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| Considering that we (and especially backers who paid to get this) waited so long for this to be available, I think this OVA was pretty underwhelming. Don't get me wrong, it's great to see those characters again, but this OVA was way too short. It didn't even end with a resolution. It just ended in a middle of when it was just getting interesting. There were a lot of long segments with repeated animation which is pretty lazy for an OVA this short, but there were also well animated segments throughout, so it wasn't too bad. The music was pretty good, and the dub was great as well. All in all, it was okay for a passion project, but I hope that the next anime project in this universe can be a little more official. |
anime-primeMay 9, 2022 1:43 PM
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| That's it ? I don't mind it being short but where's the action, gunfights, chase or humour the original OVAs and manga are known for ? Technically we got a bit of everything but it's like tasting something and never getting the whole thing. Sigh... I just hope I live long enough to see a proper adaptation or something more than this. |
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| What a mediocrity. How long did that almost still shot with Percy's car last? Then the same thing with Bean's...you can do a lot more with that much time and money lol. Just look at independent animators. The original OVA was much better by all standards. This is just a little fanservice. |
| Well that was pointless and terrible. |
| Waste of time is what this was. For someone who doesn't know the original, I was left despondent by the plot and action. It simply left me in dismay and 🤨 |
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| Finally got around to watching this OVA and my greatest fear happened, it sucked. I mean, they had a limited amount of resources but this amounts to a little fanservice and nothing more. I guess the time to have done quality OVAs was the 90s and we'll never get to see great things like the original Riding Bean or GSC (that one deserved a TV series) again. edit: Their official Twitter does say there's an announcement coming soon, does that mean we'll get more?  |
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| Well that was incredibly underwhelming considering how long this took for it to come out, especially for the crowdfunders. Animation is what is to be expected from Creators in Pack contracted out to Magic Bus; but like where are the fight scenes lol? I wonder what happened to Passione, as they were originally supposed to handle animation production. It’s not too surprising that it was transferred to Creators in Pack though, as IRC Hirasawa is a board member of both companies. And I also remember the GONZO guy initially being attached to the project but I didn’t see him in the credits. I’m just going to assume that the project suffered from heavy production issues, especially due to COVID I’m assuming. Well hopefully Sonoda can find sponsors if he wishes to produce more of this content in this universe. |
ims-tokyoJul 20, 2022 9:08 PM
ims-tokyo said: Well that was incredibly underwhelming considering how long this took for it to come out, especially for the crowdfunders. Animation is what is to be expected from Creators in Pack contracted out to Magic Bus; but like where are the fight scenes lol? I wonder what happened to Passione, as they were originally supposed to handle animation production. It’s not too surprising that it was transferred to Creators in Pack though, as IRC Hirasawa is a board member of both companies. And I also remember the GONZO guy initially being attached to the project but I didn’t see him in the credits. I’m just going to assume that the project suffered from heavy production issues, especially due to COVID I’m assuming. Well hopefully Sonoda can find sponsors if he wishes to produce more of this content in this universe. I don't even have a clue what studio made this anime. Wonder what went into production, exactly. |
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Cr4zko said: ims-tokyo said: Well that was incredibly underwhelming considering how long this took for it to come out, especially for the crowdfunders. Animation is what is to be expected from Creators in Pack contracted out to Magic Bus; but like where are the fight scenes lol? I wonder what happened to Passione, as they were originally supposed to handle animation production. It’s not too surprising that it was transferred to Creators in Pack though, as IRC Hirasawa is a board member of both companies. And I also remember the GONZO guy initially being attached to the project but I didn’t see him in the credits. I’m just going to assume that the project suffered from heavy production issues, especially due to COVID I’m assuming. Well hopefully Sonoda can find sponsors if he wishes to produce more of this content in this universe. I don't even have a clue what studio made this anime. Wonder what went into production, exactly. Creators in Pack is credited for animation production, while Magic Bus is credited for animation production cooperation or assistance (which typically means production was outsourced to said studio). |
| Seemed like a promo reel to show to investors rather than a work that's meant to be worth watching on its own. Bean was created first and then showed up in Gunsmith Cats so it's interesting to see a version of Bean Bandit with May from GC added. |
| Well, this was a big fuckin' nothingburger. I'm not a hardcore fan of the original Riding Bean OVA and even i feel insulted by this shit. Can't imagine how the backers who actually put money into this project must have felt when they got this in the mail after such a long wait. Seriously, if they only had less than 10 mins. to work with, then why didn't they just animate one cohesive scene that plays out from beginning to end? Like maybe a single car chase sequence in which all the characters pitch in in one way or another until the bad guy's taken care of? But no, instead we get these random, seemingly disconnected vignettes of the characters doing some stuff on their own with zero context of their mission and no resolution to any of it at all; just abrupt unsatisfying cliffhangers... and the animation quality is extremely low-budget to boot. I really don't like being this harsh with my scoring of anime, but... ugh, 1/10. |
OrororurandoSep 21, 2022 2:58 PM
ims-tokyo said: Cr4zko said: I don't even have a clue what studio made this anime. Wonder what went into production, exactly. Creators in Pack is credited for animation production, while Magic Bus is credited for animation production cooperation or assistance (which typically means production was outsourced to said studio). Honestly quite depressing because back in the 1990's Kenichi Sonoda was very famous in the anime scene (at least in the US). After that, he was pretty much forgotten though. At least Dark Horse had the decency to revise their butchered version of GSC they published back then. |
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anizawa89 said: Agreed, it's pretty sad to see as I love Sonoda's character designs.ims-tokyo said: Creators in Pack is credited for animation production, while Magic Bus is credited for animation production cooperation or assistance (which typically means production was outsourced to said studio). Honestly quite depressing because back in the 1990's Kenichi Sonoda was very famous in the anime scene (at least in the US). After that, he was pretty much forgotten though. At least Dark Horse had the decency to revise their butchered version of GSC they published back then. Here's hoping that Sonoda could maybe get Masahiro Inoue/AIC RIGHTS on board to restart the franchise 🙏 |
| So let me get this straight - 165,000 $ + more than 3 years and the result is a 9-minute (there are 3 minutes of credits, so it's not actually 12) mix of random, disjointed, barely animated scenes, half of which don't even show any characters - instead having them talk in the background, almost no action, and all of which have no distinct art direction and look like a generic early 2000s cheap show (and nothing like the old OVA)? ... I'd say "underwhelming" is a colossal understatement. This is pretty much a scam. And using COVID as an excuse for every goddamn failure or lie is getting really old really fast. |
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| I've become skeptical of low ratings on kickstarter project anime as they are usually the result of some backers that are angry over some drama that's irrelevant to the anime it's self. That's certainly not the case here though, what we get here is 7min 30sec of poorly animated action scenes that feel loosely connected, I know the entry says it's 11min but 3 and a half min of the runtime is taken up by A LIST OF BACKERS... This entire thing felt like it was unfinished and they just released this so that the backers couldn't say they didn't get anything out of it. If I had backed this I would have been pissed off and felt like I got scammed. |
KristiwazhereAug 6, 2023 7:12 PM
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| so what was the point of this other than just to see the characters again lol? |
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