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  • RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Sosuke Bosuke you pervert!

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  • RT800RT800 Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Limited seasons are the worst. Slow as it's come, at least AoT has an ending.

    There are so many anime I've watched that just... stop. Never to be seen again.

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  • ArcTangentArcTangent Registered User regular
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    It’s weird that anime as a whole always adapts the parts of manga that are only there to explain all the wild shit that happened in a single panel, instead of just showing all that wild shit in animation and trusting that the audience will get it.

    I often feel like it's because then you can't be 'wrong.' If you just copy/paste the script, or use the page as it exists as the storyboard with minimal changes or adaptation, even accounting for being in a different format and medium, then nobody can blame you if it doesn't turn out well. You didn't make any changes after all. If there were problems, it was the original creator's fault. Existing fans have to like it. It's exactly the same thing after all.

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  • localhjaylocalhjay Registered User regular
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    I actually would have preferred if they waited even longer for the AoT anime.

    Because they went from having the most stellar action animation used for the titan fights to using CGI

    Same, Wit just was so damn good. But I highly recommend Kabaneri if you want some more AoT style animation from them

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    ArcTangent wrote: »
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    GR_Zombie wrote: »
    It’s weird that anime as a whole always adapts the parts of manga that are only there to explain all the wild shit that happened in a single panel, instead of just showing all that wild shit in animation and trusting that the audience will get it.

    I often feel like it's because then you can't be 'wrong.' If you just copy/paste the script, or use the page as it exists as the storyboard with minimal changes or adaptation, even accounting for being in a different format and medium, then nobody can blame you if it doesn't turn out well. You didn't make any changes after all. If there were problems, it was the original creator's fault. Existing fans have to like it. It's exactly the same thing after all.

    I think it's more about budget and workload, you can get a lot more runtime out of having people talking and explaining things over mostly static scenes of people standing still glaring or looking dumbfounded than you can out of high-animation-workload character movement that can resolve the movement in just a few seconds.

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  • RT800RT800 Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    And there're some good fucking stories that just get dropped.

    But no. Let's renew Ari-fucking-fureta for a second season.

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  • RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Arlong park is

    *Checks notes*

    Good

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  • localhjaylocalhjay Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I'll never forgive them for what they did to Berserk in that horrible CG version

    Just fucking give it to a studio that gives a shit please. Give it to the Vinland Saga guys!!

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  • ArcTangentArcTangent Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    ArcTangent wrote: »
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    GR_Zombie wrote: »
    It’s weird that anime as a whole always adapts the parts of manga that are only there to explain all the wild shit that happened in a single panel, instead of just showing all that wild shit in animation and trusting that the audience will get it.

    I often feel like it's because then you can't be 'wrong.' If you just copy/paste the script, or use the page as it exists as the storyboard with minimal changes or adaptation, even accounting for being in a different format and medium, then nobody can blame you if it doesn't turn out well. You didn't make any changes after all. If there were problems, it was the original creator's fault. Existing fans have to like it. It's exactly the same thing after all.

    I think it's more about budget and workload, you can get a lot more runtime out of having people talking and explaining things over mostly static scenes of people standing still glaring or looking dumbfounded than you can out of high-animation-workload character movement that can resolve the movement in just a few seconds.

    Absolutely that too, but I'm not sure how much it is. Maybe it's just confirmation bias (and I haven't thought THAT hard about this), but I feel like it's not something that you see anywhere near egregiously in original shows that were made for anime to begin with. Could also just be that the studios who tend towards originals adapt with a different general philosophy too.
    RT800 wrote: »
    And there're some good fucking stories that just get dropped.

    But no. Let's renew Ari-fucking-fureta for a second season.

    Another large part is this. Most anime aren't made to be a standalone, well done show in and of itself. They're an expensive advertisement for the manga/light novel/merchandise that has a way better profit margin. The production companies don't want it to be its own thing. They want it to be like the thing that they're actually trying to sell.

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  • localhjaylocalhjay Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I feel like the western market it's slowly becoming more common for the anime to be the money maker. Stuff like Seven Deadly Sins, Great Pretenders, Super Crooks that are specifically funded and made for Netflix. The FLCL sequels come to mind, the series is definitely more popular abroad. I might even go as far to say the same for Cowboy Bebop.

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  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Arlong park is

    *Checks notes*

    Good

    Coming soon to AniMenagerie...!

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  • Mortal SkyMortal Sky queer punk hedge witchRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    four episodes into Ranking of Kings, and this is the most per hour that any piece of media not directed by Pixar has ever made me cry tbh

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  • Beef AvengerBeef Avenger Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Mortal Sky wrote: »
    four episodes into Ranking of Kings, and this is the most per hour that any piece of media not directed by Pixar has ever made me cry tbh

    The best descriptor I could come up with for that show is Charming

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  • Mortal SkyMortal Sky queer punk hedge witchRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    the fantasy anime meta has felt so stale recently even among non-isekai shows, and Ranking is an extremely fresh breath of air

    I've never seen anything quite like it, but it feels very well realized from the jump

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  • notyanotya Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I think One Piece only made ONE critical error. Too many characters. I love em, but the author can't handle em all at once. They're all equally important and all given equal screentime, and it means shit moves slowwwwwwww. And even with that slowness, rarely time for quiet moments or subtlety or emotion. It's slow and rushed at the same time.

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  • WhippyWhippy Moderator, Admin Emeritus Admin Emeritus
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    Polaritie wrote: »
    The flashbacks are great for giving depth to characters. The anime has been in desperate denial of reality since forever. It's the last holdout of the forever-running Jump series as opposed to just doing a cour and waiting until the manga is far enough ahead for another (see MHA)

    this is boruto erasure. boruto is very good, like warm blanket

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I keep forgetting Boruto exists

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  • WhippyWhippy Moderator, Admin Emeritus Admin Emeritus
    edited April 14
    ninjas are sneaky

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  • OwenashiOwenashi Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Whippy wrote: »
    ninjas are sneaky

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  • ArcTangentArcTangent Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Whippy wrote: »
    Polaritie wrote: »
    The flashbacks are great for giving depth to characters. The anime has been in desperate denial of reality since forever. It's the last holdout of the forever-running Jump series as opposed to just doing a cour and waiting until the manga is far enough ahead for another (see MHA)

    this is boruto erasure. boruto is very good, like warm blanket

    I have to say that Naruto/Boruto is (was?) one of the shows that when I hear people talking up how good a fight scene was and I took a look out of curiosity, it was usually pretty impressive chunks of animation, especially in direction and choreography of the scenes, without a lot of the... above things that I complained about that plagues shounen stuff. Not always, but much more than most other things in my memory.

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  • GundiGundi Serious Bismuth Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I think My Hero Academia has totally fine pacing for the first two seasons, but then the 3rd and 4th season get some uneaven bits and season 5 gets real bad with pacing

    Demon Slayer's issue isn't the pacing, at least as an anime watcher I say that, it's the content. I do like some of the characters even if they're pretty simple, but the show wastes a bunch of them. The worst offender for me probably being Nezuko. She in theory should be one of the most interesting characters, and she should arguably be a second protagonist since it's her relation with her brother that is like the emotional core of the plot but... nah. She can't speak, and only gets like at most one moment of character development per arc.

    Also for the fights: I do appreciate that most of the big fights feel like slug out brawls that sells the idea that these are people fighting almost unkillable monsters. What I don't like is (human) characters just shrugging off injuries and essentially sleeping them off goku style. It cheapens the impact of what are presented as really brutal 'mess-up-once-and-you're-dead" fights. It also runs into the common shonen thing of asspulling wins for the heroes out of nowhere. Which is like fine to do sometimes, but has done it a shockingly high number of times with what ultimately are not that many fights.

    On the plus side from the anime is Demon Slayer has a killer (Japanese, I haven't listed to the dub) voice cast so that helps build up characters who'd otherwise fall flat from lack of development. Like the VAs for the latest anime villains killed it, and made me actually have some interests in villains who otherwise were pretty one note.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I don't like Boruto much, it's not bad but it's just kind of boring. But I didn't care for Naruto and Shippuden either so I'm probably not the person to listen to.

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  • Moth 13Moth 13 Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    The pacing is weird in S5 because of COVID.

    It was so odd how they stretched out the Endeavor training stuff but then the Villain arc got rushed through.

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  • J-bobJ-bob J-bob in games Death MountainRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    Tonight on animenagerie!

    More fate/zero stuff happening WHO CARES BEST CHARACTER IS HERE!
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    In kill la kill Zonugal found his new Nanami
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    And we wrapped My Hero Academia season 1 with BIG PAWNCH
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  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Me, waiting for something cool to happen on Fate/Zero:

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    Me, one millisecond after hitting play on any random episode of Kill la Kill:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEFx1qmW4ts

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    Well, Fate/Zero doesn't pander to the lowest common denominator like KLK, so there's that.

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  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
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    lol

    lmao

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