Maria-sama ga Miteru (Maria Watches Over Us)

heimdal7

Is there still any chance of Maria-sama getting licensed? I know earl and Fairy apparently has not been selling good but it honestly probably wasn't the best choice of a test series. It hasn't aged well at all and aspects of it really conflict with a lot of people mind set as to what is socially acceptable. It also has no real presence in communities or ever comes up in convo.

Maria on the other hand is still actively praised and comes up in modern media either parodied in other series or directly referenced. Plus it has the yuri aspect what is very popular right now.

heimdal7

@brentru

lol vol4 light novel of 80,000 gold for retirement that just released in english

spoiler

Seriously why has no one ever licensed a series that had this much impact to still be relevant decades later.

Lily Garden

@heimdal7 said in Maria-sama ga Miteru (Maria Watches Over Us):

Seriously why has no one ever licensed a series that had this much impact to still be relevant decades later.

Sam said that old stuff doesn’t sell well

So it might be that they just focus their energy on acquiring the stuff that they think will sell the best

sorvani

@Lily-Garden said in Maria-sama ga Miteru (Maria Watches Over Us):

So it might be that they just focus their energy on acquiring the stuff that they think will sell the best

As a business, they have to. Otherwise, they will no longer be a business and we will lose a great thing.

heimdal7

@Lily-Garden I don't know all the old stuff that was licensed but Earl and Fairy that was brought up seemed like a bad choice for a test series as it didn't age well culturally or visibility wise.

Maria even today remains a presence in fully parodies like Yuri is My Job and repeatedly referenced by other series.

sorvani

@heimdal7 said in Maria-sama ga Miteru (Maria Watches Over Us):

@Lily-Garden I don't know all the old stuff that was licensed but Earl and Fairy that was brought up seemed like a bad choice for a test series as it didn't age well culturally or visibility wise.

Maria even today remains a presence in fully parodies like Yuri is My Job and repeatedly referenced by other series.

and yet... v6 just got announced. I can only assume it was to keep the license channel open with Shueisha

heimdal7

@sorvani said in Maria-sama ga Miteru (Maria Watches Over Us):

@heimdal7 said in Maria-sama ga Miteru (Maria Watches Over Us):

@Lily-Garden I don't know all the old stuff that was licensed but Earl and Fairy that was brought up seemed like a bad choice for a test series as it didn't age well culturally or visibility wise.

Maria even today remains a presence in fully parodies like Yuri is My Job and repeatedly referenced by other series.

and yet... v6 just got announced. I can only assume it was to keep the license channel open with Shueisha

I have no idea what their stipulations are for them to drop a series. Diaries from what I understand was selling poorly also before the anime (I'm assuming it is through the roof now.). It might simply be as long as a series isn't selling in the red they keep translating it. It would take someone who actually works at j novel to explain it. Chances are they wouldn't share that kind of details though.

Anyways a rewatch of Maria first season just finished on reddit that was rather active with comments for pride month. Though sadly the post themself got bot brigaded down voted for each one.

heimdal7

My Deer Friend Nokotan is another show that did a MArimite parody scene.

heimdal7

Maria's author released a new short story for it this year in the Cobalt Playback Anthology Part 1 that came out in april.