Forum - View topicNEWS: Crackle Streams Valkyria Chronicles TV Anime Series
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mdo7
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About time, so Crackle is streaming this, and Crackle is owned by Sony, so I take it that Aniplex USA has the US license (Aniplex is owned by Sony)?
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Tuor_of_Gondolin
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Aniplex of America is a subsidiary of Aniplex (of Japan), which is wholly owned by Sony. |
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YotaruVegeta
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Crackle needs to develop a desktop application like Hulu has.
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NJ_
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Sony Pictures says hi! 
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mdo7
Posts: 6281 Location: Katy, Texas, USA |
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Yes but my question, does this mean Aniplex of America has US license to Valkyria Chronicles, because that what it look like to me. |
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DangerMouse
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Cool, I thought this looked pretty good and they did a real nice job capturing the visuals and loved the game so I'll be watching these, still hoping we might eventually get some BDs for this show, preferably dual-audio with the awesome dub cast from the game, even though it's way overdue, plus the first game did quite well here so I think the anime would be worth bringing over. |
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Moderator
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I do understand what you're getting at here, and this has been an issue with some other adaptations. (It's been a frequent complaint point in the Sword Art Online and Fate/Stay Night adaptations, for instance.) However, I don't recall that ever being more than a very minor issue with VC, and I just went back and reviewed some of my comments in the series discussion thread to confirm that since it's been probably three years since I last watched any of it. There were one or two significant details at the end that I thought weren't adequately explained by the series (such as spoiler[going into more detail about the Valkyria development program], for instance), but I never got a clear sense of whether those issues were elaborated on in the game, either, and I rarely felt that anything much was missing during the series' run. Most who had played the game who were commenting as the series progressed gave the anime adaptation a mix of good and bad marks as a representation of the game (i.e., it was an improvement in some aspects but deficient in others). Anyway, I might take a shot at reviewing this once it's fully available streaming, since I'm not going to hold my breath on it getting released on DVD/BR. (They've had three years to do it and no one has touched it despite the game being available, after all.) |
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Catseyetiger
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The anime follows the game close as far as I could tell. I am very happy to see this released and only hope it means the others based on the same make it to crackle as well.
I really would have loved to see a second game made for the PS3 but the PSP stole that show. |
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darkchibi07
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I have been hearing a lot that the characters' personalities and their dynamics with each other are much different compared to the game, and that's one of the main reasons they didn't like the anime adaptation. For anyone who have dealt with both, do they help enhance the characters of the game or hinder them?
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Fencedude5609
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Thats overstating the point. The anime just isn't as good as the game, for a multitude of reasons. No one aspect of the anime is significantly worse, but they all add up to a giant ball of "meh". |
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ValkyrieZeroZeroOne
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That's because that "significant detail" barely existed in the game. It was nothing more than spoiler[backstory for Selvaria to depict her meeting with Maximillian and her motivations for fighting (i.e. her unrequited love for him), and you never saw anything implying that there were other children being experimented on. In the game, Alicia and Selvaria didn't meet as children, and they never spoke on the battlefield - Alicia just completely overwhelmed Selvaria without a word being spoken (when she defeated Selvaria, Alicia wasn't even conscious and was moving in a trance-like state). It was just another unnecessary plot gimmick thrown in like the Welkin-Alicia-Faldio love triangle, which didn't exist in the game and didn't need to be in the anime]. The anime also completely ignored one of the game's notable plot points, that being spoiler[Faldio's motivation for shooting Alicia to awaken her Valkyria powers]. |
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Tratious
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Aniplex is a subsidiary of Sony Music Japan, which at one point in time was a joint venture for Sony Music(Japan) and Sony Pictures(Japan) but Sony Music bought out all the shares,and made them a consolidated subsidary, they are autonomous of the North American Sony Music, and Sony Pictures. |
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mdo7
Posts: 6281 Location: Katy, Texas, USA |
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So I guess we're going to see a DVD release in the future (and maybe English dub). |
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Tratious
Posts: 316 Location: Savannah, GA |
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