Akikan Epic Fail Anime
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Jan 11, 2009 18:46 JST
- Tags: Akikan, Animation, Comparison, Fail, Marketing, Production Controversy, TV
The second episode of Akikan has nearly created a new legend of anime failure, so dire has its quality become:
Observers can’t help but notice that the title is set to go on sale in its DVD version soon, apparently for the price of ¥9,000 for two episodes…
Certainly a contender for a special gallery on the subject. Having not even reached the third episode yet, might not worse be in store?
I’ve only seen the first episode and was unimpressed by the quality, and you say the second is worse? AND the want $90 for two episodes?
Fuck that.
i second that.
fuck that.
From these picturese I won’t watch it even if I’d getting paid for. And whats with that joke of a price?
Fuck that
You would think the artist himself would look at it and go, “Hmm, this doesn’t really look right.”
And the nerve of charging close to 100 dollars for 2 of these failures…
Seriously, fuck that.
Even the moe character looks screwed…
Fuck that.
6 comments so far, I sixth that.
Fuck this shit.
I dont really see anything wrong with the 4th and 5th images. Exagerating a bit much Artefact? sure the drawings arent great but some of these arent that terrible… and anyways when it’s animated it doesnt matter anyway- it’s just a frame or two, amirite or am I right?
I think there’s a bent chopstick in the fourth, along with misplaced eyes, and odd arms in both images
true that is not that bad and probaly is watchable. but that frute looks like its stolen from one piece……….. dont dought the importance of things like this……………….. (could be realy important)
Why? It’s a normal melon!
Holy crap, that was a fruit?O_O
What was a fruit? LOL
melon.. cabbage… same shit
I didn’t know One Piece had a monopoly on honey melon.
They also had a monopoly on pirates. That’s why those Somali pirates are hijacking so many ships… they need to get the money to pay One Piece off.
take a good look at the chopstick in her hand… try holding on like that and you may be related to MC Escher…
the point isn’t necessarily just a frame or two, its the complete lack of QC which Artefact is pointing out…
In the fourth and fifth image, look at the degree which that blond is able to turn her head without tilting. It is physically impossible. Try it yourself.
• The finger on the left girl,
• The forearm on the left girl,
• The uniform detail on the stomach part on the left girl,
• (I’m nitpicking here but…) the chopstick aren’t the same length,
• (More nitpicking) the right girl’s neck and head position is a bit off.
For the fifth one…
• The boy’s hand’s a bit off… actually I think the shoulder, elbow, and wrist are bent wrongly and
• The shadowing on the girl’s left breast indicates somewhat of a breast but if you look at the right breast’s outline… it’s flat.
A few frame doesn’t really make it unwatchable but overall the production quality of this anime is terribly terribly low… and they’re charging 9000en for two episode.
I could be wrong but the tie the boy is wearing is like missing a bit :P
Her head is also turning over 180 degrees. Which means her head is….dislocated?
oh my eyes!! X_x
At least it looks better than the Chaos Head anime.
that is a horrible joke.
stfu n00b!
chaos head is definitely better than this in the earlier episodes.
At least Chaos;Head had an interesting plot.
And EPIC FAIL in the end.
About Akikan, really EPIC FAIL drawing. A temp team should do better.
If you look six and a half minutes into the first episode, you’ll notice a distinct failure by a third arm on the left side of his body after getting blasted with the melon ball thing. Yet another epic fail
That “third arm on the left side of his body” is what’s commonly known, in biological circles, as a leg. If you look carefully you’ll see that there’s also one on the right side of his body, though only the hip part of it is visible.
WHAT NONSENSE THOU ART SPEWING!
Sure is QUALITY around here.
MAI BOI, this QUALITY is what all true anime lovers don’t strive 4.
Who the fuck would spend $90 for two episodes of ANY anime, let alone one that looks like everyone has massive Downs?
The Japanese. They seem to enjoy getting absolutely raped, what with 3000 yen CDs, 4000-5000 yen DVDs, 6000yen Blu Ray… absolutely absurd anyone buys anything at all with those prices.
So, you think that this is expensive, right ? You’re completely wrong. You just don’t know their average salary.
Um, what? It’s not as if all Japanese people make a ton of money, you know. A lot of people are average, and the prices are still considered expensive– but it’s pretty much the only price you can get things at, so it’s accepted as normal. There are no Best Buy prices in Japan. Japan is still expensive in terms of electronic goods. It just happens that America is also cheap in terms of electronic goods, in addition to that.
The overall price level in Japan, which in my opinion is usually grossly overstated (it’s a cheap place compared to many developed nations), is different to the price for niche goods.
Anime DVD prices and so forth are based on targeting a relatively small, but dedicated, market. In economic parlance we would say the otaku and anime fans exhibit relatively low “price elasticity” in their demand characteristics.
In short, you can gouge them easily.
They appear expensive to me as an American due to the episode count per disc and the price tag. Average DVD here for a 26 episode series is 4 episodes for 30 bucks(what is the dollar now 90 yen?). Whereas it’s about 60 bucks for only 2 episodes a disc for a series of that length in Japan. For a longer series like Gundam Wing, the discs were 5 episodes each so 5 bucks an episode. Less discs mean less space taken up on my shelf too. I can’t even fathom how much space my collection would take up if it were Japanese DVD’s.
We also tend to have condensed box sets these days with even fewer discs at lower prices. These come out sometime after all the individual discs get released. Amazon’s got some good deals on new stuff if you look around too. I got the first two seasons of Marimite for 60 bucks there.
There were a lot of very bitter comments about this when the price of the US Haruhi set was posted on 2ch – of course some just buy from the US…
lol I can see that. We also got discs with the special releases that contained the episodes in their broadcast order. Something I definitely had to have…
Exchange rate is pretty bad. It was pretty much at 73\ per 1 USD last month. Now it’s back up to 90\, fortunately, but who knows how long that’ll last.
Hell I would pay it if it was Blu-Ray and had some good features and extras for it.
There goes another must buy anime (with Noto Mamiko-sama’s great voice in the series) for me……….
I was about to cry thinking about the failure they’re going to do on Yell……
Most of them don’t look THAT bad… but the first pic is on the same level as Good Naruto, you look kind of cool
hahaha u said it =D
i see nothing wrong with the quality…
Can anyone gimmie a reference to compare the anime to original source/?
shit, this is hardly bad. This is on the level of ‘if you bitch, your a pussy’.
Among all those images,i think the first image is the worst.Others are still okay to me.
But i think Akikan isn’t the only anime that suffered a terribly bad animation quality iirc so far.Not like its the worst in the anime history anyway…
Akikan in general is a good series,although some may say it as somewhat ridiculous or craps or stupid.People may probably appreciate the series more IF only a better studio takes the job to animate the series.Brain Base to me although not that bad (to me they’re actually doing good for series like Natsume Yuujinchou) but i think they’re not really that good for animating this kind of anime genre (supernatural high school harem).
Its kinda sad knowing the sky-earth differences between the animation style and the novel illustration style.Now with all this bad animation quality,the one that suffered will be the series title itself..not the studio that made it.
ｙｅｐ ｈａｖｅ ｔｏ ａｇｒｅｅ ｑｕａｌｉｔｙ－ｗｉｓｅ ｉｔｓ ｃｒａｐｐｙ ｉ ｗａｓ ｄｉｓａｐｐｏｉｎｔｅｄ ｗｉｔｈ ｔｈｅ ｌｏｕｓｙ ｗｏｒｋ ｔｈｅ ｓｔｕｄｉｏ ｄｉｄ． ｂｕｔ ｉ ｔｈｏｕｇｈｔ ｉｔ ｈａｄ ａ ｐｒｏｍｉｓｉｎｇ １ｓｔ ｅｐ． ｉ ｔｈｉｎｋ ｉｔｓ ｂｅａｒａｂｌｅ ａｎｄ ｗｉｌｌ ｐｒｏｂａｂｌｙ ｓｔｉｌｌ ｗａｔｃｈ ｉｔ．
One more episode couldn’t hurt. OR COULD IT?!
It’ll go on your resume and you’ll never get a good job.
I really wish that an animation studio will be able to someday correctly animate a work by Hiro Suzuhira…….
Still is watchable to me but at some point the drawing is not that good only. If you shout loud enough they will notice it and change it in the DVD version.
I’ll still watch it for the content.
The production quality doesn’t irritate as much as Hyakko does.
lolcontent
Troll is trolling~
Hiro Suzuhira seems to be cursed when it comes to anime adaptations. For example, Soul Link.
GOD I HATED SOUL LINK!
Maybe put an effort to this. The animation studio does really have a hard time on their budget.
The heck.. they’re not even trying.
Still hasn’t reached Nanoha StrikerS QUALITY yet
Well, I wasn’t expecting anything “miraculous” in the first place. I only DL’d it because of freeleech, lol.
Oh well.. I watch it for Jun Fukuyama..
I dropped it from my “Trial Run” after 3 mins into the first episode. They don’t even bother with the [anime quality progression] anymore.
Someones going to have a sore neck in the morning. Or should I say, a snapped spine.
We need some articles about the animators. I get the feeling that some of them skipped the classical route of learning human anatomy, especially with some of these weird body contortions.
hey, don’t discredit the animators TOO much, at least they all got five fingers…
Kinda sad but also funny. I’m watching the show to see how absolutely bad it is going to get so the worse it gets the better for me (afterwards the whole studio should be fired or go into bankruptcy). Did anyone expect any differently?
so bad to make jokes about it, I think the best is we just forget and hope that time wipe out this from earth surface.
last pic. HADOUKEN!!!
looks fine to me. wont even notice it in motion. cry more.
Rolling on the floor laughing my ass off, there all way to funny looking XD
It’s fine. I’ll still watch it. Not enough loli for you?
No… it really *is* that bad. You can click to any given point on the timeline, and 4/5 times there would be something disturbingly wrong with how the characters are drawn. It’s kind of offensive.
I hope the studio does *not* go into bankruptcy, though. Brain’s Base brought us Baccano! and Natsume Yuujinchou, among some other pretty good quality shows. I just hope they don’t continue to squeeze this one out of the crap chute and expect to make money…
Well Baccano wasn’t the best drawn but still an excellent anime in regards to everything else.
Oh well, watching for FukuJun. Even if the premise is dumb, the quality of the male lead thus far makes it still yet more enjoyable than the large majority of harem anime ever. Asu no Yoichi’s another case, where the male protagonist completely redeems the harem show, and makes it actually watchable.
Anyhow, 90 bucks for 2 episodes is standard market price in Japan. Just because a season of House or Heroes or whatever is shittier than the rest, doesn’t mean the MSRP’s lower or something (unless it hits bargain bin, which usually never happens for a decade or someshit), etc.
Animation is pretty poor. It’d be nice to get a DVD-TV airing comparison image. I mean, does anyone remember Musashi Gundou? The DVD version of that managed to sell a high number of copies….
Additionally, lol recession.
I saw the article of the pirate Miku, now I wonder “it’s possible that the animators of this series are Chinese?”
And, btw, what is the worst anime quality ? I saw it on youtube (so horrible), but forgot thisanime name. This show should be from late 80’s – early 90’s.
Judge has to be the worst I’ve ever seen. It’s still floating around on R1 DVD
I don’t really think its that bad. I watched through the second ep and I still really like the plot. Sure, there are a few animation failures, but almost all anime’s do. As long as I don’t notice or it doesn’t bother me too much while I’m watching, I think it’s fine. This opinion might only work for me though since 1.I’m not a 2chaner, 2. I choose storyline over animation, and 3. I don’t buy hard copies.
Korean slaves :/
This was the 2ch verdict, yes.
Fact check regarding the price point for the first DVD: That’s only for the special Limited Edition of the first volume, which includes a jumbo cushion cover illustrated by Hiro Suzuhira. Those on their own tend to fetch a decent price, so the bundle price isn’t as extreme as it sounds. This is also reminiscent of the first DVD release of Kimiaru, also by Pony Canyon, which included a pillow cover.
Akikan LE DVD 1:
http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B001OD5PH0/
The rest of the DVDs (along with the regular edition of the first volume) will retail for the closer-to-market-average price of 4,935 Yen (tax included).
This is just another sad example of the dire straits that the industry is in, and will remain in, unless they can widen their audience.
Food in the anime is amazingly well drawn though.
Photoshop perhaps?
its so bad i have to watch it YES
do they really know how to draw…
this sucks!!
Judging from just these seven frame grabs alone, NO THEY DON’T.
Is economy recession I tell you, people is betting and risking on many things. Thank goodness the few newer anime by some company like Sunrise still managing well.
Again, I never have high hopes on this anime to begin with. The reason I even bother to watch is how did a Worshipped Lelouch suddenly become a pervert… lolz
Whoa, whoa, whoa! What happened here?
It almost looks like they let a 13 year old American draw these poor creatures.
If that counts as fail, it shows how far people’s standards have risen.
I couldn’t believe the difference between the two episode too. It’s just like Gurren Lagann episode 4 all over again. I hope they fix this lazy art style.
just saw this lol http://i42.tinypic.com/10h635u.jpg
…fail to the anime idea in the first place….
This is probably just Brain’s Base trying to get more money for future projects, not to mention they’re doing Zoku Natsume Yuujinchou at the same time (i think). Also if this in fact by Brains Base, there is no way they could produce something like Kamichuu! (which had godly animation)and view this as seriously passable.
*sigh* This is just going in a horrible direction. I’ve watched the first two episodes. The first was alright and did look promising, but the second made me drop it. The story is looking to fail, and the drawing quality is definitely not getting any better. There’s no picture, but the worst part in the second episode had to be Melon’s ponytail-thing ACTUALLY MISSING(when mr. government official storms his house). I don’t think I’ve been this disappointed in an anime before.
I think its a great anime ^_^
This is one of those “it’s so bad, it’s good” anime. Turn your brain off and watch it. The stupidity is what makes it enjoyable for me. The animation is a bit of a put off, but the whole concept of a portable girlfriend-in-a-soda-can is kinda funny.
Also the male lead is a typical male pervert, rather than a “OMFG I R A WUSS ROUND GIRLZ” sorta guy. Look at his reaction when the girl first showed up. He was feeling her up just to make sure she was “real”!
They need to pay Korean animators more than two bowls of rice.
Over 9000 bowls of rice and at least 100 bowls of meat.
9001?
Free fans for everyone!
I don’t get it. The head is turned slightly over 90 degrees (NOT 180 degrees as one commenter says), and most people can turn their heads about 90 degrees. But did anyone notice, the “girl” you’re talking about is actually a can of melon soda, and she’s in the process of materialising what looks like a plasma ball and which is actually magic carbonation power. Does anyone actually know how much a can’s head is supposed to turn in such circumstances?
It’s an anime! People have eyes as big as saucers! They get burned to a crisp and they’re fine just seconds later! They leap gracefully from tall building to tall building, and perch on the top of a giant soda can which flies through the air! When they get emotional they become deformed and are drawn in a simpler than usual, exaggerated style (as in exhibit 1). In extreme cases they can acquire giant heads and tiny bodies, and single giant sweatdrops and huge pulsing veins in their foreheads. These are not horrible flaws – they’re what makes it an anime.
There’s nothing missing from the tie. The guy’s just unbuttoned his shirt to show of his chest, and further loosened a tie that was already so loose it was dangling from his neck by threads so narrow as to be almost invisible. The odd bends in some of the arms are known as elbows. Most people have them, and if you check carefully you may even find that you have some yourself. I’ll admit one chopstick is shorter than the other for a frame or two, but that’s what happens when you use cheap disposable chopsticks that break easily. It’s the school canteen’s fault, not the animator’s :-).
For the rest, I just can’t see what people are talking about. The mention a melon. There’s a can of melon soda that features prominently in the plot, I can see that even though no-one else does, but where’s the melon?
I think you’re mistaking anime ‘breaches of reality’ with plain fail.
Also, her head is turned at [i]least[/i] 120°, and her chin is fully on the other side of her shoulder. Necks do not work that way.
There’s tremendous variations in flexibility, so don’t judge what is possible just based on your own capabilities. An untrained person might be only able to twist his neck 28 degrees, whereas the very same person, after athletic training, can twist it ninety degrees – see http://www.somaxsports.com/Rigas.htm
If in addition to twisting your neck 90 degrees you also thrust a shoulder forwards (which you would do if you were about to throw something) your chin would certainly pass beyond your shoulder. Also, during a dynamic move the body can be more flexed than is possible in a static pose.
But, she’s a can, a point which you didn’t address. Last time I checked, cans couldn’t twist their necks at all. So, maybe you have something.
What’s up with the other pictures? The second one, for instance? I can see what people will imagine is the fault with it. An amorphous blob of a torso. Four arms instead of two. But anyone who has watched the episode will know that the girl has been given a second jacket because she’s trapped in a cold room, and unlike the other characters she feels the cold. Maybe there’s some flaw in the face, which I’m missing, but if so it could have been demonstrated using *any* other picture of the same girl. Why use that particular picture, unless the purpose is to mislead those who haven’t yet seen the video?
The highest budget films ever, things like Titanic and the original Star Wars, are wall to wall fail if you believe the lists of bloopers that are floating around. Cameras reflected in windows, late 20th century wristwatches on extras, star troopers shaking the scenery when they bang their heads on low doors, etc, etc, etc. Do you really expect an anime, one of many churned out on a conveyor belt for a relatively small audience, to surpass the production quality of the greatest ever worldwide blockbusters?
OK, some anime have great attention paid to detail, e.g. Kamichu has impressive scenery, but that is because the scenery is an important element in the success or failure of that anime. Akikan is all about innuendo and double entendre, or even single entendre. The sexual references don’t get any less steamy just because one chopstick is momentarily shorter than another.
DON’T LISTEN TO THIS RETARD!
One time I was hanging out with some friends and I told this really funny joke, but no one laughed and one guy hit me because one of my chopsticks was shorter than the other. Then I twisted my body in an abnormal position for 1/10 of a second and there was much drama.
Just ’cause some people can’t put their chin over their shoulder, nobody can? Not even fictional characters? Hold on, let me try… HOLY CRAP I CAN!! Oh wait, I’m double-jointed, effectively making me an alien and defunct from voicing my opinion. Carry on.
To me, the fourth pic that is wrong is,The second finger(or first if you look top to btm),it’s abnormally fatter than other finger.
fifth pic,wrong perspective,so looks wierd to some people.
6th pic,only 2 girl is looking at the main char,other’s was hay wired and 1 has her eye crooked(again with the first)
7th pic,Wrong perspective again,thus looking wierd as usual.
No, see, the point is that the animators made just ONE mistake in an anime, the most sacred of all forms of reality-escaping entertainment. BLASPHEMY!!!1
Caption on first picture:
“You stole my girlfriend!”
“HURRR DURRRR”
looks good to me, at least. :)