Although the response to baka yarou anime Minamike Okaeri’s first episode was cautiously optimistic, despite a disastrous blunder, nobody can help but notice the less than first rate animation and character design, or Asread quality as it has come to be known. Merciless 2ch gathers the oddest above.
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The latest series of apprehensively awaited baka-yarou anime Minamike, Minamike Okaeri, has arrived, and episode one is already attracting harsh censure for its sloppy production values, with an especially major error being rapidly detected by the critical engine that is 2ch.
You can see the glaring error which has so outraged fans below:
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An example of what happens when quality control and animation direction (or perhaps just budget) is not what it could be, showing episodes one to three.
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A recent quote from Sunrise has stirred up much controversy amongst Code Geass fans, as it suggests Sunrise’s desire to make another Geass project sometime in the future.
Given the series’ screenwriter previous hints that recently concluded Code Geass R2 would be the definite end of the storyline, many are left wondering what else could be produced?
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In a recent interview, 水島精二 / Seiji Mizushima, director of Gundam 00, spoke of the tremendous pressures of creating a Gundam series, the constant criticism made of the show online, and even how the Internet’s “knee jerk” negativity lowers the creative motivation of the production staff.
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The imminent third season of troubled baka-yarou anime Minamike, Minamike Okaeri, has been unveiled in modest detail with the release of a brief trailer, allowing a fair comparison between the three seasons.
Minamike fans are seemingly split between those who consider the new series to represent a complete collapse in design quality, and those who think it compares well with Okawari. We need not consider the other possible opinion, vanishingly rare as it is.
You can evaluate it yourself below:
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Nondescript anime Hyakko has experienced a modicum of success, which means the inevitable knock off PS2 adventure game is due.
But this time, it is no ordinary knock off, for it seems their laziness in developing the game has reached unprecedented heights, even for typically wretched anime adventure games – as the above shots indicate, they have actually filched scenes from the anime rather than go to the trouble of reenvisaging them in CG.
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The controversial second season of the marvellous Minamike looks to be getting its continuation in short order, for we hear that the third season’s release will be in January 2009, airing in a late night slot (01:30 on a Monday morning in the case of Tokyo TV).
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It would appear work on the latest adaptation of one of the great Masamune Shirow’s works, set to be a TV anime entitled アップルシード ジェネシス / Appleseed Genesis, is in dire straits, with the prior target of a spring 2009 release seemingly up in smoke, and the prospect of complete project cancellation being apparent.
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Minamike fans everywhere are in a state of grave despair with the news that the recently announced third season of Minamike is set to be a continuation of the oft reviled second series, Okawari, with the same producers, which was not previously clear.
However, it also seems that parts of the production will be going back to the original producers, so there may yet be hope for Okawari detractors.
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In a spot of potentially excellent news for Minamike fans (amongst whose number I am happy to count myself), we have the news that a third season of the anime is planned, being apparently a continuation of the Okawari series.
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