2012-04-15, 10:10 | Link #281 | |
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I watched some Ty Lee fight videos and in terms of movement speed Amon's men can run around Ty Lee's level of speed and they use chi blocking faster then her. Chi blocking may have been improved since Ty Lee's time and Amon's men are older then Ty Lee which is why I think you are being too quick to confirm Ty Lee is better then Amon's men but its possible. Last edited by TimeMask; 2012-04-15 at 12:02. |
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2012-04-15, 17:12 | Link #284 | |
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Other than that, I think I'm going to like this stand-alone seasons, although I liked the original format too. It'll be a nice change of pace for a sequel. |
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2012-04-16, 07:44 | Link #288 |
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The first two episodes were interesting. Based on what I saw, Korra has essentially lived all her life in the South Pole training, with masters coming to the South Pole. Previous Avatars have gone to the other nations to learn their respective bending. I think this change may be part of the reason why Korra hasn't picked up on the spirituality of bending, not being part of the world at large.
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2012-04-16, 09:56 | Link #289 |
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Well, this show certainly blows away everything Japan has to offer this season. And that's something coming from me, when there's nary a hint of an osananajimi in this show.
Me certainly like the brothers though. Right now, I prefer Mako over the other brother (whose name I can't even remember). But then again that's me thinking Zuko was the best character of the first series (receiving the most development and all), and Mako certainly reminds me of him
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2012-04-18, 21:30 | Link #292 |
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That’s to be expected when you have such a huge budget in animating the show. The budget of all the anime this season probably doesn’t reach half or even a third to what Korra has. You also have to consider that the US produces a handful of well-funded cartoons, while in Japan a TV anime series to have similar funding is unheard of. Nickleodeon and the animation studio working on the series also have much more leeway on what they can animate. Make no mistake I love Avatar but I don’t feel it’s fair to compare it to a regular anime series (or even another US cartoon) with a far less budget. Avatar could be compared to a high production anime movie or OVA series.
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2012-04-18, 21:45 | Link #293 |
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Honestly I doubt Korra has a bigger budget than say Fate/Zero, honestly I'd say that Japan produces more well-animated cartoons than the US does but that's just because they put out literally a hundred-ish new shows each year.
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2012-04-18, 21:47 | Link #295 |
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I dunno, Avatar is set to run for 26 episodes. No matter what its budget is, if it's getting a run time like your typical anime series, I'm going to compare it to one.
Besides, if first season is of any indication, animation quality is going to drop. I swear, the fighting choreography just took a nose dive by the third book of the first series.. just so happens I was hooked to the story by then to actualy complain. XD
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2012-04-18, 22:50 | Link #296 |
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I seriously doubt that. Though Fate/Zero indeed has high production value for an anime TV series, its still not in the same level of animation as Korra or even the original Avatar series. If you look carefully at Fate/Zero you will find some "quality" animation and still scenes with little to no animation. Also the CGI used is cheaper than hand-drawn animation and in a way masks any imperfections. As for Avatar: TLAB and LoK you don't see any "quality" or badly done animation and hardly use a lot of CGI. There's a lot of action and the frame count used per second is high. From that you can tell that a very generous amount of money was provided in production.
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2012-04-19, 01:31 | Link #297 | |
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It also sounds like they've given Korra early mastery of Fire and earth bending in order to let them really focus on her mastery of air bending, which is the most opposite of her personality, and let her interact with Tenzin more. I'm not sure this is gonna follow the formula set up in Last Airbender.
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2012-04-19, 01:33 | Link #298 | |
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2012-04-19, 01:43 | Link #299 |
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There won't be any traveling. Where AtLA was all amount moving from place to place, Republic City is pretty much the only setting for this show. Besides, it'd make no sense for her to just skip town without learning airbending.
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2012-04-19, 03:36 | Link #300 | |
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And that's just the animation aspect I'm pretty sure US voice actors are paid more than their Japanese counterpart etc.
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