2012-08-18, 12:48 | Link #41 |
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More dark anime that makes people uncomfortable and angry for the dark anime gods. It's almost as if the industry is challenging viewers to develop a thicker skin again after that huge wave of feel good moe anime. I for one am totally down for this shift of gears as long as it doesn't eventually end up going overboard into the world of outright exploitation like with OVA's in the 80's.
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2012-08-18, 14:01 | Link #42 | |
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2012-08-18, 14:15 | Link #43 |
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I personally don't think the problem with anime is that there wasn't enough dark shows. There were a lot of badly written "dark" shows in the 90's.
I think the problem is the reliance on archetypes and stock characters and situations, instead of telling a genuine good story. That being said I heard good things about this manga so I will at least give it a shot.
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2012-08-18, 17:27 | Link #44 | |
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After reading a volume of this though I see what you mean. If people already feel challenged to accept someone like Kiritsugu or Haruyuki as main characters I'm not sure what they'll think if more stuff like this gets made. This isn't even really grey morality, it's out and out lack of it on display. Brings to mind those 80's OVA's I mentioned. |
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2012-08-18, 19:23 | Link #45 | |
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2012-08-18, 22:48 | Link #46 | |
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I don't want to see anime that's dark for the sake of darkness. Look at what's happened to American fantasy since the success of A Song of Ice and Fire -- now the genre's full of hack writers who think that being rapey, stabby grimdark makes their books inherently mature when in fact their stories are a mess of cliches papered over by a veneer of cynicism. Getting rid of the K-on knockoffs only to replace them with Fate/Zero and School Days knock-offs would just mean we're stuck with different cliches. What makes AnH exciting isn't that it's dark, but that it's original -- even when it delves into cliches, it questions how the cliches work.
Of course, if the show's a success, I'm sure producers will conclude that dark sells and churn out knock-offs until we long for moe comedies. Quote:
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2012-08-19, 05:24 | Link #48 | |
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And, there's a difference between teenagers who have dark thoughts as they live out their lives, or teenagers who lock themselves up in their rooms to slash their wrists, to teenagers who steal the gym clothes of their crush in a fit of madness only to have their full pathetic side come to light as he gets blackmailed because of it. |
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2012-08-19, 07:32 | Link #49 | |
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2012-08-22, 18:15 | Link #50 |
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from what I read this is not particularly dark compared to a regular seinen; but just like fapnote (and this si aobut as dark as that one) it is likely to get compared to echi romcoms and harem shows as seinen does get get animated that often; that beign said this might be a very interesting show to watch.
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2012-08-22, 22:27 | Link #51 | |
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2012-10-13, 20:27 | Link #52 |
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http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-new...y-studio-zexcs
So we meet again.....zexcs.
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2012-10-13, 21:20 | Link #53 |
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Really don't like the sound of that. It's a seven volume manga, so there's no need for a liberal adaptation -- at worst, a couple points might need to be glossed over for TV standards -- and the character designs are one of the things that stand out about the series.
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2012-10-14, 04:28 | Link #55 |
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Honestly after the premiere of Sukitte Ii na yo i'm willing to say that it seems zexcs has turned a page and won't be doing just echi comedies (they've got another couple interesting projects coming up as well).
The director also did Mushishi , so he gets my benifit of the doubt for now.
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2012-10-14, 09:21 | Link #56 |
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Did I read that wrong? Did Nagahama say this will be his last anime as a director? I hope I got that wrong.
Anyways not only was Mushishi one of the most faithful adaptions, it actually showed how animation, music, voice work can add to the work. So I do find it odd that Nagahama would right off the bat say it will be a liberal/unfaithful adaption. Perhaps he has a good reason though.
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2012-10-14, 09:57 | Link #57 |
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I'm really surprised this manga is getting animated, it's not the usual sort of thing that gets an anime.
It is understandable it won't be faithful, that manga is buttshit insane. But not in the very-dark-comedy sense or in the out right horror sense, but a really serious exploitation manga bout good children gone, horribly, horribly wrong. |
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