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Stark700
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Sora Amamiya is really becoming a rising star imo recently. After seeing this PV though, I think this show could be quite entertaining.
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Kaioshin_Sama
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More like Aniplex is just promoting the shit out of her still cause they WANT her to be seen as that and are desperately trying to make her the next big thing so she can be used in cross promoting with CD tie ins since she's signed under Sony Music. This promotion goes from putting her at the head of her own trio idol group called TrySail which you can probably expect to see a lot from in upcoming Aniplex titles and posing as a gravure model. Anyway it was predictable that she would be used here and the first name that came to mind even as a must cast for Aniplex, but I'm surprised at the variety seen with the rest of the cast and the absence of any fujoshi icons, Haruka Tomatsu aside who is also pretty much their because Sony Music owns the rights to her and was pretty much also a must cast. Now Amamiya has gotten a couple roles outside of their umbrella like with Tokyo Ghoul and Akame Ga Kill but not much else really. Until she starts getting cast frequently as a lead in all kinds of stuff that isn't simply because the production company owns the rights to her I'm far from looking at her as this rising star in anything beyond promotional purposes for one producer. Anyway there's much talk in Japan about how seiyuu cast is becoming less interesting and more about cross-promotion and owner ship rights than choosing the best voice for a character. In a rather recent study by Oricon 50% of respondents said they felt that in recent anime the voices didn't quite match what they had envisioned for characters in adaptations of favorite manga, LN and games. |
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Wyvern
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Velma? What are you doing away from the mystery machine?
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Animegomaniac
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Yes, yes, most of us have seen Shirobako. But if Punchline shows anything, it's that there may be more to the problem than just that. It's an anime "original" that took all the basic otaku elements and put them in a blender, set it on puree and then they stuck voices actresses to the moe blobs, characeteristics and names that came out. The preview makes me tired and a little sad. "Once he sees underwear, humanity is destroyed!?" Very sad. Hey, I railed on Girls Und Panzer and I like how that turned out, how bad could this oddly small but curiously impacting show could be? I forgot "over designed". Or do I mean "over accessorized"? |
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flackenstien
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Gonna watch this solely because there's 2 glasses girls in the main cast.
The pantsu is just a bonus. |
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Paulo27
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And do you honestly think half the voices you hear in anime are poorly picked? Come on now. |
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Hoppy800
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I'm not a big fan of Sora Amamiya, the only thing that's going for her is extreme adorability. She's very average in the voice acting and singing departments. She'd be nice as a personality for radio shows though.
Punch Line will be quite fun though. |
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_Cyphon_
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The video isn't working for me for some reason. D: I can't find it on YouTube either.
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leafy sea dragon
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Ah, so I'm not the only one who thought that. |
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enurtsol
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If you look at the page HTML code and search for the Youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXF-anpIAhQ But yeah, instead of just embedding, I prefer it too when news articles include the video URL as a separate source link, like Wikipedia does. |
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_Cyphon_
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Thanks for the link. Promo looks ok, but I'm still skeptical about this show. Just gotta wait to see how it turns out I guess. |
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Kaioshin_Sama
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Other than the usual Aniplex factor of just ruining anything potentially good about anime everywhere they go and turning it all into an exhausting assembly line of overhyped heavily commercialized mediocrity I just don't understand how noitaminA block could go from pretty much the one place you could expect a little more adult oriented content for average viewers that aren't necessarily hardcore otaku to quite possibly the most aggressively otaku pimping NEET celebrating shameless self-promotion block for a producer out there. Like it's completely flipped to the polar opposite of what it's started out as in the last few years with Shigatsu no Kimi no Uso which I would hardly call a sterling example of adult oriented content (more like Teen Drama) and Ping Pong (actual legit good show you don't need to be an obsessive disciple of otaku wank culture to get the most out of) being the blocks sole saving graces of late. And the thing is this isn't going to be a low key show. Aniplex is going to be aggressively promoting he shit out of it and trying to convince people it's more than it is and name dropping the popular VN writer angle in the Ever17 guy every chance they can get mark my words. And yes hyper stylization to cover up for a lack of anything else standout about a premise and cast is very much within the scope of the usual MO here. It's been that way with their productions arguably since Bakemonogatari which showed just how far such a thing can carry a project, especially with todays shallow audiences. Like ho bloody hum industry already, I'm not going to say it's hopeless, but like I don't understand how people can still get so excited about and anticipate some of this stuff anymore. "Tired" is the word that just keeps coming up to describe projects like this one looks. The industry looks like it's tired and not really putting in a strong effort on a creative front and it's making me feel tired trying to entertain the idea that a damn is being given here by anyone on either the production or consumer side. |
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Kadmos1
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Wielding a loli/tsundere voice I assume. |
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