm Reply with quote
kgw wrote:
TD912 wrote:
Whenever there's a new anime series announced based on some relatively unknown work (at least for us westerners), people quickly try to determine what demographic the anime is targeting, and then proceed to make fun of the series after reading a brief description. You could go back and look at any announcement article, and you'd see basically the same thing happen every time.

Some people also seem quick to latch onto the moe aspect of a series and quickly dismiss it as junk.

Because 90% of moe stories (as the 90% of everything) is junk.

EDIT: I did follow the link. Now I feel dirty. :p

Could not have said it better, myself.
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 07, 2012 7:40 pm Reply with quote
It was okay, even though I had to resist thinking dirty thoughts about the girls.

The art style was disappointingly simple. I hope the mountain is incredible. I haven't seen much of the mountain yet, but it is only a preview after all.

If it's just some dodgy mountain that could pass for a hill, it'd be like watching Snakes on a Plane and seeing not that many snakes. The whole deal for me is that it is moe girls climbing a mountain.
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superdry



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PostPosted: Thu Jun 07, 2012 7:41 pm Reply with quote
RyanSaotome wrote:

http://comic-earthstar.jp/author/

Looking at the official website of the magazine, it looks like a Seinen magazine.


Nice. Lots of good stuff they're publishing I gotta check out (the artwork used for Material Brave on the website catches my interest). I had no clue that Dracu Riot is being serialized in Comic Earthstar (haven't heart of them really).

kgw wrote:

EDIT: I did follow the link. Now I feel dirty. :p


??????? Feel dirty? From looking at a preview about school aged characters that are fully clothed? Huh?


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dandelion_rose



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PostPosted: Thu Jun 07, 2012 7:43 pm Reply with quote
superdry wrote:
kgw wrote:

EDIT: I did follow the link. Now I feel dirty. :p


??????? Feel dirty? From looking at a preview about school aged characters that are fully clothed? Huh?


I got a dirty mind, I'm on it all the time --

(Eh, I'm not sure if it's safe to admit that while posting on my work computer.)
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asimpson2006



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PostPosted: Thu Jun 07, 2012 7:47 pm Reply with quote
kgw wrote:
TD912 wrote:
Whenever there's a new anime series announced based on some relatively unknown work (at least for us westerners), people quickly try to determine what demographic the anime is targeting, and then proceed to make fun of the series after reading a brief description. You could go back and look at any announcement article, and you'd see basically the same thing happen every time.

Some people also seem quick to latch onto the moe aspect of a series and quickly dismiss it as junk.

Because 90% of moe stories (as the 90% of everything) is junk.

EDIT: I did follow the link. Now I feel dirty. :p


I believe that 90% thing to BS. Being a majority of something is junk is just an opinion and a bad way of thinking in general.
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Surrender Artist



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PostPosted: Thu Jun 07, 2012 7:54 pm Reply with quote
I think that there's an element of tragedy in what's happened to Sturgeon's Law, which I don't think anybody serious considers a law in any formal sense or literally true, among anime fans, because both the those using and those decrying it seem not to wholly grasp the point. To quote the man himself:

Theodore Sturgeon wrote:
I repeat Sturgeon’s Revelation, which was wrung out of me after twenty years of wearying defense of science fiction against attacks of people who used the worst examples of the field for ammunition, and whose conclusion was that ninety percent of SF is crud. Using the same standards that categorize 90% of science fiction as trash, crud, or crap, it can be argued that 90% of film, literature, consumer goods, etc. are crap. In other words, the claim (or fact) that 90% of science fiction is crap is ultimately uninformative, because science fiction conforms to the same trends of quality as all other artforms.


Of course, the claim that anime has a typical distribution of quality is probably controversial. (Anime is evidently made not in Japan, but Lake Wobegon, MN) The whole line of argument just ends up as a distraction.
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