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| This was probably the most funnest 24 minutes of my life! Would really love to see anime pump out with this quality of production. I will now have Trigger under my radar :3 |
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| The anime Harry Potter. |
bla bla bla The endless debate between fans and haters. At one point, after spending a lot of time on MAL, you just realize it's totally pointless.Niko-kun said: On MAL, everyone who has used the lame rating system becomes a critic and an intellectual by default, haven't you heard? |
Fui said: I don't think I missed it. I just think that the message is not conveyed effectively given how Akko looks "suddenly powered up" because she seemed to be able to master that powerful magic so quickly on the fly.Akko wasn't really "suddenly powered up." I think you missed the director's message. Fui said: Well, the question is how she got to the point of being dismissed and ridiculed - we have to assume that the monster she destroyed at the beginning of the anime was not a real one, but somehow her magic was actually real and powerful. Why couldn't she prove that? So there is a gap of what had happened. I know the reason (which is what you said, tricks/illusion) which are all stated in the anime, but how she got to fall so low, being dismissed by almost every students in the magic school Akko met, is not really clarified.Shiny Chariot had a bad reputation because she used magic as a means to perform entertainment. Tricks/illusion, not "real" practical magic to be used by wizards. However, Akko dispels that belief in the end. |
| So MAL finally starts locking news threads that are only a few weeks old? I wonder where was the announcement of this change? Or we are seeing yet another case of changes made that impacted users but not communicated to them? I wonder how long people would put up with this. As much as I have a bunch of information to share about anime announced recently I cannot share it in news board, and the anime series is too disorganized and chaotic to share information except with people already interested in the particular series. |
| Seems to be Chariot's magic is able to reconvert magical energy to fireworks. At least that's how Akko released all the magical energy powering up the dragon... |
bla bla bla The endless debate between fans and haters. At one point, after spending a lot of time on MAL, you just realize it's totally pointless.Niko-kun said: On MAL, everyone who has used the lame rating system becomes a critic and an intellectual by default, haven't you heard? |
symbv said: Fui said: I don't think I missed it. I just think that the message is not conveyed effectively given how Akko looks "suddenly powered up" because she seemed to be able to master that powerful magic so quickly on the fly.Akko wasn't really "suddenly powered up." I think you missed the director's message. Fui said: Well, the question is how she got to the point of being dismissed and ridiculed - we have to assume that the monster she destroyed at the beginning of the anime was not a real one, but somehow her magic was actually real and powerful. Why couldn't she prove that? So there is a gap of what had happened. I know the reason (which is what you said, tricks/illusion) which are all stated in the anime, but how she got to fall so low, being dismissed by almost every students in the magic school Akko met, is not really clarified.Shiny Chariot had a bad reputation because she used magic as a means to perform entertainment. Tricks/illusion, not "real" practical magic to be used by wizards. However, Akko dispels that belief in the end. You're still concerned with trivial technicalities while missing the big message. How does wanting/trying to be like Shiny Chariot your entire life = suddenly powered up? Are you undermining her entire life's worth of ambition? Do you need like 20 training arcs to be convinced that she wants to be like the Shiny Chariot, despite it having verbally explained throughout as a major theme that that's all she's thought about her whole life? You also seem to have missed the whole point behind the Shiny Chariot. Do you think that she even cares about reputation or power? Do you think her value as Shiny Chariot was limited to entertainment and cheap tricks (like everyone else in the show did)? Think about what she was able to do that everyone in the school seems to have overlooked and forgotten (like Diana - yes, she is in the crowd in the beginning). I don't like explaining this because it's really meaningless; if you didn't get them they're not for you. |
huntx said: Ton times better than Arve Rezzle: Kikaijikake no Yoseitachi. THIS. (And what a waste that Arve Rezzle was, eh) This was absolutely adorable! Maybe it can't leave a impression as strong as Death Billiards left (since the plot and characters were, in all honesty, very cliched), but the intent here was simulate that old and cartoonish feeling with a lot of energy in a short time. Guess what? Trigger succeded in a splendid way. Watched two times already, and I'll try to convince my mother to watch with me sometime. I guess it's the kind of silly-and-funny animation that can bring her some nostalgia. 9/10 |
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Trisection said: This was done by actual professionals though. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=14940 Anime Mirai seems more like a program that allows animators to work with an above average budget and decent working conditions/production schedule rather than actual training for new animators. That being said, it's still the best looking Anime Mirai but isn't as far ahead Wasurenagumo and Kizuna Ichigeki as I expected it would be. Before I checked your link, I was ready to give this a 10/10, due to the degree of difficulty of something that looks so professional being done by amateurs. But, after seeing the resumes of the production staff, I thought about the need to take off a point or two. Still, I LOVE (I know...strong word) everything about this episode, though!! The art, story pacing and characters were VERY well done! So, even though it wasn't done by "amateurs", the degree of difficulty to pull something off so well rounded in a half hour show is high enough to give it a 9/10. Or, in the memory of Siskel and Ebert: TWO THUMBS UP!!! (BTW.....I want a full length series, TOO!!!) |
FifthAveSenseiApr 6, 2013 4:07 PM
| Too Much ANIME......Not enough LIFETIME!!!!!! |
| Got some serious, nostalgia watching this. Enjoyed it a lot 8/10. |
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Yukariki said: It was just amazing. Everything is animated. Everything. Goddamn everything. I think I am in love with the Yoshinari brothers. They're way too damn talented for this world. This anime better have a good MAL rating or else~ Faded_Illusion said: Also for some reason i suspect the teacher of theirs to have been Shiny Chariot. Cratex said: You just watched somebody put something in a huge minotaur's mouth that melted him AND a 20 foot wide hole in the floor and what do you do? Of course, you jump down the hole to see where it goes. Where do I sign up? Stark700 said: This episode here deserves a full anime series No joke. ^ What they said. |
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symbv said: Shiny Chariot got such a bad reputation is not really clarified. the teacher/Shinny Chariot said when she saw Akko showing her the rod "the seven stars? I thought they had lost their twinkle for good" To me that hints at the rod having stopped working for her at some point , if so I'm sure it must have hurt her reputation a whole lot.It was reactivated by Akko,seems to me this is more of a "item chooses its wielder" kind of deal and Akko didn't need to really train to use the rod once it had chosen her. |
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| This OVA was really MAGICAL, GET IT?! GET IT?!!! Anyway, bad joke aside it was really enjoyable, the animation was perfect, story was great, and even though it was only a 26 minute episode it was a total success. If Trigger decides to end up doing an anime series, I'll definitely be watching it, and I'm really lookin' forward to that. PLEASE TRIGGER, DO IT, THE ANIME WILL BE A SUCCESS, YOU'L SEE! |
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| Wow, amazing for 26 minutes. Trigger did a great job :) |
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| This was so freakin' cool. I didn't expect to get what I came to watch. I just wanted to burn some time and ended up loving this. This is the kind of stuff that inspires me to want to learn how to draw and animate. |
Kurini said: THAT WAS AWESOME! The animation was very very fluid, the drawing are cute, and good backgorund sound effect/music! I was not bored not even a second! Trigger, I'm going to keep an eye on it! :) bippo said: I hope TRIGGER does a full series of this. I 've been waiting for this to be for sub and download. Finally got to watch it. LOVE It. And totally agree, I really do hope they make a series of this. It's super amazing. And the characters are all really cool. |
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| That was the best thing I've seen all year. |
| I only know that I want moar of this. |
Fui said: I got the main message but I think it can be better delivered. All those "trivial technicalities" are where it makes its delivery not as effective as it should be. Akko may want to be like Shiny Chariot all her life, but we never see her practice to be like her. So her suddenly being able to chant exactly the type of magic Shiny Chariot could do looks just like "sudden power-up". It is as if as long as you have enough faith and has the same tool used by Chariot, everything will fall in place and she can just get the magic work straight away. How could just a life of ambition be enough to become Chariot herself without we seeing what she did besides harboring the ambition? We may not need 20 training arcs, but the point is we don't get to see even one of her training using Chariot technique. You're still concerned with trivial technicalities while missing the big message. How does wanting/trying to be like Shiny Chariot your entire life = suddenly powered up? Are you undermining her entire life's worth of ambition? Do you need like 20 training arcs to be convinced that she wants to be like the Shiny Chariot, despite it having verbally explained throughout as a major theme that that's all she's thought about her whole life? Fui said: She may not care about reputation or power, but she does not seem to be a type who likes to piss people off. So what happened in the past that got most of the wizard/witch world to despise her so much? Just demonstrating entertaining magic to little kids should not get her to that position, and I am sure she is definitely not limited to entertainment, so what happened?You also seem to have missed the whole point behind the Shiny Chariot. Do you think that she even cares about reputation or power? Do you think her value as Shiny Chariot was limited to entertainment and cheap tricks (like everyone else in the show did)? Think about what she was able to do that everyone in the school seems to have overlooked and forgotten (like Diana - yes, she is in the crowd in the beginning). totoum said: Now that's some explanation that is convincing. Thanks totoum. symbv said: Shiny Chariot got such a bad reputation is not really clarified. the teacher/Shinny Chariot said when she saw Akko showing her the rod "the seven stars? I thought they had lost their twinkle for good" To me that hints at the rod having stopped working for her at some point , if so I'm sure it must have hurt her reputation a whole lot.It was reactivated by Akko,seems to me this is more of a "item chooses its wielder" kind of deal and Akko didn't need to really train to use the rod once it had chosen her. |
| So MAL finally starts locking news threads that are only a few weeks old? I wonder where was the announcement of this change? Or we are seeing yet another case of changes made that impacted users but not communicated to them? I wonder how long people would put up with this. As much as I have a bunch of information to share about anime announced recently I cannot share it in news board, and the anime series is too disorganized and chaotic to share information except with people already interested in the particular series. |
| That... was beautiful! *.* |
| The world is the illusion of the real world. |
| Great, fluid animation, with nice western influence. Man. I'd love to see more of this. The teacher being Shiny Chariot was awesome! |
| Very impressive to say the least. Would totally watch a series of this. |
| "Yes, I have been deprived of emotion. But not completely. Whoever did it, botched the job." - Geralt of Rivia |
| I hope there's more of it |
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| this is what anime could be if it did not pander to otaku and has fanservice/cliches/all that crap. |
| Will they make a series from this? Death Billiards was also really good ... it would be a shame if they didn't <.< |
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| Godly animation. |
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Mika_Inamori said: this is what anime could be if it did not pander to otaku and has fanservice/cliches/all that crap. I know, right? I think Trigger did an excellent job in choosing this premise (whether it was intentional or not), because the initial, general thought would be "OMG, LOLIS!" when in fact, it's really not. It actually has something to it, in addition to style. Could be just wishful thinking, but I hope this indirectly gets the message across to animators everywhere, with the message more or less being: "You pride yourself an animator? Stop catering to the lowest common denominator." |
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| I really hope this gets a series or movies or something. It really deserves it. |
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| splendid animation. |
| http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBlqxEIJ_Cg On official Studio Trigger youtube channel with subs! Support it! Edit: They had to reupload the video! Fixed! |
HybridMBLApr 19, 2013 3:12 PM
| You can see a tad too clearly what the influences of the studio. It was not bad by any means, but sadly ripping off doesn't earn many points in my book, even when done well. At least it was pretty, although really little else. |
| Nice and simple story it seems to have much influence from western storytelling and jokes. The animation style is what I expected from this director; very exaggerated and funny. It's a plus in my book and I like Sucy and Lotte, such nice little witches ^^ |
| I would watch the shit out of a full series. |
| That was seriously great in all aspects for a one off. |
| Okay, this was a really pleasant surprise, I had little to no expectations and now here I am, with the only negative thing I can say about it is its short length. The comedy was well done, I loved every character, the visuals were aesthetically pleasing. Great job! Solid 8/10. Would watch the hell out of a 26 episodes long series. Sucy is best witch of course. |
| I want 2 hours movie version and more. |
| 7/10 it was good and did it hint at the professor being Shining Chariot? |
"What has two arms, two legs, and is alive? Not your favorite character lol! xD" |
| Wow this anime was freaking beautiful. I mean it was like watching a Ghibli film except with it's own little flavor. Hard to believe it was just 26 minutes. Trigger should totally do a movie or even a TV series. I'm not a fan of Inferno Cop but this little 1 shot has made me a believer. |
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| It was pretty enjoyable; wish it had been longer or maybe a series may be in the works, though I doubt it. The animation had a very Ghibli-esque feel to me, too. It was clean, crisp and very-well animated. I feel like watching it again. |
| Full season fucking where? Such a nice little show, and such a shame it was only one episode :/ It's amazing how much it drawn me in in a short time like this. The story and the characters weren't anything spectacular, but it was more than enough to make me want to see more with this setting. Akko was my favorite of the bunch, her seiyuu also did a very good job. I also liked Suushy's quirkiness. Of course the anime also had its cliché moments, but which anime doesn't? The art was of course great, I really liked the style. The best thing about this was that it gave me many different feels. It reminded me of Harry Potter (and I love HP), Disney style movies and Ghibli movies. Definitely worth an 8/10 and I'll surely rewatch this again later. I hope they make a series out of it, though I doubt it :( Frontalbrise said: I watched back when Akko realised that she was also a fan out of curiosity, I was really surprised :D And she was even highlighted with color just like Akko. This was a pretty good little easter egg :D1idd0kun said: I thought the same thing about her after I watched the OVA :) |
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| Damn. Surprisingly good for a little OVAnime. Sucy for best character. Glad they were tasteful and didn't have fucking panty shots in there. Love the animation style as well. I wouldn't mind a full cour or two of this. |
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| Finally got around to watching this. It was okay, but it felt way too much like a Saturday morning Disney cartoon. Nothing about it really caught my interest and I found myself hoping it would hurry and finish towards the end. |
| This would be great as a full series, I really liked the art style and the animation was superb! The concept and characters were pretty funny and it had a quite nice setting! Love to see more of Trigger soon! |
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| Pretty western approach on animation and storytelling but I like it. Nice fairytale that has everything it needs to have! :) |
| Great anime ..hope they make it as TV series :) I liked all the character but my favorite is Sucy :) |
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| Main characters is so good. Nerdy team adventures in fantasy world. After Slayers there is not a lot of good fantasy adventures (excluding mmorpg speculation). Do want series so badly. |
Found this online and I dunno when it happened but i loved this pic  Its soooo cute seeing them both taking a pic together <3 |
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