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te2rx · 2012-10-28, 20:47

I feel like Shigeyasu Yamauchi's distinct style only works when he has great animators to back him up, like in Casshern Sins and the flashier moments of Yumekui Merry. Shin Sekai Yori #5 didn't have that. For a good part of the episode, I thought I was watching some sort of outsourced & offshored episode until I realized that the distinctive look of it was fairly consistent(ly mediocre), and then figured they let some animator / AD with a "style" have a go at it.

I'm not averse to shows bringing in auteur staff for certain episodes. It's unfortunate that it didn't work out in this case. Yamauchi has done some pretty awesome shit in the past, but I didn't like how they brought him in, which sounds great on paper, without giving the production team the time/resources/whatever to make it happen. The episode looked rushed and cheap. All other problems just flowed from that.

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te2rx Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Chicago area, IL Age: 40	I feel like Shigeyasu Yamauchi's distinct style only works when he has great animators to back him up, like in Casshern Sins and the flashier moments of Yumekui Merry. Shin Sekai Yori #5 didn't have that. For a good part of the episode, I thought I was watching some sort of outsourced & offshored episode until I realized that the distinctive look of it was fairly consistent(ly mediocre), and then figured they let some animator / AD with a "style" have a go at it. I'm not averse to shows bringing in auteur staff for certain episodes. It's unfortunate that it didn't work out in this case. Yamauchi has done some pretty awesome shit in the past, but I didn't like how they brought him in, which sounds great on paper, without giving the production team the time/resources/whatever to make it happen. The episode looked rushed and cheap. All other problems just flowed from that.