Director Yamamoto Yutaka Causes a Dispute Over His Retirement

by dtshyk
Jan 24, 2011 7:07 AM | 30 Comments

According to the official blog, director Yamamoto Yutaka will close his blog taking the responsibility for making a reckless announcement of his immediate retirement provoked by an anonymous inflammatory comment on the blog. He was harshly reprimanded by Noitamina producers Isoda and Shimizu and has withdrawn his retirement.

The dispute began when an anonymous person posted a provocative comment on Yamamoto's blog that "Stop relying on other creators' works. Why don't you produce your own original anime? If it fails, then quit the anime industry without making disgraceful excuses." Yamamoto replied "I'll retire right now if you want me to. On no conditions what-so-ever. I promise."

Director Yamamoto has repeatedly stated in public that he will retire if Fractale fails.

Source: Yamakan's blog

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Provocation succeeded. It's really not rational to say something like that. *Think twice*

Mar 16, 2011 4:14 AM by donutsu

Adanadhel said:
Am I the only one who finds Fractale the best show in the season, so far? =O

yeah it's not the best but it's one of the top ones of this season imo.

Mar 15, 2011 10:58 PM by jakeisquite

kashim said:
Even more emo than Shinji Ikari....

LOL, I wouldn't go that far.

Feb 18, 2011 7:09 PM by malvarez1

Adanadhel said:
Am I the only one who finds Fractale the best show in the season, so far? =O

Its not the BEST, but certainly not the worst.

Feb 18, 2011 12:46 PM by __Luka-Chan

Am I the only one who finds Fractale the best show in the season, so far? =O

Feb 15, 2011 7:35 AM by LuccasDMC

hahaha. owned by a troll.

Feb 14, 2011 10:25 PM by removed-user

Butthurt much? This is ridiculous.

Feb 14, 2011 9:58 PM by AngelicFeces

Siva said:
Now we need a show about this drama, don't we?

We can make it a moe show and have him SD and go "Mouu! Pun pun!"

Feb 11, 2011 6:32 PM by hentai_proxy

Lol, weird.

Fractale isn't a failure so far, so that should boost the guy's inflated ego.

Feb 5, 2011 3:04 AM by Jgray40

Dax said:
Wow this reminds me of a Certain Hideaki prior to End of Evangelion :D

he could only be his imitation, Hideaki made decent anime even before Evangelion

Jan 25, 2011 11:06 PM by Pessoa

Leon-Gun said:
That idiot is such a drama queen. They should seriously let him retire. One less idiot in the industry.

I agree. His more of a troll than the anonymus troll. What's wrong with this dude?

Jan 25, 2011 3:17 PM by Monad

Now we need a show about this drama, don't we?

Jan 25, 2011 6:11 AM by Siva

Wow this reminds me of a Certain Hideaki prior to End of Evangelion :D

Jan 25, 2011 5:04 AM by Dax

NOOOOOOOO you better not fuck up fractale because you're still hormonal, bitch

Jan 25, 2011 12:36 AM by simo000

they totally should find that anonymous person and make him write a script

Jan 24, 2011 2:43 PM by Eternal_Shield

Man, this guy must be pure joy to work with. Human warmth incarnate.

dtshyk said:
Source: Yamakan's blog

Errr...thanks for the link?

Jan 24, 2011 10:12 AM by Nyuu3

Then lets see what's going to happen after Fractale ends XD

Jan 24, 2011 9:57 AM by sisore

dtshyk said:

Director Yamamoto has repeatedly stated in public that he will retire if Fractale fails.

With all the controversy surrounding Fractale, it's pretty much a guarantee that he'll retire.

Jan 24, 2011 9:46 AM by Hoppy

oh god, this series of events makes me laugh so hard :D oh Yamamoto Yutaka, you so crazy xD

Jan 24, 2011 9:40 AM by Sam_J

I don't know if this is for a PR, but he's making a lot of noise for an anime which is frankly unimpressive at best. This fracas he's creating overshadows even more the show he's making.

Is this going to turn into a weekly event between episodes?
What's next?

Jan 24, 2011 9:09 AM by Omniknight

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