Dead Dead Demon's Eternal-Springing Hope

[krpalmer]

Noticing an item on the Anime News Network that there’s going to be an anime adaptation of Inio Asano’s manga Dead Dead Demon’s DeDeDeDe Destruction did get my attention; it was one more moment when “well, manga can go places anime can’t” seemed pushed back a little even in these later days. At the same time, I was aware I’d posted here just a few months ago about an uneasy reluctance about making “too big” a deal of mere announcements of impending anime. The hangover then from some anticipated titles that went awry does seem have faded, though, and the studio announced to do the adaptation has one recent example to its benefit so far as it struck me. The lightest ambiguous thought I can hit on right now is to wonder whether the anime might show up before the manga is translated and published in full over here (although I guess there’s a question as to how the manga will turn out in the end); I can also wonder what the shout translated in the manga as “hya hya foowah!” amounts to in Japanese.

Comments

[lovelyangel]

Volume 12, the final volume, will be released in Japan next week – so, in Japan, anyway, the series is over. Translated volume 11 will be released in the U.S. in August. It may be that with an anime series forthcoming, Viz might move up the timetable for Volume 12 release in the U.S. to take advantage of publicity from the anime.

I'd be extra wary about the anime, though. Production +h is a complete unknown, and that seems very, very risky. Making anime is not easy. I'm guessing the planned release is a year away.

[krpalmer]

A bit of the response thread to the ANN article did bring up Production +h having worked on "The Orbital Children," which I saw on Netflix (although I guess I'll be saying a bit more about that in my "quarterly review" at the start of next month). Despite having that in mind as I typed up my paragraph's worth of first thoughts, though, I can see how that might not be that much more than "complete unknown."