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When you have made your dream reality, the reality is just the reality you have to deal with... |
| I got fired up with the director at the end, glad to see him making progress. One step backwards, two steps forward! |
| I haven't laughed in a long time as much as I did when I saw the scene after the ED. :D |
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| I wish I could watch Exodus lmao last ep ending with horses and cowboys |
| The cowboy with 100 horses took the cake. Still, I feel sorry for Misa. Landing your dream job because of it's past achievements (the zoo animal thingy) only to find out that they'd changed their focus to animating cars, and then finding out that her sempais have all been doing cars for the past 5 years, must be pretty bad, especially if you have a dream you're striving for. I'm plenty glad that her boss was understanding of her situation and actually told her to think about what she has to do to achieve her goals, no hard feelings. For once I actually enjoyed watching the director manning up and doing his proper job for once. The mustache guy should really have been brought in a lot sooner. Locking himself up in that room was awesome. Props for once! Miyamori is working so hard that she hardly got any screen-time this episode. The pressure of working for that director must be building, considering they're only missing that last episode, of all things. Things aren't going well for Shizuka either. I'm hoping for a miracle where they actually used that first cut of hers in the show. She's been having a tough time with rejections and mistakes. I bet she's already traumatized with going to that studio by now. I too would love to watch Exodus in all it's glory, horses and all! |
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| They better show off part of the finale of "Exodus" in this show or I'm calling the cops. Haha It just got more and more ridiculous over time, but I would love to see it in action. It reminds me of the stories that I used to make back when I was a little kid. htsuji said: L-Ryoshi said: For once I actually enjoyed watching the director manning up and doing his proper job for once. The mustache guy should really have been brought in a lot sooner. Locking himself up in that room was awesome. Props for once! Maitake, the scenario writer with mustache, must be an excellent counselor who can make the director find the feelings of what he should have wanted to tell spontaneously. By the way, according to the official website of Shirobako, the first (not the last) episode of Exodus will be an OVA contained in the third volume of the BD/DVD as a bonus of the first-run limited edition on Feb. 25, 2015. http://shirobako-anime.com/bd_dvd.html (in Japanese) I didn't see this before I wrote my comment. I'm actually legitimately interested in seeing what Exodus is like. I think that it should be interesting. |
| lol poor oi-chan. 100 horses. gl |
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| Watching Shizuka's struggles really put a whole new perspective of the seiyuu job for me. I know it's an incredibly tough field, what with all those nasty stories and the low pay (for most) but all those background voices had to be done somehow and while it's something negligible for most anime viewers (let's be honest, who ever considered all those minor VAs doing one or two lines in an episode?), those one or two lines might be a big deal for the seiyuu who did it and also a reminder of how much to go the path they still have to take in order to become a high profile seiyuu. On the other hand, Misa's struggles I can relate since I work in the same field. If you're a modeller, it's inevitable that you'd be doing repetitive work. This is especially true for gaming companies. You know all those cars in Need for Speed? EA didn't make them, they are outsourced to companies from all over the world like the one Misa is working for and if you work for that kind of company, you can expect monotonous work like Misa and they will rarely, if ever, accept different kinds of jobs like animating or whatever else (I know cos some of my friends work for this type of company and personally I almost joined one but decided against it after looking at their portfolio). It's one of the reason why I hate modelling and specialize in animation and lighting, at least the work isn't monotonous. Misa simply joined the wrong company if she hopes to work on anime (should've joined something like Musani). |
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| Overall this was anothe really cute and strong episode :) |
came here solely to post this. Kishi Seiji went to Anime Realm to save MusAni |
| This show has so much thing to see and learn. The director is so passionate about his work which is also his downside. He is the kind of guy who would drag himself to hell unintentionally. |
 "A Legend is but a tale of a beautiful lie." |
| I preferred the aircraft carrier to be honest!! |
| "Perhaps there is a universal, absolute truth. Perhaps it justifies every question. But that's beyond the reach of these small hands." Mamoru Oshii There is a cult of ignorance (...) nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” Isaac Asimov |
| Damn I totally understand how he felt during his inspirational rant. and the OST only helped to make it so much more enjoyable. great episode |
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| Good episode, really that ending is pretty cliche, But you don't expect to have an anime within an anime better than other anime. A 50 person company dedicated to making cg cars, does something like that actually exist. |
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| I need to watch this show more often, it's really good! ヽ(ﾟДﾟ)ﾉ |
I almost never read discussions after I made my post, if you want to reply PM me or post on my profile page. |
| Ah, that was great and that story brainstorming was the top, really unique and dramatic way how to end this episode! But 100 horses? Really, director? :_D And somehow it seems all other girls are joining Mushashino on their next BIG project - they would be hiring a lot of people to get there. Now my only problem is Midori... cause, you know, you can't come and say "I'll write this." Most good scriptwriters had some prior work done and published before joining the industry and it's always "Start small, grow big" with texts. I know she reads a lot but if she doesn't have talent there is no way she makes her debut. |
Mich666Feb 11, 2015 12:34 PM
| Misa is struggling to reach her actual dream Ganbatte!! xD Aww dat last scene so epic (+ epic music) & heartwarming When the Exodus' characters appeared.. I was just awww xD Aoi's last expression.. Just like me I mean why? Why 100 horses? |
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| Although differs a bit by the argument so far addressed, or explore the world behind an anime, the concepts presented by the narrative still find my favor. Plot that still manages this time to pursue a glimpse of daily life in which they are represented well the difficulties that they live in a different way the protagonists. I enjoyed the reflections of Zuka and the head of Misa. As usual, the PA Works manages once again to pack a dress really good episode. |
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| lol their overall Director is pathetic and annoying but once his creative mind kept going he makes an interesting scenario storyboard |
| Nice development, let's see what happens next though! |
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| During that scenario writing meeting, I thought 'hey, this is actually a good ending!' up until the trapdoor. Suddenly, a hundred horses and a cowboy outta nowhere! |
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| Making CG tires for the rest of your life sounds pretty bad. She should just find another company to work for even if that means losing some of the perks she gets from her current company. |
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| Woah, so this is how some anime contain so much randomness and fail at the end. Glasslip must have directed by this guy. |
| that ending leveled up twice. first level up: when the cowboy appeared with his 100 horses second level up: when the horses grew wings with sonic engines i'd probably watch that. |
| R.I.P. hundred horses |
| Ohh, I felt sorry for the redhead, she was so exited about the walla thing and she gets treated like that. All her excitement went away. Life can be cruel with you sometimes. Very important, if you don't see yourself doing that thing you don't like doing, you better leave it and go find another path to follow. |
| I cant imagine the job to be the same repetitive process. The ending of director was very good until he mentioned 100 horses :/ *face palm* So many parodies in this episode XD 3/5 |
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| The hits keep coming what a thoroughly entertaining episode. I like how Mii-chan's advice from her boss to have a clear idea of what she wants to do mirrored the Director's breakthrough at the end. I also thought it was interesting how Mii-chan and the other two blissfully imagined their amateur anime brought to life against the night sky. And this was kind of mirrored by the Director feeling as though his work was speaking to him once he arrived on his finale. Really though his conclusion to the show was pretty inspired, and yet another triumph in presenting the creative process in an extremely entertaining way. I've said it before a major strength of this anime is how the fake anime they're making feels kind of good. And I don't know about anyone else but I found the Director's rant genuinely exciting and kind of thrilling. Even moreso since they took the time to animate it. I also laughed really hard at the cowboy saying "howdy" and Miyamori realizing after the fact how much trouble all those horses were going to be to animate. The dude who was helping him flesh his ideas out was so cool. "I was just playing catch." Ah I felt so bad for Zuka though! She was so cute when she was trying the different ways she might cheer the person on. And then she got shut down so embarrassingly. She's definitely the main character I'm most worried about right now, she just can't catch a break. |
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| -Yeah this show became a ton more bearable when I started looking up all the production terms instead of expecting the show to explain it to me -Turns out Walla is an actual word -I gotta say the detail they give to the throwaway characters is pretty impressive actually -Is everyone in the city on hallucinogens or something -Scene outside the restaurant with the Prius seemed really pointless -President at Misa's company seems to know the names of his employees at least -Director's great as always -Yeah pretty sure everyone is on some sort of hallucinogen -Director locks himself in the cell this time, which is a good step forward Didn't seem like much actually happened in this episode but I actually liked the Shizuka part |
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| Really good episode. I like how enthused the director is finally getting! |
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| Well that ending definitely sounds better than the carrier one, but the cowboy and horses really threw me off haha. I guess they had a cowboy arc sometime in the show? 😂 Seems like Misa will leave her company sometime in the future and pursue her dreams in anime. Could turn out to be a difficult road, but I hope everything works out 😊 |
| Cowboys and 100 horses in mahou shoujo anime, yup, sounds legit xD Also, I wanna watch YakiPuri~ <3 |
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| Gotta love the Director's enthusiasm, even if he's a pain to deal with. It pains me how awkward Shizuka first gig was, although everyone probably starts off like that. I can easily feel the weight of Misa's dilemma... |
| Well done, Shizuka! A debut is a debut, even if it's as the background audience in The Prince of Tennis Baseball. I thought her initial shout was pretty amusing/would definitely amuse me if it were in the actual anime, so I dunno why they made her rerecord it. The director is mildly delusional...that's probably he's directing moe anime, though. I love him. |
| "No, son, you may not have your body pillow at the dinner table!" |
| The director finally became less of a dead weight than Taro Though I liked the aircraft carrier idea better And they want to give this guy another anime smh Clint Eastwood and 20 inch rims on a Prius lol |
| CG effect really hardworks. |
| Having to do the same stuff every day can indeed be tiring, doesn't seem like there's a future for her in that company. The director's story ending sounded pretty well until he included the cowboy and the horses, then it went south. |
| The Director was on some good crack when coming up with the ideas at the end, especially with the horses. But he is inspired and determined at least, I have to say, and him locking himself in a cell (still don't know why they fucking have a cell there in the first place) to work on projecting those ideas onto paper as storyboards. Misa's job while getting the pay and rewards to be fair, does sound like the worst kind of job for someone who wants to genuinely do creativity-related jobs in the future. By just 3D drawing wheels or cars for a long time when your real goal is to do all kinds of 3D animation that would work in anime, it kills your vision and creativity by having a really stagnant effect on her where she feels too locked up in a cell with her uninspiration. At least, she went to confront the President about her ambitions and frustrations with the job she has right now, any real human who cares for stuff other than the money and benefits involved or who are not exclusively interested in cars only, would be sick to death of a job like that. |
| There's just so much to unpack in this episode. Midori, while still in college, wants to become a professional writer. Despite that, she feels she hasn't even started yet, and is seemingly falling behind everyone else who've already taken their first steps into the anime industry. Misa feels cursed with nonstop tedious work. Her CG company, which, despite being relatively new, is pigeonheld as being the go-to for car modeling, and therefore gets nothing but car-related projects. While she's guaranteed a job with benefits, it's soul-crushing and monotonous. Shizuka, on the other hand, has no guaranteed work as a VA. She maintains her dream by how well she can audition within a highly competitive field. However, as a new VA, she is nowhere near the level of living purely off of VA work, and thus has to work at a restaurant to make a living. Ema struggles to improve her drawing skills, pressured to work fast, efficiently, and still deliver high quality work. I've heard and seen many tales of an artist being their own worst critic, and it's made worse by her already self-critical personality. She's an integral part of the animation studio, and her mistakes can cause others headaches down the line. Aoi, as a production assistant, can't actually create anything like her friends can. However, she's tasked with keeping everyone else in line and on schedule. Her life revolves around managing people, keeping track of materials, and ensuring that production is on schedule at all times. Because of this, she hasn't really had time to manage herself. She can't imagine what her future looks like, as she has no dreams for what she actually wants for herself. All the main characters have their own challenges to face, and individually, each one of them would make for a fascinating short story. Together, it really shows the multitude of challenges young talents are facing in the anime industry. Does the industry really have to be like this? Is there something that can be done to assist and alleviate the strain these companies go through? That aside, Exodus is an interesting beast. I'm reminded of certain passion projects that, while serve as creative playgrounds for their writers/directors, are also subject to directionless scrambling as they don't have source material to pull from. From what I understand, it takes a lot of resources to create an original anime, and smaller studios can't afford a failed project. Such anime become not just a financial failure, but a personal failure. I can't even begin to imagine how crushing that must feel, so don't envy Seiichi's position in the slightest. |
| Tires, horses, tires, horses... |
| "The future is always blank. Only your willpower can leave footsteps there." "Ruling over death means ruling over life. Death is the climax of life. To have the best death, you must honor life." |
| I kinda feel like someone at MAPPA must've seen the last minutes of this episode and made it happen with the Zombieland Saga S2. |
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