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Studio Trigger project: Little Witch Academia

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Postby busterbeam » Sat Jan 26, 2013 8:49 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqBssEBpihA

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Release date: March 2nd
Director, character design, animation direction: Yoh Yoshinari AKA one of the most impressive (ex) Gainax animators and the guy who drew a bunch of Cartoon Network/Nickelodeon fan art that keeps getting reposted all over the internet.
Script: Masahiko Otsuka
Music: Michiru Oshima

For this year's Young Animator Training Project, which is now called "Anime Mirai".
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Postby Fireball » Sat Jan 26, 2013 9:00 am

I mentioned this in the News thread.

Animation looks nice but it's only one episode.
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Postby busterbeam » Sat Jan 26, 2013 9:13 am

Man, that doesn't sadden me at all. Shorts/short films can be far more memorable than entire series.

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Postby Fireball » Sat Jan 26, 2013 9:25 am

It doesn't bother me either, I actually meant it in the "before anyone thinks this is a new series" kind of sense.
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Postby busterbeam » Sat Jan 26, 2013 9:31 am

View Original PostFireball wrote:It doesn't bother me either, I actually meant it in the "before anyone thinks this is a new serie" kind of sense.

Well, I didn't necessarily feel the need to specify it since googling "young animator training project" would have been enough. But yeah I guess I should have stated it instead of expecting people to do their own research outside of the thread, since not everyone has as much free time as I do.
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Postby Dream » Sat Jan 26, 2013 12:38 pm

View Original Postbusterbeam wrote:Man, that doesn't sadden me at all. Shorts/short films can be far more memorable than entire series.

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Man, those are really freaking pretty/awesome, specially the backgrounds.
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Postby busterbeam » Sat Mar 30, 2013 7:54 pm

Holy crap the animation in this is absolutely wonderful.
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Postby Gendo'sPapa » Sun Apr 07, 2013 1:09 am

It's available online & I just watched it. It's pretty much Harry Potter in anime form so it's kinda cute & straightforward. But the animation is WONDERFUL! Very fluid, energetic & never still. As a showcase for what Studio Trigger can do it's a real treat!

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Postby esselfortium » Mon Apr 08, 2013 1:11 am

Just watched this with Seele. It was great indeed; between the fast pacing, stylish expressive animation, endearing characters, and total absence of otaku pandering, I didn't think such anime even existed anymore :P

Hoping to see some really cool stuff coming from Trigger and Yoshinari!

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Postby Oz » Mon Apr 08, 2013 1:36 am

View Original Postesselfortium wrote:It was great indeed; between the fast pacing, stylish expressive animation, endearing characters, and total absence of otaku pandering, I didn't think such anime even existed anymore :P

Then you haven't obviously heard about Aku no hana.
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Postby jimmiel » Mon Apr 08, 2013 3:55 am

View Original PostOz wrote:Then you haven't obviously heard about Aku no hana.

Aku no Hana has fast pacing and endearing characters, what.
View Original PostSeele00TextOnly wrote:I can't even find a subbed upload in english somewhere
You are terrible at the Internet. No offence.

Anyway, Little Witch Academia is wonderful. Its expressive animation, charming characters and engaging action sequences reminded me of Girls und Panzer, but even better (well, fun and flashy can't compete with tense, emotionally-charged and blisteringly-paced, but they both succeeded equally well in their aims) and the animation was much better. Well, as expected from an OVA. The plot was a bit thin and clichéd, but for an OVA it fit.

I think I still hold Inferno Cop as the stronger of Trigger's two anime projects thus far, although LWA does come slightly ahead in the animation department.
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Postby robersora » Mon Apr 08, 2013 1:06 pm

View Original PostSeele00TextOnly wrote:Comparing Little Witch Academia to Girls Und Panzer is perhaps the gravest insult to Little Witch Academia you could possibly ever make. Take offence at this, please. Take offence at it and grow.


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Postby pwhodges » Mon Apr 08, 2013 2:48 pm

View Original PostSeele00TextOnly wrote:Also the show seems to have the most incompetent and/or moronic fansubbers I've ever seen, as half the damn dialogue is still in German for no reason whatsoever.

Then choose the subtitles that aren't like that instead. (There's no justification for those stupid ones in the original, after all.)

And if you don't like it, you're lacking a sense of fun, I think. Sure, it's lightweight, but even that can be fun.
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Postby Fireball » Mon Apr 08, 2013 4:46 pm

View Original PostSeele00TextOnly wrote:Also Girls Und Panzer is perhaps the worst thing that I've seen heavily lauded since K-on. I have no idea why a cast of dozens of look-alike characters in some sort of future on a gigantic ocean liner that has its own cliff-faces and lakes and streets has a bunch of idiot high schoolers driving old tanks around, but more to the point I have even less idea how this is supposed to be appealing or enjoyable in the slightest way.

cute. girls. driving. tanks.


lots of fun, plenty of action, love for the detail, high animation, great soundtrack, underdog story etc.

Also things like why they are living on gigantic carriers gets explained.


Also the show seems to have the most incompetent and/or moronic fansubbers I've ever seen, as half the damn dialogue is still in German for no reason whatsoever.

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Postby Fireball » Mon Apr 08, 2013 5:05 pm

The first episodes aren't really a good gauge of what GuP has to offer. Around episode 4 is when it takes off and it's definitely not like K-On that much I can promise.


More on topic, I watched Little Witch Academia yesterday too. Great oldschool stuff that screams for a serialization. Sucy is the best.
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Postby Oz » Tue Apr 09, 2013 12:12 am

EGF, I am disappoint. How come no one picked up the irony of my post? I even used the now-infamous picture that should have made it obvious what I was driving at.
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