Tony “Will Now Design Anime & Light Novels”
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Feb 6, 2013 14:31 JST
- Tags: Announcements, Artists, Character Design, Eroge, Hatsune Miku, Light Novels, Tony Taka
Tony fans have been excited to learn the world’s most popular gengaka has just announced he will be turning his hand to designing anime and illustrating light novels, amazingly enough having so far not yet pursued either line of business.
In an update to his site, the artist reveals the formation of his new design label “Albion Works,” saying “I’d like to challenge myself in new fields” and that “there were constraints which prevented me trying my hand at original anime or light novel work.”
He also mentions “wanting to more aggressively pursue Vocaloid-related work,” suggesting his much loved Sega Miku could soon be accompanied by other Vocaloids.
A slew of Tony-illustrated light novels now seems inevitable (which will presumably in turn lead to even more anime adaptations), even if no anime materialises immediately.
He does not comment on whether this might effect his more erotic works, although given he has long juggled work for both Sega and eroge this would seem unlikely – though interestingly he does mention not wanting any new requests from social game or MMORPG producers.
Amongst his fans there is some excitement at the prospect of his work becoming yet more widely available – although it may come as a shock to many to learn that an artist of his stature had not already designed any.
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But that means less time for drawing porn for Ciel (the eroge company) D:
Yeah, honestly this is terrible news for hentai fans..
and shota fans too. why did he decide to go in THIS direction, rather than into sweet sweet shota hentai ? :(
like srsly, the pope is here?
i am a muslim.. but can i have a sign plx plx
pope pls go
Now off to KyoAni and compete with Horiguchi.
Tony Taka is pure genius!
As long as he continues drawing perfect ASSES I'm cool.
I agree with you comrade!!
With penis inside it of course!!!
I love hardcore gangbang too!!!
The only issue is now the writers will have to wonder if someone bought your light novel for the "story" or Tony's artwork.
They don't care as long as it bring them money.
So true, I did for Zenith's work up to a point then I realized the plot is not worth the price for the art works. Now I just have to find Q.Azieru's works to repeat the mistake.
You bring up a good point, only reason I watched Shining Hearts was because of Tony.
I watched Shining Hearts because of bread.
I watched Shining Hearts because I misread the title. I thought it was "Shiawase no Pantsu"
Indeed! It was all about the bread. Tony should design some breads for a major bakery on the side.
Why can't I hold all this DELICIOUS BREAD???
dat bread!
it all leads back to bread..... ;P
Epic Pan
I'm pretty sure everyone buys them for the artwork first, then buys additional volumes for the story. People are very visual creatures, a great cover design does generate sales far more than most reviews do.
That's exactly what I did: buy books drawn by my favorite artists.
Till now, not once disappointed.
I guess big names in freelance artists will still net higher quality work? that or I'm just extremely lucky in this respect.
IMHO I personally don't think it'll be too much of an issue. Yes, people will indeed be attracted to the title because it'll be Tony that's doing the illustration, though Tony can only do so much in attracting audiences, the title would depend on how strong the premise is.
Light novel series illustrated by artists more well-known in the ero-doujin field is not uncommon, like Nakajima Yuka (of DL Action fame) for Papa no Iu Koto wo Kikinasai, Koubichi for Hidan no Aria and Kore wa Zombie Desu Ka are two examples. And HIMA of Accel World also produces a lot of ero-artwork.
Even Itou Noiji of Shana and Haruhi fame dabbled in eroge illustrations.
If they have to wonder they're probably not smart enough to be writers anyway...
good for him it's about time
Step 1: Learn how to draw more than one female face.
Step 2: Learn how to draw feet on the correct sides
Step 3: ????
Step 4: PROFIT!!!
And avoid tracing!
No no no.
Oh yes, unfortunately he has yet to complet step 1.
If any of you are so hot please show me YOUR works and see if you can be talking shit about a true artist, sure all his faces look the same, so what? i ASSURE you, he can do them all different if he wished so, so theyr the same because HE WANTS THEM to be the same, his fans like em, he obviously likes them, the money keeps pouring in, WHY IN HELL would he start getting creative now?
I hope he doesn't. Like I said, make one that works with everything else. Fuck variety or else I'll at one point hate the design.
his artwork doesnt look that noobish for him to be needing tracing.
that's kinda true. if i want variety, ill just look at another artist, then another artist. bam variety.
but i want tony taka for his tony taka faces.
epic sax guy.
His artwork is so plain and bereft of any imagination, I don't know why people love this guy to death. There are far better artists out there, like Ohigetan, Ishikei, Date, Barista. I'm not saying he's bad and shouldn't be here, but he is like a baker of art: it might taste good, but it's still bread.
Good analogy, he really is the "Wonderbread" of hentai.
He's a fine artist alright. But he really needs to get rid of the same-faceness that plagues his artworks.
Isn't the name Albion already used in Japan as the brand name of the super popular cosmetics used by the royal family? Weird choice of name. Should have chosen something less used in Japan.
Tony Taka is one of the best illustrators right now. This is good news.
Agreed. Amazing and makes sexy ass girls.
Or not ...
While he is relatively skilled at drawing.. he is not "The Best" nor is he close to being "the best".
It's called an opinion, dumbass.
Yes and in OUR opinion he is not one of the best.
That too is called an opinon ,"dumbass".
butthurt fanboy?
Nope because he's the greatest. :D
You really need to open your eyes.
(This comment will ,obviously ,be downvoted by butthurt fanboy ...)
I don't need to. I just know he's one of the greatest.
Hahahahahaha.
You're kidding, right?
Wait, you're not?
HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAH!
Wow really...
I won't even go in on this one.
Haha, yeh downvote me, I'll take some effort and point out what you said was wrong.
"Tony Taka is one of the best illustrators right now."
Being the best is a matter of taste, and there are thousands of illustrators that draw anime just as good as he does. And Tony is notorious for drawing messed up feet, so I don't know why he's the "best" when you make critical mistakes not once but numerous times.
"This is good news."
Maybe, designing for anime and light novels is really no different from designing for video games like he previous did. If he started his own manga then that's a real challenge.