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[QUOTE=koeniginator;39282718]Sounds like the director wanted to watch a B movie zombie flick with anime cliches when he young.[/QUOTE] No, he wanted to watch tits and panties, he didn't talk about High School of the Dead, just in relation to why he chose to direct HSOTD. [QUOTE=koeniginator;39282718]On the same note, since when can people not enjoy things for reasons other than what the original creator intended?[/QUOTE] What brings this point? I don't see any relations to why you brought that up. Nobody said you couldn't? [QUOTE=koeniginator;39282718]Edit: wait, since when has Araki Tetsurou been known for fanservice in his shows?[/QUOTE] There was an interview posted on ANN where he said that he wanted to make as much fanservice as possible or something along those lines because that's what he wanted to see in shows when he was young. But now I can't find the article, so, shit. [QUOTE=HeroicPillow;39285448]The main reason why I watch anime is that it's really interesting to try and figure out [i]why[/i] different elements are on the screen. Every single detail needs to be added by an artist at some point in time; every angle needs to be explicitly decided by the director before anything can begin; every movement the character makes was drawn by hand, frame by frame (Unless it's CGI). There isn't another medium I can think of that has the same level of detail. Books are the closet you'll get, spending an entire page or more describing the elegance of something as mundane as a chair, yet it's possible to describe something in a way that 2 people will see/experience something differently. It's a lot easier to influence the emotions of the viewers when you can control literally every aspect of what's shown on the screen. The finest example of this is ShinSekai Yori episode 10 where they changed out the director for a single episode. It had a completely different feel than the rest of the series, and had more butt shots in it than the entirety of SAO. Go out and watch any episode of shinsekai while keeping the previous paragraph in mind. Then go and watch episode 10. It's such a stark difference that it's almost laughable. (Note: I suggest you watch shinsekai yori in it's entirety, and not just 2 episodes)[/QUOTE] Why are you saying this like it's exclusive to anime? Pretentious much? In movies every set, every little detail ranging from the poster on the wall to how much the clock is, is thought out beforehand by the director and the rest of the crew for that matter. Every choice of word, the colours in a scene, the choice of sounds, music, how the actor acts. Everything. And anime is such a narrow piece of shit view you've got. What about animation in general? Drawn animation, stop-animation, claymation, 3D-animation, all of it. Drawing every frame, moving every clay limb, placing things right, rigging every 3D limb. It all requires just as much precision and nitpicky detail. It's not at all exclusive to anime. I really don't know how you can say that CGI (3D animation) is not as finicky as 2D animation. You're being quite the douchebag to every 3D animator in existence. Every limb movement needs to be manually put in, sure, you got tweening, but you need to make sure it's tweening properly and naturally which can require just as much and possibly more work than drawing it. Certain things are easier in one medium but offers more work on other parts, there is no easier or harder medium, it just depends on what you want to do. Or, ok, claymation is just simply harder. [QUOTE=HeroicPillow;39285448]The same thing that is currently happening to videogames is happening to anime. Why bother risking your resources creating something brand new for a niche audience when you can copy something that has already proven to be a success?[/QUOTE] Doesn't work like that. Copycats do not do well, because they 99/100 times deliver a subpar experience to what they are copying. Trying to be the new COD will just get you in the shadow of COD and be constantly compared to it. Very few copycats get any form of success, those that do, do because they managed to stand out in one way or another, because they either managed to not copy, but rather steal the essence of what made the thing they're copying successful, or they managed to give it something new that made it different. Copycats either fall flat on their ass or live on a small amount of users for a very short period of time. They never reap success.
[QUOTE=creec;39285674]I didn't say they didn't, but it feels like there are less and less series that have any kind of enjoyable story and instead, there is increasing amount of fanservice, comedy and other light stuff.[/QUOTE] i doubt that i would've agreed with you had i not dug up a chart on 2005 and 2006 and noticed the same thing the biggest change from the past would be the amount of light novel adaptations which is probably the reason why you made the statement in the first place (since that's what most of them are, and their rise in popularity)
If anything I feel there is less fanservice in shows these days than just 5 years ago. But then again, I am way more selective with what I watch... And... I don't actively look up shows tagged "ecchi" on crunchyroll like I did when I first started watching anime which is soon 5 years ago. So I dunno. But there has definitely not been a rise in fanservice shows lately.
People who believe that the old days were better just don't remember all the other mediocre stuff put out at that time On a side note [img]http://puu.sh/1PXkX[/img] so gar i died
[QUOTE=dgg;39286013]If anything I feel there is less fanservice in shows these days than just 5 years ago. But then again, I am way more selective with what I watch... And... I don't actively look up shows tagged "ecchi" on crunchyroll like I did when I first started watching anime which is soon 5 years ago. So I dunno. But there has definitely not been a rise in fanservice shows lately.[/QUOTE] I remember I liked fanservice for a month until I read a comment that was something like "fanservice sucks i'd watch porn if im trying to get hard." Then I thought to myself "Damn he's right" and stopped watching fanservice animes
[QUOTE=titopei;39286064]I remember I liked fanservice for a month until I read a comment that was something like "fanservice sucks i'd watch porn if im trying to get hard." Then I thought to myself "Damn he's right" and stopped watching fanservice animes[/QUOTE] The reason I watched perverted shows when I first started watching anime is because they used camera angles that didn't restrict themselves, something I found very unique and pleasing. It wasn't just boring, "here is the face", "here is the torso" and "Here is a frame of two people looking at eachother", it explored more different angles that were skewed and at a frog perspective and didn't give a damn if it showed some lewd imagery in the process. It felt more natural because it didn't force itself to avoid anything indecent. It was a new experience and I enjoyed it until I got bored of it from having seen it too much to the point that it got normal and I started to notice how much it forced itself to show panties as much as possible.
[QUOTE=Jund;39286039]People who believe that the old days were better just don't remember all the other mediocre stuff put out at that time [/QUOTE] that's exactly what's been happening in 5 years people are going to claim that 2010 was a great year with star driver, tatami galaxy, and madoka* while forgetting that same year had infinite stratos, ichiban ushiro no daimaou, and ookami-san
[QUOTE=Kabuto;39286196]that's exactly what's been happening in 5 years people are going to claim that 2010 was a great year with star driver, tatami galaxy, and madoka* while forgetting that same year had infinite stratos, ichiban ushiro no daimaou, and ookami-san[/QUOTE] As it always is with anything in the world. "Everything was better in the 80's" And now we have an insurgence of 90's kids bragging about their childhood and how much better that was compared to the current youth. Idiots.
[QUOTE=dgg;39285860] Why are you saying this like it's exclusive to anime? Pretentious much? [...] And anime is such a narrow piece of shit view you've got. What about animation in general? Drawn animation, stop-animation, claymation, 3D-animation, all of it. Drawing every frame, moving every clay limb, placing things right, rigging every 3D limb. It all requires just as much precision and nitpicky detail. It's not at all exclusive to anime.[/quote] Sorry, i've always used "anime" as a shortened form of "animation", especially within this thread. The same way you would call it "cartoon" if you were in what would typically be a "western" thread. I didn't mean it exclusively as "japanese animated 2D work". And I mostly excluded 3D because 99% of the time you're working with tweens to save time. I consider 2D animation to be a subset of 2D art (traditional/digital still frames), so in my mind I didn't exactly exclude that, although I didn't add it because the post was getting too long already. But I guess If I don't make a 10 page essay covering my ass every 2 seconds i'll get chewed out. It requires too much effort to explain everything properly and I don't really feel like doing that for a simple little thread revolving around a specific topic on a forum for a videogame. I don't have time for that. (which is why I normally only post when I have something trivially funny to post) [QUOTE=dgg;39285860] I really don't know how you can say that CGI (3D animation) is not as finicky as 2D animation. You're being quite the douchebag to every 3D animator in existence. Every limb movement needs to be manually put in, sure, you got tweening, but you need to make sure it's tweening properly and naturally which can require just as much and possibly more work than drawing it.[/quote] The toolset when creating 3D animation allows for retroactive revisions to be done quickly, as you stated. The cost to re-do something that might've screwed up at any point in time takes considerably less time than other more traditional mediums. Do they have to plan it out? Yes. But there isn't as much to lose if they need to change something at the last minute. So getting it right the first time, and qualifying what is needed beforehand is basically required. [i]Could[/i] they animate it frame by frame? Sure. They usually don't though, because it often requires so much effort that it's not worth it. [QUOTE=dgg;39285860]In movies every set, every little detail ranging from the poster on the wall to how much the clock is, is thought out beforehand by the director and the rest of the crew for that matter. Every choice of word, the colours in a scene, the choice of sounds, music, how the actor acts. Everything.[/quote] I excluded traditional film, because there's a lot more variables involved when you add the actors in. Yes, they still need to decide the shots, and yes they need to decide what gets put into the shot. It's why they have to take hundreds of shots in order to perfect it, or just call it a wrap. The amount of variables that using live humans adds is astounding. It's possible that they could get a perfect shot for every scene in no time at all, with no divergence from the original view, and only those get put into the finished project. However i've never heard of that happening. What I have heard of is staff adding in small objects into scenes because they can't find exactly what they need on hand, time is running out, and it'll work "just fine". [QUOTE=dgg;39285860] Certain things are easier in one medium but offers more work on other parts, there is no easier or harder medium, it just depends on what you want to do. Or, ok, claymation is just simply harder. [/QUOTE] Yes stopmotion requires just as much work, and I enjoy it just as much. It's just so rare that I completely forgot about it when writing the post. In short, I believe that anime (traditional animation/art) and stopmotion (frame by frame traditional/digital) require more attention to detail and planning than other mediums. Is that really the case? I haven't researched it enough to know. If someone ever performs a detailed study on the subject i'd be interested in reading it. (After revising a fair amount of this post multiple times over to try and explain it properly, i've spent enough time on this to stop caring about it. And because I need to go study, i'm not going to try and revise it any more. At this point i'd normally just save it on my harddrive and try to revisit it later, but fuck it i'm posting it as it is.)
I'm having fun reading these paragraphs.
[QUOTE=Trunk Monkay;39282975]I watched through "Sword art Online" and thought it was OK. I thought the first season or first 14 episodes were OK overall, but the last set [sp]turned into this weird sister/cousin incest plot line. With the way they ended it, seems like the only reason that story arc was there was to just be filler, like they couldn't justify another full season so they needed more filler. It also didn't help that there was a ton of fanservice in comparison to the first season. [/sp] Is that the general consensus or do I have bad tastes?[/QUOTE] My problem with the end was antagonist. [sp]You felt nothing for him, he was a giant contrast to kayaba, who was much more interesting and devious, the other guy just wanted to have sex with hot babes. The scene where he attacks kirito at the hospital is also bad, theres no resolution to anything about him, he just gets defeated and thats that. Its like the creativity wagon ran out of gas there[/sp]
Are you guys ready for more Bakumans? Because the creator of Beck (also a really good read, check it out) has a new series called [url=http://www.batoto.net/comic/_/comics/rin-harold-sakuishi-r7783]Rin[/url] about a high schooler aspiring to become a mangaka. Boring plot synopsis aside, still looking forward to this. Beck was a really great manga, and I'm hoping he'll pull out another great story.
just watched the first episode of Nichijou... what age are most people at in high school in japan? [editline]20th January 2013[/editline] they look about 10...
[IMG]http://i.minus.com/iGzU6p1k9sCkz.gif[/IMG] best ed
Watching [B]K[/B]. Not enough mindfuck.
[QUOTE=notlabbet;39287712]just watched the first episode of Nichijou... what age are most people at in high school in japan? [editline]20th January 2013[/editline] they look about 10...[/QUOTE] I think they look fine. They just start high school in the first episode so they should be around 14-15 I think?
[QUOTE=Winner;39288380]I didn't have very high expectations for Oreshura, but I just realized that the last two episodes have made me grin like an idiot for most of the time Damn this show is actually hilarious[/QUOTE] huh ep3 had some real feels
[QUOTE=Inufin;39288754]huh ep3 had some real feels[/QUOTE] I'm looking forward to the next episode. The MC will say some really cool stuff
Oh man those feels from chapter 32 of Akame ga Kill. [sp]Bye BDSM guy ;__;[/sp]
[QUOTE=Inufin;39288345][IMG]http://i.minus.com/iGzU6p1k9sCkz.gif[/IMG] best ed[/QUOTE] What is this from?
[QUOTE=absolalone111;39289039]What is this from?[/QUOTE] Mondaijitachi ga Isekai Kara Kuru Sou Desu yo
Latest little busters. [sp]OH GOD I CANT STOP LAUGHING AT CROSSDRESSING RIKI-KUN[/sp] :v: [editline]t[/editline] [sp]And that kyosuke ending. AHAHAHAHA[/sp]
[QUOTE=FalconKrunch;39289045]Mondaijitachi ga Isekai Kara Kuru Sou Desu yo[/QUOTE] christ, that's a mouthful and a half
Oh god I was on the edge of my seat for the entire last episode of Space brothers, and when [sp]Mutta arrived at Jaxa I almost felt like crying.[/sp]
So GJ-bu is hilarious. oh god i died my sides If I saw someone trying to eat noodles like that i'd just watch intently.
tipsy kirara best kirara
Why is every girl in this so [i]adorable[/i].
I lost it. I couldn't breathe and started coughing. That arm wrestling scene. THE MUSIC WAS PERFECT. THIS IS GOING TO BE THE BEST SERIES EVER [sub][sub]I'm gonna stop posting now[/sub][/sub] [sub]peroperoperoperopero~[/sub]
[QUOTE=Colour;39289220]tipsy kirara best kirara[/QUOTE] When Kirara [sp]went around licking everyone, I fucking lost it[/sp].
Now for something completely different. Watching Kotoura-san. [editline]20th January 2013[/editline] Kotoura-san is like a reversed Madoka Magica.
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