Comments on: Blame! Adventure-seeker Killy’s Cyber Dungeon animated

By: mashmout

mashmout — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 19:57:18 +0000

For me this just doesn’t do Nihei justice wheres the dirt and grit the feel of doom
thats captured in the artwork gets lost in all this specular shade. I do animation 2d and 3d and if i had my way a would make this 70% 2d and the rest 3d !

By: Blackest heart, whitest soul — Afterimage

Blackest heart, whitest soul — Afterimage — Thu, 15 May 2008 23:11:08 +0000

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By: bateszi

bateszi — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 21:22:57 +0000

@Iio: Apologies for the relatively late response. Your defense of Ergo Proxy is a lot like the ‘Advent Children’ defense i.e. that it can be considered good, or even great, by the hardcore fans, despite alienating a lot of the watching audience. I have a lot of respect for Ergo Proxy for trying something new, but for me, it remains an ambitious failure in the sense that I never felt empathy for the characters, unlike with Texhnolyze, which works on a human, as well as philosophical, level. To further illustrate my example, I loved Ookiku Furikabutte, despite it being centered on a sport I know nothing about. It is, and should be, possible for Ergo Proxy to appeal to me, but it never really happened (regardless of the amazing opening sequence)

By: Iio

Iio — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 23:43:51 +0000

that you tube clip is brilliant.
Im also obviously hoping for a full anime TV series of this.

For the record i also liked Texhnolyze, and perhaps more controversially, Ergo Proxy.

Ergo proxy gets criticized for being “pretentious”, but it’s story simply has many roots in philosophy. To me, that would be like criticizing a Philosophy class at College for being pretentious.

By: bateszi

bateszi — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 13:28:47 +0000

@Xerox: I feel your pain, but now this new movie’s coming out, there might be some added chance for a new anime TV series too. Fingers crossed! If you like how this looks, check out the manga… it’s even better on the page.

@That Girl Hates You: From what I understand, the anime “episodes” were intended to be used as encouragement for funding for a genuine movie, but that never materialized, so in the end, all we were left with were these random clips ripped from various different points in the manga storyline. I don’t blame you for being confused by it, I’d have no idea myself if I wasn’t already very familiar with the story. Anyway, I think this new movie should be a bit more coherent, but at the same time, I recommend reading the manga too, just because I seriously doubt that any movie can come close to rivaling the unique beauty of Nihei’s style.

By: That Girl Hates You

That Girl Hates You — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 03:46:51 +0000

It looks pretty but I do hope there’s a plot. I haven’t read the manga and the”anime” just confused me to no end (I should probably just re-watch it and see if I can find something out of it.)

By: Xerox

Xerox — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 02:30:11 +0000

Oh god, that looks amazing…but they’re only five minutes each from what I understand. Ugh, a full series would be so goooood. >.

By: Cameron Probert

Cameron Probert — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 18:05:34 +0000

Agreed. That is awesome.

By: bateszi

bateszi — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 14:34:52 +0000

I'd love to see the whole manga animated like this: It looks... amazing. A shame it'd never turn a profit, really!

By: Cameron Probert

Cameron Probert — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 06:07:42 +0000

I always thought the manga kind of seemed like Gulliver’s Travels in a giant underground city. It was a lot of fun to be sure. Although I’m not sure how much I’m really going to love a movie. (I’m not a fan of anime movies in general. Even the ones that everyone likes. Which I suppose makes me a bad person). But I’ll most likely buy it in the hopes that someone will do a series for it. Because that would be awesome.