No longer a meme

About time.

>>280552188 (OP)
I hope they get a good studio for it. As much as I like Rumiko Takahashi, her art has been seriously weak for this series, she's getting old, I hope the anime can make up for it and give us one last show from her

www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8hsY9L-vjQ

Director: Teruo Sato
Series Composition: Yuko Kakihara
Character Design / Chief Animation Director: Yoshihito Hishinuma
Art Director: Hiroshi Kato, Izumi Hoki
Music: Shu Kanematsu
Animation Production: SUNRISE

Mao (CV: Yuki Kaji)
Nanoka Kiba (CV: Natsumi Kawaida)
Hyakka (CV: Hiro Shimono)
Kamon (CV: Toshiyuki Toyonaga)

Insider here, there will be at least 2 cours

>>280552532
>SUNRISE
based

>>280552532
It's almost looks like some of the Yashahime staff are working on this

i bet the guy who's been dumping chapters for years now is pretty stoked

>>280552188 (OP)
Huzzah! It is happening. We got a preview and everything. As usual, I hope this gets people to read the manga.

Honestly, the early stuff is great too.

>>280552532
Wait, why does the goofy fire brat have such a deep voice?

>>280552510
It is Sunrise. People are worrying about filler, but it has been a long time since the 2000s.

>>280552532
>Mao (CV: Yuki Kaji)
Man, what a generic VA choice. That aside, it's looking good.

WTF the preview looks really good. All the money from those pointless anime sequels and remakes of Rumiko's works is being put to use.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8hsY9L-vjQ

>>280552532
>it's a serious anime
Fuck I didn't read the manga and expected another gag manga.
Rinne S4 please

NHK anime, which means at least 3 seasons of 2 cour, we are getting MAO until 2029.
This also means Sunrise will be busy until then, aka no original mecha anime.

>>280555218
That's good, Mao needs a good number of episodes to really get to the heart of the story. Thank goodness Takahashi is above the industry's current model of single cour, usually single season adaptations.

>>280555332
I still can't believe they gave Ranma remake to Mappa, fully knowing these guys can't do long production.
The retard at Netflix who ordered only 12 episodes needs to be fired

>>280552188 (OP)
New Rumiko anime after decades (remakes don't count). What a gift.

>>280554803
Because Mao is the most mature of Rumiko's works.

>>280555632
The Rinne anime ended in 2017...

>>280555711
I wasn't even aware it had an anime...

>>280555727
Well now you have 75 episodes to watch until Mao comes out.

>>280554803
You're pointless, faggot.

>>280552188 (OP)
>>280552532
Inuyasha remake when?

>>280555877
Never. It's been thankfully stopped by a bssed Inuyasha sequel.

>>280555877
A Inuyasha remake with no filler would be great.

>>280552188 (OP)
>No longer a meme
we memed about it for so long... ;~;

>>280555218
>NHK anime, which means at least 3 seasons of 2 cour, we are getting MAO until 2029.
I know that's how it worked for Rinne, but it doesn't seem to be the case for all NHK-produced anime.

>>280554653
yuki kaji was the va for a series recap video from a few years back
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9cPoASccC8
he's a fan and expressed interest in being mao's va for a future anime
>https://www.furinkan.com/features/interviews/kaji.html

>>280555711
>2017
8 years ago...

>>280557741
There have been three more Rumiko-related shows since.

>>280557807
that anon had said
>(remakes don't count)

furinkan says
>The website, anime-mao.com was registered in June 9, 2025, though it went unnoticed until word leaked of the impending annoucement of the anime a few days prior to the announcement.
did none of you fags know about the site registration? i didn't see anyone here mention it

>>280557833
Only 2 out of these 3 have been remakes.

>>280557615
It's state produced anime and Rumiko Takahashi is extremely important to the japanese culture, she gets a free pass

>>280557865
The third one would've been better as a remake instead of the "original" turd they shat out.

Inuyasha and everything after it has been shit. It's this any better?

>>280558018
This is "Rumiko Takahashi reads Agatha Christie and makes a long convoluted mystery series out of it". I like it.

>>280558062
but with monsters, magic, and time travel

>>280555453
At least the Ranma anime is being a success, the Japanese and the fans are very happy and it seems like it will be a better adaptation than the old anime.

>6/6 of her long-running manga adapted into anime
>plus sequels and remakes
The greatest.

>>280557917
No it wouldn't, censored demakes are garbage and Naraku was jobber of a villain.

>>280555151
Sorry. I would love more Rin-ne, but it isn't happening.

>>280552188 (OP)
Hooray!
>>280553837
Yes, I am very stoked!

>>280559402
Is there another living mangaka as successful as her?

>>280555098
I feel like they're doing a bit of something which I've often thought the anime adaptation should do, which is that the different time periods have different color palettes. Although most of that is probably just down to the time of day in each shot.

>>280555877
This is the Inuyasha remake, they just replaced the dog with a cat

>>280557860
I only checked mao-anime.com which is a different thing entirely

Cast hopes
Hayamin for the twins
Umehara for metal guy
Aoi Shota for effeminate villain
Asami Seto for Natsuno

>>280552532
>Sunrise

>>280554616
The latter half of the series already has a fair amount of filler if you ask me

I've accrued a lot of Mao crops over the years and I promised myself I'd post them when the anime was announced

>>280560709
Honestly, yeah... Mao was very good at the beginning, but it got a lot less exciting in the volumes I'm currently reading. Serious Rumic manga is often a little uneven. The highs are still very good though.

I'm honestly very happy that Mikadono and Mao, which aren't just my two favorite series in Sunday but probably my favorite ongoing series overall, are both getting solid adaptations.

>>280552474
Fpbp, but they'll never give it longform seasons like they did the first Ranma.

I wonder if they'll keep this dead girl's nipple

>>280555727

>>280560392
Living? Not even close. Rumiko is Empress of manga.

Short review
Main duo is boring
The side characters are cool
Manga should have ended already

>>280561275
I like that Nanoka gets to fight and look spooky. And cute.

MAO Cast Comments:

https://www.furinkan.com/features/interviews/maocast.html

>>280555218
>This also means Sunrise will be busy until then, aka no original mecha anime.

Believe me Sunrise has a ton of studio dept assigned for certain anime prjoects and older IP's. They have more announcements yet to be revealed this year. Don't think Sunrise will work on some new mecha originals out of nowhere.

>>280555877
Never.

>rumiko takahashi gets 40+ years of her works being animated
Kneel

>>280558062
Rumiko read Agatha Christie back in the Lum days, there was a Lum episode based on And Then There Were None.

>>280561732
Pretty sure that was an anime original episode. I recall Rumiko saying somewhere that she hadn't read any Christie before starting to prepare for Mao. Or maybe it was mystery novels in general, I don't remember.

>>280560392
Go Nagai is still alive.

>>280561844
"Question 4. (June 4, 2021)

Please tell me if there is a book that Rumiko-sensei read recently that was interesting! Also if you have a recommending book for junior high school and high school students, I would be very happy if you could tell me!
Rumiko Takahashi:

It’s quite difficult to recommend a book to people. Because I want you to think it’s interesting. It’s not a recent work but I recommend Jiro Asada sensei’s Soukyuu no Subaru (蒼穹の昴). Also the work of Agatha Christie. When I am addicted to one work, I have a habit of reading the work by the author from the beginning. During the holidays before the MAO series I went to the Agatha Christie shelf in the bookstore, bought and read, and repeated everyday. And I finished reading almost all her works. I’m glad that it was very interesting and I learned how to make mysteries."

Sounds like it was before Mao, yeah.

>>280562443

>>280562468

>>280562538

>>280554210
It's a boy.

>>280554210
We'll have to wait until we get some flashbacks to hear what he sounded like in the past, but none of them had white hair originally, so I think it's possible his voice has deepened over time as well.

>Nothing Happens: The Manga
Seriously though, I read a few hundred chapters of this and thought it was going somewhere when the brown guy was revived, but then it went straight back to the magical artifact of the week (almost none of which were actually interesting).
Nanoka is cute and all but you could cut this manga to half its length and it would be much improved.

>>280565388
Yeah, pacing is one area where the anime has potential to make some serious improvements. Not that I particularly dislike all the little horror stories.

>>280558062
>>280561732
>>280562003
All this is telling me is that we really need Rumiko and Ryukishi to work together on some mega mystery.

>>280565388
>>280565774
Yeah, it is a mixed bag. It'll be fun to get even just the meat of the stories. There definitely are some monster of the week stuff that should get adapted though.

Seriously though, why did they give Hyakka such a deep voice?

>>280552510
To be fair, she's like 70 and doing a weekly manga.

Does anyone actually care about Rumiko's post Inuyasha works?

>>280568249
Yeah. I get everyone moved on, but I only got into her stuff long after it was relevant, so I obviously was going to check Rin-ne and Mao out and I found them entertaining.

Urusei Yatsura is still my favorite thing of hers and I am not going to pretend that all her output is masterful, but it is still good manga.

>>280568249
I do

>>280568249
Rinne is my least favorite of her works but still a fun time. Mao is great.

>>280553097
>It's almost looks like some of the Yashahime staff are working on this

>>280568249
there are dozens of us!

>>280569333
but this time they're adapting from a manga instead of making shit up as they go along

>>280560709
where did this fanart come from lol

>>280569720
I made it when they announced the Ranma remake

A lot of the humor in the series stems from Mao being an insensitive autist

>>280569333
Nothing is over? I don't see any problems with that information.
>>280569667
>but this time they're less creative
Hopefully that's not the case and we get anime only episodes.
Wow gee.

>>280569971
It is very cute and I love it.

>>280565388
It's Rumiko Takahashi. The serialized plot is a bonus, you read it for the episodes.

>>280570167
I mean there's a plan this time you stupid bitch

>>280565388
that's what she does to buy time while she thinks of what to do next
she killed again a while back and recently dropped new lore

>>280571547
>she killed again a while back
...in the manga, of course
haha

>>280567632
same va from the series digest promo
maybe that was before rumiko revealed that hyakka was 14 when time froze for him?

>>280566557
should we express our hopes/make predictions for the opening/ending theme?

>>280573940
Hiro Shimono can do a young-sounding voice.

>>280573999
Feel free. If you get trips again, your wish will come true.
I hope the OP sounds like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4SO1bRi9Xo

>5 different anime adaptions in 5 different decades.
Besides people that wrote classics that get remake adaptions every so often like Tekuza and Nagai who else can claim this?

>>280552188 (OP)

>>280574022
https://youtu.be/T8hsY9L-vjQ

You can hear him in the PV.

>>280574776
he's from a time where the only way to become plump was to be swimming in money please understand

>>280575113
I know, I'm saying that giving Hyakka a deep voice is a directorial choice rather than them getting stuck with a VA who can't do a higher voice.

I read the summary and it sounds like Inuyasha redux. Is it really like that?

>>280574797
Adachi Mitsuru, I guess

>>280552188 (OP)
Can tell it’s shit just from the character.

>>280575523
No, the setup is similar but it's much less of an adventure shonen and way more of a mystery series with some action. There's a large-scale mystery that ties all the characters together and is slowly unraveled while allegiances and conflicts are formed and shift.

>>280566355
Higurashi but in the 80s Rumiko style would be amazing

>>280575523
It's tonally very different from Inuyasha. There's no adventure or an overarching villain like Naraku. Not many emotional outbursts or hot-blooded fights. The characters try to live their lives while slowly working towards untangling the core mystery. It's just that some of them are basically career gangsters, which is usually where the conflict comes from. The violence and other negative aspects of the Taisho era get treated in a very matter-of-fact way. There's a sort of callous undercurrent to the whole series: you can do good things, but the world can be pretty awful, so don't get too worked up about it.

>>280575523
Inuyasha is a Fire Tripper redux.

>>280557713
from kaji's interview in 2020
>First of all, how precious and wonderful is the fact that Rumiko Takahashi continues to draw a weekly serialization?

>>280552510
>her art has been seriously weak for this series, she's getting old
Dude the fact she can still draw is amazing, her hands&wrists not being fucked up is a literal blessing from god.

Also holy shit finally there is like what maybe another year left of the manga.

Mao voiced by Mao?

>>280579253
I feel like at least two years is a safer bet, characters have started dying but I don't think it will go that quickly.

>>280579253
and her back! artists tend to hunch over when they draw you know?
I guess rumiko maintained posture/has those tilted desks?

>>280579803
I would love to see a picture of her setup. Did she move to digital?

>>280552188 (OP)
YESSSSSS AT LONG FUCKING LAST

>>280559402
The Strongest

>>280579965
You can see her working on Mao right here (although that was several years ago at this point, so I don't know if she's made any changes since then)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCxk1gu_Ouc

>>280580056
Damn no wonder mangakas always get sick working like that
Terrible ergonomics and chemicals

>>280575523
The plot does involve a girl traveling to a past period and meets a sword user, yet:

Inuyasha’s group is of 6 characters always traveling together, Mao’s group is of only 3 which in fact is like Rinne's group of Kyoukai no Rinne (a boy not rude running an honest business with his little servant and a female companion), and their allies appear on and then.

2. It features demons, yet most of the major characters are humans. There are between 20 and 30 significant characters so far, and only 2 of them are demons, and some of them are like the Black Cats of Kyoukai no Rinne.

3. Unlike the mystery of Inuyasha and Kikyo's tragic past which was quickly uncovered, the pieces of the puzzle of the past in Mao are slowly coming together and even after more than 150 chapters, not everything has been uncovered.

4. In Inuyasha, despite regularly coming across Inuyasha’s group and Naraku and some of his incarnations, Sesshomaru, Kikyo and Koga rarely crossed paths (Sesshomaru and Koga in fact never cross paths in the manga (ep99 was a filler episode, and it’s probably the cause)). In Mao, the handling of the major characters crossing paths seems better.

And that's not all, I just don't want to spoil too much. You might see few things that could remind you of Inuyasha, yet you have to see it until its most recent chapter to see for yourself if it's exactly like Inuyasha.

>>280579803
>has those tilted desks?
Literally every real artist does also its common to stand while drawing professionally

>>280580802
I was trying to search for a pic of when they really hunch over but settled on that one, but I found pics of where they basically have an easel
the pic I posted though, I'm pretty sure some mangaka still hunch in close when drawing details

>>280555453
Hopefully they pick up the pace with Ranma. At the rate they're going Mao will have a complete anime adaptation before Ranma.

>>280581015
oh here we go
>picrel
that's going to make your back hurt if you do that too long

>>280581104
>sqauting on a shitty office chair drawing for hours
your everthing will hurt fuck me this makes my posture look good

If you think about it, Mao violates most of Knox's ten rules of detective fiction

>>280581204
you gotta remember who mangaka *are*
how many of them eat like complete shit and never go outside to walk and have fucked sleep schedules and hunch over like this
I guess rumiko has avoided some of these issues × has a lot stamina so she's still going

>>280581302
I bet she stood all the time looking at all her young assistants(shes always had a bunch of women working with her in her studio, I think technically for Mao she only does the rough outlines while managing everything) fine asses and tits from all sorts of angles. Had said bitch cook her good food, even having nyotaimori once a week with lots of booze.

>>280581509
you've given this a lot of thought

>>280562382
personally i only kept the axed trunk

>>280552188 (OP)
I thought this was about the red guard.

>>280582205
It's actualy a prequel to Kusuriya no Hitorigoto

>>280555953
>bssed Inuyasha sequel
I guess you meant to say "shit"

>>280582690
she's gonna get you!

For those who want to watch the anime and read only the unadapted chapters of Rin-ne, here’s the list of chapters:

>>280582865
what was this retard doing with the season 3 list...

>>280582865
>>280583089
>let me write out an entire volume's worth of chapters one by one instead of writing 275-286
^ some faggot apparently

>>280582865
What is this mental illness? Why not just read everything?

>>280582865
Rin-ne adapted out of order and they mix stuff up, so you'd be better off reading the whole thing.

>>280583883
Yes, it is even being storytimed right now so you read along with the fine anons of /a/

Oh, I didn't realize Rinne was completely translated

>>280581971
you should've used this one for reaction to the news

>>280581296
d- does it?

>>280584185
has been since 2021

odds of mao getting the magazine cover next week?

>>280556349
But filler is the best part of Inuyasha

>>280560392
Go Nagai

>>280555877
Fuck off

if it's scheduled for spring, and we got a preview now in the summer
when should we expect
>a second trailer
>otoya va announcement
>announcement for singer/band of the op
?

>>280565388
>>280565774
>>280567068
She does this for all her series why you anons acting like this is new? Decades later and people still act like this is her first time

>>280568635
>I am not going to pretend that all her output is masterful,
But it literally is, to this day new mangakas tremble at her presence. She has a lot of influence in her magazine and with the Sunrise studio

>>280587622
right? rumiko's actually going at a brisk pace *for her*

>>280588194
It definitely has more plot progression than the entirety of Inuyasha in half the number of volumes.

>>280588465
Sure, but it is a little jarring to compare how brisk the development is in the first 8 or so volumes to how piecemeal it is in the 16 volumes that follow.

>>280589581
>how brisk the development is in the first 8 or so volumes
i recall some anons saying something similar about inuyasha

i knew the chances were slim but a part of me wished that the anime would add a sub-title to the series name...

>>280587073
My dumb head remembered Go Nagai dying in 2021, I don't know why?

>>280590751
2021 is when Miura died.

>>280587637
Yeah, but Shonen Sunday almost had to close its doors until Frieren came around despite having her producing manga for the magazine. Trust me, I'm a gigantic Rumiko fan, but she's not perfect.

>>280587622
Because it feels different in a serious series (moreso than even Inuyasha). But I understand what you mean.

>>280591270
rumiko "what's a plot" takahashi put in some more planning with mao than her other works but she's still winging it
she didn't know the source of mao's scar at the time she added it to his design

>>280591359
some context
>https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/265548908/#q265557423
I practically want to buy the English version of the colors art book just so I can look at the page where she says this lmao

>>280588194
Good

>>280591516
In the mail for me.

>>280586835
Seems like it's going to be on break next week. Perhaps the week after that?

>>280552474
Hell yeah!

Last volume I read was 20. I imagine I'm at least 6 behind?

>>280599120
Japanese volumes go up to 24, and there are about fifty uncollected chapters.

>>280595774
>Perhaps the week after that?
If you mean the break the obon that's early August
August 10 or 11 is the date their trying to avoid

>>280599430
Man, that adds up.

>>280599446
No, I mean Mao specifically is taking a break next issue. Could potentially be because Rumiko needs time to draw a cover.

>Mao
>doesn't have have Mao as seiyuu

>>280600726
It's like the HAL movie not getting made by HAL Film Maker.

>>280599430
>>280599502
Why are Rumiko's tankobon releases always so behind the magazine chapters anyway? She doesn't even do volume extras. Do the volume releases just start very late or do they gradually lose ground over the magazine? I've always noticed it but never checked why.

>>280601264
Looking at the list of volumes on Wikipedia, there's usually a 2-4 month gap between releases. If the gap is longer than ten weeks, which it often is, the volume releases fall slightly behind the magazine, and that effect accumulates as the series goes on. When the first volume came out I think it was only about 10 chapters behind.

>>280601264
>Why are Rumiko's tankobon releases always so behind the magazine chapters anyway?
The gap between the Japanese and English releases is bad enough, but there being such a gap between the magazine chapters and volume releases on top of that?
>picrel

>>280552188 (OP)
Cool

>>280587060
That isn't filler, it is an arc in the manga. A really story important arc too.

>>280600726
maybe child mao will

>>280552188 (OP)
Burp

I just hope they don't hold back on the gore

>>280607007
Highly likely they will because this is an NHK show.

>>280607007
>>280607392
i can accept a silhouette version of the scene but they better keep the fact that his heart was forced out through his mouth intact

>>280607392
A shame if so, I feel it adds a lot to the atmosphere of the series.

>>280599104
YEAH!!!!

Nanoka cute.

>>280603993
I know. I was just posting some Inuyasha

>>280607392
I guess they were the only ones willing to do it?

>>280614635
Who knows, we can only speculate. My best guess is that Yashahime was a compromise for Rumiko so Sunrise would animate this. NHK would then help fund it since they already worked with her in the past (Rinne) and need a program for a time slot.

>>280607392
If they don't find a way to display the imagery indirectly and opt to skip it I will never forgive them.

Yashahime won.

>>280618253
How so?

>>280618258
Kickstarted the Rumiko Renaissance era.
And is my favorite one of them all.

>>280552188 (OP)
Gemmy

>>280587518
well anons?

>>280620190
>>280620190
No clue...

>>280618274
I guess that's fair enough lol

>>280552188 (OP)
Mao mao

>>280552188 (OP)
its a meme

>>280555098
This trailer had one (1) Nanoka yelling "Huh?"