oh well..
>> Sunday, October 10, 2010
Togainu no Chi..guess it's worth the wait. i think the animators may have redeemed my disappointment at the anime industry
Gone are the usual inky bright colours, many-movement scenes and conventional camera angles
it's not for boys, but for girls actually. Not much of a starry-eyed thingy as well. The dark atmosphere in the anime is not so sombre so as not to scare the fans away and not so light to me as to wave it off and remark that it's just another anime
maybe i rarely watch anime of this nature so it comes as a "ok, just continue watching"
but somehow the background and the characters...how to say..it's as if it's poorly done or they had a strict budget or couldn't be bothered: usually the still backgrounds would seem to "move" with the character but this is like watching some few-years-ago-Canadian-cartoon: the background is fixed and not well-blended with the character. i guess Togainu no Chi's idea is just to follow only the characters' movements and strip down the subliminal-background movement - the environment is set in a dark place after all
it's straight-forward, unlike most anime i've watched since the fall release, they throw the main plot in the first ep, already bringing out the 2nd lead character. Perphaps they're following the game sequence? They are smart to throw in the main plot + 2nd lead character in the first ep - not much of the anime series i've watched would have done that. If Togainu no Chi doesn't do it, they're gonna lose a (maybe) substantial number of TV rating
this anime kinda works because for they minus the usual-elaborate-ness of most anime which woke my senses up as if it's a fresh method of presenting an anime, my brain relaxes more in this anime and my eyes capture simplistic character movements. It's as if someone had taken a huge knife and sliced the air, saying, "Cut the 'noisy'-elaborateness."
i was right in not eagerly anticipating this anime series, or hype about it, just have almost a "pass me by" attitude to it
cos for now i will say that this is the only October series i will 'faithfully' stick to
