Animated SHAFT-tilt.
I dunno, wasn't that pretty otaku-pandering?
Not making a real comparison with a modified 'Grp. A8' WRC, but just wanted to chime this in:
WRC 1998 Season Finale - Laugh of Fate
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=liBLqmeHht8#t=125s
Agreed, lovely recommendation! The cool liberalness of the setting and the personalities of the roommates attracts you at first sight, but later the sarcastic and layered (sometimes a bit mysterious) nature of the characters makes it so interesting after the initial impression.
After seeing Kimagure Orange Road, at the time I searched for this work because I thought the character designer for it was Akemi Takada (several years ago, in the mid-90s, I didn't knew much about Japanese animation creators so I assumed things based on similar look) and didn't have access to the Internet to check up on project's staff and such. She was who at first made me interested on this work. Later I knew that she didn't participate on this.
Obviously I don't regret such mistake, and I wonder if sometimes this isn't the best way of discovering new things!
I've come to the realization that I would probably watch literally anything that Kyoani makes.
Woah! Have I traveled back in time!
Better get outta here!
Oh damn.
From the New World:
And that's about all the stuff I'm interested in from Animate's free mag. You guys can get the rest yourself.
Read Or Die OVA 1
Yet another old OVA series that I've finally gotten around to watching. As you can see, the art is really good, and it has some spectacular animation.
Unfortunately, it's not without it's drawbacks. The entire premise of the show is inherently ridiculous, but it tries to play it a little too straight, which ruins any fun moments the ridiculousness might have otherwise made. Yomiko, the main character, is incredibly annoying and if it wasn't for the side characters and action there is no way I would be able to finish this.
Like many anime from that time period, it uses an overly muted color palette that really only detracts from the otherwise excellent art. Everything is drawn from greys and browns, and even in the rare moments when a colour other than dull and dark shows up, it's still heavily muted so that it might as well just be another shade of brown.
As it is, ROD seems to fall into that category of anime where the only reason to watch it is for the good animation. OVA's can barely get a pass in that regard, since they're usually only a handful of episodes long, but if this was a TV series I would have to pass on it.
She's crazy. No super powers or anything.
Because a supernatural battle anime with high schoolers is something different?
Do studios ever release budget numbers? I've heard of a few cases but by-and-large it seems like the gaming industry where nobody says jackshit.
Why the fuck is there so much K-On all of a sudden.
Animated SHAFT-tilt.
It's not a SHAFT tilt unless they're looking backwards.
I always thought the Shaft-tilt was looking over your shoulder and essentially dislocating your neck. This is more like a dog head-tilt.
Kyoanus!People like bad shows. Nothing new.
holy shit Tari Tari is almost done? I thought this was a full 26 episode show.
wtf why
holy shit Tari Tari is almost done? I thought this was a full 26 episode show.
wtf why
Wait what? I thought this was 20+ episodes? Is it really only that short?
I wonder if it was a money issue or a production decision.holy shit Tari Tari is almost done? I thought this was a full 26 episode show.
wtf why
Why the fuck is there so much K-On all of a sudden.
It should be criminal that a show as fun as Tari Tari is only 13 episodes while we are to suffer through 26 episodes of Sengoku Collection. Some things are a vast injustice.
It should be criminal that a show as fun as Tari Tari is only 13 episodes while we are to suffer through 26 episodes of Sengoku Collection. Some things are a vast injustice.
It's not a SHAFT tilt unless they're looking backwards.
Hey man, if Sengoku Collection weren't 26 episodes we never would have gotten episode 23, which is the greatest thing aired on TV since the Yankees winning the World Series.
Sengoku doesn't have any :cajun?!It should be criminal that a show as fun as Tari Tari is only 13 episodes while we are to suffer through 26 episodes of Sengoku Collection. Some things are a vast injustice.
It should be criminal that a show as fun as Tari Tari is only 13 episodes while we are to suffer through 26 episodes of Sengoku Collection. Some things are a vast injustice.
That's... baseball, right?
That's... baseball, right?
That's... baseball, right?
Those are scans from Newtype talking about the Dominator gun and the various character profiles. Like I previously mentioned, the gun detects the criminality of a subject, and arms itself accordingly. In this article it is explained that the different offensive modes the system can change to are: Paralyser, Eliminator (lethal ammo), and Disintegrator.
There are also more details about the characters, which seems pretty interesting. Shinya himself, even though he is an enforcement officer, has a high level of criminality potential as measured by the system they use. It seems his past is also tied to an unsolved bizarre murder case.
The other character profiles are mostly general traits and personalities. Akane is a fresh grad who enters the force as an executive officer because of her high aptitude scores. Nojima's character is the other senior executive officer on the team, and he is described as a brilliant officer who keeps his emotions to himself, and is especially hard on Akane.
Ishida's character is a loud mouth who likes making fun of people, and he spends all his spare time playing portable videogames. The old guy is a veteran on the force who's like a father figure, and he's the one who helps induct Akane into their field work. The ponytail girl is a cool sort of character who like reading books, and she's also the specialist who controls the robot drones for the team. The scientist chick is the sexy and glamorous sort of woman, and she's in-charge of the medical well being of the team, as well as analyzing the criminality data of offenders.
World Series is a great name for a final of two american teams.
The Bluejays (They are in Canada) won twice I believe
World Series is a great name for a final with two american teams.
I think it's even funnier that the Blue Jays had the highest payroll when they won the World Series.well, that Canada is not America makes it even funnier.
Disintegrator sounds like overkill. I guess that's the mode when you want to eliminate all the evidence, lol.
It's not like anywhere else really plays Baseball anyways.
International appeal fuck yeah.- What Yamamoto wanted for the show was something like Inception, but done in an anime form which can show off the Japanese animation industry's ability to also create major scifi works like that. Inception is very popular, Ghost in the Shell is very popular, people overseas respect these works, etc. You get the picture.
Psycho-Pass info
Japan does!
Maybe if they were better at it MLB wouldn't be poaching all their top talent nowadays.
I can't remember - there was an RPG parody episode of Jinrui?
My sister doesn't watch anime, but she's a huge fan of Glee. What are the chances of her liking Tari Tari?
I see that a wide variety of Jinrui BD covers are live:
That all sounds far, far too good to be true. Now all I can expect is an ugly CG messWhile I wasn't able to pick up Newtype today, a Chinese site has posted full scans of the Psycho-Pass pages from Newtype. The interview between Koji Yamamoto (FujiTV) and Takeshi Wada (Production IG) is pretty interesting.
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the second and last pictures are novel covers.
Really? I thought it was actually quite accurate...........................
Comments like this piss me off.
Is this a question or a manga title?
International appeal fuck yeah.
Thanks for the detailed info; it's quite fascinating. From the other properties they're namedropping (Patlabor, GitS, Inception), it sounds like they'd really like this to become a big, strong IP. I wish them well.
- The project started coming together about 2 years ago. They decided who would be the producers and the chief director pretty early. It seems the chief director (we know its Motohiro now) was definitely something FujiTV wanted.
- Yamamoto was also the one who had the idea to get Amano involved in the character designs. The reason for this is because he feels that her artwork has a more adult taste in them, and she's also popular with both male and female demographics, so it would be a more gender neutral style which can appeal to older audiences as well.
Sengoku doesn't have any :cajun?!
I see that a wide variety of Jinrui BD covers are live: