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Blanchimont



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PostPosted: Wed Sep 26, 2018 12:42 pm Reply with quote
What happened with their faces?

To compare, here's the old cast;

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WANNFH



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PostPosted: Wed Sep 26, 2018 1:29 pm Reply with quote
Blanchimont wrote:
What happened with their faces?
Change of literally everything after they throwed out Tatsuki, who was in charge of animation character designs too, and other people who did the first season.
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EricJ2



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PostPosted: Wed Sep 26, 2018 2:24 pm Reply with quote
Blanchimont wrote:
Change of literally everything after they throwed out Tatsuki, who was in charge of animation character designs too, and other people who did the first season.


Yes, even as someone who didn't anal-retentively obsess over the "animation quality" on Season 1 to the exclusion of every single other discussion, gotta say, the S2 design's been...pretty bad so far. Shocked

As if the Japanese studios are too predisposed to considering Kemono-Mania as a generic product of "cute girls" for the obvious audience, rather than the quirky qualities that grabbed the audience the first time.
I'm not defending Tatsuki to the last gasp, but his designs' cuteness at least had a little more personality, and didn't overdo it.

(Looks like they threw out continuing Tatsuki's "Across the sea" storyline from the end of the first season, too, unless the stage plays covered that.)
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Sunny milk



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PostPosted: Wed Sep 26, 2018 2:32 pm Reply with quote
Kill those new designs with fire.
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John Hayabusa



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PostPosted: Wed Sep 26, 2018 2:59 pm Reply with quote
Oh man. It just keeps getting worse. Kemono Friends has been always right up my alley but as a CGDCT extremist, even I have my limits. This is just terrible.
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Zin5ki



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PostPosted: Wed Sep 26, 2018 4:35 pm Reply with quote
If I were to own a popular item of intellectual property—albeit at the chagrin of its creators and fans—it would make little sense to start making cosmetic changes. Surely this would only weaken the last remaining strands of goodwill.
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HK16



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PostPosted: Wed Sep 26, 2018 7:43 pm Reply with quote
OMG! They ruined my waifu Friend, Koutei Penguin. Someone save her!!! Please!!!!!

Why are they there? Just to suffer? Crying or Very sad
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