Nozomi/Rightstuf also licensed Piano and The Third, both of which I have enjoyed.
they seem to license shows that you wouldn't think would sell well, but probably end up doing ok because they have a captive market that they advertise constantly to.
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Summer 2012 Anime |OT3| Where All the Waifus Are Made Up and the Points Don't Matter
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Nozomi/Rightstuf also licensed Piano and The Third, both of which I have enjoyed.
they seem to license shows that you wouldn't think would sell well, but probably end up doing ok because they have a captive market that they advertise constantly to.
Jex
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It's also pretty neat in that
both characters achieved satisfactory results based on their skill level
hosannainexcelsis
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Wouldn't this be NTV's decision?
I guess that we're finally going to see what an anime that is literally animated in MS Paint looks like.
FUCK
Well, I guess that means there will be more budget to make episodes 13 and 14 look extra good.
Probably not ;___;
darkside31337
Tomodachi wa Mahou
Gintama MS Paint OP is one of the best OPs ever made.
I am convinced a MS Paint anime could be pretty amazing.
Jex
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I was just seeing to point out that, contrary to how you were presenting it, it's not like he chopped his way through a completely healthy tower with his stick. As you can see from this shot:
the snake that's coiled around the smokestack has already inflicted damage on the structure, he then runs down the snake's body and attacks the area that's already been crushed by the snake. It still doesn't make a lick of physical sense but it's not quite as awful as it appears.
Not that it would really matter either way in an action show because anime works spend a fair amount of time completely ignoring physics. However in a show that's supposed to be grounded it's not really excusable.
hosannainexcelsis
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Kaiji sold less than Chihayafuru, and that got a second season. Which didn't look like it was animated in Paint.
Jex
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Awesome. I don't know who the heck is going to buy it, but I'll support such a release.
I was just seeing to point out that, contrary to how you were presenting it, it's not like he chopped his way through a completely healthy tower with his stick. As you can see from this shot:
the snake that's coiled around the smokestack has already inflicted damage on the structure, he then runs down the snake's body and attacks the area that's already been crushed by the snake. It still doesn't make a lick of physical sense but it's not quite as awful as it appears.
Not that it would really matter either way in an action show because anime works spend a fair amount of time completely ignoring physics. However in a show that's supposed to be grounded it's not really excusable.
See I dont understand why people say this about NTHT. Its not grounded. There is a flying battleship in it. There is a magical girl who produces water. Its a bit of sci fi fantasy that just happens to have realistic themes, but its still high fantasy.
Jex
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Yeah but all they had to do for Kaiji S2 was animate a pachinko ball rolling around and then loop it 400 times.
firehawk12
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So weird that Rose of Versailles was their announcement.
It kind of makes sense that they have both a "premium" and "budget" line though. They can probably get away with selling newer, niche shows for cheap but they probably do need to charge a decent amount of money for this set.
I still wish it was either Wandering Son or an announcement that they were going to blu-ray though.
It kind of makes sense that they have both a "premium" and "budget" line though. They can probably get away with selling newer, niche shows for cheap but they probably do need to charge a decent amount of money for this set.
I still wish it was either Wandering Son or an announcement that they were going to blu-ray though.
Jex
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Spoken like a true unbeliever. If everyone just lowers the quality of their posts and starts spewing forth random spam we can get there easily.
gashikunFLCL
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Fuck Yeah! For Chihaya S2 being two course!
Jex
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Eh, people have said stranger things. Not that much stranger, but still. I can't support someone supporting bland writing though.
hosannainexcelsis
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If you don't like that example, Emma: A Victorian Romance sold worse than Chihayafuru and also got a second season.
Did it look like it was animated at all though?
I'm sorry to be spoiling everyone's cynicism. I'll come back later.
I guess all that Ookami Kodomo money they're getting is buying them some strong weed. Maybe!
Speaking of which, it's at 3.9 billion yen or something now, so it's almost over Eva 2.0's mark!
I think Chihayafuru is pretty high on the manga sales list, if what I remember from one of ANN's articles is correct. I don't know if the manga was always doing well or if the anime really helped boost sales though.
Chet Rippo
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He's watching the wrong kind of shows then.
If "talking about SAO" means "posting the words Asuna and Lisbeth in various configurations of sound and fury" then yes, that does appear to be the case.
Yes, I mean the Shakespeare reference.
Save your indignance for something that isn't a throwaway statement clearly meant as a joke.
Eh, point taken but it's not like this example alone is what soured me to the show. NTHT tries to engage in serious drama, but features a protagonist and antagonist where even the physics presented in the show do not apply. Everyone else has to undergo hell, but they're above that. Why? Because script. That's why I started calling them Neo and Smith.I was just seeing to point out that, contrary to how you were presenting it, it's not like he chopped his way through a completely healthy tower with his stick. As you can see from this shot:
the snake that's coiled around the smokestack has already inflicted damage on the structure, he then runs down the snake's body and attacks the area that's already been crushed by the snake. It still doesn't make a lick of physical sense but it's not quite as awful as it appears.
Not that it would really matter either way in an action show because anime works spend a fair amount of time completely ignoring physics. However in a show that's supposed to be grounded it's not really excusable.
It's a blatant disregard for consistency and it undermines everything the show tries to do. What would otherwise be complications in the storyline become transparent contrivance.
Jex
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It's not simply cynicism, it's my experience with the original series. It's pretty hard not to notice that the series experiences a drop in visual quality half-way through (despite the presence of a complete filler episode) which doesn't really make me particularly optimistic about how good a new series is going to look irrespective of the sales of the show.
Of course, some shows have managed to look dramatically worse in their second season despite having a strong first season. Case in point: Gunslinger Girls.
hosannainexcelsis
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I'm not trying to be indignant. I'm just personally not in the mood for this sort of thing right now. I apologize; I shouldn't have made that statement and I don't want to ruin anyone else's fun. Please, don't mind me.
Go_Ly_Dow
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Why did the Japanese government fund the Blood-C movie?
There are many things us humans should never know...
Jex
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Quite often I find that, once a few major things on a show have started to really annoy or bother me I then begin to pick up on various, smaller things about which perhaps wouldn't have bothered me as much if the the show hadn't already got on my bad side. Not that I'm saying that lack of consistency is a small problem, because it's actually quite a large one.
Authors are perfectly free to set the rules of their own universe, but when they don't care enough to abide by them then I care less about the story.
In short, you can ask the audience to believe the impossible, but not the improbable.
darkside31337
Tomodachi wa Mahou
hosannainexcelsis
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That is an understandable position which I can sympathize with.
How much more material is there that could be adapted? With the manga on long term hiatus thanks to whatever has happened to Ai Yazawa I don't know what the situation is. Plus it's possible that it's just not current enough any more - Nana was such a hot property and maybe its time has simply passed.
Jex
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She was one of the major female leads in an extremely popular show so yes, although it's questionable how such popularity will fare in the longer-term considering that there's nothing particuarly interesting about her character. Of course, looking at any of the polls from Japan, it doesn't seem like being an interesting character is connected with your popularity among the fans.
Kind of hard to do a second season given what happened with the manga.
What happened? Spoiler tag it if necessary.
I loved Paradise Kiss and was going to watch Nana soon, but I was under the impression it was finished.
I don't know. I was waiting for a second season to materialize.
Nodame Cantabile went on hiatus several times, but thankfully that got adapted.
I believe in their ED.
darkside31337
Tomodachi wa Mahou
It's been on hiatus for 3 years.
Holy shit, Sigure are doing the OP? I fucking love that band
Never thought I'd see them providing a song for an animu lol.Holy shit, Sigure are doing the OP? I fucking love that band
You should check the last few (hundred) pages and look for all my posts on Psycho-Pass! It's a really weird talent pool!
Jex
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[Gunslinger Girl] - 10
Well that escalated quickly.
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There's lots and lots of other things to talk about, direction wise, but sadly I do not have the time. I never even touched on the fact that Guise has taken Henrietta on a romantic cruise.
Well that escalated quickly.
It was pretty clear from the first time we saw the crime scene that Elsa had killed Lauro and then herself. Lauro never took the time to fully understand his charge and this error, in the end, was fatal.
True, there could be some other explanation for their deaths but the fact that they occurred off-screen gives you a pretty clear indication about what happened to them. If they were killed in some gunfight than the show would be perfectly happy to show us that event occurring onscreen, there have been plenty of action scenes in the show so far. The fact that we don't see it happen helps to point us in the direction of a murder/suicide. I thought it was pretty ballsy that, at no time during the episode did they actually 'flashback' to th event.
And what of the Social Welfare's Agencies reaction? They obviously moved to cover it up, for their own good. The fact that we got to see another agency investigate the SWA helps with the world building of the series as a whole.
Interestingly enough the fact that this case hasn't been completely sown up by the conclusion of the episode has made this one of the longest running story arcs in the entire series
True, there could be some other explanation for their deaths but the fact that they occurred off-screen gives you a pretty clear indication about what happened to them. If they were killed in some gunfight than the show would be perfectly happy to show us that event occurring onscreen, there have been plenty of action scenes in the show so far. The fact that we don't see it happen helps to point us in the direction of a murder/suicide. I thought it was pretty ballsy that, at no time during the episode did they actually 'flashback' to th event.
And what of the Social Welfare's Agencies reaction? They obviously moved to cover it up, for their own good. The fact that we got to see another agency investigate the SWA helps with the world building of the series as a whole.
Interestingly enough the fact that this case hasn't been completely sown up by the conclusion of the episode has made this one of the longest running story arcs in the entire series
There's lots and lots of other things to talk about, direction wise, but sadly I do not have the time. I never even touched on the fact that Guise has taken Henrietta on a romantic cruise.
lol
I was going to ask you about them. I read their wiki page and it makes it seem almost death metalish(with screaming). I was expecting an OP that was sorta passive, this is going to be interesting.
It's also kinda impressive if you look at their Oricon stats though.
Sigure aren't death metal. More like a mix of post rock/hardcore/progressive/pop music. I can't really think of any other band quite like them!
Yeah, I saw already, the directing staff seems interesting. Chief director is a live action dude?
It's the sort of music where I expect the opening sequence to be directed like a live action drama opening, so maybe it fits. Lots of noisy motion design on the screen, moving credits and stuff, and quick cuts showing the various characters one by one, etc. Something like CSI.
Because Blood was a hot export property and Japanese industrial policy is based mainly on dirigisme?
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