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maximilianjenus
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well, to be fair, it is amazing that one single person can do a full anime series all by himself.
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PonSquared
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I see what you did there. Bravo, sir. |
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Uchay
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Honestly, I agree. The story isn't anything great and I'd say I got fairly annoyed by some moments, and I wouldn't follow it outside reading a few chapters out of curiousity because of the anime, but I think the art is really pretty, detailed and nice to look at. The fight scenes are also generally well done. Oh, the irony. 
Anyway, the anime did get me to read a few chapters so I guess it suceeded?? |
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TexZero
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I hope Tonikawa is spared at least. It was the only good "Crunchyroll Original". Also god bless the reviewer and keeping a chin up. They could literally turn in a steaming pile of wordshit and it would be better than the show they're reviewing. I do feel for them because this is supposed to be an anime review and yet im not seeing any animation. |
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Finny-chan
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R.I.P to reviewers and completionests who have no choice but to watch this series all the way through.
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Beatdigga
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It is what it is. Most of the Webtoons were not ready for prime time, Onyx Equinox was hilariously confused whether it wanted to be a bloody 90’s comic or a kiddie Avatar clone and ended up appealing to no one, and then there’s this...very special piece of media. At the end of the day, this was done to add value in the Warner family, and Warner sold CR. So their reason for being is gone. Not like they will be mourned. |
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everapril
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I try not to be a hater but boy do I love train wreck media (I saw the Cats film in the theater and paid for two digital copies on different platforms). I will be watching this series with great excitement.
I think it’s biggest sin so far is the utter lack of any atmosphere or establishing shots. The whole “Is this Tokyo?!” when the only glimpse we get is parts of generic buildings? I laughed for like 5 minutes straight. |
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Covnam
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Well done, well done *claps*
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DuskyPredator
 Posts: 15524 Location: Brisbane, Australia |
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No mention of the expert use of CG and 2D characters that are incredibly jarring together, with the 2D characters static shots or with limited in-between animation, a good choice for the difference between civilians and those set to protect them. Or the old lady politician who even for anime standards has bad lip flaps, it is great commentary. Or the CGI models of characters having only one facial expression, meaning one woman is smiling as she delivers news of a suicide bombing, great character establishment.
I don't know the source material, but I feel bad for them. Bad that they could not hit these highs in their limited medium of manga. |
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FrodoGate222
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Out of curiosity I looked at the manga and.....geez! The anime cuts out A LOT from the manga to the point where I thought the manga version was a completely different arc!
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ResistNormal
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((0_o)) Looks like it was animated in VR chat.
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Nordhmmer
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well-
you could've ended up reviewing Redo the Healer,so there's that 
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Madster
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Tonikawa is getting a special, but a season 2 hasn't been announced. My biggest gripe with Originals is (besides them being average at best, and.... EX-ARM at worst) is that they're just... there. They're a novelty and nothing more. Nothing makes them stand out from other anime on the platform outside of "This was funded by Crunchyroll and look look! We have some Korean anime!". I have nothing against Crunchyroll financing anime, but slapping an "Originals" logo onto some anime only for most of them to either be "meh" or flat-out terrible isn't helping the Crunchyroll brand. It just feels like Crunchyroll is tossing money around aimlessly. I really hope Crunchyroll listens to the feedback on this first wave of Originals and make anime based on interesting properties and gives the right resources/staff to make a good product (unless if Sony scraps the Originals stuff). |
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myfairx
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now that I've seen ep 3 I really like the cell shading model. well, they're expressionless and awkwardly animated but the design itself is full of potential. I like how they render it to look like G-pen. The clothes' crease and hand look like josei style. I doubt the intention, perhaps a byproduct of the modeller preferences.
Lots of people are bashing this. It's quite natural because we're too spoiled by the sheer amount of quality anime out there. This isn't the same like strike witches Hasshin Shimasu series where the low-quality low fps animation is a deliberate creative decision. This is proof that making animation is a MONUMENTAL task. Especially when you're making a series. Early makoto shinkai's short / ova are barely animated IIRC. He just makes do with creatives way to distract us with strong visuals. what they (early makoto and ex arms team) have in common is a strong desire to create. what motivates them is perhaps their only differences. This is a wake-up call. These days we took anime for granted too much too easy |
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Kelohmello
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I think this is a bit of an ignorant take. They've managed to get stuff like God of Highschool and Tower of God adapted into anime. Those are two popular Korean webtoons both in and out of their country of origin. Even the isekai spider anime is an adaptation of one of the most popular Narou-kei webnovels. Regardless of whether you don't like them, those have demographic numbers behind them. CR's not in this to make novel or even interesting things, just cash. Popularity, or the clear potential for such, is the play. Even if you look at the stuff that's almost certainly failed hard for them like Gibiate and Ex-Arm, both of those things on paper definitely sound great to investors and the final product turns out like trash because the actual production is of bad quality. |
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