Anime-Booru Desu~ |OT|

[Momo]

 

[Himu]

A new saint seiya

[Great Rumbler]

The first episode of Uchuu Kyodai/Space Brothers was pretty good, it gave me some Planetes vibes and there sure aren't many series that do that.

[MCD]

Season looks the same as any.

So a season with Jormungand, Zetman, a new Watanabe/Kanno collaboration, a slick new Lupin III series, and a realistic look at space flight in the near future really looks the same as all the others recently?

No Gundamo
No Code Geass season 3
No Darker Than Black season 3
No To Love Ru Darkness

Just another season.

[Momo]

MCD you have very questionable taste in anime. Worse than me and I've been known to read/watch shoujo 

[MCD]

Be right back, playing Monster Girl Quest.

HORA HORA

[Joe Molotov]

I'm watching Captain Harlock and Fist of the North Star, keep watching your girl cartoons.

[Mr. Gundam]

I'm watching Captain Harlock and Fist of the North Star, keep watching your girl cartoons.

Harlock is fucking badass.

[Joe Molotov]

Finally got to see this scene from FotNS:



It was in Episode 3.

[T234]

Holy shit Gantz

[Momo]

History's Strongest Disciple Kenichi OVA

[MCD]

Persona 4 animu

[Great Rumbler]

Persona 4 animu

It's not really that great, unfortunately.

[Momo]

So I watched Prince of Tennis 13, History's Strongest Disciple Kenichi OVA, Hunter x Hunter 25 and Space Bros today. Very good anime day.

[Great Rumbler]

I'm in the process of catching up on Durararararararararararara.

[MCD]

Persona 4 animu

It's not really that great, unfortunately.

Looks better than....whatever you listed up there.

[Great Rumbler]

Persona 4 animu

It's not really that great, unfortunately.

Looks better than....whatever you listed up there.

I like Persona 4, but the anime is bland and purposeless, utterly lacking in any kind of identity other than what it derives from being a frame-for-frame retelling of the game. I guess it's okay if you don't want to devote the time to play the game, but if you've played the game already then there's really no reason to watch the anime.

[Momo]

I'm in the process of catching up on Durararararararararararara.

I wish. I'd love to be able to watch Durarahahahaha for the first time again

[MCD]

Persona 4 animu

It's not really that great, unfortunately.

Looks better than....whatever you listed up there.

I like Persona 4, but the anime is bland and purposeless, utterly lacking in any kind of identity other than what it derives from being a frame-for-frame retelling of the game. I guess it's okay if you don't want to devote the time to play the game, but if you've played the game already then there's really no reason to watch the anime.

I'm still watching it for NARUKAMI'S SWAG

GODDAMN, MC IS SO BOSS HERE

PER
SONA

PERSONAAAA *unzips jacket*

[Tasty]

I'm in the process of catching up on Durararararararararararara.

I wish. I'd love to be able to watch Durarahahahaha for the first time again

I wish it wasn't only a season long. So many plot threads...

Loved it overall though, just wish there was more of it.

[Bebpo]

Aquarion Evol is getting gooooooooooooood.

Latest ep ends with Akino singing an English version of the old Aquarion TV's OP.  Fuck yeaaah



Can't wait for Evol to be in SRW!  I only hope E7 AO is at least as good as Evol.

[Bebpo]

Started watching Black Lagoon Roberta's Blood Trail since I'm caught up with current shows.  First ep was excellent.  Man, Black Lagoon is such a good show compared to modern anime.  Wish there were more shows of that quality around anymore.  Think I will enjoy this OAV very much and then wait 5 years for them to animate more of the manga.

[Great Rumbler]

Man, Black Lagoon is such a good show compared to modern anime.  Wish there were more shows of that quality around anymore.

First episode next Wednesday.

[Bebpo]

That looks terrible though.  Looks like Noir & Canaan.  But maybe I shouldn't judge it by the awful art.  Will see what people say about it.  Please tell me it's not beetrain at least?

[MCD]

Started watching Black Lagoon Roberta's Blood Trail since I'm caught up with current shows.  First ep was excellent.  Man, Black Lagoon is such a good show compared to modern anime.  Wish there were more shows of that quality around anymore.  Think I will enjoy this OAV very much and then wait 5 years for them to animate more of the manga.

The quality sux though, them calling it OVA is lol.

[Momo]

Started watching Black Lagoon Roberta's Blood Trail since I'm caught up with current shows.  First ep was excellent.  Man, Black Lagoon is such a good show compared to modern anime.  Wish there were more shows of that quality around anymore.  Think I will enjoy this OAV very much and then wait 5 years for them to animate more of the manga.

Black Lagoon is a top 5 anime of the last decade, it's not fair to compare other animes to it's standards. That being said,  RBT is excellent

[Momo]

I'm in the process of catching up on Durararararararararararara.

I wish. I'd love to be able to watch Durarahahahaha for the first time again

I wish it wasn't only a season long. So many plot threads...

Loved it overall though, just wish there was more of it.

Ryohgo Narita jumps from thread to thread though I'd love him to revisit Durarara, I doubt he will.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryohgo_Narita

Im sure you've seen Bacon-o, if not go watch.

[Great Rumbler]

That looks terrible though.  Looks like Noir & Canaan.  But maybe I shouldn't judge it by the awful art.  Will see what people say about it.  Please tell me it's not beetrain at least?

It's White Fox.

[MCD]

MC is so BOSS in here. This episode made me laugh out loud.

[Bebpo]

Started watching Black Lagoon Roberta's Blood Trail since I'm caught up with current shows.  First ep was excellent.  Man, Black Lagoon is such a good show compared to modern anime.  Wish there were more shows of that quality around anymore.  Think I will enjoy this OAV very much and then wait 5 years for them to animate more of the manga.

The quality sux though, them calling it OVA is lol.

Eh, I thought the animation in ep1 was very solid.  The action scenes were fluid. 

[MCD]

It is still not OVA quality, they are more like TV episodes.

It's good animu material just not worth the "OVA wait time".

[Momo]

Also I rarely like remixes, but the intro mix to Mell's Red Faction is pretty good

[Momo]

Okay, I have to stop you guys, where do you guys gets this idea of "OVA quality"

Being an OVA is not a measure of animation/drawing quality/depth it just means its direct to DVD releases. (mostly)

[Great Rumbler]

Okay, I have to stop you guys, where do you guys gets this idea of "OVA quality"

Being an OVA is not a measure of animation/drawing quality/depth it just means its direct to DVD releases. (mostly)

TV series = 13-26 episodes shown on TV for free, generally over the course of a few months
OVA series = 3-6 episodes released one at a time on DVD for $30+ each, generally over the course of a year or more

No, OVA is not a measure of animation quality, but the basic idea is that the animators have more time and money to do things better than a tight TV schedule and budget would allow them to do.

[bork]

And back in the day, OVAs were always noticeably better-looking/animated than their TV counterparts.

[Himu]

Back in the day, ova quality meant quality animation. compare hellsing ova to hellsing tv. or kenshin ova to kenshin tv. it's pretty simple.

[Momo]

OVAs vary just as wildly in quality and length as TV series.

You get short 6 ep TV series as well. I'm just saying call something out for having shit quality, not shit quality for an OVA it doesn't make sense.

[Momo]

And back in the day, OVAs were always noticeably better-looking/animated than their TV counterparts.

Back in the day, ova quality meant quality animation. compare hellsing ova to hellsing tv. or kenshin ova to kenshin tv. it's pretty simple.

No, this really isnt a thing, it's a perception. My young brain may be lying to me but I remember crap like the Hunter x Hunter OVA series being on par, if not regressing in animation quality from the TV series. Assuming a similar budget, quality goes down as series length goes up, be that a TV series or an OVA.

[Momo]

P.S. I love Hunter x Hunter, I dunno why I put "crap" there

[Momo]

Also xxxHolic/Tsubasa OVAs has at best one or two well animated set-pieces over the TV series. (Not the film Midsummer Nights Dream, that had real gud animations). You guys are attributing something that shouldnt be to the OVA label

[Himu]

for the most part, it IS true.

[bork]

And back in the day, OVAs were always noticeably better-looking/animated than their TV counterparts.

Back in the day, ova quality meant quality animation. compare hellsing ova to hellsing tv. or kenshin ova to kenshin tv. it's pretty simple.

No, this really isnt a thing, it's a perception. My young brain may be lying to me but I remember crap like the Hunter x Hunter OVA series being on par, if not regressing in animation quality from the TV series. Assuming a similar budget, quality goes down as series length goes up, be that a TV series or an OVA.

You're not going back far enough.  I'm talking about the 80's and 90's.

[Momo]

Bubblegum Crisis was no better than the rest :/
Also I think HxH was from the 90's

I'm willing to accept that you guys talk about quality of animation/presentation when talking OVA quality though. It's doesnt make much sense to be, but I can adapt, not a deal breaker.

[Bebpo]

Yeah, OAV used to be for higher budget stuff.  OCCASIONALLY it still is used that way (Gundam Unicorn for instance has much better combat animation than Gundam TV shows; though the non-combat stuff is TV quality or below).

But usually OAV these days is more like "We can't get this on TV because no one will fund it, or it's inappropriate for TV, or we can't afford to do a TV show because it takes us 12 months to animate 30 mins with our team of 15 guys".  I think with Black Lagoon it was more that there wasn't enough material to animate a TV season and the audience for that kind of show has left and been replaced by the moe moe kyuun audience.


The trick with OAV I find is to just not watch it until it's done if you can.  That's what I did for Black Lagoon and so the wait time between eps didn't bother me.  Otoh, since Hellsing eps are years apart I watch them anyhow.


Btw, Himuro's Hellsing OAV > Hellsing TV comment on OAVs having better animation made me chuckle a bit considering the latest Hellsing OAV ep.  I wonder if we'll ever get the last 2 eps.

[cool breeze]

Hunter X Hunter's were like that because the anime caught up to the manga.  If you compare the old anime to the manga or new anime, there're a lot of addition scenes or scenes that are stretched out.  HXH handled it really well by having filler that adds to the series instead of delaying story progression.  Just look at Dragon Ball Z taking 10 episodes to show Goku charge up or filler arcs from Kenshin, Naruto, or Bleach.  Eventually it hit that point where they had to end the series.  The anime ends in the middle of the yorkshin arc and the first OVA, which is excellent, finishes it up.  The final two dealing with Green Island, is when they rushed the animation and everything dropped in quality.

Kenshin's case is a weird since the first set is essentially a backstory to the final arc, and it was all done in regular Kenshin/children comic style, so overall lighter.  But since that final arc wasn't animated, that backstory was adapted into the darker, more adult oav.  The final arc from the anime was all filler.  The second oav was a really loose adaptation of the final manga arc done in the style of the first oav and it sucked.  And the first oav is really great.  So that whole battosai arc probably ended up better than it would have if the anime hadn't caught up the manga.

these are hunter x hunter spoilers, but just to compare the series to the latter oavs:

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series


oav

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[bork]

Bubblegum Crisis was no better than the rest :/

Yes it was.

But IIRC they had some budget issues towards the end.

[Himu]

I want to reread kenshin manga omg

[Himu]

going to dl the manga and put on my kindle

[Great Rumbler]

The new Lupin III series is about a dozen different kinds of awesome:







Also, Fujiko spends most of the episode half-naked.

[Himu]

It aired?!

[Great Rumbler]

Yeah, the first episode's out right now.

[magus]

lupin III is quite popular here,they even tied him to a car

[Bebpo]

The new Lupin III series is about a dozen different kinds of awesome:

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Also, Fujiko spends most of the episode half-naked.

Wow, the art style looks amazingly inconsistent but totally awesome.

Will check this out.  I fucking love Lupin, but was expecting this to be another crappy modern Lupin with tons of Fujiko fanservice to appease today's modern creepy otaku audience.

[Himu]

That is a very consistent artstyle. It's supposed to harken to traditional art, namely impressionism.

[Great Rumbler]

The new Lupin has a lot of Fujiko fanservice, but it's actually the kind that WON'T make you feel like a total pervert and/or pedophile. So, definitely a plus there.

[Bebpo]

Watched Lupin.  Really cool art.  Otherwise ep was just ok.  Should have had more energy and "fun" for what it was.  Lupin is all about fun.  Just felt a little lackluster.  Definitely has potential though.

[MCD]

PIMP TIER

[Great Rumbler]

Watched Lupin.  Really cool art.  Otherwise ep was just ok.  Should have had more energy and "fun" for what it was.  Lupin is all about fun.  Just felt a little lackluster.  Definitely has potential though.

Lupin attached rockets to a giant cocaine statue and then shot it out into the ocean, what more do you want?

[MCD]

Fuck Lupin, watch this pimp right here:

[Great Rumbler]

MC's boring, one or two minutes out 26 episodes isn't going to change that.