2007-01-07, 15:53 | Link #22 |
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^ The OP is a keeper, not so hot on the ED, but it's growing on me.
That's what surprised me too, considering the airtime. The brutality of the battle and the Shadow Lord slaughtering a few thousands warriors in one hit a la Sauron. |
2007-01-07, 17:56 | Link #23 | |
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Anyway I only hope the protagonist won't be able to take down that nuke monster by himself otherwise I will stop watching... I'm having enough of shounen genre and I want seinen. |
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2007-01-08, 07:03 | Link #24 |
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Pardon the ignorance (( never read Deltora...yet )), but while Deltora doesn't look to be the the stock plot-coupon travelling-around-the-continent RPG to gain the power that only it can surpass the evil villian cheese with a typical shounen main character with a white horse and a mary-sue female lead, I can't see why one would look for a seinen genre in a children targetted story, even if the anime doesn't seem to care about it's original source's target audience. Anyway, just got to watch it moments ago. Damn you, Earthquake. It's like 1997 all over again with the connection speed here. Overall, it was okay. I found the long pre-background introduction a little bit long, but that's probably because I'm too used to the traditional Japanese introduce background plot points bit by bit as pre-OP highlights as more episodes are shown ala Gundam, but aside from that, the episode flowed smoothly with the character introductions to the main-plot eatup. I thought the lead-up to the whole "I'm entrusting the Deltora Belt + Sword + Magic Cape" scenario kinda lacking and plain, but that's okay. I guess I am too used to seeing cheesy overdrawn sword-entrusting and cape-wearing scenes. What I particular liked about DQ is probably the colours. It's probably just me, but I found the use of low-toned yet smooth colours along with the crisp quality accompanying the series made it feel like it was an mixture of late-90s colouring where they used low-tone colours more so than the bright, vibrantly colourful animations of recent years while combining clean, computer-assisted generated animation that isn't jagged. Not to mention it really fits the overall fantasy lore mood decently well.
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2007-01-08, 12:55 | Link #25 | |
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For the characters, Lief's mum has got it going on just like that song "Stacie's mom." She is hot! Lief would have been a bit more likable if the VA was someone else other than Sakamaki Ryosuke. This VA is one of the few ones whose voice acting parallels the bad English dub acting. Lief's laugh was so fake that I wanted to throw some rock at him if I didn't fear hitting my screen first. That said, he is got a hot mum! Looking forward to Jasmine. Btw, the ending song sounds better.
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2007-01-08, 12:58 | Link #26 | |
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But yeah, well chosen use of colours I thought. The unsettling blues and eerie greens in those important scenes and that last sequence with the glowing eyes of the monsters in the Forest of Silence suited the foreboding atmosphere perfectly.The colour stylist (Miyoko Ichinose) worked on Zettai Shounen, which also has a subtle vernal palette and glowy effects and whatnot. These kind of subtle artistic choices often go unappreciated though. I was trying to think of a recent 'pure' fantasy anime, but seems there haven't been too many since Record of Lodoss War and Arislan and those sort of classic fantasy shows. Most of the recent ones (Scrapped Princess springs to mind) have sci-fi elements and other such. Seems to be something of a rarity... Last edited by Sonhex; 2007-01-08 at 13:29. |
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2007-01-08, 13:41 | Link #27 | ||
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I've been meaning to watch Simoun for some time. Fans of the show pretty much raves about it and some even refer it as one of the select few, the best of the best, show ever. Will pick it up as soon as Simoun-Fans finishes it. Quote:
On another note, month of April might turn out to be a good month for the fantasy lovers.
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2007-01-08, 14:42 | Link #28 | ||
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As for the Spring line-up, indeed plenty of solid fantasy fare coming up - Moribito, Sisters of Wellber, Claymore and RomeoxJuliet (sort of)... |
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2007-01-08, 21:03 | Link #29 |
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Eeeeeeeeee....! Eeeeeeeeeeeee...!! Ok it's out of my system. I have to say I'm excited to see a book series I've read being made into an anime. out of the childrens section I would have preferred to see something like Cornelia Funke's Ink Trilogy but beggers can't be choosers I guess... The book series itself was entertaining, highly easy to read... Maybe a little too easy and short since I finished a book a day originally.. But hey it got my brother interested in reading, so maybe that's why I like it more than I should. It will be interesting to see if they hold up to their word and keep it to the original story.
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2007-01-09, 07:10 | Link #30 |
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yes that is awesome!! Also there are more than eight books. The original series was 8 books, then they made Deltora Quest 2, kind of like DBZ, that had 3 books, then there was Deltora Quest 3, with 4 books. So there's 15 all together. It may sound a bit generic from the description but it's actually a very original story, with some nice villians like these white flame spirits who can shapshift and a witch with 13 demonic children.
The only thing is, one major appeal of the books to little kids (like me when I read them) was the abundance of puzzles which the heroes had to solve, but could be solved by the reader earlier if they were smart enough. It was stuff like riddles and spot the difference. I hope they don't try to translate that into the anime, because it would be lame. Actually, now I think about it, those puzzles were always lame. Anyway, woot for Deltora Quest. Oh and I think most people know but I'll say anyway, Howl's Moving Castle was based on a childrens' fantasy novel as well. |
2007-01-10, 06:45 | Link #33 | |
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Hey Impz, you going to blog DQ? Jasmine has green hair you know
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In other news, DATS hope to have episode one subbed by the weekend. Yay! They've already released subs of the OP and ED, if you know where to look. The ED has grown on me now, I think I like them both equally... |
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2007-01-10, 11:01 | Link #34 |
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u got me, sonhex, i made a very short summary for Deltora quest, after being impressed by the show. Unlike Ghost hunt and the likes, it's a very short summary because i do not want to commit to the series just yet.
So ya, still. Deltora quest Episode 1 + screenshots If this show continues to be that good, I will give it a better treatment than it is getting currently. We see how it goes because Poor impzie is geetting busy with real life. Sigh. Depressing stuff. |
2007-01-10, 17:43 | Link #36 |
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Ah, I have a question for the book reader(s), how is the pacing so far in relation to the book? i.e. how much did the first episode cover of the first book? This may help us guage how long the series is likely to be.
I was thinking if there's 8 books and this is a 26 episode series, then 3 episodes per book or something like that... |
2007-01-13, 10:18 | Link #37 |
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Episode 2 'Wild Girl Jasmine'...
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I have to say that I'm hugely impressed with Ayahi Takagaki; she's carries this episode as Jasmine, bringing a great deal of maturity and humour to her character. She could have played her a number of ways, but Jasmine comes across as headstrong and convincing as the wild girl. Moreso than Lief at this stage, ironically. Ayahi Takagaki's also playing Lucia in Venus Versus Virus this season (in fact she's so good as Lucia I thought she was someone else entirely ). Last edited by Sonhex; 2007-01-13 at 11:08. Reason: housekeeping |
2007-01-13, 12:50 | Link #38 |
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I do have a love evrything mideival and mystical . aka Berserk -ish Claymore in April and Deltora Quest currently , is two animes I going to look forward to in 07 . The Promos look very promising also quite intrigued by the name DELTORA QUEST , its nicely put together
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well heres my thoughts on ep2 ~ Spoiler:
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2007-01-18, 08:29 | Link #40 |
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Episode 2 summary + screenshots
I am surprised that there is little interest in this show, since it's pretty much old school fantasy that is great. This show is love. Jasmine is definitely great too |
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