that poor tako...... no................

It is really good so far. I'm still waiting to see how the rearranging they're doing will end up but at least as a manga reader it's as much as I could have hoped for. The style it's using works much better than I had initially thought after watching the trailer.

looks good

>>9152
He looked so proud to get hired, too.
Remember the three second rule, kids. Let no sacrifice be in vain.

>>9153
Wako!

With CITY and Panty and Stocking this season, it's a great time for people that like bold colors and thick lines.
CITY does the short story format very well, too. It remains to be seen if it will stay entertaining, but so far after two episodes I don't think it's lost any steam.

I forgot this and Panty and Stocking was airing this season. The usual RSS feed I follow didn't have them either. So thanks for reminding me.

>>9151
I like how aggressively 2D and stylized it is. I feel like the general trend in anime since around the mid-2000s has been towards fancy semi-realistic rendering with lots of soft shadows and post-processing effects. That stuff is definitely impressive, don't get me wrong, but it also undermines the hand-crafted, "you're looking at a moving drawing" quality I like seeing in animation.

I'm afraid I have the opposite opinion, or maybe I should say it brings out an entirely different feeling in me. To me the obvious incessant use of cgi makes this an extremely stark contrast with Nichijou. I'm reminded what it isn't when I look at it.

>>9168
I wish they'd go back to hand drawn animation but the profit margins on this stuff is so thin it isn't going to happen. They're already paying animators a slave wage even with the use of CGI. No way they'd be willing to pay for skilled animators to produce stuff in HD resolutions using old methods.

I think it looks pretty good considering the tools they used. I'm hopeful the software will continue to improve and animators will figure out more ways to replicate what has been lost. It could be much worse. Look at what happened to western animation when they moved on from old hand drawn methods to using computers for everything. We went from stuff like Ren and Stimpy and Ed, Edd, and Eddy to the modern Calarts style. Which let's be real is just Adobe Flash.

Just because it's being done in software doesn't mean it has to look bad. The last season of Ed, Edd, and Eddy was done using 100% digital methods. You can tell it isn't the same as the older seasons but they put in a lot of effort attempting to get it as close as possible to what they were doing before. The did a great job considering how little time they had to adapt to the new tools and the budget constraints they were working under.

Studio Bind has been putting out some great looking stuff lately and I know for a fact they're using 100% digital methods. It's all about how the artists uses the tools and not the tools themselves.

>>9169
>We went from stuff like Ren and Stimpy and Ed, Edd, and Eddy to the modern Calarts style. Which let's be real is just Adobe Flash.
I've never liked the term "Calarts style" for that reason. The look isn't a result of the training the cartoonists received, a lot of them actually are capable of much more than is being asked of them on TV, it's a result of a production pipeline built around cutting costs above all else.

>Just because it's being done in software doesn't mean it has to look bad.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, I have no idea why anime studios haven't embraced 2D rigged animation way they have 3DCG. It's a lot easier to emulate traditional 2D animation in a program like Toonboom than it is with 3D models. Mercury Filmworks does some great looking stuff (Wander over Yonder, the new Mickey Mouse shorts), and everything they do is tweened.

It's not really clicking for me yet. I did like the football bit from ep. 2 though.

City is a weird one for me, since I really like the style but the characters and comedy just aren't really hitting for me in the same way that Nichijou's did. At most it's getting a light snort or a 'huh, that's neat' response out of me, while some segments are a total miss. That's in contrast to the new PSG, which has managed to both have excellent animation -and- to consistently be laugh-out-loud funny for me.

I think I'll probably enjoy City more once I'm more familiar with the characters and their running gags, but with only 13 episodes to work with I think it's ultimately going to be more just a nifty seasonal than a new Nichijou-tier classic.

Oh, and a bit of a side-note but I'm surprised by the apparent lack of interest City's generated in the West so far (no clue about Japan). With it being the first new Kyoani series post-fire, combined with it being based on a manga by the same author as one of the all-time most-popular comedy anime, I'd have expected a lot more hype than it got. Likewise it seems like the type of anime that is tailor-made for getting spread via the kind of short-form clips that are popular on the internet these days, and the reception from what I've seen has generally been positive too, yet I haven't seen it getting any kind of mainstream attention or any memes based on it or anything like that.

So far I love the show, but I feel like it has been truly been gimped by having to be shoved into 13 episodes; I think my only issue with the show is how short it's going to be despite attempting to cover the entire manga. This show really deserved 26 episodes just like Nichijou had, considering the greater cast of characters and more elaborate arcs.

I do think the 3D in this is pretty obvious at times, but it's not egregious. It actually works with the thick lines. It would be great if it was purely 2D, but that's pretty rare these days unfortunately. I'm not sure any show this season is purely 2D, not even the Ruri one I love for being so well animated has escaped it.

CHEESEBURGER

Apparently the studio was hyping up episode 5. Will it be award-worthy?

Very difficult to pay attention to episode but impressive nonetheless.

This show is great. Probably anime of the year for me so far.

>>9472
I had no idea where to look. I'm kind of tempted to try and follow individual plots on a character basis, but at the same time I don't think it's leading to anything meaningful. I can only imagine the headache it must have been to create it.

They should have had at least the Adatara family intro from episode 6 before the tower episode.
>>9564
￥I don't think it's leading to anything meaningful
It led to all the characters converging at the party at the end of the episode.

>>9565
Yeah, I know, but I mean actually following each character's individual story. Was there anything to be found if you took mental notes and watched the episode to completion multiple times? I don't think so.

>>9195
>I'd have expected a lot more hype than it got
It did get hype, just didn't live up to the humor or memorability of Nichijou so it died down. The announcement had me excited, but to echo another anon's words it simply didn't click.
>with only 13 episodes to work with I think it's ultimately going to be more just a nifty seasonal than a new Nichijou-tier classic.
Before the premiere I thought it would be a board-wide sensation, but there actually isn't much Cityposting on /a/ outside of its dedicated thread. I understand people's hopeful enthusiasm, it just doesn't live up to what I expected and I find that some get needlessly defensive when you say that.

>>9634
I mean it's not like the manga was popular on /a/ either. Partially because there was no fan translation, only the official version. That tends to kill discussion even if the official version is easy to find. As someone who was reading the manga when it was ongoing, I'm somewhat disappointed in the short length and some of the choices for the chapters they're adapting and the order, but overall I'm still really happy with the adaptation.

The episode length is 28 minutes at least, so at 13 episodes it's more like 15 episodes of runtime.

CITY is crazy good this week

i hate riko