Clione no Akari Anticipation

[Stark700]

Original anime 'Clione no Akari' announced. Site is open as well and will air in Summer 2017 on Tokyo MX.
OP/ED theme to be performed by Aki Deguchi

Official site:
http://clionenoakari.com/

[Flower]

Well ... I guess that is okay and all ... but I wish they gave us a little more info!

[Solace]

I think the picture kind of says quite a bit already, honestly.

[kuromitsu]

I don't think this is an original anime, going by the website it's an adaptation of a popular web novel. According to Wikipedia the story is: Minori, who has been bullied in all her life (on account of being sickly, poor, etc.), is befriended by Takashi and Kyouko, who want to see her real smile. However, before that could happen, Minori is hospitalized far away from the other two. After two months, Takashi and Kyouko receive a mysterious, anonymous message about a summer festival in the neighboring town.

Originally Posted by Flower

Well ... I guess that is okay and all ... but I wish they gave us a little more info!

Well there's two cute girls and a cute boy? And lighthouses and stars and a little girl who is sickly(!) and poor(!!) and has lost her parents(!!!) and was bullied(!!!!) and gets separated from her only friends(!!!!)... Seems like an unabashed feels train.

[Stark700]

Ooh interesting. Thanks for the news!

Also, found some illustrations related

[Flower]

Originally Posted by kuromitsu

I don't think this is an original anime, going by the website it's an adaptation of a popular web novel. According to Wikipedia the story is: Minori, who has been bullied in all her life (on account of being sickly, poor, etc.), is befriended by Takashi and Kyouko, who want to see her real smile. However, before that could happen, Minori is hospitalized far away from the other two. After two months, Takashi and Kyouko receive a mysterious, anonymous message about a summer festival in the neighboring town.

Well there's two cute girls and a cute boy? And lighthouses and stars and a little girl who is sickly(!) and poor(!!) and has lost her parents(!!!) and was bullied(!!!!) and gets separated from her only friends(!!!!)... Seems like an unabashed feels train.

Oh ho?

Thanks for the details!

And sounds interesting.... Keeping an eye on this one. ^^

[Marcus H.]

Looks like this show is gonna be heavy on the tourism aspect too.

[Utsuro no Hako]

Cast and crew announced:

Sayuri Matsumura as Minori Amamiya
Shunya Ōhira as Takashi Aoi
Natsuko Hara as Kyōko Tsukihashi
Riko Sasaki as Nanami Yukine
Riho Iida as Yuna Nagino
Aina Suzuki as Kaho Ichinose
Akari Kageyama as Sayaka Hama
Yūki Fujita as Gen Isozaki
Misaki Ōhashi as Kōsuke Okishima
Moa Tsukino as Shōta Sayama
Kana Aoi as Sakura Inoue

Naoya Ishikawa's one-man animation studio Ishikawa Pro (Kuttsukiboshi, Magical Chocolate) is directing the anime at drop. Molice, Tsukasa, Takeshi Onaka are handling the scenario alongside original author Natural-Rain. Natural-Rain also designed the characters. Kazuhiko Izu is directing the sound. Former SKE48 idol group member aki (Crane Game Girls Galaxy, Nazotokine) composed and sings the opening theme song "Clione no Akari," and is also singing the ending theme song "Sora o Tobu Kaze." Riko Sasaki is performing the insert song "Hyakunichi no Hana."

The fact the WN started in 2004, before WN/LNs turned into an undifferentiated mass of cliched power fantasies, has me somewhat hopeful.

[Stark700]

PV

[Flower]

Uhhh ... hmm ... did not really get much of a read from the series with that pv.

I wonder if there is something about this series that just does not click with my brain's understanding.

[serenade_beta]

Spoiler for ep1:

(ﾟДﾟ)

(ﾟДﾟ)

Wow, I mean... Wow. It looked interesting enough and I had some expectations for it, but... wow.
You may have seen anime where a few characters have poor voice acting (Shikabane Hime) or voice actors with less experience are used for an interesting reason (AKB0048), but EVERY SINGLE CHARACTER that talked was terrible. I'm actually kinda astounded by how unbearable it is.

And while I am fine with the whole "everyone is bullying" her thing, the fact the story doesn't make the viewers feel pleasant plus the fact the voice acting does a even worse job at doing so, it really leaves me facepalming over this... thing.

[Nachtwandler]

Originally Posted by serenade_beta

Spoiler for ep1:

(ﾟДﾟ)

(ﾟДﾟ)

Wow, I mean... Wow. It looked interesting enough and I had some expectations for it, but... wow.
You may have seen anime where a few characters have poor voice acting (Shikabane Hime) or voice actors with less experience are used for an interesting reason (AKB0048), but EVERY SINGLE CHARACTER that talked was terrible. I'm actually kinda astounded by how unbearable it is.

And while I am fine with the whole "everyone is bullying" her thing, the fact the story doesn't make the viewers feel pleasant plus the fact the voice acting does a even worse job at doing so, it really leaves me facepalming over this... thing.

IMHO, you are exgagerrating. Most of the cast sounded far from perfeсt but on level of avarage voice actiтg in anime. MCs voice bothered me a bit but he still was much better than main heroine of Nana-Maru San-Batsu (and some people actually liked her voice acting, while I think me thinking it was terrible).

[FlareKnight]

Well I'd probably say that as a whole the voice acting in the first episode was pretty below average. Clearly the budget for this show wasn't going towards the voice acting. Some of it just sounded really off. As if the voice actors weren't really confident in what they were saying.

In terms of the content well they manged to establish the status quo pretty well. Both in what is happening to this girl and how miserable the other two are in how they haven't taken action. Though understandable in how they feel bad and want to do something, but are afraid of stepping in. Can be easy to get sucked into the idea of "well at least I feel bad about the situation and that's something."