Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai!: Another Kyoto Animation project

[Damius]

Originally Posted by ultimatemegax

Edited. They should work now.

Perfectly. Thanks for the new update. Can't wait for this... Around a month away...

[ultimatemegax]

Originally Posted by ultimatemegax

Rikka Takanashi - CV. Maaya Uchida
Shinka Nibutani - CV. Chinatsu Akasaki
Kumin Tsuyuri - CV. Azumi Asakura
Sanae Dekomori - CV. Sumire Uesaka

And here's the cast for the rest of the announced characters:
Yuuta Togashi: Jun Fukuyama
Yuuta's mom: Yuri Amano
Kuzuha Togashi: Kaori Fukuhara
Yumeha Togashi: Mami Shitara
Makoto Isshiki: Souichirou Hoshi

[FUNiOP]

Originally Posted by ultimatemegax

And here's the cast for the rest of the announced characters:
Yuuta Togashi: Jun Fukuyama
Yuuta's mom: Yuri Amano
Kuzuha Togashi: Kaori Fukuhara
Yumeha Togashi: Mami Shitara
Makoto Isshiki: Souichirou Hoshi

Not so much of the newbies anymore. They're clearly playing the male lead extremely safe. Amano is a veteran, but seems to be new to KyoAni (not surprising, since she's not too frequently cast in new stuff). They're bringing back a Lucky Star lead for Kuzuha. Shitara is clearly the one of this group that fits in with the previous group the most. She's hardly had any roles, and the few she has have been extremely minor. Hoshi is the next biggest name after Fukuyama, but it looks like he's new to KyoAni as well. Nice to finally see the seiyuu for the rest of the lead cast, anyway. Everyone I know is good, and everyone I don't I have faith in due to Ishihara's track record with this kind of thing.

[kijakusai]

Originally Posted by ultimatemegax

Yuuta's Mom
Kuzuha Togashi
Yumeha Togashi

　
Is there a particular reason why '勇', '葉' and '夢' were typed in formal kanji? Just curious.
　　

[ultimatemegax]

Originally Posted by kijakusai

　
Is there a particular reason why '勇', '葉' and '夢' were typed in formal kanji? Just curious.
　　

I'm not sure about the kanji for Kuzuha or Yumeha, but Yuuta's name does use the meanings somewhat.

As for the formalness, I feel it's Torako's chuunibyou showing. There's a lot of complicated kanji combinations used by Rikka, so I feel this is a similar situation by the author to look cool.

[kijakusai]

Originally Posted by ultimatemegax

I'm not sure about the kanji for Kuzuha or Yumeha, but Yuuta's name does use the meanings somewhat.

As for the formalness, I feel it's Torako's chuunibyou showing. There's a lot of complicated kanji combinations used by Rikka, so I feel this is a similar situation by the author to look cool.

　
Thank you for the reply.
Since, on Kyōto Animation's web pages about Chūnibyō's characters, '勇', '葉' and '夢' were written in new kanji, rather than in formal kanji, I wondered why those kanji were typed in formal kanji in your JPEG pictures.
So, in the KA Esuma Bunko edition, '勇', '葉' and '夢' were printed in formal kanji?
　
　
Recently I happened to see Ishikawa Jun's recommendation on Yoshida Ken'ichi's Poetica, and it was printed in formal kanji and formal orthography.
Ishikawa Jun wrote:

　それ鶴は九皐に鳴きて聲は野に聞え天に聞ゆといへり。吉田健一君、一たび西歐藝文の微旨を究めてその粹を 傳ふれば、淸音たちまち東海の波にひびき、また本朝風騷の深致を探つてその妙を說けば、知言はるかに西山の 雲を破る。語に於てもとより��通、彼我熟せざるところなく、文に於てはなはだ暢達、縱橫よく自在をうるも のは、當代ただこの一人を見るのみ。その活眼の徹るところ、豈東西の境を分たんや。史を涉つて華を採るに、 なにをもつて古今の別を論ぜん。蹤遊文苑にあまねく、載筆ときに稾を屬す。すなはち詩文の精髓凝つてポエテ ィカ二卷にあり。書中の天、あるひは春日のどかに、あるひは秋水凜たり。この間にあつて闊然大いに笑ふは著 者か。けだし達人の道を樂しむものなり。江湖の君子、またしたがつてここに遊び、樂しみの窮まることなき所 以を曉るべし。

　

[ultimatemegax]

Originally Posted by kijakusai

　
Thank you for the reply.
Since, on Kyōto Animation's web pages about Chūnibyō's characters, '勇', '葉' and '夢' were written in new kanji, rather than in formal kanji, I wondered why those kanji were typed in formal kanji in your JPEG pictures.
So, in the KA Esuma Bunko edition, '勇', '葉' and '夢' were printed in formal kanji?

Ah, I shouldn't reply when I'm sleepy. I misunderstood what you were asking about. Those characters are indeed in new kanji in the novels. I think this is a font/size issue with GIMP on my jpgs. For convenience, I merely copy-pasted the names from wiki/website instead of dealing with typing in Japanese. I used Calibiri for my English text, but I'm not sure what GIMP defaults to for Japanese characters.

[ultimatemegax]

Originally Posted by ultimatemegax

Animage 2012/09 edition:
Image/Translation

Also, KyoAni was passing out leaflets (front/back) at their Comiket booth. I'm not translating these as they're the same character text described above from the MyNavi article. The Ishihara interview is just "I wanted to make a comedic show" for the most part. Nothing really substantial.

September articles:
Scan 1 (Key Visual 3)/Translation
Scan 2/Translation (Includes a really good Ishihara interview with a couple minor spoilers)
Scan 3/Translation (one minor spoiler near the end)

[kijakusai]

Originally Posted by ultimatemegax

Ah, I shouldn't reply when I'm sleepy. I misunderstood what you were asking about. Those characters are indeed in new kanji in the novels. I think this is a font/size issue with GIMP on my jpgs. For convenience, I merely copy-pasted the names from wiki/website instead of dealing with typing in Japanese. I used Calibiri for my English text, but I'm not sure what GIMP defaults to for Japanese characters.

Again, thank you for the reply.
I see, maybe GIMP applied a traditional Hànzì fount to the kanji in question and as a result those kanji appeared as the formal kanji/traditional Hànzì, rather than as the new kanji, in your JPEG pictures.
　

[something]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pl-3VnX8Rs0

After a few chuunibyou-style previews, this time we get something that's probably much more representative of the show. After all, at its core this is a romantic comedy light novel.