Free! (KyoAni Swimbros!)

But surely the UPPER BODY is vital for swimming!

EDIT: ...there are probably worse pagetoppers out there. Somewhere. I'm sure.

edited 27th Apr '13 4:20:53 AM by ashnazg

Well those pecs aren't just there to look pretty.

I am looking forward to Free!, and I plan on watching it once it airs.

It looks fabulous.

I don't get the big deal about this.

I'm secure enough in my manhood to watch this anime. Why would any guy feel otherwise?

Why are all these /a/ guys freaking out? Do they think they'll become gay if an anime is made with fanservice for women?

They hate Fujoshi. So they hate a lot of things they think panders to them or will make them come to /a/, like they've never been there before.

Apparently, a "war" had been raging for about a month? Since that swimming commercial aired.

Why would they come there? It's 4chan.

They were always there, and never left. It's kind of hilarious when there's the occasional mass outing of people on a thread who were women presenting as men. Or people who are claiming to be women who were presenting as men. One recent /a/ singalong was definitely half women.

And then everyone goes right back to pretending everyone's a guy. I love it.

edited 28th Apr '13 2:13:38 PM by Bur

Oh good, so it's about, ah, friendship and character development.

That singalong thread's the Shingeki OP one, right?

I didn't participate but I heard about the gender ratio from anons complaining about too many female Titan anons in singalong thread, apparently.

I just feel really stupid because I was one of those people going "no the petition isn't gonna work you idiots" on tumblr and now look, the petition worked. But I'm glad they're making it. And /a/'s reaction is hilarious. Watching them watch Free is gonna be great.

This is a misconception brought about by ignorance of how production cycles work in the anime industry. The petition did nothing to influence why Free! came about.

Not months, years. A year to two years is pretty quick, and some cases four and up is actually expected.

edited 29th Apr '13 9:43:06 PM by MyssaRei

Don't feel stupid, there is no way that petition had any effect on the decision to make Free!. Like a few of us said earlier, it takes several months at the very least to make an anime; for Free! to go from a promotional CM to a full-fledged project in a matter of weeks is just not possible.

What they said.

edited 29th Apr '13 9:41:31 PM by Ruthek

Original anime productions - may be longer? While shorter production times for manga-based or novel-based anime?

I'd prefer it very much that the official script-storyboards for Titans anime was finalized before mid-2012.

edited 30th Apr '13 12:09:19 AM by probablyinsane

Its surprising that Kyoani is making a fanservice anime.

Eh, I was being overly generous. Long story short, it takes a lot of time to make an anime.

People keep saying that, but it's not like Kyo Ani have never done fanservicey type things before. Their shows just don't revolve around it (and despite having swimming be a major component, I doubt Free! will either).

A show about a bunch of shirtless young attractive boys not being about fanservice.

Uh huh.

I have just learned that my god, Mamoru Miyano, is going to have a role in this. Excellent.

The CM is pure fanservice while the PV is almost entirely slice of life stuff.

I do personally think what was in the CV is higher level of fanservice than we've seen Kyo Ani do previously, but that's neither here nor there.

But hey thanks to this drama there's some interesting articles about KyoAni around. No wonder they want to be content creators now, that nets them much more of a return on their time, and with their track record they can pull off a consistent return even with the greater risk.

Incidentally this means I doubt they'll want to do more Key Visual Arts adaptations. Which is a shame but, they're not the only studio who can pull off decent Visual Novel adaptations. It's just that Deen aren't even a poor man's substitute.

Should we change this thread's title to Free?

edited 30th Apr '13 9:16:50 AM by kyun

It's not a show about shirtless young attractive boys. It's a show about swimming that just so happens to have shirtless young attractive boys in it.

Of course there will be fanservice; it's unavoidable when your sport requires you to be half-naked. I just meant that there will be more to the show than that specific aspect (like friendship, rivalry, the spirit of competition, whatever.)

Um, while I feel pretty comfortable on my heterosexuality... not so much on this guy's. Unless it's actually a woman.

edited 30th Apr '13 10:51:46 AM by NapoleonDeCheese

The director is a woman . Here, have a quote from her concerning the hotsprings episode of Hyouka:

This episode’s obsessive scene doesn’t even need to be said; it was the undressing scene. You’ll see their ribs occasionally when they raise their arms, cloth crossing the arm itself and then going over the head (rest ommitted). I have various fond memories of working on this episode such as requesting that the key animators working on that scene focus on drawing the lines the best they could since they wouldn’t try to take off their clothes to match the sexiness of the characters or having to fix the lines about 6-fold because their first attempt at doing the best they could was already a strike out. 1

The key animator for that episode even called her a 'back fetishist' .

edited 30th Apr '13 11:12:39 AM by Ruthek

I like this woman already.

Totally not a fanservice anime.