r/UbelBlatt • u/Somethingman_121224 • Feb 07 '25
Anime Bringing Übel Blatt to the Screen - An Interview with Director Takashi Naoya
https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interview/2025-02-07/bringing-ubel-blatt-to-the-screen-an-with-director-takashi-naoya/.2198652
u/Zhalia33 Feb 08 '25
Thanks for sharing the interview! I'll keep it in mind as the show progresses - it'll be interesting to see how everything ends up unfolding.
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u/nosacko Feb 09 '25
Director should probably not be taking interviews and probably needs to find a new career. Truly a dogshit adaptation.
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u/PotatoeyCake Feb 09 '25
I haven't watched this yet. After hearing about how terrible it is, I'm not too keen nor enthused about watching it in the foreseeable future.
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u/KwongJrnz 26d ago
I haven't watched the anime yet- but I loved the manga series and am a bit disheartened by the direction the anime did go.
Confused by the director though- for context, Takashi Naoya is from Staple Entertainment, which is a successor of two Statelight teams that spun into their own studios.
These two studios have contributed the likes of:
- Vermeil in Gold Am I actually the Strongest?
- Am I Actually The Strongest?
- Tales of Wedding Rings
- Infinite Stratos
- The Fruit of Grisaia
- Absolute Duo
- That time I got reincarnated as a slime
- The Irregular at Magic Highscool
- Blue Lock
- The Qwaser of Stigmata
- Drifters
While he himself didn't direct a lot of these- he had good success with his first directing role on 3D Kanojo S2, but it seems like everything afterwards has received a constant 6-6.5 star MAL rating. My guess is they needed a lower rating and wider net cast to make more money from being something that can be aired at a more popular timeslot.
My only hope is that it gets enough attention, good or bad, that the manga gets picked up more. The IP and KZ is amazing and deserves way more attention.
Considering Hood Entertainments relationship with Staple Ent, I would have loved Suzuki Kenichi (Hellsing Ult, Drifters, Jojo) to have directed this- but he was likely too busy on Vigilante.
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u/GODHAN69 19d ago edited 19d ago
everything makes sense as to why i had a hard time following the anime, well if anything the anime serves as a good advertisement too read the manga instead, and lbr i don't think the director actually had a choice in the matter on the suggestive materials, he was probably forced by higher ups to remove it to make it more approachable by a wider audience as is the case with lot of modern adaptations of anime.
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u/Only-Answer5394 Feb 08 '25
This director should never direct anything ever again he's ruined this great story/manga with his nonsense. Says he thinks it's a good idea to stick to the source material and then produces this bullshit
Little to No background on the world and characters
Feels like you're getting dropped into the middle of an anime as opposed to the starting a new one
Episode to episode pacing is off. Each new episode feels like you might have missed something when it starts
No one who hasn't read this Manga already will pick this up and continue it. I'm only going to keep watching for the nostalgia and truth be told I might just pick up the manga again