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Tiger and Bunny was a very popular, generally well-received, and very well-selling anime original. Many in the west liked it for its superhero and sci-fi action motifs. It was definitely one of my favorite anime shows of 2011. I honestly don't even know who wrote Tiger and Bunny. Why didn't his or her name get out there like Okada's did?
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There are some rare cases where all of the dialogue is taken from the original work, but even there, an anime has to make trade-offs to retain it. And of course, the writer had to decide what portion to retain and what portion to eliminate. Quote:
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Take Black Rock Shooter TV as an example. What clips I've seen of this show feature some truly atrocious writing. Most of this is the fault of Okada Mari, but Yoshioka Shinobu was the director and he had the authority to veto the crazy things she came up with. And so, the result can only be so bad because both of them did a poor job. Quote:
It depends on what other show the writer was responsible for. To be fair, most directors don't get talked about as much as they deserve as well, and we almost never hear about most other creative staff like the sound director and so on. It would seem that this is more a problem of this forum than anything else.
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2013-02-10, 23:34 | Link #323 | |
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Though I want to clarify that when I mean they give interviews,I mean they do interviews about the projects they're working on,not that they all talk about their childhood like Okada did in the interview that was translated. It's not like T&B's writer is hiding or anything , His name's Nishida Masafumi , here's a translated interview and there's more interviews (notably one in the same magazine as the Okada interview that got translated) but they havn't been translated. He has a blog as well Though I guess the fact he comes from live action (T&B was his first anime) and doesn't plan on really being an anime writer may have something to do with it.
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2013-04-18, 15:57 | Link #324 |
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Crunchyroll is going to do an interview with Mari Okada.
http://www.crunchyroll.com/forumtopi...ew-mari-okada- I really am surprised at how much I ended up liking Blast of Tempest. Perhaps it's how Aika Fuwa was a great character and they slowly went about fleshing out her in flashbacks. I was tempted to put as a question in that thread about why Okada decided to have one of the characters from Anohana cross dress or if Okada and/or Kawamori did AKB0048 Episode 6 just to deal with "haters". (And I still have a lot of AKB0048 to watch, but I am really liking that series.)
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2013-04-18, 20:51 | Link #325 |
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Ah, I posted a few questions myself. Including the more infamous questions that run around a lot.
Though it is funny that people have noted that Okada has a knack for having interest in childhood friends in a good light. It's interesting because this is also notoriously a tendency for those to be pretty disadvantaged when it comes to anime romances. Also, people seriously love Anohana.
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2013-04-21, 12:23 | Link #330 |
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I love some of her shows, but not all. That said, the same can be said for pretty much anyone I "like" in the anime industry. I don't know that I really agree that she has a signature style to her work, as I feel her work covers a very wide spectrum (unlike some of my other favorite people in anime, who tend to have a far more narrow focus, ie: Tomino, Kenji Kamiyama, etc). I don't hold that against her, as I suspect very few people in anime actually get to choose everything they work on (or, hey, maybe she does get to choose, and has a much wider palate than others).
I do think the hate sent her way has some roots in sexism, but that's fine. I've never been a moral purveyor of equality; people are people, and the idea that they will just magically change at the snap of a finger is hogwash in my book. Her best work, imo, was Lupin III: The Woman called Fujiko Mine, and the hate aimed at that show pretty much embodied the hate directed at her as a person. Though, Zetsuen no Tempest and the amount of angst over her in the discussion thread painted the hate in fairly stark terms as well. As Sayo Yamamoto never really did manage to shatter the glass ceiling, I view Mari Okada as bearing that torch in the industry now (for women in that role), though I do think Sayo Yamamoto was/is the superior talent.
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2013-06-24, 21:07 | Link #331 |
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So she is coming over to Southern California (Perhaps a bit too close to comfort, but a few hundred miles away. )'s anime expo. Wonder if anyone is within range.
But man, that promo video they did for her doesn't make her look very good imo. -Emo.ripe music or maybe crappy substitute (Why??) - A lot of it is Ohana <3 Which is fine, and the best part of the video. Does that imply Ohana is her most memorable creation? Maybe. - No Wandering Son but Gosick? - Too much BRS - Minko !? - There appears to be scenery from what appears to be True Tears, but I guess people are still too mad at it for it to be actual footage. - Anohana rocket (insert crying here)
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The video could have been better for sure. Wish they showed Sakurasou on her list of awesome series too.
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2013-06-24, 21:18 | Link #333 | |
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-The song is "Yumeji" (second PV song/ ED for episodes 8/26 of Hanasaku Iroha) -The PV doesn't seem to have more Iroha focus than any other series. -Anime Expo likely picked titles that have been/have good chances of being licensed in NA and are well known. -Meh -Why wouldn't a main character in Iroha be featured in the PV? -The footage is from the second Hanasaku Iroha ending animation, not true tears. -Meh
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2013-06-24, 21:31 | Link #334 |
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They are promoting her as if shes some sappy teen drama/romcom idol writer ... which I guess makes sense from a marketing perspective, but unfortunately it does really do her justice if the intention was to portray her in a positive light.
Her best two involvements were True Tears and Wandering Son because unlike the rest of the involvements it doesn't reek heavily reek in sappy melodrama nor slapstick comedy but unfortunately these weren't exactly the most popular, though for whatever reason PA Works keeps pushing out True Tears cameos whenever they can wherever they can. I guess from her most "commercialized" involvements, the best would Hanasaku Iroha, Anohana and Sakurasou and as much as I bitch about them two I have to concede and say they are some of the best in their respective genres in recent years and at the very least I enjoyed them. Too much slapstick comedy and melodrama for my tastes (and feels a bit juvenile), but hey I'm not the target audience. She's no Makoto Shinkai, Mamoru Hosoda or Mitsuru Adachi in terms of quality slice of life/drama writing but from a "idol writer" perspective she's at least better than the rest of the competition. At the very least, I guess you could respect her for diversifying as much as she can as she's been dwelling into fantasy and sci-fi (albeit they're mostly not very good) at times. Quite overrated, but there's a lot worse writers. EDIT: I totally forgot about Toradora in terms of commercialized involvements. That was pretty decent too and falls in the same boat. |
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But there's no doubt that Hanairo was a dominant theme of the video, which doesn't really matter to me. Just thinks it's funny. It's a good thing I like Ohana's likeness too much that I can claim she deserves the whole video. Also Pocari, what's Toradora; is that mahjong related?
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2013-06-25, 04:58 | Link #338 |
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I guess they think shows with adult characters like Mine Fujiko won't sell to this crowd even if Fujiko spends a good portion of her time on-screen in her birthday suit. They could have easily found a few G or PG moments to include. Heck, it's even licensed by Funimation and still doesn't make the video.
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2013-06-25, 16:39 | Link #339 | |
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It's interesting that with the reputation she's gotten people forget she started out writing kid's shows for sunrise,though I do find it interesting that she hasn't worked with sunrise in years
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In addition to her being at anime expo there's another couple things I'd like to mention: - Nagi no Asukara was confirmed for fall, so it'll be the Okada show of 2013 considering she's actually slowed down a bit compared to the last couple years. - True Tours Nanto raws are out, can't find any subs though.There's six 7 minutes episode and Okada wrote 4 of them (1,2,5 and 6)
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