Free! “Will Actually Be Good!”: Director = Raging Fujoshi
- Categories: News
- Date: Apr 27, 2013 23:43 JST
- Tags: Character Design, Free!, Fujoshi, Hyouka, Kyoto Animation, Production Controversy, Yaoi
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.
[…]
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.
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Huh, so they have a fujoshi directing ir.
this might be proven popular after all(for girl fans).
Do not want.
FUCKING MOETARD
FUCKING FUJOSHI!
FUCK THEM HARD
FUCK!
I'D DO ALL THREE
Fuck Anime News dot com - why not?
well then....
LET'S
FUCK!!!!
Then don't watch
Then don't post
Then don't read
Then don't reply
They don't speak
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?
PENISES
@10:32 - that's just how we roll down here in SanCom
Penis & Vagina...not wait, hold the vagina & add more penis.
Will not watch.
No thanks, Mr. Director...
Oh wait... *Miss Director
lol.... not gonna tap that
"Miss"
Oh, I see what you did there.
I really don't see why people have a problem with an anime that hasn't even aired.
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.
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.
In my case, was the false hope the internet gave me about a new season of FMP.
LEL! Downvoted for asking a question.
Because, this is too manly for tiny-dicked Sandycum pedoperverts.
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.
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.
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.
Watching this with my girlfriend! :3 She's not even a fujoshi, though... we're both pretty casual anime watchers.
Are you downvoting this guy because he has a girlfriend or what? Wow.
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!
yes, moetard
So that's what we get with a woman in charge, eh?
Go on, downvote me on this but it is irrefutably proven.
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.
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.
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.
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?
Please downvote this comment.
What's your angle, Anon? Can't you refute the facts?