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Studio Orange did it well, more or less when it came to Land of the Lustrous and Beastars. Can't say I wouldn't rather have it be in fancy high spec 2d, but its best to not be greedy.

The cgi in the new Lupin the Third movie looks decent too.
 
I think the best CGI anime is those Starship Troopers movies because they are realistic but still semi-stylized, like a video game's cutscene.

Also the CGI tits and ass in them is really amusing to me.

When it's trying to replicate the look of 2D animation it almost always feels inferior, the irony is this new GITS is from the director of those Starship Troopers movies, go figure.
 
Dom Cruise said:
When it's trying to replicate the look of 2D animation it almost always feels inferior, the irony is this new GITS is from the director of those Starship Troopers movies, go figure.
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Shinji Aramaki's worked with CGI for decades at this point. He made his mark in CGI with the Appleseed movies, though he's been around designing mechs since the '80s. I trust he knows what he's doing.
 
When it comes to cell-shaded CGI, France is doing really good.
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Got back into seasonal anime heavily for the first time in about a year (last one I finished was Jojo part 5 and by then it was the only one I was watching). So far I've been watching Darwin's Game, Plunderer, Dorohedoro, and ID:Invaded. I plan on watching In/Spectre and Somali and the Forest Spirit soon. Quick thoughts:
  • Darwin's Game gave me real Mirai Nikki/Future Diary vibes. Main character who gets thrust into a survival game with the most OP power but doesn't really know how to fight all that well, gets a psycho girlfriend that helps him out, lots of violence and bloodshed. Even if it feels familiar, I'm enjoying it so far. why did they put a recap episode this week
  • Plunderer is hysterical when it's comedic but a tad dull when it gets to the standard fight scenes. The world has an interesting concept with everyone having a Count that sends you to the abyss if it reaches zero, but there hasn't been much plot yet. Decently animated and great characters though.
  • Fucking Netflix making me wait for fansubs for Dorohedoro. Anyway, it's pretty good so far, a really weird series that just throws you into the deep end and leaves you to figure it out for yourself. For a mostly CGI anime, it's animated well, though I still wish it were all 2D. Humorous and ultraviolent.
  • ID:Invaded is my sleeper hit of the season. A sci-fi mystery series about tracking down serial killers by using mental traces they've left behind at their crime scenes to create an image of their mind, and a former cop turned serial killer is sent inside to figure out the metaphorical mystery inside, which helps the cops find the real killer. Great visuals and a really engaging plot so far. Also has an excellent ED.
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So any thoughts about Black Clover? I was about to give up on it early on, but now I'm really enjoying it.
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Black Clover is incredibly generic, but it knows it and uses it to its advantage. A lot of general shonen tropes are subverted to improve the story, or played straight when that would work better. Some subversions include things like skipping past the generic "join the hero organization exams" instead of dragging them out for weeks, or ending a standard tournament arc like two episodes in by just having the bad guys literally barge through the wall. Then you've got things played straight, like Asta literally being nothing but purehearted never-giving-up spirit, to the point of telling the demon(?) that was trying to take him over to fuck off, he's gotta go save his friends.

It's really corny sometimes ("MY MAGIC IS NEVER GIVING UP" being the prime example), but that's why I love it. It's just so damn earnest in what it is, it revels in being a pretty standard story and just doing that as well as it can. It hurts that people wrote it off simply because they thought it looked too much like Naruto, and most of that I attribute to it starting not long after Naruto finally ended. It's certainly a lot more fun to me than MHA, which got really boring once it got to its standard tournament arc that dragged out for weeks. I gave up on that one when Deku was literally told that all he had to do to beat his first opponent was not say anything, only for him to immediately say something and get mind controlled. Noped out of that series and never looked back.

Just note that the first dozen episodes or so will be a little slow and might not grab you right away. By the time Asta joins the Black Bulls, that's when the series really gets its bearings and becomes consistently entertaining. I haven't watched the subbed version, but the dub is definitely good.
 
If we already start recount current season anime:
  • ID Invaded - It reminds me a lot of AI: Somnium Files and has an intriguing premise that isn't very obvious how it will turn out. Pretty interesting stuff.
  • In/Spectre - Diet Monogatari, has a cute heroine but the main character doesn't have any personality (though it might change). It's fun and the character interactions are nice.
  • Magia Record - A fantastic expansion with a great mystery that doesn't try to emulate the original show beat for beat. I like that the city in it feels organic rather than arbitrary locals and the visual design is still top tier Shaft.
  • Interspecies Reviewers - Worth it for the great humour alone, the sexy bits are a nice extra. It also does a really nice world building that makes a weird kind of sense.
  • Hanako San - The visual are really good and it mixes comedy with the plot quite well.
  • Isekai Quartet S2 - Actually funny this time.
  • Seton Academy - Cute but the humor doesn't always land, I really like the voice actress for the wolf girl. The ED is adorable.
I don't know whether to watch Somali, it looks like another Made in Abyss with a cute setting with a terrible world behind it.
 
wtfNeedSignUp said:
I don't know whether to watch Somali, it looks like another Made in Abyss with a cute setting with a terrible world behind it.
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I don't find it particularly dark, more sentimental and bittersweet than anything else. Imagine Natsume's Book of Friends but with Abe in the background whispering "aren't kids cute? Isn't being a dad appealing? Have kids."

That being said, I haven't went that far, maybe 3 or 4 volumes, so maybe it gets edge after that.
 
Speaking of In/Spectre, it seems /a/ has been enjoying itself quite a bit with Episode 4 (to be fair, the deceased idol's design is too A-tier just to be killed off).
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Also, the team running the show went and made the actual website about Steel Beam Nanase, complete with the idol's Twitter account. It's nice to see people putting their all into this.
 
wtfNeedSignUp said:
  • ID Invaded - It reminds me a lot of AI: Somnium Files and has an intriguing premise that isn't very obvious how it will turn out. Pretty interesting stuff.
  • In/Spectre - Diet Monogatari, has a cute heroine but the main character doesn't have any personality (though it might change). It's fun and the character interactions are nice.
  • Magia Record - A fantastic expansion with a great mystery that doesn't try to emulate the original show beat for beat. I like that the city in it feels organic rather than arbitrary locals and the visual design is still top tier Shaft.
  • Interspecies Reviewers - Worth it for the great humour alone, the sexy bits are a nice extra. It also does a really nice world building that makes a weird kind of sense.
  • Hanako San - The visual are really good and it mixes comedy with the plot quite well.
  • Isekai Quartet S2 - Actually funny this time.
  • Seton Academy - Cute but the humor doesn't always land, I really like the voice actress for the wolf girl. The ED is adorable.
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Speaking of Interspecies reviewers, Funimation dropped it because it 'doesn't meet their standards'. Fucking lol. Funimation is such trash.
 
Probably not. They censored it too, so fuck them. Hopefully Sentai and HDIVE acquires the rights now that Funi probably broke a contract to do this.

It feels hilarious to me that they dropped it after the gender-swap inn episode. Transphobe much?

Reminder: They have that gay mermaid anime on their site as well.
 
Secret Asshole said:
Probably not. They censored it too, so fuck them. Hopefully Sentai and HDIVE acquires the rights now that Funi probably broke a contract to do this.

It feels hilarious to me that they dropped it after the gender-swap inn episode. Transphobe much?

Reminder: They have that gay mermaid anime on their site as well.
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Well they did cave to the angry trannies.
 
This is the first in a couple of years I decided to pick up a couple of seasonal anime, but that's only because of how cucked FUNimation and ANN are, and since they clearly don't expect you to check out the shows for yourself, I went ahead to do just that.

Thus far, the ones I'm watching this season are Nekopara and Interspecies Reviewers. Nekopara is actually kinda cute when you just look at it at face-value, the shit the ANN "reviewers" were saying about it don't hold water because they were only like throwaway lines or are clearly not the focus of the show and characters. Maybe it's tamer compared to the original visual novel, not sure, but their complaints are super nitpicky and don't mean anything.

Only just watched the first two episodes of Reviewers last night, but that was surprisingly engaging despite the eroticism. Actually, it kind of reminds me of the '90s sex comedies in terms of porn-with-plot sex jokes. It's much more daring than those older titles, but I think it's the kind of "monster girl sex" people have been wanting since Monster Musume. I think ANN rated it higher than Nekopara, though, but that was before FUNimation bailed, so they might be changing their minds on it. They're just going to make this the most watched anime of the season at this rate, which is fine by me.

Might pick up a couple more soon, but I'm not sure yet. I need to get back in the groove of things.
 
Just don't read ANN. They're pathetic, a waste of time and overly sensitive about everything.

Hilariously, the fourth episode of Interspecies Reviewers, the one directly after the episode Funimation cancels, has all the heroes mock being dead and the show declares itself over. God has a sense of humor.
 
Akumaten said:
Funimation is part of Sony and Sony is now stationed in California. It's par for the course. But I digress.
They want to go back to 4Kids quality with woke politics on the side
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though at least 4kids was able to give us a pretty good TMNT incarnation, Mike Pollock as Eggman, and the GX dub, and years worth of laughs at how bad they were... What has Funimation given us
 
Kari Kamiya said:
This is the first in a couple of years I decided to pick up a couple of seasonal anime, but that's only because of how cucked FUNimation and ANN are, and since they clearly don't expect you to check out the shows for yourself, I went ahead to do just that.
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I usually just skim the myanimelist overview (not the reviews, just what type of show it is and the synopsis).

speaking of seasonal, heya camp should be watched just to make the urge for a full season that more painful (also dat ED).
 
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