Regulus Tera
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Have you seen one of those slow-motion videos of water balloons hitting someone's face? It's exactly that.
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That tends to be how agreeing with people works.
dakkumauji
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my god... what happened to anime gaf in the last hr or 2.
Who knows. I was watching animated boy bands sing all day.
I wouldn't say "at times," but to be fair, Higurashi is one DEEN adaptation which does actually look better than the original!
my god... what happened to anime gaf in the last hr or 2
Don't blame me, I was writing a Skullgirls review
Chet Rippo
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my god... what happened to anime gaf in the last hr or 2
Is this not normal?
Femmeworth
Banned
One could say that his reaction is normal too.
Squash and stretch is a common principle of animation. You're making yourself look silly.
exactly that....
It looks out of place because of how terrible Naruto usually looks!
Well, it is done on the cheap.
Ojamajo Doremi 01:
A Satou Junichi-directed mahou shoujo with Umakoshi character designs? Why the hell did no one tell me that Sailor Moon and Heartcatch Precure had a love child before now?
This show is going to cleanse my soul, I just know it. Doremi is basically an Usagi/Tsubomi fusion, the art is charming, the music is great, there's no combat (yet), the episode had a moral (which may carry over to the entire series), and on the whole everything in the show is unbelievably cute and harmless. And it had an amazing off-key OP. Truly the total package.
Even the plastic pimping is pretty classy, though Ojamajo Doremi still appears to have been pretty ambitious in its toy plans. Forget little wands and compacts, this show sold enormous cash registers!
And an interesting note for Smile Precure fans:
Name sound familiar?
A Satou Junichi-directed mahou shoujo with Umakoshi character designs? Why the hell did no one tell me that Sailor Moon and Heartcatch Precure had a love child before now?
This show is going to cleanse my soul, I just know it. Doremi is basically an Usagi/Tsubomi fusion, the art is charming, the music is great, there's no combat (yet), the episode had a moral (which may carry over to the entire series), and on the whole everything in the show is unbelievably cute and harmless. And it had an amazing off-key OP. Truly the total package.
Even the plastic pimping is pretty classy, though Ojamajo Doremi still appears to have been pretty ambitious in its toy plans. Forget little wands and compacts, this show sold enormous cash registers!
And an interesting note for Smile Precure fans:
Name sound familiar?
Chet Rippo
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This is true, but it doesn't really explain that at all.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Was this the episode with the AWESOME idoru episode or was that Dokkan?
Are you sure that this shot came from Fairy Tail?
Like, really really sure?
No idorus here.
I just feel like in this case the way his body turns into jello works against the momentum of his punch rather than for it. And, subjectively, it does look a little silly.
I watched Sleeping with Hinako to see what the show is like. Its literally over an hour of a character sleeping with like maybe 5 minutes of her waking up and doing other things. Its boring as shit and kind of creepy.
Everything on animeGAF is normal to us and not normal to...everyone else.
Being Lancer is suffering.
So it's more interesting than it is funny?
It's ok. They'll remember... <--- *Spoilers for Fate/Zero 16
That's really the feeling you get watching Doremi. It's just sad how it's gone completely overlooked.
KO Traveling Hobo
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Since jbug617's post got me on Amazon, I went ahead and ordered Darker Than Black Season 2. I have faith that Chinese Electric Batman won't let me dow-
oh god what have I done
Oh my bad I forgot this was an anime thread where I would be the one to look silly disagreeing with rugulus tera on it being exactly like a slow motion clib of someone face being hit with a balloon.
Femmeworth
Banned
It's not subjective. There are objective reasons why you think it looks silly. >_<
Well my main complaint with it is that he loses all semblance of structure, and instead of looking like he's going REALLY FAST, he looks like a completely different character.
If you took away the defining traits, headband, and those weird piercings, you would never be able to recognize him as even a character from Naruto, much less Pain.
What I consider typical usages of squash and stretch:
It's a balancing act, I suppose, with morphing the characters and conveying the essence of speed, and Pain punching the ground just looks ugly (not necessarily bad, but ugly).
I think its kind of like that reverse expression that anime characters use to make the event "pop". Like before a character has their freakout face, there is a split second frame where the character is off model and has a scrunched up face, before the open eyed one that we "see". Sakuga in some cases may be formed from those methods and taken to the next step.
I'm pretty sure that the "animation studio" for the Hinako stuff is just some guy in a basement who had the genius idea to loop a few minutes of ecchi animation long enough to be able to extend to OVA length and sell. I'm not kidding, either. Enough otaku didn't care they they were basically paying for a few .gifs strung together that we got three or four Hinako OVAs before the trend died.
It's not derpy. It looks great.
I find the assumption that you think I'm defending it simply because of the staff to be offensive and unbecoming of you.
That's emphasizing the motion though, he's going so fast that he's losing his facial structure.
Chet Rippo
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Because it's Naruto?
Time to pimp it more. Between the Sailor Moon bros and the Heartcatch bros, you have a fairly sizable audience here!
well I think it looks derpy, and im pretty sure im allowed to without someone telling me that im wrong
It doesn't feel like that, at least, not to me.
The fact that there is any division at all over this just shows the animators could've done a better job at retaining his aesthetic while still doing what they needed to do to GO FAST.
Also I think there is a conflict over definitions. A piece of animation can be well done (lots of key frames, good timing, sense of motion) while still being ugly (aesthetically unappealing). When people say "derp" they're saying Pain is making a derp face, and I don't think even you can say otherwise, because he does look pretty silly. Sure, it works in context of the motion, but that doesn't make it look any less silly frame by frame or even as a whole.
You're talking about the quality of the animation, everyone else is talking about the appeal of the art.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Yeah, it was Naishou Doremi. You should watch it sometime!
Femmeworth
Banned
Unless you specify what you mean by "derpy," someone can.
This style of animation is extremely polarizing. It's not just this.
that doesnt even make sense
if it doesnt have an objective meaning in the first place it cant be wrong
hell the original "herp derp" pug dog very much resembles pains face in that gif
I'm kind of at the beginning of the journey here! I may just watch the OVAs/movies when I complete the first series because Hito seems to think that the second series is a huge decrease in quality anyway.
Well, that's the crux of my complaint, though. I don't feel like it's emphasizing the motion, I feel like he's turning into jello and kind of falling forward slowly. I don't feel any POWER behind the punch, and I don't think what they were going for was losing control of himself and falling down.
A Black Falcon
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Yeah, poor Kuro...
How much more could they have had? I mean, it seemed like it had a pretty large amount of mahjong to me, much like many episodes of the original series... there's always some other stuff going on too. And yeah, finally the rest of the match isn't going to be skipped over.
You're right here, the focus was certainly on Toki. That's how it often goes in Saki and Achiga, one character gets the focus for a while, while they're doing well... which in Toki's case, was the whole match. Kuro got some attention too, but those other two teams clearly aren't as important. Anyway, Senriyama's supposed to be one of the elite teams -- they did get a bye through the previous parts of the tournament, which says how good they are. Of course they can't match Saki's sister's team, but they're good.
Hopefully we will, I agree! Watching too much losing gets frustrating after a while... though I'm sure they'll recover from this, certainly. And it had to happen, Achiga hadn't been challenged yet at all...
Yeah, I said this myself too earlier, but to add a bit, it's Kannagi-style, not K-On, and it's from the same studio who did Kannagi. K-On's the one that copied Kannagi's art style (from some of the same people I think?).
There are a lot fewer people in this post-apocalyptic future, so maybe platoons are smaller? I don't know. But yeah, in SnW the groups are definitely five.
Chet Rippo
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that doesnt even make sense
if it doesnt have an objective meaning in the first place it cant be wrong
hell the original "herp derp" pug dog very much resembles pains face in that gif
Last I checked, Pugs have bones.
You've never seen Puggerpillar, have you?
I'm gonna go ahead and chalk it up to budget issues. I'm sure with a bit more work it could have looked great but as is I just don't feel it. Sorry.
And I'm just trying to push your buttons dude.
Femmeworth
Banned
Unless the world literally appeared out of nothing, that can't be the case.that doesnt even make sense
if it doesnt have an objective meaning in the first place it cant be wrong
hell the original "herp derp" pug dog very much resembles pains face in that gif
Budget issues on the episode with their A-team staff on an important series event? umm okay
This makes the least sense of all things.
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
The thing with that Naruto sequence is that it's not fast enough for the squashing and stretching to actually work, so it robs the sequence of the momentum that would make the shape distortion believable.
I actually agree with you. I guess the joke was too thick.
its closest synonym would be "silly"
and even that can be interchangeable
not sure what you're getting at
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