It is a bit of a strange design. Many people find it extremely cute though.
Did you like the designs in Madoka? Same designer.
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Fall 2012 Anime |OT| Meet the new world, same as the old world
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It is a bit of a strange design. Many people find it extremely cute though.
Did you like the designs in Madoka? Same designer.
What are some examples of character designs you do like?
KO Traveling Hobo
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All I know is that if it ever happens, it's gonna be the UK's fault.
I heard Maedhros is a big fan of Eiken's designs.
hosannainexcelsis
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The beauty of animation is that people don't have to have realistic body proportions.
It's semi;colon, which has always pandered to nerds--see the PV for robotics;note; "otaku will save the world!" or something ridiculous like that. And everyone already knows about kos;hod and s;g.
As for Akiho, she's a girl in a VN.
Okay, now that every show I wanted to watch this season has aired, I guess I'll do a first impressions breakdown:
From the New World - Interesting show with a very powerful sense of mood. Forbidding and ominous, it really uses both audio and visual to draw the viewer into a strange future setting with a very bleak tone. It is all the more disturbing watching this world from the perspective of children, who might be a little too eager to grow up.
My Little Monster - Great romantic comedy with really dynamic and energetic direction. The characters are interesting, weird, and have great chemistry, and the visuals are colorful and pop right into the screen. A ton of fun.
Gyrozetter - This kiddy cartoon has kids who drive AI cars which also transform into giant robots. There's a heroic organization, a prophecy about the heroes who will save mankind, evil villains plotting in the darkness, and also a bunch of plot points which are clear tie-ins for selling toys and promoting the arcade game. Yet somehow it works. It's fun to watch and makes me feel like a kid again. Yay!
Chuu2koi - Good production values from a good studio wasted on a premise which doesn't interest me one bit. Guy thinks it is time to grow up and throws out his toys as he moves on to a new school year, he meets a girl who is totally childish and loves to play pretend. Lots of "jokes" occur, none of which I find funny. Dropped.
K - Eye-blinding color design and visual direction. Everything in the world is either lit with purple, blue, or green. The story seems totally nonsensical too, as one would expect from a show written by a team of (bad) light novel authors. I find it pretty much unwatchable. Dropped.
Zetsuen no Blasty - This is it! The grand return of Ando at BONES! Amazing direction, great cinematography and art design, outstanding animation and action choreography, solid orchestrated music score! This has to be one of the best shows this season right? Unfortunately its also a rather faithful adaptation of a terrible shounen manga about two pretentious turds who stand around and quote from Shakespeare while posing and thinking how COOL they are. How unfortunate.
Btooom! - Decent premise which is a mix of Battle Royale and Running Man. Bunch of folks get kidnapped and thrown on an island, each armed with different types of explosive bombs, and told to kill to survive. The entire game mechanic is based on an actual in-show videogame, and it could be an elaborate beta test. Too bad the direction is so boring and plain.
Jojo's Bizarre Adventures - This is so FABULOUS. David Production overcomes their lack of brand name and budget to deliver a fantastic adaptation which is true to the manga and also fast moving enough not to feel boring. Great use of comic captions for sound effects during major sequences. This is great stuff.
Code:Breaker - I expected the worst here, but somehow the first episode was actually entertaining. It's not particularly exciting or outstanding, but there are a bunch of dudes with special powers who might or might not fight each other later, and the main character burns dudes alive. Good production values, so I'm hoping for cool fights.
Magi - I love the source material, so it's making it hard for me to fully enjoy this when it looks like the opening arcs are going to be really butchered to make room for more episodes dedicated to the major arc they really want to cover later. Great production values, solid animation, but I can't shake off how half the mouths in the show look like ricebowls. FML.
Girls und Panzer - Totally silly premise, yet extremely charming and cute. All girls school, the main character is a clutz, but there's a twist! Girls piloting tanks is a real club activity in this world... for girls only! They should have called this "My WW2 tank can't possibly be this cute!" and called it a day. Will keep watching!
Medaka Box Abnormal - I'm only here for the fights, and I don't care about the plot or characters. So far it looks like it's going to deliver. Not much more to say.
Psycho-Pass - This show rocks. Don't waste your time reading my impressions, just go watch it!
Robotics;Notes - Boring direction, boring backgrounds, boring scene composition most of the time. The guy is boring. The girl seems dumb. There's nothing here for me except robots. Might or might not continue watching depending on what I hear about robots in this show in the future.
From the New World - Interesting show with a very powerful sense of mood. Forbidding and ominous, it really uses both audio and visual to draw the viewer into a strange future setting with a very bleak tone. It is all the more disturbing watching this world from the perspective of children, who might be a little too eager to grow up.
My Little Monster - Great romantic comedy with really dynamic and energetic direction. The characters are interesting, weird, and have great chemistry, and the visuals are colorful and pop right into the screen. A ton of fun.
Gyrozetter - This kiddy cartoon has kids who drive AI cars which also transform into giant robots. There's a heroic organization, a prophecy about the heroes who will save mankind, evil villains plotting in the darkness, and also a bunch of plot points which are clear tie-ins for selling toys and promoting the arcade game. Yet somehow it works. It's fun to watch and makes me feel like a kid again. Yay!
Chuu2koi - Good production values from a good studio wasted on a premise which doesn't interest me one bit. Guy thinks it is time to grow up and throws out his toys as he moves on to a new school year, he meets a girl who is totally childish and loves to play pretend. Lots of "jokes" occur, none of which I find funny. Dropped.
K - Eye-blinding color design and visual direction. Everything in the world is either lit with purple, blue, or green. The story seems totally nonsensical too, as one would expect from a show written by a team of (bad) light novel authors. I find it pretty much unwatchable. Dropped.
Zetsuen no Blasty - This is it! The grand return of Ando at BONES! Amazing direction, great cinematography and art design, outstanding animation and action choreography, solid orchestrated music score! This has to be one of the best shows this season right? Unfortunately its also a rather faithful adaptation of a terrible shounen manga about two pretentious turds who stand around and quote from Shakespeare while posing and thinking how COOL they are. How unfortunate.
Btooom! - Decent premise which is a mix of Battle Royale and Running Man. Bunch of folks get kidnapped and thrown on an island, each armed with different types of explosive bombs, and told to kill to survive. The entire game mechanic is based on an actual in-show videogame, and it could be an elaborate beta test. Too bad the direction is so boring and plain.
Jojo's Bizarre Adventures - This is so FABULOUS. David Production overcomes their lack of brand name and budget to deliver a fantastic adaptation which is true to the manga and also fast moving enough not to feel boring. Great use of comic captions for sound effects during major sequences. This is great stuff.
Code:Breaker - I expected the worst here, but somehow the first episode was actually entertaining. It's not particularly exciting or outstanding, but there are a bunch of dudes with special powers who might or might not fight each other later, and the main character burns dudes alive. Good production values, so I'm hoping for cool fights.
Magi - I love the source material, so it's making it hard for me to fully enjoy this when it looks like the opening arcs are going to be really butchered to make room for more episodes dedicated to the major arc they really want to cover later. Great production values, solid animation, but I can't shake off how half the mouths in the show look like ricebowls. FML.
Girls und Panzer - Totally silly premise, yet extremely charming and cute. All girls school, the main character is a clutz, but there's a twist! Girls piloting tanks is a real club activity in this world... for girls only! They should have called this "My WW2 tank can't possibly be this cute!" and called it a day. Will keep watching!
Medaka Box Abnormal - I'm only here for the fights, and I don't care about the plot or characters. So far it looks like it's going to deliver. Not much more to say.
Psycho-Pass - This show rocks. Don't waste your time reading my impressions, just go watch it!
Robotics;Notes - Boring direction, boring backgrounds, boring scene composition most of the time. The guy is boring. The girl seems dumb. There's nothing here for me except robots. Might or might not continue watching depending on what I hear about robots in this show in the future.
So is it actually a police department then?
Joe Molotov
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I'd say I acquired that taste pretty quickly with Madoka
Hidamari Sketch is like Madoka with all the bad feels replaced with good ones. Just non-stop FEELS GOOD MAN.
Except for the cat episode.
If the people in this thread were being monitored, we'd all have been sent to prison long ago. Your continued freedom is the best possible sign that your privacy is still intact!
Anything not too deformed. Let's see... for recent animes, there's SAO, Psycho-Pass, Medaka Box, Oda Nobuna, Tsuritama, Sakamichi no Apollon, Tonari no Kaibatsukun... etc.
I'm afraid to google this...
I agree with ducky, at least based on the shows I watched so far. Pretty similar thoughts.
So true. Utena characters dont even have internal organs!
So true. Utena characters dont even have internal organs!
Crash Station
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Are you watching more stuff than usual, or am I just not remembering your usual seasonal load?
Seems comparable for them to a Pest Control Service then... quite the respect for their citizens they have in that place!
Yes. I might not survive. A few of those are on my list JUST because of you. So you share the blame! >_<
R_thanatos
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Joke : he is training for later
The genki girl is far from being 1 dimensionnal i can assure you there is more to it that "just" a genki girl..
Who said a super genki girl ?
I feel she was in danger of being terminated before that. As soon as they were pointing a gun at her, they forced her into the "need to be terminated" stage.
Eiken character design is a spectacular kind of awful.
It will blow your mind how horrible it is.
Its probably best you don't even research it because it will make you cry that such a thing exists.
They're always wide but the wideness is variable
Pretty much like a typical slice of life school comedy, where characters just go into SD form for no apparent reason.
PdotMichael
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Good thing I don't live in Houston... OH SHIT I DO
Nope. As long as the gun doesn't transform into a mouth (lol) it's still in Paralyzer mode.
Really? I can't say I have enjoyed one fight in the manga. Maybe they will be better in the anime?
The flask arc has like... one good fight, so that's not too bad. They're teasing Kumagawa as well. Maybe it'll speed through the whole thing in six episodes!
Crash Station
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Only if their goal was to generate discussion on foreign message boards. I'm not sure how easy it is to monetize that.
amishpriest99
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What I perhaps find the most interesting about the first episode upon reflection is how the audience is deliberately shown just how logical, unbiased and "unfeeling" the Sybil system and in turn most of the agents are. For everyone aside from Akane, emotion doesn't seem enter into the equation. They are relying on the Psycho-Pass data pretty much without question and performing their duties as such. From a purely logical standpoint, this does make sense. But then this is why (as was pointed out by kayos90) Akane is so important...it'll be interesting to see how her relationship develops with the rest of CID develops and how she responds to future situations.
I'm not certian, but I think you are being snarky.
and I love it. Are you Alex Navarro?
Are you referring to
Zenkichi VS. Munakata
Yep.
Seems about right to me, then!
I would agree about that fight being the best of the arc.
No, they're always pretty wide! At least by my standards.
On another note, was... was I just compared to a gaming journlolist. Please excuse me for a brief moment.
Ultimadrago
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Yea that's really the best fight in the arc by far.
I'm looking forward to this for no other reason than the fact that
Hiroshi Kamiya was the voice for Zenkichi in the first Medaka Box VOMIC on Shueisha's site, but is Kei Munakata's voice actor for the anime
Don't think about it but just feel the wideness.
there are not enough hnnngs in this world....
It is recommended.
Space Bros - 26 & 27
A nice set of episodes, a bit better than the previous few which were kind of too slow even for this shows standards. Not to say I didn't enjoy those episodes, I just think these were paced correctly and more interesting.
The new opening is great, I liked all three (Feel So Moon is the best one though), but I found the visuals in this one to be my favorite yet, so simple, but fitting.
A nice set of episodes, a bit better than the previous few which were kind of too slow even for this shows standards. Not to say I didn't enjoy those episodes, I just think these were paced correctly and more interesting.
The new opening is great, I liked all three (Feel So Moon is the best one though), but I found the visuals in this one to be my favorite yet, so simple, but fitting.
Eh, the beginning of the episode made it sound like they were
going after someone just because his Psycho-Pass exceeded a certain level
the new ending theme is alright but the one by Angela Aki was THE BEST.
I don't know what to think about this new opening.
It's not as crazy as the two others... The song is great though.
Did not know that! Who do you think makes the best sounding 'KA-!'s (カッ!)?
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