2011-09-05, 21:46 | Link #282 |
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Every show has separated arcs. People just don't recognize the transition.
And if you bother read this thread, you will know that there is no way it can be "novel chapter-by-chapter episodics". You have 12 eps, and a 1300 pages of material for volume 1. Mind you, they are not just pointless words to fill up the book.
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2011-09-05, 22:34 | Link #283 |
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I am aware of how big each volume is. But I was kind of worried there with Suzuku talking about 60% of the material are settings explanation/world building. This then reminded me the Index novels, a series where its selling point is also its interestingly vast universe and characters. But personally I didn't enjoy how Index told its stories, and I was wondering if Horizon was going to have a similar vein of story telling.
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(For the record, Index's story Arcs do connect to each other, but the connection takes some time to link it all together to see the big picture.)
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2011-09-06, 04:15 | Link #287 |
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Well the way Sunrise handled the Kuro Kami manga is arguably worse than anything J.C Staff did with a light novel series... but I'm not worried since this has completely different staff involved and the director of Horizon intends to be faithful from the interview stuopidget translated. Though I do hope they take advantage of the medium they're working with...
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And if there is someone that don't care about spoilers I made a summary for the first volume (first season) in the LN thread. |
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2011-09-06, 07:44 | Link #290 | |
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Hence why I found articuzwolf's comment to be out of place.
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2011-09-06, 08:52 | Link #293 | ||
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but at least I like it more than Yumekui Merry (which is also manga adaptation and it was done by J.C Staff)
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2011-09-06, 12:18 | Link #294 | |
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I'm a bit on the fence as to whether or not to watch this show. I'm turned off by Sunrise science fantasy shows in general, but Horizon seems to have so much disaster potential that it's a bit hard to pass up. The story outline and the character design really stand out in this regard.
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2011-09-06, 13:17 | Link #295 |
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Well for me it's that the story and character design still look kind of meh (typical with how I view light novels) but I trust in the studio and staff involved to bring out it's potential. I'm firmly in tune with Sunrise's way of handling Sci-Fi/Fantasy and still feel they do that genre among the best of any studio in the industry (probably comes with experience), but I'd suggest that if other people still have issues with how they do things (the "hurr Sunrise trainwreck" line of thought seems to be really peaking it's ugly head up again heading into this fall season after a refreshing break from it during the summer) they best just not bother with this.
As far as I know most of what people gripe about with Kurokami is that the main character is completely different in the original Manwha (yes manwha not manga) where he's a basically a total asshole and things are portrayed a lot more violently in terms of his relationship with Kuro. I can only assume the change was made to make him appeal more to multiple audiences since Kurokami was basically viewed by Sunrise/Bandai as a means to jump start their simultaneous region release program (which really took off with Unicorn) with a license that could be acquired reasonably cheaply. I saw a few episodes of it, it was entertaining, but largely forgettable action fare. I never saw it as bad though, but then maybe that's cause I prefer to view adaptations as independently from their source material as possible rather than to gauge them based on how faithful they are to their source. Last edited by Kaioshin Sama; 2011-09-06 at 14:07. |
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Sunrise can definitely do it's entertaining bizzaro shows in the same way the likes of Gainax, Satelight and Gonzo can, but I'm certainly hoping it doesn't have that downright crassness to it's narative that Dragonaut has. I'm hoping for something more like a Gurren Lagann or a Glass No Kantai and something less like a Dragonaut or Kurogane no Line barrels. |
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Here's another "summary" of the plot, this one has a bit more information than the other one but it's still...difficult to understand, to say the least.
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2011-09-06, 17:29 | Link #299 | |
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It's like someone took a list of vaguely space operaish terms, tossed them in a blender, and wrote it up as a summary. And then decide that wasn't unique enough, so they added students.
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2011-09-07, 02:14 | Link #300 | ||||
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I'm not too worried about the director being the same as Dragonauts... my fav anime of the last 8 years in Bacanno! didn't exactly have a steller staff working on it.. but they had great source material and adapted it in an intriguing manner by doing 3 plotlines/4 novels @ once... and now look @ them.
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Anyway a good example is that little girl from Episode... was it 1 or 2? Whatever, in the manga you get to know her before it tries to pull your heartstrings. Cheap attempt to do so? Yes, but it works for a lot of people. In the anime, you don't know her, why does it matter? It doesn't. The manga version had "heart", it showed development of the main character, the anime had none of that. Kurokami could've been way more different than it actually was.. but if it had actual development, proper pacing and emotion than it would've been received a heck of a lot better. Maybe not from manga readers.. but considering it was a turd to most viewers and the manga fanbase was small anyway... Quote:
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