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Kari Kamiya said:
Given the amount of anime that's been pushed out the door in the last ten years, I'm surprised we haven't heard of more animators dropping like flies 'til now.

Meanwhile, the novels which Satoshi Kon adapted into Perfect Blue is getting an English translation. Still waiting for the Blu-Ray release, though.
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That's because most of the animators we know of are key frame artists or former artists and animators who went on to direct stuff. There's probably been a lot of drones who've dropped out long ago, or worse that we'll never know of.
 
Finished RoB: Genesis. It's a really fun adventure series, and I thoroughly enjoyed my time with it, though it dragged a bit during the eps in Anatae. I started the second season, Virgin Soul, too- and the first ep's pretty decent of a start.

Granblue Fantasy the Animation is genuinely pretty. Like, visually, it's very striking and has this soft, almost watercolor feeling to it. I'm wondering if it's done by the Grimgar crew at A1 Pictures, since the style of the series really reminds me of it. I'm also digging the plot- gives a strong, nostalgic vibe for 90s JRPGs and fantasy anime. Makes sense, given it's based on a mobile JRPG.

I'm also watching Danmachi, which is surprisingly enjoyable. It's not amazing, but it's a fun little piece of fluff. Hestia bestia. I retract that, now that I'm four eps in, Lyu is the best. Fun show so far.

ShittyRecolor said:
On a final note, there's something I really like about Japanese artists tackling superhero themes, such as Tiger and Bunny, One Punch Man or even My Hero Academia. Can you guys recommend some similarly good superhero manga\anime?
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My nigga, check out the Devilman manga. It's a fun mix of horror and superhero tropes, and its climax is genuinely disturbing and tragic. It's more horror than super hero, though.

Kari Kamiya said:
Norio Shioyama, veteran animator and character designer for Armored Trooper Votroms, died today.
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aw fuck, his character designs were pretty great. Even if he did like reusing Chirico like constantly. Nasty way to go out too- real sad. RIP
 
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Hodor said:
Finished RoB: Genesis. It's a really fun adventure series, and I thoroughly enjoyed my time with it, though it dragged a bit during the eps in Anatae. I started the second season, Virgin Soul, too- and the first ep's pretty decent of a start.

Granblue Fantasy the Animation is genuinely pretty. Like, visually, it's very striking and has this soft, almost watercolor feeling to it. I'm wondering if it's done by the Grimgar crew at A1 Pictures, since the style of the series really reminds me of it. I'm also digging the plot- gives a strong, nostalgic vibe for 90s JRPGs and fantasy anime. Makes sense, given it's based on a mobile JRPG.

I'm also watching Danmachi, which is surprisingly enjoyable. It's not amazing, but it's a fun little piece of fluff. Hestia bestia. I retract that, now that I'm four eps in, Lyu is the best. Fun show so far.


My nigga, check out the Devilman manga. It's a fun mix of horror and superhero tropes, and its climax is genuinely disturbing and tragic. It's more horror than super hero, though.


aw fuck, his character designs were pretty great. Even if he did like reusing Chirico like constantly. Nasty way to go out too- real sad. RIP
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Was it the anime or manga of Devilman that had the dark as fuck ending?
 
SteelPlatedHeart said:
Was it the anime or manga of Devilman that had the dark as fuck ending?
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Manga. The TV anime has a completely different ending (since it's a completely different take on the concept), and the OVAs never got to the ending.

I hope Devilman crybaby is a faithful adaptation. The Devilman manga would be pretty fucking rad animated.
 
I remember years ago seeing a complete collection for an anime called "Master of Martial Hearts" at a Best Buy. Looked like a fighting anime with all girls and a bunch of fanservice. Basically something that I didn't want to buy but was interested enough to look up the plot online to see where it went.

You wanna talk sudden extreme downer endings...
 
Hodor said:
Finished RoB: Genesis. It's a really fun adventure series, and I thoroughly enjoyed my time with it, though it dragged a bit during the eps in Anatae. I started the second season, Virgin Soul, too- and the first ep's pretty decent of a start.

Granblue Fantasy the Animation is genuinely pretty. Like, visually, it's very striking and has this soft, almost watercolor feeling to it. I'm wondering if it's done by the Grimgar crew at A1 Pictures, since the style of the series really reminds me of it. I'm also digging the plot- gives a strong, nostalgic vibe for 90s JRPGs and fantasy anime. Makes sense, given it's based on a mobile JRPG.

I'm also watching Danmachi, which is surprisingly enjoyable. It's not amazing, but it's a fun little piece of fluff. Hestia bestia. I retract that, now that I'm four eps in, Lyu is the best. Fun show so far.


My nigga, check out the Devilman manga. It's a fun mix of horror and superhero tropes, and its climax is genuinely disturbing and tragic. It's more horror than super hero, though.


aw fuck, his character designs were pretty great. Even if he did like reusing Chirico like constantly. Nasty way to go out too- real sad. RIP
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Oh yeah, I remember watching one of the OVAs in glorious 240p when I was 14. The whole ripping off of the demon girl's boobs was a bit much for me back then. The short crossover series with Cyborg 009 was pretty fun as well. Thanks for the tip, I'll read up on the manga one of these days.
 
SteelPlatedHeart said:
I remember years ago seeing a complete collection for an anime called "Master of Martial Hearts" at a Best Buy. Looked like a fighting anime with all girls and a bunch of fanservice. Basically something that I didn't want to buy but was interested enough to look up the plot online to see where it went.

You wanna talk sudden extreme downer endings...
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Lol for a downer ending, it was fucking hilarious. It was like I had fallen asleep during the second act and woke up in time for the climax and wondered how the hell everyone got there. I also remember the ads for Master of Martial Hearts being obnoxiously everywhere when it was first being released out here. Then it was like it just disappeared off the face of the earth after JesuOtaku reviewed it (or even before, I can't remember). It's almost like it was trying to be the next School Days but completely missed the point as to what made School Days memorable.

But it still doesn't beat Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt's sudden downer ending. Doubt anything will at this point unless Rebuild of Evangelion pulls something out of its ass in the final movie.
 
I've been watching Yona recently, and it's much more promising than most of the recent fansericey crap. It seems like it MIGHT become a reverse-harem, but at least there seems to be a plotline and some intrigue. In at ep 4 thus far.

I can't believe they scrubbed Misty and Brock from the rewrite of the original op episodes. They must havespoken against the state, and must now be erased! Lol Seriously people have missed those chars- would it have been THAT hard to put them back in for a bit instead of new chars? :'(
 
Sailor_Jupiter said:
I can't believe they scrubbed Misty and Brock from the rewrite of the original op episodes. They must havespoken against the state, and must now be erased! Lol Seriously people have missed those chars- would it have been THAT hard to put them back in for a bit instead of new chars? :'(
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The anime's infamous for not being kind to its fans, wouldn't surprise me if they really just want to start from scratch. It's one thing if they couldn't get the original voice actors to bring them in (kind of like what happened with Digimon Tri, but they recast all of the human characters for that) and they didn't want to bother recasting them. But if it's similar to what happened with the 16th movie (in that Kunihiko Yuyama just "felt like" needing a new Mewtwo), the shitstorm will most likely be worse than with that movie.

Now that I think about it, I didn't go check Serebii for reactions to the trailer. Doubt it was as big as with the Genesect movie, but I had kept my eye on that movie, so I saw the shitstorm as it happened.

EDIT: Looking at the the thread now, bitter comments galore while I'm trying to find the post with the trailer announcement. This is gonna be glorious.

EDIT 2: LOL.
 
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Kari Kamiya said:
The anime's infamous for not being kind to its fans, wouldn't surprise me if they really just want to start from scratch. It's one thing if they couldn't get the original voice actors to bring them in (kind of like what happened with Digimon Tri, but they recast all of the human characters for that) and they didn't want to bother recasting them. But if it's similar to what happened with the 16th movie (in that Kunihiko Yuyama just "felt like" needing a new Mewtwo), the shitstorm will most likely be worse than with that movie.

Now that I think about it, I didn't go check Serebii for reactions to the trailer. Doubt it was as big as with the Genesect movie, but I had kept my eye on that movie, so I saw the shitstorm as it happened.

EDIT: Looking at the the thread now, bitter comments galore while I'm trying to find the post with the trailer announcement. This is gonna be glorious.

EDIT 2: LOL.
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That makes me wonder, are they going to just appear as gym leaders? Or are they just going to outright ditch the original Kanto entirely, and thus, some or all of the Gym leaders?
 
Jewelsmakerguy said:
That makes me wonder, are they going to just appear as gym leaders? Or are they just going to outright ditch the original Kanto entirely, and thus, some or all of the Gym leaders?
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That's a good question. In the trailer, a scene of Pikachu dodging a Vine Whip suggests a gym battle with Erika. Thing is, I have a feeling this is going to go the way of Pokémon Origins in which we're just getting a montage--because there's always a catch when it comes to the Pokémon movies. (Imagine the salt from that alone.)

Besides the one post I linked to earlier, I found probably the saltiest user who posted in that thread. I actually expected this because the user (who's 31 btw) is quite the rabid Misty fanboy. Most postings they make bring up Misty in conversation in some way or another. (This user is very close to tying with them, though. Best part is I think they came out of inactivity just to complain in the thread--man, Pokémon fans are just so salty these days.)
 
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SteelPlatedHeart said:
Pulling Brock and Misty seems like such a weird choice to me. Especially since they new traveling companions aren't game characters or anything, they're just brand new never heard of before.
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It's one of those dumb business decisions made by someone who probably got tired of these two and wanted a reboot in this fashion.
 
I'll say this again and probably a few times more, this could go the way of Genesect and the Legend Awakened in terms of terrible business decisions and the fan backlash that ensues. (That in-of-itself would mean that they didn't learn their lessons from that, which I wouldn't put it past them to do.) It's been pointed out that the movie has been advertised as an entirely new story and it's an anniversary movie that's to touch upon Ash's journey as a Pokémon trainer as a whole. But this does involve Ash and Pikachu (and the Team Rocket trio), the most iconic duo in the franchise, and judging from the trailer, quite a number of important (iconic) scenes are basically ripped straight from the first two episodes of the original series. Unless they were to do things differently with those scenes and it changes the plot enough to differentiate it from the TV series, like make it an alternate universe or have it take cues from the Yellow version (which... would be a weird choice despite bringing things full circle), something's going to go wrong somewhere.

Pokémon's pretty terrible when it comes to its continuity to begin with and has never truly been consistent, and it's not the most well-written anime in any case (even the late-Takeshi Shudo's writing had its limits), from day one it's been blatantly obvious the anime's just one big advertisement for the games that this is to be expected. And given that the movies outside of the first one pretty much aren't canon to the main series, there's still a chance the movie could end up being decent and be able to stand on its own, and it'll have its fans no matter what. Frankly, the writers have to really go out of their way to screw this one up, and I don't think they and Kunihiko Yuyama are that incompetent and stupid enough to completely reboot/retcon the series in that way. (Buuuut... well... *points to Legend Awakened*)
 
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