| The entire series is basically in 480p even if you download the 1080 encodes, you can go ahead and compare with the screenshots here, the lines are extremely blured and the show is very likley been upscaled from a lower resolution to get a retro feel. |
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| sakugablog have proof that its artistic choice by the anime staff here The blurry elephant in the room is of course their unique approach to the composite, which has proven to be both controversial and a source of misunderstandings. Ever since the early stages of the project, director Moriyama simply couldn’t envision a series like this with the crisp visuals you’d get in a new anime nowadays; sure he could ask the team to make the linework thicker than usual, but to get a result reminiscent of the cel era he barely was a part of but that he loves nonetheless, they needed something more substantial. And as he admits, the answer they arrived to was intentionally roughening up the visuals, not really to go along with the gritty art direction as has been speculated, but explicitly to make it feel like an old production. Since Moriyama thought that simply overlaying a bunch of grain effects on it would be harsh on the eye, they also intentionally downscaled the footage and then upscaled it back – hence why many people have gotten the feeling that it feels like SD material, which it technically is despite the assets originally being produced as if it were a regular high-definition title. https://blog.sakugabooru.com/2018/04/09/production-highlights-megalo-box-01/ |
dehuman said: they also intentionally downscaled the footage and then upscaled it back – hence why many people have gotten the feeling that it feels like SD material, which it technically is despite the assets originally being produced as if it were a regular high-definition title. https://blog.sakugabooru.com/2018/04/09/production-highlights-megalo-box-01/ What the fuck?! That's like they are wasting more money making it look worse than saving money making it look nicer... |
Snaita said: dehuman said: they also intentionally downscaled the footage and then upscaled it back – hence why many people have gotten the feeling that it feels like SD material, which it technically is despite the assets originally being produced as if it were a regular high-definition title. https://blog.sakugabooru.com/2018/04/09/production-highlights-megalo-box-01/ What the fuck?! That's like they are wasting more money making it look worse than saving money making it look nicer... hahaha the anime already have good retro artstyle and good animation without looking like shit but they purposely turned it into shit anyway genius |
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| Looks great to me, better than the new Steins Gate for example |
simo000Apr 13, 2018 8:25 PM
| Yep I downloaded the 1st episode when it aired to see how it looks like and noticed that weird quality. And it baffles me when people say they like it cause it looks like older anime, and then mention shows with awesome remasters as examples. Wtf, are you guys really watching such poor quality releases in the era of bluray remasters? (unless you watched them earlier.. but still..wtf) Like the op said, even Ashita no Joe looks better than this thing. Gonna wait for the bluray, I hope they'll include the normal version for people who don't want the muh retro style. vigorousjammer said: Like others have said, I'm worried they're doing this to drive BluRay sales, and if that's the case, I worry about the future of TV anime. Like, if that's the case, what next? Just air a show with a giant mosaic over the whole image? "uh uh uh, you gotta buy the BluRay to truly watch the episode" The Nipponjins are already doing this to music videos (I see it sometimes in the newest jrock releases - they put a mosaic one on the official youtube and you need to buy cd to get a version without mosaic, it sometimes leaks later anyway but they take it down), I really hope it's not the case here :/ |
fuyukiApr 14, 2018 12:04 AM
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| Weird, maybe I’m blind but I’ve been watching it on crunchyroll (full quality) and haven’t noticed any problem with the resolution, maybe just a tad softer than normal. No funny antialiasing or anything, although it probably helps that I’m watching it on my 4” mobile screen. Still, it doesn’t look anywhere near as bad as those screenshots the OP posted. I think it may be down to where you streaming it from, because I know that a sizeable chunk of viewers will be getting their anime from other sources... |
| anime concept looks cool but this post turned me off.. looks bad tbh |
| I am absolutely digging it. Reminds me of older shows giving me warm nostalgic feelings. |
| That's such a laughably misguided attempt at invoking a "retro feel", it makes me question the intelligence of the people who made this. And also the age of the people who actually defend this, as it seems they only know SD shows from watching it on HD screens. The blurry mess that results in it initially even gave me an aversion to HD TVs. Needless to say, that's not how those old shows originally looked like, when seen on a SD TV. As such, what's supposed to be invoke nostalgic feelings actually partially prevents that from happening. It reminds me of watching old anime today (on the TV I have now), not of watching them 17-18 years ago. |
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juliojakers said: It's called ART STYLE... It's called bad choice. This anime won't sell peanuts unless Hosoyan rescues it. One of the lowest rated premiere episodes in Japanese sites. |
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| Yeah, honestly I think it is quite a poor choice. They made a show that already looks dated. And not in a good way. The art style is perfectly fine but way to kill my eyes while watching it. Even older shows with worse resolution look better to me. Creating fake HD on purpose seems super counter-intuitive. |
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| It's a gritty show, the art style should reflect that. It has so much charm and the story so far is great. Ammar17j said: If you don't like it.. Why do you watch it? I personaly like the old stuff... It reminds of Cowboy Bebop or Samurai Champloo. I rather have this then those garbage animes these days... On the money m8 |
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| I think it worked seeing as how my roommate walked in when I was watching it and he thought it was a legit old anime. Maybe the blu-rays will release it in full quality. |
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zhossam said: it looks like absolute shit. and that's coming from someone who loves stuff like ping pong the animation. You can say that again to people like @juliojakers. |
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| huh, as soon as i saw the cassette transition on the interval in ep 2 i felt megalo was probably one of the more visually interesting anime that i've seen in a while. stylistic choice or not, i think the presentation has been good so far anyone bringing up ping pong is just embarrassing as it was created with matsumoto's style in mind |
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| For people saying it's the artstyle, no it's not the artstyle... it looks atrocious |
Ammar17j said: If you don't like it.. Why do you watch it? I personally like the old stuff... It reminds me of Cowboy Bebop or Samurai Champloo. I rather have this then those garbage animes these days... cobra55 said: only complete dismissive retards say something like "if you don't like don't watch! don't say anything about it!"If it bothers you that much then don't watch it. It's not like you are paying for it. idiots with natural censorship mindset like you need to go away |
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| If it actually matters to anyone, it doesn't look bad/blurry because of the artstyle, the anime is being released at 720x405, 405p, that's 3.5 times lower than 720p or 5.3 times lower than 1080p. If that's fine to you that's ok, if you like the animation that's great too, but it is blurry and low res, that's a fact. Source: https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ja&u=http://anibin.blogspot.com/2018/04/1_2.html&prev=search |
| It looks great. It’s clearly a style choice. |
| It's made on purpose. They basically animate it in HD, re-size it to 360p (quality of the 80s) and then re-size it again to HD to give it a feel of old anime. I know I read that somewhere in a news about the anime. I don't mine. I actually kind of like it. |
| I'm fine with it; it definitely does add up to the anime's ambience. I'm already used to seeing shit tier animation so this really doesn't distract me. I can see why people wouldn't like it, but I think it meshes pretty well imo. Although I think they should give an option to watch it on a higher resolution without the changes made |
cobra55 said: RagingMan said: If it actually matters to anyone, it doesn't look bad/blurry because of the artstyle, the anime is being released at 720x405, 405p, that's 3.5 times lower than 720p or 5.3 times lower than 1080p. If that's fine to you that's ok, if you like the animation that's great too, but it is blurry and low res, that's a fact. Source: https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ja&u=http://anibin.blogspot.com/2018/04/1_2.html&prev=search Congrats for repeating what's been already said, here, have a cookie. If it bothers you that much then don't read it. The earlier article doesn't even specify the actual resolution, but if you're that insecure about facts, then i apologize. I never even said if i disliked how the anime looked, i do like the art style a lot, even tho i'd rather it be cleaner. |
cobra55 said: RagingMan said: If it bothers you that much then don't read it. The earlier article doesn't even specify the actual resolution, but if you're that insecure about facts, then i apologize. I never even said if i disliked how the anime looked, i do like the art style a lot, even tho i'd rather it be cleaner. You think I'm bothered, ahahahahah. You amuse me, kiddo. Please keep posting so I can have a good laugh at your huge ego in the future as well. :):):) i mean, after reading whats been said between you and him it seems like you're the kiddo. |
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| It is deliberately to make the show look more oldschool... |
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shanimebib said: juliojakers said: It's called ART STYLE... It's called bad choice. This anime won't sell peanuts unless Hosoyan rescues it. One of the lowest rated premiere episodes in Japanese sites. Otaku in Japan always a bastion of good taste. |
| Funny how you guys jhdge this show for the scaling while being ok with other shows like Food wars relying on so many still shots. shanimebib said: juliojakers said: It's called ART STYLE... It's called bad choice. This anime won't sell peanuts unless Hosoyan rescues it. One of the lowest rated premiere episodes in Japanese sites. And yet it has one of the higher scores of this season on MAL. |
Bourmegar said: Funny how you guys jhdge this show for the scaling while being ok with other shows like Food wars relying on so many still shots. shanimebib said: It's called bad choice. This anime won't sell peanuts unless Hosoyan rescues it. One of the lowest rated premiere episodes in Japanese sites. And yet it has one of the higher scores of this season on MAL. Yes. I know for an anime MAL scores are very important and Japan follows it. |
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| And I thought something was wrong with my TV |
| Personally, I think the animation style suits well with the atmosphere of the anime. At a certain degree it's more "badass" (overstatement). It's a subjective concept. Anyways, watch the anime in 720p. I recommend downloading IDM, then downloading from OpenLoad servers. |
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shanimebib said: Bourmegar said: Funny how you guys jhdge this show for the scaling while being ok with other shows like Food wars relying on so many still shots. And yet it has one of the higher scores of this season on MAL. Yes. I know for an anime MAL scores are very important and Japan follows it. Netflix has funded works from Japanese animation studios now so Japanese opinion isn't all that matters. |
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