Faraway Paladin is getting ANIMATED!
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https://mobile.twitter.com/OVL_BUNKO/status/1383357475622031367
Broadcast will be in October 2021!
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I'm really surprised I thought this series was dead.
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Happy about this! I don't think there was an announcement about a new volume so far, unfortunately. Hopefully we'll have one soon.
Now I hope Sam brings those leather-covered print editions that were mentioned long ago! (If I'm not remembering it wrong.)
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@eternal-wanderer Well, a reincarnation would be par for the course - hopefully not in another world. I for one would appreciate if some of the pending plot hooks were to get resolved.
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@jaquobus Given the general pace of anime adaptation, I doubt if we will even get thru the first three volumes.
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@paul-nebeling Infinite Dendrogram would like a word with you... But I was more referring to a potential resumption of the LN.
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@jaquobus So would Masters of Ragnarok, I'm sure. I would love to see the next volume get published. It just feels so unfinished.
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This is just a theory but I wonder if the author finally decided to continue this series but the publisher was concerned that since it had been on hiatus so long that readers would have lost interest and they greenlit an anime in order to give Paladin some much needed advertising.
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I hope they get the budget to go for animation which does justice to the awesome artwork in the LNs.
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@eternal-wanderer According to the (Google Translated-)author, it looks like it was because of the manga.
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This is awesome! Faraway Paladin is on my list of Top Ten series I would like to see get an anime 😄
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I hope this could lead to the LN get resumed.
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@eternal-wanderer said in Faraway Paladin is getting ANIMATED!:
greenlit an anime in order to give Paladin some much needed advertising
or the opposite: LN publisher / author was holding back on releases because a anime deal was being negotiated (possibly the anime was stalled due to splash over from due to Kyoto fire or Covid) or a combination of what @Crimson-Wise stated because of the popularity of the Manga. It seems to me many anime are advertising vehicles for print media (less often the other way around) . Now if the anime is popular...and drives sales of manga/LN... we should see more volumes of the LN - hopefully tying up some loose threads in the plotline...or the manga/anime might diverge from the source material and plot might develop differently there
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Update having just seen the promo video, I have great hope for this adaptation, they have done a good job conveying the majesty present in the story
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@jon-mitchell said in Faraway Paladin is getting ANIMATED!:
@eternal-wanderer said in Faraway Paladin is getting ANIMATED!:
greenlit an anime in order to give Paladin some much needed advertising
It seems to me many anime are advertising vehicles for print media (less often the other way around) .
That is correct, most anime adaptations of manga/light novels/games etc. are basically glorified advertisements for their source material. If you watch late-night anime in Japan, advertisements that air during said anime's airtime are usually all promoting the source material being adapted + relevant merchandise (Can personally confirm, once watched a late-night anime in a Japanese hotel after a late night touchdown in Tokyo some years back).
Some adaptations might be popular enough to warrant full coverage of the source material (ex. Assassination Classroom, Attack on Titan, definitely Kimetsu no Yaiba) but most only intend to cover a few books of the source to awaken interest and increased source material purchases. Ultimately this is mainly a publisher decision.
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Saw on Crunchyroll news that there’s a new preview out! Fingers crossed that they do a good job.
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I've read both the LN and the manga, and idk I never really had it in my mind that Will's hair was red 😆
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The first episode is out on Crunchyroll and the reviews look great so far!
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@campbella9 said in Faraway Paladin is getting ANIMATED!:
The first episode is out on Crunchyroll and the reviews look great so far!
@campbella9 said in Faraway Paladin is getting ANIMATED!:
The first episode is out on Crunchyroll and the reviews look great so far!
I've watched the first episode - other than a few gendered pronouns being off (gods vs goddesses) I thought it was a good watch. I have high hopes
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@jon-mitchell I'm waiting a bit because I like to binge so that makes me very happy to know someone who's read it and likes it so far
