(CR) Akatsuki no Yona [Anticipation]

[bastek66]

Originally Posted by zztop

Has it always been standard practice for shoujo anime to have 1 cour?

I recall shoujo series like Ouran HS Host Club and Kaicho wa Maid Sama(The Class President is a Maid) got 2 cours each when they first aired.

And back in 90s shoujo manga adaptations were long running daytime shows. It's all past.

[mistress_kisara]

A chinese site (baidu) is reporting that its 2-cour

http://v.pptv.com/show/yLQbmKxTmdc6uCA.html
http://tieba.baidu.com/p/3174514958?pn=3



I hope its legit

[Flower]

Originally Posted by mistress_kisara

A chinese site (baidu) is reporting that its 2-cour

http://v.pptv.com/show/yLQbmKxTmdc6uCA.html
http://tieba.baidu.com/p/3174514958?pn=3



I hope its legit

Ohhhh ... I hope, hope, hope so!

The story could (in theory at least) be developed much more carefully and slowly then ... there is a lot going on there.

[PreSage]

Originally Posted by mistress_kisara

A chinese site (baidu) is reporting that its 2-cour

http://v.pptv.com/show/yLQbmKxTmdc6uCA.html
http://tieba.baidu.com/p/3174514958?pn=3



I hope its legit

Ooohh...that will be nice!!

[mistress_kisara]

The HanaYume event confirmed its going to be 2-cour!! It's been awhile since a shoujo manga adaptation was half a year long.

[Frontier]

Wow, wasn't expecting that. Glad to hear the show is going to be a 2-cour and that the anime has more space to properly adapt the manga and story .

[zztop]

I heard Yona's music composer is Korean. But the credits list a Kunihiko Ryo. There'a a discrepancy here.

[Stark700]

Wow, that is rare. I'm glad to see it run for 2 cour though since Soredemo didn't get the chance to.

[Flower]

Originally Posted by Stark700

Wow, that is rare. I'm glad to see it run for 2 cour though since Soredemo didn't get the chance to.

Agreed!

2 cour is excellent news!

Now if only they can nail the adaptation....

[PreSage]

Originally Posted by zztop

I heard Yona's music composer is Korean. But the credits list a Kunihiko Ryo. There'a a discrepancy here.

Nope, according to ANN:

"The anime will reunite the cast from the earlier drama CD adaptation, with new cast members:

Chiwa Saito as Yona
Tomoaki Maeno as Soon Hak
Yūsuke Kobayashi as Soo-won
Masakazu Morita as Kija
Nobuhiko Okamoto as Shin-a
Junichi Suwabe as Jeha
Hiro Shimono as Zeno
Junko Minagawa as Yun

Kazuhiro Yoneda (technical director on Gekijō-ban Tiger & Bunny -The Rising-, Aquarion Evol) is directing the anime at Studio Pierrot (The World Is Still Beautiful). Shinichi Inotsume (Hayate the Combat Butler, Zettai Karen Children) is in charge of the series scripts, and Maho Yoshikawa (Amnesia) is designing the characters. Kunihiko Ryo (The Twelve Kingdoms, Emma) is composing the music with sound director Yukio Nagasaki (Ao Haru Ride, Love Live!)."

So it's coming out on Oct. 7.

Official Website.

Dang, Hak has such beautiful bright blue eyes in the anime!

Zeno looks younger in the anime than I expected from the manga images.

(Too bad Soredemo didn't get the 2-cour treatment. )

[kuromitsu]

Originally Posted by PreSage

Masakazu Morita as Kija
...
Junichi Suwabe as Jeha

Gaahh. Can anyone tell me if these are decently large roles? I'm not incredibly interested in this series but I might want to watch it for these two...

[Flower]

Originally Posted by kuromitsu

Gaahh. Can anyone tell me if these are decently large roles? I'm not incredibly interested in this series but I might want to watch it for these two...

They are, I'd say.

But without spoiling too much as to who they are they pop up after a bit. It is hard to say how fast the adaptation will go in relation to the manga chapters I know of, but I would guess those two characters would begin to show up around ep 4 or 5 (to take a totally random guess). They begin to show up after a few events take place.

On a personal level Shin-ah and Soon Hak are the most interesting characters, but I think most of them are pretty interesting and like the manga in general, so ... yeah, I am partial here.

[wandering-dreamer]

Everyone listed so far is a member of the main cast. ^^

[Flower]

Originally Posted by wandering-dreamer

Everyone listed so far is a member of the main cast. ^^

They are indeed ... thought not all of them show up from the very beginning of the story, of course.

As a side note; must admit I was kinda surprised to see Accelerator's VA assigned to Shin-ah. Hmm ... that will be interesting to see.

[Haak]

Originally Posted by PreSage

Tomoaki Maeno as Soon Hak

There's a character called Hak? Damn, just one more "a" and things would've been epic.

[wandering-dreamer]

Another trailer! Really liking the music direction here so far

[Flower]

[coughs and sputters in a state of inability to express himself]

Whoa ... just ... whoa.

Curses! Curse them for producing such an excellent pv and getting my hopes up!

Such a really good pv.... A fair amount of spoiler material for those not familiar with the source material, but oh well.

Please ... please, please, please let the series nail it just as well!

[LKK]

Crunchyroll will stream the series.

Time:

... every Tuesday starting October 7 at 8:00am Pacific Time. Free members will be able to catch episodes a week after they debut.

Territories:

...worldwide except Asia.

[Flower]

And the crowd goes wild!

Well, at least one person in the crowd...so glad CR picked it up and not Funi - I only have a CR account.

[LKK]

I was haunting CR & its Twitter feed all day hoping for an announcement. I try not to raise my anticipation levels about any show until the stream announcements comes in since I only watch legal streams. But if I had to pick a new show that I most wanted to see this season, it would be this one. (Yowpedia counts as a returning show in my mind.)

So count me as part of the going wild crowd!