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Houseki no Kuni (Land of the Lustrous)
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Land of the Lustrous (Hōseki no Kuni)
The July issue of Kodansha's Afternoon magazine is announcing on May 25 that a television anime adaptation of Haruko Ichikawa's Land of the Lustrous (Hōseki no Kuni) manga has been green-lit.
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2017-05-18, 22:04 | Link #3 |
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Official site is up now with key visual. Studio will be Orange and coming for Fall 2017.
http://land-of-the-lustrous.com/
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Sentai licensed it.
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2017-10-07, 15:31 | Link #8 |
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Hmm... well, all things considered i thought that was a promising first episode. Phos comes off an incorrigible brat (as is appropriate) and the character interactions were fun. The walk animations are a bit stilted at times, but the frame-rate on the CG wasn't terrible. I liked the sound design- such as how their footsteps in the buildings all sound like stone-on-stone.
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2017-10-08, 06:20 | Link #11 |
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I honestly kinda liked it. It has a very distinctive visual style with its character designs compared to the other Fall shows. Might take a little time to get use to but I already accept it.
It also has an interesting world setting with the gems and stuff. Storytelling wise, I'll give it a chance since it's just the first episode although I can't say I'm too impressed on that at the moment.
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2017-10-08, 09:37 | Link #12 |
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This was pretty nice for a first episode, if a bit too heavy on the exposition. The visuals were a bit stiff as it still is the case with CG but otherwise they were pretty nice.
It was funny to see the subtitles bending backwards and twisting into pretzels to avoid using gendered pronouns, though. (I don't get why they can't just follow the original dialog, after all that is what the characters use for themselves...) |
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At any rate, any use of gendered pronouns would just be a convenience for the audience as the concept of gender is explicitly unknown among the gems. Maybe it's worthy convenience, maybe it's not, but the localizers have made their decision so we can't do anything about it. |
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2017-10-08, 10:51 | Link #15 |
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Even if you discount "boku", "ore" and "kare" are fairly explicitly gendered as masculine in the standard Japanese register that is used in the story, plus from what I remember in the manga they also use "niisan" and whatnot. This doesn't mean that the characters actually are male or whatever, obviously. But this is what the writer chose (in a language where it's very easy to discard this sort of stuff), and I think it's a bit presumptuous to try and get around it even at the risk of sounding silly, just to drive home a point that the anime will most likely make explicit on its own, anyway. (Not to mention that by making the characters use "them" and whatnot the translation implies that they do have a concept of gender and are actively aware that it doesn't apply to them.)
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2017-10-09, 02:21 | Link #17 |
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I really dug it. The visuals tend to bounce between being pretty stiff in some scenes and surprisingly compelling to look at in others, but I like their overall distinctiveness. Figuring out what to adapt into 3D and why is kind of difficult for an anime, but this medium is perfect for conveying every gem-related characteristic, even down to things like sound design. It's obvious that most of the work was put into various characters' hair and Cinnabar's poison, which paid off because both are lovely to look at. (The Moon People are also quite pretty.)
Plot-wise, it's a little info dump-y right now. But I don't find it offensive yet. I actually like that Phos is so fiery, albeit a bit annoyingly stubborn and dense. I was initially afraid they'd have more of a delicate wallflower sort of personality when I read the premise to this, but their fragile physique contrasts nicely with their spunky disposition. I'm curious to see how their relationship with Cinnabar develops.
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2017-10-09, 09:32 | Link #19 | |
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Limiting its audience is not something that this show needs. Over the last couple days it's felt like almost nobody has watched it (at least in the English-speaking internet/blogosphere), compared to the other weekend premiers. |
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2017-10-09, 10:28 | Link #20 | |
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Plus this is only taking the western fanbase into consideration, the anime is getting promoted in magazines like Pash which mostly has spreads of male character only series so I don't think they mind "limiting" the audience since the manga already has it's fans. |
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