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Thursday, September 30th, 2004
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10:27p
With the ending of september comes Japan's new fall line-up for anime on the terebi. Other than the awaited ones with much flash and knowledge [Bleach, Yakitate etc etc..] a few others are springing up that have the potential to be promising [although my movie player not liking most of the CMs refuses to play them with sound].
In no particular order:
Mind Game - The style on this just looks.. insane. I recall one anime before like this, but it was too incoherent and bizarre for my tastes. Like the title suggests the images are incredibly different from main stream anime, varying almost successivly from realistic to simplistic to warped perspective to 3D to cut-out animation. Looks worth checking out.
Gankutsuoh - This looks interesting. The designs and animation seem fluid, the characters seem appealing and intrigueing.. but in those elements also hold different ones. The colouring is bright and clashy, the characters move while the patterns on their clothes remain stationary [and -everyone- is wearing a pattern. No flat colours on clothes here~], but the backgrounds and props and landscapes are all very impressive. A strange combination of what looks like opera, elves, sword and.. robots?
Those are the main one's that seems appealing, actually. Then there's Kannduki, Gunbuster 2, Beet the Vandel Buster, Sunabouzu, Rozen Maiden and no doubt a few more I'm not aware of.
In none-anime I've been exposed to many a non-steam animated featuer films. Nocturna being the one I'm looking forward to the most. If the story progresses in a pleasing way, I think they'll be able to have a real hit with this animation. I strongly recommend viewing the trailer.
Others on the FilmAXhttp://www.filmaxanimation.com/ website are intrigueing, although I don't think they'll rise to any great height as they are now. In example, Donkey Xote... I could describe, but I'd rather just say that viewing the trailer you can feel the missing elements and lack of professionalism and revision in their composition, storyboarding and character developement. Gisaku has my intrigue, although the character sketches seem flat, the actual animation sketches feel very full of life. I'm hoping it'll pull through~
That's about it. I was thinking of subscribing to the Animation magazine because it's just chock-full of animation news and information that it'd be well worth it. I'll update if I hear anymore on the above titles or anything else in the animation fandom.
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