General Leaks & Rumors Thread

TheCloverfield said:


You didn't "unblur" anything you applied an overdone sharpen filter that destroys the ambient bloom and lighting of the episode

This is a completely new era for the franchise, with new story, completely brand new setting inspired off world war 1 and character comes new visuals. I understand that you like the super crisp/clean stuff but trying to artificially edit those into an already composited differently approached anime only makes things worse. (and no, previous season weren't really battlefields but sure)

deg said:
confirmation from the animator that 3DCG is use to speed up the production

Sorry if this has been asked before or is a dumb question but has MAPPA's choice to use CG for the titans helped out in any way?

When a studio does this kind of things, its either so that they can finish things quicker or there is not enough people who are able to draw these scenes. The titans are very hard you know! Rare are the times this is done for a creative reason ( such as houseki no kuni!)

https://twitter.com/Vercreek/status/1336752524594843648

HyperL said:
I've seen the unblurred images on the twitter page and all I can ask is why did they choose to blur it in the first place.

Truly, my biggest complain.

Mattinator95 said:


Has anyone copied the the tweet as it was deleted

Sorry if this has been asked before or is a dumb question but has MAPPA's choice to use CG for the titans helped out in any way?

When a studio does this kind of things, its either so that they can finish things quicker or there is not enough people who are able to draw these scenes. The titans are very hard you know! Rare are the times this is done for a creative reason ( such as houseki no kuni!)

Mattinator95 said:


Aren't the unblurred a fan edit

Bhaskar_Singh said:
I am just getting a boner watching the unblurred version of the episode. Be sure to check it out for once people. So many minute details are masked by that obnoxious filter. IMHO the CG especially the Armored looks better without the desperate blending attempt. I couldn't notice any drawbacks personally but am open to rectifications.

The guy who did this: https://twitter.com/Miish3lov/status/1336366387409920003?s=08


https://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1880958&show=0#msg61354209

MAQS said:


Just finished downloading it and mine does not look that saturated right of the bat, I have tho increase the saturation myself for it to look like that.

Il be saying more things about it after I finish some things

JJ_jose said:
did he? Where's the source to confirm that?

MAQS said:



Options on MPCHC does the trick easy.

But I dont really like this saturation for this arc, I prefer the natural colors.

I really cannot wait to compare the amount of lost details

yaegerist-15 said:
No, he said the climax episodes will have the same quality or even better. If they handle the climax episodes good then we are good. But they are fixing some of the other episodes. I think we have to wait till episode 5-7 to make a review. I personally dont think mappa will screw this. Hayashi is a good director and the cgi was outsourced to Studio V-Sign. We will see mappas best animation later, mark that

Blackkatsu001 said:
OD just posted this,(it's about the pacing for the next episodes)
https://twitter.com/ThatShiny_Hex/status/1337082396542267393
Any ideas ?

tsunderek0 said:
idk but they better not

AlbitoSeijuro said:
Idc if they use CGI in all the Fights, but if they do my boy Reiner dirty, then this adaptation will be trash for me.

MAQS said:


I am 100% sure there will be some amount of cuts there, be it very few or substantial

tsunderek0 said:


and I'll be crying into my pillow from now on then. yams stop them this is your boy

spiderboi said:
2 chapters an episode (85-100 pages, so half a volume) is pretty quick, especially for a dialogue heavy arc and how previous seasons weren't paced this quick. I'm fine with restructuring scenes and story placements so long as it doesn't harm the overall narrative flow of the arc. If things are changed and put in weird/inappropriate sections that would suck. I'm assuming this is being done because of the pacing of this season due to the number of episodes they were given, and how cuts will have to be made to a certain degree. it's not an Uprising situation where Isayama disliked the arc and requested the studio to change it. I know cuts will happen I just hope it's nothing major, like Reiner's flashback arc getting major cuts.

Also, if this arc ends on episode 9 how are they going to adapt the next one (107-122) in only 7 episodes? I honestly feel like 20 overall for both arcs (so 10 episodes each) would have been better than 16.

spiderboi said:


Also, if this arc ends on episode 9 how are they going to adapt the next one (107-122) in only 7 episodes? I honestly feel like 20 overall for both arcs (so 10 episodes each) would have been better than 16.

PrasantGrG said:


Even goddamn 18 would've been manageable. Unless they can start cramming action chapters even more cut content is inevitable. Production committee messed the episode count hard if we're getting to 122.

I remember everyone speculating that 28-30 episodes (pacing of 1.5-1.8) being the bare the bare minimum to adapt till the end well and but now at the pace we're going the adaptation will be done at 24 episodes of content.

Increasing the pace of post 122 and giving this part more time would've been a much smarter decision as well

chiearlymorning said:
New OST by Sawano for final season
https://youtu.be/oHg5SJYRHA0

PrasantGrG said:


Even goddamn 18 would've been manageable. Unless they can start cramming action chapters even more cut content is inevitable. Production committee messed the episode count hard if we're getting to 122.

I remember everyone speculating that 28-30 episodes (pacing of 1.5-1.8) being the bare the bare minimum to adapt till the end well and but now at the pace we're going the adaptation will be done at 24 episodes of content.

Increasing the pace of post 122 and giving this part more time would've been a much smarter decision as well

MAQS said:


Had this be the first time its happening I would be terribly worried, but since we have Uprising before, which is a inferior version of the story imo, but still was pretty solid overall and it adapted a very good AOT arc not a GREAT one like this one.

Also had Seko not come back as main writer then I would have lost all faith on this adaptation, yes I regard him more important than even freaking Hayashi.