2013-12-29, 21:57 | Link #61 | |
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On the other hand, I personally love the character designs of the lolis Kohina and Enju, they are really cute. Judging by the PV, anyone wanna guess who will pick this anime up for North American home distribution and video streaming rights. My bets are on Viz Media, but this is more relating to the fact that I came up with a fantasy English dub cast for Black Bullet even though doing something like this is too early to tell (I probably will share my ideas sometime next year in May or June). You mean the art design. A lot of folks at ANN and Twitter were bitching about the color filters of the art and character designs. |
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2013-12-30, 03:14 | Link #62 | |
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And that music........ Still, I'll hold off my real judgement until anime airs.
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2013-12-30, 06:17 | Link #65 |
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Well, just like Dark Paladin X said, the studio is mainly responsible of the visuals. In other words, you shouldn't expect things like "mature atmosphere" from the studio but from the people in the main staff (Kojima-san, etc).
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2013-12-30, 07:11 | Link #66 | |
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I'll be honest here, I'm mostly interested in Black Bullet for three reasons: 1) the cute lolis, and 2) the very dark nature and political themes from the light novels, 3) the complex characterization and relationships between the characters. I really hope the anime can cover all of this (well, they obviously covered the cute lolis part of things). |
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2013-12-30, 07:24 | Link #67 | |
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To add, it has awesome characters~~
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2013-12-30, 09:43 | Link #70 | |
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As for the music, I wasn't really that bothered by it in my opinion. |
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2013-12-30, 11:23 | Link #72 | |
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With all that advertising about how anime is gonna cover more material than manga, and stay true to LN, I think he is not that off with his prediction.
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2013-12-30, 11:29 | Link #73 |
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The music, huh. I personally like the one in the PV.
But If anything, the scores you'll end up hearing every episode will either sound like this or this or this or this or even this or any kind of music genre from blues to pop, so I wouldn't worry too much about that one aspect if I were you guys. Well, anything might still happen though.
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But then again, comparing Sword Art Online to Black Bullet is like comparing apples to oranges. Both are light novels with anime adaptions and are quite action-heavy series with dark and serious themes, but Sword Art Online wasted a lot of potential in the anime adaption. The problem I personally have with action/fighting light novels in anime adaption is that sometimes the staff will tone down of the darker themes, plot, and characterization or not cover enough because they throw in more fighting/action scenes in the anime. Yes, I do admit that Black Bullet anime might not able to cover everything in the light novel, but at least the anime should try to cover the important plot themes, characterization, the politics involving cursed children, and the character relationship as well as a good mixture of comedy, drama, and action. I could see Black Bullet being a hit-or-miss based on:
So far, the synopsis, the character designs, the characters, the plot, the themes, and the PV still keep in on hook into the series. I hope the anime staff knows what they are doing and learn the mistakes from other light novel based anime adaptions. Last edited by Dark Paladin X; 2013-12-30 at 13:40. |
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2013-12-30, 14:53 | Link #76 | |
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4 episodes is not enough for a 1 volume unless the LN is really short. Just look at the adaptations for Unbreakable Machine Girl and Strike the Blood. The pacing is extremely rushed in both of them, and a lot of details are left out in favor of covering more material. 5 or 6 episodes give a lot more breathing room and allows the directors to work in the scenes that may not directly pertain to the plot, but help build the characters. Anyways, Full Metal Panic: The Second Raid covers 2 LN's with 13 episodes, and the pacing isn't slow at all. |
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2013-12-30, 18:12 | Link #77 | |
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Anyways across from that, anyone want to guess who might pick this anime up for streaming and home distribution rights for North America? If anyone ask, look up a couple of posts before. |
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2013-12-30, 18:42 | Link #78 | ||
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For Black Bullet, there isn't nearly as much exposition to cover so it should be fine. Quote:
As for Machine Doll, they only had one cour and covering only 2 volumes would have been pretty pathetic. I personally blame the excessively long and horrible CG fight scenes. |
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I fully agree with you guys here, I really don't think four episodes are enough for a single volume. I was hoping for Viz, but I think its gonna be Funimation.
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2013-12-30, 22:51 | Link #80 | |
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However, I'm leaning towards Viz Media mostly due to English dubbing reasoning over the nature of the anime. While Funimation does have a good voice talent pool, I really can't see any of those voice actors get roles in this series. Not to mention, Black Bullet has like a total of 4+ lolis (5-6 if you count the ones at volume 3-4) and Bang Zoom! is usually better handling loli characters in their own dubs than other studios (sans Sentai Filmworks in some of their dubs). If you actually compare Magi, Accel World, Sword Art Online, K-On!, and Squid Girl, these anime have at least one loli character and they handle them quite well (usually either Christine Marie Cabanos, Stephanie Sheh, or Sandy Fox. The last is barely used in any of the anime dubs anymore). Funimation usually isn't that great with handling loli characters in their own dubs unless if you get someone like Monica Rial, Jad Saxton, or Tia Ballard (and even so, lolis aren't their primary forte. And did I mention there are 4+ lolis). To further back my reasoning, take the dub voice actors of Kirito (Bryce Papenbrook) and the loli Silica (Christine Marie Cabanos)* from Sword Art Online and cast them as Rentaro and Enju respectfully and compare the character similarities between the two set of characters. Also, take Yui's voice actress (Stephanie Sheh) and have her cast as Kohina Hiroku and you'll have someone similar to Illyasviel von Einzbern from the Fate series.** Additional fun fact: Silica's Japanese VA (Rina Hidaka) shares the same VA with Enju Aihara. So it'll be a funny English dub casting gag if Christine Marie Cabanos is cast as Enju Aihara. NOTES: *The poster originally thought of Sandy Fox for this character since Enju's personality and background is very similar to Marona from Phantom Brave (a loli voiced by Sandy Fox), but since said voice actress doesn't do much anime voice work anymore, the poster settles with Christine Marie Cabanos as a more realistic choice. **Okay, I admit Illya isn't exactly evil, but she has a bit of a childish bipolar and psychotic personality. Kohina is cute, psychotic, and evil all at the same time; so this is definitely a Sheh role. |
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