From Global Manga to Global Animation
Dated: 4 Jun 2008
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.
Tags: canada, dramacon, france, my life me, night-school, svetlana-chmakova
June 4th, 2008 at 4:44 pm
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
June 5th, 2008 at 1:52 pm
Pass.
June 5th, 2008 at 6:36 pm
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.