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Compendium
Jun 18, 2013

M-E-J-E-D
This was made by Madhouse, Gurren Lagan was Gainax.

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Futaba Anzu
May 6, 2011

GROSS BOY

the last episode had some imaishi esque parts to be honest

Pootybutt
Apr 5, 2011

Not enough stretch and squash or poo poo/dick/tit jokes.

The Colonel
Jun 8, 2013


I commute by bike!
The director of the anime, Shingo Natsume, worked as a key animator on a ton of episodes of Gurren Lagann. Just cause Gurren Lagann was produced at Gainax doesn't mean the shows can't share staff, people move between studios a lot over the years.

White Light
Dec 19, 2012

Tengames posted:

Its Dragonball Z taken to its logical extreme. It has suspense not in the form of whether or not the main character will beat the villian, because yeah of course goku/saitama will. The suspense is in the form of all those other guys who you know won't and how well they'll stand up to the villian(and in some ways, how well the villians can stand up to saitama)

Honestly id say Genos is more the main character then saitama is at points.

I agree with that last point, except instead of Genos it's really about any S-class tier fighter; take out Saitama from the setting, focus on one of those power players, and you've got yourself a textbook example of a Shounen lead protagonist.

Each of them 'level up' or reveal a new ability/technique from each confrontation, they learn from their mistakes, grow in their character development, etc.

It's just that Saitama is the star of the show, so they all become a strong supporting cast role. I feel that, because ONE doesn't take the world of One Punch nearly as seriously with his world building ecology as he does with Mob Psycho, he can play with the powers/characters without any pre-established narrative elements getting in the way that a regular Shounen would without breaking it's setting immersion.

It's a lot of freedom for a writer to flex his muscles and see what kind of crazy stuff he can frisbee into the plot, I love it.

White Light fucked around with this message at 20:06 on Dec 25, 2015

Skippy McPants
Mar 19, 2009

You also never have to worry about power creep, because no matter how powerful anyone gets they're always < Saitama.

Torquemadras
Jun 3, 2013

Watched the first half of the episode again. It really is amazing - perfect capstone for a nigh-perfect adaptation. This is one giant action scene where you really could go through it frame by frame and keep finding new things. It's certainly a different beast from the Murata comic - after all, you can't really do double-page spreads -, but what they did with motion was on par. People have written a lot already on how it's basically a "heroic" struggle for Boros throughout, with music + edits that reflect it. I love it. Special credit goes to the moon scene - I really liked how they muted the whole thing and removed Saitama's narration from the comic; it makes the whole thing even more insane, especially after he's SUDDENLY on the moon. Really liked the muffled sound of Saitama's jump back.

AND I also discovered the one thing that irks me to no end. Uuuuuh... two things, actually. The first: when the big ship starts listing from Saitama's impact. Looks pretty bad, now that I've seen it again, but whatevs. And here's the main thing! Saitama jumps back, Boros has his :stare: moment, goes "This man makes me want to go all out!", and runs towards him. And... it's just this normal pitter-patter of feet, like it's just a normal barfoot guy running. It's a towering energy Super Sayan giant from space, people, give it more impact! Aaaaaaaargh

That was my opinion of the final action scene of One Punch Man

PaganGoatPants
Jan 18, 2012

TODAY WAS THE SPECIAL SALE DAY!
Grimey Drawer
I think the foot sound of him running was a callback to the dream where Saitama was also running barefooted. It's probably the exact same sound effect too.

Torquemadras
Jun 3, 2013

PaganGoatPants posted:

I think the foot sound of him running was a callback to the dream where Saitama was also running barefooted. It's probably the exact same sound effect too.

That makes sense.

Still bothers me, though. :mad:

Popo
Apr 24, 2008

Homestuck is a true work of art surpassing all of Shakespeare's works.

Compendium posted:

This was made by Madhouse, Gurren Lagan was Gainax.

Lots of guest animators were brought in though with quite big reputations in various specialisations. It was a lot of the same key animators from Space Dandy. The Director just called a bunch of friends and heavy hitters and got them in on this project. ANN had an article some time back about it all.

Runa
Feb 13, 2011

Popo posted:

Lots of guest animators were brought in though with quite big reputations in various specialisations. It was a lot of the same key animators from Space Dandy. The Director just called a bunch of friends and heavy hitters and got them in on this project. ANN had an article some time back about it all.

Yeah, it's easy to forget that animators are artists too and it's not just about the studio making the show, it's also about the people the studio brings in to work on the project.

Waffleman_
Jan 20, 2011


I don't wanna I don't wanna I don't wanna I don't wanna!!!

The Colonel posted:

The director of the anime, Shingo Natsume, worked as a key animator on a ton of episodes of Gurren Lagann. Just cause Gurren Lagann was produced at Gainax doesn't mean the shows can't share staff, people move between studios a lot over the years.

Not to mention that pretty much anybody working on Gurren Lagann has left Gainax by now.

PaganGoatPants
Jan 18, 2012

TODAY WAS THE SPECIAL SALE DAY!
Grimey Drawer

The Colonel
Jun 8, 2013


I commute by bike!

Waffleman_ posted:

Not to mention that pretty much anybody working on Gurren Lagann has left Gainax by now.

Either working at Trigger, or going between projects at different studios.

Xinder
Apr 27, 2013

i want to be a prince
The new OVA was really good. I found it on accident today and didn't even know it was coming out. 12 minutes is the perfect length because it avoided all the flaws the first one had.

Chocobo
Oct 15, 2012


Here comes a new challenger!
Oven Wrangler

Xinder posted:

The new OVA was really good. I found it on accident today and didn't even know it was coming out. 12 minutes is the perfect length because it avoided all the flaws the first one had.

Thank you for the reminder.

AnonSpore
Jan 19, 2012

"I didn't see the part where he develops as a character so I guess he never developed as a character"

I swear this gif pops up for every single anime that has a lot of men in the cast

CannonFodder
Jan 26, 2001

Passion’s Wrench

Parrotine posted:


It boggles my mind when people don't get the joke; these are the same people who'd probably watch King of the Hill and think it's like watching paint dry :v:
If there was an episode of King of the Hill based around drying paint I would watch it.

The same if OPM had a paint centric episode.

ZepiaEltnamOberon
Oct 25, 2010

I Failed At Anime 2022

AnonSpore posted:

I swear this gif pops up for every single anime that has a lot of men in the cast

I'm glad.

Jintor
May 19, 2014

Pootybutt posted:

Not enough stretch and squash or poo poo/dick/tit jokes.

not entirely true, the giant sequence in ep 1 and the sea king vs genos sequence uses absurd amounts of mutation in service of looking fakkan sick

Scarecow
May 20, 2008

3200mhz RAM is literally the Devil. Literally.
Lipstick Apathy
As someone who plays alot of tusk all i can say is :perfect:
https://youtu.be/WSRYSZhDtn0

Homura and Sickle
Apr 21, 2013
OVA was good especially watching it coincidentally shortly after this vid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxkjjW9x1fg

AlternateNu
May 5, 2005

ドーナツダメ!
Someone needs to make AV .gifs of Genos playing the taiko drum and Sonic's air guitar (w/ Mumen Rider) from the OVA ED.

AlternateNu fucked around with this message at 16:19 on Dec 29, 2015

Teriyaki Koinku
Nov 25, 2008

Bread! Bread! Bread!

Bread! BREAD! BREAD!
Does anyone have the looping .gif of this scene? Been trying to track it down, but can't find it.

Zzulu
May 15, 2009

(▰˘v˘▰)

The Colonel
Jun 8, 2013


I commute by bike!
you're welcome...

Teriyaki Koinku
Nov 25, 2008

Bread! Bread! Bread!

Bread! BREAD! BREAD!

Thanks! :thumbsup:

Josuke Higashikata
Mar 7, 2013


I hope 2016 is the year people drop gif entirely and embrace WebM.

Kild
Apr 24, 2010

Josuke Higashikata posted:

I hope 2016 is the year people drop gif entirely and embrace WebM.

maybe if we could embed webms.

FilthyImp
Sep 30, 2002

Anime Deviant

Kild posted:

maybe if we could embed webms.
Remember when posters were asked not to post walls of GIFs because oh god I'm on dialup and I can't handle the immense bandwidth needs of 15 GIFs on a page?

Simpler times, them was.

Josuke Higashikata
Mar 7, 2013


The best thing is WebM's usually work out smaller than gifs despite literally all advantages.

But yes, forum softwares need to get with the times and allow embedding for WebM, just force mute in there.

Ak Gara
Jul 29, 2005

That's just the way he rolls.
60 fps, 2048x2048 size, full colour pallet, audio support, plus a nice scroll bar if you wanna skip a bit or go back a bit, and upto 10 times smaller file size. Gif really needs to die.

Mordaedil
Oct 25, 2007

Oh wow, cool. Good job.
So?
Grimey Drawer
MP4's really have taken the world by storm, huh? Not bad, 10 years after it was invented.

Josuke Higashikata
Mar 7, 2013


MP4 is older and more busted.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebM

Anyway, enough banging on about it from me.

PaganGoatPants
Jan 18, 2012

TODAY WAS THE SPECIAL SALE DAY!
Grimey Drawer

ZepiaEltnamOberon
Oct 25, 2010

I Failed At Anime 2022
The Life of Saitama and Boros by JMB










PaganGoatPants
Jan 18, 2012

TODAY WAS THE SPECIAL SALE DAY!
Grimey Drawer

Marcus Garvey
Oct 24, 2015
It's pretty unbelievable that they killed the protagonist off in the first season.

LostRook
Jun 7, 2013
It'll be like TV's Fargo for the second season, where we follow mostly new characters with a couple old favorites mixed in.

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chiasaur11
Oct 22, 2012



Marcus Garvey posted:

It's pretty unbelievable that they killed the protagonist off in the first season.

What are you talking about?

Licenseless Rider was clearly fine.

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