Karl wrote:Rightey wrote:Also, has anyone else seen the trailer for this new Crunchy Roll show?
How do you seemingly get it so wrong. Imagine being there in the meeting when they came up with this.
"So who is our target audience"
"Hmm... Seems like it's 100% people who like anime"
"Hmmmmm.... Well based on that, seems like the logical thing to do is make a show that isn't an anime at all."
I think it looks cool, and I'll definitely give it a watch, but I agree it's not an anime (it's not even an """anime""" like
RWBY). It's firmly in the western illustration & animation tradition, though the anime-influenced branch that contains things like
Steven Universe. In fact it reminds me a bit of Mary Cagle's
Sleepless Domain webcomic.
I honestly don't think the trailer gave us enough info for me to decide if it actually looked good or not. All we really know is 4 girls attending a magical school. The visuals look bright and cheery, but personally I'm just not a fan of the whole noodly armed very simple character designs. I'd say they remind me more of Adventure Time, which while I liked the story of, overall I disliked just because of how jarring the combination of dark plot and super cutsy art style is.
Pedz wrote:Watched Toradora and liked it, but I dunno reading about the light novels it seems that Taiga seemed to change more, or it shows the changes better than the anime.
Toradora was a great show, a pretty good mix of comedy and plot developments. Familiar of Zero is similar in that the main characters are basically copies of each other right down to the voice actor, but is set in a fantasy setting, while being a bit lighter on plot.
Also, I just finished re: Zero, overall pretty good. Probably the strongest story line of any of these transported to another world shows I've seen so far, it did a good job with pacing, but man I can imagine it would have been annoying watching it as it aired always waiting for that next episode. Also I never understood why people liked Rem so much until she gives that speech about how she imagines her life.