>Animation studio Bouncy opened a website for a new anime project titled Mahō Shōjo? Naria Girls last Friday. The series will premiere on July 6 on Tokyo MX and will also run on the Sun TV channel and on the Niconico streaming service in Japan.
>The story centers around three girls named Urara, Hanabi, and Inaho, who aim to become famous throughout Japan by creating anime renditions of themselves. To be a hit with everyone from kids to adults, they choose the theme of "magical girls." Now they aim to broadcast their one-cour (quarter of a year) magical girl anime. The series is labeled as a "user participation" anime.
>The staff is currently running auditions for the show's cast.
>The anime reunites key staff from the gdgd Fairies, Straight Title Robot Anime, and Tesagure! Bukatsu-mono anime series. Kōtarō Ishidate is directing the anime, and is once again working with the studio Bouncy. Ishidate is also supervising the series' scripts, while Kuniosa Hirama (Q Transformers: Kaettekita Convoy no Nazo, Masatake Yamaguchi (Straight Title Robot Anime), and Satoshi Takahashi are penning the scripts. Okazu Misoyama is designing the characters. Yoshiaki Tokunaga is credited for sound effects, while Soichi Tsunekawa is credited for sound mixing. Yasuhito Nozoe is credited as sound production manager. The logo design is credited to "i."
>Hajime is performing and arranging the show's theme song, and Jun'ichi Inoue is composing.
YES YES YES YES YES YES
Carter Russell
Sounds fun.
Benjamin Davis
it's either going to be comedy gold or a complete clusterfuck
Julian Brooks
...
Matthew Butler
it's already got fan art
Jeremiah Harris
...
Isaiah Butler
I'm guessing all the gdgd/Tesagure fans are dead.
Easton Fisher
All except me of course.
Charles Bennett
the lone survivor.
Joshua Young
do you think this will get subs?
Jack Barnes
probably not
Charles Long
Yeah well, maybe CR will pick it up.
Nolan Turner
the gdgd fairies movie never got subs
James Allen
maybe but I doubt it
Hudson Nguyen
Those are pretty boring magical girl designs
Eli Powell
that's not the point of the show.
Liam Sanchez
It's either going to be great, complete trash, or unremarkable and overrated by a small vocal fanbase.
Ethan Adams
Even so, something as bad as a plaid full outfit is enough to make me doubt the overall quality.
Nathan Morales
wait till it's in gloriously clunky 3D
Brody Miller
or it's not going to be subbed and it will fall into obscurity forever.
Bentley Allen
This is going to be a short isn't it? Announcing it just a month before airing would be unusual if it were a full series.
Ryan Morales
Yes it's probably going to be a short, something labeled as a "user participation" anime would have to be a short.
Zachary Ramirez
I wish someone translated Minarai Diva.
Wyatt Rivera
This sounds promising as fuck. Are they gonna make it look like shit again?
Elijah Stewart
me to
Dylan Allen
>again
what do you mean.
Nolan Hall
>"user participation"
Looking forward to what this actually entails. Few people in the previous thread were suggesting Niconico polling, but I wonder what will even be asked. It's sure to be silly/entertaining at least. I hope it's not something that wouldn't be shown in an online format, like the live segments included in a few anime these days that aren't shown on Crunchyroll and such.
That would be really disappointing, but whatever this thing is, hopefully it's included in the main show.
Camden Gray
if you want to see how wrong it can go, watch Minarai Diva.
