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Re: Aria Your face when there will never be a bluray release of gorgeous backgrounds the anime. |
SOUSEI GATTAI! GO! AQUARION!
They released a new PV for Aquarion Evol, which is premiering next season. Since it takes place 12,000 years after the first series, I doubt I'd call it a real sequel, but that's fine with me. It looks really good, and you can tell Satellite is trying to make it more like their work on Macross Frontier (which is sexy). Plus, giving us a chance to listen to the OP by Akino with bless4 was more than enough for me. A definite watch! |
CG mecha :( I don't think I'll ever be able to accept them.
Even so, despite my lack of experience with Aquarion, I'll probably give it a watch. |
Doesn't look horrible but next season is all about miniskirt wearing space pirates, just saiyan.
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Ugh, yeah, I do see the Frontier influences there, bah.
I never quite understood the reasoning behind making a sequel to something set so freaking far in the future. It would take a really well established universe like Star Wars or something to be able to properly support that, otherwise it just feels like a cash in on the name. Suddenly I'm reminded of that new Tomino Gundam project that isn't called Gundam but is set 900 years into the U.C. future. Quote:
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I actually feel more comfortable with CG mecha than I do animated mecha now. The movements in Satellite's CG (aside from the first Aquarion, which we'll call their testing project) has been overall much more fluid than regular animation. AGE is an example of a new mecha series where the mecha movement bugs me. I know Gundams aren't the most flexible machines, but aside from the episode where the demon kid took it for a spin, the movements feel pretty stiff.
Besides, at least they bother blending it more with the animation these days. I remember back in the day when they just threw CG on over top and called it a day. XD |
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There's hope, though. I'd have to really reexamine it to know why I feel this way, but when I first saw Berserker in Fate/Zero I felt like it was the first time that something had actually been enhanced over 2D animation in an anime. The stuff in Tiger & Bunny wasn't so bad either. It's looking like it just takes the right animation techniques to mask 3D, some studios are just more advanced or more motivated than others in this regard. In unrelated news, even the Japanese apparently think that Smile Precure will involve monster battling of some sort: Spoiler:
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I thought that was a Kamen Rider joke at first. そうね~!
... Yeah, I'll never understand Japanese humor. Though a monster battling Pretty Cure would be...interesting. They could definitely find ways to make bank by selling toys of all the little critters. Quote:
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It's not that I dislike CGI being used in anime, it's just that most of the time it doesn't blend well.
I thought it was sucky enough when Beyblade, I believe it was G Revolution started using CGI beyblades, and they ended up not looking as good as the 2D ones. I noticed that way back in 2003 / 4 and was.. not impressed. I also remember those FREAKIN' HUGE 3D doors in Mewtwo's lab in the first Pokemon movie that completely stuck out. These days most of the time it's better, but eh.. Also, I can never manage to get myself to watch any PreCure series, even if they do seem worth it for a laugh. |
Pretty Cure does seem like one of those franchises that you wouldn't really get people watching too often on the internet. A lot of the anime fandom online is scared to death of watching children's anime for some odd reason. (yet stuff like Bleach and Gundam are totally fine) I've actually always thought that the only reasons HeartCatch had a larger online audience was because fan favorite seiyuu Nana Mizuki was the lead. I also want to say Umakoshi's designs as well, but there was next to no one talking about Casshern Sins when it aired and that poor show totally deserved more admiration.
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Mamoru Hosoda uses CGi really well in his movies. The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, Summer Wars and the Sixth One Piece movie all had REALLY good looking CGi. Everyone should just do what he does. o3o
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Yeeeah, I don't quite think that sort of thing would be feasible on a TV show budget.
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Heartcatch was my first Precure series and it was definitely because of the Umakoshi character designs. I really loved Casshern Sins and still think it's a god-tier anime that stands up to the greatest ever so I was willing to watch anything Umakoshi touched after that, even if it wasn't necessarily the art that made Casshern great. I'm actually entirely ambivalent about seiyuu and didn't even know until Heartcatch was over that a lot of its popularity in otaku circles came from the Nana Mizuki fandom. There are a series of essays on the greatness of Heartcatch Precure at the blog Ogiue Maniax that I recommend reading for anyone on the fence about whether or not to jump into Precure. In fact, it's worth looking into even if you have interest in Heartcatch but not the Precure franchise as a whole. Quote:
http://i44.*.com/jj6adl.jpg Outdid the original so amazingly. The crazy geometric shapeshifting gave Ramiel the feeling of a cold, threatening, inorganic creature beyond human comprehension. It was already creepy enough as a faceless monolith in the original, but this took it to the next level. |
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My theories on why PreCure isn't popular: 1. PreCure isn't a mature show for mature people such as myself. 2. It's too long to catch up with. 3. t's moe (more like kawaii) enough to be hated by the anti-moes, but not moe (actual moe) enough to be loved by the pro-moes. If that makes any sense. Right now, I'm guilty of reason 2 with asdf backlog. |
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Sins was a really great show and sort of what got me back into anime after a dry spell of not being interested by much else. I tend to have a much shorter tolerance period with most anime than I do with other shows, if it doesn't hook me in the first two episodes, I'm done with it. Sins just grabbed me right from the get go, heck, from those first few seconds before the opening, and never let go. The character designs were amazingly unique and stylish in that respect. I guess it was one of the reasons I thought it would attract hard core otaku, but it seems like Nana Mizuki's name was more of a draw. (which is a shame because I think Suit is a genuinely better show sans the animation, but I still like the designs of that show quite a lot) Quote:
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This reminds me that I still need to see DX 3, I hear it's actually good as far as the DX movies go. I also...really want to see how the interactions between HeartCatch's animation style mix with the others. |
I really need to finish Sins. I have it all on Blu-ray but I always get distracted by currently airing stuff. ex: I had the Aquarion boxset for two years before I finished it.
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I'll respond to you guys tomorrow, for now my brain is mush XD I just marathoned all of Freezing tonight because the final uncensored blu-ray rips finally got subbed, and I want those four hours of my life back so very badly now.
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If it looks good, do it if it doesn't don't. My opinion on CGI in anime, creative and well thought out right?
Freezing lol. I almost ragequit that manga a little while ago, instead I just totally stopped caring about the main girl and guy. |
This thread is awesome. Just saying.
The only shows I am intentionally perpetuating are Boku Ha Tomodachi Ga Sukunai and Maken-ki. You'll guess that the latter's concept is too generic and formualic to be considered a remotely worth-watching show, but I like it for SOME reason. The former is just awesome. I love everything in it -- from the comedy to the diversity of characters to the indirect romance. It's just plain awesomeness, does someone hopefully agree? Or does it clearly show any shallowness in my preferred genres? >.< And continuing the topic of Freezing: the exact minute I saw the male protagonist and read a few lines on his role in the show, I FREEZE-D my downloads and move on. |
Of those two I was planning to watch Haganai but then I saw the art work they used for the show, I'm not usually picky about art but the manga just looks better. I might watch it when the manga is a little less fresh in my memory though.
Ben-To. Pleeeeeeeeeease let there be a second season. Haven't laughed so hard at a non Gintama comedy in ages. |
...I just watched Neon Genesis Evangelion...
What just happened? |
Did you watch the End of Eva film?
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No, I'm waiting for it to buffer.
I never expected the end to happen. Congratulations! what the **** |
The only purpose the original show has now is to make the Rebuild movies make more sense.
Also, when I said 'Do what he does' I didn't mean literally. I just mean only use CGi to help with a large shot. Make sure it's helping the animation on screen. If you make it the focus, people start seeing the flaws. Unless it's an all CGi show. |
Should watch those....but I probably won't soon.
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