Fujoshi around the world are rejoicing at the news that KyoAni’s beloved manly swimming anime Free! is now confirmed as returning for a second season (not that this was in any real doubt), though the announcement seems likely to provoke mixed feelings amongst the studio’s traditional fanbase.
Dates for the new series are not yet released, but the last season ended with the unsubtle warning “see you next summer.”
Some of the latest disc sales figures seem to show Free! as actually being Kyoto Animation’s 4th best selling anime of all time, narrowly beating Clannad and Lucky Star – although if sales were all that motivated KyoAni presumably their output would have degenerated into a stream of K-ON! and Haruhi spin-offs and successors:
(2009) 43,883 K-ON!
(2006) 42,525 Haruhi
(2010) 39,385 K-ON!!
(2013) 30,601 Free!
(2007) 29,146 Lucky Star
(2005) 24,436 AIR
(2007) 24,808 CLANNAD
(2008) 19,884 CLANNAD AFTER STORY
(2009) 19,602 Haruhi New
(2006) 18,170 Kanon
With a second season even K-ON! may be in danger of losing its primacy at the studio.
Not everyone that watches BL is a fujoshi. The only reason you people seem to think that gay men don’t watch this type of anime is due to the fact that if they actually said anything, this is the kind of shitty responses they would get. This coming from a gay man who watches ALL types of anime, not just BL or Yaoi. Grow the hell up people.
KyoAni should make a new K-On (College, Highschool with Azusa and Ui, or a reboot), then they’d be rollin’ in cash!
oh wow.. didn’t FMP finish in the manga already? WHAT THE f♥♥k HAPPENED TO FINISHING THE SERIES FOR THAT HUH?! damn.. moeblob catering is the new business for kyoani i tell ya..
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08:28 30/01/2014
“SANKAKU”,”I GAY AND p♥♥o-SITE”,”ITS NO SURPRISE”, SANKAKU SHOULD BE BAN”
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cry more for me anontard!
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If you were girls, you would love this anime.
Imagine that every single moe anime, harem anime, etc had boys instead of girls. You would hate it, right?
That is how girls feel. All day, every day. Japan, America, it makes no difference. It is inescapable.
You pretend to like girls, but only if they are “perfect”. “Perfect” meaning being a retarded 2D little girl with doe eyes and a gaudy costume. And you hate the things girls like.
Maybe if you were better gentlemen, you would get a real girlfriend with a real pussy. I touched a Tenga onahole once, it felt nothing like my piece, it felt like rubber with oil on it. Not fun.
right right.. so this series is most likely for women who, despite all their efforts, doesn’t get the D if we go with what you just said. so, your point? also, every season there’s a otome series so why should kyoani produce something like this when before, they can easily cater to both male and female?
Answer: they no longer have stories that could or the stories they WANT to pick, they can’t pick since the authors doesn’t want their work to be turned like the moefied Lupin III.