More key visuals of Kyoto Animation’s latest upcoming project, “Chuunibyo demo Koi ga Shitai!”, are available – yet they only confirm this to be Kyoto Animations least impressive work to come thus far.
Perhaps the story may prove of a different caliber, although the general designs are quite awful in that they’re lacking of the originality and degree of quality normally anticipated with Kyoto Animation’s creations. The issues surrounding the heroine have already been examined in the past, and still hold true to now – yet the problems go beyond her alone of course. One can look to the very final image in the stack below and see a light music club members amongst the other series characters.
Kyoto Animation’s character designs formerly had more variety – although then again, that’s as they’ve mainly made adaptations, replicating the already prominent style of the source material. Such is also the case here, though it appears when they have room to wiggle, they do it in the manner of moeblob – seemingly having gotten too comfortable with K-ON, and now are basically using that as their standard.
If Kyoto Animation insists on going the route of recycling artwork, imagine this, Kokoro Connect is being produced by Silver Link, yet has the same original character designer as that of K-ON – and thus, it now means that multiple studios are debuting series which all boast the same increasingly generic style of art seen in K-ON, something which could still further become a trope of animation if abused any more.
Innovation is dying on the most elementary of frontiers it appears.
Jul 10, 2012 @ 7:53 CDT
Inb4 they turn this into a ‘milking money’ anime for eye patch fetishes
Jul 10, 2012 @ 10:09 CDT
Inb4, it’s already too late.
And the Kyoto Animation fanboys are ready to suck whatever they’re given.
Jul 10, 2012 @ 8:58 CDT
The character designs are great. Keep ‘em coming!
Still waiting to see that pink-haired girl, though.
Jul 10, 2012 @ 11:19 CDT
Problem is that the anime will only adapt the first volume though. The pink-haired girl only appear in second volume, seeing that the novel currently have 2 volumes.
Jul 10, 2012 @ 19:30 CDT
Maybe it’s just another example of the series generic art style, but I can’t help but feel like I’ve seen the guy in the last picture somewhere before. At first I thought it might have been Hyouka, but I don’t think that’s it.
Anyone else getting that feeling?
Jul 10, 2012 @ 20:40 CDT
The only other series where you might find a similar art style would be other KyoAni series.
He kind of looks like a mix of Houtaro and Sunohara, especially in pic 4.
Jul 10, 2012 @ 22:38 CDT
Probably seen it before in the recycling bin.