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Miru Tights: Anime s1 ep1 A scuola con i collant [Commentary]

Olà qui è #Anketsu ed oggi si va di trash potente. 🧦 Parliamo di #MiruTights serie #anime only.... molto particolare". 🔥 Conoscete già la serie, che ne pensate? . 🔻🔻POST COMPLETO🔻🔻

-ren aikawa- INTRODUZIONEOlà qui è il vostro Anketsu ed oggi….. stiamo per addentrarci nel regno del trash, ma di quello prepotente ed ignorante. Preparatevi per il commento di Miru Tights.La serie nasce come anime only con regia di Yuki Ogawa e testi di Fumiaki Maruto. Le animazioni invece sono opera della Yokohama Animation Laboratory (gli stessi di Legend of Mana, Monster Strike e The Genius…

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New video! Maruto Fumiaki may best be known now for White Album 2 and SaeKano, but in 2005 he first hit it big with the visual novel Parfait. And today, we're exploring if this classic work about human warmth and love still holds up almost 20 years later.

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Engage Kiss Episode 1 Review & Episode 2 Release Date

Engage Kiss was off to a great start! It has been praised by online viewers for its amazing animation and interesting plot. This may make it more popular as Summer 2022 progresses. This Engage Kiss episode 2, with its release date and time, is available here. Also, there's a countdown so you don't miss out! Engage Kiss Episode 1 Review & Recap Bayron City is a Mega-float city located in the Pacific Ocean. It is rich in Orgonium which, a new type of energy resource, and it's a Mega-float. Bayron City is being closely watched by the rest of the world because of its mineral content. Demons also seek Orgonium. When they attack the Orgonium, the events are known as D Hazards. D Hazards are a secret and only a few people are aware of them. Private Military Companies, or PMCs, handle them. Episode 1 of "Engage Kiss" shows Shu, the title character. He runs a small PMC. He is very picky when it comes to taking on cases and is always short of cash. He is able to survive thanks to the support of Asano, his ex-girlfriend and an employee of a large PMC Shu used to work for. Shu is also supported and encouraged by Kisara, a pretty high school girl. Shu and Kisara signed a contract, and it was revealed that Shu is a demon. She supports him and helps with his demon extermination missions. "Bayron City ---- a Mega-Float city in the Pacific Ocean that doesn't belong any one nation. This city is home to Orgonium, a new resource for energy, and it is where special cases caused by D Hazards (demons) have been frequent." Read the official synopsis from "Engage Kiss" anime. "Only a few people know of the existence of D Hazards. PMCs (Private Military Companies) manage them. Shu, a young man from Bayron City, runs such a business. However his company is small. He cherry-picks his jobs so he is always in financial trouble," the article continued. Soma Saito plays Shu Ogata, Saya Aizawa plays Kisara, Lynn plays Ayano Yugiri and Rumi Okubo is Sharon Holygrail. Based on the original story "Bayron City Express", the series is called "Engage Kiss". Fumiaki Maruto handles the series structure, scripts and direction of "Engage Kiss". "Dare-Kare Scramble" is the opening theme song to "Engage Kiss". It is performed by halca. The premiere of "Engage Kiss" Episode 1, is set for Saturday. Crunchyroll will stream the first episode for Americans. The episode will be streamed in Japanese and English subtitles. Engage Kiss Episode 2 Release Date Engage Kissepisode 2, which will be released in Japan on Sunday, July 10, 2022, is available in Japan. It would be July 9th in Europe, the USA, Canada and Canada. Below are the times it can be streamed. Engage Kiss Episode 2 Release Time Engage kissis available at 12:30 AM on Sunday July 10th, 2022 JST. This would be Saturday July 9th in the USA, Canada and Europe. These are the times that you should be able stream it online, according to your location. This accounts for the one-hour difference between streaming services and domestic broadcasts. - Pacific Time: 9:30 AM - Central Time: 11:30 AM - Eastern Time: 12:30 PM - British Time: 5:05 PM What's the Deal with Engage Kiss? Engage Kiss centers on a love triangle involving a perpetually broke man, his ex-girlfriend/ex-colleague, and a female high schooler who happens to be a demon. Shuu Ogata, a demon exterminator, quit his job as a Private Military Company employee and vowed to only take on the jobs that he needed. He is now drowning in bills and has almost nothing to live on. He relies on Ayano, Kisara and his two wives, who love him too much not to leave him. Shuu and the girls are constantly entertained by this unlikely tale of comedy, romance, and action. Outside of Japan, Episode 1 premiered July 2nd. The episode was mainly about the basics of the story, such as how Shuu's small business gets jobs and how Ayano and Kisara can help him. The kiss animation was a popular highlight, according to fans. This is a joke that shows where the majority of the anime's production budget went. The most common observation among viewers was that there is a possibility of Fumiaki Maruto as the story's director. It remains to be seen if that possibility becomes a reality. To find out if this happens, fans will need to continue to watch Engage Kiss! Read the full article

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TIME of the SEASON Summer 2022 Edition: ENGAGE Kiss

Teenage me would kinda like this. Adult me would question this first.

So….. I’m lost? This guy got an ex that still cares for him and a demon girlfriend on the side? Yep, I’m in for some dumb-ass Grade B Schlock shit. This is Engage Kiss. Director: Tomoya Tanaka Series Composition: Fumiaki Maruto Script: Fumiaki Maruto Music: Yoshiaki Fujisawa Original Character Design: Tsunako Art Director: Nobuhisa Ogiso Chief Animation Director: Chiaki Furuzumi Masaaki…

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Media Mix Maiden Vol.1

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Saekano 12

Author: Fumiaki Maruto

Illustrator: Kurehito Misaki

Label: Fujimi Fantasia Bunko

Release Date: 18 March 2017

My Score: 2/5

I was going to read Danmachi 12 next but I realised that I needed a short break from the action so it’s time for melodrama. It’s been over a year and a half since I read the first 11 volumes in this series and it finally went on sale at BookWalker so I’m going to finish it. Some refreshers on my feelings about this series as I try to recall them: it’s interesting but definitely becomes melodramatic a lot of the time; I love Utaha; I love Katou’s and Eriri’s relationship; I really liked Katou for most of the series but I remember feeling that she became boring in volume 11 when she was becoming more of the heroine that Tomoya wanted her to be instead of the interesting character she was at the start of the series. Plus, it just kind of annoys me that Tomoya succeded in turning Katou into the girl of his dreams. Thing is, I can’t remember if this is what actually happened or if it’s just what it felt like to me at the time and I’m not going to reread the first 11 volumes to find out so I’m going to have to trust old me’s feelings on it for the time being.

Anyway, this volume starts with the revelation that Akane Kousaka has been hospitalised so Tomoya goes to see her. With Akane out and the deadline coming up, he ends up volunteering to help with the game’s completion, to Katou’s sadness.

I think part of it is that it’s been so long since I read volume 11 but I struggled to get into this volume. So much of it fell flat and was boring to me. It doesn’t help that, despite what the cover promises, Katou and Eriri only interact once in this volume and I’m just not interested in the romance between Katou and Tomoya and I’m not invested in the completion of the game at this point either. It’s hard to say whether I would be feeling this way if I hadn’t taken such a long break between volumes but I just wasn’t invested in this volume at all. I did like some of the scenes with Eriri and Utaha though so at least there’s that.

Next in the series is the third Girls’ Side volume which I’ll read soon.

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Fumiaki Maruto (Saekano) lanza nuevo manga junto con Sabu Musha

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Fumiaki Maruto (Saekano) lanza nuevo manga junto con Sabu Musha

Hoy martes se ha lanzado en la aplicación Manga ONE un nuevo manga titulado Mixed Media Maiden, escrito por Fumiaki Maruto y dibujado por Sabu Musha. Además, la aplicación también ha revelado que Tatsuhiko Takimoto, autor de la novela NHK ni Yōkoso!, lanzará un manga junto con Aruta Kusui, titulado Isekai Nanpa. La obra se lanzará…

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Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata Anime Movie Announced

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At the recent Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata Fes event, it was announced that Fumiaki Maruto and Kurehito Misaki’s Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata (Saekano: How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend) light novel series would be getting a new anime film. The official website of the anime adaptation has re...

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Saekano: How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend, il film debutterà in Giappone il 26 ottobre

La sigla sarà cantata ancora una volta da Luna Haruna.

Svelata finalmente la data di debutto del film “Saenai Heroine no Sodate-kata Fine”, sequel della serie animata “Saekano: How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend” (Saenai Heroine no Sodate-kata) tratta dalla light novel di Maruto Fumiaki: la pellicola sbarcherà nei cinema giapponesi il 26 ottobre 2019.

Il tema musicale del film sarà scritto e arrangiato da Miku Sawai, mentre a cantarlo sarà Luna Haruna. Entrambe le artiste sono legate al franchise grazie alle sigle, rispettivamente di coda e di testa, realizzate per le due stagioni della serie tv.

La serie di romanzi è stata lanciata da Maruto Fumiaki nel 2012 e si è conclusa con la pubblicazione del 13° volume, il 20 ottobre 2017. L’opera ha ispirato una versione manga disegnata da Takeshi Moriki e alcuni spin-off.

Un giorno, Tomoya Aki, un liceale otaku, incontra per caso una ragazza. Quest'incontro spingerà Tomoya a creare il suo “gal-game”, facendo di quella ragazza il modello su cui costruire l'eroina principale del suo gioco. Perché il suo sogno diventi realtà, Tomoya sarà costretto a persuadere qualche “creativo” un po’ stravagante: l'asso del club artistico Eriri Spencer Sawamura e la miglior studentessa della scuola, Utaha Kasumigaoka. Nel mentre, Tomoya sarà sconvolto quando scoprirà che la ragazza che aveva tanto mitizzato altro non è che una sua noiosissima compagna di classe, Megumi Kato!

La prima stagione di 13 episodi, diretta da Kanta Kamei presso lo studio A-1 Pictures, è andata in onda da gennaio a marzo 2016 ed è distribuita in Italia da Crunchyroll. La seconda stagione, di 12 episodi, è andata in onda da aprile a giugno 2017 ed è distribuita nel nostro paese da Amazon Prime Video.

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FEATURE: Visual Novels Strike Back in Fall 2020

  Content Warning: While otherwise safe for work, this article discusses games made in Japan's 18+ visual novel industry. It does not talk about individual games in-depth, or detail any offensive content contained within; nevertheless, curious readers should expect those games to be suitable only for adult audiences.

  One of the more memorable first episodes of anime this fall was Talentless Nana, a thriller series starring a young student with a dark secret. Curious to see why my friends were excited about it, I did some research of my own and found something bizarre in the process. Talentless Nana was based on a manga whose story was written under a pseudonym: looseboy. "Could this be the looseboy I know?" I posted on Twitter in a daze. "looseboy, the porn game writer?"

  Like the main character of Talentless Nana, as a young student, I too had a dark secret: I played visual novels. I read all three routes of Fate/stay Night. I soldiered through Muv Luv. I sought out the anime Humanity is Declined specifically because the source text was written by visual novel luminary Romeo Tanaka. These games could be overstuffed, repetitive, and deeply sexist. But don't underestimate visual novels. YU-NO upended conventions in 1996 in such a way that modern games steal its twists and are still labeled forward-thinking. Infamous video game auteur Hideo Kojima cut his teeth working on spin-offs in the hugely influential Tokimeki Memorial series. And Hajime Isayama, the creator of Attack on Titan, admitted in this interview in Brutus Magazine that he had been inspired by the 18+ mecha epic Muv Luv Alternative.  

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During my student years, some of the most popular games in the field (at least among English speaking fans) were those with scripts by looseboy — most famously, Sharin no Kuni and The Devil on G String. Games remembered for their memorable protagonists, tear-jerking melodrama, and shocking twists and turns. They also had sex scenes in them (not very good ones) because that's what games of that type were supposed to have. It had been years since I'd thought about Sharin no Kuni — I wasn't even sure if I still liked it. But here looseboy was again, in a completely different medium, shocking a whole new audience of readers and viewers.

  For visual novel fans, this fall season of anime is a bonanza. You have a remake (or is it) of rural horror epic Higurashi: When They Cry, masterminded by creator Ryukishi07. You have a new original series, The Day I Became a God, scripted by crying game grandmaster Jun Maeda and his buddies at PA Works. Then there's Akudama Drive, an explosive SF grindhouse series based on a concept by Danganronpa scribe Kazutaka Kodaka.

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  It hasn't always been like this. In the past few years, light novels have outstripped visual novels as the source material of choice in the adaptation coal mines. Series like Higurashi or Clannad that were popular in the 2000s were gradually replaced in the popular imagination by newer works like Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- and My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU. Kyoto Animation, a studio once known for producing lavishly animated renditions of games made by the studio Key, pivoted years ago to adapting light novels and manga (not to mention its own original works). It's not difficult to see why; light novels, manga, and even proper novels are easier to adapt to the medium than visual novels. It's already difficult to squeeze the multi-route structure of often stupendously long video games into the time limitations of anime — not to mention their sometimes deeply gross and problematic content, sudden perspective switches, and even total changes in genre. It took years for the creators of Fate/stay Night to figure out how to make its full story comprehensible to a wide audience. What hope could anybody else have?

  Meanwhile, the visual novel industry is changing. Some of the talent I followed in the 2000s are doing just fine. Fate/GO, a phone game written by Fate/stay Night creator Kinoko Nasu and his team of former industry luminaries, became popular not despite the long and convoluted visual novel bolted to its gambling simulator but because of it. STEINS;GATE and its progeny continue to thrive, and Ryukishi07 — the creator of Higurashi and the later Umineko: When They Cry — toils on his new magnum opus. Other creators in the field are struggling. The visual novel company light — producer of chuuni games like dies irae — folded last year due to poor management. OVERDRIVE — known for music-inspired visual novels like Kira Kira — labeled its newest title Muscius! as its "Final Project."In the United States, an early boom in Kickstarters and English translations — with former fan translators gladly pitching in with their expertise — gradually stalled under claims of exploitative working conditions and Steam's hot-and-cold relationship with the medium as a whole. In the face of the popularity of anime, manga, and even light novels, it's hard not to see much of the visual novel industry's old guard as a tiny, stagnant niche.

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  But the medium's heart still beats in all-ages visual novels, thanks to the sudden success of two new stars. Kotaro Ucihikoshi — co-writer on cult visual novel Ever17 — found surprising success in the United States with his twisty pseudoscientific thriller 999. Kazutaka Kodaka's hilariously crude and violent (yet deeply heartfelt!) Danganronpa series has built a hardcore fanbase willing to grapple with each entry's whiplash-inducing twists and turns. It's no surprise, then, that the two of them have found their way into the anime field. Uchikoshi contributed the script to MAPPA's underrated sex comedy PUNCH LINE, while Kazutaka Kodaka worked with hardcore games nerd Seiji Kishi to produce anime-original sequels to the Danganronpa games. Uchikoshi and Kodaka now work together at the company Too Kyo Games, one of Japan's most promising "middleware" developers. Their name is front and center on this fall's Akudama Drive.

  The anime industry itself has become steadily riddled with former visual novel writers. Gen Urobuchi, the scriptwriter of 2011 smash hit Puella Magi Madoka Magica, got his start writing shock-horror games like Saya no Uta. His work on PSYCHO-PASS (and love of martial arts) is foreshadowed by his earlier writing for cyberpunk games like Kikokugai: The Cyber Slayer. Then you have the creative lead on popular visual novel White Album 2, Fumiaki Maruto, who went on to script Classroom Crisis together with the director who went on to adapt My Hero Academia at BONES. And my favorite episode of schoolgirl horror anime SCHOOL-LIVE! — the third, from the perspective of the teacher Megane — was scripted by visual novel writer Hikaru Sakurai, now busy writing for Fate/GO.

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  If visual novels are often overlooked by the mainstream games press, their influence on pop culture is stronger than ever. The Persona games, an inspiration on everything from Fire Emblem: Three Houses to Supergiant's recent indie classic Hades, take heavy influence from dating sims. The deeply weird action-RPG Nier Automata, which made a legend of its director Yoko Taro despite being released in the shadow of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild back in 2016, takes undeniable influence from visual novels and the denpa (a person who feels disconnected from those around them) aesthetic. Even developers outside of Japan are paying homage with vaporwave mystery drama Paradise Killer seeking to beat Danganronpa at its own maximalist game.

  Yet it's projects like Talentless Nana that stick with me — looseboy made his name working on small games highly prized by a few. But he jumped ship to the manga world and now a comic popular enough to receive an anime adaptation bears his name. How many other visual novel writers from the old 18+ market are out there working under pseudonyms on manga and in other fields? How far does the influence spread? Will we see Shumon Yuu or SCA-JI writing for anime? Only time will tell.

  What is your favorite series airing this year from former visual novel talent? What visual novel would you love to see adapted into an anime? Did you know that you can now pick up The House in Fata Morgana at the incredible price of 0 percent off? Let us know in the comments!  

    Adam W is a Features Writer at Crunchyroll. When he isn't fervently praying that Girls' Work still has a chance of being made, he sporadically contributes with a loose coalition of friends to a blog called Isn't it Electrifying? You can find him on Twitter at: @wendeego

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A new promotional video for the “Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata Fine” anime film is now available. It is now screening in Japanese theaters.

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Director: Akihisa Shibata

Script: Fumiaki Maruto

Character Design: Tomoaki Takase

Studio: CloverWorks

via: saenai-movie.com

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El anime Engage Kiss publica un teaser tráiler y confirma su fecha de estreno

El anime de Engage Kiss es una obra original del estudio A-1 Pictures y se encuentra a cargo del director Fumiaki Maruto, mejor conocido por su trabajo en Saekano. Por lo que no es de extrañar que esté llamando la atención de miles de usuarios y lo mejor de todo, es que recientemente no solo […]

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Saenai Heroine no sodate-kata Memorial 2 (light novel)

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Saekano 13

Author: Fumiaki Maruto

Illustrator: Kurehito Misaki

Label: Fujimi Fantasia Bunko

Release Date: 20 October 2017

My Score: 3/5

Spoiler warning: I’m going to talk about the epilogue for a bit but I’m not going to go into too much detail on the events there. You can skip the second last paragraph if you wish to avoid spoilers.

This is the final volume in the series as the gang work towards completing and selling their game and Tomoya and Katou’s relationship advances further. Like with the previous volumes, I was bored by this largely due to my lack of investment in the romance between Tomoya and Katou. That being said, I still felt a sense of satisfaction when they finished the game so I guess part of me is still somewhat invested in the story. I thought this was a fine conclusion to the story but it definitely focused too much on the romance to be truly satisfying for me. The ending was just satisfying enough for me to justify a 3 star rating but I definitely wouldn’t rate it higher than that.

Saekano is actually one of the reasons why I learnt Japanese. I remember reading the manga before the anime was even announced and falling in love with Utaha and desperately wanting to read the light novel to find out what happened. So, now that I’m at the end of the light novel, was it worth it? Well, kind of but not really. I think the drama is well-written and the story is interesting enough but I could never root for the Tomoya/Katou ship and the story focuses more on the romance as the series goes on. Honestly, this is how I felt with White Album 2 where I could tell the drama was well-written and that Maruto was a skilled writer but I just could not get invested in the love triangle or the romances. I don’t regret reading the series because there were some definite high points but I do wish it had focused on the romance less.

Spoilers start. Now for the epilogue. The epilogue feels like a good example of my issue with how this series treats Katou because we get a good idea of what Tomoya is going to be doing in the future but it’s not all that clear what Katou is going to do. Sure, she’s going to be with Tomoya and she’s going to help him with whatever project he undertakes but we get no idea of what Katou aspires to do for herself. Katou’s existence revolves almost entirely around Tomoya at this point and that sucks. I want to know more about Katou and what she wants to do with her future but it’s never discussed. In the end, the series is all about Tomoya and I hate that. Spoilers end.

There is still another Fandisk volume and two Memorial volumes but I definitely didn’t enjoy this series enough to buy them. I can’t see myself reading anything else from Maruto in the future but I still love the Koisuru Metronome manga spin-off and I highly recommend it to people who are interested in the light novel industry and in the process of adapting a light novel to anime because it explores all that and I’m pretty sure it’s derived from Maruto’s own experiences.

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Aniplex rivela l'anime romantico Engage Kiss con un teaser video #A1Pictures #AnimeJapan2022 #Aniplex #EngageKiss #ProjectEngage

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La película Saenai Heroine no Sodate-kata fine lleva recaudados 284 millones de yenes tras su segundo fin de semana

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La película Saenai Heroine no Sodate-kata fine lleva recaudados 284 millones de yenes tras su segundo fin de semana

Saenai Heroine no Sodate-kata fine, la película de la franquicia animada basada en la serie de novelas ligeras Saenai Heroine no Sodate-kata, recaudó en su segundo fin de semana 85.185.070 de yenes (aproximadamente 707.696 €), acumulando un total de 284.457.170 de yenes (aproximadamente 2.356.582 €), bajando un puesto en la taquilla, desde el quinto hasta…