Just A Gripe

Apr 9, 2008 12:51 AM

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I'll preface this post by saying I love the animation in this show. Characters can be rough at times but the backgrounds are beautiful. The story and characters are interesting (even though Arusu's idealism can be annoying at times) and the overall imaginative world that's presented is a joy to watch.

That being said, now that I've seen one full disc out of the 2 disc first volume there's one thing that has been bugging me about the show. Studio 4°C, in this anime at least, seems to have a problem animating any of the characters actually talking. It's not just lip flap that doesn't match dialog being said either. Sure there are some scenes where they animate the witches chatting away but it's usually short lived. It seems the vast majority of the time that someone is talking the view will either switch away from their faces, become a long shot where you can't see close-up character detail, or they'll be entirely out of the picture.

It's not a something that will completely stop me from wanting to continue watching but it can be distracting at times.

tainteddonutApr 9, 2008 7:13 AM

...even a saint needs a soldier to do the dirty work.

Nov 9, 2008 2:25 AM

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I think that this is because the animators were experimenting with a completely new technique at the time: recording the voices first, and then animate the characters, instead of the traditional way of the other way around. You can see that especially in the first episode: harly any mough was shown, because it was just so incredibly new to the animators that they still needed to sort how to properly do it. I actually find it fascinating that as the show goes on, you can see that the creators get better and better at this technique.

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