2014-07-06, 12:54 | Link #22 |
The Voice of Reason
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: The Netherlands
Age: 48
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Unless they mess this up seriously past this point, this will most likely become one of my favorites this season. Naru is friggin' adorable, I like the main guy, too and the fact that they actually sue children to voice children makes the dynamics between the characters much more realistic and lively. Why Japan doesn't do this more often is beyond me.
Anyway, off to a very good start. Good OP and ED, and though the BGM wasn't really noticeable, I don't really care, as long as the show is enjoyable.
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2014-07-06, 13:16 | Link #23 |
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Miami, FL
Age: 38
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I agree that the casting of Naru is a big positive. Does anyone remember that Nickelodeon cartoon Hey Arnold!? I really enjoyed it and one of the reasons it stood out was that it was one of the few American cartoons where kids were actually voiced by kids. I imagine child VAs in anime isn't popular in because the industry prefers to have female VAs voice them (some do a really great job too).
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2014-07-06, 15:13 | Link #26 |
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Join Date: Nov 2012
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i really like the manga but dam i hate Naru's voice, it sounds stiff with alot of awkward silent moment in between and fake like it is heavily alter with autotune
best part of eps - Punch old man in the face and finsih off with flying shoe |
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2014-07-06, 21:06 | Link #28 |
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Amsterdam
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I loved everything about this. Nice art, a great opening and than that lovely atmosphere in the countryside. Naru is adorable and acts like a real kid. Count me in as one who likes kids being voiced by kids. And OnoD is perfect as Seishuu.
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2014-07-06, 21:18 | Link #30 |
Just some guy
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: San Antonio, TX
Age: 62
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Add me in for a +1 Like on this one. Some of the feel of Usagi Drops perhaps with a cross with Bakuman. I presume that Calligraphy is a bit like some of the design/font areas here in the US in terms of the in vs out crowd?
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2014-07-06, 21:39 | Link #33 | |
Blooming on the mountain
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light....
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Calligraphy, as far as I understand it, it much more one of the traditional (meaning several centurues old) arts of Japan - and of course of China as well. I do not know if there is a close direct comparison between that and the font design areas in the contemporaty US, much of my exposure to publishing involved being the sys admin for the comps that were used to create printed and electronic books. What little I was aware of was that for many (not all) editors the question of fonts was super "srsbzns"... but kind of on the same level as which were the optimal tools or ingredients to be used in painting. Traditional calligraphy has much more of an emphasis not only on the saying as much as possible compressed into as little as possible - i.e. the "minumum words / maximum content" aesthetic; there was more to it - it was to "say" as much as possible that is also packed to the brim with "meaning". And the contexts for what was meaning-ful and what was not was based on an largely unsystematized articulation of "Japanese'ness", though there could be different things emphasized that cover those general parameters and still be regarded as "fitting the bill". The (albeit harshly and perhaps arrogantly phrased) criticism of the old gentleman towards the young calligrapher in public was basically saying that he not only did not have the proper growth and experience of reality as a human being, but even moreso as a human being as typified in the art's manifestations through the centuries. And he was right. Hence the solution of the calligrapher's father to send him to the island in the hopes that he would mature and grow as a human being first and ideally therefrom as a more "traditional artist". And by the way the aesthetic and aimed for context for calligraphy also applied to poetry, dance, ikebana, gardening, even swordsmanship, etc., etc. As far as I understand the font design development areas and people involved here in the US there is nothing like such a centurues old and specific standard for developing their work.
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2014-07-07, 10:31 | Link #40 |
Anxious bookseller
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Shibuya Psychic Research
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Ok aside from Handa having black hair and being voiced by OnoD (thats the reason it was on my too watch list ), I enjoyed epi 1. I liked Handa exploring his living quarters and finding Naru (wow havent typed that name in a while).
Cute series, will keep watching.
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