Forum - View topic

NEWS: 4 Japanese Literary Masterpieces Get Aoi Bungaku Anime

The retailer website for the Japanese publisher Shueisha lists the new anime adaptation of four Japanese literary works as a 12-episode Aoi Bungaku (Blue Literature) television series. The anime series will premiere on October 10.

Quote:

The retailer website for the Japanese publisher Shueisha lists the new anime adaptation of four Japanese literary works as a 12-episode Aoi Bungaku (Blue Literature) television series. The anime series will premiere on October 10.

I wonder if they will be three 30 minute episodes, or run more like a TV special with OVA style lengths ≈ 45-90 minutes each?

Ever since I saw Figure 17 a long time ago I kind of miss the 45 minute runs. My gues is they will handle it more like Ayakashi though. I guess it all depends on how long this works are, because I have no idea.

I hope this doesnt make Kubo Sensei's manga suffer in quality (whoooops too late!)

The artwork is just as good, if not better, than at the beginning of the series, the battles are bigger, the way he jumps between fights is the same, and he still develops all of his characters at some point, though usually on their deathbeds.

Uh, hehe, you kinda quoted the format it'll be in. It's 12 episodes, and starts on 10/10, meaning it's a normal tv series, so it'll be the standard half hour show. I doubt they could make twelve 90-minute episodes from 4 stories.

teh*darkness wrote:

The artwork is just as good, if not better, than at the beginning of the series, the battles are bigger, the way he jumps between fights is the same, and he still develops all of his characters at some point, though usually on their deathbeds.

Lol, apparently having no backgrounds is still "good art"

Bleachfags need to read some actual decent manga with decent art before even thinking Bleach has any sort of decency. It's the worst, most wasteful garbage on paper from an untalented hack.

Even artists like Araki know that vomiting white space over a comic book is bad practice, and he's a manga specialist.

ANN Article wrote:

No Longer Human recounts a person's deepening alienation from the rest of the world

This one is so obviously trying to appeal to the otaku crowd by showing stuff like this. I'm tired of the "social reject" type of manga. If you want the real story that isn't sugar coated like Genshiken, Ressentiment is what you're looking for.

I hope this doesnt make Kubo Sensei's manga suffer in quality (whoooops too late!)

bleachigo66 wrote:

I hope this doesnt make Kubo Sensei's manga suffer in quality (whoooops too late!)

KanjiiZ wrote:

ANN Article wrote: No Longer Human recounts a person's deepening alienation from the rest of the world This one is so obviously trying to appeal to the otaku crowd by showing stuff like this. I'm tired of the "social reject" type of manga. If you want the real story that isn't sugar coated like Genshiken, Ressentiment is what you're looking for.

Dazai wrote his No Longer Human novel in 1948. While social rejects have existed long before then, they were not called otaku (and that term was not linked to manga) until 1983, 35 years later. It may have an manga adaptation, but No Longer Human is no more of a "otaku" manga story than Yukio Mishima's works are.

Not to be a skeptic but is it in fact an indesputable fact that all four of these works are, in fact, masterpieces?