Web Manga 'Koori no Jouheki' Gets TV Anime

by DatRandomDude
Jan 31, 9:49 AM | 27 Comments

An official website opened for a television anime adaptation of Koucha Agasawa's Koori no Jouheki (The Ramparts of Ice) manga on Friday. It also revealed an illustration (pictured above) drawn by Agasawa to celebrate the announcement.

Agasawa (Seihantai na Kimi to Boku) began drawing the romantic comedy manga as a self-published webtoon before beginning its serialization in the LINE Manga website from January 2020 to April 2022. Shueisha shipped the 13th volume on September 4 and will release the 14th and final volume on February 4.

Koori no Jouheki placed 15th in the Male Readers category of the Kono Manga ga Sugoi 2024 rankings.

Synopsis
Inept at dealing with people, Koyuki Higawa maintains a wall between herself and others. She spends her time in high school away from others, all alone. At least until she encounters Minato Amamiya who keeps closing the distance between them for some reason. The aloof Koyuki, the popular Miki, the boundary-less Minato, and the easygoing and kind basketball team member Youta. This is the story of these somewhat complicated four and their tantalizing, bumbling youth. (Source: LINE Digital Frontier, translated)

Official site: https://korinojoheki-pr.com/
Official X: @ramparts_ice

Source: Comic Natalie

Koori no Jouheki on MAL

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I was planning on reading this, after Polar Opposites ended. Good to know this and the latter are getting anime adaptations.

Feb 2, 9:46 AM by Nory993

@themasterseaso The fact that you perceived my comment that way is your problem I am afraid. If I wanted to be a smartass I would have said plenty other things without wasting my time explaining you.

Feb 2, 3:36 AM by Yubisoft

@Yubisoft

Yubisoft said:
For future reference since it seems you are stuck in 2011

No need to be a smartass buddy

Feb 1, 11:07 AM by themasterseaso

@themasterseaso Tomo-chan is a Girl had been finished for years before it got a full adaptation. Anime as an ad for the source material isn't really a thing anymore with old series being revived or getting long awaited continuations. Now anime is made just for the sake of it due to how popular it's become worldwide. It's highly profitable nowadays.

Jan 31, 8:40 PM by Yui_Suzumiya69

@Yubisoft This is not a Strawman argument, because there is a big difference and absence of stability to talk about the rarity of this. Plus, the difference between seasons is usually due to certain reasons. We are talking about works that either receive anime for the first time, or receive a new anime after a very long time. If deal were only in the schedule, then we would stably receive adaptations after a lot of time, but this does not happen.

Jan 31, 5:42 PM by RobertBobert

RobertBobert said:
@Yubisoft Six months and 5-6 years are several different things. Plus, this happens quite rarely, while most anime either promote new titles, or follow the old ones.

Strawman argument . I just gave you an example. Doesn't mean that One Piece has been delayed for the same reasons. My point is if One Piece, currently the number 1 anime in popularity, revenue had to be delayed then you can imagine what light years weaker anime productions have to delay things due to unexpected reasons. Also 5-6 years is such problem to you? Have you seen the gap between Re zero s1 and season 2 which had an extreme success?

Jan 31, 5:38 PM by Yubisoft

@Yubisoft Six months and 5-6 years are several different things. Plus, this happens quite rarely, while most anime either promote new titles, or follow the old ones.

Jan 31, 5:28 PM by RobertBobert

@RobertBobert Then the answer is simple. Studios have schedules. And that's what they follow. The only exceptions to that rule are usually anime productions with enormous popularity. But even in these cases we still get delays for various reasons . Even the the monster One Piece got delayed for a half a year.

Jan 31, 5:25 PM by Yubisoft

Yubisoft said:
People have to understand that no matter the plans a company makes for future season if s1 was a failure we would never had a s2. Also the fact that it was announced 4 months later proves that they wanted to see revenue of the 1st season before greenlighting a new production

Sure. These are companies. They are not working on charity here. This is how they make money. It'd be stupid to say otherwise.

We're looking at trends on shows that have been adapted to anime after the fact. And how likely we might be to see a full adaptation.

You quoted my little tiny statement but you missed my main point:

iwubanime said:
Just because an anime is finished well in advance, doesn't mean it will definitely be a complete adaptation

You are outlining why I said what I said. You get a single cour, if the show can be adapted in that timeframe then you'll get a full adaptation. Otherwise, it depends on whether the show met or exceeded whatever projected figures the company set for it.

Jan 31, 5:19 PM by iwubanime

iwubanime said:
maybe it was planned all along.

People have to understand that no matter the plans a company makes for future season if s1 was a failure we would never had a s2. Also the fact that it was announced 4 months later proves that they wanted to see revenue of the 1st season before greenlighting a new production

Jan 31, 5:13 PM by Yubisoft

kta_99 said:
Not that much of an example of this, since there was a small enough gap that the anime was definitely planned before the manga ended, but one weird one is Ao-chan Can't Study. They gave it half-length episodes and then adapted almost exactly half of the manga.

Ahh, yeah, good find. Sorry, I wasn't trying to pick on your comment there, I think it's interesting to analyze these sorts of trends. I would be happy to be wrong and see every completed show that gets adapted after the show ended would mean we'll get a full adaptation. I just typically have associated shows that get full adaptations to be something that is short enough to fit in one cour (like Tomo-chan), money makers (MHA), or very rare (like Duke of Death). When we get a full adaptation, I get really excited :)

Jan 31, 5:11 PM by iwubanime

@Yubisoft We discuss why the proposal was made so late, and not why it was done at all. Obviously, all these works had some popularity in the first place.

@iwubanime Again, depends on intentions. For example, Kenshin and Holo received new anime not least to promote the adaptation of their current sequels.

Jan 31, 5:11 PM by RobertBobert

@themasterseaso

themasterseaso said:
anime means to promote the medium

A book doesn't stop being sold when it ends. And of course the promotion doesn't stop with books. They can also promote blu rays, t shirts, figurines.For future reference since it seems you are stuck in 2011.

Jan 31, 5:10 PM by Yubisoft

I think some people here in the comments still don't understand that mal only represent a tiny minority of the anime/manga costumer base. If a mangaka has successful series, the studios will make offers. It's that simple.

Jan 31, 5:05 PM by Yubisoft

RobertBobert said:
It all depends on why they remembered this. Is this the release of a new reprint, the advance of the author or sequels/spin-offs of his work? Or did they just feel the missed commercial potential in this? The raven was simply an advertisement for the work that ended in the same year, if I remember correctly.

Yeah. I'm just commenting on kta_99's comment. Just because an anime is finished well in advance, doesn't mean it will definitely be a complete adaptation.

Another recent example is Wrong Way to use Healing Magic. Yes, a sequel was announced 4 months later. But if it was a sure thing, why didn't they announce it at the end of the first season? We will never know, maybe it was planned all along.

Jan 31, 5:05 PM by iwubanime

@iwubanime Not that much of an example of this, since there was a small enough gap that the anime was definitely planned before the manga ended, but one weird one is Ao-chan Can't Study. They gave it half-length episodes and then adapted almost exactly half of the manga.

Jan 31, 5:04 PM by kta_99

@kta_99 @kta_99 @perseii I think such things need to be checked by Japanese sources. Who generally say that this is a school shonen, lmao.

@iwubanime It all depends on why they remembered this. Is this the release of a new reprint, the advance of the author or sequels/spin-offs of his work? Or did they just feel the missed commercial potential in this? The raven was simply an advertisement for the work that ended in the same year, if I remember correctly.

Jan 31, 4:52 PM by RobertBobert

Yeah, sorry, I didn't explain it very well. I was curious if they would adapt all the content but didn't expect them to do it in one cour.

I thought I had examples of finished content that was then only adapted partially. But the two that came to mind were not valid (Mononogatari's source finished after the first cour and was probably a split cour anyway and Raeliana is a Manhwa). Maybe Raven of the Inner Palace but that had a relatively small window between novel finish and anime start, so sadly it was likely only planned for one cour to boost sales (Japan!!!).

Jan 31, 4:52 PM by iwubanime

@iwubanime 14 volumes means it would probably need 2 if not 3 cours to have any chance of a full adaptation, unless they wanted to pull a Horimiya speedrun-type deal. Which certainly could happen. It would be kind of weird to wait until a series had been complete for a while and then only adapt it partially. Just something to keep in mind.

Jan 31, 3:07 PM by kta_99

@RobertBobert While Line Manga doesn't have any particular demographic, the physical volumes were published by Jump Comics, who are focused on shonen and seinen. As for why it was tagged that way in some places, I've seen some demographic listings that are just straight-up incorrect, much less questionable choices in ambiguous situations. It might have been as simple as "High school romance with a female lead? Must be shojo!" That said, I haven't actually read this personally, so I can't be certain.

Jan 31, 3:05 PM by kta_99

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