Earlier I gave some news about the continuing aftermath of the Fractale debacle, and some more have happened after that tweet by the manga artist.
At first no anime staff including Yamakan said anything, but then one fan tweeted (which got reported widely in 2ch and other blogs) that although he loved Fractale the anime enough to be one of the 500-600 or so who bought the Vol.3 BD, when he read that manga artist's tweet he felt so distraught about the ordeals she went through that he could not read the manga without thinking about her "tears", so he decided to throw away the manga -- and he produced photo to prove that. This created a lot of discussions in 2ch and finally jolted Yamakan into action.
He tweeted that he had asked the magazine to stop the manga (though no details about whether the request was accepted and whether there is any contract issue involved). He apologized to having got someone else to suffer because of an "uninteresting anime" he made though he maintained he believes his artistic sense. That was very fine, but he then tweeted that she should write what she wanted and "not blindly following suit for something called manga adaptation". This caused another whirlwind of complaints from 2ch etc -- as it seems that he is only saying this when the media mix did not work out (because the anime bombed) Now people wonder if Yamakan will do media-mix in his future projects.
Apparently it was also reported in western blogs
http://www.ani.me/zine/manga/article/1183/======
Ano Hana's final episode managed to press all the right buttons of the people who count -- i.e. those who are willing to pay $$ to buy the anime BD/DVD and the effect is PHENOMENAL. All the 6 volumes of the anime now keep a stranglehold of the top 6 slots of Amazon JP BD anime ranking last weekend. Analysis of the ranking even seems to indicate a possibility that its sales may even overtake I.S. which in itself is a hugely successful anime (on par with Angel Beats).
A big marketing campaign is now being followed up. Big poster has appeared next to the front entrance of Shinjuku JR station, the busiest train station in the whole Japan. It is Menma from the last episode, of course:
And Ano Hana T-shirts are now all sold out:
And this is the Amazon JP anime BD ranking form last weekend:
01 Ano Hana #1
02 Ano Hana #6
03 Ano Hana #5
04 Ano Hana #2
05 Ano Hana #4
06 Ano Hana #3
07 T&B #3
08 T&B #4
09 PMMM #4
10 PMMM #3
11 Steins;Gate #2
12 Steins;Gate #1
13 T&B #5
14 T&B #2
15 PMMM #5
16 IS encore OVA
17 IS #4
18 OreImo #8
19 PMMM #6
20 Azazel-san #2
21 MS Gundam: Counterattack of Char
22 T&B #6
23 Steins;Gate #3
24 Azazel-san #6
25 T&B #7
26 T&B #8
27 T&B #9
28 Azazel-san #1
29 Steins;Gate #4
30 IS #3
31 Steins;Gate #5
32 Borrower Arrietty
33 Steins;Gate #6
34 Steins;Gate #7
35 OreImo #7
36 Steins;Gate #8
37 Hana Iroha #1
38 Steins;Gate #9
39 Azazel-san #3
40 Natsume Yujincho BD Box
41 Natsume Yujincho 3 #1
42 PMMM #1
43 MS Gundam F91
44 PMMM #2
45 Blue Exorcist #2
46 Denpa Onna #2
47 Akira
48 Denpa Onna #1
49 Blue Exorcist #1
50 T&B #1
Honorable mention
60 Working!! BD Box
62 Last Exile BD Box
63 New MS Gundam: W Endless Waltz special editon
64 Dog Days #1
65 A-Channel #6
69 Sora no Otoshimono BD Box
73 Valkyria Chronicles 3 -Unrecorded Chronicles- OVA #1 of 2
77 Hidan no Aria #2
78 Freezing #5
89 Hellsing OVA #8
90 Kami no mizo 2 #1
97 Nichijou #2
98 [C] #1
Xard wrote:I thought it was male fantasy show about using 1337 game skills to bang all the chicks?
Once for 17 eps, once through 14 eps, only Gundam X really compared until now.) So yeah, I'm enjoying it, this series definitely picked up the pace since it first began. I'll watch the last three eps tomorrow, right now I'm a tad tired.
