Minami-ke Destroyed by Asread: Final Sales Figures Dire
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Jul 17, 2009 16:40 JST
- Tags: Asread, Comparison, Minami-ke, Production Controversy, Rankings, Statistics
Fans of formerly excellent baka-yarou anime Minami-ke have been dealt a final affront in the form of the final sales figures for the series, which seem to indicate a tragic and irreversible fate has been forced upon the show thanks to the much maligned involvement of hated animator Asread.
The final DVD sales figures (for the initial week of sales where 90% of sales are usually concentrated) run thus:
Minami-ke
| Vol. | Sales | Release |
| 01 | 8,057 | 08.01.09 |
| 02 | 9,366 | 08.02.06 |
| 03 | 9,246 | 08.03.12 |
| 04 | 9,075 | 08.04.09 |
Minami-ke Okawari
| 01 | 3,914 | 08.05.09 |
| 02 | 4,264 | 08.06.04 |
| 03 | 4,433 | 08.07.09 |
| 04 | 4,226 | 08.08.06 |
Minami-ke Okaeri
| 01 | 4,387 | 09.04.08 |
| 02 | 4,200 | 09.05.13 |
| 03 | 4,140 | 09.06.10 |
| 04 | 4,026 | 09.07.08 |
The second and third seasons were of course graced by varying levels of Asread quality…
This would appear to spell the end of the show?
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Doumu should just re-do seasons 2 and 3. They can make some real cha-ching.
such a pitty....
minami-ke is awesome despite the mistakes here and there....
im still waiting for another season....badly XD
Second and third season?What are you people talking about?These was only ONE season.Its a shame they didn't make anymore.
The amount of bandwagon thinking here is incredible. Don't you people ever have your own opinion?
I don't see the problem season 3 has sold about the same as season 2 (a little less) but that's normal.
I wouldn't be surprised to see a season 4 at all.
Not even Hosaka-senpai can safe you now :P
the difference between first and second-third season is negligible
I'm not sure how to feel about that picture.
There was no second and third season. Still waiting.
I want to fuck Mako-chan.
Minami-ke Owari
I have one thing to say to dear Asread Studio:
BAKA-YAROU!!!!
Heh, back when I watched the three seasons, I didn't even notice any changes between the seasons. Chiaki seemed a bit off at first, until I noticed her hair colour had changed. Figured she had dyed it.
When I read the first article about it here, I thought it was being sarcastic :D.
Personally, I don't find some faulty animation and drawing big enough a deal to ruin an anime on its own. If the story and the voices are as they should be, why is it such a problem that a few scenes and/or frames are QUALITY?
I mean, considering the medium it's understandable that you'd prefer nice visuals, but going as far as denouncing their existance, merely because the animation isn't as good as before seems petty..
It's a wonder how they managed to make something great like Garei -zero-. Oh wait, maybe it was AIC that did everything.
I'm...at a loss for words.
Never was a show ever been soooo TAINTED than Minami-ke. Embarrassing! (T_T)
There is no such thing as a second season of Minami-ke. Much less a third.
Don't know what you guys are talking about.
lalalalalalalala
It like Asread picked up on the sequels just to stick it up the fans' collective ass... like a big, fat, "FUCK YOU!"-sign from them to us.
Were the errors fixed in the DVD version?
Have anyone ever done that?
Having censor-fogless or censor-darknessless versions for DVD-releases is one thing, but to fix animation blunders it would take the anime back to production stage.
yeah, a good example would be the Geass remake...many studios do it lol.
There was that Birdy the Mighty episode recently, I think.
For Miname-ke, though, it'd pretty much be a complete do-over of the entire 2nd and 3rd seasons.
It has been done for a great number of shows. Dunno about Minami-ke though.
Asread, We make Xebec look good.
QFT
It's a trap.
I'm on episode 7 of season 1... when should I start looking forward to this infamy? Because it's been pretty excellent so far.
Will the comedy at least make up for a lax animation switch?
In my opinion, yes.
The comedy remains brilliant throughout.
In related news, Mako-chan has never looked so cute as in that picture.
Delicious trap.
Indeed. Sorry Hosaka, Mako-chan is the best part of O-kawari.
There's a dress I really want to buy
I don't think you completely read the article... Season one was the good season. It's the seasons after one that sucked.
Ah, I see now.
But can't people just view the animation weirdness as stylistic?
It works for Shinya Ohira (see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3rJCPFqKRI)
Before I get trashed for comparing Asread to Ohira (heh, I know it's coming), keep in mind I've only seen SanCon still-frames of Asread's Minami-ke work. I don't know anything about him beyond that.
If you click on the Shinya Ohira link you can see how some animators can assemble sequences of highly abstracted frames to end up creating some truly artistic looking motion happening in scenes.
And it wouldn't really be possible unless each individual frame looked physically impossible if paused on throughout the animation as a whole...
Perhaps Asread is just misunderstood? Or still in training wheels for this approach?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3rJCPFqKRI
^
The correct link from my post.
At the very least, it must speak of the quality of Minami-ke's writing that it lasted 3 seasons even in spite of this much-maligned producer switch. So here's to hoping it will be worth wading through the Asread seasons anyway...
After reading up on him, apparently Asread worked on Ergo Proxy as well, but as an in-betweener. In fact, all the shows he did in-between animation for looked brilliant ( http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/company.php?id=4437 ). Maybe this has taught him to just stick with what he knows?
I'm usually one of the first to defend curiously deformed art as intentional/stylistic choice (at least when combined with breathtakingly fluid animation), but in the case of Minami-ke, it's really just pure incompetence on Asread's part.
http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2009/02/26/minami-ke-okaeri-quality-is-legend/ — This one isn't still >_<
http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2009/03/23/minami-ke-okaeri-supreme-quality-attained/ — This one bashes the style-pursuit-theory. As the would-be style seems really inconsistent.
Product quality seem rushed to me as well :p
maybe they were trying to make the minami family to suffer from eye desviation.
Die Ashread Die! Destroying the most beautiful thing! ITS CAN'T BE FORGIVEN!
Neither can HORRIBLE GRAMMAR be forgiven!
Be quiet, lowlife.
Second season was better than first, if you exclude that damn little four-eyes brat. Hosaka was hotter than ever.
just ignore the fail animation and pay attention to only the voice, and comedy and you'll be fine... For the most part anyways.
Then they have just do a Radio Show... if only its for hearing...xD
oly the firts is good.... second its a complete fail and third its some regular... I think
The only thing that can save the anime is to have Doumu produce a 4th season.
If this is not to be, a salve would be having Yen Press license the manga.
don't feed the trolls
also, I had more RAGE in season 2 and more LOL on season 1, you be the judge.
XD
Giga LOL XD
lolwut?
Super Giga Drilll LOL!!!
Asread couldn't animate the GARness of Hosaka, thus leading to this upset.
Actually I thought episode 10 of okaeri was hilarious. In both animation and sound.
The greatest/most interesting contribution from Asread's Minami-ke was probably Hosaka's "Song of Curry"...but then again it was not really a contribution by Asread, but instead was a contribution by Ono Daisuke (Hosaka's seiyuu) himself (since it was him who came up with the song lol).
i love that song...
Niconico loves that song. There are endless videos having fun with it.