Shangri-La DVD Disaster
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Dec 18, 2009 21:53 JST
- Tags: Bizarre, Comparison, DVD Extras, Fail, Moe, Production Controversy, Range Murata
Shangri-La, an anime whose DVDs sold so badly that the release of volume 7 and onwards was abruptly canceled, has recently attracted even more opprobrium for the bizarre happenings on its covers; the first four start off well enough, probably better than the anime deserves in the eyes of many:
However, after volume 4 a mysterious change comes over the covers and Range Murata‘s ravishing designs give way to something quite different…
Lost horizon indeed…
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my jizz can heal ur eyes
It's just random fine artist's work with no relation to the product's content.
yea, the content is great, the covers are fine...
the 1st comment was over reacting...
this anime is good!
If I go into a shop and look for a Shangri La DVD I definitely would walk past the last two. I just wouldn't recognize them.
I tend to look for pics more than for titles because this is the fastest and easiest way to find what I look for - and I'm sure I'm not alone.
Agreed~ I generally graze over titles for recognizable characters myself~
the cover just tell you
buy the dvd = see naked okama
I'm fine with this
I advise you to recuperate at neko healing gallery
Ive never agreed with a comment more then i have now :P
gay post is homo
If you take Murata away from Shangri-La you're pretty much left with nothing, and it obviously shows.
+9.000
I began watching this series because Murata's artwork, but it turned out to be a great dissapointment.
^This^
After volume 4 eh?
Well, if you're into drags, and your targeted market was people who love a schoolgirl-wielding-boomerangs, be my guest
What ever floats their boats...
Amazing “Sudden growth” skill… Too bad results suck.
only seen a bit of the anime so far dosent seem so bad but i wodent buy it. i think the covers r the main problem with the dvd, changing art style WTF seems unnecessary and annoying.
Quite drastic changes there. The first four were better.
No need to state the obvious.
Didn't watch the anime, but I liked the opening (Kimi Shinitamou Koto Nakare)
LOL NOOOOOO~ What the hell haha.
I got a physical shock after seeing first 4 (love Robots!)and then the next two.
I quite liked the light novels, I'd guess the animé wasn't as good? Either way, eww at the two newer covers.
I thought the anime was ok. I mean the plot was very original, but at end i think too many things were reviled too fast and you weren't really able to digest them; it kinda got out of hand. Also i wanted a kiss at the end.
I'd say He got high on somethin.
*cries*
Ugly covers are ugly.
realistic does'nt suit murata but any artist would want to grow out of the current (sigh...)
its sad that so many ppl dont realise how great this anime is... rather they buy anime thats rather a dumb hentai then to be called anime. sad...
it's sad that no one would understand what you said. sad...
This anime really wasn't that good. I mean in the beginning, it had potential with the post-disaster Japan and political strife. And it was even fine with the tranny characters and "global-warming-crisis-turned-economic-tool" plot device. And then they started adding the occult shit and allusions to Gods and crap...which is where a potentially good story with unique characters got saddled with waay too many themes and genre types. It's like they tried to be Code Geass, Spice and Wolf and Rental Magica at the same time and figured they'd toss in Japanese creationismm mythology just for good measure. It would have been much better if they had adhered to the KISS rule.
Sure the anime was no amazing masterpiece but it wasn't that bad ether. It was just a nice series and i have no idea what the problem was with people.
I bet that if it wasn't the fact of Gonzo making it and had some other name even if it was exactly the same people would say a lot better words.
Ditto, it was definitely one of the nicer series of its season - nothing amazing, but enjoyable and fun to watch. The plot was nothing special, but the characters had a bit more, well, character than most of the anime industry has bothered to produce in the past few years.
And Murata's designs were great.
I watched the first episode when it aired. When I saw it was about "an under-age school girl saving the world with her boomerang", I dropped the shit for good.
Ditto 2
It wasn't bad, I enjoyed it too.
For the last cover, I think its Ryouko.
However I have no idea bout the 2nd last.
I have a very strange idea about the 2nd last cover. I think you are getting where am going with this.
KEEP IT SIMPLE STUPID.
The anime had many, many subtle messages a lot more aplicable to reality than people think.
And all the global warming bullshit is in fact a lie to empower the nuclear industry, and to justify the future carbon tax over the nations.
Where's your "thereisnoglobalwarming" now?
murata can draw a lot of different styles, though his art-decoish loli-abundant one is obviously the most popular.
it rather looks like he's gotten tired of it himself. robot was cancelled too, and wani's own gelatin is just a bad substitute.
this is worst than endless eight dvds....
Even Murata couldn't save Shangri-La. I hoped for something as enjoyable as Last Exile and I got Gonzo in its death throes puking up blood. I think the idea has potential but the execution was really sub par.
Tbh, those realistic arts aren't that bad... but to group them with the other delicious Murata lolis especially the one with the lollipop (NGHHHHHH).. it's nearly as equivalent as Yen Press' "new" Spice & Wolf cover..
OMG, OKAMA!
Murata isn't only about his signature lolis, but I guess that's about all anybody is interested in.
well, personally i loved shangri-la...ofc most of it by murata's design but even so...
now, about the covers...WTF?????????????
nooooo, down hill for shangri-la :(
i like the show too...
bayonetta rules LoL XD
Shit, they have American faces! He must be threatened to draw as such at gun point!
he should just choose the gun.
Shangri-La got too preachy with it's environmental message. I can only put up with so much of that nonsense before I get turned off from it. Even Murata's character designs couldn't help a flawed story.
whats wrong with taking care of the Enviroment?At least they weren't telling everyone to just throw their trash everywhere.
P.S. Shangri-La, was a lot better than half the crap that came out this year. examples: Queen Blade, Juudeen Chan,any of the slice of life anime, or the ground hog day version of Haruhi.