shot in the dark, the manga will end at chapter 183

Maybe, but someone will blink in chapter 182 ;)

Is it cool if I hold your hand
Is it wrong if I think it's lame to dance

Format-wise, I think it would work pretty well as a set of super-short minute-long episodes like I'm Kodama Kawashiri, especially if they kept the manga's color scheme and used highly stylized (maybe rotoscoped low framerate?) animation.

That's cool and all, but does anyone actually care for these minute-long episodes series? (I would totally watch it tho)

Yama no Susume exists. That one started out with those minute long episodes. It ended up getting more time every season until it managed to get its own full 20 minute 1 cour season.

If there are enough people who would buy the discs and the manga, there's a potential for a bigger audience.
The biggest barrier is still the music licensing. Japan's copyright system is such a complex beast that it'll definitely be hard to get all the right songs in the anime.

I don't see much the animated medium could add to this, TBH. To me at least, this is a lot more suitable for a live action adaptation, preferably a movie, given how short a lot of the chapters are. You could probably make a very good 1h45-ish movie out of this story.

I don't see much the animated medium could add to this, TBH. To me at least, this is a lot more suitable for a live action adaptation, preferably a movie, given how short a lot of the chapters are. You could probably make a very good 1h45-ish movie out of this story.

An animated film would be best to me. There's a lot this series does with washes of color that I think animation would express better than live-action. I agree though, this doesn't seem suited for a TV show unless they take a lot of creative license.

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The biggest barrier is still the music licensing. Japan's copyright system is such a complex beast that it'll definitely be hard to get all the right songs in the anime.

If they could release a soundtrack for the manga, surely they can handle this.

I don't think there is anything to be worried about for song rights. The green manga seems very beloved by the music industry in Japan. In case some of this didn't get mentioned here before...she got an official spotify playlist early on, she got to keep a lot more music references in the print version than people expected, a merch collaboration with the Nirvana anniversary album, Mitsuki singing Creep on the Drama CD, they arranged for her to meet Beck, and soon the manga will have an officially released soundtrack with a lot of well known bands.

Currently the manga has a storyline that doubles as a product placement for a real music festival in Japan. They are basically lockstep together at this point. Domestically I could see an anime or live action getting enough music licensed for it to feel right because everything is leaning towards the industry wanting it too. If there are issues down the road for a US release for example... that wouldn't be stopping them from making an anime or live action if they really want it. They'll be making it for their domestic audience.

I think an anime or live action wouldn't be difficult to adapt. They might need to add some connective tissue, but this is a coming of age slice of life series. It's not like it's trying to add content to a difficult to understand avant-garde scifi manga. There's not much they can mess up if they just hit the major beats. Needing to add some school, cd shop, and home scenes that help flesh out their inner thoughts more in a visual way vs manga shorthand seems a reasonable use for extra time without changing the story significantly and there's enough there for one season with three volumes if that's as far as it goes.

Funny enough, a fan who is an animation student made this cute animation short this week and it has me really wanting an anime some day even more than before. I love it when a series I like attracts talented fans for fanart.

Funny enough, a fan who is an animation student made this cute animation short this week and it has me really wanting an anime some day even more than before. I love it when a series I like attracts talented fans for fanart.

TIL via the tags on this that some people shorthand this as "green manga" and man, I love that. Ive never figured out a good abridged version of this monster of a title; it's green manga now (wonderful lil animation too lol~).

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TIL via the tags on this that some people shorthand this as "green manga" and man, I love that. Ive never figured out a good abridged version of this monster of a title; it's green manga now (wonderful lil animation too lol~).

Officially they have gone with kinioto it looks like, but green manga is easiest to use online as a tag. I did try that out when I was in a bookstore and a guy asked what I was currently reading. "Eh, I don't know them by their color. Anything I'd know?" "Spy x Family." Fail. I couldn't bring myself to say the full name out loud in public. Silly long webcomic names...

Giving me Beck Mongolian Chop Squad flashbacks. Music really is amazing

I don't see much the animated medium could add to this, TBH. To me at least, this is a lot more suitable for a live action adaptation, preferably a movie, given how short a lot of the chapters are. You could probably make a very good 1h45-ish movie out of this story.

As long as it's not like one of those anime adaptations with the excessive close ups and where everything looks too clean. It's gotta have a grungy, realistic feel to it, like a Linklater or Fincher film (although obviously less dramatic in the latter sense), or something like Only Lovers Left Alive or Booksmart. Actually, I'd even take Alice Wu, especially since she does sapphic films well, and the Half of It wasn't as clean as most of the other teen Netflix fair.

But then I'm thinking, it definitely can't be a one on one adaptation, because either the halfway point is the cultural festival reveal or that's the end of the film, and if it's the end then you'd probably want to put a kiss there. If it's the halfway, then the end could be Mitsuki writing her own song and sharing it with Aya.

...I got too into this.

For some reason, I’m low key expecting the uncle and kanna to get back together cuz of this.

Now bro knows not to sit in between the girls to avoid getting drooled on lol
A scene where the girls are sleeping on each other would be tots cute ☺️

Kanna is such a baddie. Joe needs to step up his game.

Poor Joe... :D

For some reason, I’m low key expecting the uncle and kanna to get back together cuz of this.

Pretty sure most of us have been expecting this for a long time now.

Man I really love this artist. Being passed out in the backseat of a car leaning on each other is peak high-school student behavior. Love it when the little details are done so right.

Now bro knows not to sit in between the girls to avoid getting drooled on lol

Yes, but...

A scene where the girls are sleeping on each other would be tots cute ☺️

That's the second reason why he'll want to avoid taking the middle seat next time.

Narita, my dude, wtf are you doing in the middle seat?

Narita, my dude, wtf are you doing in the middle seat?

Getting between yuri. He's lucky to be alive!

While I was listening to the drama CD, I realized that the biggest barrier to making a good anime (or live-action drama) out of this is probably music licensing. The background music on the drama CD includes all your hit favorites from gunge bands like Nibana and alternate rock bands like the UFO Fighters, which is to say it's bland name stuff that sounds vaguely like songs from some of bands namechecked in the manga. A huge part of the charm of the manga is the specificity of the girls being super into bands that were at their peak decade(s) before they were born (believe me, writing that out hurt me more than you), and without that, it's less compelling.

OK MAYBE I WAS WRONG https://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/UIJY-75274?rm=t&vg=3bac952f-e3a3-4030-7623-3b63e4f5868c

Trying to decide how badly I want this… I have a little while to decide, but getting vinyl sent overseas seems like a super dicey proposition.

In case you can't read the tracklist or don't feel like running it through MTL:

1 [SIDE A] ハート・シェイプト・ボックス / ニルヴァーナ
2 [SIDE A] ウォーク・ディス・ウェイ / エアロスミス
3 [SIDE A] ハイヤー・グラウンド / レッド・ホット・チリ・ペッパーズ
4 [SIDE A] ルーザー / ベック
5 [SIDE A] ブラック・ホール・サン / サウンドガーデン
6 [SIDE B] 禁じられた愛 / ボン・ジョヴィ
7 [SIDE B] <コピイングメカニズム> / ウィロー
8 [SIDE B] セイ・イット・エイント・ソー / ウィーザー
9 [SIDE B] シャイン / コレクティヴ・ソウル
10 [SIDE B] ミスター・ブライトサイド / ザ・キラーズ

1. Nirvana – Heart-Shaped Box
2. Aerosmith – Walk This Way
3. Red Hot Chili Peppers – Higher Ground
4. Beck – Loser
5. Soundgarden – Black Hole Sun
6. Bon Jovi – You Give Love a Bad Name
7. Willow – Coping Mechanism
8. Weezer – Say It Ain't So
9. Collective Soul – Shine
10. The Killers – Mister Brightside

I don't know about y'all, but I think that tracklist is perfect.

While I was listening to the drama CD, I realized that the biggest barrier to making a good anime (or live-action drama) out of this is probably music licensing. The background music on the drama CD includes all your hit favorites from gunge bands like Nibana and alternate rock bands like the UFO Fighters, which is to say it's bland name stuff that sounds vaguely like songs from some of bands namechecked in the manga. A huge part of the charm of the manga is the specificity of the girls being super into bands that were at their peak decade(s) before they were born (believe me, writing that out hurt me more than you), and without that, it's less compelling.

OK MAYBE I WAS WRONG https://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/UIJY-75274?rm=t&vg=3bac952f-e3a3-4030-7623-3b63e4f5868c

Trying to decide how badly I want this… I have a little while to decide, but getting vinyl sent overseas seems like a super dicey proposition.

It should be fine, I get vinyl from overseas pretty often and nothing's ever wrong with it. I haven't gotten vinyl from cdjapan before, but I've also never had any problems with other stuff from them. Other than shipping costs being nuts on some model kits. Although... They do have the witch from Mercury vinyl cheaper than anywhere else...

Also I'd say to be quick, it says there's like 20 left!

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Uncle Joe speaks for my entire generation: adulting is hard. ;__;

While I was listening to the drama CD, I realized that the biggest barrier to making a good anime (or live-action drama) out of this is probably music licensing. The background music on the drama CD includes all your hit favorites from gunge bands like Nibana and alternate rock bands like the UFO Fighters, which is to say it's bland name stuff that sounds vaguely like songs from some of bands namechecked in the manga. A huge part of the charm of the manga is the specificity of the girls being super into bands that were at their peak decade(s) before they were born (believe me, writing that out hurt me more than you), and without that, it's less compelling.

OK MAYBE I WAS WRONG https://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/UIJY-75274?rm=t&vg=3bac952f-e3a3-4030-7623-3b63e4f5868c

Trying to decide how badly I want this… I have a little while to decide, but getting vinyl sent overseas seems like a super dicey proposition.

Different retailers have different benefits too, but I believe those are just for the CD version. In any case it might be good to shop around if you haven't yet.

https://x.com/UNIVERSAL_INTER/status/1788131729158647887

I'm getting mine from Tower Records via Buyee because I have some other stuff I'm shipping too.

Don't stress too much Joe, you're doing a pretty damn good job

Do we know what's up with her parents? I just realized I don't think it's come up....

No.