Studio SHAFT is working on this adaptation this time right? Got nothing against them but I kinda expected more from an action scene like this. I mean come on look at the action in Madoka.

qwack said:
Studio SHAFT is working on this adaptation this time right? Got nothing against them but I kinda expected more from an action scene like this. I mean come on look at the action in Madoka.

To be fair, Ryo Imamura and Gen'ichirou Abe (Shaft's two best action animators) have been doing significantly less work per show since the start of the 2010s. Abe still stops in fairly often but Imamura's most significant credit in the past 5 years or so has been the Kizumonogatari films and that's it. Their in-house staff just aren't really specialized for action, I guess.

Bloodystar said:
something something staff matters
This scene is really good though. It's more that she's fighting a giant overpowered Buddah and I can't believe I'm writing this sentence

I'll ignore that.

MerrBear said:
To be fair, Ryo Imamura and Gen'ichirou Abe (Shaft's two best action animators) have been doing significantly less work per show since the start of the 2010s. Abe still stops in fairly often but Imamura's most significant credit in the past 5 years or so has been the Kizumonogatari films and that's it. Their in-house staff just aren't really specialized for action, I guess.

Is that one of the reasons why that one Smash4 trailer felt kinda flat in terms of combat?

qwack said:
Is that one of the reasons why that one Smash4 trailer felt kinda flat in terms of combat?

I wouldn't know. I wasn't even aware that was a Shaft project.

Bloodystar said:
something something staff matters
This scene is really good though. It's more that she's fighting a giant overpowered Buddah and I can't believe I'm writing this sentence

*ahem* in any case yes the animation here is fantastic don't mistaken my previous comment that it wasn't. But at the same time things here felt a bit too flashy here. This scene here feels like something you'd see in a Mecha anime.

You can blame Nasu for that. This is quite faithful to his idea of how Saver would actually fight. There's a lot of stuff about the guy Nasu couldn't show off like he wanted in the PSP game due to budget limitations.

Imamura most likely left SHAFT after Kizu II since all his recent work has been freelance.

MerrBear said:
To be fair, Ryo Imamura and Gen'ichirou Abe (Shaft's two best action animators) have been doing significantly less work per show since the start of the 2010s. Abe still stops in fairly often but Imamura's most significant credit in the past 5 years or so has been the Kizumonogatari films and that's it. Their in-house staff just aren't really specialized for action, I guess.

Didn't Imamura leave Shaft? I've seen him pop up in Osomatsu-san recently.

Imamura has officially left SHAFT and is now freelance, yeah. It's true that AbeGen and the rest of the top animators at the studio really lowered their TV output in recent years, but you can expect him in F/E #2.

kViN said:
Imamura has officially left SHAFT and is now freelance, yeah. It's true that AbeGen and the rest of the top animators at the studio really lowered their TV output in recent years, but you can expect him in F/E #2.

Is that so? Well let's have it then. I was hoping for this first episode to have the same amount of intensity as Apocryha but unfortunately I was wrong. but I'm curious to see how this show will do.