Animation Appreciation Thread #3

The Sakuga Wiki [JP] - http://www18.atwiki.jp/sakuga/
ANN Database - http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/

Animation Blogs [Eng]:
http://www.pelleas.net/aniTOP/
http://aninomiyako.wordpress.com/

Animation Twitters [Eng]:
http://twitter.com/raito_kun
http://twitter.com/Duune99
http://twitter.com/kyouray
http://twitter.com/catsuka

Previous threads:
#1 http://dis.4chan.org/read/anime/1291816034
#2 http://dis.4chan.org/read/anime/1314681601

I want to move away from using the term "Sakuga" as it often alienates people and can be misleading. There has been a bit of backlash against the Sakuga movement lately, and I'd like to think many people come to this thread to talk about the animation and visual aspect of anime, which is something that often gets overlooked elsewhere. It would be nice if we could get a wider appreciation of visuals in the anime fandom without being seen as elitists.

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Season 1 goes up and down between boring and decent. The final few episodes are pretty good.

Fumoffu is when they switch to KyoAni and this just covers the SoL aspects of the show. It has some really fun and excellent comedy episodes.

TSR is a mixed bag, it has some top grade KyoAni action animation, but there are one or two moments where you think they should just fucking get on with the plot already. It's miles better than season 1 however.

The OVA is just SoL and fanservice.

It's up to you if you want to watch it, I personally really like the series, action and characters and think KyoAni would probably do the last arc really good justice because of their high level of craftsmanship. I think you should give FMP another chance, its certainly one of the better shows out there.

I think people want KyoAni to go back to FMP is because people are getting tired of KyoAni doing SoL/Moe shows and feel the need for something with story again, since they did a good FMP adaptation and that is unfinished, fans often put forward that FMP should be the one to get the next animation treatment. Often shows with stories do better in the western fandom than shows that are simply SoL/moe. Hence why you read people want more FMP in the west fandom than the Japanese fandom.

I can't vouch for Munto, but what I've heard is the story is very dire and overly complex. Not worth watching just for the sake of animation.