Kemono Friends

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This is the the interview that's taken place with Director Tatsuki just prior to airing of the last episode.

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>making a new thread this early
Come on son

Here are the key points.

>The Director saw how Kemono Friends trended on social media (SNS or social network service in Japanese lingo) but it felt a bit like it's someone else's work. He's still in the thick of it at his workplace.
>The glow in the eyes is a setting that was added into the game rather subtly, and there weren't much thought about whether or not if this setting would be discovered by the fans and that it was added in without impacting the plot, so that maybe one of these days long after the broadcast that somebody would come to realize this
>The number of audience far exceeded what they had in mind
>Reporter asked how that after ep2 and the glow in the eye made the fans realize that there's more to what's on the surface at Japari Park, so how did the plot get planned out. Tatsuki answered that he was thinking about the general plot as well as the areas that would serve as the various stages and then he thought of the Friends who live there and and the featured cast of the episode.
>Director's an animator and does CG so he had some idea about what it takes to make an anime, and KemoFure is a sum of the shop time and everything else outside of that.
>Difference to normal animation work is that he has to think about trying to connect each episode and lay the references without deviating from the plot
>The emphasis is half and half plot and character driven and trying to balance this.
>How the Raccoon and Fennec skit came about is that he wanted a look back to reflect on the trip, and that the chaser group needs to show up occasionally.
>There was the idea of setting up their own little play skit
>Doing this chase meant that the stage has to change every episode and that there's more voice actresses, which adds to the expense, but this is worthwhile
>Fukuhara Yoshitada of yaoyorozu said that there's this Galapagos vibe to the show, where the series came about in total isolation to the entire anime community.

I am doing it to summarize the points of the interview. Not throwing this into that other thread.

>Reporter asked about if this show will end badly.
Tatsuki: We've said that Kemono Friends is a warm piece of work, and people misread that as if there wouldn't be any dramatic development. I think that good or bad end are all acceptable so long as it comes about reasonably. However, we will not be changing the ending just because the show has far exceeded the expected reaction and reception. Please accept the path that the characters must take whether if it's a good end or a bad end.

If it ends in feels or tanoshii I don't mind now. As long as I feel closure, I'll be happy.

Just caught up.

Did Kaban-chan just fucking die?

>Reporter asked about if this show will end badly.
>Tatsuki: We've said that Kemono Friends is a warm piece of work, and people misread that as if there wouldn't be any dramatic development. I think that good or bad end are all acceptable so long as it comes about reasonably.
No copout confirmed
Good

Just caught up.

No.

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This is the Kemono Friends interview on animate which we translated half of over > "Kemono Friends" is an anime that evolved like the Galapagos

Reporter: Please tell us about the story. Did you think about the climax and whatnot?

Kadokawa: With Kemono Friends, there was no "somehow has to die here', 'here's rivalry' or 'here's romance'.

Yaoyorozu: Because the idea was that "Creativity comes first".

Reporter: When was the story of "Kemono Friends" decided?

Yaoyorozu: The anime production got going prior to the forming of the committee and the business side started to get going.

Reporter: I see. Normally you start making the show after the committee's been formed.

Kadokawa: That's true, but we are different. If we got experienced veteran who've worked on numerous anime, then production wouldn't go smoothly because we would be having meeting after meeting where we talk nonstop and adjust the plot endlessly. If that happens, then it's easy to imagine that we'd wind up with a run of the mill animal anime.

Reporter: Would this have caught on if that were the case?

Kadokawa: I can't say if I really know, but I know that "Kemono Friends" came to where it is now thanks to having this unorthodox general production process.

Yaoyorozu: Or to put it in another word, "Kemono Friends" is a work that was made within a vacuum or maybe that it's "an anime that has evolved on the Galapagos" perhaps?

(all laughs)

Welcome to Japari Park!

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So apart from their heads and tails, they're fully human in cosplay?

>everyone gets their memories erased by the big cerulean
>repeat of Serval and Bag's meeting in episode one
>fast forward to when they first meet Boss
>slow zoom in on him as he prepares himself for yet another loop of watching these beautiful friendships bloom only for them to be inevitably crushed once again

So what are the other boards' opinions on friends?

What are friends?

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Why would that matter? We're still in the west so most people hate it just because of the CGI.

Just curious, I would think gentoo would be a meme on Sup Forums and /an/ having fun with the friends and education

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Kanna no

Yaoyorozu: We at Yaoyorozu wanted a form a team that wouldn't just make the employees' passion cool off, and that's how we can quickly take ideas that came up from talking to Yoshizaki-san at coffee shop and put them into the anime. This couldn't really be done if the team is spanned across several companies.

Kadokawa: There's no original work for "Kemono Friends." Nobody can imagine what sort of anime this well be. The comic is about everyday lives and the game is focused on fight Cerulean. I don't think that anyone could have imagined what the anime's going to be about.

Reporter: So who thought about the story?

Kadokawa: The basic framework's all done by Yoshizaki-san. Director Tatsuki built on this skeleton and fills in the flesh. The story came about bit by bit while they they had fine with this back and forth, and there's no need for a draft. When was it that we actually said to the committee that "this is the story"?

Yaoyorozu: Maybe around the start of 2016. The series composition was pretty much done by then.

Reporter: That's just about a year ago.

Yaoyorozu: Since "Kemono Friends" is structured like a road trip where Kaban-chan and Serval-chan go to various places, the series repeat this cycle of encounter and parting with the guest animals every time.

Reporter: Just like how it's like with the broadcast.

Yaoyorozu: But you'd be left with just Kaban-chan and Serval-chan as the only two characters if you go with this flow. So that's why we've added Raccoon, Fennec and 'PPP' as characters that tied-in to those two. By doing that, Kaban-chan and Serval-chan would be the main axis which drives the story while Fennec and Raccoon along with PPP would go on the side in order to add more to the dramatic makeup to the whole story.

Wow that is in perfect synch with the original.

Kanna is no friend, she will really eat her.

And so our heroes finally lead the giant Cerulean into the Ocean

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Reminds me of The Last Unicorn anime.

Happy end

>Raccon, Fennec, and 'PPP' as characters that tied-in to these two
>and 'PPP'
Nice try bud. 10 seconds of seiyuu shenanigans doesn't make them main characters.

Make this the OP image

12 hours until Arai san makes everything right again.

I just want Bag and Serval to be perfectly okay, I don't care about anything else.

Allright you faggots, after I heard Kemono Friends pulled a Madoka at the 11th hour, I decided to finally watch this shit. And I'll give you that, I MIGHT have undererstimated this show, it might actually become something memorable. IF Kaban dies I will gracefully admit that you were right and I was wrong when I dismissed Kemono Friends early on.

HOWEVER if Kaban gets saved by the power of friendship or some clicheed shit tomorrow, and they all live happily ever after, I'll call bullshit and demand you admit your defeat. Because then it will just have been generic waifubaiting moeshit after all.

Deal?

Would you be her friend?

fuck off

Huh? Why am I crying?

There's something wrong with Tokitsukaze.

the other one is being overrun with autism and is crashing and burning

But they're cute and their ad-libbed previews reminded me of Tesabu so it's fine.

I dunno, she looks kinda scary.

Of course you can just admit defeat outright like that, suit yourself

End your life. Deal?

You're retarded.

No one expects it to be a grimdark ending when that's not what it was leading up to all this time. This temporary drama is just so they can solve it at the final in a big way, its meant to rope people in while providing well handled concern.

Yet it was never going to be a story that ended unhappily. Serval was saved, now its time for Kaban to be saved since she earned it.

It's only 21 or 22 frames. The question mark started at frame 8 or 9, I forget. I added a little camera shake and noise but it isn't as noticeable as I thought.

Reminder to report and ignore bait.

Not really, the other thread is just 5 minutes away from getting archived.
If you mean the thread with the Sup Forums-tier OP, then that's not an actual KemoFure thread, it's just jealous retards shitposting.

Staid, PR answer. What I wanted.

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that wouldn't explain their abilities

Sure! I heard she loves headpats!

Every friend of course.

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Shake it a little more.

> The birth of Raccoon and Fennac's special corner.

It's a bit surprising that Raccoon and Fennec's corner were added later on.

Yaoyorozu: At the time we thought that it would just spice things up, but it unexpectedly turned out to be rahter innovative.

Kadokawa: That's right. It was thanks to having Raccon and Fennec that we get to see characters that have appeared in the last round to show up once more.

Reporter: Who thought up the segment with Raccon and Fennec? I'd think that I would want to use the 3DCG model as many times as possible.

Yaoyorozu: Tatsuki-kun's the one who came up with it. It'd be such a waste to not put the models to use.

Reporter: And to see them appear like that. This direction could be called innovative.

Yaoyorozu: Well it all worked out in the end!

(All laugh)

Kadokawa: Originally we thought that it'd be great if we can include as many characters as possible, but we had limits as to our budget and time in order to make this. Those Friends who got featured got lucky but we feel sorry for those who haven't. We really want the whole cast to show up. Maybe we can make this happen if we can keep this popularity up for 10 years?

Yaoyorozu: That's right. Tatsuki-kun felt the same as well. I was really taken aback when I saw Tatsuki-kun's composition for the first time as there's about 40 characters who would appear in the show. I asked him then "is this even sane?" (laughs)

(all laugh)

I swear to god, if all the Friends they met along the way come to save Kaban I'm going to fucking cry bitch tears of happiness the whole time. I just love that shit.
Kaban really is Eiji.

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LEAKED screenshot of the final episode

are we talking about sexy fun time eating or screaming in terror eating?

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They're animals who magically became "humanish"

They still have super animal powers and abilities. Also they still have the same habits they did as animals. However since they had the brains of animals for so long they're still pretty retarded, which is why Kaban is able to get them to realize so many things.

Mankind's ability is common sense and creating shit, also fire.

Meant from a physical aspect standpoint.

You need to be 18 years old to post here, friend.

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They have ears, horns, and shit.

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Both

I'm having lewd thoughts about red fox. What should I do?

captcha: STOP ROAD

>Those Friends who got featured got lucky but we feel sorry for those who haven't. We really want the whole cast to show up. Maybe we can make this happen if we can keep this popularity up for 10 years?
D-Does this mean what I think it means?!

SHAKE?

すごーい！

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Are you the one that compulsively wanks when he sees Red Fox images?

If the japs and you people hype somethign the way you did, it should at least work to earn the hype. Doing something different, defy expectations, subvert the genre! Up until the latest episode Kemono Friends has been playing it perfectly safe however. Kaban's death on the other hand would earn them their hype. THAT would be artistic risk-taking.

onahole?

No, but I would like to met this fellow friend.

>It'd be such a waste to not put the models to use.
And yet they still didn't have enough screentime. I'll miss that baka and this smug.

I would be friends with everybody!

I do wonder why the West can't unite under the banner of Friends, but the vast majority of anime-watchers and even regular folk in Asia love it dearly.

I think it's kind of a shame? But then I think about how much I hate the majority of Western anime fans regardless so I'm not sure.

>nicovideo.jp/watch/sm30905323
this is the only correct usage of those mmd models.

>googly eye
10/10. It's still fucking terrifying though.

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You don't understand anything, this show has been popular long before episode 11. The reaction of episode 11 was just the fanbase crying out, the fanbase already there.

That's not nice.
Also is Ika a kemono friend?

>it's only art if you can make a 5 star meal and toss it on the floor right before it reaches the table
Yes you get a food analogy because that's all you're worth.

Character deaths do not automatically make something better, sure they might do it but it's entirely acceptable for Kaban to be saved somehow and for the show to still be great.

This is the ideal depiction

It would just be co-opted by the furries. And nobody wants to see the stuff that they make when they find a new series.

I LOVED YOU SERVAL! YOU WERE LIKE A SISTER TO ME!

Not really, that would be just a cop-out for some cheap shock value.
>Hey look at this show! Everything is cute, the theme song is catchy and everyone has fun for 10 episodes!
>But then the main character dies in the last one.
The kind of person who likes this sort of shit doesn't deserve to be pandered to. Nobody who truly enjoyed the show since the start or halfway in either would want to see that, only the bandwagon riders who found out that the show gets serious on the second-to-last episode would and those people are huge faggots.

Reporter: How did the characters of "Kemono Friends" keep increasing?

Kadokawa: "There are about 100 characters" when we started the Kemono Friends project with Yoshizaki-san, but Yoshizaki-san got more and more into it so the number just keep going up.

Reporter: That's a good story. It's kind of funny to say, but it feels good that he's treating drawing not as a job but rather that's drawing because he wants to draw!

Kadokawa: That's right. He can send 4 a week when he's in tip top shape. There's likely going to be over 200 when we've decided to make the official guidebook with the BD. Although this is coming all from the theme of animal, it's rather unprecedented that someone would have done that many characters by himself, so we joked if he should consider applying for a Guinness world record on that.

Reporter: Are the characters all new characters?

Kadokawa: There are friends who are redesigns, work done by others or the ones that aren't in the game. Some are to better express the characteristics of the original animals. There's brand new friends added as well. Some girls will be included for the first time in the guidebook, so please look forward to it!

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>overrun with autism

why am I visualizing skeleton pirates attacking?

How will Arai save the day?

This is what I'm happy about most. Whether its happy, sad, or bittersweet I believe it will be a good ending as long as it is what Tatsuki envisioned.

What else did you expect, spoil the whole thing?

Nah. Ika's just a squid. If she gets touched by sandstar she'll turn into a Squid Friend that'll look like a cute girl that's squid-themed instead of being a squid (girl).

Some creators do NOT give those sorts of answers, or tease, or whatever, which I abhor.

It's just a difference in cultural values. Japanese otaku watch anime for the fun of it, western otaku watch anime because they want deep "mature" plots? It makes no fucking sense. And then they start complaining about Japanese people because they didn't pander to their tastes.