2011-11-08, 04:21 | Link #61 |
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Dayum. I'll be the happiest person in the world if Drama CD 3 gets animated. Kyouko/Mami goodness is always a win in mah book. MadoHomu i sure hope will be explosive. XDD Ahh..the awesomeness of Yuri. <<33
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2011-11-08, 04:48 | Link #63 |
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I just watched the final of the 2 macross Frontier movies, were frickin brilliant
if PMMM movies are able to improve on the TV series like the MacFrontier movies did, I will be a very, very happy person.
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2011-11-08, 06:21 | Link #64 |
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If they dedicate 2 whole movies to a retelling of the series, that's actually longer than the TV series itself. Minus OP, ED and previews, the story portion of the series is about 4 hours and 20 minutes long. Assuming something similar to the last few anime movies I watched, each movie would be between 2 and 3 hours long. They could comfortably add a whole hour of extra content to the story.
The thing is, if you give equal treatment to the episodes, the breakpoint between the movies is ep6. That hardly seems like the best place to end a movie to me. |
2011-11-08, 06:38 | Link #65 |
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lol wow, four pages already. Just yesterday I came to realize that what I've really been missing in my life this season/lately has been a bit of SHAFT. And so I wondered a bit about what I'd see next from them. This announcement kinda brings it home that SHAFT has really hit the big time. With [Nise/Kizu]monogatari on the horizon, and three Madoka movies in the works, much as I'm a big fan of both these franchises, what I'm really hoping is that they'll still have time for their more quirky, humbler works.
Anyway, Madoka movies, huh. The comparison brought up to stuff like mainstream shounen movies is kinda interesting, because much as Madoka has been called a "social phenomenon", in truth, all of the avenues of access to the series (NicoNico broadcasts, >1:00 am late night airings, expensive Bluerays) ultimately still seem oriented towards the "enthusiast" crowd. Although, after all the examples of "high criticism" of Madoka I've seen popping up in the wiki, I've come to appreciate the serious merit this series could potentially offer if understood as a piece of literature, I'm thinking that a box-office theatrical release could potentially spread Madoka's impact as a phenomenon even further to a mainstream, adult audience. I wonder if SHAFT/Aniplex are mindful of this and taking these possibilities into consideration. Coincidences converged this year to grant Madoka the weight/imprint of something of a watershed significance in Japanese popular culture. I'm sure, even beyond the 70,000 BD/DVD's they've sold, many Japanese people must've heard of it without having any comprehensive or directed exposure. The conversion of Madoka for theatrical presentation is a direct opportunity to reach such individuals. For these reasons I am hoping that even in recompositing the original series SHAFT takes as many liberties as it likes. lol, it would be great to leave the second movie on a cliffhanger. That would kick ass. I think the degree to which SHAFT show's an interest in shifting around with the old material will be in direct proportion to my hype. Well, suffice it to say, I'm excited by the possibilities. |
2011-11-08, 06:55 | Link #66 | |
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2011-11-08, 07:15 | Link #67 |
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Wait a minute... it made sense!
Several months ago, Aniplex posted out a newspaper ad calling for job applicants for an unspecified animation project, and then it turns out they're prepping up for this BIG THING. How could I miss that? Damn.
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2011-11-08, 08:07 | Link #70 |
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The Haruhi movie (2h41m), the Gundam00 movie (2h) and the Nanoha movie (2h10m)
But, at 130mins each, they'd barely need to cut more than a few repeated scenes and some transition scenes and they'd have enough room to fit in the credit rolls. |
2011-11-08, 09:43 | Link #75 |
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Thinking on this more, I'm realizing how bothered I am by what the continuation will be like. The story ends with a hopeful note and Madoka teases us with the promise of further miracles but we all know by now (including those of us who didn't expect it coming in) that if Gen is writing the story some characters are going to stay dead, the rest will go through hell, and we may get some kind of bittersweet ending if we're lucky. Besides that, unless we somehow get another "person shows up with universe changing potential", the story is pretty much finished. To continue this story means that you'd have to further rewrite the MG system (something that was implied is impossible outside of Madoka's wish), and you'd have to pull Madoka back into the story which seems difficult considering her new existence.
Barring something entirely new to shake up the story, the only thing I can think of them doing would be to finish up the existence of Mami, Kyouko, and Homura as Magical Girls in some kind of epic battle until they finally expire and go meet Sayaka and Madoka in some kind of existential "happily ever after" afterlife/reincarnation bit. In the absence of those two possibilities all that's really left is some kind of parallel universe story like Oriko. I'd be surprised if either of the comic adaptations end up animated, but of the two Oriko would fit the movie/OVA format better. Kazumi's story fits better (at the moment) with a television schedule. If it were either of these though, they would have likely just told us directly.
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This is a movie, not a TV series. As a movie of a blockbuster anime franchise, it will likely be aimed at a general anime-watching audience (if not a general movie-watching audience), not just fans of dark material in general. Gen has certain tendencies as a writer, but commercial factors can not be dismissed (incidentally, this is why I was skeptical of the idea of a 'bad end' in the original Madoka Magica anime). Rebuild of Evangelion has done exceptionally well, and a large part of that may well have been Anno making things a little less dark than they were in the original NGE/End of Eva productions. At the end of the day, I think that happy/bittersweet gets you more viewers, and more pleased viewers, than entirely sad/'bad end'.
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2011-11-08, 11:24 | Link #77 |
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I'm okay till I got one of those :
- Timeline 1 (kinda prequel) - Homura vs Magus (sequel) - Madoka godess mode meeting the witches we encourtered in the anime (Gertrude, Charlotte) with some footage of their MG form. |
2011-11-08, 12:38 | Link #79 | |
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So will Anno and Shinbo direct the movies together? XD
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