2012-02-16, 11:29 | Link #324 |
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Yeah, but he's listed as character designer, right? I thought they would at least, make it look like his art. BONES is stupid for not doing that, cause it did wonders for Eureka Seven. Looked beautiful. Ao's art looks generic. It doesn't have anything special about it.
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2012-02-16, 11:34 | Link #325 |
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Well, it certainly looks nice enough. But I'm still waiting for things to make sense. With locations like America and Okinawa, the Nirvash(?) being unrecognizable (though that seems like something they'd definitely explain), and a complete absence of any character from the original show, so far it barely feels like the same world anymore.
It's kind of reminding me of that Golden Sun: Dark Dawn game for DS, which was a sequel to the first two games on GBA. Even though only 30 years had passed between the second game and DD, somehow, while exploring the exact same continent as in the previous games, there were these major kingdoms and cities that had popped up and were treated as if they had a long, rich history and were important powers. Even though they weren't in the first games at all and we had no inkling of their existence while traversing the entire countryside. What's more, most of the main heroes from the previous adventure didn't even get cameos in DD, disappointingly. That's how I'm seeing AO so far. Hopefully it doesn't remain that way. |
2012-02-16, 13:25 | Link #327 | |
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Yuutaro-kun's not a total newbie - he was Yango in Xam'd, which was an important role (when he was only about 11 years old). I love it when studios cast age-appropriate actors - it really helps with authenticity.
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2012-02-16, 13:39 | Link #328 | |
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2012-02-16, 14:39 | Link #329 | |
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I'll judge technically only when they do actual aerial combat, that was where Eureka 7 was most outstanding. Though I can see from the trailer there's a lack of easing in the movements, which Bones used to be good at animating. There are also lots of still poses and shots, lack of animation.
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2012-02-16, 15:03 | Link #330 | |
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While the outcome may well be positive, I'm not about to give a producer points if lowering costs is the main impetus (and authenticity being the justification). It's sort of like the eco-friendly packaging you see with video games. Dropping/minimizing paper manuals and hollowing out the cases certainly has environmental benefits, but the real reason for doing it is to save money. |
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2012-02-16, 15:48 | Link #332 | |
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2012-02-16, 16:07 | Link #333 | |
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2012-02-16, 16:45 | Link #334 |
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In the original series it's revealed that the planet the story is set on IS Earth, it's just been so long since humans have been on Earth that they have almost completely forgotten about it/don't remember where it is (they actually "colonized" it thinking it was a new world) and it was completely covered by the scrub coral. I was under the impression that it took a really long time to lose your planet hence why I said hundreds, possibly up to a thousand years, in the future. The AD (Anno Domini) bit is also really confusing me here, if Renton really was born in 1991 AD then he'd be my age which isn't old enough to have a kid Ao's age.
Liked the music in the trailer, CR has a video for it up now if people are still having trouble seeing it, and I'm amused by the Mystery Machine look-a-like flying van, still not sure what to think of everything else though, even the shots of the setting look really different from the original show.
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2012-02-16, 16:50 | Link #335 | |
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As for the issue of criticizing BONES for not using huge names, to each his own - I applaud them for it. I'm tired of hearing the same tiny group of actors in every damn series - it's nice to add some new talent to the mix.
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2012-02-16, 18:47 | Link #336 | |
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2012-02-16, 18:53 | Link #337 |
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If that rainbow light got Eureka pregnant, it would all add up.
The trailer looks just like E7 to me. Same character designs, lots of flying with the birds, landscape panoramas from high above and some mecha action mixed in. Could have been taken right out of an E7 episode. |
2012-02-16, 22:08 | Link #339 |
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The birds actually stood out to me as being weird. As I remember it (and I may be mis-remembering - it's been a few years since I watched Eureka Seven), I don't think that there were any birds - it was always sky fish. Is that right?
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2012-02-16, 22:10 | Link #340 | |
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