(L) Asu no Yoichi!

[NeoSam]

The shounen manga Asu no Yoichi! by Minamoto Yuu will be getting animated.

明日のよいち！
Asu no Yoichi!

The manga is serialized in the shounen manga magazine Monthly Shounen Champion.
Currently there are 6 volumes released of this manga, and volume 7 will be released on August 8th, 2008.

Covers:

Spoiler:

From MangaUpdates:

A boy swordsman, Yoichi and his father stays in mountain training for his descent from the mountain. Yoichi comes to the city to lodge and stay with 4 beautiful sisters. A new more severe "training" regiment awaits him.

Mangaka: Minamoto Yuu

Genre: Shounen, Comedy, Romance

[theman4life]

Hell yeah, I really enjoy the manga so Im very pleased its getting the anime treatment.

[Westlo]

Read the first 8 chapters, should be a fun anime!

[Chaos2Frozen]

An anime already? I just started the manga a few week ago

[TrueKnight]

My favourite Angie is going to be animated.

[Avisch]

I predicted this! Well...it wasn't that hard. I mean Sekirei got an anime. So why not this?

I haven't read this in a while but it's pretty fun.

Question:
Are there two different ways on reading the title?

Cause Mangaupdates says "Ashita no Yoichi

[NeoSam]

Originally Posted by Avisch

Question:
Are there two different ways on reading the title?

Cause Mangaupdates says "Ashita no Yoichi

According to the Japanese wikipedia its read "Asu no Yoichi!".

[tzia_n]

ooh, another of the action x ecchi genre, not that im complaining

its a shame only a few chapters have been scanlated so far

[serenade_beta]

Director is Kujyou Rion and Animation studio is AIC.

I usually don't really care, but the script is by Takahashi Tatsuya・Kurata Hideyuki

Moonphase had such a funny reaction~

>> 脚本：高橋龍也

(　ﾟдﾟ) ・・・

(つд⊂)ｺﾞｼｺﾞｼ

(；ﾟдﾟ) ・・・

(つд⊂)ｺﾞｼｺﾞｼｺﾞｼ

（；ﾟ Дﾟ） …！？

Anyways, according to Moonphase, this thing is like a kendo version of Love Hina. If that's true, then I might look forward to it...
Then again, it's not like Ken Akamatsu's the manga-ka...

[eggplant]

The surprise announcement for this year's TBS Anime Festa was the unveiling of Asu no Yoichi!

Guest VAs were Satou Rina (Ibuki), Tomatsu Haruka (Ayame), Tamura Yukari (Chihaya), and Hanazawa Kana (Kagome).
Artist megrock was also introduced, where she sang the OP, "Egao no Riyuu".

Although the anime premiere isn't until January, a screening of episode 1 (sans OP/ED) was held.

Spoiler for synopsis of Episode 1:

Karasuma Yoichi (VA: Okamoto Nobuhiko) is a seventeen year old boy, who has lived all his life in a remote mountain, estranged from society. One day, he is ordered by his father to continue his training in the city, in order to brush up his skills. He is to train at the Ikaruga Doujou, the home to four sisters.
A modern day samurai, Yoichi's attire and shinai quickly attracts the ire of a local punk, whom Yoichi disposes of handily, but is taken into custody by authorities, who try to interrogate him to no avail. Yoichi is supposed to meet up with the Ikaruga siblings, his host family, but finds himself lost.
Meanwhile, the Ikaruga sisters, save Ibuki, make their way into a nearby department store. Yoichi wanders in himself, flustered at modern technology. He runs up a flight of escalators the wrong way and promptly falls into a service car, crashing into the lingerie section. Yoichi inadvertantly grabs Ayame's boobs, when a thief makes off with a customer's handbag during the commotion.
Yoichi pursues the culprit, where he bumps into Chihaya at the book section. Yoichi finally catches up with the thief and knocks him out cold, where he encounters a lost and tearful Kagome. He promises her to take her back to her sisters, but is surrounded by the police. Undaunted, Yoichi makes a Tarzan-like entrance using a makeshift display as a rope, where he hands Kagome over to a perplexed Ibuki, comments that he is a samurai, and is propelled out of the building by the reverse momentum of his swing.
Dismayed at the fact that he is late for his meeting, Yoichi gets depressed, when Ibuki appears, convinced that the boy is none other than Yoichi. The rendezvous doesn't set well with Ayame and Chihaya, but Kagome is thrilled at the reunion.

Since this was a surprise announcement, I saw the screening withouth any prior knowledge of the manga. Nevertheless, the premise is clear cut, so it wasn't necessary at all. Episode 1 served as the introduction, so I guess things will move on from here. This is the first series directing work for Kujou Rion, so there is some cause for concern.

[Westlo]

I just flicked through the first chapter after reading that synopsis, they changed around the way he meets with them from the manga but it's no real biggie, still introduces the characters fine.

[Midonin]

Good to see the Tomatsu/Hanazawa duo again, and Rina Satou and Yukari Tamura are also good choices.

[ellifeedn]

I am amazed that an anime for this series is being made. I'm putting it on my list of anime to watch in the future. I remember reading the manga, which was fun. And after I found out that there wasn't a thread, I started the manga thread for it. Here's the link for it.

[serenade_beta]

http://www.tbs.co.jp/anime/yoichi/

Official site open.

No real comments... except I had a strange urge to throw a rock at the screen when I looked at the green-haired girl.
The rest... looks normal... I just hope it doesn't crash and burn at the end like Bamboo Blade.

[Bonta Kun]

OMG can't believe I never knew about this till now!!!!

one of my fav manga atm, mostly down to the fact I love ANGIE!!!!!!!

[ellifeedn]

When is the anime's broadcast?

[Midonin]

Sometime in January. That's all that's known at this point.

[Midonin]

MoonPhase just listed two new roles, and given the characters the roles are listed for, I think people wanted to know these:

Tsubame Tsubasa: Makino Yui
Takatsukasa Angela: Nabatame Hitomi

[MooMooFarm]

I don't like how anime now relies so much on manga for sources of shows. Manga is manga for a reason, because the creator obviously thought it was either too much work or it didn't fit in the first place to be an anime. Though things usually convert to the other after awhile, anime made anime is still better than manga made anime just like how anime that turns into manga is usually fail as well like Geass.

Bigger issue is that series like this usually get animated when it's not even close to finishing. It's dumb. Then when the anime starts, it has so little content to work with, and therefore it just gets Tora dora'd aka offers nothing the manga couldn't have done just as well.

[shomazta]

Eh? You seem to be missing the big picture. All these people are in it for the money, any way they can go about promoting some material just means more potential revenue for them. Whereas solely releasing either anime or manga wouldn't gather nearly as much publicity. Such is this case with this particular series, had it not been for the announcement of the manga being adapted into an anime series I would never have known about the manga, nor thought twice to read it.

If you don't like certain adaptations, there's no law or rule saying you have to expose yourself to it. I don't like dubbed anime. I don't watch dubbed anime. End.