Anon, you wouldn't... ESCAPE the tower (missing out on endless comfort in the process), right? Ms. Tanabe wants to give you an award, and it'd be very rude of you to leave without accepting it.
Episode 5's hype was real. KyoAni found a way.
If you're not watching CITY, I feel bad for you.
>>281176453>Episode 5's hype was real. best episode of any anime i've seen in a while, and from an artistic standpoint probably THE best honestly :1
CITY The Animation? More like TOWN The Animation!
Do not deny what I say, it's clearly the truth.
>>281176453That escher panel needs to be turned into an animated 4chan banner with a "you're here forever" tagline
Look at this fucking goober.
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>>281176547you fucking r-tard, CITY is way too big to just be a town
>>281176547The Tachibanas's are so wealthy they can probably buy statehood
>>281176608It's a tanuki.
>>281176614now hold on, i may not have ever seen a tanuki in real life or even a photo of one, but mario's tanooki suit looks nothing like shimaneko
>>281176595Everything not in colour is clearly part of the CITY that our little TOWN merely orbits. Also,
>r-tardCall me that again, and the show will be demoted to VILLAGE The Animation, and then eventually UNINCORPORATED COMMUNITY The Animation. Do not cross me.
>>281176608It's a mimineko, an earcat.
haha i bet nagumo's shoes have dirty toeprints on the insoles haha i bet they smell haha i bet her feet are really smelly and dirty after she wears them haha gross haha who would want to smell or lick that haha weird haha
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZKXlbbAeLQ
Hi! I'm a Tsuchinoko!
People always seem to be looking for me, and I'm not sure why! I'm always running around town, trying to lose some of this weight. But no matter how much I exercise, I'm still wide! Ah! Maybe they're looking for me so they can tell me how much my hard work inspires them. Everyone... I'll work hard for your sakes!
The next episode of CITY is episode 6!
You shouldn't have any trouble finding it!
>>281176781>But no matter how much I exercise, I'm still wide!Why is Hiro so fat? She ate the whole episode!
>>281176730>Everything not in colour is clearly part of the CITY that our little TOWN merely orbits>colourthis is a lie, because there are many parts of the CITY here that are not visible that we've seen in previous episodes
>Call me that again, and the show will be demoted to VILLAGE The Animation, and then eventually UNINCORPORATED COMMUNITY The Animation. Do not cross me.what are you, evil hitler? why would you even say something like this, anon?
Was that the same blue bird spirit at the end, flying away, after the special ED, that came and visited the original Tanabe at night to bless him and his progeny?
I think the modern day Tanable has made her ancestors proud.
>a large majority of the episode was animated by one man
HOLY
>>281176984The absolute madlad.
>>281176984>>a large majority of the episode was animated by one manWHAT
>>281176984No fucking way...it would take 7 years hand drawn for one man to do all that
>mfw we still get seven more episodes of absolute kino
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>>281177074anon, would you sit at the tanable?
>>281176984You caught me.
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>>281176415 (OP)This episode achieves a level of magic so wonderful that anybody trying to do the usual 4chan contrarian shtick is on the same level of a cockroach. But even a cockroach is one of god's creatures and therefore better, so they are on the level of a horrible criminal, one who's crimes can not even muster edgy fans who support them for political reasons, because their motives are just utterly beyond comprehension and disappoint anybody wishing to assign moral justifications to. And even that criminal is better because they do not have the mental capacity to do good, and in a cruel fate, are acting in their own disturbed nature. No, they are below both of these, and are on the level of a deranged criminal who has been reincarnated as a cockroach for thousands of years, being given the sisyphusian task of doing something good with the time they have on this earth, but have made no such progress because they are just that big of a fucking loser.
>>281177008>>281177010Apparently about half the episode was done by Tatsuya Sato
>>281177221huh. what a fuckin trooper
Also shout out to the one bunny waitress who was drinking on the job.
>>281176984Give that man an award!
>>281177221I assume the first half, and only because literally everyone else at the company was working on the second half.
>>281177184A Wako infestation would be much cuter than a cockroach infestation. I want to hold her, and pet her, and feed her a leaf.
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>>281177305>I assume the first halfand that half still had outstanding animation to begin with, kyoani is not staffed by humans
where is the zoetrope poster when you need him?
>>281177365>I want to hold her, and pet her, and feed her a leaf.i want to create an altar in her image and kneel before it
>>281177061>this episode was 28:10 longWTF how did I not notice this?
>>281177581They must have run it without ads this time. I was wondering why it was an entire gig in size.
Can someone check if they missed editing out the reflections of the staff in the window panels of the mansion or towers
>>281176984>Tatsuya Sato, the ace of the studio's Osaka branch, animated around half the episode himself.Pretty crazy if true
>>281177688The tower windows were matte black
>>281177746So, you're telling me that Tatsuya Sato is the modern day William Tell?
>>281177281Whatever gets the guest to drink
>>281177778Basically, fully yes
>>281176453I'm watching it, but where was the fun?
>>281177909In the other tower
That old time aftercredits part was weirdly, actually touching.
>>281177599>this timeIt's always that long
>>281176415 (OP)>>281176453I lost it when I noticed they are stuck on looped stairs
>>281177909I'm sorry to tell you that you have been filtered
>>281176415 (OP)They nailed it? I could hardly keep track of everything in the manga where I could flip back and forth, I can not imagine managing to do it in animation.
>>281176781Paramedic, what's a Tsuchinoko again?
Man, these subtitles are terrible. I know the typesetters probably get paid shit-all but there's so much untranslated text in the tower scenes. Half the punchlines aren't translated.
Also, I wish they moved the subtitles up to whichever scene actually had dialogue.
>>281178167The problem is usually that their web player doesn't support precise enough subtitle positioning to handle signs or background dialogue.
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Did they really just introduce three new lolis with zero explanation?
>>281178250One on the right is Wako's age
So this episode will get a Sakugablog post right?
The artstyle of this show makes the dead pixel on my monitor really noticeable
>>281178250This is my only complaint. I wish they didn't skip the introduction of the Adataras and Shia
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>>281178296I don't buy it
>>281178007The same thing Tanabe is rewarding in modern times, and the reason we see so many branching parallel stories breaking off from the initial acts of kindness, it all began with the first Tanabe. It's how the CITY was built out of a VILLAGE. Being generous, being kind, raising people's spirits, and rewarding those who do the same. It multiplies. It spreads. It grows. It snowballs. Even the blue bird spirit and Buddha show up to provide blessings eventually. The frames are just a metaphor for this wonderful virtuous cycle.
>>281178250At this point I believe Kyoani intended this anime to be for fans of the CITY manga and assumed you already read it. I highly recommend any anime only to read the manga. There's so much from this episode that you missed. I do question the decision to move the introduction of Tekaridake earlier when he's not involved in the tower arc when they could've done the introductions of the Adatara family and Shia instead.
>>281178139>More importantly, how does it taste?Itโs not actually real Snake, itโs just an old Japanese legend.
In fact, creatures resembling tsuchinoko have been part of Japanese folklore since prehistoric times.
>โฆ>Legendary meat eh? Iโll have to keep an eye out.*Sign* Believe what you want Snake.
>Great!
>>281178396She was in Wako's flashback in one of the earlier episodes.
>>281178344It was in one of the pvs, maybe next episode?
>>281178396Respect Shia
https://imgchest.com/u/yuukoshusband the archive has been updated! uploaded all OC that i could find, i'm sure there's some i missed from today + the threads from the past week.
there surprisingly wasn't much this time around, though i'd imagine more will be created in the coming days : j
>>281178296Yeah I remember her in some flashback in the 1st episode with Wako, but I almost still assumed that this was now a younger sister, but I guess sheโs a legal loli actress or something.
>>281178296Oh shit, she's the broom guitar girl. I didn't catch that at all.
>City was stealth yuri all along
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>I laughed
>I cried
>I got confused
>but I embraced it
What an episode
Top 5 episodes of the last 10 years, jesus christ.
>>281178412>At this point I believe Kyoani intended this anime to be for fans of the CITY manga and assumed you already read it.Looking at anime only people's reaction in the official hashtags on Xitter says otherwise. People are loving it
>>281178611And there's still so much they missed
>>281178625It's a one cour adaptation that's skipping over half the manga, people are well aware. Does that matter though? No, because the quality of the adaptation is great
it's time to resume the manga
sex with shia. brat correction. creampie.
>>281178659>Does that matter though?It does because with so much going on this episode, it'll leave them confused about some things that manga readers understand.
anime only's are missing out man
>>281178741Again, literally all the reactions I'm reading on Xitter and Reddit say otherwise. Many are rewatching the episode. What's so difficult for an anime only to understand in many of the split screens? It's piss easy to infer the information. You will obviously get confused a bit on first watch, but on rewatch it's easy to pick up on details. I'm not sure why you're trying to speak for other people when they're saying the opposite of how they felt
>>281178303Yes, kViN is, predictably, absolutely fucking jizzing all over himself on Xitter about this episode.
>>281178736So true, anon!
>>281178803>I'm not sure why you're trying to speak for other people when they're saying the opposite of how they feltBecause someone in this very thread is asking about characters they haven't seen before
>>281178830>one confused anon represents a bunch of other people
>>281178796There was a brief Nagumo ass frame this episode
I cant stop smiling at this anime. Every episode is absolute gold.
>>281178250>>281178830as one anon said before, this isn't their real introduction. there's a cut with their normal intro scene in PV2
>>281178857You think all the anime-onlies actually understand who those characters are? They're just not questioning it. To actually understand everything that's happening this episode, you need to read the manga.
>>281178864I saw that, but it's only on screen for less than a second iirc
>>281178890Yeah itโs only like 2 frames
KyoAni really do be flexing on every other studio like that.
>>281178886>They're just not questioning it.They are, but who those characters are will get recontexualised in later episodes, and trying to infer what's happening in those scenes isn't that hard
>>281176453This is the type of sequence I would expect them to pull off for a final episode, since it feels like a culmination of the core idea of the show of having all these different stories that intertwine in a city. I like it, but it feels oddly wasted here. It kind of makes me wonder what they are going to do for the last episode, though.
![[Erai-raws] City the Animation - 05 [1080p AMZN WEB-DL AVC EAC3][MultiSub][C9E5B1DE]_0009](/thumb/a/1754264528333308.jpg)
Live action tower?
The live action model backgrounds with characters animated overtop is interesting.
Kinda funny he just admitted it's to keep people from escaping.
I thought the girl climbing the tower might have moved but I guess not. The spinning camera around the model is a lot, if they had done it in stop motion on top of that, damn.
I would guess all the paintings are reproductions since the real mona lisa is tiny.
Would you wait for your fabulous thankings or would you try and escape anon?
Quite like the idea they are so rich they employ these weirdos to sit in a tower all day just in case someone tries to escape.
Dead
That's the second time we've seen one of them by a giant robot.
The famicom with CRT refresh rate is a nice touch to show the tower progress.
It would have been nice if the lazy localizer had even bothered to translate the game screen though.
As expected of a butt.
Lol, now a four way split. Now five. Now six. Seven. Eight. Nine.
This is way too much shit on screen. All the jokes being missed.
Good lord that's a lot of small animations.
Cute dork got her free food in the end.
Very where's waldo feeling shot. It's nice that every one is still animated.
That was a nice segment at the end.
Kyoani really put in a lot of effort for this. It's amazing to look at every week. This episode might be the best one of the show, who knows yet though.
https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/190808832/#190816545
https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/190735219/#190750444
https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/190759271/#190759763
https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/190797241/#190799082
Six years ago, we told you: KyoAni always finds a way.
You didn't listen.
And now they have officially found a way.
We told you so.
>>281176453i keep forgetting
>you can actually see Wako climbing the tower.
That a nice little detail.
If you missed it, Tanabe has fallen in love with Tatsuta, the eldest Adatara son. And it's no surprise she did because what a man he is.
>>281179000she's wearing a bald cap to obfuscate her identity
>>281179019don't they get end up getting married or something? seems like a weird thing to put in the margins
>>281179019I noticed that on my 3rd rewatch.
>>281178570alouette from MMZero
>>281179050Why is it a weird thing to put there? Just rewatch the episode, that's literally part of the fun
>>281179050There's going to be a lot more of those two later
>>281179081Hope so. I want more with the Adataras.
This /city/ city in this City anime is my ideal city! I would love to rent a City apartment here to run my City bussiness from!
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>>281178953>Quite like the idea they are so rich they employ these weirdos to sit in a tower all day just in case someone tries to escape.If I was rich I would do that
>>281179112Every single thread, Mr. Kim
>>281179377>bottom right cornerHey it's Quiz King! I bet even a lot of manga readers didn't notice that.
>>281179159She gives out a LOT of awards. By the law of large numbers, there's probably a few dozen escape attempts every single day.
this the first instance where i think the manga looks better than the anime. while the animated version didn't look bad, and still looked very pleasing; the original's shading really gave the cave extra depth, particularly with the tunnel in the background and the wall in the foreground
also i can only imagine how long it took to do the shading on this panel, i've tried to do stuff like this in the past and it takes HOURS to cover even a small amount of the background
>>281176415 (OP)>wako is there celebrating nagumo in the fantasy>but not niikurawhat the hell is her problem?
>>281179377This is bad storytelling, but since there's no story to be told I guess that's fine.
>>281179676nagumo and niikura had a lover's spat, give them some time to sort it out
>>281179676She knows that Niikura is still looking for that pendant.
Here's the anime version of THAT scene. I wondered how they would do it, and Kyoani managed to creatively fit in a lot with all those different bubbles merging but not everything. Nobody made a webm of the full scene including the bubbles part, and I would've done it myself, but it simply isn't possible to fit all of it in under 4 MB.
>>281179743Now here's the manga for comparison
>>281179759Easier to read version.
>>281179814Look at Tanabe captivated by Tatsuta in the last page. So cute.
>Tacchan...
As I feared, last episode they cut one of the funniest jokes from the manga, so I'll be dumping the chapter. This is chapter 16
>>281179870Oh, good catch!
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i really hope this isn't skipped and they find a way to adapt this gag to animation
>>281178982Their backness was already confirmed for me with Hibike S3, CITY feels like an even more bombastic victory lap. Despite everything they're still finding a way. It makes me so happy.
>>281179619Yeah that look good but kind of shading would be tough and I see why they'd opt to keep continuing with hard, solid colors.
>>281179759I like the waitress that quick caught the glass tray and watched the other girl get thrown to the ground. Doesn't look like she made it into the anime.
>>281180082End. If you're enjoying the anime, read the manga. You won't regret it.
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>>281180005>would be toughit wouldn't just be tough, it'd also be horrendously time-consuming. difficulty is just half of the challenge with traditional shading, it's also very tedious and to my knowledge arawi does his work the old-fashioned way (on paper); so he likely also has to do it slowly since the risk of fucking it up is a lot higher than it would be if you did it digitally.
>>281179959I mean, Maid Dragon S2 confirmed it, but this is some new heights shit. They're officially back and better than ever, and that's beautiful.
>>281178942>This is the type of sequence I would expect them to pull off for a final episodeAnd they should have done that. I was surprised last week when we moved to Nagumo being kidnapped because I was sure this would be the season finale.
Instead we got it now, when a considerable part of the characters involved are barely known or even introduced at all. The whole enmity between Nagumo and the landlord only appeared in one quick scene before this.
It was a complete waste to have this when we basically only know 10 characters by name at this point
>>281180223It's always the quite girls
>>281180262Not the somewhat girls?
>>281180273never the decisive girls
>>281180258They're apparently going to try and cover this, the race, and the Izumi Riko rescue arc all in this season and I knew for a fact that the race at least wouldn't be the first of those 3. I do wish they had two cours so they could adapt more chapters though.
>>281179743So many characters... and not a single one to care about... they really should have used this for the last episode.
>>281176453Actual fucking cinema, I am going to actively shill this shitty to people I know now
To the anon(s?) in the previous thread who were trying to convince me to switch from VLC to MPV
>>281175658 >>281175805 I downloaded MPV and I'll try it out for a week or two.
>>281180446This made me think of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
So now that KyoAni has reaffirmed that they are still the best anime studio and it isn't particularly close, who is the second best anime studio?
>>281180653Shaft, they proved themselves to be back with Ninkoro last season
the fact that all the genga lineart is drawn with brush pens makes this episode extra impressive
>>281180719I love Shaft, but CloverWorks has been way better this decade, even if they had a rough start. For example, in this very season (and regardless of what you may feel about the manga), Sono Bisque is receiving a -pretty much- perfect adaptation. There is also Kaoru Hana, but I've only watched one episode, so I can't say much about it for now. I need to catch up there.
It gets so hectic towards the end that it gets impossible to keep track of all the little details and interactions. I can't imagine what an enormous pain in the ass it must have been to storyboard and animate this whole sequence.
>>281180656where was this in chapter 3??? i missed it
Do we know what the interaction with Ecchan/Matsuri and the soccer team was? Just Tatewaku and Matsuri sibling teasing stuff? The girls are actually skipping school still, aren't they? Or is it after school and that's why the soccer team is practicing? High school jocks hitting on cute middle school girls? Anybody have any insight?
>>281180908Yeah I've been saying Cloverworks is the new KyoAni for a while now.
>>281180446that was both me :p
>>281180908CloverWorks hits are good but the way they handled shit like Wonder Egg doesn't give them that same status in my mind.
>>281180653I'm not going to take a definitive stance, but I think Madhouse should at least be part of the conversation.
She's like a bratty child having a tantrum
>>281180943It look like his friends were teasing him when they met up, so they probably teased him too. And yeah I guess they were wandering long enough that school got out since other students showed up to the party at the end as well.
>>281181096Whipe your dicke out Niikura
>>281181088Frieren was obviously a perfect adaptation, so that's reasonable.
Looking at their recent history, though, they aren't quite as consistent as Cloverworks.
They'd be #2 by a considerable margin if everything they made was Frieren-level.
>>281176453>everyone having whacky adventures>the jks just strolling through the woods without a care in the world :D
>>281181036They've put out a fucking shitload of quality content since Wonder Egg though. Like, a crazy amount of good shows.
>>281181036Wonder Egg was beautifully animated and directed though, it just had a god awful story.
>>281180925I'm a resident collage maker
You might have caught me in the hibimeshi threads making them for the food montages, or you may have seen some of my others in various threads around
I am dreading it, but I'm going to have to go through the episode scene(s) by scene(s) to get the best screenshots and make a supercolage of this arc. This is my greatest challenge yet
ooohh this panel'll be pretty in animation, i'm sure of it
>>281181388>Wonder Egg was beautifully animated and directed thoughI agree there, but the overall experience made a lot of people disregard that. Same fucking thing happened with Yorukura, and I really like that one despite everything.
Was there production notes like the last four episodes?
>>281181522I think YoruKura was just hurt a lot by airing the same season as Girls Band Cry, which had a similar story concept that was executed infinitely better, and also really innovative 3D animation.
>>281181415Godspeed, Anon.
volume 5 was great, the horse race is going to be so fun when it's adapted
>>281181415Godspeed, there was a lot of creature paneling through that went along with specific movements. So put them close together or connecting them in some way might be cool.
I didnโt like the gimmick this episode. Makes it too hard to focus. When it turned into bubbles it was kino tho
>>281181567Being honest, while the overall execution of GBC was better, I think the directing of Yorukura was way better than GBC's. One of the main problems I had with the direction of the latter were the goddamn concerts, as they felt fucking null to me.
At the end of the day, I personally liked Yorukura more.
>>281181735I wouldn't want it to be every episode like this, but once, with the theme of everyone interconnected in a CITY that was built specifically on giving hospitality and kindness to everyone, so that it would spread and grow and multiply, I think it's brilliant. The characters just keep connecting, and spinning off more stories.
Holy fuck man. I loved the first 4 episodes but this one was on another level. Feels like I just saw one of those historic influential episodes that people will be talking about and referencing 20 years from now. I had a blast watching it the first time and then again rewinding and following each individual arc, not to mention poring over that final Where's Waldo shot for all the little details. Shit like this is why anime exists. FUCK I love this series.
>>281181735There was nothing to focus on though, just a bunch of noise.
the OP is continuing to grow on me, slowly
the ED is already fantastic, however
>>281181854There was a lot to focus on. The anime just condensed a bunch of different plotlines from the manga together.
>>281181886Izumi Riko's so lucky.
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>>281181969keep at it Niikura
you'll get there someday
>>281181886He saluted, damn
>>281181862I fucking love the OP but I've always really enjoyed anything with those MIDI type swing horns
I'd watch this anime. Arawi should make this his next manga.
>>281182060He seems to like drawing mecha.
I'd read the hell out of a full series by him
>>281180258Every land lord is evil
>>281182107Just something comfy, with some lolis and a giant mech. No battles or anything. No world-ending threat. Maybe they go on a journey together, some kind of adventure in a sparsely populated area, and their mech is the only way to get around.
If anyone's looking to make more webms, Wako's climbing animation was really cute in this bit as she explained how she got there.
Why is Wako so cute? She adorabled the whole episode!
>>281179759>>281179743For some reason I always thought the person getting spooked by the Tsuchinoko was Mio but in the anime the person's hair is brown so I guess not
how the fuck did this episode even happened in the manga?
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>>281182275why don't you read it and find out for yourself? there's chapter dumps in the archive
>>281181735I kinda hated it to be honest and I was surprised to see how absolutely universal the praise has been. I obviously agree that on a technical level it's an incredible accomplishment but as a watching experience it was just stressful and tiresome for a show that is generally aiming to impart glee.
gee mimineko, how come kyoani lets you have TWO split screens?
>>281182327You're meant to watch it again and again and see new things each time. It's full of little moments that are cute or funny. Think of it like Where's Waldo.
>>281182327Do you have the autism?
I think most of us were probably like
>whoa that's a lotFor like, five seconds, then realized
>guess I'll just rewatch itthen watched only the big/featured parts during the first viewing.
Being easily overstimulated is a hallmark of the autism.
>>281182327>but as a watching experience it was just stressful and tiresome for a show that is generally aiming to impart glee.speak for yourself, i thought it was fucking cool! a lot of fun to find out what was happening in each segment and for me it was satisfying to just admire the sheer effort and care put into that entire part of the episode.
>the new episode
i have never been this confused watching anime before
i can't tell if that's a good thing or not
>>281182343One is of the Adatara delivery van. The other is of Mimineko. They just happen to both be together at this point, but aren't always.
who are the loli twins with the sexy cat socks?
>>281181969You and I had the same idea when we saw that.
>>281182421joe's daughters
>>28118196969 with Niikura...
I have a great need to see a wet bunny Wako
>>281182421They're the Adatara twins. Their oldest brother was driving and making the alcohol delivery. Their grandpa was the old guy spying on the Makabe restaurant in the first episode. Their oldest sister is the manager or something for Shia, the 20 year old that looks like the twins. And their other brother is the modern-day William Tell. Their dad was in the limo with the other old guys including Mitsuri dad.
>>281182275over many seperate chapters
>>281182492that's incredibly detailed... i didn't expect this to have so many characters having actual interactions with each other
back in Nichijou all the different stories were pretty much their own thing
>>281182538They have a mom too, but I don't think we've seen her yet.
>>281182538Yeah, the manga always felt like it did a really good job of feeling like the city was an actual city. A lot of characters that interact with each other. It's kind of lost in the anime since we don't get to know the characters as in depth.
>>281182516I tried this once and the little MSG flavoring packet is overpowering, couldn't choke it down
>episode 4 made sure to use all the crossroad eye catches as the framing for the ultimate animated piece at the end(the animated crossroad with all the characters interconnecting)
>this episode had more and more scenes pile on until the big bubble moment that eventually climaxes with the party to tie in with the ending's point about good deeds and hospitality making the city grow bigger and bigger to where it is now
such brilliant framing devices, you really cannot compete with kyoani's artistry there.
>>281182565eh, as an anime-only i've been getting that feeling since episode 2
i would say they managed to do a great job adapting that aspect
>>281182516This fiend knows no shame
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>>281182602>animated entirely on paperthe quickest way to an artfag's heart, that was beautifully done
>quiet kid, this is where it gets good
>>281182723>720pWhy are you watching anime on a potato laptop or a phone? Are you poor or retarded?
>>281182375Not as far as I know. What you described was my experience too, but the thought of having to rewatch it multiple times to catch all stories when I still have at least 4 other episodes of anime to watch today just annoyed me as I was watching. Maybe it'd have hit different if I had watched CITY last or if it aired on an emptier day.
fuck now i want a JRPG with this art style
Man rejects the local sultry JK
>>281182748You should only watch CITY.
>>281182748>but the thought of having to rewatch it multiple times to catch all stories when I still have at least 4 other episodes of anime to watch today just annoyed meBut CITY is better than those other shows.
The thought should be "oh, I get to enjoy AOTY even longer than usual today!"
>>281182762Wait, this just reminded me of something and now I wonder if it was the same person. Didn't we get a brief shot of somebody groveling in front of Tanabe?
>How do we adapt an entire volume of content in 30 minutes?
>Have several chapters worth of anime play at the same time!
Sasuga Kyoani
>>281182762His heart was already taken by Wako when her felt her hand
>>281176453Letโs be honest, itโs not that great. Itโs just frames playing side by side. A very lazy way to show the interconnectedness of the city.
>>281182788I really like the manga, and this adaptation has been great, but so far I'm liking Ruri more. Puniru is really good too.
>>281182745Anime native resolution is 720p, only a retard would pick 1080p.
>>281182933Let's be honest, you haven't watched the episode
>>281182949>Anime native resolution is 720pno show in the 2020s is displayed in 720p natively, most every series (and pretty much any animated one) is produced with 1080i/p widescreen in mind.
>>281182820Bold and interesting, but meaningless and void of substance.
>>281182933I feel bad for you because you're not watching it.
>you are not watching it
Why pick this routine? Doesn't fit the topic at hand.
Best show of the season hands down, no samefag spite campaign will change that
>>281182949Kyoani has animated in native 1080p for like 10 years now
Because you're so obviously just the same troll who's been trolling every thread, and obviously aren't even watching because you wouldn't say such objectively wrong things about it.
>>281176736i believe this is already niikura's job!
>>281181850>historic influential episodes that people will be talking about and referencing 20 years from nowThat won't happen anymore. No such thing as an authority. No such thing as discourse. Every opinion treated with equal weight and moving faster than the speed of sound. Seek out the real connections you have in your life and never let go.
>>281183205god I miss scene girls now
fucking hated them back then
Honestly, they can reasonably fit every single story the manga did in order to get the mega payoff where the whole CITY is there, but this is a good episode.
It still suffers from the recurring issue of characters that haven't been actually introduced simply showing up. Anyone that says it doesnt detract from the experience is honestly coping. Awari wrote it like that for a reason. I know theres budget and time limitations at play but that doesnt make it good. The Tanabe party happens in what, volume 5? Theres dozens of chapters of character introductions and buildup to those wonderful panels. By then youre we'll acquainted with a majority of the characters and their place in the story. Its the whole reason why its so satisfying to see all their stories converge. Its masterfully done. The anime is clearly "making up" for not being able to do the buidup properly by making the whole episode very hectic and detailed. Its good, even great visually. Definitely gets better on a rewatch after you've seen the whole anime and are fully acquainted with all the characters. But a first time viewer isnt getting the same experience they would have gotten reading the manga.
That all being said. I enjoyed the episode.
I think I'm gonna re-read the story time.
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>>281182933>Itโs just frames playing side by side>framesa frame is a still image of a video, they do not move unless arranged in a sequence.
>>281183075>openly admitting itOk then. I just finished watching the episode, just saying.
You really never could understand City all at once.
>>281183280I agree with your points, but anime-only watchers may view the show more like a puzzle. Even though the manga is never confusing about what motivates the characters or when events take place, I could see someone noticing how the show makes a point of having side characters walk past one another and thinking that makes the lack of certain details deliberate. Something like, if everybody in the city is part of a new adventure, wouldn't it make sense to meet them at different points of their stories, rather than always the beginning? I've seen it happen before, like with how people have given a lot of thought to Haruhi's broadcast order despite that being an anime-only decision.
Or maybe by the end of the show all the remaining character dynamics are introduced, and viewers just have to stick it out for a while longer.
>>281182933really makes you think
wow amazing beautiful episode wow 10/10
I love the soundtrack, it is very engaging and lovely amazing!!!!!!!
>>281183483you can feel the anger behind this post
I missed these kind of just brain off enjoyable type of shows
>2009: the same storyline in 8 episodes
>2025: 8 storylines in the same episode
POTTERY
>>281183543Im not angry I really liked it. How could I be angry after staring at sweaty Niikura for 30 minutes?
>>281183565Kyoani found a way
>>281183551But the citychad keep telling me the show is 2deep4me...
>>281183633Both are correct
>>281183606Will this be animated?
>>281183633You'll figure it out eventually.
this thread has a disturbing lack of Wako
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>>281183319i've already replied to you before, but i'd also like to shed some light on the extended panel sequence from a (relatively) experienced artist/editor's perspective.
i can tell you right now that what you saw was NOT lazy by any means. synchronizing all of those scenes and making sure they all flow together, designing +animating them, AND the numerous transitions between them all; takes an ungodly amount of time and is anything but low-effort. most of the time taken to do something like this is during storyboards, because it all needs to be laid out by hand. sure once it's all planned out most of the tedious work is those transitions, but getting that scene boarded (remember, it's several minutes long) and ensuring it all flowed perfectly must've took kyoani months of fine-tuning before it was even ready to animate.
now it being lazy from a story perspective? i can actually understand this argument (though I disagree heavily) but don't look at it that way! look at that sequence from the perspective of an artistic achievement, and pushing the genre forward with new and ambitious techniques. : )
screwed up my spacing with the final paragraph but what are you gonna do ยฏ\_(ใ)_/ยฏ
>>281183689Wako is all around you.
>>281183820Nagumo's big ballsack
>>281183689Please wait warmly.
>>281183746>>281183820He's not going to care and will just say some other dumb shit, he's been threadshitting since the first teaser trailer
>>281183843>He's not going to care and will just say some other dumb shitwell, then i hope my post convinces anyone else who thought that scene was somehow lazy
>>281181969>>281182432Will Niikura find her missing doubles after 1 million hours in Krita and Aegisub?
>>281176415 (OP)>>281176453Literally Cocomelon for tweens
>>281181969>>281182432Will Niikura find her missing doubles after some number of hours in Krita and Aegisub?
>>281183947She's as good at getting doubles as she is at getting her pendant back
>Ramen dude came back
Iโm glad
>>281183947Classic Niikura
>>281176415 (OP)Alright, I'm gonna check this anime out. Looks like it's on Prime.
>>281182933mindbroken retard
>>281183947high effort post
>>281184381Is the background supposed to be a magnetic field visualizer? Inspired.
>>281183746As a matter of fact I don't have a single (you), and I'm not sure what you are talking about, but if the key word here is "lazy" I would assume it has to do with the content and not the visuals, putting together a bunch of random scenes with random people that lead to one scene only seems tedious to do so, as you say, but won't require major planning which would in fact make it "lazy", now you say you can understand the criticism towards the content not being handled in the best way, well, that would be my only criticism because I cannot care for visual flare without getting invested into the story, but that's me.
>>281184417you should watch the episode and try thinking next time
>>281184381It's really hard not to make a sex joke about this webm
>>281176453Felt like I was watching NFL RedZone when they go to the octobox
sasuga KyoAni
>>281176547What was he saying here?
This anime is a work of art. I'm grateful for it. The visuals are amazing and it's polished without feeling soulless. What an amazing watch.
>>281178429I love MGS3 Paramedic so much!
>>281180460This should've been Absolute Cityma. You are not getting an award and hospitality will be denied.
>>281176984You're gonna need to give a source on that. That's unbelievable if it's true.
>>281185064so rare to see nichijou production materials
RIP Nishiya
>>281182949>>281182998>>281183074>>281183290This takes me back. Does any studio even animate in less than 1080p today? I remember around 2010 a native 1080p mastered anime was novel, I think Henkeko or Nyaruko-san or something were the first, with one at 1080p a season.
Last I checked was in 2018 where I remember Megalobox was mastered at 480p for max VHS quality, with some percentage (a third?) less than 1080p. I don't even remeber the .jp site to check the native resolution.
Surely that everyone including the animators are using 4k monitors has killed sub-1080p, right? I presume the native res is closer to 3200x1800 for ease in drawing.
>>281184758www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xSvc2quTh4&t=18s
>>281185382?
Not sure if recently but up to 2020 anything above 720p was upscaled until proven the contrary, like certain series going up to 910p, maybe that changed recently but I don't know.
>>281185507kyoani has animated in 1080p for a while now
>>281185064this is actually pretty helpful for knowing how to properly draw the girls, thanks anon : )
>>281185597this is very well drawn, whoever drew this i want to give them an award
>>281176984>>281177746Good lord, he did a phenomenal job at it.
>>281178796I just put the whole manga on my ipad for a nine hour flight I have in a couple months.
Apparently the twins host this commentary series https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTNhweghpLi2ZOHDJPmmDB49H4X5fXLXp
>>281179959I believe this is called "recycling animation"
>>281179743It's possible but you'd lose so much detail in the process it wouldn't be worth it.
>>281185597Great drawing. Ty anon
>>281185507The vast majority of shows were >720p well before 2020. See: anibin
I don't know where you're getting your information from but it's wrong.
>>281185507>>281186399iirc it wasn't really about whether the studio did it in 1080p(or better) or not, but broadcasts(and web sources) were ALWAYS 720p/1080i
>>281186446Streamrips have never been 1080i. What the fuck are you talking about?
>>281186532>What the fuck are you talking about?What the fuck are YOU talking about.
Because you'd have to be an actual retard to think something labeled 1080p uploaded by crunchyroll or any of the other hackfraud platforms through 2010's and early 2020's were ever actually a proper 1080p source.
>>281186572They were *not* 1080i.
You have been downloading 720p based on incorrect information for likely over a decade now.
Everybody point and laugh at
>>281186572
>>281178741People who liked this are more likely to read the manga as well. This is a manga ad after all
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Six hours after watching ep 5 I'm still internally gushing. Pure kino, absolute cinema.
These threads fucking suck
>>281186572You could have done the following like 10 fucking years ago instead of just blindly believing whatever incorrect information you read:
>download the 720p streamrip release of a show listed as >720p by anibin>download the 1080p streamrip release of the same show>play them both back with mpc-hc or mpv default settings in fullscreen with a 1080p display>take a screenshot of the same frame with both releases>compareHad you taken the <5 minutes to do this yourself, 10 years ago, rather than simply blindly believing incorrect information like a moron, you would have seen very fucking clearly that the 1080p release would be sharper, with more detail.
That's all you had to fucking do. 10 years ago.
Instead you've been downloading inferior releases for like a decade or more because you're a lazy fucking idiot.
Holy shit.
>>281186626>This is a manga ad after allToo much effort for just a manga add. I am almost sure that they will announce a season2 .
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Today's episode was unironically the second greatest episode in anime history behind Non Non Biyori's Flatty-san episode.
>>281186724Aren't they smashing through the source too fast to do that?
why is blud spending so much effort trying to revise history?
webrips were always 720p/1080i because that's what broadcasters got and studios weren't going to provide a new and different source to some podunk web service
>>281183300A frame is a rectangle that surrounds something, or metonymically, something framed, a rectangular section of a larger canvas.
>>281186758The manga has 200+ chapters and at most the anime will only cover half of them I think.
>>281186767[HorribleSubs] Working!!! - 01 [720p].mkv (A 2015 release)
mpv with:
profile=fast (so, bilinear upscale)
>>281186767>>281186963[HorribleSubs] Working!!! - 01 [1080p].mkv
mpv with:
profile=fast
As you can see, this is significantly sharper/more detailed. This is far superior, visually.
You should feel very stupid now if you have been downloading 720p releases for 10+ years with the belief that they are no better or even worse than 1080p releases.
>>281186963>>281186982I haven't seen a beatdown like this since Tyre Nichols.
>>281186940The manga has 186 chapters and the PV confirmed they're adapting stuff late in the manga. They're probably trying to adapt the whole thing.
anyone interested in buying a bridge
>>281187120>The manga has 186 chaptersAre you sure? I've checked 2 sites that have 200+ chapters
>>281187181I hope you have a city night
>>281187155The initial run is 186 chapters. Arawi is making new chapters because of the anime but it's probably not going to be a full return like Nichijou.
This should've been a three-parter because this episode was borderline unwatchable with so much shit happening on the screen if you don't want to rewatch it twenty times just to see all the stuff happening on the smaller screens.
>>281187286I literally had to rewatch the multi-screen part once.
>>281186982From what I remember, CR would of course upscale to 1080p if their source was natively 720p. Butt then instead of using the source for 720p, they would downscale the 1080p upscale to 720p.
>>281187286>if you don't want to rewatch it twenty times just to see all the stuff happening on the smaller screens.That's a good thing. Rewatch value is always a positive.
>>281182255Probably not but it could be possible that it was supposed to be Mio but someone messed up.
For anime onlies, if you have a sharp eye, you may have noticed that one of the chefs at the party was the owner of the restaurant Makabe was a regular at before it closed down (I'll be very impressed if you did). The manga shows why. Here is chapter 47.
>>281182936I watch those two and some more. I just accept I canโt watch them all on the same day so I watch those two while I wait for City and accepted I will have to finish CITY later. It is not a race, just take it easy and enjoy the show.
Hope I remember how to crossboard post, important video
>>>/wsg/5940232>>281187614Thanks dumper
>thread is for CITY: The Animation
>it's more about the manga
nobody cares that you read the manga
>>281187653It's about both. Who cares, have fun.
>>281187643Heh.
>>281187373The source CR was given for that show wasn't 720p, though. That particular show (Working!!!) was actually promoted as being full 1080p, hence why I chose it as an example.
>>281187653It's literally giving context to something that happened in the anime
>>281187669so you're saying you cherrypicked a very specific series to try and misrepresent something while ignoring the hoards of shows that were not native 1080p? While also ignoring the godawful plague of bitrate starving through that period of time?
How very interesting.
>>281187653It's literally an excuse to bump the thread
>>281187765The thread doesn't need help getting bumped when it's already on page 1
>>281187669I thought you guys were arguing over whether or not you should ever downloading 720p. Not that a source could never be native 1080p.
I thought you were making the point that you might as well download 1080p regardless of the native res. And I was adding to that point by saying how CR's 720p isn't even the original 720p. Might as well watch an upscale rather than the downscale of an upscale.
>>281180719I enjoyed Ninkoro but that's not enough for me to say SHAFT is back when it didn't get much attention from general audiences. They've been a zombie studio kept alive by Monogatari and Madoka sequels for too long. It's too soon to determine what impact Ninkoro will have on the studio. It may just be a fluke. Plus, after they used AI in Monogatari, it's going to take more to earn back my goodwill.
>>281187542i liked the way they hinted at this in the anime, you can see something fall when makabe jerks the door before his twilight freak out
>>281187840>Plus, after they used AI in Monogatari,Where?
>>281176453As someone that hasn't read the manga, I really loved the way they did this episode. Makes me want to rewatch it a bunch and just focus on each little story. What an absolutely fun episode.
>>281182602>not barefootWeak shit
>>281187758Check anibin on internet archive. Way more shows were >720p native than not, even in 2015.
>bitrate starvingThe 720p releases were also bitrate starved. They were also downscales. The Funimation ones were even very badly downscaled.
>>281187796>I thought you were making the point that you might as well download 1080p regardless of the native res.You should download 1080p whenever the native res is >720p. The result will be greater detail/sharpness.
Back when anibin was an active thing, the right way to go about it was to download 1080p for anything anibin listed as >720p.
Now that anibin isn't a thing, if you don't feel like being a turbo autist and doing his testing method yourself, you're better off just downloading 1080p for everything, as *most* shows are >720p native these days.
>>281176453If you weren't watching CITY up until this point, I understand why, but yeah anyone who missed this episode is missing out big time. This and last week feel like when it properly went from CITY: The Animation to CITY: The Adaptation
>>281187653Mangafags don't understand most people have not read this 500 times prior to the anime, always happen.
>despite being tippy top tier kino, CITY is still being slept on
I blame and hate normalfags
>>281188414Of course it is. It doesn't have "action" in the genres list.
Normies gonna norm.
>>281177746Based Sato. I bet the director was jealous.
>>281176453I hated it. This is the weakest episode by a lot. The only one that's made me feel an emotion other than total joy (that emotion being total annoyance). If I wanted to watch ridiculous multiview nonsense I'd put on ESPN and be bored to tears by that instead. Half of the mini-plots were pointless, the other half would have been better with the focus on them.
It's well-animated, but then the entire series has been so far. So if that's all it has going for it, it's not much of anything.
>>281187489Not when it's forced in such an obnoxious manner. I almost don't want to rewatch it out of spite.
You could cut half of the screen off the first episode then play it out again with the other half visible, that doesn't mean it has rewatch value.
>>281188414do you want city threads to turn into /dbz/ or /csm/? lol
>>281188554I want it to be popular so actually-good things are rewarded and effort is seen as a positive thing to put into a series as opposed to a begrudging expense. The threads will be ruined by retards and extremely dedicated autists, as above, regardless
>>281188583If it gets too popular, the soul will get sucked right out of it to squeeze out every last available yen, amigo. The quality (or lack thereof) of threads on 4chan is of little concern in comparison. You should want it to be appreciated, but true popularity ruins everything.
>>281188583mainstream anime has been shit ever since cel died as a medium, and following that so did the quality of anime fans themselves drop
>>281188613>mainstream anime has been shit ever since cel died as a medium,Even during that period, a lot of the popular stuff was shounenshit.
>>281188624yeah but at least it didn't make your eyes bleed
>>281188602>>281188613I guess so. And I do really hate normalfags, so maybe actually they don't deserve CITY anyway. Talented weirdos will make good things every now and then regardless, so maybe it doesn't even matter. I won't wish for it to be niche but maybe I won't lament it anymore because fuck those retards who slept on it anyway. Thanks anons.
>>281188613>and following that so did the quality of anime fans themselves dropNah, /a/ during 2003-2007>>>>>rec.arts.anime
>>281188634It made my heart bleed by being mindless shounenshit.
>but the animation is stellar
You can have stellar animation and an engaging story at the same time. They've done it before with Koe no Katachi, Violet Evergarden, Hibike Euphonium and Haruhi. Don't blame the viewers for finding comedy hit or miss.
>>281188733Who are you quoting?
>>281188733>knk and VEGNope
>>281188815He who copes with the lack of popularity this anime is demonstrating.
>>281188886The numbers say otherwise. Ok, you personally disagree with that. Nothing changes.
>oh please look at the number of drawings it's 16k in an episode
Not really a huge deal nowadays
>>281188919>numbersSame can be applied to semen player and shonen shit doesn't mean it's good
>you personally disagree with that. Nothing changes. Same applies here
Call me a retard who got filtered but I didn't care for this episode at all. I really enjoyed last episode after feeling ambivalent about the first 3 so I was hoping I would enjoy the rest.
Visually it was impressive and very well executed. I think my problem is that I simply don't care about most of the characters, and the humor is more miss than hit for me.
If it was all or mostly Wako, Eri, and Matsuri being cute and goofing around it would be so much better.
>>281188958It's impressive if Satou did half of it alone. It's only a rumor right now though.
>>281188984You could stop complaining that a niche show like this isn't popular any time, you know.
>>281188992I think manga readers can't appreciate how hard it is to care about a bunch of stories going on at once when you're only acquainted with half of them and the other half are brand new, in what's already a decently disconnected show. They got a lot of buildup over many chapters into the sequence. They'll also tell you this is your fault for not reading the manga, and that's probably the case.
Still, these stories could have been strong enough to stand on their own instead of being relegated to 1/8th the screen and something a new viewer isn't going to care about.
>>281189041>You could stop complainingI haven't though, infact i couldn't care less about it popular or not, responded to the knk and veg compared to city from your post
>>281189123You don't care and that's why you felt tge urge to reply.
I'm sorry, everyone, but I would be lying if I said I didn't hate this fucking episode. The series was going perfectly so far until this episode went all avant-garde. It felt like a complete butchering of the source material, they included like a dozen subplots from the manga and reduced them into tiny frames in the corner of the screen for seemingly no reason.
It felt like this was the final episode, and they ran out of budget, except this wasn't the final episode, and it probably took a lot of work to make those tiny animated segments just to waste them like that.
I also didn't like how they introduced the granny who in the manga is Nagumo's landlord that she's always avoiding, but here, nobody who hasn't read it has any idea who she is or why Nagumo was intent on not submitting to her. It was all just so random and unnecessary. Not to mention Shia and the sisters being introduced in that tiny box gag so you don't even know their names (can you even call this a gag?). I like Kyoani and Arawi, but this was simply not it,
>>281189204Not really, just like you mentioned how it's not possible to blame to the viewer if they don't find the comedy of this show engaging while giving an example of veg and knk as how these two can provide beautiful animation and engaging story at the story time which imo they don't.
>>281188414certain anons will never realize being too popular isnโt a good thing
>>281189239It's a stretch to say I hate the episode, otherwise I agree. I do hate the sequence, but the rest of the episode (even the bubble ending of the sequence) is genuinely excellent, as the rest have been.
You're putting into words what I've been struggling to say as a reason I don't like it. It feels like a waste of what should have been strong independent bits, and it's only episode 5, we're not running out of time any time soon here.
Is all this shit in here just because kyoani is winning again?
>>281189239Agree, this entire show feels like staff during pre production were thinking what they want to do rather than thinking how anime viewers and fans would want to enjoy it, no sane viewer who got into a show is going to rewatch it over and over again. Disconnected adaptation
>>281189280I guess it's a stretch to say I hated the entire episode, since I was enjoying it until the point where all the weird meta stuff started happening, my opinions about the bubble segment towards the end are mixed, on the one hand I could see myself enjoying it on its own, but after the whole boxes segment I was just sitting there thinking to myself "what the fuck is this shit?"
>>281189239>so far until this episode went all avant-gardeBut I like that, I like when anime is more weird and experimental.
>>281189308>Agree, this entire show feels like staff during pre production were thinking what they want to do rather than thinking how anime viewers and fans would want to enjoy it,Anime was the best when every director thought like that. You wouldn't survive some of the 80s ovas.
>>281188520I really don't understand how this was greenlit by Kyoani. Does anyone know the domestic audience's reaction to it?
>>281189332>>281189324I don't particularly have an issue with it being so avant-garde. Avant-garde can be good. This was a miss, though. Avant-garde doesn't mean its automatically good. I just can't get over the subplots glossed over by this sequence which deserve their own chance to shine.
Maybe that time will come, who knows what the next few episodes will bring.
>>281189324>I like when anime is more weird and experimental.That's fine if the anime starts off like that, and it's what's expected like the Animerama trilogy. However, there is a time and place for that, and it certainly wasn't here.
>>281189369>vant-garde doesn't mean its automatically good.But is means it's better than a normal anime.
>Maybe that time will come, who knows what the next few episodes will bring.I hope the rest of the episodes are exactly like this. Not with he exact same setup but I hope they experiment a fucking lot, especially with practical effects. I don't need a page by page adaptation, I already have the manga for that, anime adaptations in this age should do new stuff.
>>281189414>That's fine if the anime starts off like that,I am ok with it changing in the middle as well(not okay with it changing at the end since by that point I probably don't care anymore)
>>281189425>But is means it's better than a normal anime.Why? If it tries something avant-garde and fails horribly, then it just downgraded itself. The story is strong, it deserves proper execution.
Experimentation for experimentation's sake is idiotic, it needs to have purpose. Thinking that it's good is literal first-year liberal arts student behavior.
Not really related, but I do agree about the "practical effects", they're awesome. Practical effects isn't the right word but I know what you're getting at. It's really only the simulcast sequence that I have problems with.
>>281182933You are correct, the people replying to you are simply coping
>>281189456>If it tries something avant-garde and fails horribly, then it just downgraded itself.Nah, even then unless it's something horrible(which this episode wasn't), it's still enjoyable and more memorable then something simple.
>Experimentation for experimentation's sake is idiotic, it needs to have purpose. I agree and most experimental anime, even bad ones, have some purpose.
>The story is strong, it deserves proper execution.But we need this anime to experiment and you know why. Don't make me spell it out for you.
>I didn't like it for pseudointellectual autistic reasons so it was objectively bad and a failure
Fucking wild
>>281189498You think something executed simply and straightforward can't be good because it wasn't experimental? You are a retard. I would hate to see what your cooking is like.
>>281189498It's memorable because it's fucking BAD. People don't appreciate having shit foisted on them that they didn't want nor sign up for. CITY is a slice of life with some light humor added a la Nichijou, not some OC anime where the studio can do whatever they want with it. I don't know if Arawi signed off on this or not, but it feels disrespectful to the source and to the fans. It reminded me of the original ending of Evangelion, in the way it made be feel but at least that was an anime original.
>>281189535Whom are you quoting?
>>281189543>You think something executed simply and straightforward can't be good because it wasn't experimental?When have I said that? Why are you putting words in my mouth? I thought you were a honest person but here you are insulting me because of a made up scenario in your head. I said that we need such anime to experiment not that simple anime are bad.
Finally found a way to watch this episode.
>>281189593When did you say that? How about 10 minutes ago, retard?
>But is means it's better than a normal anime. I'm disappointed too, I thought this discussion was going somewhere, but more and more it's apparent you are one of those types who is obsessed with the "experimental" even when it drops the bag, like it did in this case.
>>281189598it really did feel like a shitpost whether they were going for that or not
>>281189332Overwhelming positive just like here.
>>281189598I wasn't going to pull the subway surfers card, but I was thinking about it during the sequence.
>>281189625Are you blind? I said it would be better than a normal anime not that normal anime can't be good.
>>281189560That's the exact problem. The industry barely produces any original anime anymore so the only way I can get the experimentation that was available in original anime is in manga adaptations that try to do different things(that's why I rarely watch manga adaptations that don't try to do their own stuff instead of just page by page adaptations since I've most likely already read the manga)
That was kino with the split screen what the hell
>>281189641>youtube commentsI was referring to the japanese imageboards, I'm sure that normalfags in youtube comments are the same no matter where in the world they are from
>>281189678Well, no doubt at least part of the intention was to spur discussion, and it's definitely doing that. I hated half of this episode, but by the end I thought "everyone's going to either love that part or hate it". Seems to be the case so far, I've only ever seen opinions on the extremes.
>>281189700>I was referring to the japanese imageboards,If you think the anime is bad than the japs most likely like it since they have garbage taste. It's the same shit.
Wow. A virtually universally positive reaction from /a/ for hours and hours and hours after the episode. Very rare.
Then, all of the sudden, out of nowhere, one anon after the other flaming it.
Totally organic and not samefagging.
Totally not a buttangery third-worlder who is jealous KyoAni doesn't animate juvenile battleshonen.
How did it even look in the source material?
>>281189708People could at least be civil about it
>manga readers
I'm sorry but this episode and the series as a whole just doesn't work if you don't read the manga
>anime only
Wow this episode was even better than the last! I can't wait to see more of that character they introduced this time!
Is this really how it's gonna be every week? You don't need context for everything that is happening, plenty can be inferred and the rest is either not crucial to understanding the overall scene or will be recontextualized later.
>>281189712I am so fucking sick of samefagging turboautists on every board getting triggered by shit all the goddamn time and devoting their lives to ruining any threads about it. They're like 4chan school shooters.
>>281189712There was criticism within an hour. That was, of course, after scholarly thinkers had time to digest and process and come to the unfortunate conclusion (they fumbled it). Meanwhile easily-impressed zoomers, such as yourself, flocked to make your insipid opinions heard. KyoAni is capable of fucking up. Nobody likes a fanboy.
Don't bother denying your zoomer status by the way, I can tell because you jumped straight to the "thirdie" cope.
>>281189790>You don't need context for everything that is happeningWell, that was part of my issue with it. Without the context, why the fuck would you care about 75% of what's going on during that sequence? With the context, I'm left wishing 75% of that sequence got more attention than just being shoved to the bottom corner of the screen.
>>281188554we need to know how nagumo and wako powerscale
>>281189831SHITgumoRATs don't already know? Is that what you're getting at?
>>281189712I only had the chance to watch it this morning so I don't know what to tell you
>>281189828>thirdieNta but he is right, the internet has degraded a lot now that every country has access to it. I fucking miss the 90s.
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(You) hoped the fire would kill KyoAni. (You) posted on /a/, saying KyoAni was done. We told you KyoAni always finds a way, but (You) didn't believe us.
(You) were happy when the fire happened because (You) don't like the genres of anime KyoAni animates. Because (You) perceive those who like those genres as your enemies.
(You) were disappointed, even angry, when Maid Dragon season 2 and Hibike season 3 were just as good as the seasons which came before them.
But now? (You) are absolutely furious, because KyoAni found a way. (You) are absolutely furious, because KyoAni actually came back better than ever. (You) are absolutely furious at the near universal praise KyoAni is receiving here and on social media. (You) are absolutely furious that KyoAni is producing the clear AOTY and possibly AOTD.
(You) are mad as fuck.
>>281189877(You) posted cropped futa porn.
>>281189828>Well, that was part of my issue with it. Without the context, why the fuck would you care about 75% of what's going on during that sequence?Because it's visually compelling and you're interested to see where it's going? Without context why care about anything? At this point why care about a "proper introduction" without context beforehand, an intro to the intro? Everything has to start somewhere, I think it's interesting to start some character stories in the middle of a scene instead of having to do introductions nonstop, certainly for this kind of story.
>>281189876Sure, that's true. An unfortunate side effect is that it offers disingenuous zoomoids a cope to hide behind.
>>281189877It is AOTY, in spite of how badly this episode flubbed it.
I lived in Kyoto when the arson happened, those were scary times
>>281189911>reductio ad absurdumi accept your concession
Shit anime is so unfunny it's unreal.
>>281189914>An unfortunate side effect is that it offers disingenuous zoomoids a cope to hide behind.We used to call thirdworlders out way before zoomers had access to the internet.
>>281189928You just don't have an answer. Can you not enjoy a story if it's not completely front loaded with exposition?
>>281189828>"scholarly thinkers"
>>281189935Would you like it better if they tripped over each other and had a hilarious misunderstanding because it looked like they were about to kiss, and then an alien attacks? Go fuck yourself.
>>281189945No, "we" didn't (airquotes because you weren't there), because the thirdies didn't have internet access, so there was no need to do that.
>>281189935I liked Nichijou because it at least had jokes, this show is liked only by the most autistic loners who are content when there's cute girls on the screen so they don't care about the fact that there are NO FUCKING JOKES IN THIS SHOW
>>281189959Let me prove a point
>>281189877I didn't do any of that
>>281189877Uh nice bait clown, hibike season 3 was not nearly as good as season 1.
But I don't even know if this should be called bait, it feels more like bait parody.
>>281189956>airquotes because you weren't there)I was there just not on /a/.
>because the thirdies didn't have internet access, so there was no need to do that.They started slowly getting access to it in the 2010s.
>>281189081Agreed. Someone earlier said the party was in volume 5, if that is the case it's kind of a shame they're rushing through everything so quickly. "A decently disconnected show" is a good way to put it, which is ironic and unfortunate given that a large part of this episode seemed to be about the connection between all of the different characters in the city.
>>281189928>>reductio ad absurdumare you implying that's a fallacy?
>>281189828>KyoAni is capable of fucking up.They've been fucking up since forever. Like with cutting out so much shit from Clannad, way more than they cut from City. How the fuck did you not expect this?
>>281189965i could choke out this pencilneck with my index and thumb
>>281189950Why should I answer, so you can blow it completely out of proportion into a total strawman again? Someone without context won't care "where it's going" when half the sequence is just looping images. They'll only care about the fleshed out parts, including the story that was already in progress and massively disrupted for this gimmicky sequence. The context is important. Even in this very thread you see anime-onlies missing the entire point about some of the plots within the sequence.
>>281190000Kek this, I bet he wasn't even here when clannad aired.
I see the KyoAni arbitrary hate train is indeed still running decades later
>>281190000Checked, to this day I refuse to watch Haruhi because of endless 8, and it's mindboggling how some anons defend it due to sheer nostalgia
>>281189956>Go fuck yourself.You sound mad. Maybe you are underage and don't know how to argue, but this show is shit and you can't make me change my mind.
>>281189959I didn't liked nichijou neither, but it's a masterpiece compared to this.
>>281190017>>281190000>>281190030Well that's my fucking point, they have fucked up before, I am trying to do away the insane fanboyism in that post. What are you being so argumentative about? We are in agreement.
>>281190042>Didn't likedESL-kun........................
>>281189935>>281189959>>281190042This guy is the actual samefagger that's been plaguing threads since day 1
>>281189414>waahh stop having fun director-san
>>281190019Right now it's obviously just one samefag or one Discord channel. The ratio of negative to positive posts jumped very, very suddenly and unnaturally.
KyoAni just released the best episode of anime they've ever released, post-fire or pre-fire, and they are hurt feelings and butt ranged.
>>281190055>Well that's my fucking point, they have fucked up before,My point is that they have always fucked up. How is this special when 90% of their adaptations cut a lot of shit from source material, you retard?
>>281189877never understood arsonfags hoping the studio would die when it happened in the middle of the violet movie production and it not only got finished regardless but also mogged everything else that year production-wise
>>281189828>/dbs/ lingoBro...
>>281190100what the fuck are you talking about? it isn't "special", i just chose this example because it's from City which, in case you haven't noticed, is the subject of this thread.
are you autistic or something? do you always argue with people who agree with you? shouldn't you be going after the KyoAni worshipers if they are committing such grievous offenses in your eyes?
>>281189712>>281190019>trainIt is at least 90% one guy. Every time a mass shitposter get IP wiped you see most of the posts like these instantly wiped from multiple threads, even threads of other anime. There is a hand full of fags responsible for 90% of the shitposts on the entire board. Report and move on.
>>281176415 (OP)This episode was a surprise after the other.
CITY the CLAYmation was fun, and the screen-split was insane: I''m not enough of a ADHD zoomer to process all of that, but I tried.
>>281190148Are you illiterate or dumb? You've written
>KyoAni is capable of fucking up.as in they have a good track record but they sometimes fuck up. The thing is, their whole history is a fuck up. City is not special compared to their other fumbles.
>do you always argue with people who agree with you?With retards yes.
> shouldn't you be going after the KyoAni worshipers if they are committing such grievous offenses in your eyes?I've already argued enough with them in the past decades.
>>281190181I don't think you're intended to process all that in one viewing. It's pretty clear you're intended to rewatch parts of it.
>>281190158You understand that people have differing opinions from you, yes? People are going to dislike things you don't like. If you're writing off every criticism as samefagging, you're doing more harm to the show than the people criticizing it. Criticism is a good thing.
>>281183483Fuck off, frognigger.
>>281190010I didn't do that and I gave you an actual answer as well. You're approaching this like I'm a manga reader saying the additional context from the manga doesn't matter when I'm actually one of the anime-only viewers you're referring to and I DID enjoy seeing where it was going. I didn't need everyone's name and backstory to lunderstand that they were all converging on one point or to be interested in seeing how it happened and what the final result was.
>genre aside (so, not judging anime for being fujoshit), KyoAni has made ONE (Munto) bad anime in the history of its existence
How can one studio be this based?
>>281190193>as in they have a good track record but they sometimes fuck up.That is an interpretation of what I said. It's not the correct one, and it's not the only one. Of course, since you are autistic, you have zeroed in on your interpretation as the only one. That is a hallmark sign of the disorder, you realize.
>>281189708This is the only place on the entire internet I've seen anyone say anything negative about it (beyond being unable to follow it) at all and I'm not inclined to believe it's genuine because the main pusher is an avatarfagging giga autist.
>>281190197Being unable to accept criticism is part of having aspergers or having schizoid tendencies, that's maybe why he thinks it's only a person who doesn't like this anime.
He may or not be also a tranny, so that's why you shouldn't push him harder so he doesn't kill himself.
>>281190257To be fair, it's only a 7.84 right now at you-know-where.
But then again, to be fair, that's to be expected of a battleshonen hell website.
>>281190257Well, that would be because you are an idiotic fanboy and cannot resist the urge to lump everyone criticizing the sequence (or the episode, or the show, or the studio) into one samefag.
>>281190246>It's not the correct one, and it's not the only one.Then what's the correct one? What do you think about their track record you retard? When a normal person says that someone is capable of fucking up, that someone is perceived as a person with a good track record, maybe you are the autistic one.
>>281190158I guess I belong in that 10% because I didn't read the manga and these threads gave me the image that a ton of good plots from the manga were condensed into those small side panels that only served to make the entire viewing experience abysmal.
Also, what the hell are people even doing talking about shit in the past tense as if they'd been posting on this site for more than 3 years? Everyone on /a/ is a blatant newfag nowadays.
>>281190301>Everyone on /a/ is a blatant newfag nowadays.On 4chan as a whole
>>281190257Go back to your circlejerk then fag
>>281190205It's interesting you say that. I was originally going to include a line about my two anime-only buddies who watched the episode after I did, and their feelings about it were basically the opposite of yours. That's what was informing my version of "someone without context". I figured nobody cared, though.
>>281190301>he past tense as if they'd been posting on this site for more than 3 years?Speak for yourself
>>281190299The correct one is pointedly obvious, I shouldn't have to tell you - were it not for your condition, you would already realize your mistake. I'm not going to enable your condition by spoonfeeding you either. Sorry. I know you want an argument, but there isn't one to be had here. As I have repeatedly pointed out, we're on the same side of the coin.
>>281190358>i-i w-won't tell youYou are coping so hard right now. You are basically admitting that you first post was retarded. Here anime they've butchered: haruhi, air , kanon, clannad, k-on, hyouka, veg, kobayashi, hibike.
>you want an argument, but there isn't one to be had hereOf course there isn't one because you are too retarded to participate in one. You are also a /v/ tourist , it seems.
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We'll wait until Sunday to meet up again, goodbye
>>281190410Woops, sorry. This is probably more your speed, right? You strike me as the frog type.
There's no argument because I am not autistic, so I don't argue with people who I agree with. That's silly. You are being silly.
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first and only time an anime catered to me. I don't know what everyone else's problem is
>>281190455Just like every other thread on 4chan, it's always one person
>>281190461Damn Wako... dressing so seductively... something must be done about her................
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>>281190461the artist who drew this is plappable
>>281190464Take your meds.
>>281190440Oh so you are a zoomer, you should have said that at the beginning. No wonder I had problems getting through your thick skull.
>>281190440Do you also agree that nichijou is garbage?
>>281190532You can keep trying, but it won't work, Anon-kun. We agree with each other. It's so easy to admit it, why won't you?
>>281190543I've kind of lost my interest in arguing with a zoomer. Whatever, I guess.
>>281189700They are loving it too.
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>>281190591>y-you're a zoomer!grim
>>281190000cope and seethe
>>281190603>acts like a zoomer>n-no I am not oneLol.
>>281190602Ok, but what are they saying about the sequence itself? That's pretty general, and things I'd all agree with, the hiccup for me is the sequence. Is there even a point when we're at autosage and my comment is 2 hours old at this point?
>>281189700You're so pathetic and downbad to be validated on your shit taste. Here's your retarded thought process:
>god this shit sucked, I hope other people thought the same as me>n-n-n-n-normalfags d-d-on't count!!!11! I need people like me on JP 4chan!!>they like it tooStay malding.
>>281190702This is coming from Mr. "Everyone who dislikes it is the same person"? Who is malding?
>>281190702wut? go outside, retard
Waste of talent. He should be more experimental on stuff that sells.
>>281190702Not that anon, but you sound really mad just because someone does not agree with you.
Everything okay?
>>281189625Why haven't you answered to
>>281189675?
>>281190748not even possible to post that fast consecutively
>>281190771What if I use my cloning ability?
>>281190771What if I use my cloning ability?
>>281190727You first
>>281190725>Everyone who dislikes it is the same personIs your reading comprehension terrible? I am saying you're pathetic for saying normalfags don't count, just because you don't like the notion that 90% of the people watching the show like it. You're desperate to seek validation that the episode was bad. So yes, seethe more, ESL-kun.
>samefagging this much
Not gonna make it.
>>281190805>>281190806>samefagging a thread to death is impossible though take your meds
>>281190806>>281190805no.... no puede ser.....
>>281190739This is airing exclusively on one streaming service and KyoAni probably got paid out the ass for that, so it already sold.
>>281190770>answered toESL-sama......
>>281190894What streaming service is that? My friend's server full of pirated anime?
>5 episodes in and people that dislike the show are still watching it
>thread quality is still in the toilet
>source purists have nothing interesting to say but whine about skipped chapters
>Mr Kim and yuuko poster are the only funny guys
Tsurune S2 and Eupho S3 threads were of much better quality than whatever garbage goes on in here week to week.
>>281190967Prime.
KyoAni got dem Bezos bucks for exclusive rights.
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>>281190987>Tsurune S2Fujo series can actually have decent threads. Maybe the last decent threads on nu-/a/.
>>281190987It's down to whether some fuckwit gets obsessive over shitting in the anime's street. Panty & Stocking S2 has one as well, when janny shows up half the thread disappears at once, completely (((different))) seeming posters.
>>281177746He's not just the ace of Osaka, but the studio period.
>>281190987I said this before, but CITY is Kyoani's most accessible work within the last 6 years. You don't need to watch prerequisites like with Hibike and Tsurune, so any Tom Dick and Harry can come in and watch. Low barrier to entry always = lower quality
>>281190987/a/ has never been good. only newfags don't realize this.
on the other hand, nobody disliked this show until the first episode with problems (the fifth one), that is the reason for this phenomenon
>>281182998>iReally? Who does this?
>>281191157>nobody disliked this show until the first episode with problems (the fifth one)Not true, people kept shitting up the threads for weeks saying it wasn't funny.
>/a/ has never been good. only newfags don't realize this.Also not true completely, Tsurune S2 threads were really chill and production-focused. Eupho S3 too but it had more shitposting about KumiShuu and other shipperfaggotory
>>281191210>Not true, people kept shitting up the threads for weeks saying it wasn't funny.that was just one shitposter, this is the first thread with genuine criticism
>>281191204Some broadcasts and BDs are 1080i.
As for the sources that are sent to the broadcasters and BD producers being 1080i, he's pulling that out of his ass.
>>281191157>/a/ has never been good. only newfags don't realize this.Wrong. Old /a/ was way more interesting, actually analyzing shows. and stuff. If you don't think /a/ is good then what's a good old anime forum?
Why did it take so long for the thread to be derailed?
>>281191231>that was just one shitposter, this is the first thread with genuine criticism>one shitposterit was literally episode 1, many people were trying it out, then came out sourccefags saying the anime sucks and having long winded arguments. did you not participate in these threads? don't pretend people didn't dislike the show from episode 1 up to now
>>281191259Yeah. When's the last time we had anything like Sora no Woto speculah threads?
>>281189239>>281191157Both of you are lying
>The series was going perfectly> nobody disliked this show until the first episode with problemsEven the fucking 1st threads had people outside the shitposter complaining about the pacing not being the same and some characters not getting introduced. Why are you trying to change the narrative?
>City... is BAD
>4chan... is BAD
>(You)... are BAD
>My boss... is MAD
>>281191296When I say the show was going perfect, I mean that I personally had no problems with it until that point. I wasn't commenting on the 4chan consensus
>>281191296I'm not changing the narrative, I am disingenuously stirring the pot.
What can go wrong for these threads, will. Murphy's law
>>281191458Only because of bad actors
>>281191458kyoani just needs to make a good episode next time
>>281191510I hope they make the next episode like one of the gainax storyboards sequences in Karekano and Gunbuster just to spite you.
>>281191498like Crispin Glover?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eu7l7aSLxG0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6W3pvmWmX0
Thoughts? (there is a correct answer)
>>281184815I didn't make it, somebody on MAL did using a frame grab from one of the previews, I think. It's been going around so I grabbed it, and now's the first time I felt like the show deserved it's use. If you want to make a new version of it, feel free.
>>281191578I was thinking Christian Slater as I said it
Threads are as shitty as the anime
Hopefully there's less seething Onimaitards crapping up the thread next time
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>>281191930I agree, these threads are just like being in a big City!
>REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE ITS NOT LIKE THE ORIGINAL MATERIAL REEEEEEE
Is this your first KyoAni anime? Real question?
K-ON! is famously 80% original content.
In their clannad, they hard focused on Nagisa route and ignored everyone else because they claimed they were pointless and a waste of time.
Silent voice movie doesn't even convey the same message as the manga and they rearrange shit in order to have a climax without the last 2 volumes.
Kyoto Animation always had a specific view of the concept of "adaptation" meaning they adapt in the way they interpret the story.
They clearly wanted to display the multitude of little scenarios occuring simultaneously as a metaphor for the city itself, that's why every bubble is assembled in the end for one glorious shot with every residents.
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>>281191269Maybe he was busy or just woke up
>>281192117Is that really ai?
>>281192571Yes. It's quite blatant and it looks bad.
>>281192117>>281192594It's a McCastle, a trend with hipster royals during medieval times
>>281192594>Yes. It's quite blatantDo we have any official confirmations?
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