#Shinji Ishihira

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Sasaki and Miyano (2022)

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GUYS! ITS HAPPENING OMG ITS HAPPENING

“TV Anime "FAIRY TAIL: 100 YEARS QUEST" is scheduled to begin broadcasting JULY 2024.

(+) MAIN STAFF:

- Chief Director: Shinji Ishihira

- Director: Toshinori Watanabe

- Animation Studio: J.C.STAFF”

Source: https://x.com/sugoilite/status/1767050433145831448?s=46

https://x.com/mangamogurare/status/1767057552615805081?s=46

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Richard Siken "A Primer for the Small Weird Loves;" Crush // เพื่อนายแค่หนึ่งเดียว Never Let Me Go (2022-2023) dir. โจโจ้ ทิชากร ภูเขาทอง Tichakorn Phukhaotong // The Beach Boys Wouldn't It Be Nice // Mary Oliver From the Book of Time // Richard Siken "A Primer for the Small Weird Loves;" Crush // Becca de la Rosa & Mabel Martin "Episode 28: MATRYOSHKA;" Mabel // 佐々木と宮野 Sasaki and Miyano (2022-) dir. 石平信司 Shinji Ishihira // Richard Siken You Are Jeff // unknown // 블루밍 Blueming (2022) dir. 황다슬 Da Seul Hwang // Lucy Dacus Fool's Gold

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TIME of the SEASON Fall 2022 Edition: REINCARNATED As A Sword

Maybe this isekai anime won't be ass?

OK, it’s not an isekai but it’s something that does sound like something from there or maybe it is, but I never thought of it completely as that. But let’s hope this isn’t another bland one of those. This is Reincarnated as a Sword. Director: Shinji Ishihira Series Composition: Takahiro Nagano Script: Takahiro Nagano Music: Yasuharu Takanashi (Team-MAX) Original creator: Yuu Tanaka Original…

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Final Fairy Tail TV Anime Season Details Revealed

Avex Pictures recently revealed new details for the final season of the Fairy Tail anime. The season will premiere on TV Tokyo and its affiliated networks this October.

First, Avex Pictures revealed a new visual for the upcoming season.

Next staff and casting details for the season were revealed. The main staff of the previous seasons will return to work on the final season.

The staff includes:

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What I mean is...Senpai, I want to consider it a little longer!

SASAKI TO MIYANO (2022) 1.06 | "気持ち" • feelings dir. Shinji Ishihira

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Funimation Announces English Dub Premiere For Talentless Nana

America's got talentless.

Funimation has announced a November 21st drop date for all thirteen English dubbed episodes of Talentless Nana. The series was animated by Bridge and directed by Shinji Ishihira, with Fumihiko Shimo handling series composition, Satohiko Sano designing the characters, and Yasuharu Takanashi composing the music at Nippon Columbia. Here’s the English dub cast and crew. Cast and Crew Nana Hiiragi…

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Should Lisanna have come back? (Part 1)

This might be a sign that I don't have much to talk about regarding Fairy Tail. I'm not sure that I would talk about this years ago. 

But that's a good thing, right? After all, I'm a lot more suited to write this now than before Fairy Tail ended. My writing has greatly improved over the years. The kinds of posts I made back in the day are not as well written as the stuff I’m writing now.

Not to mention, I have the perfect template to structure my answer to this question. I don't think it's as simple as answering that one question. So, similar to my post about Stain from last year, I've decided to answer this by answering three questions: "Does it make sense that Lisanna didn't die?", "Has Lisanna impacted the series much since coming back?" and "Is there any benefit to Lisanna coming back?" Despite what fans will say, these are three different questions. And each question deserves its own distinct answer. As such, I've decided to break up each part into its own post. (read: I've learned from my dealing with the Stain question.)

Question #1: Does it make sense that Lisanna didn't die?

Answer: Yes!

Oh? You thought I'd have a different answer? 

As it stands, this is not the first time I've answered this question. And every time I come to answer this question, I become more convinced that this is the right answer. It makes sense that Lisanna was still alive after the series.

Naturally, this is a controversial statement. Lisanna's return to the series has been treated as a bad thing. This is seen as one of, if not the worst things that Mashima has done for Fairy Tail. He took a character that had an obvious death and brought her back seemingly for no reason. 

Of course, the latter half of that charge is the point of the next question. But, for now, it's worth talking about the first half.

If you read Fairy Tail, the idea that Lisanna was missing was hinted at long before we learned what happened. There are hints towards it even as early as the second chapter. Mirajane talks to Lucy about the scars Fairy Tail members have and hinted at her own scars. Later on, in the Lullaby arc, Natsu is asked by Kageyama why Mirajane has stopped working, somewhat rhetorically. (Consider that this exchange happened on a train.) We even learn that before the series started, Mira was an S-Class Mage. Something serious had to be responsible for that to have stopped. 

Of course, the anime handled things differently. The episode before the Phantom Lord arc properly starts is "Natsu and the Dragon Egg". Lucy learns the story of how Natsu and Lisanna hatched Happy out of an egg. That episode ends with Lucy wondering why she hasn't seen Lisanna around the guild. There's a bit of an extra kick to this. If you've been watching the endings up to this point, you'll know the second ending ends with a frame of Natsu, Happy, and Lisanna. If you're watching this for the first time, you finally know who this is. And hopefully have an idea of what's up.

Fast forward to the Phantom Lord arc, and the truth is revealed. Mirajane and Elfman lost their sister after a mission went wrong. He attacked his sister after losing control of a take-over form. None of them have been the same since. Their sister was dead.

Only there's one problem with this. We're never shown that Lisanna died.

We're told that Lisanna is dead by her siblings. She's mourned over by her friends and family. She's presumed to be dead by the characters of the series. We even get to see the events that lead to her untimely demise expounded on in the anime. But even then, it never goes as far as showing that Lisanna was actually dead. 

That may sound like a random and pedantic point, but it really isn't.

Consider this. Two arcs after Phantom Lord, we learn about Erza's past. An important person in her life was Rob. He's the one that taught her about magic and inadvertently led her to Fairy Tail. In Erza's backstory, he also shares a tragic demise, which works as the trigger for Erza unlocking her magic.

But there's an important difference between Rob and Lisanna: we actually see him die. We see his body drop dead, and his loss of life. It's not just something we hear characters talk about. It's something we see happen for ourselves.

This is one of the more frustrating things about character death: if there isn't a body, it's not confirmed. There are exceptions to this, but death isn't permanent unless you see the person in question die and confirmed dead. Mashima has gone on record to say that he doesn't feel he would ever bring characters back from the dead. At the same time, he does enjoy writing characters that seemed to have died come back seemingly from the dead. 

One of the most famous examples of this is Captain America from Marvel. If you didn't know, Steve Rogers is a character that predated the Stan Lee era of the company. (They were known as Timely Comics at the time.) He was popular when the US was in World War II. Soon after it ended, he didn't find much sustainability. 

However, as Marvel started to gain a new mythos and identity, he was formally reintroduced with the backstory that fans likely know about him now. He was on a mission and went under the ice for decades. Eventually, he was revived and became the leader of the Avengers.

Though, how is Lisanna's disappearance explained?

She was taken up as part of Anima in Edolas. When we finally see what happened that day, we see that her body was teleported to Edolas. With everything that happened to her, the other Strauss kids weren't unjustified for thinking their sister died, even if she wasn't with them. It's not as if what happened to her could have been more believable to them.

But the most important character in solving this entire situation may be one you'd expect: Mystogan. In the Phantom Lord arc, he's most well known for taking down all of the extra Phantom Lord branches. However, he's also responsible for collecting Makarov's scattered magic after Aria took it away from him. And, naturally, the character he tells these things to happens to be Porylusica.

And later in the Fantasia arc, he is revealed to be an alternate form of Jellal. In fact, he happens to be the Jellal that Wendy knew when she was younger. If there are two Jellals and one is clearly from Earth, where did the other come from?

These things are all clarified in the Edolas arc. He comes from an alternate dimension where people are almost the opposite of how they are. People in Edolas can't use magic freely. Therefore, their king has been using Anima to take magic from Earthland so he can use it for him- 

I mean... so that the people of Edolas will be able to use magic as they want.

As you can imagine, Mystogan has problems with this, especially when it means turning the Earthland version of Fairy Tail, and the rest of Magnolia, into lacrima. Much of Edolas involves his orchestration of the plot to save both worlds. However, this also involves him sending people to Edolas from Earthland. He sends Gajeel and Lucy to Edolas and presumably could have helped Wendy and Carla. He even goes to Edolas himself at the end of the arc.

When Natsu, Happy, Wendy, and Carla go to Fairy Tail's version of Edolas they actually meet Lisanna. They believe that it's just Edolas Lisanna, even as Edolas has versions of Lucy, Wendy, and plenty of other members of Fairy Tail. Though, there are some subtle hints regarding her true origin. As the guild is explaining their plight to the team, Natsu notices that Lisanna is leaving the guildhall. She'd have no real reason to leave if she wasn't somehow connected to them and we learn that's the reason she left. 

Also, there's a fun little detail that I admittedly picked up from TVTropes.com. In the chapter cover for Bye, Bye Fairy Tail, the chapter where the characters start to return from Edolas, the members of Edolas Fairy Tail are symbolically wishing the other members goodbye. You'll never guess who's missing from this cover: Lisanna. Of course, other members are missing, including Mira. However, Lisanna isn't an insignificant omission from this cover.

Now I understand what one complaint might be. I'm able to make all of these explanations for Lisanna returning because we have the complete context for the series. Even if any of this makes sense, there's no way that someone who was reading Fairy Tail as it was coming out could have come to the conclusion that Lisanna not actually dying makes sense.

Consider the following: the director of Fairy Tail originally planned to treat Lisanna as if she hadn't actually died. Of course, that might not mean much to the anime we got considering she would be revealed not to have died in the manga either. However, consider that Shinji Ishihira, without the benefit of the Edolas arc, came to the conclusion that the most reasonable way to handle Lisanna was that she wasn't dead.

To be continued...

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A third season of the Log Horizon anime series, titled "Log Horizon: Entaku Houkai", has been announced for October 2020 on station NHK-E.

-Staff-

Director: Shinji Ishihira

Series Composition: Toshizo Nemoto

Sound Director: Shouji Hata

Music: Yasuharu Takanashi

Production: Studio Deen

via: www6.nhk.or.jp/anime/topics/detail.html?i=6074

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Sasaki and Miyano TV Anime Unveils Holiday-themed Visuals

  The holiday season is almost upon us, and Sasaki and Miyano, an upcoming TV anime based on the "boys' life" manga by Shou Harusono about a burgeoning romance between a bad boy delinquent and a fan of BL comics, is getting in the festive spirit with a pair of key visuals depicting the lead characters dressed up in their holiday best.

      The new key visuals (above) celebrate Christmas and New Year's Day. The Christmas illustration features Sasaki and Miyano dressed in warm clothes and carrying presents, while the New Year's illustration features the pair dressed in ceremonial kimonos and carrying items associated with the upcoming new year: a blessed arrow and a stuffed tiger, since 2022 is the Year of the Tiger in the Chinese Zodiac.

    The original Sasaki and Miyano manga is serialized by Media Factory (a division of KADOKAWA) in their pixiv Comic manga magazine, and an English language version is also available from Yen Press, who describe the story of the series as follows:

  It all started like a typical old-school boys’ love plotline—bad-boy senior meets adorably awkward underclassman, one of them falls in love, and so on and so forth. But although Miyano is a self-proclaimed boys��� love expert, he hasn’t quite realized…he’s in one himself. Which means it’s up to Sasaki to make sure their story has a happily ever after…!

    The Sasaki and Miyano TV anime is directed by Shinji Ishihira and features animation production by Studio DEEN. The series is scheduled to broadcast in Japan beginning in January of 2022.

  Sources:

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Official Sasaki and Miyano TV anime home page

  Copyright notice: © Shou Harusono / KADOKAWA / "Sasaki and Miyano" Production Committee

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Paul Chapman is the host of The Greatest Movie EVER! Podcast and GME! Anime Fun Time.

By: Paul Chapman

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▶️ TSUKIMICHI - MOONLIT FANTASY: L'ANIME TORNERÀ CON LA SECONDA STAGIONE DA GENNAIO!

L'avventura isekai fantasy, tratta dalla novel di Kei Azumi, è nuovamente diretta da Shinji Ishihira (TenKen - Reincarnato in una Spada, Sasaki and Miyano), ma la produzione si sposta da C2C (TenKen - Reincarnato in una Spada, Shangri-La Frontier) a J.C. STAFF (DanMachi, Edens Zero).

I primi 12 episodi della serie, andati in onda durante l'estate 2021, sono tutti in streaming su Crunchyroll, sottotitolati in italiano.

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My Cautious Optimism Towards the EDENS ZERO Anime

Well, the Edens Zero anime is almost here. We knew that it was going to come eventually, even before the announcement came. But it's weird to think of how close it actually is. I've seen a lot of thoughts surrounding the anime. While the reactions of people who don't like Mashima are predictable, there's a lot of concern coming from fans about how this will go. I've gone on record saying that I'm cautiously optimistic about the anime. While we're waiting for it to (officially) air, I want to share why.

Let's start with the positives.

When I heard that EZ was going to be animated, I didn't have high hopes for a studio. There was no way we were getting Shaft or David Production to animate this studio. I figured that a smaller name studio that has produced competent work would pick up the project. I threw out names like Studio Shuka or Studio Deen, responsible for animating Rave, as possibilities. I was surprised to see that it went to J.C. Staff.

I know that people were disappointed to see JC Staff considering their lackluster work on the second season of One Punch Man. But it feels unfair to judge the studio on just one production. The first season was the result of talented artists working under a great director. Both seemed to be unavailable working on another show to air the same season. We were never going to get anywhere near the same level of anime.

JC Staff has proven themselves to be great at adaptation. They've produced plenty of popular high-quality series. They were responsible for some of the best romantic dramedies of the past few decades in Toradora, Golden Time, and The Pet Girl of Sakurasou. They've handled popular Shonen Jump titles in Bakuman and Food Wars. In the way of action, their more recent work on DanMachi is a good sign that the studio has the talent.

There are a few specific names that I'm excited to see working on this project. First and foremost is Shinji Ishihira. Fans of Fairy Tail will recognize him as the man responsible for directing the series. Even as he's only serving as chief director, it's great to see that he'll be influencing this project. I loved seeing the additions he made to Fairy Tail in anime and it's great to see that he'll be working with Mashima on some level.

Outside of directing Fairy Tail, he's directed several other series, including Log Horizon which just got a third season. Though, his big claim to fame is his storyboards. Naturally, he's done storyboards for some of the series he's directed, including Fairy Tail. However, he's also done the storyboards for other big projects. Let's put it this way. He's done storyboards for some of the biggest episodes for Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood and My Hero Academia. I think he deserves more respect than people are willing to give "Fairy Tail's director".

Next is the show's composer. There were a lot of guesses as to who would get the nod. Most people figured that it would be Hiroyuki Sawano or Yasuharu Takanashi, teaming up with Ishihira for another project. Personally, I wanted Michiru Oshima to do the score because no one writes for an orchestra like her. Somehow, we got someone else: Yoshihisa Hirano. His work on Death Note and Hunter x Hunter is amazing and I can't wait to hear what's in store for Edens Zero.

On the voice acting side, Rie Kugimuya has come back to voice this version of Happy. And Sayara Ohara joins the cast to voice Elsie. Stuff like this tells me that there is a recognition of how this universe is at least somewhat tied to Fairy Tail and I’m not terribly against it. However, I'm particularly interested in the choice of Rebecca's voice actor. Fans of Re: Zero may recognize her as the voice of Minerva, Witch of Wrath.

Even glimpses of the anime are enough to get me excited. The opening and ending do well to reference future events and current powers and abilities. The ending even directly borrows images from covers. They even addressed a somewhat serious concern I had in Rebecca's ether signature being blue. (Though I wish it was a darker shade.)

So, why the caution? At least, two big things: production staff and Netflix.

You know how I was praising the staff for their past efforts? Those things don't necessarily entail an anime's success. Plenty of great creators have gone to make anime that don't live up to their name. 

If you think I'm wrong, consider the case of Boogiepop and Others. The reason JC Staff handled One Punch Man's second season was that the people from the original staff went to work on another series. While it wasn't a bad anime, by any means, it was a disappointment to many. It hasn't had as much impact as other shows from the same season. (For reference, it premiered the same season as Kaguya-sama: Love is War and Rising of the Shield Hero among others.)

But a bit more troubling is its streaming platform. I'll have the opportunity to watch it as it airs through Hulu in the States. But the vast majority of anime fans will have to wait until the show is available on Netflix. Netflix's "all at once" model has been known to kill the hype behind the anime it licenses. Much of the fun of watching seasonal anime is watching it and engaging in discussion with others as it airs. This will be lost for many people watching the show.

At the same time, maybe I'm overreacting. Seven Deadly Sins, which also came from Weekly Shonen Magazine was one of Netflix's first anime license pickups. It's been one of the most popular shonen action series. (certain things notwithstanding) And much of this staff has proven themselves to be reliable. Many seem to be excited to work on this series.

I just hope that this anime adaptation is good. I don't know that we'll get an adaptation that is better than the manga, and I'm not sure I want one. I don't know if this will be the series that gets people to actually respect Mashima's writing. All I want is an adaptation better than a glorified slide show. I already like the first ED which was done with HoneyWorks and hope similar songs come from this show. 

People have thrown around 25 episodes as the estimated length. I'd say that's enough to get to the end of the Digitalis arc. If they get another cour, Sun Jewel would be a good stopping point. I personally would have liked to see a long-running anime adaptation. However, as Black Clover has ended recently, I have to accept this will be a relic of the past era of anime.

In Conclusion:

There’s a lot of good things to be excited over with the EZ’s anime coming. Though, I’m worried about how it will go, I want to believe that things will work out well.

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Informative post about the animated adaptation of Edens Zero. Hiro Mashima's most recent work.

-It will arrive in the spring of 2021. That is, March or April of next year.

-The studio that will animate it will be JC staff responsible for series such as Shokugeki no Souma, One Punch Man S2, Prison School, Danmachi, among others.

-It will be under the direction of Shinji Ishihira. He previously worked on the full adaptation of Fairy Tail.

-In the main cast (Shiki, Rebecca and Happy). We have Takuma Terashima who in Fairy Tail was Jackal and will be Shiki, Mikako Komatsu known as Seishiro Tsugumi from Nisekoi, Oboro in Yuuna San will be Rebecca and the most obvious Rie Kugimiya as Happy.

-Kenichiro Aoki will be part of the staff and who has made animations such as this (https://twitter.com/Toaru_Sakuga/status/1304533540382674945…) or this (https://twitter.com/randomsakuga/status/1305083928655679489…)

-Yūshi Suzuki (episode director for Fairy Tail season 3) will direct the anime, and Mitsutaka Hirota (Zoids Wild, Rent-A-Girlfriend) will oversee and write the series scripts, and Yurika Sako (key animation for Food Wars! The Third Plate ) will design the characters for animation.

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