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I don't think toshio had too much of a choice, I mean he has to save the village and he can't just pick up a random shiki and expect himself to make it out alivd esecially since he damn near got himself killed after his first encounter with one. Still a pretty fucked situation i mean holy shit that was his wife and he just cut her open like a fish and she was aware of everything.

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Explanation of the visualizations reminds me of Bakemonogatari, where long stretches of dialogue are given flavor with visuals that complement the thoughts and intentions of the characters. Like, if it's two characters in constructive conversation, they'll start building an increasingly intricate playing card house. When someone says a non-sequitur or loses composure, the cards fall. Or else, one of the characters starts climbing a rock wall. That sort of thing, gives weight to what's being said and better conveys the feelings of the characters.

the visual flair is a nice touch. what i mean is the "camera effects" like fishbowl lens and so on that are used in soap operas for dramatic scenes, it was kinda funny when toshio kicked a wood plank in anger and the screen did the bollywood flash
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ai7iw0IFefQ [Play]
Taking a life is not justice. No matter what kind of noble cause you're fighting for, it's still murder. I have no taste for killing, whether the victim is human or something else.
i understand where Seishin is coming from and all and its his opinion but he's a bitch and i wouldn't be shocked if his blood will be sucked and when that happens he'd end up being a vampire and even more of a bitch since so many innocent people will end up suffering by the hand of actually evil people. speaking of bitches, Tohru is also a bitch for making a fake grave for his friend he converted to a shiki, all of the shit he did could have been avoided and he chose the easy path so fuck that guy lol.

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You know i was not expecting a chocolate juggling funeral home running willy wonka looking motherfucker in a god damn serious vampire anime, i approve.

If anyone plans on watching shiki, i wouldn' t miss out on the shiki special episodes, after episode 20, watch special 20.5, and so on.
the manga is actually pretty interesting although i spot no diffrences so far besides the artistic usage of realism on backgrounds, clothes, gloves and such.

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This needs to be seriously restored but this is most highest quality version of this OP available as far as I know which was way too HARD to find. I absolutely love this despite how half a year or more has passed and I keep coming back to it.
Here's a version sung by Maruko-chan and Tama-chan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJcHGvLCTLo [Play]
The singer goes by the name カヒミ・カリィ (Kahimi Karie)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgxmgtJ2Lc8 [Play]

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https://youtu.be/n3LqQ6FefXI?t=73 [Play]
Have you been paying your monthly fees to the NHK? Yes, this is similar to not paying your TV license in the UK.

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I really hate how awful some of the episodes were 100 episodes in it felt like everything had become completely static in the sense that you'd basically see one cookie-cutter episode after another where nothing of interest happens you'd see the same background, same shots just with mouth movements changed which honestly it felt unwatchable. I think the Nagasawa house burning down episodes were absolutely unwatchable, cringe you could even say, the bad type, that made me quit watching for two months at least. Seriously what were they thinking? Kind of glad I got to episode 121 which finally felt like the dynamic slice of life again that I fell in love with.
This episode I particularly loved the shots of the town that they show that Maruko-chan goes to explore to because she wanted to take a solo trip somewhere nearby and meet a kind stranger.

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There's something about the 100 yen line in this ED that makes me extremely happy.

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I spent an hour looking for this god damn ED which isn't available basically fucking anywhere (most likely due to copyright strikes) only a shitty low quality nicovideo reupload. I finally found it by going to Indonesian Youtube and manually finding the episodes where it aired. You might notice the characters are drawn differently it's because of the awful style they went to for season 2 of the series (which still makes me wanna puke when looking at).
The song is called "Arara's Spell" and apparently this year Momoko Sakura's VA (Tarako) died and there was a special aired (https://nyaa.si/view/1805629) where this song was used to close her last performance (March 24, 2024). This ED ran from episode 481 (July 4, 2004) to episode 850 (March 25, 2012) and was renewed in 2010.

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It seemed like this Gundam would be good from the prologue. The only thing I remember about the first season is that scene where Sulletta killed that guy for shock value and then when she sperged out during the presentation. My memory of the show is horrible because I perceive it to be a generic modern anime with Gundams.

The only positive to me is the design of the mechs and how they gave it a strong "anime" feel for lack of a better word, but how they even got this show off of the ground in the first place astounds me.

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I wonder what studio thinked about its not gundam at all.

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It feels like they were trying to appeal to a western audience but the execution was so bad they lost their soul.

To me modern anime feels like it's a more competent and directed effort at trying to release endorphins in the viewer.
Since I don't appreciate this I prefer older titles that were worse at this, if that was even their goal.

I think funding is a double edge sword, lack of funding means shit graphics but the struggle involved might produce a decent product, While more money might produce something with outstanding visuals but mediocre story. (also having a pillow of money to rely on can make peoole lazy) Also there was a transition from hand drawn to digital, one is more labor intensive but pretty (at times) and the other has ways of making things much easier for the artist (although animators of the hand draw style do have various tricks they use.)
You don't exactly have to pay for dyes and ink pots for digital.
Also, i noticed modern animators using CGI in anime with mixed results.

There is something i cannot stand about modern anime and it's colours' saturation.
In modern anime colours are saturated to the point of insanity, everything is so bright like do i have to have my entire eyes melted?

For me it is mostly the art and animation style. Newer anime can have a great story, even as good as older anime, but the animation just doesn't look as good as it used to.
I understand the cost and time but I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of new anime would look heavily dated ten years from now with how the animate the shows today.

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By the way, older anime (in 80s for example) was literally drawed and sketched by people who wrote helluva amount of kanji in school, and its super visible on composition and outlines. Modern one is made by ppl who got little to no experience in kanji and it looks cartoonish.

>>413
you CAN attempt to re-create sounds with a mic and various objects. i wouldn't be shocked if they do SELL sounds used in the production of anime but i can't imagine how to buy them.
https://taira-komori.jpn.org/index.html
took me a hot minute and jewgle translate to find this, seems legit but i dunno.

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>>413
You know this thread just like reminded me that some of the official movies used in Gachimuchi Pants Wrestling or Wrestling Series as a whole uploaded to Nico Nico Douga used the same sound effect library as Japanese animation studios.
https://sp.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm8540626
Like the first time I heard this in the Nurse Witch Komugi commercial I couldn't stop laughing for a good few minutes just in pure shock.

The sound affects in most anime are electronc noises which in some cases are the exact same but slowed down or with reverb.

>>414
We should make our own original 22chan sound effect library that we can use in OC.

>>431
then i need a cat and the most expencive mike possible to record lossless hifi audio of a cat's meow

>>423
Consider the book club way, set a reasonable amount of pages, or chapters and a amount of days to read them. like, "let's read up to page 20 of dragon head and then talk about it"

>>424
I like being able to comment on events happening as they happen, though ;-;

>>423
connect your laptop to a projector, or a tv

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Mamo's cool

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So what did Miyazaki mean by this? Did he really imply that every Lupin iteration that he did not work on was an impostor? Or is that a misinterpretation

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Did pt. 2 start better than pt.1, or did it end up better?

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It kind of depends on what you mean by "better." Part 1 is undeniably more consistent throughout its entire runtime in terms of overall quality, and Part 2 is a lot more inconsistent; some absolute stinkers can be followed by the best episodes in the show. What Part 2 has going for it is that its good episodes are extremely good.

But it also depends on whether you mean "better" in terms of writing or in terms of quality of animation or direction. As far as well-written goes, there are good episodes all throughout the show. In terms of animation, it's a little harder to explain.
The episodes directed by Miyazaki himself are the most acclaimed episodes of the show from an animation perspective, but they're not the only well-animated episodes in the show and far from the only ones with notable animation. The studio that animated the Miyazaki episodes (Telecom) worked on the movie Castle of Cagliostro and animated 11 episodes of Part 2. For pre-Cagliostro episodes, there are 72, 77, 82, 84, 99, and 105, and for post-Cagliostro episodes, there are 143, 145, 151, 153, and 155.

Besides Episodes 145 and 155, Miyazaki did not have any involvement in the episodes, but Yasuo Otsuka did, who was a legendary animator and a great influence on Miyazaki, not to mention working on the series since Part 1. I find it sad that most people attribute the higher animation quality of those episodes to Miyazaki, because I feel like the Telecom episodes are much more of an accomplishment for Otsuka. He had to work with a bunch of newbie animators who were horrid at their jobs; their work on Episode 72 was apparently so laughably terrible that he had to fire a good chunk of the studio, then animate nearly the entirety of the episode by himself. The rest of the early telecom episodes were about the team trying to find its footing; the best animated out of all of them, I'd say, is probably Episode 99, which happens to be the very first anime to ever be aired in stereo.
After Castle of Cagliostro, the studio's episodes had a significant increase in quality; 143 and after are all really well animated and fun episodes. 143 is one of my personal favorites due to it being storyboarded by Yuzo Aoki, a great animator who has a really unique style (he was the lead animation director on Mystery of Mamo). It's cool to see his storyboards, which normally get adapted in his own style of limited animation to Telecom's high quality standard, leading to one of the most visually detailed and charming episodes of the show from a visual perspective.

But I could go on forever about the show. Part 2: What it lacks in consistency makes up for it in artistic variety. I didn't even talk that much about Yuzo Aoki and his fantastic work on the show or the Oh Pro episodes. 
I feel like it also kind of boils down to there being no real proper categorization in official home releases (because it's not standard), and the home video releases were either random episodes or the full chronological set. I feel like it'd be way more useful had they categorized episodes by who worked on them rather than their numbers. A good resource for knowing who worked on what is on this page is:

https://web.archive.org/web/20201111180048/http://www.pelleas.net/aniTOP/index.php/lupin-iii-part-2-credits

This guy did a great job.

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Also, my excuses if my post felt a little rambley. I'm a little tired due to it being morning.

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It was always lame and gay, but I know what you mean. RWBY is a posterchild for failed potential: it maybe could have been SO COOL if they didn't do X and Y and Z in the later seasons and also A-V in the early seasons. RWBY has been incredibly valuable to me if only as a showcase of what you should never ever ever EVER even dream of doing with your story.
The chief sin of RWBY was giving it a plot. The Red trailer is my perfect vision of RWBY: no dialogue, no real directions for plot, just stylized action with neat costumes and other setpieces. Could've been neat for a season or two. Unfortunately we got the worlbuilding clusterfuck that is Remnant and the bassackwards characterizations and tone of s3 forwards.
Season 1 and arguably 2 are watchable because they have the underdog charm. Clearly a small team just doing this shit for fun. Helps that everything was freely available on YT. After that the series got some real popularity and budget and wham, no more underdog effect. I don't mind s3 so much because it does an almost passable job balancing intrigue and wacky character moments, even if the finale was the death knell for any remaining quality in the series. I have nothing good to say about s4 onwards aside from one or two characters that are sort of neat in a vacuum even if they got screwed over by an incompetent and disorganized writing staff. I have kept up with the series as a case study of sorts despite my abysmal opinion of it. So, RWBY is shit. Realistically, there's no way it couldn't have been shit. It was shit practically from day 1 with no visible path out of the shit. Maybe a decent writer could have made something engaging, but then it wouldn't be recognizable as RWBY. What went wrong? Too much to list. What frustrates me the most?
>played quick and loose introducing new characters
>cheap deaths that just feel like a middle finger, see above
>Characters treated like a game of hot potato
>Awkward comedic relief
Early seasons get the pass because they're awkward in general but later seasons get really bad with this, remembering "oh yeah we used to try and be funny sometimes" and then slaughtering an attempt at drama with it.
>Retarded worlbuilding
>Retarded magic system
>Tonal bait-and-switch (audience betrayal variety, not clever subversion)
>pandered
I've spent far too much time on this series. I've been watching since season 2 I believe. It's SHIT and there was never any other option. I might recommend the first two seasons, maybe, as a homework project for someone who wants to know about creative processes and common pitfalls. That's it.

Isn't it "Anime rip off" by westerners then actual anime?