2007-01-25, 00:38 | Link #1241 |
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i don't know what happened to him, but he was able to give a distinctive style to his characters from a relatively old but far more superior series (Infinite Ryvius). sCRYed does a bit of a good job of differentiating too, i think, but it looks closer to the ones he did recently.
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2007-01-25, 01:56 | Link #1242 | |
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2007-01-25, 02:21 | Link #1243 |
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Bullshit at it's best. Hirai's character designs didn't ruin Fafner. Hirai is like Okawara without mecha. His linearts suck, but how they're potrayed by the animation studio makes it look distinctively different compared to being on paper. How often did we see Athrun and Kira looking the way they did on Hirai's lineart in the anime anyway?
In fact, I'd go the extra length to say that for something like Fafner, Hirai's designs actually contributed to the presentation. Hirai-designed characters have a tendecy to look it's best when they're full of emo, and Fafner is chock full of character emo IN A GOOD WAY. THIS IS OFF-TOPIC though. If anyone wants to continue this, please create a Hirai thread elsewhere.
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2007-01-25, 02:49 | Link #1244 | |
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And for the love of god guy stop spelling my username wrong in your quotes, jeez louise. Sorry for the rage but it drives me nuts when even if I choose my words carefully somebody still spins it in a negative direction. It's like I'm on FOX News all of a sudden. Doing my darndest to fix another mess I caused do to people not READING and scrutinizing what I write, has anyone heard anything about a new Kiddy Grade anime that Aya Hirano had a coronary episode over a while back on her blog and then it was never heard of again. I've heard the show was pretty bad but I'm still intrigued. Last edited by Kaioshin Sama; 2007-01-25 at 03:11. |
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2007-01-25, 05:39 | Link #1245 | |
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Another anime got announced:
========== この青空に約束を― Kono Aozora ni Yakusoku wo Based on a bishoujo game by GIGA. The following sites contain 18+ content. Site of the company: http://www.web-giga.com/ Site of the game: http://www.web-giga.com/aozora/aozora.htm From Himeyashop: Quote:
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2007-01-25, 07:23 | Link #1246 |
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Is this new Gundam Evolve http://ruliweb.empas.com/ruliboard/r...b_news&main=hb
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2007-01-25, 07:23 | Link #1247 | |
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More about Kono Aozora ni Yakusoku wo from Anime News Service:
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2007-01-25, 07:45 | Link #1248 |
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ANS should at least note that http://www.bishojyogameaward.org/ is not supported by major magazines. Nevertheless, the game did well in sales, actually just tipped the 2006 Top 10 rank on getchu.com.
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2007-01-25, 12:04 | Link #1249 | |
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2007-01-25, 16:23 | Link #1250 |
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Whatever the Bishoujo game is its a surefired hit. I've come to accept that this is what sells today whether I enjoy the genre or not, it's just how it is.
But please tell me there IS something deeper to the plot this time than guy and a harem and/or school setting. I cannot watch it if that isn't the case. I've seen one of them in To Heart 2 and part of Tsuyokisu and thus I feel I've seen enough for a lifetime at least. I've liked Higurashi and Fate/Stay Night and what I've seen of Kanon but that's because they are multilayered in terms of plot and have characters that go beyond the archetype. The characters look cute, but that would never make up for a lack of plot and a story behind the face. Sometimes I wonder if these are merely commercials for the game to whet a fans appetite into playing the game and getting some actual story. |
2007-01-25, 23:31 | Link #1252 | ||
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*is struck by a heart attack* Oh dear and holy raptor Jesus-sama, first Nagasarete Airantou, then Prism Ark, then Hayate, and now Kono Aozora..... 2007 will be a wonderful year. NAOKO-SAMAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!! Quote:
Yes, it's got a setup for a school harem. No, the characters do not all pine for the male lead, or at least they don't do it as one-tracked and as openly as most harem anime or game (one of them actually hates him and practically everyone else in the cast in the beginning). No, the characters are not paper cutout archetypes, although that depends strongly on your standards regarding who is and isn't an archetypical character. What is your definition of multi-layered? Does it have to involve mystical or paranormal elements? If so, then you won't find anything all that mystical or supernatural in Kono Aozora. The plot is "deeper" than To Heart 2's, that I can gather. Is it as thickly layered as Higurashi? No, but then again there's very little in all of fiction that can match its complexity anyway. So what would you like us to tell you? Do you want hear/read us defend this game to the death? Or do you want us to ward you away from the show? Perhaps it may even be better for you to completely forget about this show, just to spare yourself and the rest of us all the angst and complaint that may inevitably come later; and you'd blame me and everyone else for wasting your time with the show anyway. But, since no one's seen the anime yet, the only example left is the game. I would suggest you go get the trial, or if you're willing, get or DL the whole game, and see for yourself how it is. If you can read Japanese, awesome. If you can't, use AGTH to machine-translate. If you can't bear the machine translation, or refuse to read machine translation, then there's little we can do to help and you should ignore the game and show altogether then. ................ well, it does at least have the best student council president character EVER. At least in my humble experience and opinion.
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2007-01-26, 06:07 | Link #1255 | |
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2007-01-26, 12:11 | Link #1257 |
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I am interested in Kono Aozora ni Yakusoku too... could Shinova provide a spoiler-free summary on what might be the story about more? I can't find a lot of information on it.
As of course, I've seen the character pictures from the official site and from what I can tell, I love the character designs already, but I would like to know what the story is about.
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Now nearly all eroges that let you "get a girl" consist of one-shot arcs, one for each character. How much is packed into that one-shot arc depends from game to game, but they're all still one-shot arcs regardless, and Kono Aozora is one of them. So is Kanon, but you apparently enjoy that story. If you want games with a really solid central story that all the individual character paths orbit around, Prism Ark is the most current example I can think of. Kanon's is about Yuiichi recovering his lost childhood memories, but that's more of a setting rather than an actual plot. So "Multi-layered is more than one overarching plot element or theme to the story." doesn't really tell me a lot either. And your high school experience was a "blast?" Then relinquish all hope ye strange one, for if high school was fun enough for you to actually enjoy it and call it a "blast" then there's no hope of any high school-based anime or game meeting your expectations. Now to address everyone else: Quote:
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EDIT: I direct you all to ayyo's Kono Aozora thread, as obviously his skill in description is superior to mines. Is the story deep? It's deeper than To Heart 2, for sure. Definetly deeper than the Tsuyokiss anime. The anime of Da Capo is a little better than it. Prism Ark is deeper than both Kono Aozora and Da Capo. Kanon is just as deep as Prism Ark but in a different way (Kanon is a small-scale human drama, Prism Ark is a fantasy epic).
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2007-01-26, 20:22 | Link #1259 |
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Thanks for all the info Shinova
The official site for Seto no Hanayome anime has opened: http://www.setonohanayome.com/ Broadcast: April 2007
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2007-01-26, 20:28 | Link #1260 | |
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