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Tenchi Kaze
Joined: 24 Jun 2005
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Location: Alberta, Canada
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 Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 12:07 pm
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Wow, that's some huge amount of awe-inspiring talent coming together for this series. I'm slowly making my way through Galactic Heroes, and very much appreciating it. It's as epic and interesting as everyone said it would be. And though I haven't seen most of the other old school shows that were mentioned in this article, I appreciate how much high regard they tend to be held in by fans.
If the work on Tytania is as high-quality as all the shows that its creative team has worked on in the past, then I think it has the potential to be a magnificent show. Definitely one to watch out for.
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edzieba
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Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 3:41 pm
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Yes. Yes! YES! [INSUFFICIANT LEVEL OF EXCLAIMATION AVAILABLE]
... Damn.
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Zin5ki
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Location: London, UK
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Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 4:43 pm
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| Tenchi Kaze wrote: | | I'm slowly making my way through Galactic Heroes, and very much appreciating it. It's as epic and interesting as everyone said it would be. |
The main thing that's stopping me from watching LOGH is the fact that doing so would eat up half a year. Is any show really capable of keeping an audience gripped for that long?
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ManSlayer07
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Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 5:28 pm
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They produced Mushishi if that makes you want to give them another chance. Anyone's better than Bee Train atleast.  Anyway this sounds like a very interesting title, the fall season is looking better and better.
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ibmman
Joined: 18 Nov 2006
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Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 7:59 pm
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The original source material seems good... and it seems that everyone involved on primary production is pretty awesome, and it seems like this would really be something they would want to work on.
I think Artland can definitely do it; while they haven't had anything like this that they've been involved in with main animation production in a while (considering Bokura ga ita and mushishi aren't exactly epic space operas) they've done in-betweens and co-production on a lot of other sci-fi shows. Considering how good this looks, it might be a pretty big break for them.
By the way, have there actually been any decent space opera-esque shows since Crest/Banner of the stars? Excluding Gundam and Macross.
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Sariachan
Joined: 09 May 2005
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Location: Italy
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Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 10:19 pm
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I hope you aren't serious. They managed to make that masterpiece that LOTGH is, I couldn't be happier to know that they'll adapt another series of novels for the same author.
| Zin5ki wrote: | | The main thing that's stopping me from watching LOGH is the fact that doing so would eat up half a year. Is any show really capable of keeping an audience gripped for that long? |
Listen to me: I watched more than 300 Japanese anime, and LOTGH is one of the best TV series ever, if not the best one, especially if you like sci-fi. 
| ibmman wrote: | | By the way, have there actually been any decent space opera-esque shows since Crest/Banner of the stars? Excluding Gundam and Macross. |
Well, there is PLANETES, which I think is a masterpiece, and I'm currently watching Toward the Terra (another potential masterpiece). ^^
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edzieba
Joined: 13 Dec 2006
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Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 10:13 am
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| Sariachan wrote: |
I hope you aren't serious. They managed to make that masterpiece that LOTGH is, I couldn't be happier to know that they'll adapt another series of novels for the same author. |
Actually, Kitty Films produced LoGH with most of the actual animation work by Madhouse. And even though it's an excellent series, it's animation is pretty sub-par, especially compared to other OVAs at the time (length has nothing to do with it, the budget scaled with the length, as seen by the astoundingly high cost of the complete series).
As for other space operas, PLANETES is not really a space opera (though it IS set in space, and one of the few shows, live action or animated, that generally gets orbital mechanics correct). There's the aforementioned Crest/Banner of the Stars, along with Starship Operators and Starship Girl Yamamato Yohko. Most shows set in space revolve around mech combat, rather than the usual space-opera fare.
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mufurc
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Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 11:29 am
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| edzieba wrote: | | Actually, Kitty Films produced LoGH with most of the actual animation work by Madhouse. And even though it's an excellent series, it's animation is pretty sub-par, especially compared to other OVAs at the time (length has nothing to do with it, the budget scaled with the length, as seen by the astoundingly high cost of the complete series). |
It's not that the budget scaled, it'd been pretty tight to begin with. LoGH has never been intended to have a mainstream appeal. It was a straight-to-video project, and the lenght of the show and the niche audience meant that the producers had to work with a relatively tiny budget right from the start, which is why the animation is sub-par in the first two seasons. The later seasons are okay, I suppose there was an influx of money somewhere along the way.
Nevertheless, the astoundingly high cost of the DVD set is mostly due to the facts that a) the animation for the entire series was digitally remastered for the DVD release (which is most obvious in the aforementioned first two seasons), and b) the price of anime DVDs in Japan is, in general, astoundingly high.
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Sariachan
Joined: 09 May 2005
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Location: Italy
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Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 8:58 pm
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| edzieba wrote: |
| Sariachan wrote: |
I hope you aren't serious. They managed to make that masterpiece that LOTGH is, I couldn't be happier to know that they'll adapt another series of novels for the same author. |
Actually, Kitty Films produced LoGH with most of the actual animation work by Madhouse. And even though it's an excellent series, it's animation is pretty sub-par, especially compared to other OVAs at the time (length has nothing to do with it, the budget scaled with the length, as seen by the astoundingly high cost of the complete series).
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Then the series info on ANN aren't right, since there is Artland listed for Animation Production, together with Magic Bus, while Mad
house Studios are listed under Work Assistance.
Anyway, I still believe that LOGH has really good animation... it couldn't look so, but they put lots of efforts in the gestures and facial expressions of the characters, to the point that they looked really alive.
Not to mention the artworks consistency trought the whole series (except a couple of episodes).
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