Forum - View topicThe Spring 2018 Anime Preview Guide
|
Goto page Previous Next Note: this is the discussion thread for this article |
| Author | Message | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Key
Moderator
 Posts: 18400 Location: Indianapolis, IN (formerly Mimiho Valley) |
|
|||||||||||
What, you don't think Magical Girl Site qualifies? I'll be quite surprised if that one doesn't get voted in. |
||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||
zrnzle500
 Posts: 3768 |
|
|||||||||||
|
^I agree that it fits the bill, but I don’t think I could vote to make any reviewer cover it in good conscience. As long as the reviewer has fun with it, I wouldn’t object to it, but I wouldn’t want to force any reviewer to sit through the show if they “hated every second” of it or found it to be “genuinely, physically unpleasant to watch.”
|
||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||
MarshalBanana
 Posts: 5486 |
|
|||||||||||
|
||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||
|
meiam
Posts: 3445 |
|
|||||||||||
Well part of that is that I hope it doesn't get voted in tbh... Torture/tragedy porn is so uninteresting to me that even second hand I don't want to watch/read it... I like review of bad product when it's a spectacular trainwreck, not so much when it's a very peculiar niche that most people wouldn't enjoy but some people will really get off of. I should say, I have a lot of respect for spectacular train wreck when it's clear the people involved tried something but ultimately failed. Like hand shaker tried all kinds of somewhat interesting things with camera movement and such, it didn't work not even a bit, but it tried something new rather than just make generic paste. |
||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||
jr240483
 Posts: 4430 Location: New York City,New York,USA |
|
|||||||||||
that much everyone knows! what i am concerned is that the author might do the same thing that shinmai mao no testament's author did with the recent volumes of the LN by making them FULL ERO! |
||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||
Blood-
 Bargain Hunter Posts: 24093 |
|
|||||||||||
|
Woo-hoo, I fully agree with Rebecca and Theron's take on FMP!: IV. Oooo, Sousuke, you PLAYAH!!! Look at you taking your woman's hand like that! I agree that Sousuke seemed on the verge of suggesting the two of them take flight together... PROBABLY TO GO SMOOCHING!!! And like Theron, I am profoundly grateful the new bad guy is not a scenery-chewing batshit crazy tool. Still bummed that this is just a 1-cours, but I'll live.
|
||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||
Kougeru
 Posts: 5562 |
|
|||||||||||
Better off watching the anime than consulting any guide. Can skip fumoffu because its just a side comedy story but it's great too so just watch it all. Really fantastic series. Great first episode for IV. Sadly I already know what happens due to the manga/LN but it's still great to hear the characters brought to life again by legends like Satsuki Yukino. 1 cour is far too little for this series, though. That's my main worry. |
||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||
Ggultra2764
 Subscriber Posts: 3952 Location: New York state. |
|
|||||||||||
|
And to think I've been waiting for this part of the FMP light novels to be adapted for over a decade since I read of them. So far, so good. The tone's noticeably more serious and ominous compared to the prior three anime, establishing that Leonard's a more deadly serious and direct threat than Gauron and Gates were with their over-the-top villianry from prior seasons of the series. This is gonna be great!
|
||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||
|
DangerMouse
Posts: 3991 |
|
|||||||||||
Really enjoyed the first. Been waiting for this, can't wait to see where it goes. Excited to check out the simuldub as well. Loved the designs for Sugimoto and Asirpa. I think her design and some of the overall animation and/or color pallet style remind me a bit of FMAB, which is very cool (and Sugimoto's a bit of Jojo, which is great too). As mentioned in the impressions I too feel like watching Sugimoto and Asirpa team up and work together as the protagonists is going to be quite the treat, maybe of the season after this ep, excited to see more of their skills at work. The tone, setting, and treasure angle were really nice, love this kind of action adventure show. Regardless of the bear cg, I really liked most of the visuals and the soundtrack we've heard so far. So far so good since I gave this a bit of priority not having more time to sample more shows at once for a little longer.
Yeah, I quite liked it. Looking forward to episode 2.
Hope so too. I'd also like to see it get picked up by someone willing to dub it either now or in time for some home video release. Been too busy to play all of it but I've been excited for this since I've enjoyed the Layton stuff and what I've played of the most recent one with Katrielle I really liked.
Yeah, not a lot, but they've done some Bang Zoom simuldubs, in addition to the shows that started with CR and then got included as part of the Funi-CR deal to complete the dubs and home video releases. Most recently I think was the simuldub for the Mob Psycho 100. Previous things they used them for that I double-checked was the Nagato Yuki-chan simuldub (back when they were originally called broadcast dubs) to bring back that cast and the dub for the Oblivion Island movie. They've also seemingly used some other studios out there to do more dubs with that group of VAs, like to get back the BZ cast for the upcoming E7 movies. I hope they can work it out so that the original ADV cast can do it again. |
||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||
residentgrigo
 Posts: 2548 Location: Germany |
|
|||||||||||
|
All the pilots aired, so let´s do this. The team behind Piano no Mori apparently decided to adapt 26 volumes within 12 episodes instead of doing justice or improving on the worthwhile early volumes. Just watch the anime film and spare yourself the CGi hands. This seems to be the theme of this season. Rushing though manga adaptations with some of the lowest animation budgets in recent memory. Persona 5´s pilot was slightly more competent than expected, yet there is no way the show can work and the other FMP put about 3 minutes of content into 20. Filler already?
3D Kanojo´s color pallet ain´t the best and who knows haw the show will use it´s 12 ep. limit. Still, focusing on these mostly worthwhile early stores with a solid original ending could make this an improvement on the overlong manga. 6-7/10 Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu Die Neue These Kaikou IG certainly reached into the pockets as the gorgeous production reaches OVA levels. The new VAs try their best to live up to the best vocal assembly of all time and the new score is perfect. The problem is that this re-adaptation utterly fails to establish the setting and any of the characters. How are new viewers supposed to become and engaged? Why would they care once the death toll starts to rack up? Why is S02 a film trilogy? I had fun watching both eps. but they hardly stand on their own. Go for the new manga and obviously the OVA first to see how perfection looks like. 7,5/10 and I can´t see this production improving. Golden Kamuy´s animation is substandard at best and the CG animals redefine the word awkward. The score and VA are good though, the violence is left intact and the adaptation most importantly sticks to the manga. The show´s abysmal budget will sadly weight the production down but let´s all be glad most of it is in 2D. 7,5/10 Lupin the 3rd: Part 5 look great and started off perfectly fine until Felicity 2.0 appeared halfway thought the pilot. Part 4´s waify already didn´t work but who wants to watch the gang babysit an emotionally stunted emo hacker for half a year? The deep web ravings towards the end (I used it, it´s boring) were even more bizarre, so I looked up the head writer. It´s Ichiro Okouchi. The "genius" behind the Berserk films, Code Trainwreck, Devilman Crybaby, Valvrape and other delight. Urgh. Ep.2 proved to be filler and the next one looks to be filler too. I think I am done. 5/10 Megalo Box is hard to process. The bizarre diesel punk boxing is already not working and the show failed to give basic introductions to the main cast. They kind of show up and randomly reenact iconic moment from the best comic the 60s gave us. I honestly don´t know what TMS is trying here. Read the manga or at least watch the 2 surprisingly competent compilation films before continuing with the show. The title fight in ep. 2 is great and had me thinking I was too harsh but the cliche parade that followed only dug the hole deeper. I don´t think that the head writer got the manga. The high production levels will keep me around for a bit but this anime could have been sooo much better. 6/10 Steins;Gate 0 The opening scenes had me wondering if White Fox again improved on the source material and somehow drained blood from a stone. Not that the 1st VN was bad, just inferior to the anime. Yet the episode went on and it became very clear to me that this as much a cash grab as the now dead-to-canon film. S02 is even a double retread thanks to the film. A bit if Lost tried the we have to go back to the island plot twice in a row while refusing to push the plot or characters forward. After the show reached its natural conclusion! I know how this goes on due to the faster paced manga so I will call it quits here before I start to wonder if the first series was a fluke. Just as the endless Haruhi Suzumiya sequels and alternate... whatevers made me do. 5/10 So this kinda sucks. At least 2 of the new shows seem good enough to see all the way though, yet one is borderline ugly while the other puts production value above all else. The lack of worthwhile (semi)-original content bothers me the most but the amount of substandard adaptations this season is unacceptable. So much wasted potential. All my ongoing anime are done and DuckTales, Steven Universe, Teen Titans Go (maybe on break due to the film) and The Simpsons remain. Most run on irregular schedules, so not even the reliable US can save me this season, and the April fool´s episode of the FLCL revival was sadly kinda meh. |
||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||
|
jr240483
Posts: 4430 Location: New York City,New York,USA |
|
|||||||||||
unfortunately the chances of the LN getting licensed in the US are slim to none. ADV attempted this when they released the LN and manga versions years ago with mixed results. i really cant see anyone other than seven seas taking that big of a risk attempting to license a series most people have pretty much forgotten (the light novel & manga side, NOT the anime side) into the doors of history!
that also have me very concerned too! some of them (or at least one of them that i know of) were also long time funi veterans so the chances that those VA will reprise their roles is 50/50 at best. we definitely know funi will attempt to have luci christian reprise her role as kaname again, however as for soskue sagara , tessa and the rest of the FMP cast , i don't know! considering its been years since second raid, its unknown if rest of the VA cast excluding kaname's VA are NO LONGER EVEN VAs ANYMORE! also with the upcoming plans of season two and film of danmachi as well as other roles like d gray man & one piece, its quite the possibility that miss christian might not be able to reprise the role of kaname , so that isn't a given either! for this series, their pretty much in the same VA reprisal quandary as with sentai when it comes to the dub for UQ Holder aka Negima 2! |
||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||
Zork
 Posts: 201 |
|
|||||||||||
|
I guess I'm a minority of one here. I enjoyed the combination of humor and drama in the first Full Metal Panic and consider it as one of my favorite anime. I hated the overall serious tone of Full Metal Panic:The Second Raid. I found it soul and humorless and dropped it after 4-5 episodes.
From what I read here, Full Metal Panic:Invisible Victory is going to be worse than FMP:TSR in tone so I guess I won't be watching it 
To get my FMP fix I'm going to have to dust off my old dvds of the original series to watch. |
||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||
LightningZangetsu27
 Posts: 90 |
|
|||||||||||
|
A 12 years wait. It was worth it even without the dub I could picture how they would have delivered each line can wait for the simuldub. a lot of cgi on the AS & mini AS but Ep1 was a great opening ep
|
||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||
|
Sven Viking
Posts: 1041 |
|
|||||||||||
I’d suggest trying it. In my case I preferred the Fumoffu-style stuff and felt the series did a poorer job with most (but not all) of the serious segments. I thought The Second Raid headed in many of the wrong directions, but the new series is being much better handled so far. Humourless but not soulless. |
||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||
|
Joshua Zarate
Posts: 2062 |
|
|||||||||||
But the problem with that is you need to watch The Second Raid in order the full and proper context of what’s going with Invisble Victory and why certain characters react the way they do in certain scenes. If one doesn’t like The Second Raid, telling them to just skip it and go straight to Invisible Victory is a foolish decision when IV does not skip a beat at all from continuing what TSR did. |
||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||
 |
All times are GMT - 5 Hours |
|
|
|
Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2005 phpBB Group