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NEWS: God Eater Anime's 1st Episode Delayed, Replaced with Special


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Stark700



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PostPosted: Wed Jul 01, 2015 3:05 am Reply with quote
First Kekkai Sensen, now this. I just hope they can deliver it next week with the same level of visual quality as seen in the PV.
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 01, 2015 3:10 am Reply with quote
The production going smoothly, I see...
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bigivel



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PostPosted: Wed Jul 01, 2015 3:19 am Reply with quote
The engine of this project is being hard to start.

The fact that they were able to delay the episodes in the Television broadcast is something amazing. At least they will substitute it with the extra, otherwise I'm certain the TV station would blacklist them.
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 01, 2015 3:26 am Reply with quote
Production issues with the very first episode doesn't exactly inspire a lot of confidence! Hopefully they're having minor teething troubles and things don't escalate from here.

I've been looking forward to God Eater, I'd hate to see it go down the drain pipe. Sad
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 01, 2015 3:38 am Reply with quote
Chaos Wings wrote:
Production issues with the very first episode doesn't exactly inspire a lot of confidence! Hopefully they're having minor teething troubles and things don't escalate from here.

I've been looking forward to God Eater, I'd hate to see it go down the drain pipe. Sad

My thoughts exactly.

I understand production problems coming up mid-to-late season as small things start piling up, but roughly a week before the first episode has even aired? Sounds like either something completely unforeseen happened suddenly or scheduling/production issues are cropping up really, really early.

Hopefully it's just a stumble and they can recover. It would suck for any project to tank because of something that happened before the show even left the gate.
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Zatheyll



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PostPosted: Wed Jul 01, 2015 3:39 am Reply with quote
Stark700 wrote:
First Kekkai Sensen, now this. I just hope they can deliver it next week with the same level of visual quality as seen in the PV.


The difference between the two is with Kekkai they wanted to make the last episode longer. With God Eater they put it on the back burner too long while already struggling through the second cour of UBW and are now extremely far behind production, to the point episode 1 isn't even done for air date.

There's rumors circulating that God Eater will end up not airing until August 14th, rather than just being held back a week.
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 01, 2015 4:02 am Reply with quote
Yeah...I had a feeling this was possible given the whole thing during UBW S2 and after. Not so great 2015 for ufotable. *wipes tear*
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 01, 2015 6:09 am Reply with quote
The rest of the episodes are going to be shitty, then?
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 01, 2015 8:49 am Reply with quote
KH91 wrote:
Yeah...I had a feeling this was possible given the whole thing during UBW S2 and after. Not so great 2015 for ufotable. *wipes tear*


Well it is kind of understandable, ufotable after all are a studio who don't make too many anime, usually like one series and a movie a year. So suddenly taking on two series one after the other might have been a bit much for them, they are more of a movie than a series company after all.
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 01, 2015 9:08 am Reply with quote
They cancel that premiere event thing then delay the first episode. If they did a delay/cancel on any other of the episodes or home video releases, then this company could have some serious quality control issues.

For Kekkai Sensen, they could have just had it be 11 TV episodes then have it as an online or DVD/BD episode.
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kazziyan



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PostPosted: Wed Jul 01, 2015 10:49 am Reply with quote
Zatheyll wrote:

There's rumors circulating that God Eater will end up not airing until August 14th, rather than just being held back a week.


Pretty sure that's a false rumor since it sounds like it was based off NECO channel's announcement for their own schedule: http://www.necoweb.com/neco/info/detail.php?id=400

They were one of the last ones planned to air the episode in comparison to Tokyo MX, BS11, etc.
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bigivel



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PostPosted: Wed Jul 01, 2015 10:51 am Reply with quote
Kreion wrote:
KH91 wrote:
Yeah...I had a feeling this was possible given the whole thing during UBW S2 and after. Not so great 2015 for ufotable. *wipes tear*


Well it is kind of understandable, ufotable after all are a studio who don't make too many anime, usually like one series and a movie a year. So suddenly taking on two series one after the other might have been a bit much for them, they are more of a movie than a series company after all.


Lately, and by lately I mean since 2007, they are more like, one series or one movie or one OVA per year.

I wouldn't call them more of a movie than a series company! Most people aren't aware, but Ufotable is doing stuff since 2000, and their own first TV series was made in 2002.
Comparing what movies they made and TV series, they have a lot more TV series than movies.
Looking at movies they mainly have Kara no Kyoukai that started in 2007. Yep, is a movie series with a lot of movies, but after that they just did 2 other movies and are doing 1 more now.

If anything I would say that Ufotable is mainly a subcontracting/outsourcing anime studio.


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PostPosted: Wed Jul 01, 2015 10:55 am Reply with quote
On the one hand, it's delayed. On the other, it's better than shoddy animation. If they do this now, there may be less to fix for the BD release too.
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 01, 2015 11:14 am Reply with quote
bigivel wrote:
The engine of this project is being hard to start.

The fact that they were able to delay the episodes in the Television broadcast is something amazing. At least they will substitute it with the extra, otherwise I'm certain the TV station would blacklist them.


Bandai Namco Entertainment has a lot of clout in Japan, but I doubt they can convince the TV stations to delay much longer. They have their own channel though if it comes down to it I suppose though it's broadband only and they'll want to get it out on the regular broadcast stations.
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 01, 2015 11:50 am Reply with quote
One of two things can happen. Either the first few episodes will be shit because of productions problems and therefore delays, or it will be high quality and lives up to its expectations. In any case, more delays doesn't exactly bode well for the show.
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