From Global Manga to Global Animation
ICv2 reports that Svetlana Chmakova, the creator of the popular TOKYOPOP global manga Dramacon (pictured left), as well as Yen Press’ upcoming Night School, is moving on to a new frontier: animation.
The show is being marketed to 8-12 year olds and will feature certain manga-style visual elements, and follows a quartet of tweens in their daily lives. It’s called My Life Me (pictured right) and 52 11-minute episodes will hit Canadian and French TV in fall ‘09. No word on whether there’ll be a US release.
When writing up my post for this I came across the promo animation at the animator’s website. It’s a little unpolished but did show a lot of the manga-styled elements they plan to incorperate. I really look forward to the first full episode. The clip stopped working a few hours after my posting unfortunately but if they fix it, the link is http://www.littleanimation.com/mylifeme/index.html
Pass.
Ah good for those tweens who need something to watch I guess.
Not part of the demographic so don’t care.
Kudos for Svetlana Chmakova
NOte: this is good, because as more and more people who are into anime get into the mainstream animation industry, the more we’ll see the manga influence. I don’t see this bad at all, not unless they start doing stuff for ad.