In 2011 Kyoto Animation adapted the Keiichi Arawi Manga “Nichijou” into an anime that currently has a score of 8.47 on MAL.
In 2025, Kyoto Animation will adapt the Keiichi Arawi Manga “CITY” into an anime.
Will it score better? I will resolve this market after the airing of the last episode of CITY based on the MAL score at the time I look it up.
1,000@Tarl I disagree. My pitch for yes is partly that I think it will actually be better and partly that I think it will review better (resolution criteria is MAL score not my personal opinion on quality)
I think the CITY manga is even better than the Nichijou manga. So if the adaptation is good I think we're already off to a good start.
I think the art style for the CITY anime is gorgeous, it looks much more like the source material and is just visually stunning. I think people are going to eat it up.
The "sequel effect". If you already watched Nichijou and bounced off it (which is not uncommon, some people just do not vibe with this type of humor) you simply won't watch CITY (it's not technically a sequel but I think this will still hold).
@RussellRollins hmm. Some good points but i think the selection effect of Nichijou would be pretty weak. It's been 14 years since the anime release.
The CITY manga is currently sitting almost 0.5 lower in rating than Nichijou. So it seems that it isn't resonating with MAL users as well.
Finally the saddest point is that a notable part of the staff that made the Nichijou anime great are no longer with us