Feb 11, 2023
The experimental ufotable of the past and the current finely-tuned blockbuster makers feel like entirely different studios. 15 years ago, Ka
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The experimental ufotable of the past and the current finely-tuned blockbuster makers feel like entirely different studios. 15 years ago, Ka
Aldnoah.Zero stole quite a bit of quite a bit from other anime that came before it in both the characters and in plot. It’s amazing to me how many parallels there are between the fight scenes of the second half and those from Sidonia no Kishi, which was released about the same time as the first season. The second season uses one of my absolute favorite songs as OP music, even though the op itself has no real life to it and is a tad too histrionic.
And yet, none of that really matters to me, because here we are in 2021 and just over 7yrs from the day that Ep1 premiered, there are still very few shows that have matched the absolute beauty of A.Z as far as I’m concerned. The first half is astounding, the detail in the backgrounds and the crispness of the animation is still phenomenal. S2 has moments where the CGI blurs the lines of what is and isn’t fluid and sometimes looks like a cut & paste being dragged across a storyboard. And, in S2, when viewed from the side, the characters talk out of the side of their mouths and yet the other side is “closed off” from the background, which makes them look hella awkward at times, when they don’t look that way already from rounded and simplified facial features in the first place. Still, the sceneries and details are more than just a leap past noteworthy. S1 definitely looks worlds better, but S2 isn’t exactly vector art, it’s still quite beautiful.
Ei Aoki directed Aldnoah.Zero. He had just come off of another project that he was the artistic director for, a little show called Fate/Zero. Am not going to hijack my own post talking about the two FSN series that I love so much, but part of the reason I hold both Fate/Zero and FSN-UBW so highly is that there is just nothing out there that looks like them - not before, not then, not since. The story and characters are plenty compelling enough, but the art in those two series is the true masterpiece. I’ll never get over it. And just like one of the axial plotlines of Aldnoah.Zero itself, the art production follows it’s bloodline. The visual feast is second to very, very few.
I can’t really seem to get out of the rut of watching new anime just because it’s there but not really wanting to be a part of it like I have in the past. Dragon Maid is sweet and I enjoy the new episodes, Slime/Datta Ken is a truckload of fun, but they’re nowhere near submersive (if that was even a word) and are just something to watch. I don’t get swallowed whole anymore and become tied to the stories or characters. I don’t need these characters to be ok or to pay for their sins like I have with so many. So, I have to go back and watch the old stuff over and over again if I want that fix. I want to be wow’ed like that again, sure - it’s not like I’m that ‘everything new sucks’ hipster dbag who wears flannel in July and drinks canned PBR which tastes like feet but some article in Tight Jeans Monthly said it’s what trendy men who want people they’ve never met to think they’re trendy do. But I’ve wanted it for a while and it hasn’t happened, so sometimes I have to go back to a show like Aldnoah.Zero to remind myself why I love this anime stuff like I do.
The Soul of Creation: One Writer's Perspective On "Re: Creators"
The Soul of Creation: One Writer’s Perspective On “Re: Creators”
Once Upon a Time… …after years and years of pushing back on the idea of “selling my soul” to Amazon by upgrading to Prime due to its laundry list of unethical business practices, not to mention the idea of adding yet another streaming service cost to the table, I finally gave in and bit the bullet. On the one hand, in 2020 I had purchased a bluray copy of the Amazon Original adaptation of the…
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Re:Creators in a Nutshell:
Power Girl, Madoka, Shinji Ikari, a Stand user, Saber, McCree, Magical Glados and Schoolgirl!Izaya Orihara are summoned to earth by EDGELORD PRINCESS GUNPUKU.
Shenanigans ensue.
Go watch it.
Go and watch Re:Creators now I swear
Análise | Overtake!: Acreditar é tudo o que consigo fazer
O anime Overtake! chegou ao seu fina, entregando uma excelente história repleta de drama e corridas. Confira aqui: #Overtake #anime #crunchyroll
No último domingo (17) chegou ao fim o anime de Fórmula 4, Overtake! se tornando uma das melhores experiência desta temporada e aqui está a nossa análise do anime. Quando o anime estreou apresentamos as nossas primeiras impressões de Overtake!, que de início se mostrou um ótimo anime de esportes desta temporada. Apesar de ser um anime original, ou seja, sem um mangá usado como base, produzido…
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OVERTAKE!: IL NUOVO ANIME ORIGINALE DI TROYCA CI PORTA SULLE PISTE DI FORMULA 4
La serie è diretta da Ei Aoki, regista di Id:Invaded, Re:Creators e Aldnoah.Zero.
After seeing these in ep 2 and then just watching ep 3, I already know this stuff is gonna physically hurt me, one way or another. Or even straight up traumatize me.
ID:INVADED, svelata la nuova serie originale di Ei Aoki
L’anime andrà in onda nel corso del prossimo anno.