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TarsTarkas
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 Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2021 4:35 pm
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| Quote: | | Arifureta - From Commonplace to World's Strongest |
Wonder when the next, or is it last, english volume is coming out. Been on this cliffhanger for quite awhile now.
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MFrontier
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Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2021 4:41 pm
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I don't think the anime is that popular but I wonder if they'll ever adapt this spinoff.
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TarsTarkas
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Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2021 4:53 pm
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| MFrontier wrote: | | I don't think the anime is that popular but I wonder if they'll ever adapt this spinoff. |
Perhaps when compared to the top mainstream anime franchises, but it must have some popularity, to get a second season after a dismal first season. That is why I am interested.
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tsog
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Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2021 7:41 pm
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borisdrakoni
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Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2021 8:11 pm
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| TarsTarkas wrote: |
| MFrontier wrote: | | I don't think the anime is that popular but I wonder if they'll ever adapt this spinoff. |
Perhaps when compared to the top mainstream anime franchises, but it must have some popularity, to get a second season after a dismal first season. That is why I am interested. |
Despite being largely panned regarding how the story was adapted and the poor production values, Arifureta was actually one of the most viewed shows in the summer 2019 season, especially in streaming. As a matter of fact, season 1 is even doing quite well right now in Docomo Anime Store's weekly streaming ranking both in terms of views and favorites. Subsequent sales of the novels and manga jumping by over a million copies thanks to the anime's airing also helped justify green lighting season 2.
Personally, I'd be all for an anime adaptation for Zero. They already cast 2 great actors for Oscar and Miledi, and it'd be a bit of a waste to use them as sparingly as they did. The (somewhat) darker and more serious tone that lacks (most of) the trappings of a typical isekai story might also appeal to a broader audience.
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BalmungHHQ
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Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2021 11:24 pm
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This is probably not the case. It was likely greenlit due to the success of the first season's broadcast.
This isn't a case like one of those "split-cour in disguise", for example, especially since the 2nd Season was greenlit over 2 years ago, meaning it likely had to go through the whole pre-production phase from scratch before work even began.
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LegitPancake
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Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2021 12:43 am
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| TarsTarkas wrote: | | Wonder when the next, or is it last, english volume is coming out. Been on this cliffhanger for quite awhile now. |
Volume 12, which is indeed believed to be the final volume of the main series, releases in Japan on January 25th 2022. The English translation usually starts about 2-3 months after that, being weekly updated on the publisher's membership, and then an ebook release possibly in June/July. Seven Seas' paperback release then likely 4-6 months later.
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Siegfriedl88
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Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2021 2:50 am
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| LegitPancake wrote: | | Volume 12, which is indeed believed to be the final volume of the main series, releases in Japan on January 25th 2022. |
thats too bad  i was excited seeing amazon listing a volume 13 for pre order already though
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LegitPancake
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Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2021 12:32 pm
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| Siegfriedl88 wrote: | thats too bad i was excited seeing amazon listing a volume 13 for pre order already though |
Seven Seas has a bad habit of setting English preorders for volumes that aren't even released in Japan yet. I see they have preorders on amazon for paperbacks for volume 12 on July 26, and volume 13 on August 2. Those are literal throwing darts in the dark, I wouldn't count on them. Volume 12 probably won't be ready to release on paperback until the fall next year, and volume 13 most likely won't even happen (there is an After Stories series web novel that very likely could see novelization, but that could take another year or so before it reaches fruition. The author takes a while to rewrite the story for novelization, and the artist needs time to make illustrations).
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tsog
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Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2021 12:41 pm
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| BalmungHHQ wrote: | |
This is probably not the case. It was likely greenlit due to the success of the first season's broadcast.
This isn't a case like one of those "split-cour in disguise", for example, especially since the 2nd Season was greenlit over 2 years ago, meaning it likely had to go through the whole pre-production phase from scratch before work even began. |
Considering S1 was plagued with production issues with a 15 month delay from original air date, they likely went through the whole process again just for S1, and still the result wasn't spectacular. Not surprised if they decided on multiple seasons early on but decided to take the time and be cautious for S2.
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borisdrakoni
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Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2021 1:09 pm
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| tsog wrote: |
| BalmungHHQ wrote: | |
This is probably not the case. It was likely greenlit due to the success of the first season's broadcast.
This isn't a case like one of those "split-cour in disguise", for example, especially since the 2nd Season was greenlit over 2 years ago, meaning it likely had to go through the whole pre-production phase from scratch before work even began. |
Considering S1 was plagued with production issues with a 15 month delay from original air date, they likely went through the whole process again just for S1, and still the result wasn't spectacular. Not surprised if they decided on multiple seasons early on but decided to take the time and be cautious for S2. |
There weren't actually any plans for a second season until the first was nearly done airing. Shirakome shared an entertaining story about how he found out about it in his interview in the anime art book. He got called in for a meeting that he thought was going to be about some issue with Tio's pile bunker scene, and was instead shocked when he was asked if they could do another season.
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tsog
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Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2021 2:02 pm
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| borisdrakoni wrote: | |
There weren't actually any plans for a second season until the first was nearly done airing. Shirakome shared an entertaining story about how he found out about it in his interview in the anime art book. He got called in for a meeting that he thought was going to be about some issue with Tio's pile bunker scene, and was instead shocked when he was asked if they could do another season. |
I stand corrected then. Was it the Arifureta art book, Brilliant, by Takaya-ki? I bought the book but totally skipped the interview portion. I should go back and read it.
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earl.m
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Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2021 3:07 pm
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From 2007 - 2014 Michael Bay cranked out 4 Transformers movies. Critics hated them because they were self-insert power fantasies for young males (Shia LaBeouf wasn't the lead because he was a strapping specimen of competent masculinity but quite the opposite) that was also packed (by contemporary Hollywood standards, not anime standards or even 70s/80s Hollywood standards) with female fanservice (the Megan Fox era) that was called objectifying as well as being a recruiting commercial for and endorsement of the U.S. military (who cooperated with the production of the first 3). Guess what? Audiences - particularly those in the American south and midwest - LOVED the Transformers movies for the same reason that critics hated them. Similar is true of the "popular but critically reviled" The Fast and the Furious franchise, although it has a somewhat different demographic. I would imagine that the same was true of Arifuta. It was 2019, the middle of the Trump era, so the last thing that critics were going to be sympathetic to was a story around an aggrieved male who failed to realize that - regardless of his circumstances - he was still privileged. If you recall two other projects - the movie Joker and the Rising of the Shield Hero - also came out in 2019 and were savaged by critics for the same reason with the former accused of potentially inciting white supremacist violence and the latter accused of promoting violence against women (despite both being at odds with the actual content and themes of the works). So, apparently power fantasies with alienated teen male protagonists have a HUGE potential target audience ... teen males who feel alienated. In the 1990s in the west they listened to alternative and grunge music. I guess in contemporary Japan they watch isekai harem anime. In any event, as catering to audiences is way more lucrative than catering to critics - because there are orders of magnitude more of the former than the latter - anime like Arifuta is going to keep coming. The same is true of harem ecchi anime. Everyone hates it ... except for the actual target audience of 12-18 year old boys.
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borisdrakoni
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Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2021 3:11 pm
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| tsog wrote: | | I stand corrected then. Was it the Arifureta art book, Brilliant, by Takaya-ki? I bought the book but totally skipped the interview portion. I should go back and read it. |
Brilliant only contained the light novel related material. The anime art book was a product put together for winter Comiket in 2019, and later it got a Kindle release on Amazon's Japan site. The production staff interviews were all pretty interesting. Despite how the final product turned out, there was a real sense that they were doing the best they could with what they had to work with.
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AnimeFlyz
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Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2022 1:06 pm
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| Siegfriedl88 wrote: |
| LegitPancake wrote: | | Volume 12, which is indeed believed to be the final volume of the main series, releases in Japan on January 25th 2022. |
thats too bad i was excited seeing amazon listing a volume 13 for pre order already though |
You dont have to be too down. Volume 12 may end the main storyline, but Arifureta has a sequel known as Arifureta After Story, which is even longer than the main story in terms of Web Novel chapters.
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