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Originally Posted by monir
...I'll also have to say Shiki has been the least enjoyable thus far in years for a noitamina time slot...
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Lol. One of the
more enjoyable, for me. But not for being either scary or realistic. More for its stylishness, vivid and fantastic characters, and the sense of inevitable tragedies. I feel a slight reminiscence of
Paradise Kiss in the angular look and in the damping down of emotion.
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Originally Posted by Kakkou
I'm not sure if I like their choice of putting some colour and slight shading into the eyes of the Kirishiki women. The purely black, hollow-ish look is much better, now they look like they have literal bug-eyes...
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Close enough for me, on my screen, but an interesting point. That total darkness was one of the strongest aspects of the character design in the manga. No doubt they found the total emptiness a step too far in the colored anime context.
Yuuki Aoi strikes again. Not what I expected at all...
Sunako, the Kanemasas, Takumi, the long-faced friend -- the director is not going for realism, but for characters that are vivid fantasies. Excellent voice work not just by Yuuki Aoi, but by Ohkawa Tohru as the doctor (the most realistic), by Gackt as Kanemasa, by Orikasa Ai as Mrs. Kanemasa, and by Takagai Wataru (Great Teacher Onizuka) as Takumi, in the final scene.
The very odd feel of this show reminds me not just of the manga, but also of the fact that the director is most famous for shows done in a previous era:
Macross 7 and
Zeta Gundam.