The General Anime Thread...

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"Don't be looking like a goddamned hooker!!!" - Reimu Hakurei

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Nope. It's so garbage. But if you're like me and you've nothing else to do, go ahead.

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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1300298569/under-the-dog

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Creative Intelligence Arts is a small group, lead by Masahiro Ando (Ghost In The Shell: Standalone Complex), and are set out on creating a new anime of their own.

Our enemy is the light of Humanity

The year is 2025 in the city of Tokyo Bayside Special District, five years following the devastation wrought by a specially enhanced groups of terrorists at the 2020 Summer Olympics. Out of the ashes of that desolation, the UN formed a special covert branch headquartered in Tokyo Bay solely purposed with searching out and eliminating the forces responsible for the attack along with anyone even bearing a remote resemblance to them. (read more)

Like any kickstarter, there are rewards for the amount you pledge. There's also an 11-minute long video on said page. Go check it out if you like action.

Personally, I'd be down for the digital copy of the soundtrack... Can't see myself dropping $500 for the figurine though.
 
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Nope. It's so garbage. But if you're like me and you've nothing else to do, go ahead.

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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1300298569/under-the-dog

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Creative Intelligence Arts is a small group, lead by Masahiro Ando (Ghost In The Shell: Standalone Complex), and are set out on creating a new anime of their own.



Like any kickstarter, there are rewards for the amount you pledge. There's also an 11-minute long video on said page. Go check it out if you like action.

Personally, I'd be down for the digital copy of the soundtrack... Can't see myself dropping $500 for the figurine though.

Sounds pretty awesome.
 
Masahiro Ando? The guy responsible for Moon Over the Castle is also involved in anime?
 
UTD Looks very nice at this moment, in both story and concept appearance. But Kickstarter (and crowdsourcing as a whole) was always unreliable. And as of late, Kickstarter has been failing to fulfill the needs of bigger projects. I mean, I can understand that some things take a lot to produce. But while asking $580K is not stretching the price of an anime production, I believe it just can't happen.
 
I'm really considering chipping in for support, but after making a huge payment on toy cars, I'm saving up a bit first.
 
I'm saddened Space Dandy doesn't sponsor a SuperGT car.
 
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No name, no photographer name either. :(


Itasha Talk
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To me, itashas would look significantly better if they didn't plaster it with a full shot of the girls. Are you so interested in what shoes they're wearing you have to have them displaying on your car? I don't. Then you're wondering "then what makes an itasha at that point?"

The answer lies the capturing just enough for you to recognize the character. Usually a portrait bust is sufficient if not a highly recognizable silhouette creatively mixed in with abstract/pop graphical elements.

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This is what I think itashas should aim to do.
 
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Lucky Star is hard to enjoy if you aren't familiar with numerous older shows... Your otaku level has to be thiiiiis high for it.
Not true. It was only the second anime I saw, so my otaku was pretty much nonexistent, but I still ejoyed it.
 
Might as well continue reading Noblesse then. :(

It was awesome. It had potential, but the artist went way off track and decided it'd be an awesome idea to forget all about the brutal fighting tournament, everything everyone wanted from the series, and fall all the way into the pits of cheap purposeless rom/com drama SOL.

If I were to summarize the drastic change in events, it'd be like this:

-Broke boy, has no parents and has to care for two younger siblings, enrolls in a martial arts-focused school and makes awkward first encounters with the 3 toughest students.
-Boy gets picked on from a bully since childhood. The 3 girls caught this and want to teach him how to fight. Wimpy boy is too ashamed to ask for help from girls. Eventually that gets fixed (partially).
-A new tournament is announced at school, and the girls think this is a golden opportunity for him to step it up. He instead plans on stepping into the match and forfeiting asap due to his self-defeating lack of confidence.

-One of the tough contestants who happens to be from a gang gets knocked out by one of the top 3 girls. Pride is hurt and has now brought a whole bunch of men with him waiting outside to kick the ass of the person who beat him. The whole drama intensifies, but is settled in a snap of a finger. Pointless tension. Gangster leaves the story for a bit to return later.
-Another tough contestant who gets defeated is also butthurt from his loss ends up working with main boy at the car wash. Pointless character tried to get developed but was a means to an end.

-Writer thought it would make for good romantic tension by having Queen leave school for a business trip. The other two girls at this point have also developed feelings for main boy, and waste time cooking food for him and helping him out at the car wash. The focus on fights and tournaments has pretty much dropped.
-Instead of going back to the tournament, since it actually has not even finished, the writer introduces yet another meaningless character. This time, it's a clone of the main boy, another wimp getting bullied. Several chapters are wasted in training him to toughen up. After a few more chapters, he hasn't made any more appearances.

-There's a girl that rivals the top 3. She was in the story since day 1, but now the story shifts to his older brother. He was once a fighter too, but after one night of being threatened by a group of guys in the past, he turned into a wimp who never left his room. (Notice a trend here?) That gangster shows up and with the help of him, the main boy, and the convenience of introducing more pointless thugs who happened to be the ones who threatened him when they were little, he toughens up.... but he also disappears a few chapters after that all gets resolved. Oh I almost forgot. While all that was happening, one of the top 3 girls wins the tournament.



...Yeah, that's how important the tournament was to the writer now.


-Now.... now it's about a relationship drama involving one of the 3 girls who is heart-wrenched and the main boy who is completely oblivious to her feelings towards him. The relationship between queen and him have seem to taken steps back since they've been away form each other for so long, even though they've had their eyes on each other from the get go. But nevertheless, crying girl got introduced to yet another random guy whom she started developing feelings for. He isn't even a goddamn fighter, has nothing important on the story of the main boy growing up, yet this is what Girls of The Wild's is about now... landing a date with the main boy.

150 Chapters summarized. Saved you a lot of left-clicking.
 
Started watching Fate/ Kaleid because I've been too lazy to watch High School DxD. Unusually good, but it's not very special in any single aspect. Me likey.
 
UTD Looks very nice at this moment, in both story and concept appearance. But Kickstarter (and crowdsourcing as a whole) was always unreliable. And as of late, Kickstarter has been failing to fulfill the needs of bigger projects. I mean, I can understand that some things take a lot to produce. But while asking $580K is not stretching the price of an anime production, I believe it just can't happen.
Kickstarters relating to anime have done well before.

See:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/production-ig/masaaki-yuasas-kick-heart
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/693293489/time-of-eve-the-movie-on-blu-ray
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1311401276/little-witch-academia-2
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/itoso-tag/santa-company
 
I hope you realize that none of these projects were asking for $580,000. That is a massive amount of money. Little Witch Academia got that sort of cash because the production staff behind it is like Ferrari, Porsche, and McLaren all coming together to make the world's greatest hypercar.
 
Yes I know, but they still exceeded the goal, with most going far beyond what the Japanese expected. This could very well meet the goal.
 
Yes I know, but they still exceeded the goal, with most going far beyond what the Japanese expected. This could very well meet the goal.
Then again, nobody expects that sum of money... do they? It's asking for a lot, really. Sure, other projects have exceeded their goals. But this one is just too high up. No other thing but Little Witch Academia was able to get to that level of funding, sadly.
 
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