Spring Season 2018: The Official City Name Sports Team Anime Thread

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Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

aikatsu friends will be the best long running show just like ogkatsu and aikatsu stars were

# ¿ Mar 18, 2018 18:27

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# ¿ May 16, 2024 00:45

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

https://sakugabooru.com/data/324391cb25c53d0f5df7d95fdd5f1e93.mp4

# ¿ Mar 18, 2018 18:27

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

Matoi Ryuko posted:

Promoting your upcomimg favorite anime is something I respect. This thread is a collaborative effort to promote whichever anime the posters believe is a good recommendation. Honor the request Julias.

in that case siren aikatsu friends

# ¿ Mar 19, 2018 01:26

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

Vinland Saga seemed like it was gearing up for an anime for a while, Houseki (which runs in the same magazine) got one and did very well, and then they started doing stage-plays and concerts for Vinland Saga which seemed pretty much like they were revving it up.

Wit's a pretty solid studio for it, at least. Curious about the staff.

# ¿ Mar 19, 2018 18:36

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

Silver2195 posted:

"A Cat and a Kitten's Rock and Roll," for example, revolves around Tessa and Mao interacting as though Mao was an older student at Tessa's school, rather than Tessa being a superior officer.

I think Mao's known Tessa since before Tessa signed up? Which probably explains their relationship. It's been ages since I watched FMP of any sort, though.

# ¿ Mar 19, 2018 18:40

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

psyer posted:

The concern is it seems like Wit already has a lot of things on their plate with Attack on Titan S3 and the Kaberneri film. Also, Magus Bride just ending for them. So not much rest for them.

we don't have a timeframe on Vinland Saga, but the Kabaneri film's tie-in game is releasing this summer so the movie will probably come out around then, too. AoT S3 is penciled in for July. So work on the Kabaneri film is probably wrapping up or is well underway, and they've probably already shifted AoT S3 into full production with Magus Bride wrapping up. So Vinland Saga will probably be Winter.

# ¿ Mar 19, 2018 19:04

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

an actual dog posted:

How dead will that kid be at the end of God of War? Extremely, Mostly, or Just Inside?

the final level will be dead kratos and then that kid will get handed the chain swords and kratos will go 'son, you are The God of War for PS2 now' and then youll play as the kid in teh final level

# ¿ Mar 19, 2018 23:35

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

Neeksy posted:

Caligula is about what essentially amounts to a Matrix�d-up mental institution where the staff wants to help you to death because they�re AIs and don�t actually know what they�re doing.

The high school premise is itself a joke about one of the many forms of popular escapism.

caligula is based on a game by the guy who wrote persona 1 and persona 2 and didn't work on 3 onwards. it's not just a general joke, it's pretty pointed criticism of persona 3 onwards in particular.

# ¿ Mar 20, 2018 07:47

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

i mean if the original author gets involved he might be able to have some push/pull but the original artist wouldnt really be able to have any power, and the fact that they've already announced it means that production committees and stuff are already on board. plus the pv already had finished animation so its probably too late in the game to retool the designs that heavily.

imo the artist seems like kind of a jackass. not showing him the designs at all is a little lovely but 'i sent them a bunch of random messages on twitter and they didn't reply, time to blow the gently caress up'

# ¿ Mar 21, 2018 23:53

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

Neeksy posted:

I'm a little worried about P5's adaptation because, well, A-1 and how their P4:The Golden Animation turned out.

ishihama directed from the new world, a story about weird teenage angst and society's flaws that expressed those things fairly well even if I don't even personally like it. He's also spent his entire career directing a ton of openings, including Bleach OP 13, occultic;nine, tokyo ravens,, and welcome to the NHK. I don't even like some of those OPs that much, but they show a clear interest and skill in stylization and visual language, which is something that fits Persona 5 to a T.

Obviously this doesn't guarantee that the anime will be good, but the director has a skillset that is very suited to the material. Unlike P4 Golden, which was directed by a comedy director who had already mined the material for about the best he could do with it and just had to go for another go around with almost nothing to work with, and half of what he had to work with (the Adachi stuff, the Marie drama) wasn't suited to his skillset at all.

# ¿ Mar 22, 2018 12:56

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

Space Flower posted:

thanks miles

???

# ¿ Mar 22, 2018 13:12

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

Sindai posted:

Wow it's been three weeks since the episode. Has there ever been a show that literally disappeared in the middle of its run for that long before?

That mecha show from like 2016 with the gimmick of it actually having 2d mech battles did, but they actually announced that it was happening and it was only like 3 episodes in.

# ¿ Mar 22, 2018 15:58

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

StrixNebulosa posted:

I'm almost curious enough to watch Marchen Madchen now - I mean, just to see what an imploding show looks like.

its honestly not interesting in that direction. it got pulled before it really started showing in the show in any interesting ways. like, some of the shots in the last few aired episodes were weird, but nothing outside the norm for a b-list show. maybe it'll be worse when it gets back to air, but more likely, given all the talk about compromises, that itll just be a bunch of static shots of characters sitting around talking. shows that look incredibly hosed usually start out that way, like dynamic chord or handshakers. If something starts out looking competent, there's usually enough there to work with to keep it from backsliding into obvious garbage, even if incredible amounts of cuts have to be made.

like, girls und panzer had huge production issues, but that show actually looks great and you wouldn't be able to tell if you just watched it in one go nowadays, you'd have to look up the episode list and realize that the anzio ova is basically nothing but cut content and that the final battle took like six months real-time because of episode delays.

# ¿ Mar 22, 2018 16:23

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

I mean there's always a chance it comes to TV incredibly hosed up, but I think they'd be more likely to just pull the plug completely or delay it even longer than air it in that state.

edit: incidentally, dynamic chord is a good watch if you are interested in something like that. The show's literally entirely outsourced and its like watching a show where every five seconds is animated by a new studio with no idea what the previous five seconds looked like, since that's basically what happened.

# ¿ Mar 22, 2018 16:25

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

Expect My Mom posted:

im trying to remember when utena didn't look good and i got nothing

Strix means reused footage and the cut-matchcut sequences of characters talking that went on for like seven minutes straight, not that the show ever went off model.

# ¿ Mar 22, 2018 16:30

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1BCZKFoKVg

also, musashi gundoh honestly isnt the worst looking show ever, but it is the funniest bad looking show ever

# ¿ Mar 22, 2018 16:30

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

DisDisDis posted:

idk what a matchcut is but if you mean the uhhhhh student council bits with the random conspicuously ignored poo poo in the background they were fantastic

In film, a match cut is a cut from one shot to another where the two shots are matched by the action or subject and subject matter. For example, in a duel a shot can go from a long shot on both contestants via a cut to a medium closeup shot of one of the duellists.

quote:

Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey contains a famous example of a match cut.[4][5] After an ape discovers the use of bones as a tool and a weapon, he throws one triumphantly into the air. As the bone spins in the air, there is a match cut to a much more advanced tool: an orbiting satellite.[6] The match cut helps draw a connection between the two objects as exemplars of primitive and advanced tools respectively, and serves as a neat summary of humanity's technological advancement up to that point.[7] The satellite is unidentified in the film, but the novel makes it clear that it is an orbital weapon platform, thus linking with the use of the bone as a weapon.

Anime uses this a lot, it's an incredibly basic technique, but Utena uses it like seven times a second and its usually done without any actual action. And it's good at that, but yeah.

# ¿ Mar 23, 2018 00:27

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

Fangz posted:

Ah, so the artists will enjoy the ~exposure~. Meanwhile the folks responsible for this will pocket the savings and go on to the next project.

artists are proud of their work and enjoy having it be considered good, and have it be something they can be happy to have worked on. by boiling the issue down to purely capitalistic interests (who gets paid, how much), you are engaging in the same denial of art and its merits as the people who push artists to the breaking point in order to meet capitalistic deadlines. obviously artists should be well compensated for their work, but artists should also not be constrained by capitalistic systems into making subpar works. if the question is 'getting paid and making something bad' and 'not getting paid and making something good' most people would be conflicted, but if the question was 'getting one up on CEOs' and 'making something good', with them not getting paid either way, I imagine most artists would pick the latter. Furthermore, intentionally doing bad work might deny them work in the future.

also your posts are real bad

Endorph fucked around with this message at 00:40 on Mar 23, 2018

# ¿ Mar 23, 2018 00:37

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

Dude, I'm not saying they should feel pride in their own exploitation, I say they feel pride in their art. Listen to or read any interview with anime people in the trenches about the work practices and they say the issue's complicated because they love their work and are proud of it. I'm not saying they should be invested in work for the profit of others, I'm saying they're invested in their own work.

# ¿ Mar 23, 2018 00:46

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

*listens to chapo once* TIME TO TALK ABOUT ANIME

# ¿ Mar 23, 2018 00:47

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

Fangz posted:

I'm just coming out of a conversation with a friend who is putting comic sans on a business card for a client because she hates the client. And that's being paid. The amount of pride artists feel in doing good work for arseholes is rather low.

thats great for your friend but different people can have different opinions about their own work and how they perceive it and (partly due to cultural differences, partly due to anime being largely an industry where the people who enter it are already fans and have a strong desire to work on the kinds of shows they love) these opinions swing fairly wildly in the other direction in the Japanese animation industry. Not to say there aren't people who go 'gently caress off, I wanna make money for myself' or whatever, or wouldn't feel motivated in a crappy environment, but there's a reason you hear more stories about people working themselves to exhaustion than about entire sections of studios doing planned walkouts. And you can make the argument that 'that's what Capitalism WANTS' or whatever, but I think the person who is being victimized is able to make a decision for themselves about what they value more.

And I'm not arguing that the anime industry doesn't need a drastic, drastic overhaul, and possibly guillotines, but I think it's possible to serve two masters here. An artist can wish the industry was better and wish that they'd gotten to produce something they could be proud of. That's my entire point. You're so focused on the first thing that you're denying the possibility that they might want the second as much, or more.

# ¿ Mar 23, 2018 00:54

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

Fangz posted:

'Oh to be art means you should forget about money and rights and stuff and work till you're dead for other people's profit or else you are demeaning art!'

Literally nobody has said this. Grats on blaming the victims of intensely capitalistic systems that are attempting to destroy both their livelihoods and their art, though.

# ¿ Mar 23, 2018 01:20

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

Space Flower posted:

their latest tweet is them saying they want to be like the chibi girls in the new game s2 ed

i agree

also

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2018-03-22/violet-evergarden-teases-new-project-in-progress/.129359

probably a compilation film and then a full film, if i had to guess. like kyoani loves doing

# ¿ Mar 23, 2018 01:34

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

Hopefully the issues with the source material are something that the adaptation can improve on - at the very least, making stuff more consistent and cutting out a bit of the random filler would help.

# ¿ Mar 23, 2018 01:52

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

was the new game s2 ed exploiting workers by depicting them as cute blobs?

# ¿ Mar 23, 2018 02:06

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

id work any amount of hours if i got to see kou without pants on, op

Neeksy posted:

My own issues with P5 as a source material go beyond the gay panic, etc. and are a bit harder to correct since they�re kind of endemic to the Hashino trilogy, but the director sounds really interesting so maybe he can elevate the material.

Yeah, very fair, and I agree. Hopefully he gets some leeway with the adaptation rather than it basically just being animating the game's script.

# ¿ Mar 23, 2018 02:13

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

Parallax posted:

i thought working just for exposure was bad

lol

# ¿ Mar 23, 2018 02:17

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

DisDisDis posted:

graphic designers and the people who employ them do care about this, actually, lol

as someone who dated a graphic designer: thats what he said

# ¿ Mar 23, 2018 09:01

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

The first of the Girls und Panzer finale films came out on blu-ray today. here's the OP.

# ¿ Mar 23, 2018 12:38

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

Relin posted:

seems like a bad idea. almost all of his stuff is real goood but his last manga was a plot retread stinker that got canned and scanlators didnt even finish

one bad manga means you're bad forever now?

# ¿ Mar 24, 2018 01:59

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

Spiritus Nox posted:

https://twitter.com/comic_natalie/status/977350060923957248

I have only a vague idea what this is, but it's from the Flip Flappers/Princess Principal studio and this key visual is rad as hell.

Called Black Dog. Director did Joker Game and Robotics;Notes, writer wrote the back half of FlipFlappers.

# ¿ Mar 24, 2018 02:38

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

iospace posted:

What show would this be?

Those images make me curious about it, but a friend of mine said that the Robotics;Notes adaptation was hot garbage, so.

(Heard good things about the others shows mentioned)

robotics;notes, the game, was kind of garbage. im sure theres a good anime somewhere in there but i cant blame the adaptation of it for being rough

# ¿ Mar 24, 2018 14:39

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

just because imo was a little better because it was a much more writing-based show and also the fact that it didnt have any action scenes or anything like, super high intensity meant that they could resort to just extremely static shots that looked kind of bad but werent actively monstrous to witness

unfortunately, marchen has neither of those available to them

# ¿ Mar 24, 2018 17:44

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

DisDisDis posted:

What show is gonna be good in the spring of the year twenty eighteen

aikatsu friends

# ¿ Mar 24, 2018 18:40

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

https://twitter.com/rankarana/status/977183463035031552

# ¿ Mar 24, 2018 18:43

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

DisDisDis posted:

aistars takes place at a school with a wild sexy creepy plotting headmaster dude with reflective eyeglasses and all the performances take place in some kind weird light projection VR world so if you think about it it's basically Utena

the villain of aistars season 2 is undefeatable and all-powerful because she's discovered negging so its literally exactly like utena

# ¿ Mar 24, 2018 18:51

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

VostokProgram posted:

Yeah but it's not pornographic

Uh, jesus, dude.

Yaoi isnt necessarily porn.

# ¿ Mar 25, 2018 21:42

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

i just took the french school as a rose of versailles thing, especially with the commander girl being named Marie and the two subcommanders being kinda handsome when they put their full uniforms on. or lesmis. i think tan girl is just tan

edit: also klara is definitely russian. nonna's birthplace is listed as hokkaido. hokkaido has a lot of historical and modern ties to Russia so its possible shes of russian/Japanese mixed descent, which'd fit with her being so much taller than everyone else and knowing russian. regardless shes definitely not foreign like klara is.

Endorph fucked around with this message at 09:56 on Mar 26, 2018

# ¿ Mar 26, 2018 09:50

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

OddObserver posted:

They did really well with voice casting there, since Klara speaks Russian w/o accent, and Nonna... doesn't.

One time nonnas va went to russia for a concert for cinderella girls (where she plays a russian girl) and started excitedly talking in russian and the crowd couldnt understand her

Shes a literal russiaboo

# ¿ Mar 27, 2018 12:52

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# ¿ May 16, 2024 00:45

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

Sharkopath posted:

I wanna watch gup but everytime right before I do I remember KAJs book about black tankers and make myself sad enough to forget it.

gup is fun enough to alleviate any sadness, op

# ¿ Mar 27, 2018 15:02

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