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Spring Anime 2012 | Welcome Home, Space Cowboy
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They look like stalls WITH NO DOOR.
The guy who designed this bathroom must be preparing for an invasion by that chick from Neverwhere.
From left to right: stall, another sink that can be seen in one of the other shots, and a locker.
It's not CG, just digitally painted.
KuwabaraTheMan
Banned
I think the bathroom was designed as some sort of impossible to solve puzzle to be used in bizarre social experiments. How people interact with the bathroom will reflect upon their society.
Yes but compare the "stall" image with the stalls shown in the wide shot. The proportions of the stall "wall" or whatever it is doesn't match up at all. Same with the height of that other sink without a mirror. Everything is completely different.
The probably should have gone for CG... at least then it'd be consistent from shot to shot.
You can't say the environments make no sense in a P.A. Works anime!
Speaking of emma, my friend had the manga and it looks suitably interesting. I might very well buy the series. Its the sort of thing I like.
Oh. Yeah. They show it closer too and it changes again.
This new toilet placement confuses me too.
Edit: Beaten on it but you get the point.
hosannainexcelsis
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The toilets were perpendicular after all!
This is definitely the most amazing toilet I have ever seen in anime.
PdotMichael
Banned
Now, I that's not wrong.
Is just a modern electronic toilet.
ohhh
Japan approves of toilet voyeurism.
Pretty sure it not only bathroom sinks that has the problem.Speaking of Accel World, but on a lighter subject. I watched episode one and two recently and even though the show isn't terrible, something really bugged me about it. Well, besides the main characters design; however it's related.
In one scene we see our MC in the bathroom washing his hands. Nothing too weird, but when you look at the position of the sinks, they are perfectly suited to his height. This wouldn't seem off if not for every other character being roughly twice his height.
So this means that everyone has to reach down to about their knees to wash their hands...
#nitpick
Character height is inconsistent too.
hosannainexcelsis
Member
This is what bad character design leads to!
Look at how the size of the basket changes.
cosmicblizzard
Banned
I thought you dropped this already?
The second one is thickest for some reason.
And the bottom lines of the stall walls are messed up too.
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
Just like the Evangelions, the basket shrinks or expands depending on how much sabisu is needed.
Three-episode rule.
A Black Falcon
Member
You've got it backwards -- Tasogare is a comedy on top of a drama, that is. Or maybe it'd be better to say that it's a drama with a lot of comedy in it? A drama with a character (Yuuko) who'd rather make jokes than fully face her past? Something like that.Dusk Maiden of Amnesia 02
The tone of this show is completely off-putting to me. It presents itself on every level as a creepy/dramatic ghost show, but then at the last second it pulls back this veil and is like, "Psyche! This is a comedy, hahahahahahahaha." Scenes play out with what appears to be a very specific dramatic intent but always end on these flat jokes that feel completely out of place.
That IS what the series is like in the manga too, though -- it repeatedly goes back and forth between drama and comedy. I think it works, but I can see how other people would disagree.
I'll agree that the visuals aren't quite as slick as Shaft's despite having some similarities in style, but I do think that they work overall. It is a nice-looking episode on the whole.
I do think that Yuuko is a good character, and that does help the series a lot, yeah. I mean, it focuses on her so much that she better be... fortunately she is.
Jim E. Rossler
Banned
As someone who was into astronomy as a kid
I think I'm going to love Space Bros
I think I'm going to love Space Bros
cosmicblizzard
Banned
Yep, especially since it's a good show. Who cares about 1 or 2 oversights?
hosannainexcelsis
Member
I think there's more than 2 oversights here.
I would agree with the assessment that it's a comedy from what I've seen so far, but the build up to the punch lines is drama and the punch line itself is often the contrast with the dramatic or creepy elements. For me at least it winds up not really delivering on either end.
Ignoring how the toilet both does and doesn't line up with the wall at the same time. Notice how in this shot the top of the toilet doesn't line up with the blue lines on the wall:
And yet in this one it does:
Clearly this is the work of a technically advanced shape-shifting toilet. I'd expect nothing less from the glorious nation of Nippon.
And yet in this one it does:
Clearly this is the work of a technically advanced shape-shifting toilet. I'd expect nothing less from the glorious nation of Nippon.
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
Wait, so the water is being supplied to the toilet through the intersections?
whaaaaaaaat
whaaaaaaaat
On the subject of CG backgrounds though, I think Fate/Zero Ep4-5 is a good example of something which would be very hard to achieve with 2D backgrounds. A lot of attention was paid to the surrounding area in general, and what they did was to create a full 3D layout of the entire background in CG, and as the fight in ep4 progressed they tracked the positions of the characters as they moved and all destruction and debris in the environment is accurately reflected on the backgrounds, and they stay consistent for the entire duration of both episodes.
PdotMichael
Banned
Maybe, there is a deeper meaning behind the toilet scene.
The "real world" is not the reality but just a layer of the internet world like in Matrix.
kiunchbb
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It is Japan, their toilet are 100 years ahead of us, so the wastes are most likely being teleport to another dimension.
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
Black hole toilets surely are security hazards?
cosmicblizzard
Banned
The inconsistency with the bathroom will tie into the story. Light novel spoilers:
I have no fuckin clue if it will or not (probably not).
Is the floor in the stall slanted? Check out the differences in height between the floor and the green stripe at the bottom of the wall. Maybe the whole bathroom is a giant Mystery Spot.
Ho.
Besides the obvious mistakes being pointed out. The writing and direction were pretty bad. copy/paste "shinji" archetype into battle generator scenario "digital world".
Wow she's cute. Whoever that is.
I don't normally nitpick background art, but this is pretty bad yeah. The toilet placement is laughably inconsistent. not just nitpickingly so but glaringly so.
It's kinda pointless without visuals though.
hosannainexcelsis
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This isn't the sort of discussion that comes off well in audio form.
I think I gotta see Accel World just to find out how deep this rabbit hole goes.
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