2008-09-06, 22:55 | Link #62 |
Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2006
|
Very nice shots in that magazine, I keep loving the design work. The backround art looks nice in those screenshots, like in the nice shot of the russian girl running towards the buildings. Like the "poster" shot in the last page. Also, the design of the other kid from her squad looks good.
I'm quite curious about the crater-like area with the castle/town in it. Now we just need a date when this is coming |
2008-09-09, 08:14 | Link #63 |
魂を踊らすように
Join Date: May 2006
Location: London, UK
Age: 39
|
Whoa, Studio 4C is on a roll? Last year it was Tekkon Kinkreet, this year it's DMC and now this. I'm really excited for this movie, and I'm also curious to see how the japanese/russian partnership will work (well they've already got plenty of experience when it comes to collaborating and working with foreigners).
|
2008-09-09, 11:08 | Link #64 |
Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2005
|
I'm a lot more encouraged by the fact that this project seems to be written and produced by Russians than if it were an entirely Japanese work. This makes it a lot more likely to avoid the various peccadillos that plague many other World War II-era and pseudo-World War II anime works (see Strike Witches, Zipang, the Cockpit, Valkyria Chronicles and so forth).
From the promotional material, I'd have preferred it if they showed Soviet cavalry rather than Teutonic Knights, but it looks promising so far. I'd appreciate it even more if it actually features a major battle on the Eastern Front (especially if it isn't Stalingrad). Ditto. It's hard to think of a more iconic infantry weapon for World War II, and it's a shame that we don't see more of it in shows and movies of that era (even if its lack isn't particularly surprising).
__________________
|
2008-09-09, 12:21 | Link #65 |
Pilot in Training
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Earth
|
Stalingrad itself is Cliche now, lol. Movies, games, etc.
I mean there was Kharkov, Leningrad, Kiev, Warsaw, Bucharest, Sevastopol, etc. Also, I don't know why, but I want to see a Katyusha truck. 4tran, did you mean the Cossacks? The Eastern front was the most brutal of the European theaters and could even rival the Second Sino-Japanese war(The Chinese theater of WWII). The Pacific War was brutal, but not in the since of savage combat and more into the fact the Americans shot everything that moved and sometimes didn't move. I also agree, when WWII shows are made by Japanese studio it does have a bias, but I guess the same can be said for Western versions of wars, etc. *One last thing, I could think of a few more infantry weapons that were iconic. The M1928 and M1 Thompson was iconic for the British as the commando weapon(Early war), the Sten(mainly Mk.I) was iconic as the resistance weapon, and the M1 Garand was iconic as the best semi-automatic rifle. The MG42 was also iconic as a defensive weapon. |
2008-09-09, 14:29 | Link #66 | |||
Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2005
|
Quote:
What I'd really love to see depicted would be August Storm, but it's highly (highly, highly) unlikely to ever happen in animated form, and certainly not made by Japanese animators. Not quite - Cossacks fought on both sides of the Eastern Front and they're probably more associated with the SS Cossacks than anything else. I'm talking more about the Soviet cavalry that was used for the entire lenght of the war. Quote:
Quote:
__________________
|
|||
2008-09-09, 16:24 | Link #67 |
Pilot in Training
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Earth
|
The Sten was used by every resistance force, even Tito's partisans in Yugoslavia. When I think of Western resistance, I think of the Sten
The reason the PPSH was use by was the Germans was the Mp40/41 jammed quite a bit and of course had the 32 round magazine instead of the 70 round drum the PPSH had. I will say of the WWII era weapons, the PPSH lasted the longest. Hell, Coalition forces in Iraq and Afghanistan still run into them as well as Russian troops finding Chechnyans with them. Also, August Storm is something the Japanese would like to forget. The Kwantung Army, which was supposed to be one of Japan's best, was utterly decimated. Granted many men were pulled from the army to fight the Americans in the Pacific and the British/Indians in Burma/India. I have only ever found one game that involves AS and that is Il-2 Sturmovik 1946. While the few anime that are about WWII are as you said, actual Japanese persons I have run into either don't know what happened or deny it. There was one girl at my school who said Nanking was a lie by the Western powers. That dumbfounded me. |
2008-09-10, 07:31 | Link #68 |
The Commissar Vanishes
|
Well, what can I say. You have the Stuka Junkers, you have the T-34, you have dual-wielding MP-40s, you have your blocking swords with a Mosin-Nagant, you have from the hip MG-42 spamming, you have yuor Mauser C96.
I think this is what you call "hitting all the bases". |
2008-09-10, 09:58 | Link #70 | |
気持ち悪い
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: New Zealand
|
Quote:
__________________
|
|
2008-09-10, 14:26 | Link #71 | |
The Commissar Vanishes
|
Quote:
Well, t's certainly "AMERICA, FUCK YEAH!!!" Russian-style. But hey, it's entertaining. 8) |
|
2008-09-10, 18:55 | Link #72 | ||
気持ち悪い
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: New Zealand
|
Quote:
Quote:
Excuse my historical ignorance, but am I right that Estonians would be particularly pleased to see the Livonian Order's butts getting kicked? Or does history now view the crusaders as the lesser evil compared to your Eastern neighbour?
__________________
|
||
2008-09-10, 19:29 | Link #73 | |
Lost in my dreams...
Join Date: Jun 2006
Age: 37
|
I see quite some mentions regarding the location this should place ... well, in all honesty i wouldn't expect all that much historical accuracy (nor focus) on that front, given that it is likely going to devote much of it's focus to the supernatural element, and the scope is also likely to be local enough to render whatever location it might be set in as not much above a simple name for reference's sake. I would like to see an anime featuring one of the fiercer battles on eastern front, but this is unlikely going to be it. Never the less, i am quite looking towards it.
Quote:
__________________
|
|
2008-09-10, 20:02 | Link #74 | |||
The Commissar Vanishes
|
Quote:
Quote:
Quote:
As long as the production company squares away all of its problem. I heard they still don't have a theatrical distribution deal. Or, at least, they've had a media partner and then lost it. No new announcement since then. |
|||
2008-09-11, 00:26 | Link #76 | ||
気持ち悪い
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: New Zealand
|
Quote:
Quote:
Do we know yet what language(s) the movie will be voiced in?
__________________
|
||
2008-09-11, 03:08 | Link #77 | |
Lost in my dreams...
Join Date: Jun 2006
Age: 37
|
Quote:
__________________
|
|
2008-09-11, 08:39 | Link #79 | |||
Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2005
|
Quote:
Quote:
Of course it's just as likely that they picked this timeframe because it's the 700th anniversary of the Battle of the Ice, but the amount of effort they put into it is still commendable. Quote:
It probably won't make too much difference since most viewers don't give a damn about history. Rorouni Kenshin was a very popular anime, but I don't too many fans knew all that much the Meiji Restoration. In any case, if the setting were to draw any interest it'd be from the combination of the following phrases: "World War II", "Nazis" and "magic" .
__________________
|
|||
|
|