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Air (TV).

I've always wondered, why is the "TV" frequently tacked onto the end of the Air series? It is rarely done with any other series adapted from a game; I've never seen Kanon TV, Fate/Stay Night TV, Higurashi no Naku Koro ni TV, or anything like that. I understand that it's to differentiate it from the original game, but why just Air?

So, I assume that the movie was not based on the anime and Toei would have produced the movie anyway, regardless of whether the series had been produced or not? (Since they did the original Kanon afterall)

frentymon wrote:

I've always wondered, why is the "TV" frequently tacked onto the end of the Air series? It is rarely done with any other series adapted from a game; I've never seen Kanon TV, Fate/Stay Night TV, Higurashi no Naku Koro ni TV, or anything like that. I understand that it's to differentiate it from the original game, but why just Air?

To differentiate it from the (inferior) movie version. Well, Zalis might not agree with me.

The movie version has

spoiler[1. removed the "millennium curse" plot,
2. removed two female protagonists completely,
3. removed many background music at key events, such as natsukage,
4. unstable animation quality, which is unacceptable for an anime movie,
5. a wrong start, for a story with such length shouldn't be stuffed into a movie at the first place (looking at the coming up Clannad, to be directed and produced by the same group of AIR movie =.=; )]

If you have never seen the TV series AND know nothing about the original plot, then you MAY find the movie decent, but personally I have yet known any fan of the original game and/or the TV series regard the movie better than the former two.

But since I saw it after the series and OVA's, it could just be because I was expecting way too much from it.

Iwatch2muchanime wrote:

But since I saw it after the series and OVA's, it could just be because I was expecting way too much from it.

You mean the special, right? As far as I know there's no OVA for AIR.

frentymon wrote:

I've always wondered, why is the "TV" frequently tacked onto the end of the Air series? It is rarely done with any other series adapted from a game; I've never seen Kanon TV, Fate/Stay Night TV, Higurashi no Naku Koro ni TV, or anything like that. I understand that it's to differentiate it from the original game, but why just Air?

To differentiate it from the (inferior) movie version. Well, Zalis might not agree with me.

The movie version has

spoiler[1. removed the "millennium curse" plot,
2. removed two female protagonists completely,
3. removed many background music at key events, such as natsukage,
4. unstable animation quality, which is unacceptable for an anime movie,
5. a wrong start, for a story with such length shouldn't be stuffed into a movie at the first place (looking at the coming up Clannad, to be directed and produced by the same group of AIR movie =.=; )]

If you have never seen the TV series AND know nothing about the original plot, then you MAY find the movie decent, but personally I have yet known any fan of the original game and/or the TV series regard the movie better than the former two.

I also think you're a bit wrong with the Movie's animation-quality. It was actually superbly done and quite a bit more fluid than KyoAni's version. Just watch the waves, the flags and the sunset scenes. Even the rain scenes. The director had actually used some pretty nifty techniques that portrayed the summer season by the sea rather realistically.

Didn't you notice that I use "unstable" instead of "bad," "poor," "inferior," et cetera? Those were the best part of its animation, however, there were scenes where characters were poorly drawn (the film isn't with me now; wish I could make screencaps):

1) In a scene at night where Haruko spoiler[in her sexy lingeries trying to tease Yukito], the shape of her face was kind of distorted.

2) In a scene where Misuzu went exited about Yukito's decision (I forgot the detailed conversation...), she was standing on her toes and put her face near Yukito, creating two unnatural effects:

1. The camera angle created a strong 3-axis perspective view. If you don't know what I'm talking about, imagine standing at the bottom of a skyscraper. There would be three disappearing points: left, right, and top, with the skyscraper "tapering" towards the top, like this photo. In Misuzu's case it's the opposite: the third disappearing point was located at bottom; imaging if you were in a helicopter and hovering near the top of a skyscraper and looking down, and the building would be "tapering" towards the bottom. This effect is almost impossible to be seen at her height (about 5 feet) realistically, and while comedies use it as a comedic effect quite often, it is NOT appropriate in a tragedy like AIR.

The white balance of (supposed) Summer Arc in the movie was way too high. They felt like overexposed photograph. There should be better ways to create a historic / legendary / nostalgic feeling.