Touhou Anime Announced [Update 04.11.2010]

http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2010/09/24/touhou-anime-announced/

The first “official” Touhou anime has been announced.
The anime project is to be produced by ufotable, and is intended as a celebration of the 10th anniversary of anime store Animate’s mascot character “Anime Tencho” (“anime store manager”), probably best known internationally for his appearances on Lucky Star, although otherwise his anniversary is likely a matter of supreme indifference even to Japanese anime fans.
Though apparently not an immediate indication of a full TV anime, speculation now centres on the prospect of a full anime now Touhou appears finally to have received permission for a formal anime adaptation (as opposed to the earlier doujin affair).

Updated:
The anime studio ufotable has announced on Friday that it is participating in two projects to mark the 10th anniversary of the ANIMATE mascot character Anime Tenchou, including the production of the "Anime Tenchou x Touhou Project" animation project.

The ANIMATE character goods store chain is celebrating the 10th anniversary of its Anime Tenchou mascot character with 10 projects. Project 01 is new commercial footage called "Anime Tenchou Gekijō-ban," which ufotable will produce. Project 03 is "Anime Tenchou Collabo 10-ban Shōbu Round 1," in which ufotable is producing an animation project that combines Anime Tenchou and the dōjin game franchise Touhou Project.

Both projects will appear at the ANIMATE Ichioshi Bishōjo Matsuri event which will take place in Tokyo on November 20. Other projects to be shown at the event include IS (Infinite Stratos), Oniichan no Koto Nanka Zenzen Suki Janain Dakara ne—!!, Steins;Gate, and OVA ToHeart2 adnext.

There will be a special version of the original Anime Tenchou theme song that will accompany the new commercial footage. Tomokazu Seki is singing as the Anime Tenchou Meito Anizawa character, and original creator Kazuhiko Shimamoto is rewriting the lyrics.

Updated 2:
On Friday, Touhou Project creator ZUN posted on his Twitter account that the "Anime Tenchou x Touhou Project" anime is a derivative work, so he does not know the details about it. Later on Friday, a Twitter user named show_fb asked ZUN about the "Ikebukuro Hakurei Jinja" entity that is listed in the copyright notice for an image of the "Anime Tenchou x Touhou Project" anime. ZUN replied that he is not involved in that entity, and added that he thinks it is a pen name for the people drawing art in the derivative work.

Update 3

I'm definitely interested in checking this out. I've read some Touhou doujinshi and the characters all seem really neat. I've never tried playing the games, though, but maybe watching this will make me want to check them out.

I see that this is going be an anime about "Anime Tencho" accompanied by the touhou girls.

This will be quite interesting...

Intriguing... Shall check up on it when it shows.

Sounds very interesting, after all, there are tons of touhou doujins on fakku and in my HDD as well.

Will look forward to it, it will probably be action packed.

ZUN himself has said in his twitter that he's not involved in any way on this. It probably turn outs like 'fan' project or such. Or is it..?

Still, I'm interested to see what will Anime Tenchou doing there.

interesting...touhou has a lot of characters...i hope the anime goes well...

Touhou anime? Would be interesting to watch. I'll put it on my "To Do" list.

I wonder how they are going to be able to get each characters enough air time. Looking forward to it though!

interesting... guess i will try it out when it airs

Oh lawd, it was only a matter of time.

I'll have to check this out when it comes, I've only read Touhou doujins but I like what I've seen from it.

*Stillz don't know what the hype is all about*

If it's good, it's good. If it sucks, it sucks. That's how I'll judge this anime since I have no idea why Touhou is so effing popular.

I'll watch it since I love Touhou. =P

Its a pitty these were never made into anime

An Update

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-09-24/touhou-project-anime-tenchou-get-anime-by-ufotable

I kinda LOL at this hype because it's kind of misleading.

Well, turns out it'll be about Anime Tenchou and Touhou casts might be just a guests. And to think many people hyped up about 'official' touhou anime...

Anyway, here's ZUN's twitter post where he denies his involvement:



So basically he said it's another fan-project (like Maikaze's one) by Animate. That thing aside, I'll still watch this though.

Thanks for the heads-up. And LOL as well... peoples' assumptions grew from rumour to news, and eventually blown out of proportion just because there are Touhou characters mentioned.

But "fan-made"... I like the sound of it. Sort of having its own folksy, unshakeable appeal. I'll be watching these as well.

ZUN never liked idea of Touhou being turned into anime, so the news of any "official" anime should be treated with a two feet pole. Just in case.

That said, the creators had struck a marketing jackpot. People will be still talking about it for days.


Well, we will see as just to how much Touhou there really is in it.