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BaronViolet
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This was a great article. I had no idea the character designer for Bayamax once worked for Bones. Amazing! I cannot wait to see Carol and Tuesday. It looks like It will be another hit from Bones
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tootbrush
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Maybe in another 20 years they'll figure out what made Eureka Seven good and why fans like it so much, because they certainly haven't been able to in the past 10.
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Zhou-BR
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When Bones makes a show, it's usually a safe bet that I'll watch it. They're still keeping a high standard of animation quality after 20 years, and I find it interesting that recent shows like Mob Psycho 100, Dragon Pilot: Hisone and Masotan and even My Hero Academia are venturing more and more outside of the house style set by studio founders Hiroshi Osaka and Toshihiro Kawamoto.
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Cardcaptor Takato
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Bones was one of the first anime studios I really started following devotedly when I was growing up in high school with classics like Angelic Layer, Scrapped Princess, and the original FMA. Bones is still one of my favorite anime studios. I always love how they focus on anime that are very creative and have a lot of emotional depth to them or are very thought provoking. I still need to watch a lot of their less talked about titles sometime. I didn't know Baymax was designed by a former Bones animator. I already loved Big Hero 6 a lot and knowing this makes me appreciate the film even more.
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Heishi
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Bones really is a great studio with some of my favorites from them including:
RahXephon Wolf's Rain FMA (but especially the 2003 ver.) Skull Man (Yes, I liked this one, too) Ouran High School Host Club Soul Eater Darker than Black Eureka Seven (One of the few examples of proving you can mix mecha and romance together even if some of the characters are some of the most unlikable POS you would ever see, Holland and Talho in particular) Space Dandy and I even liked Gosick. Overall, great article. |
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Frog-kun
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Shigeto Koyama is mainly a designer. He worked as a freelancer on Heroman, Star Driver and Eureka Seven. He was also involved in various Trigger anime, like Kill la Kill and Darling in the Franxx. Watch out for his iconic designs! |
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ninjamitsuki
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Great article, Bones is by far my favorite anime studio.
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Hiroki not Takuya
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All that said, I observe that FMA and several other great shows mentioned weren't stories the studio came up with at all actually, just that the mangaka's work looked like they had great potential to the staff who pitched the idea and the studio let them do it. E7, RahXephon, Wolf's Rain, Space Dandy and Darker than Black were the only original works the studio did and RahXephon, despite being well done, was confusing enough that they had to do a compilation movie with new footage to fill in details and otherwise straighten out the story even for fans (I'm one). That one's on Izubuchi-san. I think this shows that Bones staff as a whole aren't that good at original stories, just making adaptations. Last edited by Hiroki not Takuya on Fri Dec 14, 2018 1:46 am; edited 1 time in total |
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Cardcaptor Takato
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I don't know that I would say Bones is bad at making original stories as a lot of the shows mentioned as "messes" still have a lot of fans years later as much as it is that Bones is bad at making sequels.
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Hiroki not Takuya
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^Not sure what you are referring to as "messes", I certainly didn't call anything that, but I think I am saying that Bones seems much better at making adaptations. I don't see many that weren't considered at least fairly good, as a percentage maybe +80% whereas their original stories are in the 20% range.
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cyberdraco
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Some of the Bones anime i like are:
Soul Eater Eureka Seven Space Dandy Tenkai Knights and My Hero Academia |
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RogerSmith2004
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That tends to be the consensus; however, I think their original stories are usually way more interesting personally. I think a lot of their manga adaptations tend to be very straight forward and not that interesting by comparison, whereas a lot of their original works are really out there and experimental. Occasionally they'll do something really interesting with an adaptation like with the anime original stuff in FMA 03, the really unique animation styles of Mob Psycho 100, Matsumoto's directing in Kekkai Sensen, etc but I don't think stuff like Noragami and Hero Academia do more than what I'd usually expect from their talent. Not to say these are bad shows or anything of the sort, I just am more interested in their original stuff because it tends to give me more of what I want out of anime. Stuff like RahXephon and Space Dandy having completely different teams in some episodes, the time skipping in Concrete Revolutio, the meta narrative of the first E7 Hi-Evolution film, the 2-episode arc structure of Darker Than Black, the sheer density of something like Captain Earth with its terminology and symbolism: that's what I watch anime for. With that in mind, I can respect that a majority of people probably would want something different from what I want, and that's why I'm glad that Bones are able to deliver some more straight forward material with adaptations like Noragami and HeroAca. I also do agree that the staff are worth giving credit to as well, since it's their ideas that make the shows as good as they are, at least to me. |
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DangerMouse
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Great article, one of my favorite studios. I'm definitely due for a re-watch on a bunch of these great shows.
Looking forward to Carol & Tuesday and also that third season of Bungou Stray Dogs I've been waiting for, along with an eventual US release of the movie.
Yeah. I've always loved them for that (and a good number of their great adaptations of course) and their expressive animation. Always had a soft spot for Gonzo back in the old days thanks to their ambitions toward anime originals when they were a newer studio, until they started hitting more trouble. They've finally had a couple of nice shows again though. |
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