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 SHIROBAKO is an original anime by P.A. Works about an anime production teetering on the brink of collapse (so, a regular anime production). It opens with sweet scenes from a high school animation club, who's idealism is put to the test by the demands of the entertainment industry. This clip shows what I mean. The show is fast paced and packed with smart gags and a likable if goofy cast. It reminds me of something Aaron Sorkin (the dude who made the The West Wing) would make, in that it gets the technical details of the job right but is kind of rose colored about everything else, but instead of politicians with ideals it's cute girls getting jobs in animation production two years out of high school. That conflict might have been a lability, but the show pushes it so far that it comes out gleefully mad, and even two episodes in seems to illustrate a point. These people are working their hearts out sweating the details on what appears to be a really lovely anime, and despite how pathetic that can be there's something about it which is kind of wonderful.  You can watch it on Crunchyroll! devtesla fucked around with this message at 22:41 on Oct 18, 2014 |
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Oct 17, 2014 06:27
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I Think My Harem Is Slowly Faling Apart But I Might Just Be Imagining It is a joke from the show.
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Oct 17, 2014 06:32
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.Clash posted:You might try a title that doesn't completely turn off newcomers. Or one that is even slightly descriptive of this actually good show. It's more descriptive than you might think but you have a point, I'll PM Zorak.
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Oct 17, 2014 06:45
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Has anything P.A. Works been amazing before now? I really liked The Eccentric Family but that was mostly because the source material was good, and while they didn't gently caress it up they didn't do anything really exceptional with it. They seem like a low rent KyoAni with a little more eclectic output. To be honest though, that this show is coming from this studio makes the whole thing more likable and more convincing. Maybe this is the moment they come into their own?
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Oct 18, 2014 22:12
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OnimaruXLR posted:The anime they're making looks terrible, and the cast is largely a bunch of dumb wieners, I know, isn't it wonderful?? Also, it's not particularly deep or anything but Aoi's Donut obsession is pretty transparently her latching onto something instantly satisfying that reminds her of high school because her job is a lot of hard work for insubstantial reward. Characters in this show are just a bunch of quirks balanced on top of one another, but it works because the quirks are relatable and the script knows why and when to trot them out.
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Oct 19, 2014 06:18
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These two episodes have covered like three days. It will take two cours to cover what it takes to make one cour of anime.
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Oct 21, 2014 06:41
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I'm pretty sure that voice actor lady is going to get the job anyway because they like her inexperienced sound and the meta will kill me.
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Oct 31, 2014 18:04
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A studio staffed entirely by Tarous, each making frog noises at the slightest disturbance.
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Nov 7, 2014 03:03
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Sindai posted:Tarou is the worst. President is the best. Don't give a gently caress about anything except cooking. Note that every scene where President brings in something he cooked the mood changes in such a way that things actually get done.
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Nov 7, 2014 05:57
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There are many dark secrets in anime.
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Nov 9, 2014 19:49
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Tarou is the best character in the show. Plz do not kill Tarou.
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Nov 15, 2014 01:58
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That's not what I said at all!
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Nov 15, 2014 02:29
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Of course, the only person causing more problems in this production than Tarou is the director.
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Nov 16, 2014 04:31
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Super Jay Mann posted:Good news: Tarou was only a useless shithead for one or two scenes this week But that's the best part of the show!
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Nov 20, 2014 19:37
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If you're wondering how Japan can make so much animation for such a small, otaku audience: there you go.
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Nov 20, 2014 20:27
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Poil posted:Roboharu: The Robot I Made is Going Through Puberty, and It's Rough. sounds like a really awful series. I'd watch that. I've already watched five different versions of that.
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Nov 21, 2014 01:54
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The only good job is financial trader.
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Nov 22, 2014 01:54
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Demicol posted:Is there really just not a market for anyone but the hardcore fans? No, there really isn't. They've tried to bring the prices down to earth, and each time the increase in sales didn't make up for the price drop. If you really did get prices down to what normal people would pay, you're going to require a huge sales increase, like a hundred times over, and there really aren't millions of people waiting to buy shows about being attracted to your sister. There are, however, a few thousand willing to pay hundreds of dollars a season for this stuff, so that's where they make the money. People bring up rental places as an explanation for this madness, but most anime aren't stocked by rental shops. There's just so much anime getting made that they fill up the room they make for anime with just a small percentage of what gets made. Casual fans are stuck watching on TV only, or if they do buy stuff it's manga, novels, or merchandise. The people who make money off of that stuff are almost always part of the committee that funded the show in the first place.
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Nov 24, 2014 20:23
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Taru, I already am your overseas fan. 
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Nov 30, 2014 18:17
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Sindai posted:That reminded me of the guy at EA who only modeled football player noses for the FIFA games for years. I can't find anything about this and I need to know more.
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Dec 5, 2014 21:42
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Edward IV posted:Speaking of hallucinations, do you suppose all that censoring in the Little Match Girl reference was done after the fact in response to the dispute with the Ideon references in episode 6? It was really out of place and distracting since it takes up much of the scenes yet the blurring was unaggressive enough to make out the Toei and Sunrise characters and shows they're referencing. I did enjoy the implication that any animation actually got done at Toei.
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Dec 19, 2014 05:50
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Next episode: the disk has an error on it and it doesn't actually air. Also, the bear's letter was accepted in the ED this time!
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Dec 25, 2014 19:09
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MonsieurChoc posted:ALso, now I really want to watch Andes Chucky. I've tried to watch some shows like this, they're really boring. OnimaruXLR posted:It's probably wishful thinking on my part when I hope this whole arc with the old guy isn't subtle criticism on moe as a trend, right? Definitely wishful thinking, this is half a moe show. It's more like it doesn't take itself too seriously, and that it's okay that moe is poo poo.
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Dec 26, 2014 01:27
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The cute girl stuff is the beautiful dream smashed to pieces by the harsh realities of the animation industry, only to be rebuilt, stronger than before.
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Dec 28, 2014 04:32
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Sindai posted:Ah, VOICE TRAINING BOOK, the seminal work on the subject. I love this show so much.
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Dec 28, 2014 05:14
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A doujinshi about true love.
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Dec 31, 2014 23:58
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Guys this is like the least weird doujin, calm the gently caress down.
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Jan 1, 2015 01:23
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StandardVC10 posted:Crunchyroll says two days away. Not sure if that's true. Unless there's a production delay they're usually correct. Mentat Radnor posted:So when does the second half of the series start? Google has failed me so maybe the next air date hasn't been announced but I'm impatient dammit. The Ghibli reference was kind of out of place. If I remember right, they were discussing studios for a loving otaku planes anime? That doesn't seem Ghibli like at all.
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Jan 6, 2015 18:19
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sincx posted:Cash stream. They are $100 each.
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Jan 7, 2015 02:55
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There is nothing about anime that makes any sense.
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Jan 7, 2015 03:55
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DiabloCthulhu posted:They sure are! We have a thread for this!
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Jan 8, 2015 19:16
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Not everyone is a dork.
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Jan 9, 2015 20:13
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Respectable professionals who's work includes Bludgeoning Angel Dokuro-Chan and Magical Witch Punie-chan.
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Jan 10, 2015 05:46
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Which other voice actors do you have a crush on, laplace?
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Jan 11, 2015 03:51
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Exodus is based on many different moe shows, but probably the closest to Lyrical Girl Nanoha. Don't watch Nanoha, it's terrible.
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Jan 12, 2015 23:43
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Bakanogami posted:From what I've heard, as hateable as Tarou is, industry insiders watching the show admit that types like him both tend to go far and are vital because they don't turn into depressed lumps when they screw up (like Ema) or are overworked (like Miyamori). This is true in every industry.
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Jan 13, 2015 14:13
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This is the glossary from the SHIROBAKO website translated! Super cool!
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Jan 14, 2015 17:06
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I think it's less errors and more that they don't have to match the lip flaps this way.
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Jan 19, 2015 21:16
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Ccs posted:Especially in an industry as strange as the anime industry. When the workers are being paid almost not a living wage and having to work crazy hours, you've got to put up with some of their eccentricities. Let just be clear, it's not a living wage. That's why we get stuff like this.
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Jan 25, 2015 16:35
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYUFBnAmK28
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Jan 25, 2015 17:06
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