Isn't that the one they made into the half of Voltron no one remembers?
There's very few television anime in general that make me think "yeah, this is extremely well animated." And plenty which don't like early computer animation and CG and most shows nowadays. Only difference with 70s stuff is the style. For every cool trippy visual effect there's stiff-ass ugly animation like Doan's Island in the original Gundam.
Yes, but apparently the Japanese version is really good -- it's sort of like a combination of Yamato and Star Trek.
Style was what I was talking about, not animation quality. 70s anime looks a lot more artsy, skillful, and deliberate while modern anime seems like a few steps above Deviantart quality.
That concept movie was just that; a concept.
I can't think of any 70s anime that have the artistic flair as all the best 80s OVAs or a few 90s/00s stuff. There's moments the original Gundam takes you on an acid trip but then you have Turn A Gundam where the animation is some of the best ever not just for the quality, but the whole approach. That's a reasonable comparison--same franchise, same director, same studio. And even in the past decade there's some really creative shows in approach like the Elusive Samurai adaption from last year where they actually expanded on the manga's detail. It just sucks that it's so rare to see things like that anymore.
B-but I thought you were the only Kiwi that hated all tranime and would pass the degen test
Any show with machinery will have some wonderful shading, water is depicted in this really nice, heavy way, all the lines tend to be quite rugged, and the characters are either designed like lil goofballs or built to be stoic, melancholic heroes. Not much anime since then has done that; it's mostly overly-infantalized crap.
Turn A looks like a late 90s sci-fi show like Stargate. Pretty good that they could translate live action into animated form.
I don't see what you're going on about. The lines are nice, sure, and adds to the manga-esque look (even for anime originals). The shading is nice, even if 80s anime did the shading better anyway on machinery, as did or retro-styled shit like the Getter Robo OVAs or Gurren Lagann. But water, nah, it's generic and blue, because it's difficult to do by hand. Computer animation is simply better at it. You couldn't do a show with a lot of water like Aria before the 00s.B-but I thought you were the only Kiwi that hated all tranime and would pass the degen test
And to answer your question, BLAME! does get weird and disappointing later on; it's not worth it.
Any show with machinery will have some wonderful shading, water is depicted in this really nice, heavy way, all the lines tend to be quite rugged, and the characters are either designed like lil goofballs or built to be stoic, melancholic heroes. Not much anime since then has done that; it's mostly overly-infantalized crap.
I think it's the very cool art direction and aesthetic (steampunk/dieselpunk meets utopian future shit). It's also exceptionally colorful and IIRC has almost no stock footage. I don't think the industry is capable of making something that beautiful now even with CGI. At least some shows are still very colorful like G-Reco or Elusive Samurai.
to be fair, it's hard to compare it to the average jpg-collector gachaslop given how much money and effort cygames pumps into it. heck with all the issues of name-rights for the horses and possible yakuza involvement that delayed the game for years (s1 was supposed to lead into the gacha launch), most companies would probably have thrown in the towel.
The merch I've been seeing at Hot Topic like the past year or two makes me wonder. The anime will be 20 years old next year, and it's a contender for a Brotherhood treatment like Fruits Basket. Problem is the current gender bullshit that will undoubtedly be pushed, if not by the Japanese, by the American localization team. Also the dub will just not be the same in general.
Isekai may have the initial premise of "I was reincarnated in X, Y, or Z goofy way" but every single story plays out the exact same way. The last original concept I remember being introduced is Shield Hero's edgy trope about every other isekai'd character beside the protagonist being a moronic, arrogant asshole, and now every single slop isekai does that too.
I disagree. Isekai is forever stuck in the western fantasy camp and is so trope filled that the only notable instances are the ones where the tropes are called out. At least battle harems had the initial school setting and branched out from that point. Also isekai refuses to die the fuck out, konosuba laughed at the genre and the anime came out 8 years ago.
Nips love Dragon Quest too much to think of an actually interesting Isekai concept. I make this post every single time Isekai gets mentioned in this thread because it's the biggest blow against Isekai LNs.
How does Dragon Quest have anything to do with this outside of being a standard anigame fantasy series?
Dragon Quest is comedically fucking popular in Japan and every isekai owes their basic blueprint to the first 3 Dragon Quest games.
Goyslop light novels haven't taken place at Anime Hogwarts for over a decade. You'll only see that setting in the present day when it is itself part of the Generic Isekai Fantasy Setting (Villainess Isekai slop LNs tend to feature this pretty frequently).
Not really, actual comedy is rare and at most is characters talk about tropes. Battle shonens are also rare, an enemy that's actual a roadblock doesn't last long, unlike ye olde battle shonens where an entire season could build up to a single fight. And even the harem is devoid of character interaction.
Adventurer's guild and light fantasy usually come bundled up. Having an explicit MMO mechanics is the biggest red flag that things are going to get shit since it's pure power level/having the exact counter ability bullshit every time.
A lot of those are not isekai in name only. But still have every fault of the original genre.
