| Why do they all look like they've bathed in 300 lbs of vaseline? Straight out of a 2008 hentai ova... This style somewhat fits characters like Satoko and Rika but Keiichi and Ooishi look just plain stupid. I can't believe I would ever say this but I prefer Studio Deen's work over this. Here's to hoping they don't dilute the horror in favor of increased ecchi. |
| well, it's passione, a studio renowned for ecchi. Who knows what this will be, I too don't like the art style |
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| I still prefer deen's look although watanabe's designs don't bother me as much as they did when they were revealed after the recent trailer dropped. |
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| nope, it fits the series perfectly! it's just like in the vn :) |
| Guys pls I'm tryna have the best first viewing experience for Higurashi. Should I wait for this or watch the original because I doubt I'm gonna watch both, if the story is completely same? |
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spectrojan said: Guys pls I'm tryna have the best first viewing experience for Higurashi. Should I wait for this or watch the original because I doubt I'm gonna watch both, if the story is completely same? above all, i'd recommend reading the VN!! that's gonna be 100% the best higurashi experience, but i understand not everyone has the time, so personally i'd wait for the new anime. the deen anime was a very poor adaptation (and i say this as someone who enjoyed it a lot regardless lmao) and they left out a LOT, especially regarding crucial character development. whereas passione's looks like it's actually going to follow the source accurately. also, it's way prettier to look at lol |
princess said: spectrojan said: Guys pls I'm tryna have the best first viewing experience for Higurashi. Should I wait for this or watch the original because I doubt I'm gonna watch both, if the story is completely same? above all, i'd recommend reading the VN!! that's gonna be 100% the best higurashi experience, but i understand not everyone has the time, so personally i'd wait for the new anime. the deen anime was a very poor adaptation (and i say this as someone who enjoyed it a lot regardless lmao) and they left out a LOT, especially regarding crucial character development. whereas passione's looks like it's actually going to follow the source accurately. also, it's way prettier to look at lol I guess I won't watch the new one while it's airing then so if it does end up getting rated lower than the original, then I'll check out deen's adaptation. If the new one ends up getting positive reception, then I'm good to go lol (although I do feel the character designs from the original did look kinda spookier) |
| This anime shit is addictive |
| You’re right, they look like they had a bath in oil lol I’m not a fan of the art but I’m just happy I get to experience more Higurashi. I wonder what the opening would be like. The original op is what made me watch Higurashi in the first place! It was so creepy yet enchanting. |
| Nope, I like this new look much more than the original. And as it was already said, it fits the VN look better. I feel like this new anime would be split into 2 groups: the first being people who only watched the Deen anime and thinking the new anime is going to ruin it, and the 2nd group being people who read the visual novel and hope the new anime would do it justice. |
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| If you ask me, this new art style will work great. Having monogatari/grisaia's character designer I think will look great. Especially in the cast of monogatari. Being able to have a cutesy bubbly expression, and then being able to play with angles and zoom to almost contort the faces in ominous ways. If I had it my way, Id prob just give this remake to shaft because I think they could nail it. But I can understand why people would not want this new higurashi to feel like a monogatari clone. I am optimistic with how they will do. |
| I hope that they won't animate this anime of horror by any means in a cliche style. The art style isn't bad, I like the colouration of the eyes and the uniforms. Oishi and the camera dude kinda look strange though. They should fix that. I like Rika, mion, and the rest of the girls so far. I think this re adaptation might be slightly worse than it's original, but I may be wrong. Let's just not hope that we were waiting for nothing |
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| why do people think the art style should be creepy and scary? the point of Higurashi isn't the horror at all, yeah there's some horror aspects (especially in Onikakushi) but they are a small part of the OG VN/story, the old anime just exaggerated the blood and gore scenes and the crazy faces and gave y'all a false impression about the series. Anyway most VN fans will tell you that this art style is better (or at least that Deen's art style is horrible like their adaptation). |
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| I've already discussed this and maybe you if you want to see other people's opinions. https://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1860013 |
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spectrojan said: princess said: above all, i'd recommend reading the VN!! that's gonna be 100% the best higurashi experience, but i understand not everyone has the time, so personally i'd wait for the new anime. the deen anime was a very poor adaptation (and i say this as someone who enjoyed it a lot regardless lmao) and they left out a LOT, especially regarding crucial character development. whereas passione's looks like it's actually going to follow the source accurately. also, it's way prettier to look at lol I guess I won't watch the new one while it's airing then so if it does end up getting rated lower than the original, then I'll check out deen's adaptation. If the new one ends up getting positive reception, then I'm good to go lol (although I do feel the character designs from the original did look kinda spookier) If this one followed the VN more closely it want have as much craziness/gore as the old one and then people will rate it with a low score cuz "mAH gOrE sCeneS", "tHeRE's sO mUcH SOL sTuFF." maybe it'll somehow be a worse adaptation (idk how can they do that except if they added original arcs or changed the story) but don't judge from the score anyway. if you can't read the VN try the manga at least (if you can't then just watch the new one.) |
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| Im just surprised they are still making tv shows of this series, is it still popular in japan? Lets hope Umineko gets a new adaptation |
| Initially I was very worried, but then the trailer came out and showed off Rena and Shion's crazy eyes and I felt a lot more secure. |
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amare135 said: Im just surprised they are still making tv shows of this series, is it still popular in japan? The new gatcha game had like 100k pre-signups, so yeah, Higurashi is still very popular in Japan. Lets hope Umineko gets a new adaptation I honestly think Umineko is unadaptable, or at least very hard to adapt. But if they pull it off, then oh man, it would be a masterpiece. |
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| I do. The color is way to saturated making it looks so unprofessional. The white shading looks terrible too. |
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| This squeaky clean, shiny, soft, and round look is pretty standard for a studio like Passione. I mean, look at all their others works. What were you expecting? Old style Madhouse grit? |
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| Yeah I'm pretty upset by it---from the most recent trailer, it really kills the intensity of some of the scenes. I really wish another studio was doing this. |
| Eh not really. It's better than Deen's very rough art style which had the head of the characters almost as big as their upper half and very gloomy look. This artwork and it's much closer to the VN actually. Sorry but the original anime is just not fun to look at. |
| bro this is to bubbly it looks like a hentai give me back my terribly animated designs from deen that shit was fucking creepy |
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| I'm also bothered by the new artstyle. Like others have mentioned it's too smooth looking. and way too vibrant given what genre it is Personally wish that we were not getting this in the first place, and to just have the original Deen version. This is coming from someone who has not played the VN tho. Maybe VN players are jumping in joy for this, but I'm definitely not I'll give it a go for sure, but definitely wont be able to hold back in comparing the two together constantly. Hell the new anime could blow my expectations out of the water and make certain scenes way more horror like/scary than the original, but I have my doubts about that still |
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DoctorWasabi said: Higurashi isnt a horror storyI'm also bothered by the new artstyle. Like others have mentioned it's too smooth looking. and way too vibrant given what genre it is Personally wish that we were not getting this in the first place, and to just have the original Deen version. This is coming from someone who has not played the VN tho. Maybe VN players are jumping in joy for this, but I'm definitely not I'll give it a go for sure, but definitely wont be able to hold back in comparing the two together constantly. Hell the new anime could blow my expectations out of the water and make certain scenes way more horror like/scary than the original, but I have my doubts about that still |
amare135 said: DoctorWasabi said: Higurashi isnt a horror storyI'm also bothered by the new artstyle. Like others have mentioned it's too smooth looking. and way too vibrant given what genre it is Personally wish that we were not getting this in the first place, and to just have the original Deen version. This is coming from someone who has not played the VN tho. Maybe VN players are jumping in joy for this, but I'm definitely not I'll give it a go for sure, but definitely wont be able to hold back in comparing the two together constantly. Hell the new anime could blow my expectations out of the water and make certain scenes way more horror like/scary than the original, but I have my doubts about that still that may be true from someone who has experienced the original version of the story ie the VN, but you gotta admit the horror aspects is what got so many people into Higurashi in the first place The creepy atmopshere, the unsettling facial expressions and eyes, the eerie music, the intense gore/torture scenes, and the unpredictable direction of said elements within the anime. I gave this anime a ago back in 2014 because I heard it had those things in it. It was an experience that honestly no other anime has given me at the time, and even now in 2020 there hasn't really been many anime that have accomplished the same acheivment. Higurashsi was an anime that gave me an intense nightmare as I was watching it. I remember waking up in the middle of the night and going holy shit I don't want to go back to sleep. Because of what the first season did, I was completely immersed and engaged into the story. From what I can remember ( it's been like 5+ years so may be foggy ) season 2 didn't have much of a horror vibe to it, but I was engaged in it fully, because of what the 1st season did. I wanted answers to all of my questions. If I wasn't engaged at all with the 1st season, I wouldn't bother caring about continuing the anime to learn about the truths. Many anime onlys agree with the notion that Higurashi wouldn't be where it is today in terms of popularity if it didn't have those horror aspects in it's 1st season. From what I understand, the Higurashi anime on a overall note did the VN fairly well, with it's only major criticism being the sometimes janky animation/art quality of Deens adaptation. With VNS that have a lot of depth can be tricky to incorporate into anime form, given the amount of information and background that is needed to fully appreciate the story. Cuts are inevitable considering budget and episode limitations are within the setting. I'm almost 100% sure that there was cut content/changes that Deen took that made VN players go: wtf why did u just skip that. But the overall reception and feel that I get from the anime is overall definitely more on the positive side. Considering both animes are rated 8.00+ ( actually noticed 1st season is at a 7.98, but had to have happened super recently ) Now granted MAL scores should not be a super valid point of reasoning to why the anime is good. However the fact remains that the score is there to indicate what the overall consensus of the show is, and how well it was received by its viewers. When you take a look at Umineko no Naku Koro ni the score is considerably way less. And I know for a certain fans hated Umineko anime, and that the reception of the anime was bad If anything it seems like Umineko is of the need of a remake/reboot. |
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DoctorWasabi said: From what I understand, the Higurashi anime on a overall note did the VN fairly well, with it's only major criticism being the sometimes janky animation/art quality of Deens adaptation. With VNS that have a lot of depth can be tricky to incorporate into anime form, given the amount of information and background that is needed to fully appreciate the story. Cuts are inevitable considering budget and episode limitations are within the setting. I'm almost 100% sure that there was cut content/changes that Deen took that made VN players go: wtf why did u just skip that. But the overall reception and feel that I get from the anime is overall definitely more on the positive side. Considering both animes are rated 8.00+ ( actually noticed 1st season is at a 7.98, but had to have happened super recently ) Now granted MAL scores should not be a super valid point of reasoning to why the anime is good. However the fact remains that the score is there to indicate what the overall consensus of the show is, and how well it was received by its viewers. When you take a look at Umineko no Naku Koro ni the score is considerably way less. And I know for a certain fans hated Umineko anime, and that the reception of the anime was bad If anything it seems like Umineko is of the need of a remake/reboot. unfortunately... no. as someone who loves and enjoyed the deen anime, it wasn't a good adaptation whatsoever, which is why so many people have the wrong idea about higurashi. it's not just the animation and art style, it cut vital character development and parts of the story that would have been extremely easy to incorporate. capturing the depth of higurashi isn't hard at all, the story is actually perfect for an anime, deen just wasn't able to handle it lol. like i said, i personally love the deen anime for what it is but the majority of positive scores are from people who have never read the VN, guaranteed on the other hand, i don't think there's any way umineko can be properly adapted into an anime. i honestly don't think we'll ever be seeing another adaptation for it |
DoctorWasabi said: amare135 said: Higurashi isnt a horror story that may be true from someone who has experienced the original version of the story ie the VN, but you gotta admit the horror aspects is what got so many people into Higurashi in the first place The creepy atmopshere, the unsettling facial expressions and eyes, the eerie music, the intense gore/torture scenes, and the unpredictable direction of said elements within the anime. I gave this anime a ago back in 2014 because I heard it had those things in it. It was an experience that honestly no other anime has given me at the time, and even now in 2020 there hasn't really been many anime that have accomplished the same acheivment. Higurashsi was an anime that gave me an intense nightmare as I was watching it. I remember waking up in the middle of the night and going holy shit I don't want to go back to sleep. Because of what the first season did, I was completely immersed and engaged into the story. From what I can remember ( it's been like 5+ years so may be foggy ) season 2 didn't have much of a horror vibe to it, but I was engaged in it fully, because of what the 1st season did. I wanted answers to all of my questions. If I wasn't engaged at all with the 1st season, I wouldn't bother caring about continuing the anime to learn about the truths. Many anime onlys agree with the notion that Higurashi wouldn't be where it is today in terms of popularity if it didn't have those horror aspects in it's 1st season. From what I understand, the Higurashi anime on a overall note did the VN fairly well, with it's only major criticism being the sometimes janky animation/art quality of Deens adaptation. With VNS that have a lot of depth can be tricky to incorporate into anime form, given the amount of information and background that is needed to fully appreciate the story. Cuts are inevitable considering budget and episode limitations are within the setting. I'm almost 100% sure that there was cut content/changes that Deen took that made VN players go: wtf why did u just skip that. But the overall reception and feel that I get from the anime is overall definitely more on the positive side. Considering both animes are rated 8.00+ ( actually noticed 1st season is at a 7.98, but had to have happened super recently ) Now granted MAL scores should not be a super valid point of reasoning to why the anime is good. However the fact remains that the score is there to indicate what the overall consensus of the show is, and how well it was received by its viewers. When you take a look at Umineko no Naku Koro ni the score is considerably way less. And I know for a certain fans hated Umineko anime, and that the reception of the anime was bad If anything it seems like Umineko is of the need of a remake/reboot. The Higurashi anime wasnt just badly animated, it was very rushed. They adapted 6 arcs in the first season, which people seem to forget. They had to create an anime original arc in Kai, for all the important details they left out. Youre right though that it brought in a lot of new fans, which is why a sequel was created thankfully. Umineko should definitely get a reboot, I dont think its impossible to do well if they give it enough time. It's much more complex than Higurashi but worst case they can just follow the manga which was a pretty good adaptation. |
amare135 said: The Higurashi anime wasnt just badly animated, it was very rushed. They adapted 6 arcs in the first season, which people seem to forget. They had to create an anime original arc in Kai, for all the important details they left out. Youre right though that it brought in a lot of new fans, which is why a sequel was created thankfully. So as someone who's seen the original show, would you recommend watching this reboot over the original (provided the reboot is closer to the source material)? |
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spectrojan said: amare135 said: The Higurashi anime wasnt just badly animated, it was very rushed. They adapted 6 arcs in the first season, which people seem to forget. They had to create an anime original arc in Kai, for all the important details they left out. Youre right though that it brought in a lot of new fans, which is why a sequel was created thankfully. So as someone who's seen the original show, would you recommend watching this reboot over the original (provided the reboot is closer to the source material)? I have no idea actually, we dont even know if this is a proper reboot and how far it will go. The Deen anime is sort of a classic even though it isn't perfect, so you can watch that to get a general idea of the story. |
| I'm not really bothered by it but seeing I've seen the original show... I hope it will only take about 2 episodes for me to get adjusted to it as it is still 'fresh' in my memory. Curious how they will make this art-style work with all the thriller, horror and mystery. |
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| They did bother me at first but they have grown on me overtime. I still prefer deen's designs though. |
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| why did everyone and everything look uglier with a supposed 2020 release was expecting an upgrade since the older one's from 2006, instead we get a downgrade |
| i mean higurashi had a lot of ecchi moments in the VN as well just saying. |
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| Yep i'm also not a fan of the art style. I love how in the old style everyone was imperfect, it added to the creepiness for me. I've said it before, but i just don't like the Monogatari series, so having all my fave characters look like them in cosplay isn't something i'm too fond of XD I'm sure i'll get used to it though. |
| Can't be worse than the Deen version, definitely prefer Passione. |
| I like the highschool dxd hero look to it. It will probably give off the same vibes as corpse party with this animation style. |
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Chikipichi said: I like the highschool dxd hero look to it. It will probably give off the same vibes as corpse party with this animation style. Oh Lord please don't let it be anything like Corpse Party ._. |
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