>>259
I like Un-Go's art style/character designs a lot and the animation looks like it'll be impressive too, considering that the animation is being overseen by veterans of Sword of the Stranger, Fullmetal Alchemist, Darker than Black and various other well-animated BONES productions. One or two of the animation directors also worked as key animators for episodes of Dennou Coil.
I think it could turn out to be one of the best shows this season, and with Mizushima directing, it will hopefully be well executed unlike some BONES shows. The fact that it's an adaptation of a light novel should help them avoid fucking up on that front.
Guilty Crown might be cool, but it didn't look as interesting to me in its latest PV. The character designs didn't jump out at me and the animation staff are not people I particularly revere. One of them is from Ordet as someone mentioned, and though BRS and Fractale had their moments, I'm still going to reserve judgement. I'll definitely be picking it up though.
>>222
I liked Fate/Zero's coloring and it had a very crisp feel to it. Hard to tell whether the animation will be good or not due to the sheer lack of it in that first episode, but I'm not too concerned about it.
The exposition was necessary and it was the simplest way to do it: if that means the finite budget gets pumped into the more dramatic and intense moments of the LNs, I've no problem with that. The CGI was really obvious and unnecessary but again, as a Type-moon fan, it's my duty to overlook it in the hopes of a good adaptation overall.
Of course, if I had no familiarity with Type-moon or Fate/*, I probably would have been very disappointed with it as a first episode.
>>244
It's a shame. I really enjoyed Nichijou but I have to admit that sometimes it just went too far with shitty gags. As has been said, this is down to the director and KyoAni ought to think about that.
They probably won't, and they'll probably chalk the poor sales down to a bad timeslot and high prices alone, but they should consider the fact that it should have been better and that they really are seen as a one trick studio by many now.
When I was watching Nichijou, I kept imagining how good they could make a show of a different genre look if only the animators were given something fresh to work with.