Kyoto Animation has brought out a second preview clip for their latest upcoming work of generic, “Chuunibyo demo Koi ga Shitai!” – and the video literally shows nothing more than several seconds of moeblob.
If one ever takes a travel downhill, they will likely see Kyoto Animation far ahead of them as a spec rocketing down into the vast pit of wherever it is they’re trying go – their destination aside however, one aspect certainly clear is that expired character designs and fast food menu quality storylines certainly won’t take them towards success, unless that is of course, in reference to profit.
Regardless of how popular their moeblob series may manage to be, and for all the wrong reasons of course, a five minute microwave plot will still set this series on par with lesser garbage – unfortunate as it may be.
Now also note, even if one aspect proves of a higher quality in this animation, such as the animation itself, one can only go so far in delivering conventionality with upper caliber before the formula goes rotten from overuse. In fact, that’s exactly the case with Kyoto Animation and their fetish for moeblobs – it worked in K-ON!, although indeed, they’ve long-passed the yellow line since then.
Nonetheless, with much sighing and grasping of the face with the palm, one will still await to see at least the first chapter of this series – even if only to ridicule it.
Sep 5, 2012 @ 16:45 CDT
just around the corner!!!!
Sep 5, 2012 @ 17:07 CDT
Yep, if the last preview was any indication, it’s going to be a pretty awesome series.
Sep 5, 2012 @ 17:23 CDT
Awesomely generic – almost to the point of disbelief.
Sep 5, 2012 @ 17:39 CDT
Why, because it’s set in a school setting?
Please explain to me why you dislike this series so much. I’m legitimately curious.
Sep 5, 2012 @ 17:42 CDT
You should try properly reading the articles that you don’t seem to read.
“I’m legitimately curious.”
On another note, looks like you’re getting infected.
Sep 5, 2012 @ 17:51 CDT
“expired character designs and fast food menu quality storylines”
So… basically the character designs? I don’t really see what storyline you expect in a series like this. I don’t see you bashing Ichizon because of the ‘storyline’.
It just seems like you’re harsher on KyoAni compared to other studios.
Sep 5, 2012 @ 18:01 CDT
“It just seems like you’re harsher on KyoAni compared to other studios.”
It just seems like you’re biased if you’re specifically worried about Kyoto Animation compared to other studios.
“I don’t really see what storyline you expect in a series like this.”
Something not cliched and replica of a typical highschool romance.
http://seventhstyle.com/2012/08/10/chuunibyo-pv-amazing-action-generic-moe/
“I don’t see you bashing Ichizon because of the ‘storyline’.”
I’m not sure how that’s relevant here – if you want to talk about Seitokai no Ichizon, wait for an article about second season.
Sep 5, 2012 @ 17:48 CDT
The video is suppose to be a joke.
Sep 5, 2012 @ 18:19 CDT
I brought up Ichizon simply because you give that series a great amount of praise, despite the average-looking characters and the ‘story’ spent in the same room 95% of the time, which are pretty much the reasons why you’re criticizing Chuunibyou.
And come on, you can’t tell me the delusions in the PV don’t look cool.
Well anyways, I just wanted to know why you gave the series so much flack and I got it, thanks.
Sep 5, 2012 @ 18:25 CDT
The characters are far from “average-looking”:
http://seventhstyle.com/2012/07/20/artistically-intense-seitokai-no-ichizon-s2-pv/#comment-14036
Secondly, Seitokai no Ichizon was a parody series foremost – not a series based around the rehashed romance seen in most highschool set anime. Not to mention, Seitokai no Ichizon went rather deep with the hint of plot it attempted to embed within the tales of the characters. On the other hand, “Chuunibyo” is pushing a retired “boy meets girl” romance as its center attraction, or rather, it’s second attraction after the moeblob heroine which it emphasizes far heavier than it should.
Chuunibyo certainly “looks cool” when it comes to action – which actually looks far more amazing than I initially anticipated, although the other half of it, and character designs, are still seemingly subpar. Ideally, the remedy to this is that the series places action first – although given Hyouka, I’m not too confident that Kyoto Animation will put anything before moeblob.
Sep 5, 2012 @ 18:41 CDT
“Not to mention, Seitokai no Ichizon went rather deep with the hint of plot it attempted to embed within the tales of the characters.”
I can agree to that, except for the whole drama part with Sugisaki, during the last few episodes. That was just cheesy and not well done at all. The premise is still generic though, but in series like these, character interactions/development are more important.
And KyoAni is just adapting the light novel into an anime, so who knows how much action there’s in the LN. I’m hoping for a healthy mix of delusions and slice-of-life segments, though.
Sep 5, 2012 @ 18:52 CDT
The magus circle bits were fairly engaging in the PV – so before anything else, I’m hoping to see places get torn up with vibrant majutsu. Of course, that’d likely be asking for too much.
Ideally, the flood of romance and slice of life banality isn’t anything too abundant that it whitewashes those more fascinating action scenes – though I already mentioned as much. Then again, now that I consider it more, at least there’s no way whatsoever it’d be as awful as Sword Art Online’s one frame kill and copy/paste story. Superior animation and action, with what is likely a fair plot, will make for an overall decent tale even if there turns out to be a slab of lesser aspects, or so I hope.
Sep 5, 2012 @ 19:02 CDT
You do know that the girl is just imagining all this crazy stuff and that the MC doesn’t want any part of it? The magic and stuff isn’t real.
Sep 5, 2012 @ 19:05 CDT
Regardless if it’s “real” or not in the sense of the series’ story, that would serve as far greater content to fill the screen than more of the overdone.
Sep 5, 2012 @ 20:05 CDT
are they trying to combine k-on and another? cause i imagine the combination of the two to not go well together.
Sep 5, 2012 @ 20:06 CDT
Correct.
Sep 6, 2012 @ 5:18 CDT
but kyoani fags will still praise this as a masterful work of art no matter if its bad or goo. personally i don’t think it looks all that terrible, but its kyoani so it cant be that good
Sep 6, 2012 @ 8:36 CDT
recently yes, but in the past before k-on came up, they’ve made masterpieces like clannad, air ,kannon, full metal panic, haruhi and lucky star, who knows when they’ll make another one…
Sep 6, 2012 @ 8:40 CDT
Notice how all those series you mentioned had actually original character designs, instead of copy/paste moeblobs – and the plot was way more than merely “boy meets girl” recycled romance.
Sep 6, 2012 @ 16:19 CDT
ahh , KyoAni, what the hell happened…