Hellsing321
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Seems unfair to attack it for being a DnD ripoff when the original material was based on a groups DnD sessions.
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Winter-Spring 2014 Anime |OT3| People incapable of guilt usually do have a good time
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Seems unfair to attack it for being a DnD ripoff when the original material was based on a groups DnD sessions.
Have you seen victory gundam? Katejina loos is the Dio Brando of gundam. Her and Dio should get together to kick puppies.
Basileus777
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I was responding to the idea that it was a genre defining title and probably came off too strongly. Lodoss is what it is and doesn't hide its inspiration. It's a generic DnD campaign, and that's fine.
I only trust Ume and SHAFT with wideface. No one else.
Maximilian Kolbe
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One more day to go with the best wallpaper saved for last. Tomorrow is going to be amazing if Crunchyroll announces Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei with no delay.
Yeah man,can't wait the worst LN ever being animated
FelixOrion
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Don't know if I'm LTTP on this but I just checked out the Katyusha song from the Sentai dub of GuP
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uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Sentai what are you doing
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uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Sentai what are you doing
I want to arrange falling blocks now.
With the competition that already exists in that area?
Maximilian Kolbe
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Even Mahou Sensou is better-it sucks but at least it's laughable,but Mahouka just "hurrdurr a enime show up" and then few pages later "hurrdurr MC(or his friends) just beat him" then spend 5000 words why MC(or his friends) is so powerful then repeat
Well they couldnt get the license for the song. what are they supposed to do?
Maximilian Kolbe
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For spring show,i can't wait this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuyGcdRA8KA
And if this full CGI show sells again,i'm gonna laugh all CGI haters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuyGcdRA8KA
And if this full CGI show sells again,i'm gonna laugh all CGI haters
I'm a CGI hater myself, but it's Nihei! Can't say no to that.
Phantasmal Repose
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Blade and Soul 1
It was ok. A little fan service-y but had decent action in it.
It was ok. A little fan service-y but had decent action in it.
Why? Because bad people have bad taste? This isn't a new phenomenon.
She looks cute enough...I liked RWBY mostly.
Sidonia looks really, really good. Anyone who can't look past it being "CG" just has a preference hang up really. Animation is animation. Also, if you're a fan of Urobuchi, you really have no place talking about "bad people having bad taste" because tons of people would use that against you too.
Basileus777
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Why is liking Sidonia already relegated to bad taste before any of us have seen it?
Nah, Guilty Crown is already loathed, we'd enjoy lampooning it.
The art direction looks really bad and the character motions/animations looks even worse. On a visual level there is nothing appetizing, which is sort of a shame as the writing stuff is kinda interesting.
amishpriest99
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It's an impossible standard for anyone else to live up to anyway.
hosannainexcelsis
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The art direction in Sidonia is excellent; really attractive setting design.
Nah, I think it looks fantastic. Great camera work, amazing sets, and the characters look pretty good. It's a bit doll-like, but that's just how CG animation looks with human characters. More of a matter of style than anything else. Everything about it looks fantastic to me. You're free to disagree, but trying to make it sound like other people are wrong is a bad way to start a debate.
It's the same on the Japanese track. Honestly, I'm going to have to imagine that Sentai didn't have much choice in the matter - someone has actually gone in and completely recomposited that scene, not just to remove the lip-flaps, but to alter and retime camera movements so that it works better without people singing. I've got to imagine that was done at source in Japan, given the work involved there, and it wouldn't really surprise me if the music came from there too.
Bare in mind that even the version streamed in Crunchyroll, without that scene at all, looks to have been a decision made in Japan - the ending credits for the episode had been changed to reflect the difference in the two versions.
Turin Turambar
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Mange reader here. I dropped it because the writing. Really stunted narration and development. I hope the anime is better...
In my case, CGI just takes a while to get used to. I still don't really like it, but I don't mind after a while. A friend of mine couldn't get into Kakurenbo because of the CG, he said it was really bad, but I didn't really mind, I liked that anime.
That's sad to hear. I still didn't read it, but I really like Nihei's previous works.
That's sad to hear. I still didn't read it, but I really like Nihei's previous works.
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It's good to watch something you know it will be good for a change, weird feeling lol.
What I liked the most is the sound design. CG is mostly fine, just in instances when these fighter jets or ships do some vertical maneuvers, the way they rotate is off, like the rotation axis isn't where it should be. In other scenes they look fine mostly. Overall it is quite gorgeous.
I'm not expecting much from the story so far, I'm watching for that space voyage feeling, I imagine it's full of usual political stuff otherwise.
It's good to watch something you know it will be good for a change, weird feeling lol.
What I liked the most is the sound design. CG is mostly fine, just in instances when these fighter jets or ships do some vertical maneuvers, the way they rotate is off, like the rotation axis isn't where it should be. In other scenes they look fine mostly. Overall it is quite gorgeous.
I'm not expecting much from the story so far, I'm watching for that space voyage feeling, I imagine it's full of usual political stuff otherwise.
Well when the initial point of conversation is about the CGI, then that's what I'm looking at. The character animations for me look flat out bad especially for the human characters, which is why I hate when any studio that is not Pixar/Dreamworks/Disney even try to attempt it. They almost always look wonky.
Welp. I might watch the first couple of episodes but if that's true, ugh.
Its really disappointing but the same thing happened to Speed Grapher. Except there it wasnt as disappointing because the show isnt very good so no one cares.
I feel there may be great disappointment if a licensor cannot get Roundabout rights to use for Jojo in the US.
'It is.
Jex
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The beauty of watching something when it's been completed!
You know that's what a lot of people say about Japanese animation compared to Disney and "American productions" too right? Wonky animation, low budget, looks bad, etc. Congrats on having the same mindset.
Psycho_Mantis
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That actually looks okay, though it would be sooooooooo much better if it was not CGI. They kind of look like robots.
Why is the Spring thread taking so long?
You know that's what a lot of people say about Japanese animation compared to Disney and "American productions" too right? Wonky animation, low budget, looks bad, etc. Congrats on having the same mindset.
They must be crazy. Disney has fantastic animations.
Wise men.
Fixed that foryouMAL.
I was greatly amused by your review of エリート部隊(スクワッド
How about you give Michiko to Hatchin a spin? It's an anime set in a fictional Brazil, the background and the music are great, the story drags a little in the second part and the heroine is an anti-hero too...I can't really imagine a normal hero for us, my perfect image of a brazilian hero(in anime) before Michiko was the Desert Punk from Desert Punk.
Haha, I'm glad someone else liked it. I was worried it was too obscure for the majority of the people in this thread. I should check this one out, though. The "classical brazilian hero" I mentioned, Martim from Iracema, is perhaps better defined as a "classical hero who happens to be brazilian."
I have seen most of Victory Gundam. I . . . was not a big fan, haha.
Jex
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Kantoku Fuyukitodoki - 01
An anime about being married to Hideki Anno. Why not? lol
The only thing good about this is Eva-style intertitles.
Jex
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Watch Anne of Green Gables. It's only like, 50 episodes!
It's always good to see a fellow Noragami fellow. Glad to see you enjoyed it.
You know that's what a lot of people say about Japanese animation compared to Disney and "American productions" too right? Wonky animation, low budget, looks bad, etc. Congrats on having the same mindset.
Well which Disney era are we talking about?
Since we're on the topic (to an extent lol) of western vs. eastern animation style, I've recently finally finished watching all of Avatar/Legend of Korra (enjoyed it very much) and has the work Studio Pierrot did on Korra been discussed here?
The first season of Korra was animated by a Korean studio called Mir, and they did an amazing job, ti basically looks better than 99% of all anime, plus it's incredibly consistent, I was completely in awe the whole time. The second season (the first half of it, to be exact) was done by Japanese studio Pierrot, and it was really really bad and terribly inconsistent, so they had to turn to Studio Mir again for help, and they did a wonderful job again on the second half of the season. It seriously bummed me out, being a huge fan of anime and everything, that they couldn't bother to showcase what they can do (I presume the budget was the same for them as it was for Mir, that is to say, much larger than for the average anime show), and instead churned out garbage.
Has this been discussed already? Anyone here more informed on it?
The first season of Korra was animated by a Korean studio called Mir, and they did an amazing job, ti basically looks better than 99% of all anime, plus it's incredibly consistent, I was completely in awe the whole time. The second season (the first half of it, to be exact) was done by Japanese studio Pierrot, and it was really really bad and terribly inconsistent, so they had to turn to Studio Mir again for help, and they did a wonderful job again on the second half of the season. It seriously bummed me out, being a huge fan of anime and everything, that they couldn't bother to showcase what they can do (I presume the budget was the same for them as it was for Mir, that is to say, much larger than for the average anime show), and instead churned out garbage.
Has this been discussed already? Anyone here more informed on it?
I doubt many people here have watched Korra. That said, Pierrot did some good work. Mir did a much better job though.
Mir is a great studio as a whole. They couldn't work on all of Season 2 as Mir was working on another show at the time(Boondocks S4?). Mir to my understanding is doing all of S3 and S4.
Jex
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To some up my opinions on Natsume -
I really, really liked the first season when I watched it. I thought it was thoroughly charming, sharply directed and pleasing to the eye. I failed to enjoy the subsequent seasons of the series at the same level because they weren't nearly as consistent as the original. It wasn't just that the quality of the production fluctuated significantly, with some episodes looking rather poor and featuring terrible direction, but I actually found the writing to be more problematic.
Despite the appearance of continuity in the series I never really feel like any of the characters grow or develop in any interesting way despite the number of episodes they have and even when they do change it's never really that noticeable. Moreover Natsume himself is a bland, nice-guy protagonist with social issues and that's a character type we've seen in numerous stories and he's just not that interesting to watch for so many episodes. The stories all kind of ended up running together too.
The first two episodes looked okay, and some action scenes later on, but most of the time the characters were off-model and the animation was stiff and lifeless, I don't know, I was really disappointed.
Was a reason given for this? I mean, they switched studios midway through the season, obviously the creators weren't satisfied.
The switch was probably preplanned way before Pierrot did any work.
As to why Pierrot put out subpar work, well there could be a host of issues. Again, I would just say that Mir is a higher caliber studio as a whole.
Oh, okay. Any word on the animation possibly being fixed a bit for the bluray release?
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