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Darth Walrus posted:I know the archer turning his tricked-out bow into an anti-materiel rifle through sheer manly flexing is getting a lot of attention here, but I think we should also talk about the protagonist's shiny new spiked boots, which let him cut a dude in half with a leaping katana slice from the opposite side of a canal. Best part of the spiked boots (which make you fly and roller skate which is like the opposite of what spiked boots do but whatever) is how gruff macho samurai man started screaming like a hyena on helium.
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galagazombie posted:Best part of the spiked boots (which make you fly and roller skate which is like the opposite of what spiked boots do but whatever) is how gruff macho samurai man started screaming like a hyena on helium. he did that the first episode! it made the guy hesitate when he was about to shoot him because he was so fucken scared. this dude has so much yamato spirit
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Jan 15, 2023 09:34
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What bugs me more about the Trigun thing is he just doesn't look like part of the world? He's way too bright and clean compared to the environment in like 90% of that scene.Turin Turambar posted:Fire Hunter was deliciously un-moe. I know I'm beating the dead horse here, but I don't think you even know what moe is.
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Only complaint I'd level at Fire Hunter is the secondary protagonists feel like they were an afterthought in this premiere, and it makes the structure of things more off than they already were with the novelesque narrator giving us worldbuilding and exposition. The look is just amazing, as much as you could compare it to bygone shows/styles in a way that comes off as a bad thing.
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Jan 15, 2023 09:35
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Jan 15, 2023 09:39
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Darth Walrus posted:I know the archer turning his tricked-out bow into an anti-materiel rifle through sheer manly flexing is getting a lot of attention here, but I think we should also talk about the protagonist's shiny new spiked boots, which let him cut a dude in half with a leaping katana slice from the opposite side of a canal. Yeah I love that his secret special move is pop-out golf cleats
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Jan 15, 2023 09:42
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they could have given the jump more weight but it would break up the comedic pacing of the shot. even in the original the joke was that vash's antics are always physically improbable so it doesn't hurt it that much to have one moment where he fully breaks the laws of physics also the simplicity of the models is just a common part of animation. if vash didn't look bright and easy to make out the action would be impossible to follow. imagine the same shots but without the bright red coat to help your eyes follow his movement, it would be significantly harder to make out what's happening
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Jan 15, 2023 09:50
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Also tbf Vash was always garishly colored compared to almost everything else in Trigun
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Jan 15, 2023 09:59
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Indiana_Krom posted:I thought the strongest ice mage show was going to be the most boring generic fantasy/isekai magic school show of the season and then the bulk of episode 2 happened where it didn't take itself seriously at all. Even if it does turn into a boring generic fantasy magic school show after that, episode 2 was way more entertaining than shows with the same cookie cutter setting ever manage normally. Seed Of Evolution season 2 also pivoted into a fantasy/isekai magic school show and that probably has Reincarnation Of The Strongest Exorcist beat. Counting up the number of fantasy/isekai magic school shows currently airing and Endo & Kobayashi, Iruma and Eminence In Shadow brings the total to at least 6. 7 if you count My Hero Academia but I guess that's more of a scifi school show.
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if there isn't knight sword and peasant it isn't fantasy. if there isn't space nanomachine and the big robot it isn't sci-fi superhero is its own genre i got strong opinions about the chance there used to be to walk into a bookstore and have to go to Sci-Fi to get my latest lovely Drizzt book
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Jan 15, 2023 10:07
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Patware posted:if there isn't knight sword and peasant it isn't fantasy. if there isn't space nanomachine and the big robot it isn't sci-fi So, what the hell is Warhammer 40K?
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Jan 15, 2023 10:10
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Sci-fi. See it says psykers, not wizards. Completely different.
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Jan 15, 2023 10:14
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Warhammer 40k has the big robot (Titan) and nanomachines (geneseed). It's solidly SF.
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The Colonel posted:they could have given the jump more weight but it would break up the comedic pacing of the shot. even in the original the joke was that vash's antics are always physically improbable so it doesn't hurt it that much to have one moment where he fully breaks the laws of physics Sindai posted:Also tbf Vash was always garishly colored compared to almost everything else in Trigun The lighting just seems bad in terms of making the coat mesh with backgrounds/surroundings. Specifically in the shots of him running along the roofs, the jump, and running down the stairwell. Not sure if the shade they chose to begin with factors in but all the other parts have shading that mute it while not actually affecting readability because it's still a huge, flowing red coat.
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honestly i'm just glad we're at the point where criticisms of cg anime are about specific shading details now and not just 'it looks like dog trash made by idiots'
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Jan 15, 2023 10:38
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Well the majority still is lol
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chiasaur11 posted:So, what the hell is Warhammer 40K? A huge amount of scifi is space opera which is just fantasy with spaceships and robots. Star Wars was really upfront about it: General Motti posted:Don't try to frighten us with your sorcerer's ways, Lord Vader. Your devotion to that ancient religion has not helped you conjure up the stolen data tapes, or given you clairvoyance enough to find the Rebel's hidden... <ack>
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haypliss posted:What bugs me more about the Trigun thing is he just doesn't look like part of the world? He's way too bright and clean compared to the environment in like 90% of that scene. That was my thought, although I wouldn't say it's due to his brightness per se.
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Patware posted:honestly i'm just glad we're at the point where criticisms of cg anime are about specific shading details now and not just 'it looks like dog trash made by idiots' no it still mostly all looks like trash there's just a handful that are good enough that you can even have a debate about it's artistic merit in the first place. and i guess then there's stuff that makes use of CG or is even entirely CG but it looks good enough to just look like mediocre animation. so it doesn't stand out at all positively or negatively.
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taking general statements as absolutes this morning in the season thread
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Raenir Salazar posted:What is that one like? Seems like a missed oppurtunity for "I was a TOTAL fraud, but somehow in this world all of my mumbo jumbo actually works!" But Eminence in Shadow seems to actually be running away with that ball? Snowglobe of Doom posted:Seed Of Evolution season 2 also pivoted into a fantasy/isekai magic school show and that probably has Reincarnation Of The Strongest Exorcist beat. Nah, seed of evolution doing school shenanigans is still way less boring/generic/checklist than strongest exorcist just by virtue of the MC's insane harem including a 400 pound pink gorilla transformed into anime girl who pretty much can't say a sentence without the MCs name in it, a glutton horse also transformed into a girl, and I forget what else at this point. And on top of that, now he is a professor at the magic school teaching a group of highschool gang members, it doesn't take itself anywhere near as seriously as the exorcist show does.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:A huge amount of scifi is space opera which is just fantasy with spaceships and robots. Star Wars was really upfront about it: I never understood why people call Star Wars a space opera. They’re zero loving singing in it! And no, that crappy CG edition bit in Jabba’s Palace doesn’t count. 
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I was only planning on watching a small handful of shows this season but we got three entire SFF shows that don't have video game mechanics crammed into them for zero narrative purposes. Great Beasts of Ars had a less interesting second episode, and they keep putting in fight scenes when unfortunately the fight scenes are pretty terrible. I might drop it after the third episode, more because I have too much other stuff to watch. Kaina's CG is ugly but its first episode does an incredible job of selling its weird post-apocalyptic (?) setting, which was too interesting not to keep watching. The Nausicaa comparison is pretty immediate/obvious and I'm curious to see where it goes. Hikari no Ou also has a cool first episode with an interesting post-apocalyptic setting, and it's non-CG with an art style that looks like it time-travelled from the early 00s. It has Kenji Kawai doing the music and I hadn't even realised Mamoru Oshii is writing it until I checked to see who else is working on it. https://files.catbox.moe/sf7p7n.webm I've also checked out Trigun (first episode was good), 80000 Gold (not silly enough to be funny), Ningen Fushin (it's alright and the leads are likeable characters, normally I'd watch it as a time-waster but too much other stuff, again), Campfire Cooking (the MC actually acting like a regular person in fantasy combat situations was pretty novel but the "cooking" part isn't, really, and and now he has a superpowered magical wolf so the stuff I found novel is probably gone), Revenger (I didn't like the gadgets), and Saitou-san (pretty disjointed first episode, seemed like a pretty alright feel-good show despite this, probably dropping it for the same reason as everything else). I was going to watch Kyouko Suiri s02 originally, but probably not any more. e; and High Card (actually a pretty great first episode except I totally forgot I'd watched it because too much other stuff). Lemon-Lime fucked around with this message at 15:36 on Jan 15, 2023 |
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Maxwell Adams posted:https://i.imgur.com/5C0pIws.mp4 I absolutely love Orange's camera work.
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This is an amazing bit of work for TV. Vash, The Humanoid Typhon, should move like a Looney Tunes cartoon because we know his goofy poo poo is calculated to an extent. I think this sold me on the series.
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haypliss posted:What bugs me more about the Trigun thing is he just doesn't look like part of the world? He's way too bright and clean compared to the environment in like 90% of that scene. Yeah, he's always lit from an angle that makes his jacket and face look cool. They do have him get brighter and darker based on his environment, though.
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Trigun has got some really good CGI but it still suffers from the same issues that affect every show with CGI backgrounds. It's not an easy task to effectively blend character animation with the environment, and it often ends up with the CGI characters feeling a bit too floaty and not part of the scene geometry. I actually felt that this second episode was a lot stronger than the first in blending the two, and that whole chase scene was part of it.
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Maxwell Adams posted:https://i.imgur.com/5C0pIws.mp4 https://i.imgur.com/dYIH40A.mp4 https://i.imgur.com/bJFjtnG.mp4 https://i.imgur.com/buqLzoy.mp4
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Endorph posted:lets look at everything d4dj is doing right with cgi Sanzigen really is one of the best CGI studios for character expressions and visual gags. The Michelle Iron Man suit gag is amazing for example Also Toei does some great 3D stuff. The recent CGI Precure films have all been visually great
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Did a Magical Revolution thread so we can talk anime, manga, light novel and how great Anis/Euphie are as a couple (also I guess kingdom politics!) https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4022011
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Updated OPquote:Tensei Oujo to Tensai Reijou no Mahou Kakumei (The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady)
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Gonna shout out Mou Ippon's second episode for having a truly great background gag during the lunch scene on the roof.
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AlternateNu posted:I never understood why people call Star Wars a space opera. They’re zero loving singing in it!  quote:And no, that crappy CG edition bit in Jabba’s Palace doesn’t count.
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haypliss posted:What bugs me more about the Trigun thing is he just doesn't look like part of the world? He's way too bright and clean compared to the environment in like 90% of that scene. It looks like Who Framed Roger Rabbit. ...and on careful consideration, I might be interested in an actual attempt at blending real actors/scenes with a cgi Vash going full looney tones.
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Maxwell Adams posted:https://i.imgur.com/5C0pIws.mp4 It's odd because I expected to feel iffy on Trigun because of the CG but, instead, I think it largely looks great but both episodes so far are really weak. It feels like things just happen because the plot demands it versus moments occurring organically or via character choices. Episodes feel like we're just moving from set piece to set piece and skipping a lot of the charm that made the original series so fun. I'll keep watching it because I love Trigun but it feels very weird compared to the charm of Blood Blockade Battlefront and OG Trigun.
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https://twitter.com/MangaMoguraRE/status/1614938271871541248?t=0ABWRoReECyrQj0tojWCUQ&s=19
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Weird that it's getting an anime when the manga felt almost like it had been axed, the ending was so abrupt. Oh well, it's a good series for the most part, so I'll be interested to see how much of a budget the adaptation gets.
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