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| Animation style is horrible !!! It looks like a game :( Story...hmmm...nothing special...It's horrible too ><"" maybe dropped... |
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| Juz wanna follow the story~~ I bet Piao was picked because he looked the same as the king guy |
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| The posturing at the beginning made me groan and almost hit the stop button but after that it got pretty good. Some of the CG was crappy but I don't watch anime for neat effects. As long as the character designs are somewhat nice and the story continues to be good, I will keep watching. It's a TAD unrealistic so far with those two kids being so much more over-powered than everyone else but maybe their foes have all been pussies up to now. So far, it beats the crap out of Zetman which was also Shonen and the First spring anime to grace my dropped list. Interesting twist at the very last. So the general mostly wanted the kid for a body double for the king? (That HAS to be who that is!) |
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| This was bad. 38 episodes for a very shoddy CG animation. You're kidding? At least the historical story will be well done. 38 episodes for a generic shounen that loosely ties in to history with very shoddy CG animation. You're kidding? Surely this could be marketed to children and young adults given the immaturity of the dialogue. Rating: R - 17+ (violence & profanity) |
RexkyJun 12, 2012 6:37 PM
| Compared to many good novels about Chinese war and heroes (who are usually not generals or government officials), this one feels like shounen work for middle school or below. People of high school ages or above will find many flaws or somehow don't agree. That said, it got 26 volumes and on-going, there may be a chance of improvement later to allow it to drag that long. |
| Although I didn't expect the first episode to be nearly an hour long it was good.As for the animation which seems to be dominating the posts,I found that it didn't bother me at all.Nice to see some variety. |
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| Obviously it isn't some historic realistic story and it a shounen but still the story seemed quite intriguing and not as childish as other shounen. The CG was indeed horrible. And although the style of the artwork is good the CG stuff kind of ruins it. As others said i hope the Japanese cut that shit out. It ain't good and they should realize that. Don't know how much money they save by doing that shit but it ain't worth it. If they don't save money compare to 2D then is even worse and completely incomprehensible. |
| I don't like the animation but am still going to continue to watch this because I really like the story. Man what a first episode his best friend dying I didn't expect at all. Since it's only the first episode, I didn't really have that much invested in the characters so far but it still made me sad! Though I do know that I hate that little bastard prince with the large forehead and the guy with the the back-neck fat...lol |
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The animation is indeed so horrible. But the story is quite good that makes it still bearable.. Lol, I even have to ask my sister to take a quick look at some few parts because I was wondering that there could be something wrong with the player or if maybe i am just sleepy.. so it is really with the animation! Haha. Anyway, storyline is quite interesting so still looking forward :) |
Nasty001 said: KiraYoshikage said: who sub it? Edit: This is not in Japan, the story is in old China. The studio of this anime still uses a Japanese element into this anime. Like what? |
| Well,this was pretty good in most departments except for the animation department when they were using CG models.When it was 2D,it was fairly good. Why when using CG in anime,do studios not hire a video game company to do the animation?If it weren't for this bad CG,more people would like it.I seen better Cg animation on American cartoons & those things are made for kids!And the 3D One Piece movie looked better than this. |
| My Devianart Oh & Space Brothers is still the best anime ever,in my opinion.Even when competing with Attack on Titan. |
Yumekichi11 said: doruk_kara said: Unless that changes or there is less of it. Who knows the development exactly at this point.I doubt it'll be more realistic than the manga. Not with the voice actor of Ichigo shouting around xD I've read some comments in various places that said this was one of the better shows of the season, so I thought I'd take a look. Not impressed with the initial episode. The shouting of lines wore me out completely, especially by Shin. Around the 32 minute mark, I had to pause the show and go take a break. It wasn't as bad afterward but it wasn't good. Weird animation. Not attractive. Someone above used the expression 'fake Disney'. That's sort of what I thought as well — more cheap Disney though. In the scene in the market, around the 21 minute mark, the characters freeze when they aren't speaking, sometimes in weird poses. Very strange to watch. And Shin wears too much mascara. Then there's the whole concept of the evil brat. After Medaka Box and Accel World, I'm not sure if I can handle another evil brat, especially for such a long series. I was thinking of watching another episode to see if it got better but I feel completely worn out from this double length one. Too much melodrama, too many scenes that went on too long, too much shouting and yelling. I could cope with the visual ugliness but not sure if I can deal with the rest. |
| The CG was off putting at first but as the episode went on either it toned down or I got used to it. Either way, it reminded me of the Berserk movie and I didn't have a problem with it back then either. The story itself was pretty good too so I'll definitely keep watching. |
| Mm, I finally started watching this today. Some quick thoughts: - Decent OST (at least it fits with the series so far) - Nice premise - The fighting scenes are okay I guess, seems a bit forced though.. - Zheng looks like a chick - Lame CG - Shinn reminds me of Eren for some reason.. - Very decent OST actually now Lol, I think I wrote a comment about passing this up awhile ago but glad I came back to watch this show now~ |
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| It gets better. The first arc is a little bleh in my opinion. But from then on it feels more and more epic. The CG is bad now, but it gets better as the the show progresses. Or maybe my eyes got use to it and it didn't feel god awful anymore. |
Rastamepas said: It gets better. The first arc is a little bleh in my opinion. But from then on it feels more and more epic. The CG is bad now, but it gets better as the the show progresses. Or maybe my eyes got use to it and it didn't feel god awful anymore. How many arcs are there from this series? |
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| The story seems to be great. It's not rational to think so after watching the first episode of a series, but it seems it will be interesting after seeing the drama and the promise. The music was great. The voice acting.. whoo, I'd have preffered if the seiyuu responsible for voicing Kurosaki Ichigo wouldn't be the main hero in here. This is a kid and the voice ought to be more immature. I don't like the animation. Prefer it more.. vintage :p |
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| Must... not... lose... to the... CGI... My eyes hurt! In the meantime, I'll put this on my on-hold list. Will watch this sometimes later when my eyes recovered enough. |
| The first episode was great. I had to get used to the facial animation at first, but it worked out. Overal I'm waiting for something really plot-twisting to happen. Like something giving a meaning to the plot. |
| Kuroookoooooo-chin! |
| CGI was questionable at first, but got used to it fast... talking about first EP though.... looks like I'm in for a long haul.... dat voice acting was top top notch... damn.. |
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| Didn't like the CGI, but I got used to it quickly due to the freaking QUALITY of this episode! Great start, I didn't even realize it was 50 minutes until 3/4 in. xD |
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| Excellent, It almost had me a bit teary eyed. |
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| well that was kindof epic, i can see myself really liking this |
| Wow, this animation style is really hard to deal with 3d animation doesn't look good unless it's high budget/quality; flaws are much easier to notice because the movement and animations are sharp and jarring |
notsomacho said: Wow, this animation style is really hard to deal with . 3d animation doesn't look good unless it's high budget/quality; flaws are much easier to notice because the movement and animations are sharp and jarring Yeah I could barely take some of the scenes in this anime seriously, when the characters were moving so unnatural like robots.I really hope they go back to 2d after this.It's so painful to watch and I really want to watch this cuz it seems to have promise. |
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notsomacho said: Wow, this animation style is really hard to deal with . 3d animation doesn't look good unless it's high budget/quality; flaws are much easier to notice because the movement and animations are sharp and jarring Yeah I could barely take some of the scenes in this anime seriously, when the characters were moving so unnatural like robots.I really hope they go back to 2d after this.It's so painful to watch and I really want to watch this cuz it seems to have promise. :/ |
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notsomacho said: Wow, this animation style is really hard to deal with . 3d animation doesn't look good unless it's high budget/quality; flaws are much easier to notice because the movement and animations are sharp and jarring Yeah I could barely take some of the scenes in this anime seriously, when the characters were moving so unnatural like robots.I really hope they go back to 2d after this.It's so painful to watch and I really want to watch this cuz it seems to have promise. :/ |
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| Not a big fan of the 3d but it's definitely watchable. Seems pretty good so far. That ending though! |
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| Story is okay but the CGI is absolutely horrible. can't believe why so many anime has them when the 2d counter part is clearly better. wish they correct these kind of mistakes. |
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| The animation here looks like in 3d animeish game. Its interesting attempt, but it hurts my eyes. Its too primitive. In another 10 years maybe theyll have tech to utilize cgi in really good way. Also, the voice actors are fucking bad. They dont match characters at all. Teen boy sounds like 40 years old gee-gee... |
NeutroNShivA said: The animation here looks like in 3d animeish game. Its interesting attempt, but it hurts my eyes. Its too primitive. In another 10 years maybe theyll have tech to utilize cgi in really good way. Also, the voice actors are fucking bad. They dont match characters at all. Teen boy sounds like 40 years old gee-gee... Better read the manga, if the animation bothers you so much. The story is really worth it. The voice acting is quite good, though. Or at least the actor fits Shin perfectly in the second season, since he grows up until then. |
| I was hesitant to watch this for awhile because people said the animation was godawful. That first scene made me wanna vomit. I almost quit right there after I saw the characters' ugly CG faces. By the end of the episode, I got used to the CG...kinda. I heard the animation gets better later so there's another thing I have to look forward to. Damn they killed off the pretty boy on the first episode. That's disheartening. I hope Xin can carry this show on his shoulders. I wonder who that was at the end? There's no way that's Piao or I'm dropping it. This anime definitely has potential. I find it a little hard to take the story seriously with the shitty animation but I can see this getting better. Bad start. This episode for the most part, was a chore to watch. I'm glad the next few episodes aren't 50 minutes long too or I wouldn't have touched this anime with a 10-foot pole. 4/10 |
| This was good. I just love the historical China setting and the OST is incredible, definitely will make it into my top 10 OSTs. Sure the CG is annoying but I think I can get used to it. Chinese names being read completely different in Japanese makes some confusion but overall I'm looking forward to watching more of this. |
| Somehow, I knew Piao would die in the first episode. Not too many anime have 50 minute first episodes, which is unfortunate. I think more anime should go this route, it's sets up the world, characters and plot way better than a standard 22-24 minute first episode. Not to mention it avoids horrid pacing issues in the first episode which A LOT of anime suffer from. This anime probably has the worst CGI I've ever seen but in some parts the art/animation got a lot better. I think they're going to use a mix of hand drawn and CGI every episode because the budget for the first season is really low. The 2nd season looks way better. Now that I've gotten all that out of the way, the anime is actually quite interesting. I love the setting and I'm looking forward to seeing what else comes of this. |
| What's up with shit 3d. |
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| Thankfully this show isn't done completely in 3D, that was one of the main things that stopped me from watching this one earlier. |
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| Ok first I was ticked of from the animation but the story itself is very ell built |
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| The animation makes me wanna cry... |
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| Dam the CG is just as shit as I remember it. Tried to give this anime a go a few months ago but dropped it a few seconds after watching that choppy nightmare of a start. Since the setting interests me and the show has pretty good ratings I've decided to give it another go. It's a shame since the art style isn't bad which is apparent in the few moments where the animation is just 2D. Also found it hilarious that they didn't use CG for Piao's death scene and the fight at the village since it shows that they know it looks bad xD Now that I got that out of my system, it seems like Piao was just acting as a double for whom I assume is the king's older brother. Guess that explains why the guy only wanted to free Piao. |
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| 35mins in I realize it's a 50min episode lol. i don't see anything wrong with this except for the CGI |
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| Ichig- I mean Xin seems a pretty cool & strong character xD So the setting is a fiction china? Like three kingdoms (shu, wu, wei) except this one didn't really happen in real life? The CG animation is pretty horrible.. but that's not I'm here for, I'm here for the story Except if it's Berserk, Berserk without beautiful art is just not Berserk xD This I kinda like it! Looking forward for Lelouch & Ichigo's adventure! xD |
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| They would have done all the 2D anime. it seems that they spent so much on the animation that they did not have a budget to buy the bags of fake blood hahahaha. I was wondering why the chapter was getting long, and it was because it lasted 50 minutes hahaha ...  Right now there is an anime in broadcast with a CGI animation (HOUSEKI NO KUNI), if it were not for that I'm liking that anime gem (literal haha), I would not have given this anime a chance. |
| The question isn't "What anime do you like?" That is merely a list. The question is "Why do you like it?" That tells a story. Your story. |
| it's times like these that i wonder why anime with a good plot, story and setting do not receive better animation as some shit anime do. nothing prepared me for that when i started watching, but it isn't the first time. i like how they switch the animation during certain, important scenes. those scenes deserve it. i was a bit mad and confused, my ship died at a record breaking half of an episode and i was like "it can't be, they have to come back." however, based off of other anime i watched, i threw away that bit of hope and thought for sure piao was dead. nope! someHOW he had two bodies. that is some strange mojo that they must explain. the little child/man/woman/whoknows with that costume in heibei village on is interesting, kinda wished he ran after xin or something as his new companion. i'm surprised i stuck throughout the whole episode, didn't even realize that i had already passed the 30 minute benchmark until the video paused on me from buffering. that means it was *thumbs up*. can't even watch a regular length episode sometimes lol. i once wanted to buy a few volumes of this, about two years ago. never did since i was broke (when am i not), i can see now that i should have bought them after all. because this is worth it and seems interesting. |
| The CGI is... different. He looks nothing like he does in the manga, though? I think.. Anyway, there was something about this show that pulled me in. I'm curious now, so I'll stick with it for a bit. |
 Three things cannot be long hidden.. ...the s u n, the m oo n, and the tr u th. |
| nope...back to the manga |
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