#radicalseabies

bull. shit.

i love arm

im a big fan of trigger too, kill la kill is my literally favourite anime of all time, and lwa and luluco are high favs too, but franxx just doesnt do it for me. its got the LOOK of a trigger anime, but with none of the heart and soul, none of the charm and personality. from what i understand, its more of an A-1 production with trigger just providing action direction (imaishi), art, and only animating SOME of the episodes, so im guessing thats a big part of why.

Yeah it is mainly an A-1 anime with Trigger mostly only handling action. The thing is though it’s not as easy as just blaming A-1 and calling it a day, because the director of the show who works at A-1, is Atsushi Nishigori used to be an important staff member at Gainax. He was the character designer for Gurren Lagann and Panty and Stocking. So while A-1 is definitely the problem with the show, the A-1 side of it is still part of the Gainax legacy. The only other thing Nishigori has directed is IdolM@ster, which I haven’t seen, but judging just by DitF I’m not a big fan of his directing. He’s one of my favorite character designers though. If he had just handled the character designs instead (not that the character designs in the show are bad, I just think they’re a little bland for a mecha anime) and someone else had directed, who knows, we might have had a great show.

But yeah I agree, I don’t think it has the charm of a Trigger show, and I don’t think it has the look of one either outside of the action scenes. As much as I love Trigger I wouldn’t blame anyone for dropping it. I’m just really stubborn about watching everything Trigger works on. And for that matter I also want to eventually watch Gainax’s entire library of work too but that’s a much bigger library so that’ll take longer.

place further than the universe was truly incredible, it feels like an instant classic that ppl will remember for years to come. so glad i decided to watch it, it surprised me so much!! really really good. meanwhile i dropped darling in the franxx after ep 6 and honestly have no desire to go back, which is sad but also... shrugs i guess :\

I checked out A Place Further than the Universe because I had heard great things about it but I never expected to like it as much as I did. It really blew me away. I haven’t cried that much at an anime in a while. It was definitely anime of the season and it’s certainly gonna be in the running for anime of the year. I really wanna check out other anime by the director and writer now because they did an amazing job with it.

And yeah I don’t blame you for dropping DitF. I’m sticking with it because I’m deeply invested in Trigger and want to watch everything they make. Even when I don’t particularly like something they make, I still watch anyway because it’s my favorite studio and I want to have comprehensive knowledge of their whole library of work. I don’t hate it though, it’s competent, but it’s definitely not anything that special. It’s got really nice mecha designs and good action animation but that’s all it really has to write home about.

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