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NEWS: Kizuna no Allele Anime Gets 2nd Season in October




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TheSleepyMonkey



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PostPosted: Mon Jun 26, 2023 12:15 pm Reply with quote
So, another split situation.
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Yune Amagiri



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PostPosted: Mon Jun 26, 2023 12:17 pm Reply with quote
Nice it's much needed considering how long it took for Quan to "appear" and the group to form.
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YoshiChao



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PostPosted: Mon Jun 26, 2023 6:37 pm Reply with quote
More Quan let’s gooooo

Did anyone even care for this show though lmao, I’ve never seen a show feel like it has no target audience more than this one
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JustMonika



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PostPosted: Mon Jun 26, 2023 10:24 pm Reply with quote
Hell yes, I'm excited about this one. I understand I'm probably one of the very few of course, lol. I expected this though given the content and how popular it is in Japan.
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DarkAudit



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PostPosted: Tue Jun 27, 2023 6:51 am Reply with quote
Proof that God is real and he hates us.
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BankaiNano



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PostPosted: Tue Jun 27, 2023 7:43 am Reply with quote
DarkAudit wrote:
Proof that God is real and he hates us.


Proof the studios do not care about your opinion.
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DRosencraft



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PostPosted: Tue Jun 27, 2023 10:12 am Reply with quote
YoshiChao wrote:
More Quan let’s gooooo

Did anyone even care for this show though lmao, I’ve never seen a show feel like it has no target audience more than this one


I think the target audience is supposed to be VTuber fans in general. Yes they are using Kizuna Ai specifically as the hook, but I think they wanted to expand beyond her to VTuber fans in general, hence why Kizuna herself is cast as the scion of VTuber emergence and not really "in" the show. This is furthered by the use of so much VTuber-style animation bits throughout. I think the focus on music is because that's what Kizuna was mostly known for at the end of the day (as opposed to whatever VTubers nowadays do) and because idol anime are a simple formula to work with. We do get glimpses of that other stuff - attempts at sort of variety-show segments Miracle puts on - but music is the focus, and idol anime sell big in Japan.

Which gets to the final wedge of target audience - I think the international audience was a clear secondary concern, if at all. I leave only a bit of room for international audience consideration only because I would have thought that, given reception in Japan, if it wasn't a concern at all this second season announcement would have come at the actual end of the final episode, not left hanging (baring other concerns that would have delayed such an announcement). The number of comments I saw at the start of the series of people who heard of Kizuna Ai but knew nothing about VTubers tells me that if there was some hope of growing recognition overall, that it was not a strong focus. Its main focus seemed to be to attract as many folks already somewhat familiar with VTubers back to "the original VTuber" and reacquire/grow that base for future projects.
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