The Lenticulars YT anime by Studio Trigger

Maybe there's not enough animation and too much still images for it to be added. It was the case for Vivinos' tili tili bom.

Maybe there's not enough animation and too much still images for it to be added. It was the case for Vivinos' tili tili bom.

Maybe there's not enough animation and too much still images for it to be added. It was the case for Vivinos' tili tili bom.

@piroriparopirira The My-Hime Specials are on the site and they literally are slideshows of still images with voice over, just to address this lol.

@valico Then I don't get why tili tili bom entry was refused "because it is a music video with picture stills/no animation."...
They made these rules, but idk how this is applied.

@valico Then I don't get why tili tili bom entry was refused "because it is a music video with picture stills/no animation."...
They made these rules, but idk how this is applied.

@valico Then I don't get why tili tili bom entry was refused "because it is a music video with picture stills/no animation."...
They made these rules, but idk how this is applied.

@piroriparopirira one day has pass so i guess youre right mal will not add this to their database like they do not care about consistency of rules anyway so old anime like inferno cop will stay but future anime like it will be banned here

@piroriparopirira my guess on your tili tili bom denial... music video. plus i'm entirely unaware of when this thingy you're talking about was released to the public... but if it was a while ago??? MAL has only RECENTLY started adding music videos with anime elements. probably... maybe? within the past 6-12 months is when i started noticing my MAL notifications 'pop up' with a music video release now n again. mostly ones related to shows already on MyList... but maybe that was an alteration in MAL's algorithms for notifications not actual increases in frequency of adding music video entries. i've had that music notification discussion in another Forum thread here on MAL and nobody could answer exactly 'why' i was seeing more frequent ones.

try looking up any of the VTubers' music videos (i see them pop up on AniChart.net now n again when they're released, but i don't watch em) and i doubt you'll find em here on MAL. just the 'anime' compilations/shorts series starring the VTubers doing comedy skits and whatnot. also, i remember that one anime about the lady VTuber who got drunk on-cam and started spouting off outrageous stuffs... causing her viewership to skyrocket and suchforth. i didn't watch the first one i mentioned but i tried and put on-hold... i think... the second one. it was fun and kinda-sorta entertaining... but i didn't care for it all that much and haven't tried to finish it off just yet.

@KiliianSleipnir I didn't really get all of the points you made but if it was refused because it's a MV then I get it.
Since tili tili bom wasn't released by the musicians but by Vivinos the director and animator and since the main focus isn't the music but the story/visuals, I didn't really considered it a MV. And other Vivinos works that were really MVs (released in the musicians yt channels) were added; those were a lot more animated. So I thought that the main reason was the lack of animation. Hence my confusion about My Hime specials or Inferno Cop.
But I'm not contesting the decision, just wondering how it's applied /g.

EDIT: grammar mistakes.

@piroriparopirira ok i'll clarify the second half. check out the VTubers who have released music videos and see if MAL is listing the videos. those are entirely animated since the 'talent' is a virtual person created through design and animation. if MAL is listing animated music videos 'today'... but your item in question was released earlier? it might have been a matter of the change in MAL's applications of their rules. or an alteration of the rules.

another problem on MAL's part could be... you failed to mention the video in question was inappropriately created before being released. copyright law REQUIRES permission/license to utilize unique music. if the director/animator failed to get said legal mumbo jumbo cleared up, MAL won't list it due to the 'project' being basically a fan-vid/bootleg improperly vetted before it went public.

like Vanilla Ice sampling Queen for 'Ice Ice Baby' without getting Queen's permission etc. this director released this vid and not the musicians who made the music etc.

conversely, if everybody was happy and satisfied and the entire legal idea was hashed out before the vid was made. but the musicians just let the director etc. put it out and so forth.

if it was the first example, MAL wouldn't list it to start with. disseminating information on an inappropriately created piece of media could make the disseminator also legally culpable. MAL could be sued by the musicians for distribution of illicit media.

if the second was the case, then MAL had no possible negative legal consequences from sharing info on this video. because everybody shook hands, signed the papers, and so forth. this exemplar just leads me back to the timing of the release of your video etc.

@deg you guys do realize it is the weekend right? today is Saturday. a day most 9-5 workers in offices DON'T work here in the US. if you cared to do even a simple web-search you would see that TWO of the THREE publicly listed Corporate Offices for MAL are in California, USA. this episode popped up on a Friday at around 950 or so AM Eastern US time. or 650-ish AM Pacific Daylight Time in Cali. on Halloween. on YouTube. even if it isn't an official Federal or US State holiday, more than a few folks here in North America do party, take their kids out Trick or Treating, dress up and whatnot.

also... a good bit of the 'work' done here on MAL is still performed by volunteers who are unpaid. now i can't say one way or the other if MAL listing requests are all processed by volunteers or have to be overseen/approved by the paid employees of MAL or what their exact internal reporting/responsibilities structure is... but saying stuff is banned or there are inconsistencies in rules and whatnot and that the various staff members don't 'care' and soforth...

that's just not right. don't be a problem. don't make things out to be worse than they already might be.

@KiliianSleipnir im not making things worse here so do not take it so seriously dude like there is track records of inconsistent rules already like how afro samurai and other western anime funded shows are here but new shows like scott pilgrim takeoff and lord of the rings anime movie are not so its just an educated guess on my part and im sure others do so as well

@KiliianSleipnir I see, thanks for explaining it. Tili tili bom was released 4 years ago and idk about it's copyright situation but I never though about that.

@KiliianSleipnir so where is the anime entry? its like a week now

@deg \shrug/ heck if i know, i'm not writing it up. somebody else do it. i didn't even start this thread.

October 31. 5 days is NOT a week. you're 2 days short.

@KiliianSleipnir see the moderators reply here https://myanimelist.net/forum/?goto=post&topicid=2239583&id=73475565

see like i told you mal is inconsistent with their rules when they have inferno cop here too but not this new anime the lenticulars by the same studio and same director and same little to no animation show

@deg ok. so since you kept harping on Inferno Cop i decided to watch the 1st episode. dubbed. mhm that sucked. shaking a still image of the pregnant lady isn't animation. she never changes her facial expression. nobody does in the whole ep. the only animation in the fight is flying bad guys, who are all exactly the same. plus the explosions that happen for no apparent reason since nothing flies out of Inferno Cop's gun barrel. the mohawk guy doesn't change positions... his still just gets flopped around. the two cop cars are moving, but their tires don't rotate. the flames on Inferno Cop and his car move so that's animation. the spray of the lady's water breaking shooting into Inferno Cop is animated.

going onto: https://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=515957 Anime Database Guidelines post as of Nov. 9, 2012. and modified by tingy Sep 28, 2023

"On MyAnimeList, a work is considered to be an "anime" if it meets all of the following:
✔️　It's animated.
Works with minimal-to-no animated scenes do not count. This includes manga panels or visual novel style stills with and without voice acting.
An exception is made for picture drama specials created for existing anime franchises (see Section II.6)
Stop-motion works using clay or cut-outs (claymation, cut-out animation) are allowed. Stop-motion using live actors or regular objects do not count since they lack character and background creation."

i believe Inferno Cop passes the "cut-outs" metric. not unlike the first season of South Park that was animated using the 'cut out' form of animation. AKA 'paper dolls'. does Lenticulars ALSO meet this "cut-out" metric? yeah, i think so.

now onwards to Lenticulars. it has TONS more animation than Inferno Cop. in ep2 the kid running alone from timecode 1:56 till 2:26 is more animation than ep1 of Inferno Cop had in its entire first episode. even if the kid's 'yippee' is looped and the view of him running from behind is also looped. his arms and legs are obviously changing positions in the 'behind view'. but the 'yippee' sequence is 2D and a very short loop.

frankly, i don't think MAL is being inconsistent with Lenticulars as Cop is MUCH older and came out in December 2012. just about nearly 2 MONTHS after 'da rules' for database submissions were posted by Kineta Lead Admin of MAL.

do i PERSONALLY think Lenticulars should be added? i'm on the fence about it. if you look in the YouTube 'info block' for eps 1 and 2 the ENTIRE staff is credited to ONLY TWO PEOPLE! but if you watch the hard-encoded subs of the End Credits there are 3 Producers. Amemiya-san "series composition and script" as well as "character design, storyboard, episode director, animation and color". layout design is two other people. backgrounds five people. three more people working on composition/edit, 2D texture, title design/2D works. then the theme song credits roll mentioning lots of people and companies. then the audio team gets their mentions. the publicity team is credited. whole bunch of other folks get their credits for production literary stuffs. and finally Amemiya-san gets his 'head director' credit at the end.

so Lenticulars isn't just Amemiya-san doing all the jobs for the whole thing with somebody helping him out on music. BUT! animation and the 'heavy lifting' for these shorts? yes, is just him. so, can one guy make an anime? \shrug/ he certainly has made AN ANIMATED form of media. one moderator here on MAL that was cited thinks not.

is it worth all this hullabaloo? nope. @deg. you go gripe to Kineta the Lead Admin and have THEM! explain why Lenticulars doesn't meet criteria. you're so butthurt about this? YOU GO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. other than bitchin bout it in Forums.

also, ONE show (Inferno Cop) is NOT proof of inconsistency! well... add in Lenticulars and you've got only TWO. i'll give you some Statistics 101 knowledge. you have !!!HAVE!!! to have a MINIMUM of 30 THIRTY! samples to create a statistically valid analysis. period. there is NO way to get around this at. all. NONE!

now. you yourself, get on MAL and ANN and anilist and all ALL the other databases and start correlating what is 'there'. what isn't 'there'. and which ones share and which ones don't share matching listings. if you find one database that lists 30+ items that are NOT shared amongst the other databases AND MAL is one of those databases that DON'T seem to be listing properly... due to industry standardization as YOU think it should be. then you've got a leg to stand on. because you'll have the facts. the data. and your conjectures that you started the study with.

don't just wave one older title and one brand-new title around and say, 'the sky is falling! the sky is falling!' ya need to be able to back it up with more than 'i am angry about this.'

@KiliianSleipnir im not angry about this but im angry at you for being such an arrogant and rude person

It has roughly the same amount of animation as Gokushufudou, so mods are just playing favourites by refusing to add this.

For anyone wondering, it has an entry on Anilist, so there's another reason to migrate if you haven't already.

That was a cute skating date, sharing gloves, and holding hands(and falling together!). At least she told him about her prior relationship; I don't think it will be a problem, but what's next?

I guess I'll post the remaining eps of this series here, regardless if anyone else wants to talk about it or not. It may not be "MAL Approved", but I like it just as it is.

@KiliianSleipnir Thank you for your service!

Yea great ice skating date but Bro found out about her ex from sudden text about a niche game..
Also anyone noticed those sondico sneakers in the ending credits, that's some grass root British school football heritage.

Should be added as a show. I can't really understand how this isn't added.

@halom this show is a little bit odd. perhaps once it is completed the MAL bosses will review the show and approve it.