PV and Staff info for the anime just dropped. Coming in 2027.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrTyJ-xMJMYhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Qcxnm06hjo
https://thebuglecall-anime.com/https://x.com/BugleCall_animeDirector：Shinya WatadaSeries Composition：Michihiro TsuchiyaCharacter Design：Michinori ChibaAction Animator：Hiroshi ArisawaConcept Design：Kanetake Ebikawa Prop Design：Takayuki Yanase Music：Hitomi Koto3DCG：SHIROGUMI INC.Animation Production：CA Soa
Only way they can adapt panels and sequence like this will be to just do it straight like it's shown.
>>289029815They can change the film
Seems good enough, hopefully the MC doesn't sound like a bitch and Akio Ōtsuka isn't part of the cast.
>>289029883>and Akio Ōtsuka isn't part of the cast
>>289029753>3DCG：SHIROGUMI INC.Bit of a mixed bag, "passable" is probably the best we can hope for here>Animation Production：CA SoaAs far as I can see this will be their first anime which doesn't bode wellAs for the others>Shinya Watada (Rock is a Lady's Modesty, Aikatsu Stars!, Gundam Build Fighters Try) is directing the anime at CA Soa, and Michiro Tsuchiya (Akane-banashi, ClassicaLoid, Suikoden: The Anime) is in charge of the series scripts. Michinori Chiba (Basilisk, Sk8 the Infinity, Mobile Suit Gundam 00) is designing the characters, and Hitomi Kotō (Sparks of Tomorrow) is composing the music.
Everyone's looking pretty good, I think.
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Hmm, not really how I envisioned it. Not that it's bad but it feels, ... how should I put it, ... Silver Link-ian.Clean and homogenized for a passable grade. Like a paycheck. Maybe I'm just being greedy and it turns out well. Hoping for 2-cour.>>289029815Fuck off, faggot
>>289030042Blood Bro was pretty far in wasn't he?
>>289029720I expected this to be Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer tier because the manga is read by 5 people and clearly hard to animate, but this is surprisingly solid for a lower budget work. Cautiously optimistic for an okay adaptation when I expected disaster.
No hope for anime adaptions ever, but Sensou Kyoushitsu is great so I will be watching it regardless. New chapter when?
This is a big one
>>289029941It's a (new) CyberAgent studio so it should be okay.
>>289030176Chap 15, but considering the typical length of chapters, yeah.
>>289030007Top looks cutest.
>>289030021Love Coura
>>289030178Volume extras in a few days, actual chapter in a month.
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>>289030389His color palette and overall anime design looks like a .hack character in a good way.
>>289030149Go fuck yourself bitch, always some moron like you with a broom up his ass.
>>289030021Coura, please
>>289029720Looks good overall, but hooo boy is the bitching about CG soldiers going to be incessant.
>>289029720Pretty good trailer. Amazing combination of music and visuals. Elevating and memorable. Composer and director will carry it.
>>289030925I mean I don't see the need to bitch about them but at least we both agree they don't look good.I'd rather they just avoid large whole army shots and use direction to imply scale instead like in Rome HBO or early GOT
>>289029720Well, the CG soldiers will make it look even more like Total War than it already does.
>>289030389The worst character. Thought he was blond.
>>289029720I am excited for the trumpet soundtrack.
>>289030381Volume cover 6.
>>289030021Both Zoe and Cora look off to me.
>>289029720Very weird trailer desu, why are they showing so much? I think I'm gonna pass on this, it doesn't look very good. The CGI soldiers, horses and castles will make every single battle look just weak and lifeless. Also>ONLY trumpet playing but it has multiple accompanying instrumentsfuck you
Can't wait to see my sweet daughteru Zoe in motion
>>289031997The music is just filler.No foley work has been done I bet, so they just put some generic classical in the background. Pretty common to do when making one of these PVs when you're far before release. I think the point of showing so much is to gain some confidence from the production committee that the project is being worked on and that there's no chicanery going on.
>>289030007>>289030021>>289030042They look great
>>289029720Is the manga any good?
>>289032203No and the anime will be shit
>>289032203Its solid. Videogamey, but not in the JRPG sense. Not Dragon Quest, but more like Total War or some CRPGs.
>>289032295>>289032203The closest comparison is probably Elden Ring, especially given the nature of MC's power
>>289029720Is this Sora no Woto S2?
>>289032499It's Sora no Woto done right.
>doots once
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>>289029720I wasn't impressed by this trailer. Compared to modern anime, this was just disappointing for one of the most popular fantasy mangas. I hope they look to improve the visual for this within a year.
Love the Monty Python castle rush
>>289032698>one of the most popular fantasy mangasIt's popular?
Are we gonna reach the mpreg arc?
>>289029720Ah, soon will come the time of "/a/ hates The Bugle Call, therefore /a/ always hated The Bugle Call"
>>289033048This anime, just like the manga, will fly under the radar thus escaping any hate mob.
>>289032755I don't think so. I hope more people will watch the anime and read the manga then.
>>289032698>for one of the most popular fantasy mangas.What are you talking about? This one is not even Dungeon Meshi levels of popular PRE-ANIME
This is a feeling so complicated I don't even know what I'm feeling.On one hand I want the authors to live long and prosper and the anime should get them enough recognition and manga royalties.On the other hand, Bulge Call threads are super comfy and normalfags aren't ready for the crazy futurist train ride when even some manga readers couldn't handle it.
>>289033282Dungeon Meshi is an exception out of exceptions. It was doing half a million per volume when even Jump manga couldn't do it anymore.
>>289033542>Bulge Call threads are super comfy and normalfags aren't ready for the crazy futurist train ride when even some manga readers couldn't handle it.Talking like a teenager
>>289033557It wasn't even Frieren levels of popular pre-anime. I'm sorry anon but people will look at this and think "yep another isekai battle shounen"
>>289033542If the anime brings BC any popularity it will be only after the manga is finished
>>289033630>it will be only after the manga is finished2028 LETS GOOOOOO
>>289032656Huh, skub.
>>28903275513 volumes and counting for a monthly is pretty popular, yes
>>289029720>3dcgAlways a big turnoff.
>>289032203It's great, one of the few good ongoing manga.
>>289034347>13 volumes and counting for a monthly is pretty popular, yesNot at all, there are hundreds of those
At least it can't be worse than the kyuutei dragons adaptation... right?
>>289033616>It wasn't even Frieren levels of popular pre-anime.Are you talking about DM or BC? DM was huge, Frieren was big, BC is niche.
>>289034610Name 30
>>289029720My boywifegeneral is looking so very pretty.
>>289029720holy shit bros it's happening. the 3d armies look disappointing as fuck but I expected this, the rest looks good. I'm cautiously optimistic. can't believe we're actually getting an adaptation.
CG was unavoidable for such amount of large scale battles, but I really really hope director's good cause there's a lot to this manga other than action
>>289029720rts: the manga without 3dcg units?impossible!
>>289030007I don't really like the way they look here. It looks so shiny and slick.>>289030389Akira on the other side. Looks great.
>>289029720I absolutely hate how they're animating Lucas's lights.
>>289030381>>289031654They anime design is missing the big ear effect of the flowers.
>>289035434Yeah I like the manga's more. They feel more otherwordly
yeah, glad for you or sorry that happened, but let's talk about actually important thingsnext chapter when?
>>289029720Does that motif he plays at the start have some Michiru Oshima in it or am i hearing things?
>>289030007>>289030021>>289030042demi and zoe look offand the nose guy doesn't really look like someone who had his nose chopped off
>>289033048I actually dread the time Choujin X will receive anime adaptation because it's a perfect material for mentally ill to latch onto
>>289035434It bothers me as well. I don't like those kind of extra flourishes just to make it looks more arborial. Only makes it look cheaper, same with the meteor.Those FAT THICK lines are more pleasant to the eye.
>>289032295There are literally ZERO videogame elements on this manga, beyond the visuals used for Lucas's ability that the author said in an interview was just an easy way to show people how it truly worked. >>289032203Yes, it's my favorite fantasy manga. Its strong point is the writing. I feel like the marketing and the very start of the manga sells it as a sort of strategy action thing like it's going to be just about tactics but it's more about the characters. There's a lot of action teamwork stuff but once their actual personalities get developed it's very drama-ish. It has some similarities to Attack on Titan though not in tone or execution. Some things are reminiscent of Elden Ring even if it's much lower fantasy than it. But that's kinda what to expect.
>>289033048Aside from the dedicated hateAnon that always hangs around the threads I don't think it'll have much influence on the quality of the threads. The daily didn't have any bad consequence either. The manga kinda attracts chill people, beyond normalfags out of this site who cry controversy with the Zoe stuff.
>>289035828I really don't think so. Tokyo Ghoul had the exact edgy teen aesthetic which made its audience slurp it up like drugs. Choujin is just a wild mix of things Ishida likes.
>>289035961While yes, there are no explicit vidya elements, its strategy is very reminiscient of RTS games where using your hero units efficiently at the right time is the win condition.
>>289036355Fucking Tolkien and his video game bullshit.
>>289036355It still has nothing like what people call videogame elements, which are things that resemble videogame systems in-story. Without going to the extreme of isekai stories, there's some stuff in Frieren that would fit the bill even if they're much lighter than in those stories if you really wanna criticize it for that... like character classes, the one minimap spell, clear inspiration on the Dragon Quest stereotypical hero vs Demon Lord story and some things almost setup as quests, etc. There's no such things here beyond the visuals of Lucas ability. It has some clear inspiration but they come from other media, the aesthetics are very Soulsy, the execution of some powers like the speedster are clearly inspired by X-men movies, etc. but none of it are about in-universe systems. Lucas's ability for example gets explained later on and it has nothing to do with RTS. It's just how the artist chose to portray it to convey what sort of formations he's having them do.
>>289029720HUHYou fuckers told me it's on the verge of getting axedI am NEVER listening to any of you fuckers ever againI even passed on reading the manga because everyone was dooming and glooming about the axe when I check the thread
>>289036641At the cost of repeating myself, I know there's no explicit vidya elements and the author took no inspiration from RTS. I already said so.The point is that Lucas can command huge armies with pinpoint accuracy and uses Hero units in similar fashion so on the readers side it reminds them of that genre. Nothing more to it than that.Same way you can recommend someone who likes Total War to read Youjo Senki. Frieren on the other hand is just straight up videogame shit and barely fantasy.
>>289036355Large scale warfare has been present in fantasy since its inception. I do see Fromsoft inspirations in bugle call and only thematically (with Lucas being an obvious nod to Miquella), but other than that, there's nothing videogamey about it. Some situations are inspired by movies and shows, i think the author loves Monty Python at the very least.
>>289037586Oh my god. Once again, you're missing the point. No fantasy character has had the power to directly control large armies in the way Lucas does. Add in Hero units and a pseudo-campaign mode and it's the same mechanics as the player in an RTS. What part do you not get?And you keep mentioning the FromSoft/Elden Ring inspiration but I don't see it at all, as it's just good fantasy aeasthetic. Follow the argument.
>>289035961Beyond the references to games like Elden Ring, there's also the whole style of the presentation that feels very video gamey. Lucas's commands to his army look like they come straight out of an RTS game. Or elements like the gravity cannon the Mirror Ramus uses, feel exactly like a video game fanbase creation from a game like Minecraft, more than a typical fantasy genre item. The internal logic of the series is closer to a game than Gene Wolfe.
>>289037840Do you understand what the concept of "hero units" is based on?
>>289037840That's a different Anon. With me the disagreement was just on what we considered videogame elements to be.
>>289037020It's your fault for trusting /a/
>>289032203it's amazing
>>289037840>And you keep mentioning the FromSoft/Elden Ring inspiration but I don't see it at all, as it's just good fantasy aeasthetic. Follow the argument.The aesthetic for the fantasy elements is similar and there's actual From Software equipment showing up as a clear reference so it's clearly directly inspired. The Druids are also really, really similar to Elden Ring lore and Lucas has too many parallels with Miquella.
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>>289039117One of Lucas' soldiers is also wearing the same armor as Miquella's soldiers.
>>289037020Bugle Call was simply moved from a monthly to quarterly magazine while it is serializing its final arc. Some people find hard to pick up the nuance.Though, there are occasionally axed manga which get anime adaptation. Like that piece of shit Kill Blue airing now.
No matter how it turns out I'm really happy the manga got recognition and I'm really happy for the authors. Their first full-fledged manga and it's getting an adaptation, that's quite a feat (I think?). Love this series like you wouldn't believe
>>289037840>And you keep mentioning the FromSoft/Elden Ring inspiration but I don't see it at all, as it's just good fantasy aeasthetic. Follow the argument.I haven't played ER, but some designs are direct references like Akira's and Mirror's armors, and the druid lore.
If I hadn't read the manga and you told me this was the trailer for a Fire Emblem game, I might have believed you. Just turn Lucas's hair blue.
>>289040428Cast them
>>2890300213 best girls (unironically I would not be surprised if the pope was a woman but they can be one anyways).
>>289040428I know this is just characters posing for the trailer, but Zahid and Poppy on the front line, ready to fight, makes me laugh
I wonder how much of the first episode will be changed. Never liked the premise that somehow very successful mercs knew nothing about the Ramus/branched (will probably be officially called branched). Also if they show the pope and Demi at the very start to confuse the fuck out of people.
>>289040972I hope they alter Oskar's introduction. Trying to kill Lucas was a really contrived way to introduce his power.
>>289041338I think that's too big of a change to alter significantly, but yeah it's dumb that he'd try to kill the guy the Pope is appointing considering how much he respects the Pope.
>>289041338That was funny. I think was what got me to keep reading
>>289041424Just have him break Lucas's wrist or something. Then you can at least still introduce Coura's power.
>>289032203It used to be, but it shat the bed. It's ending soon anyway.
>>289029720>that 3D sloppaOof, as expected. The animation looks very weak and stiff. This is exactly the kind of lazy cheap adaptation I was afraid of. Crap like Witch Hat Academia gets movie quality animation while actually good fantasy gets left with table scraps all the time. Let's hope Tower Dungeon somehow escapes the Polygon curse.
>>289041719What do you mean? The last arc is the best arc>>289041338>I hope they alter Oskar's introduction. Trying to kill Lucas was a really contrived way to introduce his power.I feel like originally he was meant to be more of an evil fanatic and that the authors later on made him into a way more sympathetic and complex character. I think they knew how out of place it looks in hindsight and that's why it gets mentioned in Southampton when they're all reminiscing.
>>289042033>The last arc is the best arc
>>289042033To add more, a bunch of things at the start look different and I feel like the authors corrected course later on. The mercenaries not knowing about Branched is really weird when there's like, entire countries based on Branched powers and they've been around shaping war for ages. The manga does excuse it later on and adds that part of the Pope officially disclosing the existence of them and whatnot but it still felt like them straightening out something that was iffy at the beginning.There's also something minor and it's that all the Branched look like they have to put effort to use their powers, this gets changed to just their branch crackling without any kind of physical exertion.
>>289042072The only arc that rivals it is the Mirror arc
What kind of shonentard would think that the last arc is anything but amazing
>>289041719Wrong, it's just been getting better.
>>289030042>took me this long to realize i forgot PoppyForgive me, worst girl.
>>289035786>and the nose guy doesn't really look like someone who had his nose chopped offHe got the Tyrion treatment.Maybe a sliced off nose is too off-putting.
>>289043086POPPY A SHIT!!!
>>289029720I don't have a musical ear but the music doesn't sound like a bugle at all. Maybe some oboe or horn?
>>289043269It's kinda funny that Lucas only uses a bugle at the very start, with the mercenaries
>>289041801Anon there was 0% chance of the massive fucking armies being hand animated
>>289043269Oh no, that's definitely a trumpet and there's a larger brass section later on.
>>289032203If you like nihilistic medievalesque stories, then yeah. If you don't, then no.
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>>289034347Wasn't this selling pretty poorly, but jump kept it, because they thought it had potential? I only know this through word of mouth tho, so not sure how true it is
>>289045078This is amazing.
>>289030007>>289030021>>289030042>poppy excluded from the collageGood
>>289032795Most likely we are going to finish Land of Mirrors arc and call it a day. The arc finishes exactly on chapter 13 of the manga. If they do one episode per chapter, which by the ´page count they could do I think will end the season there. Perfect size for single cour anime.
>>289037586They also like the x-men movies
>>289036330Choujin had that one panel about white nationalists (or something adjacent, not sure), so discourse will turn to shit by that point, if not earlier. I'm not sure ishida even wants an anime desu, he seems rather fragile and tokyo ghoul already gave him enough trouble, whether through the anime production or him not being able to properly handle :re and being unsatisfied from the results.
>>289045407We saw Udo in the trailer, and he only shows up after that.
>>289045478Damn, now I'm lost.When does Udo leave? Maybe that chapter could be a good ending but I don't which one was it.
>>289045583It was after the battle at Not-Mont St. Michel
>>289045583A bit after the battle in the circular city (the name escapes me). There's a downtime chapter or two where Zoe blows up a cesspit, and the Udo leaves. It's like chapter 25 or something. I bet we're going to get about that far in the first season.
>>289045478>>289045407I think Udo could show up as the post-ending hook, and his flashback of having his nose cut could be transplanted to the flashbacks that show Looking Glass in her prime. For example there's one where she cuts down some guys with the Kaidan Mercenary armor from Elden Ring and then kills a random spear Branched. This could be replaced with her beating Udo.
>two girls are after MC's dick>both are mentally ill>one just managed to fix herself but stacked a gigantic heap of death flags
>>289045704Sadly there's no way Cora wins but I'm going down with the ship
>>289045723I'm there with you but I'm full of HOPE
>>289045723Lucas is a decorated warlord and a walking nuke, nothing stops him from taking both as his wives.
>>289045768Really? I wish I had your hope. All I see is Zoe going down after winning due to the price of her powers and going into a coma until post-story when Lucas is an adult and both don't have to worry about the allegations. I do think Zoe is definitely going to be taken out though, I feel like both sides are gonna arrive at the final battle on their last legs.
>>289029720I really like the OST during the fight from 2:42it looks good too, if we get this level of animation for the good moments I'll be more than content.
This and MiA are probably the only two god-tier grimdark fantasy manga I care about. Hopefully it actually draws in the crowd it deserves (but not to /a/ threads).
>>289045222You've got to be on some extreme level of nepotism for that kinda shit. The fact is the manga industry operates on sales projection from historical volume to volume sales conversion. Also account for the competitiveness of any one magazine. The result speaks for itself.
