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L'Imperatore
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I often wonder why Kadokawa let Aniplex produce anime adaptations of their own books (some of their more famous ones, even!), while they're fully capable of doing it themselves.
I mean, they are practically rivals. 
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RenimLS
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Nice to hear this series is getting an anime adaption, hope it turns out well.
Not sure if "shy" is the best description for Monica though. spoiler[Being traumatized to the point you view the world as numbers and mathematical formulas to cope is a bit more than simply being shy.] |
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Erufailon4
Posts: 201 Location: Finland |
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Isn't the official English title of both the LN and the manga Secrets of the Silent Witch? It's in the Japanese logo of the anime too. Don't see a particular reason to use the shortened form.
Anyway, not a huge surprise since it was leaked a while ago, but I'm sure a lot of people were expecting something different from the hyped-up big announcement. I for one am interested since it seems like the kind of fantasy that I dig (though I did also get that feeling of Unnamed Memory and in the end didn't even watch it because I heard it got butchered in adaptation... here's hoping this one doesn't go to studio Engi) |
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Andrew Cunningham
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One of the best light novels running, and up there in best selling titles without an anime, so let's hope they held out for a prestige production that can do the books justice. I feel like Monica in particular will live and die based on how authentic they make her social issues feel; if they make her bow to any lamp posts it's over.
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Shay Guy
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And that's another update to the spreadsheet.
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MFrontier
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Looks like an interesting series.
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Cho_Desu
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Trying to work out what this means. Is it a reference to something? |
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Andrew Cunningham
Posts: 526 Location: Seattle |
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A whole lot of anime with shy characters have them bump into inanimate objects, then bow to them, apologizing repeatedly. It's a pretty common cliche. Both Witch from Mercury and Shy did variants on it recently. Monica's social anxieties are played for laughs, but in a way that always feels real; if they go for that sort of broad portrayal it would really work against the show. (Bocchi, on the other hand, nicely avoided it, so it is possible.) |
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