zeroshiki said:Let's start a hmm... DNAngel bandwagon!
DN Angel wasn't too bad. It wasn't very good, either, but for a Xebec show it had pretty decent animation at least.
zeroshiki said:Let's start a hmm... DNAngel bandwagon!
Indeed.Lafiel said:Serial experiments lain has a great art style, but the animation isn't exactly it's strongest point.
That's the one where the guy has the hots for the wrong twin but ends hooking up with the right one, correct?zeroshiki said:Let's start a hmm... DNAngel bandwagon!
duckroll said:X TV continued
Watched up to episode 12 now, the mid-series climax. I really, really like how the series was planned and executed. The varying character perspectives and expanding the various character-centric scenes and flashbacks to give the large cast much more room to breath really sells the entire scope of the story. Instead of the story revolving around Kamui, the series makes it clear that the story revolves around the fate of the world, and everyone has a stake in it. Kamui just happens to be the core of the prophecy, but the story is about so much more than just him. Great stuff.
The stand out episode in the current batch I've seen has to be episode 9. Focusing on Subaru, the episode is written and directed in a really different way from the rest of the episodes. With Subaru on an onmyouji job, the direction takes on a very interesting style both in visuals and pacing. Kinda feels like a low budget but highly atmospheric horror/mystery show instead of the usual stuff. The episode was directed and storyboarded by Hiroshi Hamasaki, who eventually goes on to direct Texhnolyze, and is co-directing this season's Steins;Gate adaptation.
Also of note, Masahiro Ando storyboarded the episode with Nekoi's flashback. Clearly this was an early indication that his true calling was to tell stories of a teenage girl who has no problems with sharing herself with a much older man who she has just met! J/k...?
Shouta said:X TV was really good and I really liked the ending for it compared to the other iterations of the series.
"Wow, they'd better speed things up if they want to be done before 1999!"duckroll said:and the manga well... yeah... you know... >_<
/me suicides.
duckroll said:Well, that doesn't say much, since... the movie had a really shitty plot (was there even one?) and the manga well... yeah... you know... >_<
/me suicides.
trejo said:That's the one where the guy has the hots for the wrong twin but ends hooking up with the right one, correct?
It was kinda forgettable.
Well actually, before the events of the series the Mu didn't engage in sexual intercourse. Neither do any regular humans, so it actually makes a weird kind of sense!mAcOdIn said:Huh, what about looking nice for their women? Oh wait, there's a reason they don't care about that too.
Hence my second sentence!Jexhius said:Well actually, before the events of the series the Mu didn't engage in sexual intercourse. Neither do any regular humans, so it actually makes a weird kind of sense!
zeroshiki said:I don't even remember anything except the guy had wings. Oh wait was that Escaflowne?
trejo said:That's the one where the guy has the hots for the wrong twin but ends hooking up with the right one, correct?
trejo said:That's the one where the guy has the hots for the wrong twin but ends hooking up with the right one, correct?
It was kinda forgettable.
I see no problem with this. The Golden Age arc was really the best part of Berserk. Thinking about it, the Manga is still living off on how strong it was.Jexhius said:Berserk Anime > Berserk Manga
And it was better in the manga.shintoki said:I see no problem with this. The Golden Age arc was really the best part of Berserk.
firehawk12 said:I don't think Matrix is considered good anymore. And it never had bouncing tits. :lol
The anime even has better character designs!Erigu said:And it was better in the manga.
The anime had Hirasawa going for it. That was pretty much it (and I find it hard to criticize the manga for its lack of BGM).
Nah... But it sure had a lot of them: it's like they could never decide which one to use for Griffith, for example!Jexhius said:The anime even has better character designs!
I don't have much of a problem regarding the overall flow. The missing characters are an issue if you want to come back with a second series, but not a big deal otherwise.All the stuff they excised just made it flow better for a 26 episode anime
Halycon said:I liked DNAngel (manga) mostly because I enjoyed Sugisaki's art style. Not sure how the anime turned out.
Lain said:Finished watching the first season of Spice and Wolf and really liked it. Someone said Holo troll Lawrence all the time, and it's so true, Holo trolls Lawrence like a boss.
It also had a cool ending, and not every day you get the male protagonist riding his woman not once, but twice in an episode!
So I guess in that regard it would be remarkably similar to the manga! Except that Griffith looks like an effeminate men rather than a woman.Erigu said:[Berserk]
(I)t sure had a lot of them: it's like they could never decide which one to use for Griffith, for example!
Stories can and do finish without every single part of their universe wrapped into a neat bow, as it were. This can work for the series as well, although admittedly episode one leaves quite a lot open. Although I do tend to not show episode one to people because it's kind of weak compared to the rest of the show and it ruins later surprises.Erigu said:(then again, as has been said earlier, the story told by the TV show simply isn't complete... it's not just a matter of "hey, unhappy endings happen, too!": there clearly is some unfinished business)
You could make that argument for nearly all anime based off on manga and to an extent that's a purpose they serve, but to claim that's all they do is part of a dangerously reductive group of arguments about the whole "manga to anime" business.Erigu said:The adaptation did a great job advertising the original series, but was pretty damn pointless otherwise...
Except then one would have to concede that the Nausicaa manga exists just to advertise the movie.Jexhius said:You could make that argument for nearly all anime based off on manga and to an extent that's a purpose they serve, but to claim that's all they do is part of a dangerously reductive group of arguments about the whole "manga to anime" business.
Dresden said:Hmph, and September.
cosmicblizzard said:Mai-Hime 26
"Girls and socks have gotten much tougher." Wat?
I honestly didn't think the ending was too bad. I mean, I like happy endings too even if things end up going to hell prior to it. Maybe I wouldn't like it as much if I wasn't aware of it though. Madoka turning out like this might make me mad. Not really sure.
duckroll said:THE HYPE IS SO STRONG I CAN FEEL IT EXPLODING FROM MY PANTS!
Edit: That's the BD LE at 8190yen, but there's a standard version for a LOW price of 5000yen! OMG!
http://forest.kinokuniya.co.jp/ItemIntro/668334
The LE comes with a Koike illustrated slipcase, and contains an extra disc with a making of feature, an original music video, and previously unreleased demo footage.
Oh, c'mon, man... I almost mentioned that just in case, but thought "nah, Jexhius wouldn't go there!"Jexhius said:So I guess in that regard it would be remarkably similar to the manga!
Well, yeah. And Guts being shown to be alive at the very end. Leaving to do... what? How? And what happened to Casca?Stories can and do finish without every single part of their universe wrapped into a neat bow, as it were. This can work for the series as well, although admittedly episode one leaves quite a lot open.
Some actually realize they're animated and try to take advantage of the new medium...You could make that argument for nearly all anime based off on manga
It had great music, but (like I said above) not nearly enough of it, in my opinion...The Berserk anime has great voice work and music, which may or may not be important to someone but it's certainly important for me.
It was kinda obscure, back then, actually, so it's not that surprising.It's animation quality is sketchy, surprisingly so for a series based off such a popular series.
I... I don't know how to reply to that. If anything, I think it's a damn shame how the anime turned out to be less dynamic than the manga, so... er...However, for those brief moments you get an animated scene it can actually be superior to it's manga version. For example, the Guts vs. Samson fight in the woods is better in the manga because I don't think Miura does a great job of laying out all the fights in the manga. I personally think it's one of his weakness, even though sometimes he does it well.
They actually added (at least?) one filler battle, if I remember well. I guess it helped to establish Adon as a villain early on... but then again, who gives a damn about Adon?The biggest improvement definitely comes in pacing. Removing a lot of the fantasy stuff was clearly a time saving measure but excising a number of those scenes (and even whole arcs) frees up the story to move from major plot point to major plot point at a remarkably brisk pace.
"Meh." The Guts/Casca love scene lost quite a bit in the transition, and I'm not exactly convinced about the supposed improvements to the pace you alluded to above...refining what makes a story good and giving the audience that is far from 'pointless'.
Are you gonna watch the spin-off?cosmicblizzard said:Mai-Hime 26
"Girls and socks have gotten much tougher." Wat?
I honestly didn't think the ending was too bad. I mean, I like happy endings too even if things end up going to hell prior to it. Maybe I wouldn't like it as much if I wasn't aware of it though. Madoka turning out like this might make me mad. Not really sure.
Master Milk said:Are you gonna watch the spin-off?
Nope.firehawk12 said:I feel like you Redline people are setting yourselves up for disappointment.
Now we just need game journalist box quotes then.Dresden said:Nope.
cosmicblizzard said:Eh, I don't think so. Got other stuff to watch.
You'll love the game man. Just beat it!Jexhius said:REDLINE REDLINE REDLINE!!!
Okay, so, yeah, I'm in Europe and I have a Xbox360 so Portal 2 doesn't come out until tomorrow for me. Hence I can spend far too much of time writing about Berserk.
Also, where the hell is my Kaiji, dammit!
"It's like someone stitched together the corpses of Kubrick and Kurosawa to have them make this genre-redefining masterpiece. It's almost too good."firehawk12 said:Now we just need game journalist box quotes then.
"Quite possibly the most important anime of our generation."
"Animation that makes everything else look like high school art projects."
"So good that my eyes bled as I watched it".
Ryan O'Donnell.gifDresden said:"It's like someone stitched together the corpses of Kubrick and Kurosawa to have them make this genre-redefining masterpiece. It's almost too good."
Are they indexing the Japanese stuff as well?Articalys said:Well, it looks like we're finally getting that English-language site for Nico Nico Douga.