It's the art style. Takeuchi's manga emphasized soft and thin in order to make everyone look graceful and elegant. I think it's beautiful personally, but have yet to see how it will translate over into animation.
It's the art style. Takeuchi's manga emphasized soft and thin in order to make everyone look graceful and elegant. I think it's beautiful personally, but have yet to see how it will translate over into animation.
26 episodes disappoints me because that means were definitely not going to see the outer senshi.
Always a season 2+
People are right, though. That's a lot more how they look in the manga. I imagine since they were doing a remake they decided to make it as close to the manga as possible, including the art style.
I'm not really feeling this remake as of yet. While I watched and enjoyed the entirety of the original series, I don't prefer the new art style, even though I'm also aware of its being more truthful to the manga. It isn't as if I'm not one for change, but I do agree that the classic anime's proportions are much more realistic. On top of that, once the trailer was released, I was completely underwhelmed by the Generic Anime #2036 theme song. The disappointments keep coming.
I have little faith in Toei when it comes to remakes, or just bringing back old glories. They always set for mediocre quality as the entire operation is mostly a cash-grab.I'm not really feeling this remake as of yet.
Hokuto no Ken remake movies, past the first one, had terrible animation quality. And they were movies, not OAVs.
Saint Seiya Elysium arc, plus the entire Omega series, featured some terrible episodes with embarassing quality.
Realistic proportion isn't a thing anime is known for from the get-go. You might wonder how we got used to seeing eyes bigger than a character's hand, hair that consistently defies gravity, or tits too massive to lend credence to the supposition that the girl they belong to could possibly still be standing upright.
Unrealistic proportions can still look good to people. But if this particular style doesn't look pleasing to you personally, then I guess there's no helping it.
Judging by the short preview, it's not the proportions that turn me off but rather something in the design (the face or the linework maybe). It doesn't look soft and graceful, it looks over-polished and too bright. Gotta give it a fair chance though. I was against the new My Little Pony for how far removed its art style and everything else was from the original, but now I love it almost as much as the old one.
Following the manga storyline, 13 episodes could actually take us to where the original first season ended, I think... with 26, the Phantom story could possibly be squared away as well.
Similar falling-outs have happened between me and my enjoyment of other studios' work, too, like CLAMP's anime as the years went on. "Cardcaptor Sakura?" Great. "Tsubasa Chronicles?" Waiting for someone's arm to snap off. Besides their just becoming more jumbled and generally crappy overall, the transition from slender to stick figure rendered me unable to suspend my disbelief any further. A particular aesthetic is one thing—I can get into highly stylized work—but the otherwise generic presentation of this remake isn't selling me on the whole package.
Style is one thing, and doing something just to do it is another. I feel this is the latter, leaving it an empty parroting of the original mangaka's pencils.
Thanks kohan for reminding me how badly the dub of Cardcaptor Sakura is and how I won't get to watch it with my daughter until she's older because of it. Thanks.
If you're willing to drop some dosh
Cardcaptor Sakura Blu-ray Complete Series (Hyb) Premium Edition
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Contains episodes 1-70.
This premium edition includes a 76-page, full-color artbook featuring Tomoyo's diary of Sakura's adventure and character illustrations!
Special Features: Clean Openings, Clean Endings.
Spoken Languages: English (mono only), Japanese, English subtitles.
Note: Each episode features both English and Japanese audio, and is unedited.
Note: The Blu-ray English subtitles on this release can not be turned off.
I watched the sub first. But I remember flipping past it on tv and wanting to rip my ears out over the voice they gave Sakura. I am actually pretty lenient about dubs, but I could tell within five seconds that the dub for this one must be horrid. I can only imagine what they did about her brother and yuki
Oddly enough I think I may favor the Sakura series over sailor moon. I think it's 'cause Sakura isn't a whiny cry baby. I love them bought though.
It's probably not a re-dub, but the TV version did a lot of chopping to make Shaoran seem more like the main character (since the block CCS ran in was full of boys' shows too iirc). They also, of course, did heavy editing of the episodes and removed a lot of stuff. So the BD version is uncut and unedited, but I doubt the actual dub voices are much different between the two versions. Don't know for sure though, as I tend to avoid dubs as much as possible.
@Kohan: Tsubasa Chronicle / XXXHolic art is horrendous. It works a little better in manga, but not by much. I just can't handle the suuuuper loonnng limbs, and it's especially bad in episodes where the animation budget is low cause then you get some really grotesque monstrosities lol.
It's using the Animax dub, which was shown on its English-language networks in Southeast Asia and South Asia and was apparently faithful to the original Japanese names and dialogue. It's floating around on Youtube, if anyone wants to check it out.
https://twitter.com/worldofcrap/stat...55044127854592
I wondered, Kachiko. I read on ANN that the company didn't have the rights to the dub of that we all know of Card Captor Sakura, so this is not a surprise.
My brother has the original subtitled version (that's rare and expensive now too) and I might get this new version later since I like that too. :D
The style of xxxholic is great, not to mention it's fun to read. I haven't seen much of the anime but you can't be hating on this:
Granted the style might be hard to get into, but it works for how surreal it is. At the very least it serves to set it apart from similar shit. Not speaking much for Tsubasa since I could never get around to reading it.
Eh, just find some of the episodes where the animation quality goes down the toilet and you'll understand. The limbs go from "elongated" to "why God, why are they still going?"