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| Yes... the 3DCG is not perfect and you can see it now and then with a few weird movements of the characters but at the same time, this is not what you'd call a bad animation. Its average is what we can say. But again this is much better than any of the 3DCG that has been shown in anime in general. So, there's that... There are some weird looking characters tho. Apart from that, it looks like Elle is still looking for her lost identity or the things she needs to take care of in this episode. And, as she finally found out about who she is, things have gotten even more confusing for her. Looks like LAPD is after her now for what she did. Btw, the OST is *chefs kiss* |
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| Way better than Episode 1. Looks like the story will show us the backstory and rise of Wallace (Jr. ). I think Elle is a product of his early experiments. A Replicant with memories. Its nice to see that Blade Runner universe is expanding. I highly recommend everyone to watch movies first. BUT is this a worthy Blade Runner series? For now i would say no, it has the same issues as Gits Sac 2045. They improved the animation and atmosphere but 3DCG still fails to deliver emotions, dialogues are basic and voice acting is weak (both EN and JP) |
| As I suspected, Ellie is a replicant that was built recently. She approached the Senator hoping to look for answers, but she ends up killing him and now is a suspect. We don't know how exactly how Ellie lost her memories, but it all seems to comes back to what happened in the desert where all the other replicants were destroyed. |
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| The problem became more apparent that the problem is more the character modelling than anything. I mean, look at those fake abs. The car landing animation is too awesome. I know rich don't care about money spent, but having a high-spec replicant just for a hunt is too much waste, when your security detail is that weak. |
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| Nice to see the show has already fallen apart logically. I think if they'd removed all the character models and just given us 10 min episodes of Blade Runner cityscapes with a Vangelis lite soundtrack the show would get a better rating. |
| Quantum ille canis est in fenestra |
| Noooo girl just wait and get that data! Dude was already helping you out! Unsatisfying.... Alright so they got the world right, but while I said I thought the animation was good in the last episode, I think that was because I was just focusing on Elle, or however you spell her name. The main character of course gets the most attention so she's gotta be perfect. Just about every other character though? Kind of jarring.... not enough to put me off entirely, but the difference between the quality and attention given to our main character compared to our side characters, is almost like night and day. Elle has proper shading and lighting done to her face, while the rest look like they came out of a telltale game (no shade on telltale, they're great, just needed a good reference for animation). One time it looked good was the close-ups on those two boxers. But the prime minister or whatever? Not it fam. I like how he falls to his death but the show just goes on. Is this a travis scott concert The wallace corporation has been fully implemented as well, I almost thought they would be totally disregarded. But nope, we're going full bladerunner on this! So wallace's son is probably jared leto from 2049. Nice, are they going to give us ryan gosling at some point lol. Jared leto character's face gets a pass for good shading though. He gets final-fantasy-looking character award! Although final fantasy's animation is probably leagues better (haven't played any of them) with hair graphics and all that. Here we got no hair graphics, it's basically what they give us in the Clone Wars series, static hair, maybe a bit of movement if they happen to have longer hair. The senator hangs out with mr. wallace, so he's a pretty important guy. But for a pretty important guy, his security really sucked. He had like two guys outside his room and that's it. Gotta make it easy for the replicant who's just mentally lost I guess. Haven't taken law, but is a suspect who runs really a "hostile" suspect, how about just calling her a suspect-on-the-run or something? Sigh, if everything else was as good as the soundtrack, this possibly would've been my favourite anime airing this season. Idk why I'm calling it anime, but yeah it's on MAL so whatever. Giving it a 4/10, still going to keep watching it though. Story probably is nothing great at all, but I'm still curious as to where it's going to take our cute replicant katana-weilding character. |
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| Not that bad so far. I guess the low score is because people usually like drawn stuff (and dislike it if there is even only a little bit computer graphics). I know the 2 US movies from Blade runner. Disliked the first one. 2nd one (the newer one) was a bit better - still boring plot. The previous anime (short thing) ... was nice. And this one here - I guess you could watch it without knowledge of the older Blade Runner stuff. Seems independent. Just using a similar setting (replicants). Not expecting too much from the plot. Fights were nice. I like the setting though - watching it cause of the setting. Not a fan of AI and replicant stuff (things other than humans trying to become humans) - but the technology and the backgrounds/visuals are nice in such a futuristic setting. I think there also was a game (old point and click adventure) and I remember that Geisha and the food stall from either the game and/or the old movie. (Didn't really play the game got bored fast lol.) |
| Considering Nexus Dawn was in 2036, the timeline lines up for Elle (L?) being a prototype of Niander II's new Replicants. I can appreciate filling in the canon like that rather than taking unwarranted liberties. I didn't notice him being blind though, none of his floating camera rocks, so perhaps that's something that might happen over the course of this show. |
| Well I for one already loved Lain. |
| So Niander wasn't blind when he was younger. Why did he shoot her? |
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