Vladz0r said:_Kanon_ said:
No, KyoAni would not have done it better, it would have looked absolutely terrible if KyoAni had did it.
I know what you're thinking, but I'm not talking about animation quality, I'm talking about artstyle, that absolutely disgusting artstyle KyoAni has had since K-on.
The faces don't fit and the colours do not belong even close to LB!
If KyoAni did it, it would barely resemble Little Busters from day 1.
Even if KyoAni could do better, it would come at the cost of looking god damn horrible, I will not accept 'we were right that KyoAni would have done better' when JC gave a basically perfect episode here that looked like Little God damn Busters. The bright simple style used is perfect for Little Busters, KyoAni would not use this, I am totally confident in that statement.
Yes the first season was bad, the first season was absolutely bad, I wrote an entire blog post on why and where it fucked up. But you've got to be actively looking for flaws to say Refrain has been handled badly(wouldn't surprise me, in my experience KyoAnifags are the kind of people who would do that). At absolute worst, it's been a few nitpicky things that are mostly due to time constraints, something even your precious KyoAni would have to deal with.
And for one last remark, might I remind you that KyoAni REJECTED Little Busters? Frankly they don't deserve to make this masterpiece if they're going to be like that.
This was fantastic, the most powerful moment in the VN was enhanced, I won't let it be insulted to give that undeserving company praise.
Clearly, this guy doesn't understand that KyoAni has different teams of character designers used for different works. I don't know what makes you think they would adapt Key VN designs to anime the same way they've adapted K-on designs.
Anyway, KyoAni didn't "reject" Little Busters. They have a 1 project at a time rule, and they were booked with several other anime ahead of Little Busters. KyoAni gave Key the option of waiting, and Key turned down that option and accepted an offer from JC Staff, thinking that this studio could exceed the quality of the original source material.
So, what did JC Staff do badly that I think KyoAni could've handled?
Let's see what else they did off the top of my head.
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Kurugaya- no diary opening to show her struggle to maintain her memories, her time loop was made into a "wish" to stay friends with the Little Busters forever, romance was heavily toned down, no Love-Love Hunters with the bros asking out the girls. Kurugaya actually shipped Rin in her own route, and warned Riki to protect her. The fireworks had added friendship with all the other girls watching them. Rin teared up at the fireworks, showing her feelings for Riki, ruining the mood and creating a needless love triangle-esque tension for this route.
In Rin's route, they got rid of Kyousuke replacing Rin as the pitcher and playing the games each day as Rin was at the sister school, which built up the tension. The tour guide part was also a montage and they got rid of all of Masato's great comedy like the "private time with Kengo" joke with Sasami. They "forgot" to include Kengo's warning about what would happen if Riki runs away, "Only despair will wait".
In Masato's arc, they didn't include him reaching out to Rin going "finally, someone that isn't me!" from his perspective. He also looked like a retarded drunken zombie and it wasn't serious at all.
They didn't use the same songs (Little Melody) for Masato's or Kengo's arcs-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA5cJKmE7Aw
They changed it to Song for Friends-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EmhlYh-bLU
They got rid of LAAAWREEEENCE in Kengo's arc.
Oh, and in Kyousuke's arc, they show him actually crawling in the real world and positioning himself at the bus to block the gas leaking.
JC Staff masterpiece, "No changes to the story."
The perspective shifts were done as third-person flashbacks of material from earlier on in the anime, so they were barely actual perspective shifts due to the low budget.
Episode 7, the start of Refrain, was one of the worst looking ones in the season.
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The way they mishandled Masato's character is terrible, and they kept it up right up through the farewells. They turned him into a punching bag, and nothing more.
KyoAni at least has experience with Key and wouldn't try to fuck up the story impact that Maeda wanted to deliver like JC Staff has. Warner Bros' budget combined with JC Staff's incompetence just leads to blatantly WRONG decisions about how to go about the series.
Your claims about them using a K-on art style for Little Busters are about as fucking retarded as the idea that they were going to make Clannad look like Lucky Star, because that show aired before Clannad was announced.
Anyway, it's speculation of a low budget studio with its worst director and few too many episodes, vs. speculation of a studio who has lived up to Key's source material previously, and has actual talent available to deliver the impact of the original work.
This anime was made for VN players anyway, so I pity those who didn't like it, but liked Key's other anime adaptations, and didn't get a chance to play the VN before JC Staff did... whatever they hell they did to this show they're claiming to be "Little Busters".
Some of these things might still take place in the next two episodes ya' know.
Potential spoilers, just saying.
I do think JC Staff did a great job considering I haven't played the VN yet so I can't really tell when something got changed. KyoAni probably would have done better though, looking back at the past Key adaptations they've done that I loved so much.