[TV] The What Anime Are You Watching Thread!
GasBandit
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"Do we need to mocap for this shot?" "Nah, just pose the models, hook them to one reference, and shake them up and down in front of the camera."The new season of Berserk manages to look even worse than the first. Like, unacceptably terrible.
How could anyone think this kind of shit is acceptable?
He moves like he's 2D and has a popsicle stick taped to his back.And the magnum opus of shit animation:
--Patrick
It looks like some of the first season was improved, but it's still full of God awful poorly animated CG puppets.
Yeah, I'm happy to see more Patlabor, especially considering this last series of Gundam was ho-hum.
...did I get teleported back to 2002? And to Canada?Berserk hits a new low.
GasBandit
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First 13 episodes of Little Witch Academia are up on Netflix, dubbed. Dunno when the second cour hits, but it should be soon. The game they are making will be heading over to the US in 2018 as well. Yoshinari (the creator) has made it clear he's hoping to make a sequel series. I think the ball is in Netflix's court for that one.
Studio Trigger also announced a new series: PROMARE, which is going to be similair in vein to KILL LA KILL and GURREN LAGANN.
Studio Trigger also announced a new series: PROMARE, which is going to be similair in vein to KILL LA KILL and GURREN LAGANN.
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I finally chewed through Yuyu Hakusho on Hulu. I had watched bits and pieces of this back in the day on Cartoon Network, but never the whole thing. It was really good until the dark tournament saga. Then it just got really repetitive. Then they drop Kuwabara--the most interesting character--in the last season, which made it even less interesting.
Surprise... Stan Lee is involved in Anime again? (I think his last one was Heroman).
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Boruto
I really liked Naruto, I won't lie. I enjoyed its mythology, its characters, and the world it built. I don't really care if it was popular or not--that has no bearing on my judgement of it. Happy to say Boruto is still pretty good. It's interesting that they don't let Naruto himself speak much. He's firmly in the background.
I will say this, though: Naruto ended with Naruto strong enough to take down a creator goddess, yet the setup for Boruto is that Naruto has been defeated and the Hidden Leaf destroyed. What kind of enemy is this going to be that can take out a guy who can take out a god? Or will they just play the "he's out of practice" card?
I really liked Naruto, I won't lie. I enjoyed its mythology, its characters, and the world it built. I don't really care if it was popular or not--that has no bearing on my judgement of it. Happy to say Boruto is still pretty good. It's interesting that they don't let Naruto himself speak much. He's firmly in the background.
I will say this, though: Naruto ended with Naruto strong enough to take down a creator goddess, yet the setup for Boruto is that Naruto has been defeated and the Hidden Leaf destroyed. What kind of enemy is this going to be that can take out a guy who can take out a god? Or will they just play the "he's out of practice" card?
GasBandit
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Wow.. the... uh.. animation looks... REALLY lazy. The most limited color pallette since early 2000s flash animations, and cel shading effects reminiscent of same, all in a package that looks like it's an entry into the "least number of frames drawn" contest.
I actually felt pain in my occipital lobe watching that.
It thought it worked in some parts and definitely not in others in that trailer.
All in all I'd give it 5/10 Berserk 2016s in the laziness department.
I'd have to know which episode you're on, but probably yes. By episode 4 I'd seen references to Pawn Stars, Evangelion, Steven Universe, Twilight, and UNDERGRADS from MTV.
GasBandit
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It was the mushroom dream episode. At the drive-in movie theater, there's a part or it shows mushrooms growing over the whole school, and there's one scene in particular where mushrooms grow into the entire screen space and squeeze the bookwormish girl to death exactly like Kaori in Akira, only the bloody part in Akira is obscured by the Celluloid burning away on screen.
I dread the Godzilla anime in the hands of these animators.Berserk hits a new low.
GasBandit
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Here we go, GifCam to the rescue.
This part -
is clearly a direct reference to this part of Akira:
For reference:
Akko: Japanese, main character, idiot.
Sucy: Filipino (She's got grey skin like a traditional Filipino witch and her original broom was a Walis Tambo), loves poison, potions, and mushrooms. Is best girl.
Lotte: Finnish, blonde girl. Probably the most popular.
Akko: Japanese, main character, idiot.
Sucy: Filipino (She's got grey skin like a traditional Filipino witch and her original broom was a Walis Tambo), loves poison, potions, and mushrooms. Is best girl.
Lotte: Finnish, blonde girl. Probably the most popular.
Let me know when they show a scene with a witch bringing her broom to a snowplow stop doing the Akira slide.
--Patrick
GasBandit
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Yeah, I'm never gonna remember that. I just remember their archetypes.
thats too bad, i really found it great. the ending blew me away.
Halfway through Castlevania.
Good thing this got renewed, cause we aren't getting too far on four episodes at this rate. But it's well-written and interesting, so I'm good.
Good thing this got renewed, cause we aren't getting too far on four episodes at this rate. But it's well-written and interesting, so I'm good.
YEAH-this was not so much a mini-series but more a 4-part pilot episode.