(L) Baldr Force EXE Resolution

[Mazryonh]

Originally Posted by zalas

Probably because they aren't all that interested in an animated adaptation. And Pink Pineapple is a well-known ero-anime production house.

Hmm . . . now that you tell me, do you think that Pink Pineapple might, with appropriate financial incentives, be able to make a full-fledged uncensored anime series based on a b-game? I wonder if it might sell more than the recent censored b-game animes we've gotten (fate/stay night, for example).

Aren't they making an h version of the Kakyuusei 2 anime?

And do you think that b-game animes might be better off if they focussed only on one character's path? A game with a plot as complex as Baldr Force's might do better in an anime treatment that way, rather than taking a half-assed harem route.

[furusawa777]

Perhaps a problem is not GIGA.
GIGA (or alchemist) sold license to produce the animation.
Development team (Team BALDR) cannot almost touch animation.
（I think that there was not the right.）
In most cases, a H-Game maker does not have interference on an animation studio.
There are delicate relations in a H-Game maker and an animation studio.
I think that there is a problem of contents in Trinet or B.E.R.Committee.
They were very very negative against sale and an advertisement in Japan.
An animation company does not tend to respect an original story.
In particular about a work of the H-GAME original.


But,The fight scene which satellite made is splendid…

[Thelastguardian]

I originally hesitated to respond to this thread, but...blah

If I remember correctly, Pink Pineapple's products animation ranges from bottom barrel to top of the line. They do have a large number of teams, you know :/ .

Originally Posted by furusawa777

An animation company does not tend to respect an original story.

When did an anime studio respected the original creator (leave KyoAni out of it please).

It doesn't matter if you are a ero-game maker, mangaka, novel writers, or whatever. Anime studio staff are (usually) not going to listen to you.

[[darkfire]]

Well Megami-Anime released it a few minutes ago.
www.megamivisuals.com

[Doddler]

I'm really dissapointed, this would have been considered crappy quality for a TV series, but an OAV? Pretty bad... As one of my favorite games, I think they really bombed with the adaptation. It could have been ok but the sketchy direction art and the changes, just don't work.

[Sinestra]

Honestly i am pretty disappinted in the first episode. keep in mind this is my opinion but i think the animation is shitty. I despise the voices and the plot does seem to have the essence to keep peoples attention. The only parts i did enjoy was Kotoko during the op and ed and when those guys heads started exploding like ripe mealons

I will continue to follow for a while to see if its gets better. It has happen to me before that i hate a series at first but end up liking later. I just think with mech series like Strain and Code Geass out Baldr Force will have a hard time picking up an audience

[Deathkillz]

Originally Posted by Sinestra

The only parts i did enjoy was Kotoko during the op and ed and when those guys heads started exploding like ripe mealons

amen to that!

well its quite slow paced for a 4 part ova which isnt good...as the story goes well lets just say its keeping my attention so a plus point for that...

but i have to say they feature the ugliest mechs ive seen...they dont even seem to move well cause they are soo "box like" O.o

[Onizuka-GTO]

i liked the exploding heads. and yeah kotoko rocks!

[Sister Princess]

2nd volume is indeed released today.

[guiltygearxt]

lol...never mind that

[Orchunter226]

Well, I enjoyed the first episode. I didn't mind that there wasn't "omg pew pew pew" non-stop action. And the animation quality was within my acceptable range. The story seems half-way decent.

Not the strongest showing I've ever seen, and not anything exceptional. But! It's good enough to hold me until the second episode. And you know what? That's all it has to do.

[darkchibi07]

It's indeed entertaining. But the thing that bothers me is the inconsistent character designs I've noticed (now since people started mentioning it >_<). For an OVA, non-hentai series, that's really unacceptable. I'm guess this is one of the reason the series got delayed a couple of times.

[martino]

Doesn't the main male lead like the main male character from Full Metal Panic??? (I've never seen FMP)

[TougeSil80]

Just watched the first 2 eps, the animation is not that bad, but I didn't play the game so I'm just comparing it to a regular anime series. The story is pretty good for an ova, and the OP is really good. Man, got to wait for ep.3-4 now, which won't come out for another 2 months (I think).

[Guido]

I have seen the very first episode, and I'm thrilled how it was presented as if were a typical TV episode.

I have NEVER in my life played the game, but I do find the concept of wiring inside the Net manifesting mecha a highly creative and original idea.

BALDR FORCE motif is mostly influenced by the MATRIX, but as a friend of mine commented to me the way people are flatlined in the Wired leads to much gruesome and graphic death than in MATRIX.
In fact, the head explosion visual effects seem gorier and stunning than those of GANTZ.

Other related theme influences carried over this title include the concept of bonding and breaking the boundaries between the human and the world of the NET, as just like humanity and cybernetics are fused in the world of Ghost in the Shell; plus the introverted nature of the general people who want to isolate themselves from the real world and live happily encased in their own world of self-created fantasy, as in Serial Experiments Lain.

Well for the animation it was pretty standard but nothing objectionable, maybe except for the lighting effects which are a little bright. As for the music, the confrontation score played during the showdown against the Fei Dao cyber-terrorists gripped opportune suspense.
For the music, I pretty much like KOTOKO and the song for the opening, Face of Fact ~ Resolution Version ~ did not let me down; possess the signature techno style, which is trademark to most of KOTOKO 's songs. On the other hand, the ending song, undelete, by Mami Kawada sounds generic but eventually I warmed up with the pace of the score.
BTW, both opening and ending contain several R-15 shots.

Another things that nicely pleases is to see the considerable amount of female members introduced in the cast. Code GEASS has also a high quota of female characters who either play main or supporting roles relevant to the plotline.

Spoiler:

What we have for this story is that someone or something triggered a mysterious phenomena in the Wired NET and everyone that is killed by the unknown entity has his or her data body permanently deleted with him or her suffering a very gruesome death in the real world.
Yuuya, leader of Steppen Wolf and Tooru's best friend, is killed by a FLAK Simulacrum of unknown identification and seems that Yuuya also had the same and gory fate as those divers killed earlier on the episode.

One then ponders that might the unknown Simulacrum has some connection with said phenomena.

The rest of the Steppen Wolf gang is arrested and convicted for illegally hacking into FLAK's military server.

In true fashion and tradition of the film Nikita, Tooru is given two choices: join FLAK or else faced the inputed sentence.

Tooru decides to join FLAK in an attempt to discover Yuuya's killer but finds none of his new teammates is the diver to the Simulacrum that killed Yuuya.

At the end of the episode, a company decides to join forces with FLAK to protect its interests and shares, and what a nasty surprise for Tooru when he finds out that Tsukina, her former teammate from Steppen Wolf, was scouted and recruited by the VSS.

Alone and in deception, Tooru immerses within his forest cyber-world only to find a cute, loli girl with light blue-haired; the same which appeared at the beginning of the episode.

Another clue to ponder if that girl is truly human, maybe she has connection to the phenomena that is happening in the Wired and to the killer Simulacrum, she has no physical body but is made instead of data, or if she's able to log in naturally to the Wired without no need to dive or else maybe it is not possible for her to log out and is both a living and sentient being in the Wired much like Tsukasa the protagonist of .hack//Sign?

[darkchibi07]

Wow, near the end of episode 2 has a

Spoiler:

a virtual rape scene!

It's a bit better this time, and the character designs weren't off-modeled as much.

[Guido]

Just watched episode 2 subbed and the animation visuals were substantially improved upon from the first episode.

Ren cute moeness and big, hair ribbon reminds me a lot to Kana Souin from Otome wa Boku ni Koishiteru.

Spoiler:

Right away it can be deduced that something not quite normal about Ren when Tooru advises to log out before the time limit expires.

I had the impression from last episode that she was some virtual sentience to appear before Tooru's sight out of nothing with all the flashy light effects.

I really did not get what happened near the end.

Spoiler:

Ayane loses it (pscyhe fucked) and goes for Akira's neck.

Is Akira a recruited member for the VSS? or was he recruited by the Fei Dao?

Tooru has the impression to have found out Yuuya's killer. Was it psycho-sex crazed Genha?

And what's with Tsukina suddenly losing her marbles and going gung-ho on killing and shooting without caring for enemies and allies?

Lot's of intriguing mysteries to keep myself busy on keeping watch for this title.

BTW, the third chapters comes out next Friday.

Spoiler:

Wired-Net rape!!? Now I have seen perverted merging.

The pimp was more like melding his data bits inside her data bits. Yuck! That was so unsavory and disgusting.

[Deathkillz]

holy crap what a shocker...ep 2 must have been the shortest 30 mins ever O.o
funny how the managed to turn this from crap to gold ~ ep 2 was just amazingly good (well it kept my full attention anyway)

ren is just the cutest little moe ive ever seen O.o she has a mixture of personalities ( able to give out shyness and playfulness)

and for genha ~

Spoiler:

ROFL haha! XD hes one f**ked up son of a bitch if you ask me ~ how dare him...and i suppose all the other statues of women stuck on his server walls were past prisoners...my god hes evil...makes me wanna puke

and excuse me while ill go mourn for Ayane

[Mazryonh]

Anyone notice that they played with the character design a little to make Ayane look more like Motoko Kusanagi from the Ghost In The Shell TV series (the purple-haired version)? I'm not sure if it was Seiji Kikuchi's (the original character designer for Baldr Force) intention to make Ayane look like Motoko, but now the similarities are staggering.

Overall, a better episode than the previous one. I wonder how the fans of the game liked it.

[Guido]

Originally Posted by Mazryonh

Anyone notice that they played with the character design a little to make Ayane look more like Motoko Kusanagi from the Ghost In The Shell TV series (the purple-haired version)? I'm not sure if it was Seiji Kikuchi's (the original character designer for Baldr Force) intention to make Ayane look like Motoko, but now the similarities are staggering.

Overall, a better episode than the previous one. I wonder how the fans of the game liked it.

To me Ayane physically resembles a little bit to Melissa Mao from Full Metal Panic.