No.31269
Waiting for Fafner: The Beyond to finish is killing me.
No.31295
Break's almost over! The season kicks off for me tomorrow with Ura Sekai Picnic, which I have high hopes for.
There's a lot of idolshit this time around, so I'm going to be busy (a WIXOSS idol spin-off, for the sake of fuck! Surely idol science has gone too far?). There's also that mecha musume thing with heavy involvement from Suzuki Takaaki which is bound to be good, and a number of welcome new seasons.
More respectable titles I intend to try include:
- Alice in Deadly School (I like it when an anime has the guts to do a setting that a very prominent anime already did recently; also, it' somehow related to Gekidol?)
- Jaku-chara Tomozaki-kun (hoping for an Onanii Master Kurosawa type of breaks-you-down-then-puts-you-together-again type of story, but I really don't think it'll be that good)
- Wonder Egg Priority
- Horimiya (I watched the original OVA, I'm in for another take at the same story and characters)
Finally, Ex-Arm looks like shit and smells like shit and is probably going to be shit, but I kinda like how the action scenes slow down and focus on the characters' movements - it'll get old very fast for sure, but I'll give it a chance.
No.31296
>>31295I just went through Urasekai Picnic. I feel like they will make the anime too action-y instead of deliberately slowing down the action and going full Tarkovsky on it.
No.31301
Urasekai Picnic is particularly grievous with its CG. Every low-detail/distant shot of the character has horrible jarring 3D models instead.
No.31302
>>31301I am more miffled how they actually managed to cut content. Girl wasn't even close to drowning in the opening scene. It makes no sense for her to talk how close she was to dying when she doesn't know that yet in the anime. In the manga/novel she had to struggle to keep her head above the water level.
I would have adapted this episode into three fucking episodes, prolonging every scene in order to dwell on the fear, madness, and serenity.
No.31307
>>31302>prolonging every scene in order to dwell on the fear, madness, and serenity.Is that just how you would do it or is it how it was done in the source material?
I've yet to read the LN, I gave the first few pages a try months ago when the anime was announced, but it seemed a above my level. Maybe I'll tackle it later this year.
No.31308
>>31307The light novel depends on you yourself to prolong these scenes in your mind. The manga adapts the first book into four volumes. The anime seems to want to adapt the first two books fully.
But, mainly, if you're gonna write a homage to Roadside Picnic, it better be adapted as a homage to Tarkovsky.
No.31309
>>31308>it better be adapted as a homage to Tarkovsky.Well, honestly I fail to see your point. I would even go so far as to say that the Stalker movie is kind of the odd one out when you compare the original novel to S.T.A.L.K.E.R. and the other things vaguely inspired by the novel/movie/game series.
I feel the movie was extremely influential on the aesthetic side of things, but little else.
No.31310
>>31309It's also by far the best one in the entire bunch, so of course it's a good idea to pay homage to it. Frankly, if we're talking about pacing, all of the novels depend on you to create this pacing in your own mind. While the games can't really purposefully slow down everything the exact same way Tarkovsky did, now, can they. After all they are games. This, however, is a movie - a tv series. So it's in the exact same category as Tarkovsky's Stalker. That film is the only thing we can really compare it to and say that it can pay homage to. The rest are in completely different mediums. Like, what would this anime copy from the games? The aesthetics, that the games already copied from the film?
Point is, this first episode didn't translate any of the fear or madness or serenity that the source material is defined by. And Tarkovsky has already demonstrated how to do this thing correctly in movie format.
No.31311
>>31310I don't think it tried to begin with.
No.31312
>>31311Exactly. The anime did not even try to adapt the features that the source material is defined by. It even omitted plot points like why she was thinking that she was dying in that first scene.
I wish the anime industry had learned their lesson from Potato Last Tour that slow anime can be good too.
No.31313
>>31311But since I'm out of work, I might as well word myself better, sorry for being terse.
It is a weekly late-night anime made for the sole purpose of churning a profit. While the production staff may even be a hundred percent passionate about the project, they know that they need to hook in as many as possible with the first few episodes.
There's no way anyone with veto power would approve making the content of the first episode we received a two or three episode.
Manga and light novels have the advantage that they are very cheap to make and publish so fringe content thrives. But anime being comparatively expensive has a duty to be proportionally profitable.
I feel sorry for everyone that remains passionate working in the industry these days. I imagine they have to chug two cups full of bureaucratic cynicism before breakfast.
No.31314
>>31312And of course, I forgot to refresh before posting.
Unfortunately things like our dear Potatoes, Mushishi and the like only come around once every blue moon.
No.31315
>>31313>While the production staff may even be a hundred percent passionate about the project, they know that they need to hook in as many as possible with the first few episodes.So who are they going to hook in with something that doesn't even make sense? It's not action-y enough to be a fun action romp, it's not in any way a horror or a Stalker tribute, the girls are bad 3dcgi a lot of the time… so who is this for?
If you are gonna make niche shit, at least make niche shit.
And heck, I don't even want that much more animation - in the sense of actual movement. Just stay on the same frames longer.
>Unfortunately things like our dear Potatoes, Mushishi and the like only come around once every blue moon.It's about time we get another blue moon.
That being said, if I try to be fair, there really isn't a good stopping point for a 12 episode series with a slow pace. Such a series will necessarily include Kisaragi station, which introduces the American soldiers. And the plot with these American soldiers gets resolved muuuch later. You can just leave them hanging in a limbo, but such sequel hooks are something the anime industry generally avoids. If they'd gotten 2 cours promised instead of just one, they might have paced it the way I want, adapting the same (or even less) material in twice the time. Still, if I had just one cour to reach the end of the American soldiers arc, I'd forego opening/ending sequences in the first two episodes, then adapt Kisaragi Station, Time and Space Man, and Rescue arcs in 3-4 episodes each. We'll see exactly what will happen, but the opening includes characters from AFTER the Rescue arc, so these arcs are probably getting 2 eps max each.
No.31316
>>31315>so who is this for?Honestly? Probably the yuri audience. I don't mean them primarily, but mainly acting as an overlap, such as those that like action and yuri and so on. Being one of the first shows of the season probably helps on that regard.
But I imagine the production staff had a few meetings about targeting and the best they came up with was this compromise.
And I really, really don't get the CG on this show. I would gladly take static drawings on the level of pic related or just dialogue with just the background over the jarring switch to 3D.
> there really isn't a good stopping point That's always a problem. Last season's Munou no Nana and Magatsu Wahrheit Zuerst just randomly stopped immediately after escalation. I hope it's not becoming a trend.
No.31317
>>31316I don't think they are doing well with the yuri audience either. But I guess this is the closest to the truth, considering they avoid showing in the OP *any* of the male characters that will turn up. Unless we count the male corpses hanging from the dog.
>But I imagine the production staff had a few meetings about targeting and the best they came up with was this compromise.Honestly, it's not a "compromise". It's just a low-effort adaptation, striving to menially hit the same plot points, even cutting some of them for time.
No.31324
Well, Alice in Deadly School was a disappointment. The story makes no sense: one minute, the girls are grabbing food supplies in an elaborate way to avoid the zombies, as if they'd been trapped for a while; the next, they're only just starting to figure out how zombies work, and fleeing to the higher floors. I thought maybe it was jumping forward and back, but the blood stains on the yankee's clothes suggest otherwise.
Pity, because the characters are quite ok. There's the yankee with a backstory that's secretly kind and caring, the iinchou with the disproportionate sense of responsibility, and even a manzai comedy duo that are at least funnier than Tokonatsu or R Deko. Maybe this was a hasty edit and the full version is better, but I suspect what's left to be released is just the second half.
Gekidol itself is also quite weak. Well, whatever, everyone knows the real strong player this season is Idoly Pride.
No.31327
This season LIDENFILMS is making:
-Urasekai Picnic
-Hataraku Saibou Black
-Hortensia Saga
-Tatoeba Last Dungeon Mae no Mura no Shounen ga Joban no Machi de Kurasu Youna Monogatari
I suppose it shouldn't be too surprising that Urasekai's quality was all over the place.
No.31334
>>31324What anime are you even talking about? Is it Urasekai or what?
Also Urasekai is lesbians, right?
No.31335
>>31327Huh, I hadn't realized Hataraku Saibou Black was being made by a different studio than the original. Any clue why that is?
No.31336
>>31334He's talking about Alice in Deadly School which is a Gekidol OVA.
No.31337
>>31324Welp, this means I'm skipping it.
>>31327Ironically, Urasekai is the worst adapted out of the four. Hortensia isn't interesting enough, however, so I am not sure I'll continue watching it. I can't take the guy's ultra deep voice seriously, or the fact that pic related is supposed to have passed as a boy.
No.31339
>>31262Hataraku Saibou Black is much better than I expected, as is the main Hataraku Saibou S2. Polar opposite of the original series yet still executed very well, at least so far in episode 1.
No.31340
>>31337>Ironically, Urasekai is the worst adapted out of the four. Well, to be frank it is probably also the most difficult to adapt out of the four as well.
> pic related is supposed to have passed as a boy.I don't know about you, but I would pretend she is a boy and presumably my squire as long as she wanted.
No.31344
>>31340>I don't know about you, but I would pretend she is a boy and presumably my squire as long as she wanted.You just want anal only. Our protagonist is supposed to be pure and shit and to go only for ultra lewd stuff like
consensual sex in missionary position for the purpose of procreation. No.31345
>>31344Please, I would just take full advantage of his (her) status as a fellow man (female) and attempt to maximize the number of no homo moments.
No.31350
I already hate this. Overachievers who work their asses off to be "the first" in meaningless categories are the worst type of characters. You can do much more with your life in school than striving for 100 in every test. The guy is not much better either, he should have left the moment she started talking shit. He still manages to be less of a retarded idiot than her though.
>>31345Yeah, I'd at least train with him(her) every day. But it seems MC didn't even do that.
No.31360
>>31356It works for me, it makes me briefly forget I live in a hellish country without Winter.
No.31365
>Kai Biyoi RamuneIt was meh. A little too standard.
>Kemono JihenThat was … well, mostly the same as Ramune, in the end. But executed much better. I'll give it a couple more episodes.
>>31364I was pleasantly surprised too. Both guys are total bros. The girls are quite good too. Also the pacing reminds me of 12sai. All around the best new show for now.
No.31369
Huh. The "bad 3dcgi anime" has evolved to using something that looks like a modern triple A game engine. The way it meshes together lots of filters, traditional animation for some of the characters, 3D for the backgrounds, and even real photos for a lot of the details… it's so jarring that it circles back into fitting. Frontier Works and Go Hands have actually LEARNED. Like, from Hand Shakers and from K and so on. Nice. I'm kinda proud of them, they didn't abandon the failed attempts to produce a consistent visual style and have finally gotten to a workable place.
>>31368>Uh, rokujouma fans might want to check it out.It's by the same author?
No.31371
>31369
>It's by the same author?
Not at all, that was just the closest thing to a spoiler I could allow myself to say.
No.31382
Can someone summarize the important things from the last two seasons of Log Horizon? I don't remember shit. I do remember I didn't like it much, though.
No.31383
>>31382When players die they go to the Moon. When they ress they forget some of their old memories, and get them back only while they are on the Moon again. Also some politics with the NPCs: the tank guild leader got together with the NPC princess while they were trying to gather a raid for the orc invasion or whatever. That will have some consequences in political terms.
I think the rest you can take in stride, like how Shiroe made a guild and so on.
No.31513
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This week Horimiya was practically smut.
No.31523
>>31520>Meanwhile, urasekai is fun, but it's weird how even an anime-only fag like me can tell how much stuff they're skipping or rushing through. I think it's so butchered you're better off seeing it as a different take on the same story rather than an adaptation, and it isn't bad at that even if the pacing is off often.Yep. The OST is pretty great at least. Also I have the feeling they will just forget about saving the American soldiers, thus skipping an entire arc.
In other news, Non Non Biyori just had the best episode ever to have aired on TV.
No.31551
>>31549At this point we have to just accept it.
No.31605
>>31603>pic related demonstrates the utterly high quality of the translationTo be fair, I have not the faintest idea how one would translate concrete poetry in kanji.
No.31606
>>31605You could at least try instead of leaving it like that. The whole translation is marred with places where the translator just didn't bother at all. Well, at least it's readable unlike some fan translations.
No.31608
>>31606>The whole translation is marred with places where the translator just didn't bother at all. Could you post some other samples? I am always morbidly curious about the fullest extent of a translator's laziness.
No.31610
>>31609>kamikakushi-edThat's gold, thanks.
No.31660
>>31654Kirara is the worst harem heroine I've seen in decades.
No.31663
>>31660Because she doesn't fit the bill of a "harem heroine", of course: she's already won.
Momoka still Best Girl.
No.31667
>>31663Let's see: DFC, fang, and thigh-band. Yup, I'll have to agree with your assessment.
No.31694
Test.
No.31702
>>31689I didn't even watch all episodes and the OP song is still stuck in my head.
No.31858
>>31762I am pretty sure they were second years. The 13th episode had no reason for existing at all. The 12th episode was already a superb way to end the season.