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This Week in Anime - Is Land of the Lustrous the Best 3DCG Anime?

More than visual flourish, I think what makes it work visually is that the character don't have the awkward stiffness and speed that most other 3DCG anime have. There movement feel a lot more natural. But visually my favorite part is the moon and the way they appear.

Personally I don't really like Phos, her path till now:

1) Told she can't fight and instead given another job
2) Ignore other job and try to fight
3) Fail with consequence to those around her
4) Says she's sorry
5) Try again and fail again, again with consequence to those around her
6) Says she's sorry
7) Told to focus on the task that she can do and specifically told not to do something
8) Immediately do what she was told not to, which has consequence for those around her and herself
9) Says she's sorry
10) Miraculously gain power which means she can finally fight (or at least be useful in a fight situation)
11) Get in a fight, fail to do anything useful, which has consequence for those around her
12) Says she's sorry
13) Told to do something else
14) Doesn't do that
15) Given another job and specifically warned about a danger
16) Immediately fall prey to do the danger, with consequence for those around her
17) Says she's sorry

So sure Phos really want to help, but she can't and is apparently incapable of learning from her mistake. She's not improving so much as there's constantly a steady stream of miracle that saves her/power her up but she's fundamentally still the same shitty person she was at the start.

More than visual flourish, I think what makes it work visually is that the character don't have the awkward stiffness and speed that most other 3DCG anime have. There movement feel a lot more natural. But visually my favorite part is the moon and the way they appear.

Personally I don't really like Phos, her path till now:

1) Told she can't fight and instead given another job
2) Ignore other job and try to fight
3) Fail with consequence to those around her
4) Says she's sorry
5) Try again and fail again, again with consequence to those around her
6) Says she's sorry
7) Told to focus on the task that she can do and specifically told not to do something
8) Immediately do what she was told not to, which has consequence for those around her and herself
9) Says she's sorry
10) Miraculously gain power which means she can finally fight (or at least be useful in a fight situation)
11) Get in a fight, fail to do anything useful, which has consequence for those around her
12) Says she's sorry
13) Told to do something else
14) Doesn't do that
15) Given another job and specifically warned about a danger
16) Immediately fall prey to do the danger, with consequence for those around her
17) Says she's sorry

So sure Phos really want to help, but she can't and is apparently incapable of learning from her mistake. She's not improving so much as there's constantly a steady stream of miracle that saves her/power her up but she's fundamentally still the same shitty person she was at the start.

Knights of Sidona still takes the cake for me as far as CG anime go

Are we watching the same show? Because that's not how most of it went down. Seems to me like you're just fabricating parts of the show. There was not a single time so far Phos was told to fight and not a single time he did aside from the latest episode where he tried to save Antarct. Seems rather obvious you haven't paid much attention to what's going on. So the compains you have about the character mostly applies to what you think went on and not what actually happened.

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Are we watching the same show? Because that's not how most of it went down. Seems to me like you're just fabricating parts of the show. There was not a single time so far Phos was told to fight and not a single time he did aside from the latest episode where he tried to save Antarct. Seems rather obvious you haven't paid much attention to what's going on. So the compains you have about the character mostly applies to what you think went on and not what actually happened.

Maybe don't accuse people of not paying attention when you clearly didn't pay attention to my post... I never said Phos was ever told to fight, so I'm not sure why you're even mentioning that...

Also, Phos can still help in a fight even if she's not actively fighting, she can go and call reinforcement (which she never does, again and again and again).

@Fantaselion. Phos always wanted to fight, that's what she wanted since episode 1. The problem is not that she wanted to push that on someone else, the problem is that she's useless in a fight, was given a more appropriate task and then tried to push that task on someone else so she could fight. That hasn't changed.

Same with staying up, no one asked her to stay up, she just decided to do that (after being told not to), which end up causing trouble for Antartica (he was killed while trying to help Phos get out of her cube and he was only so far from the temple/sensei because they needed to fix Phos, because she got hurt putting her hand in the ice immediately after she was told to not do that). Trying is fine, failing is fine, apologising is fine. Constantly doing the exact opposite of what you're supposed to do and causing problem to people around you every time is not fine, even if you apologise.