>At GRIZZLY we aim to set ourselves apart as the world's first studio specializing solely in BOYS LOVE anime. Beginning with OGERETSU TANAKA'S "YARICHINBITCH-BU" we will focus our energy into sharing the genre of BOYS LOVE with a global audience.
Based MAPPA. Anyway looking at it objectively, there's no issue with making $$$ from customers who are willing to spend. Good luck to their new venture.
They won't have a long life. BL consumers represent a niche part of the market. How many BL anime do they plan to produce every year to sustain the studio and to pay the staff?
Nathaniel Hall
Not yuri. A mild yuri-bait at best.
Adam Wilson
There are always 1-2 fujo titles in top-sellers.
Dominic Roberts
Add that fujos regularly watch all kind of shows and produce BL fanwork like doujinshi for themselves, so I don't know what to think.
Matthew Torres
But they're not actual BL, just regular fujobait. There's only like 2 BL shows every year and they almost always sell like shit.
Easton Davis
Are they doing the 10count anime too?
John Rogers
That's what I'm thinking as well. I like BL but it always seemed too niche to really be profitable compared to stuff with BL undertones that isn't actual BL.
Jordan Jenkins
>thinking fujos aren't an exploitable market
if they continue in the trend of adapting popular and timely BL they have potential to be huge. most of the BL produced through conventional studios is trash that's why fujos permeate other property. if grizzly/mappa is prepared to cater to them then they may be able to print some money, especially riding off the back of YOI and potentially Banana Fish
So which studio is animating that one? DEEN or J.C Staff?
Xavier Nguyen
Yoi was special because was original content and no one expected the surprise homo, such miracles don't happen twice. Do you really expect the same sale numbers from the adaptation of a BL manga?
Anthony Turner
no way anything could match YOI sales, but capturing even a small part of that audience could be pretty profitable
That tends to be more popular than explicit yuri anyways.
Cooper Lewis
It's a single studio fucktard
David Murphy
Yeah didn't Nakamurashit sell ~10K during it peak. Selling 2-3K for a niche genre would be great and there are other ways to make money from a series. Stalker thread tricked a lot of retarded newfags that forget about merchandising when there's a regular buyfag thread.
Isaiah Foster
I will watch any BL anime, regardless of quality of budget. The japanese know this.
Oliver Lewis
Becuase actual yuri is always cheap shit like citrus. You literally can't name a single yuri anime with production values AT LEAST on PriPri level.
Zachary Mitchell
Holy fuck. I wish them well in their endeavours. We'll see if they manage to give Yaribu a decent production.
Mason Ward
>sasuga MAPPA taking all the fujo money to make their non-lewd anime. You mean taking all the normie money to make their lewd anime.
Kayden Perry
Fuck. I'll not defend MAPPA anymore. They're basically prostituting themselves.
Luis Ward
I wish they'd started a different manga to start out with, but good luck. Hope my favorite homo shit gets adapted.
Luke Thompson
I wonder if their productions be mostly OVA. If they want to keep the works as censorship-free as possible it's better they don't air on TV.
Andrew Collins
You could have prevented this; if only you stopped complaining you didn't like her anime.
I'm alright with MAPPA turning into a slutty BL studio.
Ryder King
It's not like they're producting a new Dororo to Hyakkimaru anime and a new Ikuhara anime. That's better than any other studio at the moment all right.
Easton Young
Yurikuma Arashi
Adam Taylor
Yurikuma Arashi felt really underbudgeted
Ian Phillips
Is this what Utsumi betrayed KyoAni for?
Christian Peterson
No, this is MAPPA realising its true passion after YOI.
Joseph Miller
How are they going to pull this off? All everyone does is fuck. There isn't even any DP in this. Just some spit-roasting.
Ryan Ward
If only Utsumi was on that instead of ruining Banana Fish.
Angel Wright
So is GRIZZLY a sub set of MAPPA?
Angel Rodriguez
>At GRIZZLY we aim to set ourselves apart as the world's first studio specializing solely in BOYS LOVE anime Stalker is dead.
Jackson Reyes
Where do I send my application
Dylan Roberts
Thankfully, China does not seem to care about BL shit much (possible because it'll be banned there)
Anthony Ortiz
>they almost always sell like shit. This is the risk they're willing to take. The theory is if it's lewder and more graphic and not the usual cringe shit you see in typical seasonal yaoi anime with subpar animation they you will get the dedicated part of fujos to buy your shit. Ogeretsu is one lucky big name fujo to be the first to experience
Jacob Bell
This. She can't stop talking about guys and muscles, give her a project where she car express her love and experience.
Eli Robinson
Eh I like the idea, but they have to play their cards right if they want to last long as a very specialized studio.
Yep, she could use her expertise for good. It won't surprising if it turns out that she's one of the staff in this. I think many people would be happy about it too.
Liam Peterson
Well, it worked for YoI.
I wonder if we'll ever see an adaptation of Adekan.
Charles Wilson
studio specializing solely in CAKE LOVE when?
Nolan Wright
Kyoani in 10 years when their female staff starts getting old.
Gabriel Carter
>entire studio specialised in one genre Has this ever happened before?
Kayden Sanders
Gonzo, Gainax and Manglobe. they were specialized in making trash.
Kevin Lee
Yes.
Samuel Cook
Kyoani
Dylan Wood
Yes. Look at Gonzo, they're pretty much specialized in shit anime.
Hudson Reed
Sasuga the power of fujobucks.
Ayden Turner
Can't see the studio lasting.
Alexander Lopez
>GRIZZLY Studio Do they employ nothing but Baras?
Carson Morales
PinkPineapple is a famous studio that produces only hentai, I have no idea if it's still active, but I guess what GRIZZLY aims to do is the same.
Isaac Gutierrez
Gonzo had at least two genres, shit and Gankutsuou.
Angel White
Based.
Caleb Wilson
I wonder whether they'll focus more on porn stories or on stories with deeper characterization, like Ogeretsu's other manga.
It shouldn't be a problem if Grizzly turns out to be a sub of MAPPA since they'll likely only use the name to release BL works while animating the usual seasonal anime during the main studio.
Parker Ramirez
Harada anime when
Kayden Thomas
The way I hear it, its not being classified as BL in China. Probably the equivalent of screaming No Homo really loud.
Connor Barnes
Even if this is an offshoot of Mappa, there's no way they can recapture what happened to YOI. Curious to see if this will work in the long run, maybe the madpeople there can actually pull it off.
Lincoln Thompson
Which series would you want adapted?
Julian Phillips
>We're just exchanging mana really passionately
Jacob Lopez
Stop this meme, retards. Newfags will think this shit is true.
>kaleido star >gankutsuo >last exile >NHK >chrono cruzade >bokurano >black cat >afro samurai Gonzo was the comfiest studio of the past decade.
I agree with you, but those are bad examples (except for the first four). Chrono Crusade and Black Cat were cliched messes even for their time, but we were like 14 when we saw them so that colored our impression. Afro Samurai is an artsy "rule of cool" type thing with no real plot or depth.
And Bokurano - yes, Bokurano was good if you ignore that the manga exists. I'm not joking that it's one of the worst adaptations I've ever seen, the director literally hated the manga and did his best to adapt the same story while cutting out most of the problematic bits.
Daniel Baker
By fujos for fujos?
Jacob Hill
What can you even animate with the current broadcasting laws? I mean, it'll work with OVAs but it'll be obscure as hell and censored anyways.
Adam Taylor
Color recipe or the kinky couple one, but there's no way that's happening. I guess yatamomo has more chances to get an adaptation.
But at the same time it feels like they missed the point why YOI became popular in the first place. It's a mainstream anime that didn't market itself as a BL anime.
>late night anime >mainstream Don't be retarded. It' not BL but it sure wasn't for normalfags.
Alexander Phillips
>we will focus our energy into sharing the genre of BOYS LOVE with a global audience. It's for everyone. Tell your friends, your parents and your grandma.
Thomas Rogers
>I wonder if we'll ever see an adaptation of Adekan. That's not BL, so if that gets adapted it wouldn't be with this BL studio. Maybe the actual Mappa will pick it up one day.
Samuel Anderson
It became mainstream. It wasn't planned, but it happened.
Lincoln Murphy
So? It still wasn't made for normalfags.
Samuel Barnes
Yuri on Ice has given us something beyond what we could hope for. MAPPA got a taste of fujobucks and now they are addicted.