 The official website of the upcoming TV anime 3-gatsu no Lion, an adaptation of the manga by Chika Umino, has revealed a new key visual for the series.The website also updated the staff listing at animation studio Shaft, which is producing the series for broadcast in Fall 2016 on the public broadcaster NHK. Staff Director: Akiyuki Shinbou (Bakemonogatari) Character Design: Nobuhiro Sugiyama (Nisekoi) Art Setting: Yasuhiro Nakura (Metropolis) Art Director: Seiki Tamura (Osomatsu-san) Sound Director: Toshiki Kameyama (Hidamari Sketch) Music: Yukari Hashimoto (Toradora!) Source: Mantan Web |
| BLESS ME SHAFT THIS LOOKS AMAZING I wonder who the real director will be since Shinbo is just a Chief Director |
| Really? Shaft? Thats awesome o.O |
| I wonder what it will be like. I have loved everything Honey and Clover and I have to just wait and see. Somehow it's not the kind of material what SHAFT usually works on so I am kind of excited! |
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| Hashimotoi Yukari. I am totally IN. |
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| They announced that the studio is Shaft like months ago. |
| Shaft already mark the territory. First visual, and we already have a headtilt. |
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| Shinbou is the director and not the chief director? I see he's taking the helm by himself. Also Hashimoto Yukari is a great choice as well. I can't help but get excited. |
Raina- said: They announced that the studio is Shaft like months ago. I wasnt following the news about it anyway :p |
| Yeah it was announced to be by Shaft awhile ago. Nice key visual, my expectations has risen a bit now. |
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| Visual looks fitting. Though I wish it was more water color/painting like. I think a little bit of the directing in Denpa Onna would work here. |
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| shigatsu wa kimi no uso sangatsu no lion...... looks interesting :D The direction is from Bakemonogatari, Hoping something good here... |
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| The visual is so pretty...Looking forward to it~ |
| Wasn't expecting Shaft but okay, works for me |
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Tlahuizcapante said: That's not even headtilting.Shaft already mark the territory. First visual, and we already have a headtilt. |
| Visuals looks good with pretty colors, but I hope the series doesn't feel empty in the background like most Shaft series do. |
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Raina- said: Tlahuizcapante said: That's not even headtilting.Shaft already mark the territory. First visual, and we already have a headtilt. Okay, my miss... Head turn? Half-headtilt? Self-rising-shaft-head-turn-slowly-shifting-into-head-tilt? |
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| So Shinbou really is directing this one then? Kinda want to see that PV already so I can get a feel for the style Shaft will be going for on this one. |
CG-Silver said: Visuals looks good with pretty colors, but I hope the series doesn't feel empty in the background like most Shaft series do. I think you mean Nisekoi, which tbh is the fault of the source material. Most SHAFT shows have great backgrounds, often stunning. |
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tsudecimo said: CG-Silver said: Visuals looks good with pretty colors, but I hope the series doesn't feel empty in the background like most Shaft series do. I think you mean Nisekoi, which tbh is the fault of the source material. Most SHAFT shows have great backgrounds, often stunning. All the Monogatari Series, Nisekoi, Denpa Onna, Mekakucity Actors, ef and Arakawa under the bridge felt a little bit empty to me. I think it's because they didn't bother to draw the background characters or their faces so kind of felt lonely tbh. It might just be me though. |
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| As long as this doesn't act like a shaft show then they might be able to do the manga justice. I'm probably asking for too much though. |
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CG-Silver said: All the Monogatari Series, Nisekoi, Denpa Onna, Mekakucity Actors, ef and Arakawa under the bridge felt a little bit empty to me. I think it's because they didn't bother to draw the background characters or their faces so kind of felt lonely tbh. It might just be me though. Yes, yes, exactly. Shaft is love to indulge themselves into characters relationship, making background almost unnecessary. It's like some post-apocalypse world, or theatre play. In this anime, i think, background is important. I read small quantity of chapters, so can't say for sure, but typical Shaft-performance is not work in this. Maybe, because of that many people got puzzled with announcement of Shaft doing this. But, anime will runs in NHK block. And i heard, that it is more serious block, so it will require serious attitude. BTW (IMO), visual is looks interesting, so it may be interesting how Shaft deal with it. At least, i have more hope in Sangatsu no Lion, than in Berserk. |
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CG-Silver said: tsudecimo said: I think you mean Nisekoi, which tbh is the fault of the source material. Most SHAFT shows have great backgrounds, often stunning. All the Monogatari Series, Nisekoi, Denpa Onna, Mekakucity Actors, ef and Arakawa under the bridge felt a little bit empty to me. I think it's because they didn't bother to draw the background characters or their faces so kind of felt lonely tbh. It might just be me though. I don't agree. I think that severed the purpose of focusing on the characters, and show how the characters themselves view their surrounding. This is especially apparent in the monogatari series. The backgrounds usually feel like there is something going on, and it feels alive with little subtle movements, which is more important that background characters faces imo. I don't think calling the background empty for the lack of background characters is fair, it's just one aspect, but fair enough. |
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tsudecimo said: CG-Silver said: All the Monogatari Series, Nisekoi, Denpa Onna, Mekakucity Actors, ef and Arakawa under the bridge felt a little bit empty to me. I think it's because they didn't bother to draw the background characters or their faces so kind of felt lonely tbh. It might just be me though. I don't agree. I think that severed the purpose of focusing on the characters, and show how the characters themselves view their surrounding. This is especially apparent in the monogatari series. The backgrounds usually feel like there is something going on, and it feels alive with little subtle movements, which is more important that background characters faces imo. I don't think calling the background empty for the lack of background characters is fair, it's just one aspect, but fair enough. No matter how I look at it, it just feels empty. Even the backgrounds usually feel plain. I appreciate the concept but I'm not fond of it. I don't have the perfect worlds to define the feeling but lets just say it feels like some post-apocalyptic world. Still for Monogatari Series, the dialogue does make up for the lack of background detail. I still remember seeing that park scene in Bakemonogatari after Hitagi crab and just questioning that where has everyone disappeared to? However for the series like 3-Gatsu no Lion, I believe background matters a lot to create the atmosphere. |
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| Same guy who did the character designs for Nisekoi, they were pretty good imo so there's a big chance the characters will look good |
| Oh it's awesome that another Chika Umino manga is getting an adaptation. Not sure if Shaft and Shinbou are the right people to animate it (was expecting JC Staff) but we'll see, I'm still greatly looking forward to it. |
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| Hoping the characters don't get too much influence from the other shaft works "aka neck twist". The art is pretty good the manga, so hoping it looks pretty good in the adaption. |
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| Design looks good. Will watch for sure. I don't think Shaft style is suitable for this series though. |
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| Shaft, Shinbo, PLEASE don't fuck this up. |
| This looks interesting. Time to wait for it to come out. |
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| key visual actually looks pretty nice, i'm not gonna lie having osomatsu-san person on art director makes me happy i don't care much for akiyuki shinbou but i hope this guy doesn't fuck it up BLmatsu said: i know right :cIt's definitely not going to have the same feel as Honey & Clover. (which makes me sad tbh) FIXED IT  |
| I hope that they take it easy on the head tilts for this one |
| The designs are good and all, but give me those head tilts XD In all seriousness, the source material seems to be good. Hopefully it's a loyal adaptation. |
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| With that director, no matter the source material, this is already bound to be a masterpiece. |
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| Shinbo is actually directing this? Not just being chief director? Huh. Still not looking forward to this (such a miscast with staff) but since this is oriented for mainstread audience (NHK) maybe shaft will go low on their cheap gimmicks & self indulgent antics. |
| Imagine a berserk anime by Yoshiaki kawajiri at Madhouse. Now take a look at Berserk (2016). YOU HAVE MY PERMISSION TO CRY. |
| >Monogatari director >Toradora composer Oh yeah. |
LOL. I'm 100% sure this is the final version of that key visual. |
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| Didn't even have to think twice about watching this with Shaft at the helm. Can't wait <3 |
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| Kinda late but I seriously cannot wait for this. They even got BOC to perform the theme songs, neat! I heard the manga author is also a huge Shinbo fan, so this could be somewhat interesting. Keeping cautious optimism for this one. |
It looks like a Josei anime, since when does Seinen have art like that. |
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Did anyone see the new key visual? It looks great. |
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