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LordMune posted:On a happier note, here's a lil' something for all of you (approximately zero people) who were holding out for a "less ugly and not translated from a Korean translation"-scanlation of the ol' serkyber. HATVILLE! 
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LordMune posted:On a happier note, here's a lil' something for all of you (approximately zero people) who were holding out for a "less ugly and not translated from a Korean translation"-scanlation of the ol' serkyber. It's hard to believe the plot is actually moving again, after all this time. Seems weird that everyone remembers Puck, but I guess you can chalk that up to time dilation? It could've only been a couple months there since he left.
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Harlock posted:Let's all laugh together http://kotaku.com/the-new-berserk-anime-already-outshines-the-90s-origina-1782990737 I mean if people sincerely enjoy it good for them, that's totally cool, but this is a deal where I wonder if we watched the same thing. I know a few people who weren't really negative about it but their response was more like "well, that wasn't so bad, I'm happy," not "THIS WAS AMAZING!"
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Sasuga Kotaku
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Sure wish I could make money writing about anime on a video game website.
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Bad Seafood posted:Sure wish I could make money writing about anime on a video game website. It doesn't take much at all to one-up Kotaku (speaking as somebody who regularly reads it for reasons utterly unknown to me, though I'm not as sour on it as some) so I dunno man. You're loving around I know but you could probably get something going somewhere, yeah
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Jul 2, 2016 05:54
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Writing for sites like those is who you know, not what. Just go to San Fran and philander around the hipster hangouts
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Jul 2, 2016 05:57
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just go to san fran and write the sentence 'gender is a social construct' onto a napkin, rip it into pieces, and toss it into the summer breeze. in 3 days a traveling white dude with a beret and a ginger neckbeard will arrive at your door. he is your friend, and will lead you into the world of games journalism.
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I just watched the first ep and I am upset. How dare they insinuate to skip lost children.
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Jul 2, 2016 06:59
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Awesome, new Berserk anime! This is the best Canada Day! *watches first episode* This is the worst Canada Day! What the gently caress was that? No, seriously, I had to pause and rewind around the part where the bandits got eaten by a bunch of trees because I had no idea what was happening or why, I guess the trees were cursed? Like, not just that one tree but the whole forest? And Guts beat it... somehow? They didn't show how, they implied that he beat it and moved on. loving hell, that was messy editing. Overall not a good first impression. I'm still gonna watch the entire thing but drat, if the whole series is at this level of quality then I'm in for a long, painful watch...
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Jul 2, 2016 07:11
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Zaphod42 posted:We don't know how fast he can swing it so we can only ballpark it at best. From a few pages ago but, I vaguely recall Gut's swing with the sword being compared favorably to cannons when he fought Grunbeld so this might actually be fairly accurate? I don't remember the chapter number though so I can't check.
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it is very sad that a berserk anime warrants a 3 episode test
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we had a big discussion over repeating crossbows in the milhist thread, the conclusion is they have no power i dont think this series is very realistic you guys
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Begemot posted:Seems weird that everyone remembers Puck, but I guess you can chalk that up to time dilation? It could've only been a couple months there since he left. And even then he's only been hanging out with Guts for a couple of years, tops. He might have peed on that gull just weeks before his first appearance.
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Puck is probably the Elven Prince. It's not like you'd forget that adorable little poo poo even if you tried anyway. Also, thanks for the HQ update LordMune and everyone you work with. Josuke Higashikata fucked around with this message at 08:22 on Jul 2, 2016 |
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I can't even watch it because I'm too lazy, but I'm gonna eventually do it because loving Berserk. At least the Muso game will likely be good, right?
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Crabtree posted:I can't even watch it because I'm too lazy, but I'm gonna eventually do it because loving Berserk. At least the Muso game will likely be good, right? It definitely has better graphics than the anime. The only problem is that it's doing the golden age AGAIN so we'll probably have to wait for the sequel before it gets really good. But it does have Schierke, so might be getting all the way to her arc, which is reasonably far in. The Kushan invasion would make for a good sequel hook.
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They've confirmed that it starts at the Golden Age and gets to the end of Millennium Falcon. It's a Musou though so if you don't like them, it won't do anything for you.
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Thankfully I am a moron and happily buy new musou games at full price, so I will 100% be on board for this one. Worst they could do is make something similar to those hokuto no ken games, which were pretty meh but fun to explode people at the least. Nothing to add to anime chat, it was all over the place and needs a whole lot of help.
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Now that I finally got around to watching the first episode in total I feel very conflicted. Watching it was like a second-by-second roller-coaster ride between something that looked great and totally satisfied my Berserk anime nostalgia and complete and total garbage. I feel like if this had come out when I was a young teenager who had just discovered the '97 anime I would have totally loved this, but as someone who's been appreciating the manga for several years it falls very far short of the source material. The first episode was definitely just a desperate attempt to establish Berserk as something beyond Black Swordsman and Lost Children as quickly as possible, so it lacked virtually anything that would give some sense of the pacing and quality of the Tower of Conviction adaptation going forward. I'll probably need to wait until next episode to form a coherent opinion on how I feel about the adaptation. It was visually unambitious, but it didn't fall short of my already low expectations. I did kind of love the opening though. I guess it was just seeing this really energetic, condensed version of the Golden Age, and the animation style gave off a vibe closer to the '97 anime. For whatever it's worth, I already like this new adaptation exponentially more than those absolutely wretched Golden Age movies.
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this episode was designed to jump past all the black swordsman stuff so the show could get started on tower of conviction. while i would prefer to see the entire manga animated, i can't really blame them for going this route. however, even if you ignore how this episode was replacing some real good stuff it was pretty bad on its own merits. we'll see how good or bad the show is once it actually starts adapting the manga.
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I see no true issue with skipping Black Swordsman and Lost Children provided you do that correctly and this episode simply didn't do that by any means. Obviously, in the ideal world we skip nothing and everything is Miura levels of quality but animated smoothly. I'm not sure I can think of a more confusing way to actually sum up Lost Children and Black Swordsman to get all the players in place than this episode. I think once they're getting feedback from Japanese viewers it'll probably pick up in quality somewhat, at least with pacing and writing and perhaps sound.
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Harlock posted:Let's all laugh together http://kotaku.com/the-new-berserk-anime-already-outshines-the-90s-origina-1782990737
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I'm gonna nitpick this because it makes me laugh. The first line after the spoiler jump: "The dark medieval manga boasts 343 chapters of fantasy gore, which creator Kentaro Miura has been industriously producing since 1989." 1. Wrong chapter count, superb researching skills. 2. "Industrious" working energetically and devotedly; hard-working; diligent: an industrious person. Kentaro Miura: Industrious.
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Considering the ASLC (Average Squiggly Line Count) of Berserk, I'd say he's fairly industrious. Just not in ways that are conducive to a keeping a timely schedule...
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Sky continues to be blue, water remains wet, and Berserk gets a lovely anime adaption.
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Jul 2, 2016 12:07
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hey, the first anime didn't have very good animation but at least it told the story coherently.
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I actually don't mind the first anime and even have a decent amount of nostalgia for it, especially the music. It was more than acceptable if you considered it an advertisement to go out and read the manga afterwards. But it was also 18 years ago and there's been a whole more garbage anime-wise since then.
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Crabtree posted:I can't even watch it because I'm too lazy, but I'm gonna eventually do it because loving Berserk. At least the Muso game will likely be good, right? If you're like me and believe a) that Berserk has always been destined for a Musou game and b) that chopping up millions of guys is fun, there's virtually no way it could be bad.
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If the berserk game has as much love poured into it to make it feel as close to the manga as possible I'll be happy. Hyrule Warriors and dragon quest heroes were both excellent and really felt like their namesakes.
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Any chance the terrible CG could just be a bit of pilot/ep.1 weirdness and become tolerable as the series progresses? Also what's the work schedule on a series like this? Is it done already, or could the studio still be receptive to fan feedback to get the project back on course?
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It's more likely to get worse since the first episode generally gets more attention paid to it before the true grind begins With most series the next episode won't actually be 100% finished until a couple days (or in some case a few hours) before it's actually due to air, though everything will be way past the point where changing much is realistic by now. PS Watch Shirabako Sakurazuka fucked around with this message at 16:06 on Jul 2, 2016 |
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I'm trying to stay positive but I honestly can't imagine how the CG could get worse than it was. ...maybe that's a good thing?
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Phobophilia posted:we had a big discussion over repeating crossbows in the milhist thread, the conclusion is they have no power https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repeating_crossbow "the Zhuge Liang crossbow" aka Chu-ko-nu is totally real and a major historic weapon in China, and shoots like a normal crossbow. He could feasibly shoot it with his stump/iron hand, he shoots it pretty drat fast in some scenes but it isn't all that unrealistic, that page says soldiers could shoot 10 bolts in 15 seconds. If the problem is power, you can just make it from a stronger draw design. Guts immense strength makes that feasible. He also mostly uses it at VERY close range. Deified Data posted:I'm trying to stay positive but I honestly can't imagine how the CG could get worse than it was. I thought the animation in the golden age movies was pretty bad but still enjoyed them immensely. Its loving Berserk, and we're finally getting something that covers the later arcs. I'll take it 
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Zaphod42 posted:I thought the animation in the golden age movies was pretty bad but still enjoyed them immensely. Its loving Berserk, and we're finally getting something that covers the later arcs. I'll take it Maybe they'll turn it around in later episodes. As I said I'm trying not to be negative but I can't think of any defense for the CG stuff.
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Here's a defense - it lets the studio save time and money for beautifully-animated showcase scenes. There just wasn't any of those...
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The compacting of the Black Swordsmen stuff so the anime can fast-track to Conviction is actually not a problem for me at all. Edgelords like those chapters because Guts is horrible and one-dimensional but I'm fine with it skipping straight to character development.
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