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Stark700
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7 different directors for this? How interesting. I hope the wait will be worth it as some of the preview/trailers/videos I've seen before have some catchy tunes.
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Blatch
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So... are we talking the magical girl version of Space Dandy with this?
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The Hollow Shrine
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So, this is gonna be bad then?
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wiitard119
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I'm guessing the 7 different directors are gonna try their hardest to make their OVA the best lol. I think it's a great idea because competition amongst each other brings the best of ourselves but at the same time I feel like if one of the directors fall short of the others he'll be disheartened.
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Cyclone1993
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This is definitely a good sign. I wasn't particularly happy when it was announced as an OVA but seeing that it will allow the series to be more experimental certainly raises my expectations!
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Jackanapes
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So is this supposed to have any sort of continuity and internal structure to it because having 7 directors and writers sounds like something you'd rather avoid unless you're doing an omnibus kind of thing. It'd just make things needlessly muddled and over-complicated.
Then again maybe in Shafts case this is a good thing since they really need to start demonstrating and training their directors in styles other than the Shinbo one again and that seems like exactly the kind of way to go about it. Shaft actually used to be a pretty decent and prolific in-betweener back in the day and get a lot more work through that, but since the Shinbo style has become so ingrained in their framework of late and they've become so synonomous with it now I don't see it as much and other studios possibly find them a bad fit for in-betweening on projects and that the styles would clash. I think they need to get back to that and start preparing again for a time when the Shaft style isn't as viable so that the studio can grow again and take on more kinds of work. I've never been a huge SHAFT fan myself, but I know there are those who yearn for their older days when they worked on stuff like Gunbuster or This Ugly Yet Beautiful World and who are growing tired of the Shinbo style and motifs being pushed to the forefront and overwhelming absolutely everything they do nowadays be it adaptation or original. |
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Selipse
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Yes! Now I'm not sad that this won't be a series at all.
So, this is going to be Shaft's first production that hasn't been directed by Shinbou since ef: A Tale of Melodies. in 2008? Holy crap. (Although, I haven't seen that, but looking at the director's other works, Oonuma does have a style similar to Shinbou's.) Even though Shinbou's one of my favorite directors, this is very interesting. We can't have him leading the whole studio on his own forever, after all.
I doubt it. At the very least, continuity won't be that important. Like Blatch said, I expect the magical girl version of Space Dandy. Which sounds glorious, by the way. |
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Kreion
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I don't think they should do that at all - style is the reason SHAFT got recognition and to throw that away would just make them like any other studio which is NOT why I like SHAFT anime. Would you tell Trigger or Kyoani other companies which stylize heavily(even if KyoAni moefy's heavily it is still style), to go do something else? No. People want different things from different companies and when everything looks the same everything is boring. Plus tbh the two anime you mentioned look generic as fudge - if SHAFT still make stuff like that they'd be an average company with nothing to their name. What they should NOT be doing though is making boring series - they thrive on interesting series like most studios and I'd like to see some new IP from them beyond Nisekoi, Madoka and Monogatari. This will be more of a showcase for them, perhaps they will pick up new things from this to change up their style some more but I think it's fine as is. Shows like Nisekoi are very noticably more streamlined than say Monogatari. |
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Kaioshin_Sama
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I'm saying they have to totally abandon that one style but that it should be okay to experiment with others to keep things from getting stale. If you have seven different directors and it'd still all look the same what's the point? IMO shafts visual style hasn't evolved in years and its becoming the stuff of in jokes. Its okay to experiment |
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Jackanapes
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Weird that last one went in under my old username I don't use anymore. Anyway Gunbuster is one of the most celebrated anime of all time in any format so I think this is another case of old school and new school tastes clashing. Shaft may be one of the older studios around but these days they seem to appeal overwhelmingly to newer younger types
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enurtsol
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So kinda like how the AniMatrix and Batman: Gotham Knight anthologies
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Kreion
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It...has. Once again, compare things like Madoka to Nisekoi - completely different character designs, emphases and colour palette, the shows are VERY different even if they are still recognizably SHAFT. The reason SHAFT get mocked is because they use such an OTT style with a lot of strange choices. But EVERY studio with a consistent style gets mocked, people make jokes about the Ghibli hair-cut, people joke about how all KyoAni characters look the same, or how all of Clamp's characters look like noodles. Besides of course they're going to look different, Shaft has done more with different animation styles than most other studios (case in point SZS uses a LOT Of different styles) and they're being directed by different people who will all have their own opinions. As for Gunbusters...no - it's not one of the most celebrated anime of all time. It may be a classic of sorts but it has clearly not lasted the test of time. Plus, I certainly wouldn't call it a SHAFT show, it was headed by Gainax and directed by Anno, most people wouldn't even know SHAFT worked on it. |
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Selipse
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I agree that the style is the main reason for SHAFT's recognition today, and abandoning that style isn't right. However, we have to rememeber that it isn't so much SHAFT's style as it is Shinbou's.
I've already mentioned this, but this is Shaft's first production that isn't directed by Shinbou in 7 years. The guy has been carrying the whole studio by his own! Even KyoAni and the still-new Trigger change up directors constantly. This seems like it may be in order to train people in case Shinbou decides to leave, or worse. I mean, Shinbou's still young so hopefully this won't happen any time soon, but they have to start this before it's too late. Hopefully, the trainees will develop their own directorial voice and bring fresh new ideas to the studio, and the industry at large. |
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Hameyadea
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Sounds like SHAFT is making their own Anime Mirai project. |
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Hellsoldier
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Sounds like an experimental work is in the... works. Hope this helps make OVA series popular once more. |
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