Forum - View topicNEWS: 5th Tenchi Muyo! OVA Season Previewed in 3 More Promo Videos
Note: this is the discussion thread for this article |
Author | Message | ||
---|---|---|---|
Ushio
Posts: 630 |
|
||
The 3rd OVA killed the majority of people's interest in the Tenchi franchise and the 4th buried it.
|
|||
MarshalBanana
Posts: 5323 |
|
||
|
|||
Deadwing
Posts: 174 Location: North Augusta, SC |
|
||
While I'm glad to see the "Ryo-Ohki" OVA series continued, I can't help but notice that the quality of the animation on these newer OVAs aren't as good as the older 90s-era episodes.
|
|||
Cardcaptor Takato
Posts: 4842 |
|
||
|
|||
Sailor Sedna
|
|
||
I'm glad to hear Ai Orikasa as Ryoko again (she can still do her voice ), but my thoughts on the aesthetics are mixed. I really like the backgrounds, and the designs of the main characters are decent, but the movements feel stiff compared to older ones.
Then again, animation doesn't make the anime, and it's also interesting to see how this an OVA being released in a time and place in anime where normally said type of anime would be nonexistent (if I'm correct?). |
|||
Cardcaptor Takato
Posts: 4842 |
|
||
Even if I'm not as fond as the newer OVA stuff, I still hope Funimation will license and dub the rest.
|
|||
nDroae
Posts: 382 |
|
||
Yeah, outside hentai, it's rare these days for an entire series or season to come out by debuting direct to video - no surprise considering that physical media sales have generally been declining for decades. Obviously you get the occasional one-off OVA or supplemental OVA following a TV series, and various series are "theatrical OVAs" which come out in theaters first before home video, though the episodes are not movie length - some within my circle of interest being Girls und Panzer das Finale, the Princess Principal sequel series, Space Battleship Yamato 2199 and its sequels (IIRC these episodes were combined into actual movie length for theaters), and The Ancient Magus Bride: Those Awaiting a Star. Tenchi Muyo's producers opting not to invest in theatrical screenings would seem to support that this is an extremely niche-targeted anime. One could suggest they also don't think audiences want to see this animation on the big screen, though this past October some Japanese theaters were screening a "movie" consisting of 30 minutes of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJc5yvSqLk0 (anime#22342) |
|||
megazero
Posts: 337 |
|
||
This is like going back to the 90's, given the seiyuu lineup.
|
|||
AkumaChef
Posts: 821 |
|
||
That's certainly the way it was for me. 3rd OVA, IMHO, was awful. So was Tenchi in Tokyo. I enjoyed the original OVAs up through 2, the first two movies Night before the Carnival, the Mihoshi special, and Tenchi Universe. Beyond that? Meh. @Sailor Sedna Yes, I agree. I haven't seen any standalone OVAs in many years. Since the early 2000's they've really just been bonus episodes and spinoff sorts of things. I haven't heard of an actual episodic start-to-finish OVA in at least 10 years. |
|||
Sailor Sedna
|
|
||
Nor have I.
I wonder what the fifth OVA will do, would it erase the damage the third and fourth OVAs did? |
|||
Cardcaptor Takato
Posts: 4842 |
|
||
|
|||
nDroae
Posts: 382 |
|
||
It doesn't matter how many western fans didn't like OVA series 3 and 4, no one making Tenchi cares. This franchise isn't "for you" anymore.
|
|||
Cardcaptor Takato
Posts: 4842 |
|
||
|
|||
nDroae
Posts: 382 |
|
||
I thought that decision was Funimation being smart by not licensing something hardly anyone wants to buy. Regardless, OVA 5 is presumably being made because OVA 4 sold well enough to justify it, so it'd be strange to expect it to course-correct in any way.
|
|||
All times are GMT - 5 Hours |
||
|
Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2005 phpBB Group