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[m_shortpants]

I watched Garden of Words as per GAF's recommendation in this thread. The animation was beautiful and the art was incredible. Some great...atmosphere, if you will. The story didn't blow me away or anything though, but it was very grounded which was fine too.

Is there anything by the same director or studio that people would recommend? That was seriously some of the most eye-pleasing animation I've ever seen.

 

[Zen]

I Was really interested in this but couldn't make it more than ten minutes due to the horrible frame rate of the cg characters. Does that get better later on?

Yes, it gets better as the show goes on, the first episode is especially bad for the low frame rate and combined with low facial animations but they only improve. They get better at working around the low framerate and using high frame rate effectively. There are scenes in the anime that are 60fps, the show ends up looking pretty glorious at times. The deeper into the show you get the less and less that looks like an all CG production while still retaining the benefits of being one.

I actually marathoned it this weekend. I think the character animation looked pretty rough and I had a hard time telling a lot of the characters apart (they could have explained the pink haired girls earlier too) but I thought a lot of the action scenes looked really great (especially that last battle).

I'd recommend it though. I don't watch a lot of anime anymore so it takes a very interesting show to get me to marathon it. I thought the premise was pretty damn cliche, but there were a lot of world building ideas in there that I thought were interesting. Hopefully the second season will expand on those a lot more sense the majority of them were just kind of tossed out there without extrapolation

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(the clones, the ONE third gender person, the talking bear)

and others were kind of blazed over too fast for me to really follow well or appreciate

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(The whole 100 year flashback was kind of blazed through and probably could have used a whole episode or two to itself)

. That said, I was almost always frantically heading to the next episode at the end of each one. I'll definitely be watching season 2.

Yep, pretty much spot on.

 

[Zakalwe]

I was really put off by the first episode, but impressions here seem to dictate I'll give it at least another episode.

Still, Tsutomu Nihei's big draw is his kinetic, sketchy artstyle and dynamic draftsmanship. I can't help but feel that there's a special level of hell reserved for someone who gets the license to adapt his work and then tosses hand-drawn art completely out the window in favor of a bunch of vacant CG dolls. Missing the point something serious.

I hoenstly think it's one of the most visually stunning animes I've ever seen. I love the style they've gone with. They don't have to follow the manga entirely; we have the manga already, I actually like that the anime goes with something slightly different.

 

[Passive Assassin]

bump. on episode 11 now. this is amazing.

 

[Soriku]

I tried to watch it cause it was on Netflix and there's so little these days left for me to watch to justify my subscription, but it was pretty bad.

The most gorgeous anime I've ever seen was "Garden of Words." I don't know what the production values are, but man I can't stop watching it for the art

I need a JRPG with this art style.

 

[Donos]

powerede through 10 EPs today (netflix). Pretty good.

Evangelion X Attack on Titan X Battlestar Galactica

And although there all pretty young, the "teen drama" is toned down.

Damn, that dogfight in EP 12 !

 

[Muskieratboi]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_sBOsh-vyI

Looks pretty Lo-Fi to me.. I din't think Muse really paid too much attention to their production valu-

Oh wait, you mean the anime thing. nvm