(CR) Highspeed Etoile

[MisaoFan]

Original girls' formula racing TV anime by King Amusement Creative Sonic Blade, Yostar, Good Smile Company, and Super Formula. The latter is collaborating on the project. Character designs by Takuya Fujima.

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/new...vealed/.187691

[Obelisk ze Tormentor]

So....cute girls doing Cyber Formula?

[Nachtwandler]

I wonder if it will be an actual series or another TV-special like previous 2 sports anime from Yostar?

[Frontier]

What will people appreciate more? The racing, the cars, or the girls in form fitting racing outfits? Or all three .

[FlareKnight]

Originally Posted by Frontier

What will people appreciate more? The racing, the cars, or the girls in form fitting racing outfits? Or all three .

Well I'll say the last one takes priority after seeing the picture above . But the cars and racing should be nice too .

[MisaoFan]

New PV:

YouTube

https://youtu.be/F4VJttn-xEA

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[Nachtwandler]

Full CGI which is bad for some people but I am fine with it as it looks decent.

[ryllharu]

Originally Posted by Nachtwandler

Full CGI which is bad for some people but I am fine with it as it looks decent.

Full CG lends itself well to racing genre, especially allowing dynamic camera angles, but I do wish the character movement was a bit less wooden than the promo is showing. That's what often throws me out of full CG anime.

[Nachtwandler]

It's a general problem of the industry as they rarelly use decent FPS even for full CGI anime.

[stray]

Originally Posted by Nachtwandler

It's a general problem of the industry as they rarelly use decent FPS even for full CGI anime.

60FPS would just look weird and isn't supported by broadcast TV or BD.

This series looks... interesting if nothing else. Decent cast too so I'll check it out anyway.

[EroKing]

Images

Megami

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[magnumcyclonex]

Nothing can rival Future Grand Prix Cyber Formula (even if that anime had its own flaws). Highspeed Etoile seems to me to be a very lackluster and uninspired Formula E inspired racing anime, with more female characters thrown in. Nothing against female racers, but they're not what let episode 1 down imo. What I disliked was the stoicness of the CGI faces, the really boring commentators, the Queen's supporter Richard hanging up his driving gloves, and the lack of pit crew and the numerous faceless spectators. More importantly, the racing did NOT seem fast. It just felt flat. I'll still watch since it's a racing/sports anime, but there are also other sports anime coming that will compete for my time.

Oh and half the field are claimed to be AI racers and there's supposedly some system that helps maintain distance between the cars, yet the show seemingly contradicted itself when crashes occurred.

[stray]

I'm sort of confused I guess the new girl takes over for the Falk guy? I'm not sure what to expect but I'll give it another week or two.

[serenade_beta]

Spoiler for first impressions:

Zzzzz....... Ehwhat? Did it end?
Oh my gosh, that lady talking the entire episode sounds like she didn't give a crap about what was going on. It was so monotone, I felt sleepy

As for the episode, yes, full CG is bad and should not be supported until the anime industry realizes no one wants it and any company that only makes it disappears, but more than that,
watching CG cars running for almost 20 minutes with that monotone lady was pretty, pretty bad. Just put my dislike for the CG aside. That lady was so bad.

[FlareKnight]

I'll admit that full CG anime need to really wow me to get past the inherent bias I have against them.

The only really entertaining thing was getting a smirk when seeing the Good Smile Company name pop up. Makes sense since they are one of the Producers for it.

But honestly it just didn't do much to grab me. Holding the main character out of it until the last couple minutes was certainly a choice. It just didn't have a lot of intensity. The legendary best driver was pretty much in charge and finished the race that way. And yeah the commentary lacked intensity which just made it feel even less engaging.

Nothing is for everyone. So I'll give the show a salute and move on. This season is packed so quick choices for everyone on every show is needed. Hopefully anyone that did have fun with this enjoys the rest of it though.

[Laevatein]

Unfortunately, seems like another example of a female-led sports anime getting screwed over by poor/lazy production (the example that sticks in my mind is Farewell, My Dear Cramer AKA Sayonara, Football - I love the manga, but the anime was horribly cheap).

[KitsuKyouno]

YUP, is very low animated, i see this is just another mobile game ads
sad because the design are greats

[serenade_beta]

Originally Posted by KitsuKyouno

YUP, is very low animated, i see this is just another mobile game ads
sad because the design are greats

Yup
https://dengekionline.com/articles/226996/
And it isn't even a racing game. This would be hilarious if it wasn't sad

[larethian]

Feel bland af, but it's always nice to strike off something when I try to find time to watch everything during start of season.

[Nachtwandler]

At least OP and ED will be good. Always nice to have Nana singing and Scandal is also good.

YouTube

https://youtu.be/FrfSUDERD-g

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