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Connor Dino



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PostPosted: Sat Jul 05, 2025 7:41 pm Reply with quote
This....does NOT look promising.
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tinyirnfist0



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PostPosted: Sat Jul 05, 2025 8:01 pm Reply with quote
What I'm getting at is that only the humans are 2d-animated.
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 05, 2025 8:08 pm Reply with quote
Connor Dino wrote:
This....does NOT look promising.


It’s a Toonami Original, and save for Shenmue, they’ve been batting pretty much .000.
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ZetMoon80



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PostPosted: Sat Jul 05, 2025 8:09 pm Reply with quote
Great, first Fist of the North Star and now this…I will never understand the appeal of making anime in CGI (from the audience's point of view, not the production's). I'm not saying that all the CGI anime that have come out have been horrendous, but apart from Orange's work, the other works I've seen have been simply awful and at best tolerable simply because the plot captivates you or you get used to it.
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Rajiy



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PostPosted: Sat Jul 05, 2025 8:26 pm Reply with quote
Honestly, it looks far better than Hokuto no Ken, and word CG didn't even came to mind until I saw people here mention it.

IMO, it looks very good, and pretty much how I would prefer for very detailed, hard to adapt manga drawings to be animated.

I do, however, hope that people in industry already started experimenting with AI to make CG even less obvious.
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Silver Kirin



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PostPosted: Sat Jul 05, 2025 8:35 pm Reply with quote
ZetMoon80 wrote:
I will never understand the appeal of making anime in CGI (from the audience's point of view, not the production's). I'm not saying that all the CGI anime that have come out have been horrendous, but apart from Orange's work, the other works I've seen have been simply awful and at best tolerable simply because the plot captivates you or you get used to it.

I imagine that many new productions tend to be animated using CGI because it's easier when it comes to animate manga with very detailed drawings, I mean, apart from Hokuto no Ken, we also saw the recent new Sugar Sugar Rune anime which is also done in CGI, but the thing is that both Hokuto and Sugar's manga have very detailed drawings and while they were adapted into traditionally hand drawn anime many years ago, nowadays there's a lot more anime being produced and maybe that's another reason why some studios opt to adapt manga into CGI anime, don't know if it's cheaper but maybe it's less time consuming.
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ZetMoon80



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PostPosted: Sat Jul 05, 2025 10:01 pm Reply with quote
Silver Kirin wrote:
I imagine that many new productions tend to be animated using CGI because it's easier when it comes to animate manga with very detailed drawings, I mean, apart from Hokuto no Ken, we also saw the recent new Sugar Sugar Rune anime which is also done in CGI, but the thing is that both Hokuto and Sugar's manga have very detailed drawings and while they were adapted into traditionally hand drawn anime many years ago, nowadays there's a lot more anime being produced and maybe that's another reason why some studios opt to adapt manga into CGI anime, don't know if it's cheaper but maybe it's less time consuming.


From the production's point of view I totally understand why they prefer it this way in terms of budget, but I wonder if they ever put themselves in the audience's shoes and ask themselves if they would really enjoy watching something like this. After reading about the alleged failure that Solo Leveling has been for A-1 Pictures in terms of revenue, despite the amazing animation, I understand why they sometimes don't bother to invest so much in the production of a series, but to take the opposite option and invest less, assuming in advance that the work will probably be a failure, seems to me to be a total nonsense. Anyway, these are just my guesses, there are probably more reasons for this decision, but I still find it a shame.
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Glordit



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PostPosted: Sun Jul 06, 2025 2:50 am Reply with quote
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That's all I needed to know about this to know it's probably not going to be very good.
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AsleepBySunset



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PostPosted: Sun Jul 06, 2025 3:04 am Reply with quote
Rajiy wrote:

I do, however, hope that people in industry already started experimenting with AI to make CG even less obvious.


Oh for the love of god please tell me they're not. What is it with you people saying ai will fix cg?

I mean come on, I'm not the biggest cgi animation stan but there is nothing wrong with cgi animation. There's already so much you can do with shaders and you know, other non ai based technologies.

The reason cgi in anime is bad is because the contracted studios suck. That's it.

And like a lot of lower budget modern anime the reason this looks shit is because, jesus christ what's going on with the colour palette on the poster? Maybe the trailers a bit better but whatever.
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Rajiy



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PostPosted: Sun Jul 06, 2025 5:24 am Reply with quote
AsleepBySunset wrote:

Oh for the love of god please tell me they're not. What is it with you people saying ai will fix cg?
AI is the future.
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TheSleepyMonkey



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PostPosted: Sun Jul 06, 2025 6:42 am Reply with quote
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After reading about the alleged failure that Solo Leveling has been for A-1 Pictures in terms of revenue


There was no failure, it's just an accounting technicality that "news" sites keep phrasing as something else for clickbait.

A-1 Pictures doesn't invest in the committee for their own shows, and all revenue goes to Aniplex as their parent company. Since they don't get anything from merchandise, collabs etc, these counts only consider the money they spent on animation production.
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Triltaison



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PostPosted: Mon Jul 07, 2025 12:01 am Reply with quote
I'm still looking forward to it. The manga is dumb fun and I've been enjoying keeping up with its silliness. Hopefully we'll get to see a clip with Keisuke and his voice before long.
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groovysunbeam



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PostPosted: Mon Jul 07, 2025 12:40 am Reply with quote
AsleepBySunset wrote:
I mean come on, I'm not the biggest cgi animation stan but there is nothing wrong with cgi animation. There's already so much you can do with shaders and you know, other non ai based technologies.

The reason cgi in anime is bad is because the contracted studios suck. That's it.


Trigun Stampede was by one of the "good" CG studios and it looked even worse than this since at least some parts of this are 2D.

I'm willing to give AI a try of it means less CG slop. If it works it works.
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Connor Dino



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PostPosted: Tue Jul 08, 2025 3:42 pm Reply with quote
groovysunbeam wrote:
AsleepBySunset wrote:
I mean come on, I'm not the biggest cgi animation stan but there is nothing wrong with cgi animation. There's already so much you can do with shaders and you know, other non ai based technologies.

The reason cgi in anime is bad is because the contracted studios suck. That's it.


Trigun Stampede was by one of the "good" CG studios and it looked even worse than this since at least some parts of this are 2D.

I'm willing to give AI a try of it means less CG slop. If it works it works.


You thought Trigun Stampede looked....bad???? JFC...pray tell, what is your standard of GOOD CG?! Can you give an example? Is it Berserk 2016?

Edit: Oh wait, you think AI will fix this. Okay, don't bother responding. I don't need to hear it.
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 08, 2025 10:09 pm Reply with quote
Not sure if people will be willing to buy into a CG Rooster show though that one action sequence at the end at least tries to justify using CG animation. Emphasis on try.
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