A couple of enormous announcements have rocked the anime world in the past couple of days. First we learned that Sailor Moon was getting a remake, and then the very next day we learned that Da Capo III was getting an anime adaption.
These are Home Runs, future anime events that are so huge they should bring down the ballpark. There are a few more slated, so it may be a good idea to realize our good fortune by lining them all up in a row:
Pretty Cure: Fresh Pretty Cure is bound to get a batch file released eventually. This is one of the most significant anime blessings of all time, seeing as how Fresh was the apex of the #2 best anime series ever. Add to this Yes Pretty Cure 5, which will be finished soon, which is also one of the best seasons of Pretty Cure ever, and you're looking at a Pretty Cure home run for all English speakers who have never had a chance to see this amazing section of the story.
Little Busters: Little Busters is getting an anime! J.C. Staff promises it will be true to the visual novel and extremely long, a proper rendition of perhaps the greatest story ever told. Until we see it for ourselves, it's hard to know if J.C. Staff can do Little Busters the credit it deserves, but the time is approaching fast. Little Busters should begin this fall.
Bake-etc-monogatari: The entirety of the monogatari series is getting an anime. Our favorite half-vampire will no doubt save endless maidens in distress, navigate all sorts of ancient Japanese myths and puns, and engage in awesome debates for years to come.
Oreimo Season 2: My little sister can't be this cute ended too soon. I want to see more of all my characters. Kuroneko, Kirino, and our heroic male lead that watches over them. It's a good thing more Oreimo is on its way then, isn't it?
Bakuman Season 3: The Bakuman manga is already done, so this next season of Bakuman promises to finish the story that only began a couple years ago. This is anime done right! The entire story, beginning to end, following the manga, in a short amount of time, but a great many episodes so that everything is covered fairly. Once Bakuman arrives at its happy conclusion that was foretold at the very beginning of Episode 1, all will be right with the universe.
Add in Sailor Moon, Da Capo III, and perhaps the new Hayate season and you get 7.5 home runs!
Now add in the continuing series like Hunter x Hunter, Fairy Tail, One Piece, Naruto, and Smile Pretty Cure and you've got 12.5 home runs.
Now add in the myriads of specials, oavs, and movies coming out like Code Geass Agito, Nanoha A's, more Saki Achiga, the K-On movie, the Strike Witches movie, the Evangelion movies, the Index movie, the Madoka movies -- that's at least 13.5 home runs.
Now add in the continuing, but not as highly placed ranked series Tamayura, Hyouka, Tari Tari, AKB0048, and Sora no Otoshimono and that's 14.5 home runs.
14.5 times as much excitement as, say, the Summer Olympics is headed our way. This is a good time to be an anime fan.
But life isn't perfect. It still boggles the imagination that so many anime series Haven't been done, that so obviously need doing. These are the anime strikeouts that plague our dreams:
Dragonball Kai ended at Cell. However, the Dragonball manga ended with Buu. What is up with this? What's the point of remastering only 1/2 of your most famous, most succesful anime series of all time, you stupid idiot Japanese?
Since you're remaking Hunter x Hunter and Sailor Moon, why not remake Ranma 1/2? This beloved comedy never got a proper rendering that follows the manga and is plagued by low production values. A new Ranma 1/2 that just followed the plot from beginning to end, in widescreen, with fluid animation and high resolution, would blow all the competition out of the water. So why doesn't anyone seize on this opportunity to make massive amounts of money and give the world what it's waited thirty years for?
Berserk is getting movie remakes of the same region of the manga the anime covered more thoroughly and better. This is a complete waste of time! If you're going to reboot Berserk -- then cover more of the original story from the manga. Yeesh!
If you're doing Berserk, why not do more Claymore, since it's much better anyway? Claire forgiving Priscilla is the worst filler nonsense in the history of anime. Get rid of it! Give us back our real Claymore and this time follow the blasted script!
Working is the greatest comedy of all time. So why, when it sells so well, can't it get a season longer than twelve eps, and why hasn't season 3 been announced yet? There's still plenty of manga left. What are the studio executives thinking?
Rurouni Kenshin is so popular they're redoing the Kyoto storyline and making a live action movie on an entirely different script/premise. But apparently it's not popular enough to follow the manga all the way to the end and cover the Enishi arc with a proper tv anime. What? Huh? Hello?
Full Metal Panic isn't even half done. Enough said.
Remember Haruhi Suzumiya? Only that phenomenon that took the world by storm and remade anime single handedly into an entirely different art form? Remember how every light novel in the series is a best seller and every box set of Haruhi anime sells like hot cakes? Remember how the Haruhi movie was a huge hit and topped the charts for weeks on end? Why exactly, then, when there are plenty of books left to cover, has Haruhi Suzumiya fallen down the memory hole?
The World God Only Knows didn't sell well, but who cares? You owe it to the fans to cover the goddess arc you hinted at during the end of season 2. The World God Only Knows gets better with every chapter, the series stopped before it could even begin. Bring Keima back! I want more Keima!
Baka to Test is too short! There's still tons of light novels left to animate! The same is true of Haganai and Papa no Iukoto. Bring them back! Their stories have just begun!
Every one of these failures represents a strikeout, a disappointment as large as if the Summer Olympics were cancelled tomorrow. Anime has delivered this much negative energy into our homes, the evil ways of the industry have stolen 10 strikeouts from us, depressing us more than finishing last in bingo every single day. Like matter and anti-matter annihilating each other, I can't really say anime is responsible for 14.5 home runs of joy. With these ten strikeouts continuously hanging over us, I can only give the anime industry credit for 4.5 Olympics worth of joy. The rest perishes in the sea of what could have, and should have been.
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