(L+CR) Nagi no Asukara (Nagi-Asu: A Lull in the Sea)

[Archon_Wing]

Aside from those stupid looking eyes, the trailer was okay. It may have been a bit cheesy, but it's nowhere near as GTFO as A Town Where You Live or whatever shit. Seeing 10 seconds of that made me want to throw up in my mouth. It is a pretty calm video showing those backgrounds, and the song is just a bit too sentimental, but it's not really that off. Of course, this is PA Works. Their ability to show us beautiful scenery outweighs their ability to write a story, so it's understandable they would showcase the former instead of the later.

I understand it's fine to pass judgement based on trailers and promotional videos. Tari Tari had a terrible trailer video which showed it as super generic, and Oreimo did too (Although the later was actually terrible and super generic). It's fine to have subpar expectations.

On the other hand, I think a lot of posts were going out of their way to crucify the series out of the gate. If you're going to read an alternative version of the story, while ignoring the fact that concurrent media (say Evangelion TV and manga) can turn out extremely differently because they're not adaptations, then that's just jumping the gun a bit.

And I'm hardly an apologist for either PA (lol) or Okada, lol.

Anyhow, the character designs do look... bleh. There's something wrong with the eyes, and considering I like Key, that's gotta be off. I can't believe this is the work of Buriki.

[Kanon]

The animation and backgrounds are gorgeous. As for the story, I'll have until, you know, it actually airs.

[finalfury]

Seems okay.............

Only thing it has going for me is the color blue and I wasn't too fond of the manga. :/

Too bad it has drama in it, or else I would have just watched it for stress relief.

Hope for the best tho.

[Pocari_Sweat]

Originally Posted by Archon_Wing

I understand it's fine to pass judgement based on trailers and promotional videos. Tari Tari had a terrible trailer video which showed it as super generic, and Oreimo did too (Although the later was actually terrible and super generic). It's fine to have subpar expectations.

I dunno... Although Tari Tari's PV wasn't anything spectacular and pretty generic it was far more tolerable because it doesn't have awful designs nor sappy music imo:

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https://youtu.be/YmTKphUxHi8

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Anyhow, the character designs do look... bleh. There's something wrong with the eyes, and considering I like Key, that's gotta be off. I can't believe this is the work of Buriki.

I can... but then again I never liked Buriki's nor Key designs in the first place.

[Archon_Wing]

Hey Buriki did well in Boku wa Tomadachi, aside from the excessive boobage. And then there was Denpa Onna. And Key designs do have many problems. Kyoani and PA Works tried pretty hard to improve on them with mixed results,

The Tari Tari trailer I didn't really like because there were so many stills and just nothing really happening. And those designs, while endearing in retrospect weren't encouraging. And yes TTari's designs are still better.

But hey, at least the music is not Nano.ripe. :3

[Pocari_Sweat]

Originally Posted by Archon_Wing

Hey Buriki did well in Boku wa Tomadachi, aside from the excessive boobage. And then there was Denpa Onna.

Not a pervert tyvm

And Key designs do have many problems.

Dem dinner plate eyes. Though Nagi no Asu Kara's is even more exaggerated somehow

Kyoani and PA Works tried pretty hard to improve on them [character designs] with mixed results

Mixed is a generous term. Awful is much more blunt and honest description. PAW briefly and wonderfully broke the spell in Uchoten as well as having a completely deviating from their standard "scenery porn" background art style, but they are going back to their traditional background style for Nagi no Asu Kara (which isn't bad by any means) ... but with the most derpiest character designs I've seen by them so far. I guess airheaded and "retarded" looking = cute, something Key often tries to tell us .

The Tari Tari trailer I didn't really like because there were so many stills and just nothing really happening. And those designs, while endearing in retrospect weren't encouraging. And yes TTari's designs are still better.

Tari Tari in general was actually quite cheap looking. I know we joke about Tari Tari looking like rejected Hanasaku Iroha backgrounds and character concepts, but sometimes I actually think it's kinda true . PAW did a great job of hiding deficiencies in their artwork and animation for the series as it appeared that it had a far lower budget than Hanasaku Iroha. A more charming and consistent series though fortunately.

But hey, at least the music is not Nano.ripe. :3

What's nano.ripe?


In all seriousness, but is it just me or does it appear that Mari Okada based PA shows get the most budget? True Tears, Canaan, Hanasaku Iroha, Nagi no Asu Kara... all these series look like as if more budget were pumped into them than non-okada based series in Another, Red Data Girl and Uchouten. Angel Beats is the only exception though that was directly funded by Aniplex so it's not comparable.

[sky black swordman]

Hmm, the PV peaked my interest And Hanazawa Kana, is in this too.
I'll give this one a look-see.

[Archon_Wing]

Originally Posted by Pocari_Sweat

Not a pervert tyvm

I really don't see Denpa Onna could be conceived as perv.

Dem dinner plate eyes. Though Nagi no Asu Kara's is even more exaggerated somehow p

Yea, it's a bit gross. No doubt.

Mixed is a generous term. Awful is much more blunt and honest description. PAW briefly and wonderfully broke the spell in Uchoten as well as having a completely deviating from their standard "scenery porn" background art style, but they are going back to their traditional background style for Nagi no Asu Kara (which isn't bad by any means) ... but with the most derpiest character designs I've seen by them so far. I guess airheaded and "retarded" looking = cute, something Key often tries to tell us .

They do that sometimes, but they're not completely that.

Tari Tari in general was actually quite cheap looking. I know we joke about Tari Tari looking like rejected Hanasaku Iroha backgrounds and character concepts, but sometimes I actually think it's kinda true . PAW did a great job of hiding deficiencies in their artwork and animation for the series as it appeared that it had a far lower budget than Hanasaku Iroha. A more charming and consistent series though fortunately.

I wasn't joking, lol.

What's nano.ripe?

They sing some OPs/EDs, I would't know because I skip all of them.

In all seriousness, but is it just me or does it appear that Mari Okada based PA shows get the most budget? True Tears, Canaan, Hanasaku Iroha, Nagi no Asu Kara... all these series look like as if more budget were pumped into them than non-okada based series in Another, Red Data Girl and Uchouten. Angel Beats is the only exception though that was directly funded by Aniplex so it's not comparable.

If we discount Tari Tari, the only other original writer they have is Jun Maeda. Nuff said. >.> Okada is like their VIP most likely. Okay, they did something funky with Another and it's like totally different, but lol.

Also, I'm not really aware that True Tears was budgeted. It was kinda cheap on the animation, despite being strong aesthetically.

[Arya]

Well after reading all the comments I was expecting to throw up just after 10 sec of PV. Instead, surprisingly, I liked it. Well, all considered. Better than Tari Tari's that I found a bit plain back then. But for my standards a terrible PV is, say, Hyouka PV. In any case, what I feared the most were the eyes and in the end they didn't shocked me too much. Better than the standard "dinner plate" ones, they are still exaggerated. Probably I could stand them. Instead what got on my nerves a bit has been the voice. Don't know why, but somehow it reminded of Menma and it's not a good sign.
Anyway, I usually tend to like PAW character designs, I liked Tari Tari's quite a bit as much as Another's. The only one among the PAW series I've watched which I didn't like much was Angel Beats!'s, but I didn't like more or less anything about that series.

[Kismet-chan]

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[Guardian Enzo]

Kind of unusual for the male and female leads to both have electric-blue eyes.

[Pocari_Sweat]

Originally Posted by Guardian Enzo

Kind of unusual for the male and female leads to both have electric-blue eyes.

All the more crossdressing that is planned my friend .

In all seriousness, based off the PV those two seemed to have some kind of underwater humanoids.

[totoum]

Originally Posted by Pocari_Sweat

In all seriousness, based off the PV those two seemed to have some kind of underwater humanoids.

1:04 of the PV makes me wonder if this is gonna be something like okada's version of the little murmaid, if so I hope we get the bad end route

[boggart]

I thought the PV was gorgeous at first viewing... then I read all your comments and watched it again.

Now I can't stop staring at their eyes. Thanks a lot for ruining my enjoyment.

[NoemiChan]

Originally Posted by boggart

I thought the PV was gorgeous at first viewing... then I read all your comments and watched it again.

Now I can't stop staring at their eyes. Thanks a lot for ruining my enjoyment.

I can't judge an anime just because of the eyes or how Pocari hates it....

As long as its romance... it might be worth it ( if my ships wins in the end)

[Pocari_Sweat]

Originally Posted by GenjiChan

I can't judge an anime just because of the eyes or how Pocari hates it....

I'll give you this analogy.

Think of a Kyoani fan back in the day (FMP and Haruhi) days only to hear that their next series is another K-on season or some other "moe comedy" show instead of another season of FMP or Haruhi.

That's how I feel about PA Works whenever Mari Okada is involved

[Archon_Wing]

Okada did do True Tears and Hana Saku Iroha. They were hardly PA's worst; some would argue it was the best.

Now if you said Jun Maeda. :3

True Tears is to PA Works as what FMP is to Kyoani.

[ices]

Originally Posted by D-Joe

New PV

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https://youtu.be/Bqq-c3xd91Q

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It's not that bad I think. Well, everyone has different opinion.

The character design was okay (dunno about the complain about the eyes, I think it's okay. I've seen worse than this before, so I think that was quite good). The background was splendid. And... the seiyuu....

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[NoemiChan]

Originally Posted by Pocari_Sweat

I'll give you this analogy.

Think of a Kyoani fan back in the day (FMP and Haruhi) days only to hear that their next series is another K-on season or some other "moe comedy" show instead of another season of FMP or Haruhi.

That's how I feel about PA Works whenever Mari Okada is involved

This gonna be moe comedy???

C'mon, everyone knows... whether you like it or not... You'll still gonna watch it whole..

Pocari: "It's not that I like it, baka. I'm finding moments that could be of use for my future attacks to Okada, bleh"

[Kazu-kun]

Originally Posted by Archon_Wing

True Tears is to PA Works as what FMP is to Kyoani.

I think True Tears is overrated. It's a decent series, but it's just your typical romantic drama.

Personally, I think Tari Tari is PA Works at its best. One might not like the character designs and such, but the writing is in a totally different level than all their other series.