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Autumn Anime 2016 |OT| The seasons change, but we're still Falling for Euri
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Cornbread78
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So I should get it all done if I watch 1 a day for the rest of the month and be ready to take on S2 hmm.. Sounds like a mini "Let's Watch" lol.
Anyone else planning on doing the same?
If you watch S1, be sure to watch the movie.
Actually, this happened to me too. That specific title felt like a portent of the turning tide.
Cornbread78
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Is the movie a summary of S1, or new/different content?
I'm a sad soul that cannabolizes Google images/Tumblr and Imgur for my images.... Just rehost and go.
The only challenge to this is making sure you rehost it, so it's not hot-linked, and it doesn't have any third party water marks/logos on the images. Well, that and nobody really captures the exact moments I would capture for some reason....
Admiral Woofington
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Kiritobread eventually learned to not hotlink images. Like we all do
GoldCrusader
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I tap print screen, go to paint, paste, save and find a place to upload it. Either imgur or pinterest and copy image address. Is it the best way? Who knows but it works.
Dedication Through Light
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Share button on PS4 works assuming you use twitter, then one could just copy that link. However, if you pause the anime and share you then end up getting the Interface with the image.
Surprised people use Print Screen and then their OS default paint program, considering in windows the Snipping Tool is a default tool for that purpose. Additionally Chrome has its own screenshot capture tool [on chrome OS].
Don't think anyone mentioned it yet but Indivisible is getting an animated opening by Studio Trigger.
Turin Turambar
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MyImgur, because it uploads it automatically and gives me a link with img tags.
Cornbread78
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Uugghh..
Is it bad that I keep laughing at this gif because the scene in the movie was so damn funny?
Dedication Through Light
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I miss people hotlinking, because it was free advertisement for [C] - The money of soul and possibility Control.
Principate
Saint Titanfall
It's a dark fantasy action adventure story with an emphasis on character development and interaction. The main story itself isn't wholly unique but well done and it has an an absense of the usual anime tropes and usual unlikely happy endings (almost everyone in the story lives a shitty life and most events don't end particularly well but they learn mature and move on which is refreshing for these sorts of action anime).
Also sex is treated as a rather casual thing with reasonably realistic representation of it in comparison to usual anime fair with a relative absense of the usual male gaze.
Very interesting, probably add it to my list then.
SliceSabre
Banned
One of the best shows of 2011.
It's a lot of fun, but be aware that it has a gecko ending that's obviously going to get retconned. Doesn't stop the filler from being hilarious though.
Toonami thread had a ton of fun with that show overall despite the fillers.
XiaNaphryz
LATIN, MATRIPEDICABUS, DO YOU SPEAK IT
Ping pong Megumi is coming! Woot!
Cornbread78
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Ping pong Megumi is coming! Woot!
yes, best girl for sure! Even comes with DTL approved fanservice.
FlowersisBritish
fleurs n'est pas britannique
Your Lie In April 1-4
Welp, this is starting off pretty god. Too bad the very first thing I ever heard about this was how it ended lol
It's doing a lot of things I generally like in romances and stories in general. I like how the initial interest is in his sports friend, not him. I like the overabundance of symbolism (especially that of the black cat). And I also happen to like classical music, so the sound track is A+ for me by default. The real question is if a tree falls and no one is around to hear it, will I be ugly sobbing at the end of this?
Welp, this is starting off pretty god. Too bad the very first thing I ever heard about this was how it ended lol
It's doing a lot of things I generally like in romances and stories in general. I like how the initial interest is in his sports friend, not him. I like the overabundance of symbolism (especially that of the black cat). And I also happen to like classical music, so the sound track is A+ for me by default. The real question is if a tree falls and no one is around to hear it, will I be ugly sobbing at the end of this?
Wow, nice
Cornbread78
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just watch it for the ride. You already know the ending, but it's the journey there that makes it special and yeah.... just watch; it's beautiful
GoldCrusader
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This guy has all of my respect, he knows what's best.
Are you trying to trigger me?
MikeHattsu
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You kinda know how it's gonna end about halfway in anyway. It's all about the ride
NaDannMaGoGo
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Lemme hand you this, in case you decide to dismount.
I gave context when I posted it the first time around, specifically mentioning that the shot looked like that for an extended period of time, not a mere frame of it.
For you, let's see it in it's fully animated glory then.
dinner party
Gorgeous, I suppose.
Off-model means a specific thing that has relevance and whereas it has no place in that Naruto fight, I fail to see how it would be inappropriate to use it here for instance:
introduction
Kishibe's general movement is nicely animated albeit a bit choppy. Her face, however, looks bad for the majority of it.
introduction cont.
Here's a cropped version focusing on her Kishibe's head. It being cropped, not zoomed in, means it's easily noticeable for the audience.
Yes, and when judging an episode's animation we're taking the whole episode into consideration. That means that I'll also include the impressions a scene like this has on me.
introduction cont.
That kind of shot directly pulls me out of my immersion and enjoyment because it makes me actively think about how bad it looks. Something I'd obviously want to avoid at all costs which is why cases like that sour my experience so much. No amount of other great animation featured in an episode will retroactively prevent that.
Episode 8 frequently falls below a bar of quality that previous episodes didn't except in very rare instances. So even when those don't feature as many 'sakuga' shots they heavily benefit from keeping up a higher minimum quality.
I'll post some more impressions of mine on a bunch of shots. Larger focus is on the negative ones as you and Hosanna pointed out some of the good stuff.
dinner
Cat's looking quite good, unlike Kaguya's face.
dinner party cont.
Kishibe is looking good in this shot whereas Kaguya gets the short stick once again.
dinner party cont.
Majime's slightly deformed hand aside, the first shot has very nice movement for Kishibe and it's fluid to boot. Second shot could be as great if the legs' proportions weren't out of whack.
It's noticeable even without looking at single frames, which is frowned upon for that kind of animation. I'll still post them to show just how damn thin those lower legs are before someone's going to tell me there's no way to notice it in motion.
Kishibe crying
Kishibe's inability to hold back her tears is great.
Kishibe crying cont.
Nishioka's approach looks janky.
parting
What's wrong with your face?
parting cont.
Good, but could be even better. The motion is a bit janky, the facial outlines a tad iffy and because I have a thing for anime noses, it should've been rounder at the point when he was almost facing straight forward. I'll admit to nitpicking in this, though.
parting cont.
Perfection. Authentic hand positioning and nicely detailed and very fluid animation for the finger movement. This sort of shot cannot really convey any emotions but is wonderful to look at anyways.
end
One last disappointing mid distance shot, mostly devoid of animation. Offers an ugly face instead.
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With extra polish I'd praise the whole episode for its animation, too. I'm certainly interested in BD changes. As it aired, however, nope.
Girlish Number 07
I don't understand Sonoko's predicament exactly, she seems to have some complex feelings about her mother.
I'm not sure what Chitose's role is supposed to be in the arching story - a narcissist but little beyond that. It's nonetheless fun to see her be self-indulgent, her voice over work compliments that aspect. There is however enough focus growing on the rest of the cast but I just can't picture the structure or nature of its drama yet. It is clear that each of them are facing distinct problems different from each other.
I don't understand Sonoko's predicament exactly, she seems to have some complex feelings about her mother.
I'm not sure what Chitose's role is supposed to be in the arching story - a narcissist but little beyond that. It's nonetheless fun to see her be self-indulgent, her voice over work compliments that aspect. There is however enough focus growing on the rest of the cast but I just can't picture the structure or nature of its drama yet. It is clear that each of them are facing distinct problems different from each other.
GoldCrusader
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Finally best girl will have her moment, stolen so many times.Ping pong Megumi is coming! Woot!
hosannainexcelsis
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I think we fundamentally disagree on what the ideal of animation should be. Someone earlier in the thread referenced Shinya Ohira and Windy Tales in reference to this cut, and that is an apt comparison. I love Ohira's work, such as this Windy Tales scene or this scene from a Tales of the Abyss cutscene, and he has an extremely loose, freeform approach to character designs, not bothering to keep body proportions consistent even within his own animation, let alone consistent with other animation within the same work. The individualistic expressiveness seen here is something I highly admire, and it's also seen in this cut from The Great Passage. So I totally embrace Kishibe's legs not being perfectly proportioned there! The ability of individual animators to express themselves differently without needing to perfectly conform themselves to the work of everyone else in commercial anime is one of the reasons I am particularly fascinated by and take pleasure in Japanese animation.
In general, I am quite happy to take rough but expressive motion over a series of perfectly crafted still images. But then, I'm someone who finds a bit of human imperfection in art appealing.
Just one more thing:
This kind of shot can and does convey emotions. Specifically here, it illustrates Nishioka's fluency with smartphone technology and his poise and adaptability as a person, as well as his ability to know exactly what he wants to say and say it. This feeds into the contrast between him and Majime, who is easily flustered, uncomfortable with technology, and struggles to find the appropriate words to say to others.
Cornbread78
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Blue Exorcist ep1-2
Well $hit, that was an interesting lunch watch. This isn't that bad so far and the dub is pretty good as well. I can't quite put my figure on the lead exorcists voice, (the weird guy that looks like a joker) but ii is very familiar. I'm down to watch this.
Well $hit, that was an interesting lunch watch. This isn't that bad so far and the dub is pretty good as well. I can't quite put my figure on the lead exorcists voice, (the weird guy that looks like a joker) but ii is very familiar. I'm down to watch this.
Cornbread78
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For real; that guys laughing response was very fitting right there. I wish I could find a gif of that laughing response...
Admiral Woofington
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What I watched
What I expected
What I got
Granny #1 10/10
What I expected
What I got
Granny #1 10/10
For a while he was getting a lot of leads. For that reason, people were like, "Hello, Kirito/Eren/Rin!"
:lol
MetroidPrimeRib
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Could this be more passive aggressive? I guess the only way for an anime to get recognition is to be super heroes, and not even anything different like Mob Psycho 100.
Admiral Woofington
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like western superhero media doesn't have a bunch of nerds wishing they were special
Why eww? Marvel films have a lot of problems in terms of following a formula and being really safe, but the one thing they do consistently is in the pre-production pipeline for action pre vis. Their storyboard team and action set piece concept artists are great and results in pretty fun stuff as long as the individual directors don't completely suck in their job of executing the scenes.
NaDannMaGoGo
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I'm not saying no 'freeform' animation works for me. It's just that part of my impression in that shot was "huh, that looked a bit strange", meaning that alongside what it tried to express, it unfortunately also elicited that reaction from me. If it didn't, disregarding how it was animated, then I wouldn't complain.
It's not like I was, say, complaining about Mob Psycho 100. Episode 8 was shock-full of that stuff and I laughed the animation.
As for the second point. Yes, obviously in context and indirectly that sort of shot can convey emotions. But by itself, a hand swiftly typing on a smartphone won't convey as much as seeing a characters full body animation or face.
Megumi is irrelevance.
- Surely, Windy Tales is a diametrically different work compared to Great Passage's more realistic take on character designs and well everything. None of the scenes presented here from GP even attempted to do anything so abstract and surreal for want of better word.
- I must say, I dislike the notion that animation is only about the movement. This gets thrown at people who dislike the Pain episode (tha best) but surely, to take this argument to the absurd, there's a reason why we're not watching exclusively (or like at all) shows with stickfigures animated on ones. That's because at the end of the day, each of us, though in varying degrees, has no interest in watching those and thus; does care about the quality or level of detail in our Philippine cartoons.
- With all that said, after cursory look, I don't see much wrong in these excerpts of GP. The level of detail in these longshots will never be all that and the offmodel frames don't look completely awful. You're too pure for your own good NDMGG.
GoldCrusader
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The superhero fad can last as long as it wants, it gave me good stuff.
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