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The Testament of Sister New Devil

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Joukamachi no Dandelion (2015)

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I really can't stress how much I know I feel like a broken record lately. I'm basically one of those hipster dbags wearing flannel in July, drinking PBR even though it tastes like sweaty socks, and talking in prose about 'it was better back when' about anything and everything.

But sometimes... sometimes it really was, especially with anime.

Just finished watching Date a Live from the beginning all the way up to the new episodes, even season 2 which I insisted I wouldn't. I will always say it - DAL is nothing significant, is nothing even particularly good, is just a title I've always really liked because it's fun and has some really original characters. The central story is actually pretty involved and well thought out, even though more than once it's strayed a little too far from and fanservice is overused to fill the void.

But the thing I think I like most is how no one studio has made more than one season of the show and there are four seasons now. AIC brought the world to life, and whereas I think they are the most guilty of focused ecchi - somehow with Origami especially - they really did Tohka justice. She's just nothing but great from hello. As is the entire cast, so many memorable and unique characters. IMS did season two and yeah... let's not go there, it was bad. But the characters were still the characters, just very flatly written and voiced, and the overall crafting was bleh at best. JC Staff did season 3 and it was a full-on revitalization - the animation was a massive rebound from 2, the characters were lovable again, and they really included everything they could from the source material to move the characters and story in an elevated way. Very well done. All three studios managed to keep the animation at least mostly similar, the character scores and music have been carried over - that military march when monitoring dates onboard Fraxinus is the epitome of the show's playfulness, I can't imagine episodes without it - and each has at least made an attempt to keep the characters true to themselves.

Until... uuuuggggggh, yes, here's where I say it - until now. Geek Toys is responsible for season 4, and I'm very not digging it. Every character not only looks the same, they look the same as every other minimal effort teenage here-and-forgotten anime that is churned out of Johnny Verbeck's western anime viewership snausage machine these days. It bores me how grievously plain it is. DAL has always had it's own style, now it looks like some 'Is This An... Anime?' release. They kept the music, so I'll give them that, but to the rest, why? Why change EVERYTHING now? Why simplify these decade-established characters and make them static af? Why make them indistinguishable from honestly every background character in every show ever? Why change an entire franchise SO MUCH? I know GT did the Date a Bullet spinoffs, which I admittedly never watched, but spinoffs are their own thing. For a studio that does not have many credits to their catalog, am sure they took this project on because of the fandom they'd inhereit (and because they were lowest bid lol), but so far am so underwhelmed that it's hard to even watch these goofballs I've spent the last 9yrs with.

I'll continue to give it a chance because I'm still a fan of this franchise, but the incredible prosaic makeover of everything is not my bag so far. I don't know why studios continue to do this kind of thing to a well-established brand, but it is out here in the world as-is now. I don't think it's fair to us as consumers, to the effort the other studios made to keep at least some semblance of continuity, or - and this one most of all - to the characters themselves, but it is what it is and our choice is to watch it or don't. And I'm sure I will in spite of it all.

But I mean, come on - we're two episodes deep in a new season and Fujibakama has yet to call anyone or thing lame. Did Geek Toys even watch the first three??

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Studio Anime Production IMS Nộp Đơn Xin Phá Sản

Mới đây, cộng đồng otaku khắp nơi đã phải đón nhận một tin buồn khi studio sản xuất anime Production IMS - studio đứng sau các tựa anime như: Date A Live II, Masou Gakuen HxH - đã nộp đơn xin phá sản. Theo Công ty nghiên cứu tín dụng Tokyo Shoko Research (TSR), studio Production IMS đã đệ đơn xin phá sản tại tòa án quận Tokyo vào ngày 21 tháng 9, và nhận được phê duyệt để bắt đầu thủ tục phá sản vào ngày 3 tháng 10. Luật sư người Tokyo - Yuusuke Date, hiện đang hỗ trợ hãng hoàn tất các thủ t

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Link: https://otb.news/other/studio-production-ims-pha-san.html

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Studio Anime Production IMS Pula Bankrap | Updated.my

Seperti biasa, Tokyo Shoko Research, sebuah agensi laporan kredit melaporkan kedudukan kredit syarikat-syarikat di Tokyo. Kali ini dilaporkan memfailkan muflis ialah studio produksi anime Production IMS. Studio tersebut yang mempunyai hutang sebanyak 250 juta yen (~RM10 juta) memfailkan muflis pada 21 September lalu di mahkamah daerah Tokyo dan memulakan proses prosiding pada 3 Oktober 2018. …