The drop in anime quality in the Dog Warriors tape 5 and 6
Automaton6
Just saw all the Dog Warriors <hakkendon?> back to back this weekend. The
first 4 tapes were superbe. Great battles, bizzare story, many cool
carachters, excellant animation. Now, we get to tape 5 and our
wonderfully drawn characters are now looking like a bad american ripoff.
The first ep of five is half done in this really really bad hobbit-like
style in which you cant tell the guys from the girls and the demons from a
rusty can of assholes. The whole of the second ep is done in this style
too. Same with the first of ep of tape 6. After that, it goes on to get
right back to the quality it had before in the first four tapes. my
question is, what the hell happend? Did they run out of money? Did they
up and shoot there artists? Did they decide the seriese was to good and
had to screw it up? what? eh? you dont know do you???? DO YOU??? SOMEONE
PLEASE EXPLAIN THIS TO ME!!
Enrique Conty
In article <19970527084...@ladder01.news.aol.com> autom...@aol.com (Automaton6) writes:
>Just saw all the Dog Warriors <hakkendon?> back to back this weekend. The
>first 4 tapes were superbe. Great battles, bizzare story, many cool
>carachters, excellant animation. Now, we get to tape 5 and our
>wonderfully drawn characters are now looking like a bad american ripoff.
No, but they *did* look like crap.
See, what happened is that Hakkenden was Pioneer's very first foray into
anime production, years before Tenchi. But it was cut short because of
funding problems. Several years pass, Pioneer has a more-or-less
successful Post-Tenchi anime operation, so they decide to try and finish
Hakkenden. This is what you saw.
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Enrique Conty
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Ru Igarashi
Enrique Conty (co...@rtsg.mot.com) wrote:
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>See, what happened is that Hakkenden was Pioneer's very first foray into
>anime production, years before Tenchi. But it was cut short because of
>funding problems. Several years pass, Pioneer has a more-or-less
>successful Post-Tenchi anime operation, so they decide to try and finish
>Hakkenden. This is what you saw.
So what is the explanation for Ep 10? That was so bizarrely
drawn, with character designs I couldn't figure out.
Intentional? Artistic license? More experimentation?
ru
Rupert S. Tagnipes II
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scene where Ryoko confronts the rogue GP officer) and in the Fatal Fury
Movie during certain fight scenes. i fail to see why this is used since
it SOOOO frigging ugly.
rupert
Tonybridge
Hi,
I'll risk mentioning that ep. 10 is my favorite episode from The
Hakkenden. It's very much at the emotional center of the story, as it
deals with the relationships between Shino, Gakuzo, "Hamaji," and her
brother (urgh--whatsisname?). The art style reminded me of two things:
first, the backgrounds made me think about traditional Japanese paintings
(note the shots of insects lighting on things); secondly, the character
design (and really the whole production) reminded me of the style used in
samurai/ninja manga like "Legend of Kamui" and "Lone Wolf and Cub." And
that particular manga style also has a strong influence from old-style
japanese painting.
I know it's not to everyone's taste, and they took a big risk in doing it,
but I think it paid off. As to the title of this thread, ep. 10 is
*animated* just as well, if not better, than the rest of the series (by
*animated* I mean the movements are smooth and interesting); I think it's
just the different style of design that a lot of people take exception to.
Daniel Huddleston
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