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shirokiryuu
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I can't say much about the other series, but Noir did have some "animation flaws", mostly they short cutted things, such as, if there were people speaking, their mouths would be cut off screen so they would not have to be animated. Overall I don't think Bee Train animation is that bad, it just they seem... kinda bland... (compared to a lot of other studios) |
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scortia
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Director and Animation Studio = Worrysome
Seiyuu and Character Designer = Awesome |
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vashfanatic
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This is one of a handful of manga that I can't imagine as an anime. The art's way too detailed and sketch-like. And while I dig the voice casting, the director of "Noir"? The series-that-should-have-been-a-movie-'cause-nothing-happened? Not to mention its clone, "Madlax"? I seriously doubt I'll find it a satisfying version of my absolute favorite manga. I'd always imagined it as live action, really...
"BotI" isn't flipped; the panels are re-pasted into Western order. And re: the cost, all manga is much more expensive in the states than it is in Japan - but when it comes to BotI I've never resented it. It's art, not some $10 Tokyopop or Viz speed-release. |
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Moomintroll
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Yeah, I know. "Flipped" was just easier than pointlessly going into the specific mechanics of the re-ordering.
Given that I'm not in either the US or Japan I'm not at all sure how that's relevant... |
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plastique
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The only way I ever thought this could be done right is if it was done by Studio 4C, who did the Kill Bill sequence and the skateboard thing from the Animatrix(I think) and if it was released like Hellsing Ultimate, when they would have a fairly big budget and would only release an episode when it was done. Hellsing Ultimate is a more faithful adaptation than the original show, which had time constraints and budget quality issues. Blade's level of artistry is the type that demands time, talent, and at least a higher-than-usual budget.
I had doubts that it could be done properly by any studio for any amount of money, even if they just adapted the first book in a one-shot movie. The line work and pacing just fit the manga form so well. |
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Mr. sickVisionz
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I really like Noir so i'll be looking forward to this.
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Westlo
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Please look up what animation means, here's a hint it's not stills. Go to youtube and type in sakuga, that sort of stuff Bee Train have never done well. |
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reanimator
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It's not that hard to visualize his artwork in animation form. You just have to omit hatch lines and replace them with cel shading. For line quality, it has to be more solid than manga version. In practical sense, no one will draw countless hatch lines for animation. If you do that, you'll wind up in a hospital even before finishing 5 seconds of animation. So I'm guessing that your concern is not simplification, but putting character designer's personal flair into the manga based characters. |
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ikillchicken
 Posts: 7272 Location: Vancouver |
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Isn't it a little odd for a Manga to receive an anime adaptation after this long? I mean, it's been going since 1994 I believe. Why now? Anyway, I'm not all that familiar with Bee Train. The only thing of theirs I've seen is Noir. I don't remember any animation problems but that may have been because I was focused on how bad it was overall. I guess there's no harm here though. Worst case scenario it totally sucks. Since at this point it seemed like there wouldn't be an anime adaptation anyway so the way I look at it nothing is really lost so what can it hurt to try?
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Kyaa the Catlord
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Hell, Dragonball is getting a live action American theatrical film and it started in 1984. Romeo x Juliet is based off a classic Shakespearean work which is much older. And to you Bee Train nay-sayers, do better than them... I dares ya. |
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enoah ballard
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Blade of the immortal would have only looked correct as a rough, earthy 90s OVA. All the post-processing they do as standard nowadays wouldn't suite it.
Noir, Madlax and .hack have some of the most boring, lackluster animation of their time. Have some standards man.
Are all film critics professional directors? No. |
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UtenaAnthy
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The studio don't concern me, the actual people working on the project make it good or bad, so I'm not sure what to make of this. Maybe Koichi Mashimo will do a good job, maybe not. What director would others have liked to see picked for the project? I thought Yoshiaki Kawajiri for a second, they actually might have been a good choice but I don't know. Maybe Tsuneo Kobayashi (The Twelve Kingdoms), Kazuhiro Furuhashi (Samurai X: Trust and Betrayal) or Hirotsugu HAMAZAKI (Texhnolyze, Shigurui). They all have experience directing historical drama, Kawajiri might manage to make something as good as X TV out of this, another quality adaptation zie did. I'd also quite like to see some animation from Shinya Ohira, who might actually manage to adapt the style of the manga quite well as they move the lines around a lot. I'm tempted to say that Shichiro Kobayashi would make a great art director, but then I love everything they do and don't know the names of many art directors, still they tend to make everything look sketchy and painterly. Getting Seiichi Hayashi, Eiichi Yamamoto and Gisaburô Sugii involved in some way would be wonderful.
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Kyaa the Catlord
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Newsflash: You aren't film critics. |
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Sven Viking
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Though not professional film critics, criticizing films does literally make them film critics. |
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Westlo
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Going by your logic NBA fans shouldn't criticize Kwame Brown for being one of the worst #1 draft picks in NBA History because we can't play better than him? I call a spade a spade and Bee Train [expletive] suck. |
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