Shoko-tan: Aku no Hana “Shockingly Creepy”
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: May 4, 2013 17:41 JST
- Tags: 2D vs 3D, Adaptations, Aku no Hana, Animation, Production Controversy, Shoko-tan
The near universal loathing of Aku no Hana extends even to celebrities, with no less than Shoko-tan herself – evidently positively disposed to the original manga – bashing the anime in print.
From a recent column of hers:
It’s amazing how exciting it is as he is picked on and his perversions are exposed. If you read it you can discover your own hidden perversion too!
Its anime started in April, but Nakamura is just creepy now. They filmed it and then the animators drew over it, so their features are quite vivid, but Nakamura is way too ugly now.
I thought a 2D title about a cute girl who is actually a total sadist would succeed, but I was shocked at the reality of the anime.
The show looks likely to go down in history as Japan’s first rotoscoped TV anime – but for all the wrong reasons:
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Look everyone, a dead horse
Had me my bat, I want it to feel this beating in horse heaven.
I think this particular horse has gone straight to hell.
I thought that the anime looked horrid because they rotoscoped ugly people. But now it seems the ‘originals’ are actually reasonably cute - but rotoscoped really inaccurately and badly.
A dead horse is fine too...
Yeah, a lot of people assumed it was ugly people and said "this is what Japanese people really look like!"
Apparently many people don't have eyes, because faces in reality have more than one shade of color.
Pipiru piru pipiru piii!!!
Hey, now, she's not THAT ugly
At least not the 3D one^^
implying I wont fap to that.
I'm gonna go beat that dead horse with a dead horse.
Eh Not even her face claim is that good looking so i guess they were screwed either way.
The only great thing about Aku no Hana is that it's not as bad as a certain crappy (yaoi) swimming anime.
amen to that
Of course, we don't even know what's it about we can already called it yaoi. Why don't we do the same for Gundam Wing and 00? Yaoi Gundams
We got Seed for that faggotry.
gundam is non-assumed yaoi
It can be yaoi, or not.. but the chance it is a yaoi quite high, as all the main cast is pretty boy and all of them are man..
Didn't happen in Tsuritama ,Kimi to Boku. Care to explain why it's different?
Except if I think of Gundam Wing, I think of dudes fighting with robots and on their own suits instead of naker in a swimming pool splashing each other in the face.
So, no. I don't think I'll call Gundam Wing Yaoi, but if Gundam Wing is yaoi enough for girltards to make a million fan yaoi manga imagine what this one can do.
I hope you know it is a sports anime...
KyoAni making universal gay-detector, and he showing now that you are, indeed, a gay. 100%.
The character for both series are cool, by cool i mean it don't trying to be like it. So it kinda hard to see that as Yaoi material.
If there are only guys in an anime, you know its yaoi,BL bait.
I repeat
"Didn't happen in Tsuritama ,Kimi to Boku. Care to explain why it's different?"
For three reasons:
1. The characters in those animes weren't more-than-half-naked regularly.
2. None of the directors of those animes was a dirty fujoshi.
3. None of the directors of those animes basically stated that their main priority was to wet the female viewers panties.
Not that I have particularly high expectations of a fanservice anime, but I have to point that you are being extremely biased. You can't know if the anime is bad or not if it hasn't even been made yet.
Every anime should just trace live footage from now on. It'll sell like hotcakes in the West! I can see the reviews now!
10/10
"Most fluid animation ever! It's silky smooth!"
10/10
"Extremely detailed shading! Just like real people!"
10/10
"The most unique and incredible style I've ever seen in my long five years of life!"
Lost it at the 4koma gaijin meme LOL
Can you explain? I don't get it.
you cant get "it" because he allready lost "it".
thats how i get "it".
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/reaction-guys-gaijin-4koma
Me too, I know the meme but didn't see THAT coming!
rofl at the rotoscoped 4koma gaijin theme
Love me some gaijin 4-koma. More to add to my growing collection since day one~
It's a really awkward style. The story is there, as far as I can tell, but you gotta give people something pleasant to look at.
It's almost as bad as that Aliens Colonial Marines bait and switch. Almost.
The manga is perfect, with moderately beautiful art and very interesting plot. The anime is downgrade of that, with butt ugly art and with the same plot..
If the animator keep the art style of the manga, Aku No Hana will be great as the manga version are.
Your definition of perfection amuses me. The manga is only as great as your patience for this kind of superficial depth, but at least it's not Railgun.
I read War and Peace in my free time for fun because I'm masochist.
It is clearly my business to dictate what other ppl should do for fun after work.
I wish I could say the same thing about your lack of sense for simple figures of speech.
Hey, some people enjoy Tolstoy... and other classical literature
I bet if they had gone the traditional route, people would instead be complaining about it being too moe and they would still ignore the plot for the visuals. Then they'd find other things to complain about, like the anime changing or leaving things out compared to the manga.
I dunno.....the chick from the live-action version actually looks pretty hot.
You're a real trooper, brother, taking the ugly broad out of circulation. Your sacrifice will be remembered.
No, Aliens: Colonial Marines sucked on so many levels. It's far, far worse. They offered worse graphics than promised in early reveals, and it was a lame game.
Aku no Hana is a good show.
Yeah, I've always known the show would be so ugly, so it's not a letdown at all... oh wait...
Ugly? Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. At least this looks UNIQUE and not like some generic moe crap placeholder shit.
Yeah! Uniquely ugly. There's nothing else like it, 2D or 3D.
The creators wanted to do something different, they didn't wanted to simply recreate the manga in motion picture. They wanted it creepy and disturbing. They built it up around the literature thread, instead of fanservice.
What literature thread? They copy & pasted the manga author's plot, while making it pugly for some reason?
What fanservice? If it's not rotoscopped, it's fanservice?
Your masochism belies your intelligence.
I wouldn't call it "style" when it's tracing live footage with zero interpretation.
looks like chewbacca taking a shit to me
Rrrrrrr-ghghghghgh! Plop Plop Plop
dont insult chewbacca ! oh my gawd... he doesnt deserve it.
He may have banged Han Solo's wife but he's done nothing to deserve to be compared to this.