(L) Devil Survivor 2 - Anime-Only Discussion (no game comparisons or spoilers)

[MisaoFan]

Originally Posted by OPN

Pretty great trailer. Just hope it isn't one cour
Anyway here are my predictions of the cast
Hibiki: No idea...it would help if we had an idea what his personality was going to be
Daichi: Yuki kaiji
lo: Kana hanazawa
Joe: tomokazu sugita
Yamato: Tomokazu seki
Makoto: Miyuki sawashiro
Keita: Tetsuya kakihara
Hinako: Yu kobayashi
AO: Akira ishida

The cast you are making up reminds me very much on how most of the cast members come from either K or Psycho-Pass, which is pretty funny here.

[com_gwp]

That seiyuu cast...they really went with quite the predictable list. Kaji for Daichi, HanaKana for Io, even Ishida for AO.

But Joe's and Keita's seiyuus come as a bit of a surprise. I always imagined Joe with a younger voice than Sugita's, and Keita's with deeper one than Kakihara.

Edit: As for Hibiki, I won't be surprised if they got Mamoru Miyano for him.


Edit 2: My bad I didn't read it was a prediction. Those predictions are pretty close to mine though.

[OPN]

I cant imagine anyone but hanakana voicing Io and as for kaiji i don't think hes that good of a fit as daichi but....its bound to happen so im just preparing myself for the inevitable

[Nachtwandler]

It's not the real cast. Just a mere speculation

[Von Himmel]

Those Angels attacking Septentrione #2 and that Byakko look terrible.

Well we haven't seen them in action so there's still some hope Though I think it'll be similar to the personas in P4

That reminds me... since the attack animation in the game is fairly limited, I wonder how the studio will animate that.

I cant imagine anyone but hanakana voicing Io and as for kaiji i don't think hes that good of a fit as daichi but....its bound to happen so im just preparing myself for the inevitable

I'm thinking Noto Mamiko..

[dark998]

The Septentriones look amazing. And the character design is faithful enough, I like it.

[demino_hellsin]

I'm late to the party...

I hope my 3 goddesses will be done justice.

The character designs look a tad bit horizontal but other than that I am extremely pumped. april can't come sooner.

[Gundamx]

Hmmm I think they didn't start with first one since it's a lot easier to choose which ending they want with this one...

[demino_hellsin]

I think they refrained from the first one because overall a gloomy story. Thinking back, the atmosphere would only get somber at best if not squeezing out some morbid humor from the weirdness of the situation. Despite the larger scale of destruction, DS2 provided more light-hearted scenes mixed in with the serious which probably fits more with pop culture.

[Shadow5YA]

If the manga adaptation is anything to go by, then the story might be a lot more different from the game than we expect...

[duckroll]

More characters updated: http://ds2a.jp/character/

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[Kakkou]

Have to say these are possibly the most faithful anime adaptations of Suzuhito Yasuda's character designs to date, though I personally like Takahiro Kishida's own touches to his Durarara!! designs more.

[demino_hellsin]

makoto - nice

jerk - less baby faced which actually works since I was surprised at how tall he was supposed to be.

Hinako - Doesn't feel as feminine as the game art.

Otome - More sexy than cute now.

Overall - I'm okay with this

[Shadow5YA]

Needs more Fumi. Where's Fumi?

[com_gwp]

Originally Posted by Shadow5YA

If the manga adaptation is anything to go by, then the story might be a lot more different from the game than we expect...

It really wasn't all that different. Some chronological switcharoo is hardly what I'd call diverging from the plot. And I like that the MC has (will probably have) an actual personality this time around. As much as I grew to enjoy Yu's characterization in Persona 4 I don't think lightning would've struck twice for Kishi in this case, and especially not with DS2's storyline. Still, I hope they keep in some of those "choice quotes" we love.

[Shadow5YA]

Originally Posted by com_gwp

It really wasn't all that different. Some chronological switcharoo is hardly what I'd call diverging from the plot. And I like that the MC has (will probably have) an actual personality this time around. As much as I grew to enjoy Yu's characterization in Persona 4 I don't think lightning would've struck twice for Kishi in this case, and especially not with DS2's storyline. Still, I hope they keep in some of those "choice quotes" we love.

It wasn't just a switcharoo, one of the death clips was outright omitted. There's also portrayal of Yamato's perception of the protagonist, which makes the protagonist's role in the story very different from what it is in the game.

[com_gwp]

Originally Posted by Shadow5YA

It wasn't just a switcharoo, one of the death clips was outright omitted. There's also portrayal of Yamato's perception of the protagonist, which makes the protagonist's role in the story very different from what it is in the game.

We can't expect a 1-for-1 faithful reproduction of the game, and what I saw of the manga stuck close enough to the game's core storyline while adapting itself to a continuous story quite well. Also remember that the anime will have pacing issues to consider, depending on how long the show will run for. Especially if (in the unlikely event) they give it a single season.

[Shadow5YA]

You can have the anime be close enough to the source material that it doesn't directly contradict it but still have very different pacing, direction, and overall execution from said source material.

That's exactly my worry: the possibility that while it doesn't diverge too heavily from the source material as badly as the anime adaptations of Chaos;Head, Tsukihime, Yumekui Merry, etc. did, it will still be a mediocre job because there isn't enough time to fit everything in necessary for proper character development and pacing like what happened with the Persona 4 anime.


But perhaps I'm just being too skeptic: we'll see how this turns out.

[fertygo]

P4 adaptation was fantastic, they capture the key moment as they should.. You can't ask more from adaptation than that. Just take the OG source if you want 1:1 experience, adaptation is all about key moment. I will really happy if DS2A anything like P4A, and with art quality consistency (which P4A really horrible at)

[duckroll]

Preview screens from episode 1, and full character designs for the characters they just added to the official site: http://moca-news.net/article/20130110/201301102324a/01/