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Princess_Irene
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Ugh, yes. I actually almost mentioned it in the review, but given the rest of the artistry, I decided that this was the least of the show's issues. As I've said in previous preview guides, I really have to wonder if any of the people involved in this style of boob-drawing have ever seen a real pair of breasts...In the first Is It Wrong to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon novel (which I thought was fun), the author refers to the lead female's breasts as "personal pillows," which simultaneously cracked me up and made me hang my head. More on topic, this isn't a great show by any means, and right now it's struggling to be a good one. But it may yet turn out to be better than it currently is - some series just take longer to get off the ground. |
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Jonny Mendes
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So far Shinmai Maou no Testament is been the best ecchi/fantasy/harem/battle show of the season.
This season there are too many of this kind of shows. Some of them sub-par. Good adaptation of the novels on term of story pacing, good plot with some story twists, good characters (bad-ass MC but not annoying as the Hagure Yuusha no Aesthetica MC and the loli succubus that is fun as hell), good fan service, bad censorship (waiting for the Blu-Ray version removing the annoying censorship). I hope they improve the animation in the Blu-Ray's Been this from the same author of Hagure Yuusha no Aesthetica we can only watch this have a good plot but become even more raunchy. There are 2 manga adaptation, one with lots of ecchi fan service and one even more raunchy. Let's see were the anime adaptation go from here. |
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Rockweaver
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having watched 2 episodes i have come to the conclusion that good script writing is a thing of the past. developing a story making it even a little believable is much to hard for the weak writers that generate shows in japan.
anyone can come up with tired old scripts and move the parts around until they are "new". next we will see ideas from freezing and or sekirei with "hot chicks" fighting until they are all nude and then the "hero" will give them a coat and protect them. Lets rate this series as Same Crap Different Author. |
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Key
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No, bad script writing has always been around in anime. I could show you works made in the '80s that were pretty awful on this point, and anime writing in general (even the bad stuff) is considerably more sophisticated than it was through most of the '70s. |
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Yause
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Most of the problems suggest poor production scheduling, which wouldn't be fixed with a larger budget. They possibly lacked time to reconcile all the character art (via retakes and corrections from the chief animation director), so it went out as-is.
Anime original writing has historically been bad. I've been pouring through a slate of 80s/90s works, and my impression is that most of the good stuff came later (late 90s to present). In particular, the OVA era is loaded with titles that are flimsy excuses for girls, guns, and explosions. It's basically the same fluff people criticize today, albeit with a different focus (today's work is slanted more heavily toward harem hijinks, but sophistication and artistic integrity are on a similar level). Naturally, writing issues worsened as directors/writers tried to expand their OVA concepts to full-length series (dumb fun for 2-3 episodes, but a repetitive slog over 26). |
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mangamuscle
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The answer would a categorical no. Even if married or female, the kind of breast size that Mio has cannot be seen in daily life (nor on any issue of playboy japan, judging for the covers) in Japan, so it kind of goes into the fantasy category with demons, magic and balanced budgets. If the studio cared they could hire a model to show the anatomical behavior of big breasts (and big breasts on lingerie) to animators but it probably it is very hard to find one so they do not even try or care.
After seeing quite a lot of these light novel adaptions, my gut feeling tells me authors are writing as many as possible to see if they are published and then wait to see if sales are good enough to put some real effort on them (which btw is the story behind the spiderman comic). So I have got used to series starting slow. BTW I still remember how Maison Ikoku didn't became interesting (for me) until episode 9, obviously with most series being only one cour there is a limit nowadays to how slow you can get. |
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SilverTalon01
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I thought that was a pretty fair review, and I'd agree with the result.
Most of the time so far was spent on set up and a lot of that was fairly standard. It seems like the story has somewhere it wants to go, but you can't judge what hasn't happened. If the visuals were at least really good, I'd probably give it a B... Speaking of the visuals, that is really the only thing that has disappointed me so far. I don't really know anything about this series, but just from the little blurbs in the news announcements here, character and plot wise, I got about what I expected. I just expected a series with an extremely large fan service component and also a large action component to look a little better.
Sadly it doesn't seem like the visuals in this will match Hagure (not like that is the gold standard or anything). |
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kanechin
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yup, this is crap. Being censored doesn't help.
I compare this to two and half men, both are so trashy. Skim both for the girls and fanservice for...private research then move on. |
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Greed1914
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Hopefully, the artwork will improve in future episodes, or at least this will get another pass for the home video version. While I can be pretty forgiving on the artwork front, I do see it as absolutely crucial to a show like this, so if character models can't stay consistent or the show generally looks lazy/ugly it fails in its purpose as eye candy. There are enough fanservice shows out there that it isn't like I can't afford to be choosey.
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TarsTarkas
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Stan Lee was the writer/editor. Steve Ditko was the artist and to some degree the writer also. |
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mangamuscle
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I know that, Stan Lee had this problem precisely because the people who drew the comic preferred the more muscular look. This is akin to what I read the other day about the director of Girl's und panzer not wanting any panty shots but the people doing the drawings got away with some i the end. |
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Calsolum
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well i must say this anime definitely surprised me, but in a good way.
i thought oh great another run of the mill harem comedy with the one guy many girls and fanservice, everything pointed to that too the way the episode was going but then it went and surprised me. i was not expecting things to unfold the way they did and i think this show has potential to become a real hit. problem is, what exactly does it really want to sell? as far as the story goes a girl who just realizes her true ancestry and is now under attack but people who want her dead just because she was born and has no allies but a makeshift is interesting. but seeing how much effort went into the shower scene, the clothes that somehow cover each boob and the loli succubus as well as the master servant and orgasm scene im more than a little concerned that theyll focus too much on the fanservice and thisll be one those anime that abandon a good story for moar boobs well time will tell how this turns out and i sincerely hope they put more emphasis on the story |
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HameruIsCool
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I've read up a little on the translated light novels(Volumes 1 & 2 respectively) and did a little comparison to the High School DxD novels.
It's pretty clear what Testament wants to be: A darker, edgier High School DxD with a more "alpha" male protagonist who actually gets laid. And for that it succeeds. The lewd scenes(at least in the novels) are much more frequent and teeter on being porn. However, the writing never caught on to me like High School DxD. DxD's girls stand out more personality-wise and are more likable and are juxtaposed well with the goofy pervert male lead. Trying to compare DxD's Rias to Testament's Mio is like comparing a Michael Bay movie to a Quentin Tarantino film. It's obvious that in many ways, Basara is a better-written character than Issei. Unlike others, however, I can forgive Issei's mishaps in characterization because he has so many funny moments(wait until Season 3. Wait and see). And he's definitely not a spineless loser. He develops over the novels to the point of spoiler[getting together with the main girl and the rest.] In a nutshell, there are far, far worse MCs than Issei who only exist to frustrate viewers/readers who want romantic closure or someone with a spine. |
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konqueror
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Some ero anime are boring, but I'm really liking this one, and not only because it is ero anime, I enjoy this series because it has cute girls with great chara design (very appealing), ok music (from the guy who worked on shows like Carnival Phantasm and Fairy Tail) and very important: the ero scenes are extremely lewd. Just like what I expect in an ero anime.
Thanks Japan, please never stop making such works. Now I want to read the light novels... for reasons. |
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Key
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Posts: 18252 Location: Indianapolis, IN (formerly Mimiho Valley) |
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Yeah, I'd agree with all of this. I also definitely agree with both you and Rebecca that Basara seems like he has more potential as a character and that the story seems like it should have some potential. However, I think the main problem is that it's trying to be "harem-sexy" while also being serious in a way that doesn't mix well with harem-sexy. That's making it feel like it has to force ways to be fan service-y. Still, Maria is a joy and I'll keep watching for her if nothing else. |
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