It's not their ages that bother me, it's that Umakoshi seems to have taken the "cloth" part a little too literally. Why does everyone look like they popped their shirt collars bro-style when it's supposed to be armor?
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Winter 2012 Anime Thread 2.22: You Can (Not) Outpost Cajunator
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It's not their ages that bother me, it's that Umakoshi seems to have taken the "cloth" part a little too literally. Why does everyone look like they popped their shirt collars bro-style when it's supposed to be armor?
Because it looks fabulous. Its just how he prefers to design it, and it works pretty much.
I like it when designers do something a little bit off-kilter. Keeps it fun.
Regulus Tera
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They are different but I don't think they'd be out of place in the original series. They are just more... angular? Like, the clothes and the hairs and all that shit is definitely Saint Seiya when I look at it.
Mmm you have a point there.
Hellsing321
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Spring 2012 Cajunator thread: And Anime sometimes too.
Crash Station
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Which would be fine if this was an original series, but it's based off a rather large franchise with certain expectations. Going so far to change things up isn't always a good thing.
Jex
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Perhaps not. After all, Cajunator will be the only poster posting at such a speed, I know that no other posters in the thread will match that and there's still several thousand posts to go.
Casshern also had a popped collar, you know. Umakoshi loves popped collars!
Crash Station
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Honestly, it's not so much the designs that bothers me as it is the art style. I always thought the rugged and manly art style being at odds with the bishounen and feminine character designs was really something special. Now it just looks like a Magical Girl series with dudes.
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
It's just armour/cloth. I think we are going to judge this cartoon on different merits than how fabulous it looks.
Plus, Heartcatch's designs were very different from every other Precure before it and it worked for the best.
darkside31337
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Why don't you just insult every poster's mother while you're at it.
RurouniZel
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No worries, just clarifying. Easy typo since they start out the same.
Winter 2012 Anime Thread 4: Your mother was a love interest I discarded in the first game
It's not about the quantity, but about the quality.N64 kid here.
What happens when there's superior quality and quantity?
Vita kid. It hurts.
I think that Jex might have just thrown down the gauntlet. Is anyone just going to stand there and take that we're not going to make OT3?
Crash Station
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That's fanart, dude.
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
Aldebaraan was pretty manly.
http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110226104537/prettycure/images/0/01/Dune_boy.gif
Look at them popped collars! Man, Umakoshi really loves that shit.
Popped collars are so FREE
Crash Station
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The guy from Heartcatch who fantasized about Cure Fire should have had his own spinoff as a Handsome Cure or whatever the male equivalent would be.
Straddles the fine line between badass and guidos.
Jex
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Ghostlighting is continuing his series of posts on Cowboy Bebop - currently he's at episode 18 (see here).
Now, while I may not agree with every aspect of his writing style or approach I feel that his carefully considered, episode-by-episode run down of the show is the write approach when trying to tackle a series. Most importantly, he's examining a work long after it came out - he's not trying to dash out a quick impression of the show that came to him 2 minutes after he watched it. He's gone back, re-watched the material and approached more seriously.
I find this kind of writing far more useful and interesting than the 'here's my imageblog' approach of many anime fans.
Now, while I may not agree with every aspect of his writing style or approach I feel that his carefully considered, episode-by-episode run down of the show is the write approach when trying to tackle a series. Most importantly, he's examining a work long after it came out - he's not trying to dash out a quick impression of the show that came to him 2 minutes after he watched it. He's gone back, re-watched the material and approached more seriously.
I find this kind of writing far more useful and interesting than the 'here's my imageblog' approach of many anime fans.
hosannainexcelsis
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Oh man, you're making me so hyped for this. Just thinking of the stylish fights we'll get... my excitement is leaking out all over the place.
Aren't there already showsl ike that?
or at least I thought I remembered one.
Just remember to clean up after you're done so nobody steps in it.
or at least I thought I remembered one.
Just remember to clean up after you're done so nobody steps in it.
Jex
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Isn't that what the whole 'pretty boys in armour' genre is about anyway?
Too true. Popped collars are a double edged sword.
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
When I was born my parents almost gave me that as a second name. Man, it would've been so awesome.
Hellsing321
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Things like the spectacular high-definition images from the Hyōka gallery remind me of their long way to go on that matter...
The latest thread on this forum from Goya didn't end up well, right?
As you, many saw that connection and wanted to see Mr. Umakoshi involved with the franchise, and each step on his career has been one more closer to that goal. Was it maybe a collective wish so powerful it had to be granted?
Old age is a frightening thing indeed.
Jex
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No, it's kind of the opposite of throwing down the gauntlet. Throwing down the gauntlet would be challenging another poster to a posting competition!
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
He's actually older in the link I posted.
Jex
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It's certainly best not to go there again. It kind of went...nuclear after a time.
That they are.
I don't know what's going on in this picture but it must be amazing.
Normal humans would call that sleep.
Come now, we all know the ambition that lurks behind that steely exterior!
There was enough subtext as it was!
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