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[duckroll]

Oh boy, it looks like this is going to suck HARD.

Xenosaga The Animation is slated to air on TV Asahi starting in Jan 2005. Here's the staff:

原作 : ナムコ / シリーズ構成 : 竹田裕一郎
キャラデザ : 結城信輝 / 総作監 : 佐藤雅将
監修 : 長岡健史 / チーフディレクター : 古賀豪
アニメ制作 : 東映アニメーション

Original Work: Namco
Series Coordinator: Takeda Yuuichirou (Banner of the Stars, Banner of the Stars II)
Character design: Nobuteru Yuki (Escaflowne, X, Heat Guy J)
Animation Director: Satou Masataka (Gilgamesh)
Supervising Director: Nagaoka Kenji (no idea)
Chief Director: Koga Tsuyoshi (Assistant director on One Piece and Yugioh movies)
Animation: Toei Animation (Slam Dunk, One Piece, YuGiOh)

 

[Zilch]

Character design: Nobuteru Yuki (Escaflowne, X, Heat Guy J)

The only name I recognize. I really like his art.

 

[Bebpo]

Animation: Toei Animation (Slam Dunk, One Piece, YuGiOh)

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

And regarding the whole thing:

 

[duckroll]

The only name I recognize. I really like his art.

That's what I thought too! Then I saw this!

 

[Luscious LeftFoot]

Besides the convoluted (and somewhat boring) story... how do you know it's going to suck?

 

[belgurdo]

Besides the convoluted (and somewhat boring) story... how do you know it's going to suck?

Yeah, honestly. Nothing in that credit list makes me worry

 

[Cloudy]

I can't wait

 

[Greenpanda]

The obvious response:

"So, what's the difference?"

 

[duckroll]

http://www.monolithsoft.co.jp/xeno_ani.html

omg... this just makes me wanna....

 

[Dead]

Character design: Nobuteru Yuki (Escaflowne, X, Heat Guy J

Shit, guess ill be watching afterall

 

[duckroll]

Ok from http://www.toei-anim.co.jp/tv/xenosaga/index02.html I've checked up on the official complete staff list. It's not as bad as original envisioned because it's now more complete and there were some errors in the previous one.

　 　 　 監修：山内重保
　 　 　 チーフディレクター：古賀豪
　 　 　 製作担当：杉本隆一
　 　 　 シリーズ構成・脚本・スーパーバイザー：竹田裕一郎
　 　 　 キャラクターデザイン：結城信輝
　 　 　 総作画監督：佐藤雅将
　 　 　 メカニックデザイン：大河広行
　 　 　 美術監督：須和田真
　 　 　 色彩設計：辻田邦夫
　 　 　 音楽：山下康介
　 　 　 製作：ゼノサーガ製作委員会
　 　 　 協力：東映エージェンシー

Supervising Director: Shigeyasu Yamauchi (Bunch of DBZ movies, Saint Seiyu)
Chief Director: Koga Tsuyoshi (Assistant director on One Piece and Yugioh movies)
Production-in-charge: Ryuichi Sugimoto (One Piece movie, various Toei stuff)
Series Coordinator, screenplay, supervisor: Takeda Yuuichirou (Banner of the Stars, Banner of the Stars II)
Character design: Nobuteru Yuki (Escaflowne, X, Heat Guy J)
Animation Director: Satou Masahiro (Nadja, Saikano, Gilgamesh)
Mechanical Design: Hiroyuki Ogawa (Elfen Lied)
Art Director: [can someone transliterate this name?] (One Piece, Digimon Tamers, Interlude OVA)
Color Design: Kunion Kunio (Utena TV, Utena movie, Kaleido Star)
Composer: Kousuke Yamashita (Nobunga's Ambition game series)
Production: Xenosaga Production Commitee
Collaboration: Toei Agency


Ok so it doesn't SOUND as bad. But it still looks awful. Here's hoping for the best, maybe being Toei and cheapass as they are for each ep, this can run for really long and cover ALL the episodes!

 

[Dead]

Supervising director did Saint Seiya?? ahahah AWESOME

Series Coordinator, screenplay, supervisor: Takeda Yuuichirou (Banner of the Stars, Banner of the Stars II)

see that gives off a glimpse of hope

 

[duckroll]

*image is dead*

The 15 second TV Spot is up.... looks...... hopeful!

*url is dead*


edit: Oh and here's a slightly touched up image of the XS Anime poster pic that was in Newtype (original photo taken with a cellphone, thanks Bebpo!)

*image removed, better quality image below*

 

[Crazymoogle]

Yeah, I'm tempting fate here, but...

...considering how badly EP1 and 2 sucked, how much worse could the anime be? At the worst it would just be a shorter path through the same dregs, right?

(*thinks Bebpo actually understated how bad EP2 was, but...)

 

[Dead]

Character design is nice

 

[duckroll]

Yeah, I'm tempting fate here, but...

...considering how badly EP1 and 2 sucked, how much worse could the anime be? At the worst it would just be a shorter path through the same dregs, right?

(*thinks Bebpo actually understated how bad EP2 was, but...)

Yeah he "liked" it more than I did, but then he usually does.

I agree, if the anime can be a serious and faithful adaptation of a complete story. Why not? Ep2 sucked balls anyway. But seriously, even THINKING the anime might be good is tempting faith at this point! ^^;;

 

[nubbe]

Series with 26 episodes or a movie... or?

 

[Atomsmasher]

The art so far looks pretty average, I won't judge it until I actually see the animation though. Is it confirmed that it is going to follow the events in the game, or is it going to be a side story/pseudo sequel type thing?

 

[Crazymoogle]

Yeah he "liked" it more than I did, but then he usually does.

I agree, if the anime can be a serious and faithful adaptation of a complete story. Why not? Ep2 sucked balls anyway. But seriously, even THINKING the anime might be good is tempting faith at this point! ^^;;

Serious faithful adaptation? Think, man! That's the road to ruin. Yet another anime with an ending so answerless we might as well have never watched it.

For once, I'm looking forward to the brazen script changes that an anime studio can provide! A point to the story! Questions answered!

...

...oh god it really is going to be terrible, isn't it?

I'll just go huddle in the corner with some Keroro Gunsou episodes now. -_-;

 

[duckroll]

Much better now.

Series with 26 episodes or a movie... or?

It's a TV series starting 5th Jan, late wed nights 2:42am. No idea if it's 13, 24 or 26 or more.

 

[DrForester]

well, it's looking much better than those first two pictures they had.

 

[RiZ III]

Those credentials aren't bad..

 

[Chrono]

A torrent for the 15 second trailer is up...

http://a.scarywater.net/shi-fa/[Shi..._-_15_Second_Trailer_1_[31C73364].avi.torrent


edit:

This was already posted.

The 15 second TV Spot is up....

Shoot me.


edit 2: this one is subbed though so I guess that's new. ^^;;

 

[Cloudy]

Looked pretty decent to me. Can't wait

 

[Flynn]

I heard that you have to play 1 and 1/2 hours of video game in the middle of the anime.

 

[Roshamboi]

Hot KOS-MOS action mmmm gotta love that hottie. She is just smokin bros hot hot hot.... yeah this will be good to watch on saturday mornings.

Roshi

 

[Greenpanda]

I heard that you have to play 1 and 1/2 hours of video game in the middle of the anime.

:lol :lol

 

[Wario64]

This might not be too bad considering Xenosaga was like an anime to begin with, long cutscenes and all. Might be suitable as an anime than a video game

 

[Kiriku]

"Series Coordinator: Takeda Yuuichirou (Banner of the Stars, Banner of the Stars II)"

This sounds promising at least. Even though I liked Crest of the Stars more, Banner of the Stars I and II were definitely good as well. And they are similar to Xenosaga in setting, obviously. I don't know how much of an impact the series coordinator has on the overall result though...

 

[duckroll]

I don't know how much of an impact the series coordinator has on the overall result though...

His role on Xenosaga The Animation is as an overall supervisor, scriptwriter and story editor which is largely the same role he played on BotS 1 and 2. Basically he would be incharge of adapting the game (or in the case of BotS the novel) into an episodic anime series and if his previous work says anything he would either be writing all the scripts himself or at least half or more of them.