Ultimate production controversy anime Free! actually boasts a crack KyoAni team and could be a hit, it is being said – and Hiroko Utsumi, the raging fujoshi directing it, probably explains much of its direction and potential quality.
Utsumi’s main production credits so far include 4 episodes of Nichijou, 4 episodes of K-ON!, 4 of Hyouka, and (perhaps to her credit) only one each of Chuunibyou and Tamako Market, with Free! to be her directorial debut.
She actually spent an entire interview enthusing about a changing room scene with the boys of Hyouka which she oversaw, so her credentials are hardly in doubt – although from the point of view of more traditionally minded KyoAni fans, this may well be the point at issue:
I oversaw production and storyboarding of episode 7 of Hyouka.
I was able to show the guys in a fresh light, with ever cool Hotaro getting a bit tipsy after his long bath, plenty of cute steamy stuff and those red faces – really just down to the hot water or something else!? Really cute, I think.
Of course, what I really took care over was the changing scene.
When they are changing and raise their arms, I took care over their ribs and the shape of their arms crossing (etc).
I actually tried getting the character designer to demonstrate just how sexy a guy stripping can be, but he declined.
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Also I must confess – Satoshi’s pantsu are pink because of my preference.
Her enthusiasm (presumably shared by KyoAni’s other female staff, who may well be equally rancid) probably also goes some way to explaining how the studio managed such a provocative change in direction between styles and target demographics – although fans of their more recent works are probably just wishing they had lavished as much attention on changing scenes involving their own favoured moeblobs.
I really believe it was going to be FMP
What is this feeling, it fucking hurt real bad ;_;
So…We’ll never get a new FMP season, will we? T_T
moya moya ?..
Will this be the new Ouran?
If so, who’s the reverse trap?
Man, the second one thing doesnt go your way you otaku start bawling like a fat kid at mcdonalds who didnt get the toy he wanted in his Happy Meal. Give it a rest.
Between this, the ripping up of manga books when a character gets a boyfriend and the creeping over the private lives of seiyuu how do you even wonder for a second why people tend to think of you all as immature manchildren?
If you dont like it, dont watch it, it’s targeted towards females, and likely gay men.
if you’re gonna bash an anime that hasn’t even aired solely based on it’s character design/ production team, it doesn’t say that you have excellent taste in anime– it just means that you’re shallow and judgmental.
That’s what ever anime fan has always done… they determine if an anime is even worthy of being in the industry or not simply by looking to see if it has either lolis, moe, ecchi, yuri, yaoi, BL, or a mix of any of those… and then based on that they figure out if the anime has worthwhile plot or not.
Wouldn’t this bring more girls to comic conventions?
a herd of whales, yes. specially in western comicon i think
I simply have no interest in how cute a guy’s ribcage can be. So I’ll leave this show to whoever has an interest in that instead of spitefully insulting it.
I’ll watching the anime next door, somebody who watches this give me a call when it’s finised.
Sorry but this seems like a it’s going to be poorly written. Karnvel is another fujoshi anime.
To be fair KyoAni didn’t exactly set the bar too high with K-On.
I’m totally fine with branching out or there being an anime catering to female viewers, but I can’t see how KyoAni could ever think that this would be a good business move for them, considering the image they’ve built up for their studio and their brand, plus their primary viewer base.
Well, Kyoto Animation has to reel in different demographics to continue to keep their studio afloat. The Anime industry responds to those who avidly support the market. Since Moe and fujushi fans tend to actively support the market, the market in turn continues to deliver to them. Just like the One Piece crowd, they continue to actively buy more of the series Manga, the series owners continue to produce more for them.
Madoka, Fate Zero, Stein’s gate and the Bakemonogatari franchise? Same thing.
And about this show. To me, they just look like ordinary guys taking a swim. Although I won’t deny the bishounen factor is there, I simply do not care about this show enough to be “ranting” about it here, especially when it caters mostly to heterosexual girls.
Well her credentials certainly seem good. So she’s a good director. But I don’t really appreciate her fujoshi hijinks on shows like hyouka.
I for one prefer to see her make her fujoshi fantasies come true in Free and any other fujoshi oriented show, to get it out of her system so she doesn’t have to put more boy bath scenes on stuff like hyouka.
So, basically the backlash against this has only made me think that otaku are like the closest thing to islamic extremist of the anime world. This is 2013, even gay marriage is becoming acceptable, yet our anime has to remain “made for males 13-21”?
maybe its time to “reform” the shounen / seinen scissor?
funny women didn’t shlicked for berserk and some other manly man man shows. okay guys, time to lose those muscles and be a skinny bishounen women dreamed about.
when men talk to eachother as “human beeings” its like the woman go to the toilett together….
you dont see it… you dont smell it (hopefully) … and you dont hear it…
but it happened!
How would you know? You guys don’t really seem to talk to eachother as human beings enough to figure out anything about eachother. Women hardly ever have been able to come out about their sexual tastes and fetishes.
Hmm, this is a good start… but this is just a KyoAni anime for women and it looks only a little more ecchi-powered than the usual kyoani anime. Women need the ecchi equivalent of the kind of ecchi anime that I like too, like Queen’s Blade, Manyuu Hikenchou, Kanokon, etc…
So what about non-fujoshi women who watch this? Do otaku hate them too?
They’re just hating on fujoshi because they think this anime is going to be “gay”. They’re too afraid to hate directly on homosexuals instead because they know that’s an unpopular thing to do now, but it’s really pretty much the same thing that they’re doing.
I don’t care about downvoters, this anime is a landmark achievement. Now I can enjoy my yuri and oppai anime in peace while the ladies are busy watching Free!
It’s an anime for girls… what is wrong with that..
I have 50 billion other anime’s made for guys.
My Little Pony & Princess Tutu were made for girls…this is practically Male PORN w/out the females!
I can’t wait for “Freezing” season 2 to come out & wash the season clean
Many, many girls wanna watch this, so that makes it an anime for girls.
Also some of the artists have worked on Mirai Nikki.
If you’re in Japan, during the night, stick your head out of the window and listen… you should hear plenty of shlicking sounds emanating all over neighborhood.
Now that you mention the idea I may as well barge into the room with a mask from the anime. A little extra sex won’t hurt LOL
Hmmm… delicious juices! :3 This anime is wonderful, fuck the haters.
I can’t fap to this
Obviously? Because this anime is for shlicking, not fapping…
Let’s stop and remember that whatever this show is, it will be based on an original comic that won the highest award at KyoAni’s competition for collecting original manga content to keep in their vault of new things that have the best potential to be an anime.
They have kept the contents of the comic hidden, but I think we can be confident that it will be more than just “pretty boys being pretty”– there are enough of those kinds of comics on the market. KyoAni saw something special about this one way back in 2011, before the commercial’s fangirl popularity, so I am excited to see what that something was.
How dare someone using a Mugi avatar from “K-On!” tell Otaku’s to not be upset at this betrayal by KyoAni.
even Mugi likes girls!
Even if it is just pure ecchi for women, I think they also deserve to finally have an anime like that, when we guys have had so many like that for us already.
It’s pretty boys being pretty. It worked for girls with K-On, so why shouldn’t it work with guys? Yeah… it would be hilarious if this anime failed hard.
The boys are definitely being pretty and I am sure they will use that to their advantage when marketing this, but I am still optimistic because I can’t picture the KyoAni staff in a room judging for their original manga contest and going “MAN, the guys in this one are pretty! Let’s give THIS one our highest award!”
Someone in that room saw potential on that day. I am hoping that it will be the kind of show that makes girls have moe feelings and guys want to high five them and be their bros– which is the feeling I felt in reverse as a female watching K-on.
If this is just gender bent K-on, I’ll find it just as boring as K-on, without the redeeming quality of watching cute girls doing cute things.
I still found that boring.
i agree with with you. i just hope this anime would be like nichijou/chuunibyou/lucky star. more of comedy.
HELL NO
NEXT!
no wonder that scene felt especially gay.
fuck. woman, back in the kitchen.
Nobody here notices that the new director’s resume of directing is 444. 4th episode of 3 shows.
That’s the equivalent of 666 in Japan.
Basically, Die Die Die.
Even her resume wants it dead.
Kill with fire!
I dont really get the fuzz about this anime… I simply not watch this one. There are plenty of other animes coming out that are worth watching.
This is a anime for girls, well then so be it. I guess they deserve some animes for their own gay-adoring shit too.
Just dont watch it… easy.
Best post by someone who doesn’t like this anime, so far.
I’ll be disgusted if this piece of crap becomes one of the best anime in the history. This anime is a total disgrace and so does the pathetic fujoshi director.
It’s amazing how this comment makes absolutely no sense. If this ‘piece of crap’ becomes ‘one of the best anime in history’, then it’s not a piece of crap, it’s a really good anime.
So the director is a raging fujoshi….The mere thought of her disturbs me so much that each time I see anything to do with this anime, I feel the sudden need to rage and flame.
Dude you dropped your fedora.
Wow, if the existence of a woman is enough to disturb you, i’d hate to see how you’d react to something genuinely disturbing.
I don’t think there’s anything more disturbing than fujoshits and feminism.
one kick in the groin wouldnt be enough to explain this behaviour.
i would say its more like magazines.. and opinions… and magazines.. and prejudices….
and the obligatory women demand to much while woman has allready all the joys of nature (from a mans standpoint)…
Last I heard feminism is because of people like you putting females down when they have something they like.
I bet you always like to see women groveling, not being intelligent and empowered. Were you kicked in the groin in your youth?
she didn’t seem very raged to me…
my cock it’s ready!
oh, the horror…!
I prefer l’horreur
KyoAni is trying to give otakus a reason to hate them instead of Aku no Hana.
Good guy KyoAni
Well, as a non-otaku anime fan and a human being, I’m quite excited by this ^^ it’s actually the first KyoAni thing I’ve ever cared about, so maybe this way they’ll also get new fans even if they lose some old ones…
And now go die in a fire you fujoshi monster.
You, sir. Have talked. Fujoshi here. I loved K-ON. Please, oh please have a plot and not just cute guys because some of us, fujoshi, want story with it.
Amen
The problem isn’t fujoshi or ‘moetards’ or whatever the god damn bullshit is. The problem is their change in direction in this is worrisome if it’s merely a pendulum swing in the other direction.
Moe and random breasts and pantsu is just as bad for either sex. People complain about fujoshi but don’t realize that fujoshi are actually just the female equivalent of guys who like tits and ass in their characters.
The difference is that most of the tits and ass has been exaggerated and ironic. It’s not serious, and most of it is outrageously sexy and intentionally not something someone would fap to because it’s essentially a comedic take, just as this woman’s take on the Hyouka episode.
However… this woman is spending too much detail on this. This isn’t important. Spending that much time on the body and not on the plot is worrisome. Make a guy sexy all you want, but don’t force it. Men and women have one thing in common: forced sexiness is fake and unappealing.
Turning this into a yaoi doujinshi will decimate any reasonable potential for her as a director, so I’m just going to sincerely hope that this is just Sankaku being Sankaku again.
^
THIS
So by “non-otaku anime fan”, you mean Fujoshi.
full metal panic second raid, clannad, hyouka and nichijou would be 4 solid and varied examples of there work. Im just not sure why as a being a non-otaku anime fan would make free! seem more appealing than some of the other kyoani stuff. FMP has mechs so tis fairly otakuish fair enough but its hardly moe blob. Clannad is one of the most moving drama Ive even seen. It is moe certainly but the moe stuff isnt really the focus of the series just a part of it. Em hyouka for a slow paced mystery drama slice of life thing. Quite interesting and unique. Nichijou because tis over the top and zanny as hell.
Of course, stuff like haruhi and lucky star are classics as well but I guess theyve never interested you enough to watch them for some reason? This show about a male swimming team intrests you though?
Doesnt really make sense unless you really love shows about sports teams or you enjoy smexy kyoani males. But if that were the case.. Why not just say as a sports anime fan? What does non-otaku and as a human being mean? cause youre judgement is somehow superior to fans who have actually watched other kyoani stuff because your allegedly not an otaku whereas they are?
@10:26 – I haven’t been interested to check out any others that I have known about. I honestly don’t know what all the kyoani anime are.
fujoshi is just another kind of otaku fan. And how have you not enjoyed at least one kyoani anime? Even if you loath moeblobs stuff theyve had other quality shows over the years.
@ 14:45 – correction
little girls <<<<< cool dudes <<<<<<<<<<<<<<< hot women
@14:25 – by non-otaku anime fan, it means a casual anime watcher… otaku is relative to obsessive or hardcore, right?
And I’m seriously annoyed by little girls, so maybe that explains it.
Little girls >>> cool dudes >>>>>>>>>>>> hot women
This also looks fresh because of the swimming, effect of the water, and animation. This would do well if released in the heat of summer, I think.
make sense now?
How am I a fujoshi? IM A GUY!!! -_-‘
….KyoAni Made Clannad u know :/
Is SanCom becoming a fujoshit website?
“equality now” in action 😛
What’s wrong with equality? Do you feel superior in some way?
Mislabeling for one. Equality Now is a female gender supremacist movement, as are many other “feminist” organizations.
i thought he was happy about the “equality now” ….
I think it already has Artefact had female moderators .
Pack up your sticks fellas, this is no longer a SAFE Place for the REAL Otaku’s anymore. This is what you get for giving KyoAni all your “K-On!” & “Haruhi” money – Fujoshi revenge antics. Plus, if it sells- he’ll make more.
Rage bating for pageviews.
Me noob, what is a fujoshit website? I’m genuinely curious
SanCom
well i just googled hiroko utsumi to see what she’s like, and as expected, she is ugly
I laughed.
So many heartless people around here who don’t even deserve their moe anime from KyoAni anymore…
You’re right – we don’t deserve this fujoshi nonsense paid for with Otaku Moe Money!
It’s like a priest emptying the collection plate at church and going to gay strip bar with the money…..hey wait a sec.
And you think KyoAni does moeblobs ’cause they love their fans? You forgot about the piles of cash they’re handling thanks to moeblobs?
Who the fuck cares? Why should people have to appeal to your penis for every fucking job they do? Are male animators fashion models? No? Then shut up.
No One pays money to see male animators do they? They do pay money to cute moe girls in kawaii outfits though.
“Sailor Moon” can’t get made fast enough I tell you. Dam, those short shirts
The fact that this comment was downvoted makes me sad for humanity.
Sankaku and misogynistic otaku makes me sad for humanity enough already.
LOL ugly radar sets off.
you know who said beauty is only skin deep? an ugly person.
Unless you have the face of Brad Pitt and the cock of Evan Stone, you might want to let off the oh so manly internet insulting you little anon you. 😉
LMAO, mad ugly fujoshi detected
LMAO, mad ugly otaku detected
she really need to have a plastic surgery, being that ugly is a crime!
Look who’s talking, lol
have you seen my face? no right? but i have seen her, and i can tell you its fucking ugly, do google her yourself
I can easily speculate you’re fugly, and you can’t do a shit about about it.
Pretty sure everyone on this site is fucking ugly compared to me. Losers.
So what? judge her by the quality of her work, you asshole.
YES, Yes…because Japanese women judge Otaku males on their “inner-beauty” & not the quality of their work.
her work is crap too you know, she’s probably whoring around her bosses to get her position now
Was Aya Hirano involved in any of these orgies?
Nobody wants fujoshi poontang.
Slumber parties?
The kind where animators sleep at their workstations.
yeah kyoani is renowned for its office orgies.
“Kyoto Animation “Too Busy” for Little Busters!”
Little busters 2016
Good, that anime adaptation was a steaming pile of shit. Even the VNs were mediocre at best.
yeah , but my countrymen(italy….) are giving it 10/10 sayng it is the anime of the decade and ALL the other animes(except madoka) of the year suck…..
Fujoshi are even bigger assholes than the terrorists!
Yes, because developing a swimmer anime is worse than 9/11.
yes, because 9/11 was the worst thing that ever happened, right?
@6:42 – wow, that’s not even the point. Who cares what the worst thing done by terrorists is… comparing the liking of this anime to the deaths of thousands of people? Really? Even as an extreme hyperbole that’s just lame…
Except 9/11 was universally condemned.
Free is only condemned by male supremacists who can’t stand women getting something they like from KyoAni.
arguably… deaths by guns per year is higher than the death count from 9/11.
its like a critical strike… but the flying arabs where the critical strike portion.
arguably it’s the worst thing ever done by terrorists, yes..
Seriously, why’s everyone getting their metaphorical panties in a bunch about this anime?
So it’s filled with (half-)naked bishounen. Big freakin’ whoop. Pretty much every anime out there right now is filled with (half-)naked bishoujo. The female fans (and gay ones) are finally being catered to with some fanservice of their own. Good for them.
No one’s forcing the straight male fans to watch it – and I certainly won’t be tuning in since I’m one of them – so who gives a flying fuck? -_-;
The problem is that they are slowly but surely expanding into fields they never before were in. There always have been animes and mangas made solely for them and nobody else, because nobody else can actually enjoy them.
What is made here is pretty much fetish manga for a specific group. This wouldn’t be much of a problem if it weren’t taking up production space that before belonged to a different group.
While this anime is made no other can be made with the same resources. This means the fujoshi gain something while another group is losing something, it shouldn’t surprise anyone that they’re pretty upset about it.
And as mentioned before it is FETISH anime, nothing else being produced here. Fetish anime is some of the most exlusive anime there is. It caters to a specific audience and wont be enjoyed by anyone else unlike other rather more neutral pieces of work.
And I bet they would be less antagonized by this if it weren’t a more and more common occurence nowadays.
The whole industry is currently in financial problems and they’re desperate to try anything that promises them fast money and increased sales/views.
Mangas made for a female audience especially fujoshi ones have increasingly found their way into former male only magazines, even into shounen ones where the producers they to sell them as exactly that when it is obviously they’re not. They’re meant to boost sales by luring a different demographic into buying the magazine aswell but often only end up hurting sales further.
I do understand what you’re explaining, but it still sounds retarded as hell. It’s like saying lacrosse sucks because it wastes resources that could be used for other less obscure sports, enjoyed by more people…
For the record, K-ON! was actually enjoyed by both sexes. More for the guys, of course, but it doesn’t alienate the other side more than this one. Cute can easily be appreciated by both sides, but wet bishonen bodies are absolutely leaning towards one side.
Note, I’m only talking about KyoAni. Other studios have obviously jumped well into making works aimed at the male demographic only.
“There always have been animes and mangas made solely for them and nobody else, because nobody else can actually enjoy them.”
As opposed to moe anime, which is universally enjoyed by fans of both genders? Somehow, I kind of doubt that. o_O
“Now in hope of increasing their budget for the years to come by attracting a larger audience they detract money from some of the sport events, which while not be hugely popular with anyone, are overall still something most people can somewhat enjoy and instead spend it to build and run an BDSM club.”
Look, if this really is nothing more than a niche anime which only a small, select group can possibly enjoy, the best solution is to let it come into existence and proceed to royally bomb. If it results in massive negative feedback and loss of income, then the producers will think twice about pandering to fujoshi ever again and this will remain their first and only foray into that field.
There is a big difference, Lacrosse doesn’t take anything out of the other sports since their “pool” isn’t limited in the same way.
Imagine instead having an organization with a certain budget to spend on all kind of activities they use to attract people. For example holding football tournaments, dance events, excursions for children and so on.
Now in hope of increasing their budget for the years to come by attracting a larger audience they detract money from some of the sport events, which while not be hugely popular with anyone, are overall still something most people can somewhat enjoy and instead spend it to build and run an BDSM club.
You can bet the people who’s sport events would’ve been canceled would be angry, very angry about that.
>>The female fans (and gay ones) are finally being catered to with some fanservice of their own.
There’s enough anime targeting female fans out there, how could you miss them all and pretend this is the fist one?
If there’s enough anime targeting female fans then there’s more than enough targeting male fans. Why are you all upset over just one more?
And why don’t you guys understand that we are only harming ourselves by not being happy for the females who watch this? Can’t we at least be happy for female anime fans who aren’t fujoshi?
Seeing Rage Machine set to “HIGH” is just sad.
It’s not just simple fact anime fans refuse to accept anything that goes beyond their own taste.
Much worse is sheer amount of rage they put into this, clearly showing they’re not far from crazed Japanese otaku, we used to make fun on regular basis.
I don’t share your tastes, but I will defend your right to watch things you like.
I can hear you but this was to be expected. Complaints swarm in from the entire fan-base, which obviously also includes female fans that are NOT into this whole fujo business.
But what factual info that we have about this anime so far even makes it a “fujoshi” anime? The tsundere raging hardons that otaku are trying to hide for these boys? Because that’s the only homo thing I see going on with this anime right now…
@08:46 – your entire post is full of insecure denial to be honest, lol. Honestly, if I don’t like something, I just ignore it and let other people enjoy it. What do you people tell moe and lolicon haters? Live and let live, right? Whatever floats your boat? I honestly think that every hater here feels buttfucked by kyoani and are trying to hard to let everyone know that they weren’t starting to enjoy it, and even if that’s not true then it’s better for them to just stop the hating because that’s exactly how they’re making themselves look.
I understand about the homophobia, I was like that once. I was afraid to watch something like Brokeback Mountain. Now I can see stuff like that (i.e guys kissing or falling in love with eachother) that in movies and I don’t care at all. I would hate to be a hypocrite and call out stuff like that for existing when I enjoy stuff like Yuri myself.
Oh please. It’s an yaoi boy romance anime. There is simply no denying what this is the attempt alone is in all honesty pretty pathethic.
As is the whole “you don’t like it so obviously you must be gay!” stuff.
Is that really supposed to be keep people from complaining about something they dislike and how they dislike the change of course of one of their favorite producers?
These people aren’t tsundere for these guys nor do they have hard ones for them. They really and in all honestly dislike this stuff.
That might be hard for you to understand but people who say they dislike our outright hate stuff you like will in most cases be honest.
Just because you love it doesn’t mean everyone else does and just tries to hide that fact.
“Oh please. It’s an yaoi boy romance anime. There is simply no denying what this is the attempt alone is in all honesty pretty pathethic.”
Your post would be pretty good if it wasn’t for this stupid statement.
I think a lot of the complainers are just closet gays getting uncomfortably aroused by this show.
Otherwise I really don’t see the logic. I don’t complaint about things that simply aren’t meant for me, like hokey, Broadway musicals or country music.
The reason they can’t simply not watch it is that *they can’t simply not watch it*.
Oh please. Closet gays? Really? That’s just a popular running-gag among openly gay persons who just can’t accept the fact that hetero guys REALLY don’t want to deal with homosexuality. You know, there’s also something called common decency where both parties agree to tolerate each other as long as they are not obnoxious about their prefs.
When i see something that’s obviously not to my tastes and then there someone coming around saying “that’s because you’re a closet gay”, well, that’s where people cross exactly the afore mentioned decency.
It’s hard to say whether it’s true homophobia, random stupidity, or herd mentality. Probably all three.
the only positive to this is that this “Free!” isn’t another K-on/hyouka/tamako/chuunibyou.
What? Hyouka? Really?
Your avatar is a pony, no one cares what you think.
As if they care what an anonymous commenter thinks. 😛
Awwww did I hurt your little girly feelings? Go fuck a horse.
*smells the frustrated and self-called pseudo-anticonformist teenager who tries to contradict and criticize others because he has never learnt how to fit with them*
Assuming you’re talking about me, I haven’t been a teenager in well over a decade.
Massive fail, anonymous.P
you mean like…. otaku?
Quit bringing this crap here already, SanCom!
Female moderators Aneko & Ichi ruined the Sankaku forums – Now KyoAni is trying to get Otaku’s to hate him.
Season 2 of “Genshiken” was ruined Fujoshi centered plot lines – this never ends well for the true male Otaku’s. Fujoshi ruin ALL Moe-Centered hideouts & safe havens for Otakus.
Seeing people like you so disgusted by fujoshi is both ironic and hilarious since they are basically your equally-perverted female clones. If you are that bothered by them, go buy a mirror.
Good I hope you both eat each other. Ensuring the demise of both.
Quick, someone start an ecchi anime fansite that is devoid of jerks!
They’ll stop when you stop hilariously raging.
you rage = their views = their MONARYYYRYRYAYAYYRYRYRY
Make an anime about Kyoani’s staff daily lives…
I would watch that.
They already did – nichijou
I think their daily lives just got fucked up real bad.
No seriously, i would surely like to see the fallout from rabid Japanese fans on their mailboxes etc.
These days they actually have fallout they could mail…
Actual quote from the director. Instructions to the animation team working under her.
“The themes of the anime are friendship, swimming and UPPER BODY. Especially the UPPER BODY. Upper bodies are filled with dreams. Don’t forget to stare at their chests and shoulders.”
Replace ‘UPPER BODY’ with ‘BOOBS’ and you have a formula for an award-winning anime.
wait until she got raped by raging otaku
How can otaku rape when they can’t even leave their rooms?
Besides, if these comments are anything to go by, they’d probably rather go gay than using their dongs on a fujoshi.
Ironic statement, I’ll admit.
Anyways, rape is the only way otakus can get any.
Cause there are no rich otakus?
i love guys and girls!
YUM!
hurr hurr im gonna make a dumb comment on da indanet hurp -sucks cheetos dust from fingers-
herp i bet somewun gets raped because i hate women hurhur NO MOTHER I’LL UNLOAD THE DISHWASHER LATER
iz u ok?
That’s completely out of line, dude. REALLY out of line.
Don’t like it? Get raped!
I wish rape of anyone who makes light of rape.
You had better clamp your own ass-cheeks shut, pal.
@15:59, sure it’s ironic but irony isn’t always a bad thing. It would be ironic indeed if someone who makes fun of rape gets raped themselves and realizes that it’s actually serious business. Who else but such people would deserve to experience such irony?
@15:59
Perhaps you should wish for a working irony detector instead.
Imposing your desires and whims, even with money, is never a good thing.
And K-On was such an philosophical masterpiece right? No desires or whims there, totally not pandering to a specific demographic, just pure art.
You shut your filthy mouth with that trash talk about my Azuyan! She’s a good girl & she’s in a band…and we’re in love.
So shut it!
but the girls weren’t topless not even 1 freaking panty shot
Well, then it’s just too bad that the fujoshi of KyoAni happens to have more guts than the other KyoAni dudes. Nothing was stopping them from showing Mio’s panties among all the far more ecchi anime out there.
not really. they fear of a random raid by japan’s finest. you know, raiding for 2D reasons since they also can’t deal with 3D problems easily?
I’ve never watched or have any desire to watch K-on, but from where I stand, it’s miles ahead of this.
I lol’d
Good for gay and fujoshi, for a straight person who loves “moeblob”, it’s a NO GO.
I consider myself open-minded but nowhere in hell i’d spend my free time watching an all-male swimming and showering anime.
I’d rather watch some crappy Chinese anime than this show. Imagine the a-holes who end up having to SUB this show.
It’ll be the 1st time the Otaku’s censor & pixelate instead of the TV censors – Where are you Ishihara!
I consider myself very sure in my heterosexuality, but no way in hell would I spend my free time watching an all-male swimming and showering anime, because that’s, like, so gay.
Are you downvoting this guy because he has a girlfriend or what? Wow.
Watching this with my girlfriend! :3 She’s not even a fujoshi, though… we’re both pretty casual anime watchers.
way to contradict yourself
It’s called “knowing your own limits and where to draw a line”, smartass.
Then that’s pretty much closed mindedness. That’s like saying it’s ok for someone to hate on moe anime once they see just the moe characters, then immediately brush it off as “just a moe anime” and not give it a chance to show any other merits. We don’t even know anything about how the story of Free! is going to be beyond wild speculation.
yes, moetard
No thanks, Mr. Director…
Oh wait… *Miss Director
“Miss”
Oh, I see what you did there.
lol…. not gonna tap that
Do not want.
Will not watch.
Then don’t watch
Then don’t post
How the hell is this even a valid comeback?
First person: “I don’t want this shit”
Second person: “GTFO if you don’t like it”
You: “Don’t tell him to GTFO because he doesn’t like it” or w/e the hell you meant
dafaq
can someone explain?
Penis & Vagina…not wait, hold the vagina & add more penis.
@10:32 – that’s just how we roll down here in SanCom
PENISES
Then don’t read
They don’t speak
Then don’t reply
FUCKING MOETARD
FUCKING FUJOSHI!
well then….
LET’S
FUCK!!!!
Fuck Anime News dot com – why not?
I’D DO ALL THREE
FUCK!
FUCK THEM HARD
Finally a male moe-blob. Why did the author decline making him strip!
after reading the comments insulting one another for being otakus and fujoshis and being ugly and whatnot, i demand to have a say in this matter.
i’m not a pursuer of equal rights or justice or shit, but let’s be fair here and don’t discriminate on whether you are otaku or fujoshi or non-otaku or someone who came here just to insult otakus and fujoshis, i mean we’re all humans right. and we’re not all that different from one another (at least you’re not). so let’s not discriminate against ourselves okay? at least i know i don’t.
so, all that i wanted to say is.
i hate you all. fuck you.
Finally, another sane person who realizes what a cesspit this place is, lol.
anyone else tempted to support this anime just to watch the haters burst into fames?
Fames, eh?
Raise the roof, Anon.
i find it hillarious that women can appreciate cute or attractive female chatacters, but the other way around and guys have to start screaming on territory infringement. talk about insecurity. if kyoani wants to flush it’s money hoping to cash in on fujoushi’s, let them. can’t possibly be worse than half the other shit they’ve done.
that being said, i don’t know if this thing will really fly, but judging from the number of comments it’s gotten plenty of publicity. i think half the flamers are seriously trying to make this thing popular.
I think it’s fairly understandable actually. I mean, why should people who simply don’t like certain things have to explain themselves? Look around. People who do give a reason for their dislike are often insulted as moetards or closet-homophobes. How ridiculous. And in this special case here, i do think it is fair that KyoAni and their show are being called out by fans. Yes, even complaining fans are still fans.
So maybe this show is perfectly watchable for anyone. Maybe it’s just a lot of steam about nothing. But, there are certain elements present that make a lot of people nervous. I don’t hold that against them. If this show happens to cater to a certain type of fujoshi with BL under-tones, then it is unwatchable for me. As simple as that. And one can’t blame people for posting about their disappointment when the show isn’t properly advertised.
Certain types of anime are watchable for anyone while there are some that will always cause friction because they are really only meant to please a minority in spirit.
I guess the truth really just is… that humanity, and especially anime fans, are in a sad and sorry state. Things will never be good for us. There will always be hatred everywhere.
The girls took it for the last 10 years, now it’s your turn, guys. Take it like a man!
why take it when you can just not watch it? kyoani is on my blacklist anyhow, don’t watch their shows anymore.
So now fujoshi’s a bad word, too? Who cares if the fujoshi fanatic is making a fujoshi show? It’s about boys swimming! Were you going to watch that?
tl;dr
Females: YAY! Something to drool at and enjoy!! KYAA~!
Male supremacists: WTF THIS IS NOT FAIR! Females getting something to shlick on! STOP THE MADNESS THIS IS SUPPORTING FEMINAZIS!!
Yes. It’s that nonsensical.
Well, let the girls have their swimmers… us male otaku had quite a lot of moe fanservice until now^^ (though I could live -and will live- without ‘Rage on’)
What I’m more worried about is that after Tamako Market there won’t be any KyoAni anime for at least 2 seasons. KyoAni has no show for spring and summer. Should ‘Rage on’ be 24 eps… there won’t be any anime until winter lol
‘Kyoukai no Kanata’ will be 24 eps for sure, so… the next anime after that will air earliest in summer 2014 -.-
Also lol @
“I actually tried getting the character designer to demonstrate just how sexy a guy stripping can be, but he declined.”
<- woman wants hot guys, guy in charge declines (only natural, how many male artists would want to put emphasis on 'sexy male bodies'?)… 'Rage on' = woman wants sexy guys, gets them
"Also I must confess – Satoshi’s pantsu are pink because of my preference."
<- says a lot
otaku girls are sooo hot awoooooooooooooooo!!!! awoooooooooooooooooo!!!!! i love otaku girls muahahahahahhahaahhahahahahahahahahahha ilove u ^_< ilove uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu yes yessssss yesssssssssssssssssssssssssss!!!!!! ahahahahahah muahahahahahah ihihihihihiihh huhuhuhuhuhuhuhuh ehehehehehehehehhehehe lalalalalalal love power
L O V E
The fact that this article got so many comments makes me wonder about the future of mankind…
¿what about the dubstep music of the commercial? where are the dubstep?
Girls complain guys like fan service, boobs and moe too much.
Guys complain girls like yaoi and BL too much.
Normal society looks down on the disgusting otaku and fujoshi and says “get a job you stinking NEET!”
What else is new?
This: I got a job! yay!! and the industry would’ve been DEAD if no one had the money to pruchase/sponsor anime shows and items.
Females my ass! It’s all a bunch of gays.
there is literally nothing that sustains me as much as the bitter sweetness of the tears of raging otaku slamming their fists on their semen-encrusted keyboards.
relax, dumbasses, you’ll get like 10 other shows to slobber over that season that you’ll forget about a few months after they are, just like every other season.
Besides, this show will probably have a token female character anyway. I’m guessing a sister of school friend – shots of the school did show girls in the background so its not a boys school.
Yay! Now we’ll get fujoshimoetards! KyoAni continues it’s general improvements of anime!
I’m gonna repeat myself but … where are the threat letters from crazy otaku when you need them?
And before someone downvote me again, honestly im growing tired of all the moeblobs even though i enjoyed some of those. Im totally in for manly and masculine protagonist, i love JoJo, Dragon ball and Fist of the North Star, but this is going into the BL (or worse the yaoi) pit wich i seriously DO NOT WANT, especially coming from kyoani.
I strongly disagree that this anime is going to be BL and/or yaoi. There might be some of that in there, but it’s not going to be the focus.
If the director herself emphasized what the show will be about then you got an idea of what will turn out now wouldn’t you? That or you just didn’t read the article and continued on to the comment section
Downvoting this? I swear, you guys are just looking for excuses to hate on this that aren’t even there to begin with. It’s really sad.
Are they gonna make love? Kiss? Touch each other’s wangs? Romance between the boys?
If not, then it’s not BL/Yaoi. Stop using these words if you have no idea what it means.
Here, let me point it out as to how it would end in yaoi. First, for the duration of the show, there will be hints of BL(close ups, distinct roles of S&M… well, I think you get the idea here) and the fear of watch nothing else BUT that is why some are raging over it.
If you watched a lot of anime, you probably got a good imagination. Needless to say, you don’t have to play jeopardy to feel awkward and doing a lot of this: (o.O) as you watch the show.
They should’ve went to making FMP but I think this is the off time of KyoAni since Tamako Market isn’t that great. It’s relaxing yes, but not exactly the golden egg KyoAni laid compared to Hyouka which is by the way, far better for their romance and a hint of mystery
SO basically you all would react the same way to this anime that you see “fujoshi” reacting to your anime, and eye for an eye.
Fine, yaoi (even thought this might not be, surprisingly) makes you guys gag like yuri makes them gag. Then why are you bitching so much about it? Live and let watch.
Okay, now I’m more worried than ever that this will be unwatchable for a straight person O.o
You mean a straight male, or lesbian. It’s basically a show for fujoshi. LET THEM FUCKING BE.
It would be unwatchable for a straight female aswell if it involves heavy fujoshi elements like BL, subtle or obvious.
Wow, it’s actually a fact that yaoi is made by women for women and that there’s actually a misconception that gay people avoid yaoi because of the “feminine touches” in their writing and style… but here you are saying that the opposite is true?
Most fujoshi are ignorant about otaku and vice-versa, that’s the only truth I see.
Seriously? You don’t know that many yuri fans are straight males? Likewise, many yaoi fans are straight females. In fact, what do you expect any woman who likes BL is… a lesbian? rofl
And we all know the quality of those series.
With KyoAni it could have been something more though, not just brainless male/gay fanservice like UtaPri.
Oh, i don’t doubt it will be your typically edgy KyoAni deal but the core material is still limited to an obscure grouping inside the fandom. It’s basically fujos telling a good joke to themselves.
Be that as it may, it’s not openly advertised as such.
@01:11 Kyoani fanboys who put up with k-on will probably put up with this new shit anyway and learn to love it.
@Anon 01:11
And that’s exactly the problem why people won’t “let it be”, fellow Anon.
Of course not, they would lose all potential viewers who still have faith in KyoAni.
Those who complain the loudest in the comments here will be secretly fapping to this when it comes out.
who let whom out of what?
and yet it will still not be as gay as Evangelion, which otaku have been slobbering over for nearly 20 years now. whats the problem.
Earth to idiot! What the hell are you talking about?
You never noticed? Shinji has no balls and Kaoru was damn near ready to ride him. Made the fangirls go nuts and draw tons of yaoi doujin.
@Anon 19:02
Reading comprehension? Kaoru is NOT a human. In fact, as that entity is quite literally genderless. The supposed homoerotic elements are purely make-believe and wishful thinking from exactly those sort of people from the fandom.
Also, whether writers or whoever “said” something is often taken out of context and as long as i don’t get an actual, unmistakeably clear confirmatory quote from a creator, i frankly give a rats ass.
Kaoru is not even a human for fucks sake!
And yeah, you just hit the jackpot. Yaoi bullshit, in fujo fantasy, this thread.
Kaoru and Shinji were literally gay. This was not a ‘fangirl fantasy’, the damn writers of the show even said themselves that their relationship was ‘like lovers’. Otaku are willing to overlook that, but some shirtless guys makes them scream and cry like lil babies.
The denial is strong in this one. Didnt they sleep together in the manga?
the bigger question is: WHO LET HER OUT OF THE KITCHEN?
Wow, so many haters. I, for one, will check this shit out, yo. Also, the BGM in that trailer the other day? Been blasting it all day – so good.
I feel that this should balance out KyoAni’s recent works quite nicely. Tamako Market might be considered pretty gender equal but KyoAni really does have a notion of drawing lots and lots of cute girls. Now, I like that, but I won’t mind a little reverse service now and then.
If you’re a man, then take it like one. There will me more cute girl shows soon.
*An anon who actually hoped it to be a FMP sequel*
There was a male changing scene in Hyouka?
I remember Chitanda’s bathing just fine but I guess everything else was blocked from my view by the gay-filter.
HATERS GONNA HATE.
Delicious rage. Oh the sweet nectar. Give me more~more~more! Drown me in your tears. Leave me gasping for air as the clog my throat.
Wow, that was………..gay….
so? lol
Oh no, an anime about boys!! This has to make all the females who like it horrible people, I especially like it how they’re views are called ‘rancid’ considering some of the other anime involving girls that a lot of the male members here seem to spooge over. “It doesn’t matter if the story sucks, look boobs!”
If women liking a show about men in swim suits is considered rancid then maybe you should also look up the word ‘hypocrite’.
Well, as a fan of anime with yuri in it like ikkitousen, I welcome this anime. I’ve been waiting for women to finally get something like this ever since I’ve been having to defend my ecchi anime from people upset about inequality… which I completely agreed with. The best way to beat inequality is for all of us to get what we want.
Hmmk,so no more censor. That what the guys want in anime, no? There’s always a ridiculous amount of steam, a misplaced ray of light or just plain BLACK that makes the scene incomplete. If it truly is “just 2D” then remove those things.
Excuse me but an “anime about boys” would be something like Captain Tsubasa sports anime which have next to no female characters in them.
This is not an “anime about boys” it’s an “anime with obvious BL over and undertones”. So there.
And what exactly is wrong with “an anime with obvious BL over and undertones”? You weren’t complaining when SanCom featured “an anime with obvious lesbian over and undertones”, or “an anime with obvious incest over and undertones”, or “an anime with obvious rape over and undertones”, or “an anime with obvious loli over and undertones”, or the anime shows that magically find some way to combine all of them into one.
“What, a woman watching a BL anime? That’s gross. Now if you don’t mind me i’m going to masturbate to this anime about two underage sisters making out while gutting each other.”
It’s shit just like everything you mentioned.
@4:30 – oh, so the people hating on this anime hate yaoi as well as yuri anime? That’s taking something away from both sexes.. you guys should be having a lot more enemies and downvoters in that case.
Oh, so it being a Boys Love anime automatically makes it not about boys, but ehhhh-? What? gays?
Yes that’s exactly it. A typical “boys anime” is NOT about BL or extreme yaoi.
It’s not whether it’s ABOUT boys but rather what a fraction of the fandom wants it to be, in this case fujos and/or homosexuals. Would i care about this crap if it was properly advertised to be primarily aimed at exactly those groups? NO!
But it isn’t advertised as such. Also, the female director basically confirmed her goals of achievement, which are intentionally designed to cause such controversy.
I often see references to moeblob anime, which is quite sad since that particular type of show has nothing in common with this situation.
The point being that even if there aren’t any outright graphic homoerotic elements in this show, there certainly seems to be a director with certain preferences towards that end and, what can be gathered from the PV, situational elements that intentionally create such undertones.
well i bet all the ppl here who are raging about this anime will end up watching it…
Huh, so they have a fujoshi directing ir.
this might be proven popular after all(for girl fans).
All these homophobe tears are delicious!
here is me hoping, its gonna be a classic sports anime.
but that chances of this being without gay undertones is pretty much impossible
So that’s what we get with a woman in charge, eh?
Go on, downvote me on this but it is irrefutably proven.
They make… the exact same series as men do when in charge, except with flipped genders?
Seriously, it looks like it’s just K-ON for fujoshi instead of otaku.
The difference being that regular anime, even moeblob, is perfectly watchable for everyone.
You have a point. Masculinity is an incredibly delicate flower, held together with spit, empty bravado, and glass. The majority of women, radfems aside, can see women being sexualized without giving a fuck, but when the majority of men sees a sexualized man, it’s immediately “WEEHHHH ABLOOBLOOBLOO GROSS I FEEL SO THREATENED WHAT IF I CATCH THE GAY”.
Sad, really.
This looks perfectly watchable for everyone except insecure homophobes.
On the other hand, I can’t stand to watch moe anime and many girls can’t stand to watch blatantly ecchi anime geared towards males like To Love-Ru… but you don’t see them butthurt about it.
I refute it. What now?
What did you refute?
Change it to “fujoshi in charge” and then we’re good…
To be honest, i don’t buy into her being one. The studio takes a risk with this show. Especially so in Japan.
Please downvote this comment.
What’s your angle, Anon? Can’t you refute the facts?
If she gets her own series she could stop pandering women in series made for a male demographic. I still felt the scene in Hyouka was out of place.
Kyoani needs to pay attention to that stuff.
So I take it you dislike Ramna 1/2?
I love Ranma 1/2 and it has absolutely nothing to do with this here.
Ranma 1/2 was created with a woman in charge.
I am a moetard whether you believe it or not and I’m gonna give this a try. It can’t be that bad. Why? ‘Cause I like KyoAni as a studio, they’ve treated me well and I respect their decisions. It’s gonna have some light yaoi hints here and there but KyoAni does not go beyond that border. Ever. Or maybe they will this time…with her in charge…
Anyways, I think this will be a work that shuffles out who the real KyoAni fans are.
COME AT ME ALL YOU BUTTHURT OTAKU DOWNVOTE ME YOU MOFOS
Moetard never call themselves moetards. You clearly know that this is a pejorative term.
You are just a failure who isn’t capable of assuming his own opinion and tries to make himself pass for someone else.
Nice assumption. Moetard, as a term, may be considered pejorative, but I used it for its specificity directed at that certain group of people. Even if it is considered pejorative, I am not offended by this term at all and I resume to use it freely to refer to that bunch of people, even when I reside in it. What else do I call it? Moeblob? Or outright explicitly, moe-lovers? Fine.
I emphasized the fact that I am a indeed moe-lover and I will be watching this anime just to contrast myself with other close-minded or even homophobic moe-lovers. I am showing that not all moe-loving people are of that kind. And no, I am 100% heterosexual, male, if you’re thinking in that direction.
You, who clearly missed the main point of my statement, had only the capability to pick out my “fault” in the usage of terms, which do not even matter in what I am trying to state.
You clearly DON’T know*
Didn’t you guys feel extremely uncomfortable when Koizumi put on that unnerving gayness in Haruhi? Now imagine that with an entire cast over a whole season! Ick!
I really don’t see why people have a problem with an anime that hasn’t even aired.
In my case, was the false hope the internet gave me about a new season of FMP.
It is because they are idiots who can’t comprehend that other people have different tastes.
They also apparently can’t comprehend that not every anime show is going to be made for them.
Sheesh, every season has some anime that any particular individual isn’t going to like. Just don’t watch it, and move on to a show you DO like. Or a show from the several decades of anime that are available that you didn’t have time to watch the first time around.
Or if that’s too mature and reasonable a response for you, sit in the corner and cry for an hour, then hang yourself. As your former enemies laugh and beat your rotting corpse with bats, your soul can descend into the hell of your own making, and rule over the fantasized images from the anime you DO like, in a twisted incestuous mental lapse of sanity and good taste. Much like this part of this post.
I think many of them would rather see Kyoani make another continuation to a property they already liked (Haruhi, Lucky Star, FMP) instead of this.
Because, this is too manly for tiny-dicked Sandycum pedoperverts.
LEL! Downvoted for asking a question.
w00t sausage fest /joy
Sancom = tiny-dicked perverts.
So that makes it even.
LOL
Can’t Wait. :]