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asandariJul 12, 2009 8:25 AM
 In every age, in every place, the deeds of men remain the same. |
| it was quite disturbing and weird. in a good way. great art and characters too. i want a complete series of this. 13 eps or something. |
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| The animation and direction are as expected good, but the narratives are quite weak in this one. |
| Wait, wasn't episode 5 "Dimension Bomb?" Anyway, I thought it was okay, but kind of lost me through some of it. |
| Okay, since I'm not certain what the viewing order for this was and because I don't really feel the need to make 5 posts, I'll just post all of my GPB thoughts here. Dimension Bomb - Started off with this one and really liked it for a while until it started to drag in the middle. The end was good too, but by that point I was ready for it to be over since it really didn't need to be twenty minutes long. Wanwa the Puppy - Didn't pay much attention to this really. The art was just way too gaudy. Tojin Kit - I would like to think I'm not exaggerating when I say this may very well have been the worst short between both of the Genius Party films. The slow pacing made it painful to struggle through and there really didn't seem to be a point to it, at least from a, "why should people watch your masturbatory short animation?" standpoint. Moondrive - Surprisingly my favorite of all of the GP stuff, albeit followed closely by Gala which definitely gets the honor for being the best directed (although Baby Blue was close). This was just a fast-paced, great looking, shounen-spoofing good time that I could watch over and over again. Considering Nakazawa also directed the excellent Kigeki I really hope he gets put in charge of directing some more shorts for Studio 4C since he seems to shine in that position. Gala - I saved this for last because I had no doubts about whether Maeda would deliver and sure enough this was, from a critical standpoint, the best piece of animation in the GPB line-up and arguably the best between the two films. The part where the old man (who gives off some serious Master Yupa vibes) made the boy, girl, and cat musicians by bestowing them with Sonic the Hedgehog-esque power rings had me laughing while the climax was a thing of beauty. And of course, like many short animations, it ends with a nice little twist. Great stuff. So yeah, overall the first Genius Party was probably better, but I liked Moondrive and Gala way more than anything except Baby Blue from the first. |
Absolutely_Steve said: Okay, since I'm not certain what the viewing order for this was and because I don't really feel the need to make 5 posts, I'll just post all of my GPB thoughts here. I'm not quite sure about the order too, so I'll be following your example. I've only watched 3/5 episodes so far, but I'll edit my post with thoughts on the other 2 episodes once I've finished them. So far I agree with your comments Steve. Dimension Bomb was nicely animated, but it took too long and they lost me on the story there. I didn't like the art of Wanwa the Puppy either, so I can't comment on the content too. I'm really with you on the slow pacing of Tojin Kit. That must've been about 2 minutes of that dead end hallway frame in the entire episode. Not good.... They stuck with the same frame for too long a few other times too. As for the point.... 'toys are bad, trains kick ass' ? Saving Moondrive and Gala for later. Edit: watched the other 2 episodes too now. Moondrive was great. Had me entertained and laughing all the way. The outcome was to be expected, but that made it all the better. Gala felt like an epic story. So much happening so fast. And the ending was a nice twist indeed. |
Paradox055Jul 27, 2009 3:24 PM
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| i'm talking about Dimension Bomb. This was so awesome. One of the best shorts i've ever seen. Amazing animation. |
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carouselNIP said: even though i didn't get the story, i was stunned by the animation. Same. Though I wasn't exactly concentrating that much at the storyline |
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Absolutely_Steve said: Dimension Bomb - Started off with this one and really liked it for a while until it started to drag in the middle. The end was good too, but by that point I was ready for it to be over since it really didn't need to be twenty minutes long. My thoughts exactly. The story was nonexistent or over complicated and didn't let me care much, but the visuals, the art, the pictures were amazing, especially the first half. The middle was slow, draggy and repetitive and overall it was a bit too long, but I still enjoyed it quite much. Would have been better without dialogue and only with music though. |
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| I don't know what the story in Dimension Bomb is but the art and visuals were amazing, and the animation was superbly done! |
| You see there's no need to wonder where your god is, Coz he's right here! ...and he's fresh out of mercy. |
| Loved the animation but I just wish I knew what the heck was going on! |
| Dimension Bomb was wonderful visually and sound-wise. As for the plot, I don’t have a clue. I wish it didn’t was 20 minutes long, though. The slow mid-section of the short felt like it was dragging, which left me feeling bored for a while. I could’ve done without it. |
I think, then procrastinate. Therefore, I am. |
| The music was really great, the movie... disturbing and mysterious. |
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| Nice visuals but there wasn't really much story to it and that's what I found lacking but damn nice visuals and animation! Well as for the whole thing quite some nice shorts really liked the second one of this batch, in global quite a nice watch 7/10 |
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| Dimension Bomb was fun to watch, kinda slow, but still entertaining. To be honest With that being said, overall I enjoyed "Genius Party: Beyond" more than "Genius Party" Even though "Genius Party" has some nice shorts aswell. |
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| Pretty much agree with what Higashi had to say regarding this one, but I still enjoyed overall. Right down to wishing there was no dialogue actually because I really dug the music. I too enjoyed this more than the original Genius Party. Moondrive and Gala are probably the two best shorts of both collections to me. Plus I think though Wanwa might be the worst here it's still solid compared to the weaker ones in the first Genius Party. |
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| I liked the shorts in the original Genius Party more but this was still a solid 7/10 overall for me. |
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| This one was visually interesting and had great music backing them up. Not my favorite out of the bunch, but still one of the better ones. |
 "Your sight, my delight. Will you marry me?" |
| Well. This was the short that I could not make sense of. I have no idea what's going on. Animation is fascinating because unlike real life, everything in an animation has to be purposefully drawn and placed within a fictional space. You can't really repurpose anything existing since the animation starts from a blank canvas. As such, it's fun to try and guess what each person, object, and line meant to be. Though, not everything shown has some deep purpose, but at some point, a creator made a purposeful choice to include the said object, so I'd reason to believe that every object, at some point in time, had a purpose, even if the purpose was just to fill up space. That purpose could also be relative to the person viewing the object, where it could be meaningless to one viewer while being profound to another. Or, it could be meaningless to viewers in general while holding great meaning to its creators. Or, it could instead be meaningless to the creator, yet the viewers give the object meaning. That aside, this animation, again, made no sense to me. However, I will note that the sound design was unique. I was listening with earphones, and the sound during the more psychedelic moments reverberated back and forth, playing with directionality. Like the animation itself, I have no idea what it was supposed to mean, but I don't think I've experienced that in anime before. Perhaps it happened in cases where a sound was made off screen, to which a character in frame turned to face it, but I don't recall a specific case where the sound produced from the video was directionally altered to simulate that effect. Also, there was a lot of falling in this short. For some reason, there was this constant sense of falling, whether by the alien person, debris, rain, snow, the camera itself, or other objects in the environment. This was assisted by the lack of gravity in certain moments, where things would fall horizontal to the ground or into the sky. Though I still have no idea what the short was trying to get at. Was it the alien boy trying to give back and reciprocate the girl's kindness? Perhaps all the abuse and ridicule he received was expressed through the theme of falling, and the girl was the force that pulled him up after he finally hit the ground towards the end? Maybe this was some sort of metaphor about dealing with personal hurdles, but then again, the whole short was told in stream-of-consciousness, so I'm just guessing at this point. |
| This episode was kinda confusing, but all I know it had aliens, a girl's voice and a bomb that didn't go off in the end, weird as hell. This season was hella weird and didn't make sense at all, but I loved it anyways. 8/10. |
How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb --- Dr Strangelove  |
| love the setting and ambience but the characters looked like shit and uninteresting! also the pace it didn't need 20 minute where there wasn't too much to say! the MC was evangelion much? heh positive thing about the characters: if they do look like fuck faces all the time then it wouldn't work xD! But they movements could be use for transformation sequences of some sort, it was pretty cool... but again, a lot of shows could beneficiate with these backgrounds :D simply beautiful. AH, i wish i could remove the characters and make a stunning screensaver <3 heh, MC at the end said "itadakiman genshin" and this work is clearly influenced by the trippy transformation sequences in Time Bokan Series: Itadakiman an early eighties show. |
Berry-VodkaDec 9, 2020 2:02 AM
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| I'm sorry guys, but this one got me, I have 0 idea on what happened. Anyways, I'd say I preferred the first Genius Party movie |
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| Wtf was that. Do know what happened but the art and animation was nice. 4/10 |
| Ended strong this and the previous ep were probably my favs from Beyond, very cool ep! Overall the collection not as strong as the first tho, but still enjoyable and worth the watch |
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