4-koma Manga 'Servant x Service' to be Animated

symbv said:
Takatsu Karino, author of "Working!!".

ihateeveryone said:
A-1's name scares me.

jmal said:

Pretty much this. The cast is fantastic as well. I really, really hope the Working!! anime team is behind this one too.

Lulexiaa said:
I'D RATHER HAVE A WORKING SEASON 3 ; //// ; </3

But still, I'll watch since I LOVE Working! ; U ;

Panaru said:

I wasn't a fan of Working, mainly because of GRAWRI'MMAABUSEALLTHEGUYS girl, despite my love for Saki Fujita, but I'm going to have to watch this.

Orix said:
^ Whoa, .org?

jmal said:

Pretty much this. The cast is fantastic as well. I really, really hope the Working!! anime team is behind this one too.

Roloko said:


They did an excellent job on Working!! imo so I do have faith in this adaption at least. The only thing they seem to fuck up royally is shounen series like Ao no Exorcist, Magi, Sword Art Online and Kuroshitsuji even if I did like all of these. Togainu no Chi was A1's worst adaption followed by Kuroshitsuji II.

AiCon said:
Your defense doesn't give me much hope.

symbv said:
This manga has the same author as Working!! and the anime of Working!!, both seasons of it, is adapted by A-1. Both seasons of Working!! have done well, both on sales and fan feedback. It only makes sense to get A-1 to adapt this other manga from the author of Working!!

AiCon said:
I don't deny that A-1 has made some quality shows in the past. I do worry given A-1's recent works on Magi and SAO.

symbv said:
I just think its credentials on Working!! should be a better reference point, given this manga has the same genre, format and author as Working!!.

AiCon said:
The manga may be good, but we all know that a good adaptation depends on the studio adapting it. Just look at SAO and Maoyuu Maou Yuusha. Those could have been pretty good if they weren't rushed and butchered like SAO was.

symbv said:
The fact that Working!! has a good adaptation is not good enough???? Same author, same format, same genre.. Shouldn't you at least get a grip on how well A-1 was able to adapt this author's 4-koma slice-of-life manga so far, instead of being bogged down by what it does for other manga like Magi?

symbv said:
The fact that Working!! has a good adaptation is not good enough???? Same author, same format, same genre.. Shouldn't you at least get a grip on how well A-1 was able to adapt this author's 4-koma slice-of-life manga so far, instead of being bogged down by what it does for other manga like Magi?

kenshin_sama said:

That and, from what I've seen so far, A-1 tends to do perform really well on slice of life anime, but not quite so much in action series. If they did well enough in the previous Working titles, then there's little doubt in my mind that they won't be this way for SxS.

AiCon said:
Those Working!! adaptions are good, but were made years ago. I'm more concerned with the more recent works on adaptations. I fear they might go the SAO route and rush it -- knowing that people will buy it like chocolates in Valentines Day.

symbv said:
I think you are way too affected by their recent adaptation. Besides, Working!! 2nd season was not made that long ago - less than 2 years ago. The key is not what A-1 did for other adaptation, but the insight they have gained from adapting Working!!.

symbv said:
Also, the members of the staff are the same as those adapt Magi or SAO.

symbv said:
And don't forget that this manga has much much smaller fan base than SAO (Working!! already has a smaller fanbase than SAO, but this manga has even smaller fanbase than Working!!), so your fear of SAO route is very much exaggerated.

AiCon said:
Wouldn't that insight have been used in the character development of SAO?

AiCon said:
So they're the same staff who worked on SAO and Magi. As I stated before, I don't find this comforting given how those two turned out.

symbv said:
Is SAO a 4-koma slice-of-life manga by Tsukino Kirino??

symbv said:
I am not saying SAO and Magi have the same staff, just that the staff who works in this anime are not those who work on SAO and Magi.

symbv said:
Look, just admit you are being paranoid -- it almost looks like you are suffering from some PTSD as a result of watching Magi and SAO.

AiCon said:
That doesn't mean that they couldn't have used what they learned to have at least some decent character development in SAO.

AiCon said:
You basically just contradicted yourself.

AiCon said:
Paranoid would imply that I know for sure that it would be shit -- I do not know for sure. I'm just concerned about the adaptation given A-1's recent history.

symbv said:
Why? The experience is very applicable to this anime, but how much is it for SAO? You are now acting just pure stubborn and unreasonable now.

symbv said:
My typo, I meant to say they are NOT the same.

symbv said:
The PTSD part still sounds true, particularly given the tone you struck in your last post.

seishi-sama said:
Adaptation is called adaptation exactly because it doesn't have to follow the original story step by step. If it did, then it would've been called "animated copy" or whatever. Adaptation means derivative work, meaning it should be based on a certain source but shouldn't necessarily reproduct it in a different artistic medium.

I have my share of issues with A-1 (not related to their adaptation preciseness but to animation inconsistencies and outright bad directing/writing in some series), but really, if people are so concerned with possible deviations from the original source they should just stick with the original source and not bother with anime at all. And by "at all" I mean at all, like, stopping watching anime in general.

AiCon said:
It's not just Working. They've made several good shows in the past that they could have used what they learned from those and applied it to SAO. Instead, we got SAO. At least Magi is better than SAO, but it still has its faults.

AiCon said:
I never said that an adaptation had to be carbon copy of the source. I just want it to be good and enjoyable. Given A-1's recent history, my enjoyablity is in doubt.

We'll eventually find out soon enough, when it comes out, if the show isn't bad.

symbv said:

BTW, the director of this anime is not the same as either the Working 1st season or 2nd season. His name is Yamamoto Yasutaka, whose most recent director work is Mondaiji. Not sure if this can help set some expectation though.

symbv said:
I do have my issues with some of the works A-1 did but as jmal said A-1 is a fairly large studio and clearly there is some unevenness in their adaptation work as large number of staff are spread over a number of projects. Still I would give the benefit of doubt for this anime simply because of how they successfully adapted the other work with the same genre and format by the same author.

seishi-sama said:
Then you probably shouldn't have mentioned the word "adaptation" to begin with. Why not simply say "their recent shows" instead of "their recent adaptations" if you didn't mean to put the emphasis on adaptation?

seishi-sama said:

He did well on Valkyrie Chronicles imo. Not familiar with his other works though.