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Welp, looks like I'm going to be watching Pop Team Epic regularly now. I got hooked the moment

They referenced Chrono Trigger.
 
Kari Kamiya said:
Started Devilman Crybaby tonight, only first three episodes thus far. The first episode was pretty derpy-looking, like I almost couldn't believe this is something Masaaki directed, the show and character designs just didn't really feel like it was supposed to be his project. Then I looked up the character designer and suddenly the Flip Flappers comparison makes sense and it apparently fixed itself by the second episode so it's not very derpy anymore. If anything, while the dub's not bad in the slightest (minus the fact they didn't bother making up their own English rap lyrics, fucking lazy), the animation's definitely its biggest highlight
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I was kind of in the same boat. At first, the animation was kinda bad to me, but it definitely looked better the 2nd and 3rd episodes in. Which is funny, because usually studios will opt for amazing animation on the first episode or the promo episode.

Still, I'm not sure how I feel about the redesigns. I guess you're lucky to have never read the comic, because I'm hung up on missing all those sweet, sweet sideburns. I can see why they changed some things, it kind of breathes new life into the IP. They made things look more modern, more up-to-date (in terms of redesign), which is pretty neat. But I still don't know how I feel about Xtreme Twink Ryo.
 
Violet Evergarden episode 1 on Netflix everywhere...except US(SUCK IT!I CAN WATCH IT AND YOU CAN'T!...just kidding) seems it's going to be as beautiful as they have been promissing
 
scorptatious said:
Welp, looks like I'm going to be watching Pop Team Epic regularly now. I got hooked the moment

They referenced Chrono Trigger.
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It's legit references: The anime.

Which is kind of the point of the original 4koma.

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So I've been enjoying "A place further than the universe" so far, the backgrounds are all gorgeously drawn and seem to be staying consistent into the second episode.

Also Overlord Season 2. Because it's goddamn Overlord.

My personal "This season's guilty trash watch" seems to be Grancrest War. Nicely animated, stupid boilerplate fantasy plotline.
 
Ponderous Pillock said:
It's legit references: The anime.

Which is kind of the point of the original 4koma.

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So I've been enjoying "A place further than the universe" so far, the backgrounds are all gorgeously drawn and seem to be staying consistent into the second episode.

Also Overlord Season 2. Because it's goddamn Overlord.

My personal "This season's guilty trash watch" seems to be Grancrest War. Nicely animated, stupid boilerplate fantasy plotline.
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A1 tends to produce guilty pleasures.
 
I'm enjoying the Pop Team Epic anime, but I really don't like how it seems each episode is really only 11 minutes (which would be fine if each episode actually was 11 minutes) and the other 11 minutes is just the same exact thing only with different voices and slightly alternate jokes. Like it was kinda funny for the first episode because it came out of nowhere and fitted the series' humor, but if that's what they're going to do every episode then it's going to get annoying really quick.
 
Getting around to watching stuff I missed and is it just me or is Psycho Pass season 2 really bad compared to the first season? Even the animation looks worse somehow.
 
Ruin said:
Getting around to watching stuff I missed and is it just me or is Psycho Pass season 2 really bad compared to the first season? Even the animation looks worse somehow.
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Season 2 is just plain bad from start to finish. It was done by a completely different staff from the first season, its animation was done by Tatsunoko Production instead of Production IG. The season 1 staff was working on the movie(its okay, better then season 2) at the same time. The only decent thing I can say about is the dub is standard funimation far from there worse, but not as good as season 1's.
 
Halberd Sonichu said:
Season 2 is just plain bad from start to finish. It was done by a completely different staff from the first season, its animation was done by Tatsunoko Production instead of Production IG. The season 1 staff was working on the movie(its okay, better then season 2) at the same time. The only decent thing I can say about is the dub is standard funimation far from there worse, but not as good as season 1's.
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I was pretty bummed. Been a while since I've seen a quality dive that severe.
 
Sadly these quality drops are becoming achingly standard fare whenever someone gets an unexpected hit (like Psycho Pass was and Attack on Titan)

Production I.G's only really been able to work on one actual production at a time, with iirc only two "sections" (they used to be called Section 7 and 8 from GiTS) really existing inside the studio. Making movies would eat an entire section for breakfast with, iirc, Arise also starting some production meetings/drawings at the time of the second season of Psycho Pass.
 
Ponderous Pillock said:
Sadly these quality drops are becoming achingly standard fare whenever someone gets an unexpected hit (like Psycho Pass was and Attack on Titan)

Production I.G's only really been able to work on one actual production at a time, with iirc only two "sections" (they used to be called Section 7 and 8 from GiTS) really existing inside the studio. Making movies would eat an entire section for breakfast with, iirc, Arise also starting some production meetings/drawings at the time of the second season of Psycho Pass.
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Didn't Season 2's production move over to Tatsunoko? That could explain the difference in quality between the two seasons.
 
Jewelsmakerguy said:
Didn't Season 2's production move over to Tatsunoko? That could explain the difference in quality between the two seasons.
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Which is pretty much what I am saying. I.G's just not big enough (and actually focuses on shit) to have been able to handle Psycho Pass' film, the prep work for Arise and a second season all at the same time. The actual marketing/publishing people in charge of commissioning these animus won't wait either, and just foist it off onto another studio without real thought for the impact long term.

Just another symptom of the entertainment industry as a whole in Japan.
 
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I gave Crybaby a go. I was entertained and the ending was satisfying. It was okay. Faint praise, but I did like the show. The first half was cartoonishly violent and sexual, and I was either too numb or too busy laughing to take it seriously, but I kept watching because never at any point did I think "this is shit". I went in wanting Gantz, thought I was getting Panty and Stocking, came out with Devilman Crybaby and that's fine. The music was fucking awesome.

I personally didn't like the theme about humanity's nature and "who are really the demons?" in the latter half of the show. It was too brief and too near the end. What is the message supposed to be? That demons and humans are not so different? I saw that, you'd have to be blind (or Ryo) not to notice both can love and hurt, but it muddies the unique nature of being a Devilman (retaining a human heart) and goes against everything we were shown and the explicit line that demons are 'pure' for being driven only by the desire to fuck and 'destroy'. Akira struggles against his demon side and dreams of banging Miki, which makes sense, and is an earlier thing that pushes the idea that demons are total monsters compared to humans. But Kaim, 100% demon, is a character who admires and respects Sirene and surprisingly doesn't jerk off when she is. Or maybe we just never see what's inside his head. This must be a result of being an adaption, with only 10 episodes and such prominent names/designs, they're probably more fleshed out in the manga rather than being 1 note cuck guy and thot bird.
Ryo's meh. I wanted to like Ryo because he was initially suspicious and interesting, and he's practically meme-tier cool guy (teenage professor, PhD, cool house, cool car, cool guns) but he ended up being a homo autist and sociopathic edgelord. For someone who can't into feels I can't imagine how he engineers his social media. That never goes away until he gets his emotional shit kicked in the last episode, which frankly made my day. So why the fuck do I like Satan enough to make it my picture, and why has Devilman no Uta been on a loop for the past 6 hours? :'(:'(:'(
 
Even though I never read the manga, I don't understand why I was supposed to be shocked at the lynch mob at the end when it was telegraphed like fucking crazy during the penultimate episode. Like, yeah, when the manga came out it was probably insane and unexpected and this might be a case of "Seinfeld Isn't Funny", or just that I'm not really that affected by violence since reading Mai-chan's Daily Life 10 years ago, but I was more gutted at the very well acted and convincing human anguish of Noel, rather than what happened to that dumb doxed broad, though her final scream was aces.

Also every woman in this show has the biggest nipples in the world and that causes me a laugh.
 
Noel's scene and humanity wrecking itself on Ryo's screen in ep 7 had the most impact on me because they were more 'real'. I'd read the manga but the art looks... wonky. It must be praised for good reason though, so maybe one day I'll read it.
 
Seven Seas is releasing the manga in English this spring, I guess. It's only 5 volumes, though.
 
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