A new studio, Drive, is taking over from Studio Deen. Drive is pretty new but don't have a good track record for what they do have so far, which is worrying me. On the bright side, Takaomi Kanasaki, the director of all the previous KonoSuba stuff is returning which is what I was most worried about. They were able to turn what I would think would be a
crummy mobile game anime into KonoSuba light.
I'm still mostly excited, just been burned too many times by things I like getting studio changes for the worse. Maybe this and season 2 of To Your Eternity will boost studio Drive and change my opinion. Here's hoping.
Huh, that actually looks fun. Is purple-haired midriff tomboy catgirl in it?
Why? No reason.
Should I watch the original Legend of the Galactic Heroes, Die Neue These or one after the other?
I think the amount of willingness you have to watch a lot of episodes is the biggest factor.
With that out, I think there's an argument to be made for seeing the new series first. Then a lot of things about it won't annoy you as much as it does for OG watchers.
Then, later, you can watch the OG and appreciate what it did differently and often better.
As for the OG series, regardless of what order you watch it, I recommend first watching the
Overture to a New War movie and then skip the first couple episodes to where the movie leaves off.
But it's a bit rough to readjust from the movie's art and animation... still, brilliant series. It's so weird in how I could write a whole thesis of nitpicks and annoying things about it, yet in the end I still concluded it was a 5/5.
DAT:
I love hearing Kansai accents in anime, it’s cocaine for me.
I don't speak Japanese, but the weebiest I get is that I recognize the kansai accent by myself.
Reminds me, WHERE IS MY GODDAMN SILVER SPOON SEASON 3?
That one really got shafted by the author's family health issues, I think. It became hard to plan any potential future seasons when they couldn't know when it would conclude, and it wasn't quite big enough of a series to just be put on ice in the anime scene where public attention is concerned.
She's working on a new series now, though. A pretty brutal one at that.
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DAT: I'm sometimes worried a series might be too "Japan-specific" to catch on elsewhere, and then in turn I worry that it might reduce the chances of it getting an anime adaptation, or that it will be a deprioritized on where studio selection is concerned.
At this point, for example, I'm worried that might be the case for
The Elusive Samurai, which is certainly doing well enough in Japan itself in Weekly Shounen Jump to be anime-certain, especially since it's by the creator of
Assassination Classroom.
Hell, at this point I think it's better than
Assassination Classroom was. But it's focus on Japanese history, and a part of Japanese history
obscure outside of Japan at that, does make me worry it would fall into this.
The western market is certainly not a main priority, but it is not zero either in the slightest. In fact it's getting increasingly important as a revenue source.
