Will this be the next Free?

Will this be the next Free?

Do you think Kyoani will replicate Free success now that the shock factor is gone?

What shock factor? Free wasn't anything new, it just did it best at that time.

I already hate the tsun tsun on the right.

There isn't even a show yet, just LN, and fujobait probably won't work second time. They better make a really good story and believable characters this time.

>What shock factor
Moe-oriented company does fujo anime betraying their fanbase.

I'm pretty sure girls weren't buying Free for the shock factor.

I know it looks gay as fuck and I won't be watching it

If it even gets an anime.

I don't know why everyone's so worried about a book announcement.

Who's "worried"? And anyway, this is how it usually works with KyoAni, they advertise a novel and then make an anime out of it. There's a high chance this will get animated.

Maybe fujos won't settle for B grade bait now they've got YOI. Those boys really are not cute either.

>Will this be the next Free?
No. Free was for Fujoshis.

This show is for gay men.

in before its litterally Hyouka S2, while clueless anons shitpost it as fujoshit just because promo images feature no waifu bait

How can you tell?

Because boys look feminine.

But gay men prefer masculine boys.

Bara is shoujo genre.

You know very well that YoI is bait and the ending will be open ended at best.

So? Even if it ends up ambiguous (despite the kiss, and the engagement), it's A grade bait. Free is nowhere near as good in any way, regardless of how canon the gay is.

Kinda sad that you value a show based on the amount of bait.

>You know very well that YoI is bait
Still going?

>Kinda sad that you value a show based on the amount of bait.
What bait? The character are in love with each others.

Shocking isn't the right word, but the fact that it was "Kyaoni doing fujo" put it on a lot of people radars.

The pandering was also quite aggressive.

This has Takemoto written all over it.

I WANT TO MAKE A BEAUTIFUL _____ WITH MY ______

>no muscles
>shit designs
Guaranteed to flop.

They aren't muscular and handsome enough. They wear too much clothes.
Women wants naked ottermode nowadays.

Sounds like you weren't around when Free! was in it's prime. Kyoani doing a cute boys with muscle fanservice instead of cute girls SoL was a huge deal. It really set off the wave of otaku fanboys who felt betrayed. And it was one of the most popular anime directed at a female audience that wasn't shoujo.

I don't get why people try to downplay it now because I remember the uproar.

YOI has awful animation and the guys are only moderately attractive. Kyoani always has better animation at the very least.

YOI hype will die down like every other flavor of the season and something will eventually have to take it's place.

You're right, it was fujobait because that is the audience it wanted since the beginning. It might have canon gay but that doesn't change the fact it was tailor made to attract fujos.

Did you even read the post you replied to? What does a bunch of autists on Sup Forums whining about Free has to do with its success?

YOI
-shit animation
-guys aren't very attractive

Free
-good animation
-guys are ugly

This
-good animation
-attractive guys

Finally.

I like YoI designs more but Free aren't ugly. These ones though look very plain.

There's no anime for archer homos though.

>-guys aren't very attractive
Kek, do you realize your opinion is not widely shared, at least?

>Will it be the next Free

A good series that turns to shit due to the writers and director's need to force in a shitty drama no matter how retarded it is?

Free's are even more plain.

Utsumi left KyoAni

I quite like archery, rather have a qt girls doing archery stuff anime to be honest.

>Makes biggest Kyoani cash cow in years
>Leaves

What happened?

She's going to found a new girl-oriented studio, KyoOne.

She wanted to become a freelancer

>KyoOne
>not KyoAne
i had ONE job, fuck me

Looks boring.

No where to advance in the Osaka studio and the Uji one didn't want her. She left like the director who made Idolmaster left KyoAni too.

Seems weird, I wonder if there was some bad blood?

I don't think so. KyoAni seems to work on seniority. Every director that gets his debut is older in KyoAni(Kyoto) than anyone else. Except for Yamada and that's why Noriko left. She was the next in the ladder and Yamada comes and makes a smash hit in Keion. As for Utsumi the AniDo studio is and will always be a support studio. So going up in ranks there is meaningless so she left because she wasn't invited to work in the Uji office despite Yamamura being invited. All of this are japanitwitter so take it with a grain of salt.

YOI was created to be baiting fujos and fujos never needed anything to be canon to care. They can ship characters who hate and try to kill each other if they look good together. YOI isn't anything special, it's just redressed BL tropes.

>Will this be the next Free?
Who knows. I certainly don't understand fujo logic.

>Do you think Kyoani will replicate Free success now that the shock factor is gone?
There was no shock factor. But KyoAni is trying hard to replicate, no doubt about it. Similar character designs and similar story.
But the main selling point for Free were half naked sexy teenage boys. So if this wants a chance at all, it needs an anime with kyudogi wearing sexy teenage boys.

Left to right
>Rei, Makoto, Haruka, Nagisa, Rin

...

Eh, I'm not seeing it.Maybe Makoto and Nagisa.

But Rei was a fairly unique character that even broke Sup Forums prediction and protagonist doesn't look autistic and no fun like Haru.

You don't see Gengoroh Tagame comics running in shoujo magazines.

Rei was literal perfection.

And yet there's next to nothing of him in terms of merchandise.

did haru ever get a personality?

>broke Sup Forums prediction
What were Sup Forums predicitions?

No bully.

They confused everyone with Free because Rei's design seemed like a serious megane and Rin was seen smiling like a genki guy. Then we found out it was exactly the opposite. They seem to be avoiding that here.

>protagonist doesn't look autistic and no fun like Haru.
Did you read the plot for this?
>After that, Minato decided to never draw his bow again and practically fled to his local high school, Kazemai High.
>There, Minato is invited to join the archery club by fellow students Takehaya Seiya and Yamanouchi Ryouhei, his childhood friends, but he turns them down and goes home alone.

> 24 episodes of fujobait
> not canon gays
Kyoanifags need to mass suicide

At least he doesn't look like he'll be a robot who will only change expression 2 seconds per episode.

> engagement rings are bait
THIS IS WHAT KYOANIFAGS ACTUALLY BELIEVE

He looks like an autistic robot who's trying to learn how to smile

He looks exactly like that to me. Specially in that picture you posted: everyone (except Generic Rival) smiles, yet Not Haru can't do it.

But let's wait and see, I guess.

If you do this he looks like Haru

Now everyone's happy.

His face looks so ugly because of those eyes and eyebrows.

Blue, Pink, and MC are the cutest, but who will be the best?

Blue, Pink and MC already suck.

>> not canon gays
>Implying there can ever be canon gays with the no homo crew

I still don't ever understand the concept of bait. The characters are not real. If they act like fags, talk like fags and aren't getting a girlfriend I'm supposed to think they are straight? What?

Blue clearly

She has a short homo manga in Animedia and worked in Bungo Stray Dogs episode 20

Fujobait isn't about what the characters are. It's about what audience the characters attract.

>Fujobait isn't about what the characters are.
The characters are not "real". They are not anything but what the author wants.

And believe or not, this may come as a shock to you, authors actually have a different tastes when it comes to writing. Not everyone is playing mind games with making you think these fags are actually straight.