(L) Back Arrow Anticipation

[Stark700]

An original TV anime, titled "Back Arrow", from director Gorou Taniguchi and screenwriter Kazuki Nakashima has been announced.

Official site:
back-arrow.com

Source
https://twitter.com/AIR_News01/statu...38863872401410

[Nachtwandler]

Guardian Enzo should be raging because MC is voced by KajiKaji again

[Frontier]

Looks like a fighting fantasy anime going off the key visual.

[Haak]

Well if its anime-original it has a marginally better chance of actually having a fucking ending so there is that. The staff and visual is neither here nor there for me.

[MisaoFan]

Originally Posted by Haak

Well if its anime-original it has a marginally better chance of actually having a fucking ending so there is that.

It is an original work though.

[Haak]

I wasn't putting doubt on that. It's just the way I worded my sentence.

[Guardian Enzo]

Originally Posted by Nachtwandler

Guardian Enzo should be raging because MC is voced by KajiKaji again

Only bothers me if it's a series I'm especially interested in. Nakashima has pretty much lost me at this point and nothing in the promo material looks especially interesting so... It's a few hours less each week for Kaji to potentially ruin a show I actually care about.

[Xander]

All they have released is a brief teaser with no actual information, so it's too soon to judge anything about this seriously.

When there's more details available, that's when we could discuss if it's a promising series or not.

I will say one thing: I've recently watched and enjoyed Promare, so I don't have any problems with Nakashima writing this.

I'm not particularly a voice acting guy, neither for nor against most of them, so the casting is the least important aspect.

[Kismet-chan]

I'm tired of hearing Kaji's voice. I don't think he's a bad actor, I've just been unfortunate enough to be interested in a lot of series where he inevitably pops up as protags I end up disliking or not caring about. And I've only ever really liked a single project Taniguchi has directed, so I'm kinda side-eyeing this, tbh. Nakashima might be the only promising component of this to me, personally.

[Frontier]

Originally Posted by Kismet-chan

I'm tired of hearing Kaji's voice. I don't think he's a bad actor, I've just been unfortunate enough to be interested in a lot of series where he inevitably pops up as protags I end up disliking or not caring about. And I've only ever really liked a single project Taniguchi has directed, so I'm kinda side-eyeing this, tbh. Nakashima might be the only promising component of this to me, personally.

I don't feel like Kaji is as prominent as he used to be, in so far as he only occasionally ends up as a new lead that's not a reprisal compared to where it felt like he was the lead character in almost every major production once-upon-a-time.

[Xander]

Originally Posted by Kismet-chan

I'm tired of hearing Kaji's voice. I don't think he's a bad actor, I've just been unfortunate enough to be interested in a lot of series where he inevitably pops up as protags I end up disliking or not caring about. And I've only ever really liked a single project Taniguchi has directed, so I'm kinda side-eyeing this, tbh. Nakashima might be the only promising component of this to me, personally.

I am definitely more of a Taniguchi fan than you, going by this description, because I've enjoyed several of his series...but it's important to remember that anime is the result of a collaborative process. Change the participants or circumstances and the end product will, of course, change. I am curious about how he and Nakashima could work together, since in my opinion they should have a common preference for bombastic and over-the-top contents.

[Stark700]

PV

https://twitter.com/AIR_News01/statu...08528290123776

Key visual

[Frontier]

Originally Posted by Stark700

PV

https://twitter.com/AIR_News01/statu...08528290123776

Key visual

Hot cowgirls in an anime? I'm down .

[Marcus H.]

This reminds me of epic fantasy adventure shows in the 90s. It looks and feels interesting, but I have a bad feeling about original anime. They do have endings, but those endings are usually lackluster (Franxx, Re:Creators) or ruin the story (Kabaneri).

[Stark700]

Begins airing in January 2021 (Winter) next year

https://natalie.mu/comic/news/403538

[Frontier]

And it turns out to be a Wild West Mecha show .

[bastek66]

Good, I miss shows like Gun x Sword

[chopitos_93]

Looks like a mix of GunxSword with Tekkaman Blade.

[Stark700]

Funimation will stream it.

https://twitter.com/FUNimation/statu...52088160301058

[Kanon]

Originally Posted by chopitos_93

Looks like a mix of GunxSword with Tekkaman Blade.

If it can be half as good as those two, I'll be very happy.