Thread 23377938

Has anyone watched it or is going to watch it?

The narrative unfolds in a war-torn 1914, dividing the world into two factions. The Central Powers, or “Clankers,” of the German and Austro-Hungarian Empires, command diesel-powered mechanical war machines, including immense walking tanks. Opposing them are the “Darwinists” of the Triple Entente, led by the British, whose power stems from a mastery of genetic engineering—an alternate history where Charles Darwin discovered DNA. They fight alongside “fabricated beasts,” living creatures modified to serve as weapons and vehicles.

At the center of this conflict are two teenagers from opposing worlds. Prince Aleksandar “Alek” von Hohenberg, the fictional son of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, becomes a fugitive after his parents’ assassination, escaping with only a loyal crew and a battle-worn Stormwalker walker. On the Darwinist side, Deryn Sharp, a commoner, disguises herself as a boy to serve as an airman aboard the HMS Leviathan, a massive flying whale that is a living ecosystem. Their paths inevitably cross when the Leviathan crash-lands in the Swiss Alps, forcing an unlikely alliance that could alter the course of the war.

The art looks ugly.

>>23377938 (OP)
Love me WWI, I'll give it a go

>>23377938 (OP)
The only Leviathan for me is Retarded Dragon Girls

>even a collab between Japanese and Western animation studios is an adaptation
Lmao. I think I'd rather read the book this is based on because the CGI looks fugly. I feel like I'm watching a cutscene from a low budget JRPG but my computer can't support 60 FPS.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=a96r6cFLTX4

>>23378174
>third world cgi
I refuse to accept studio Orange slander.

>>23377938 (OP)
That map is a giga downgrade from the original.

Binged all the episodes. It was great to see an abbreviated form of a story I loved back in the day. But they did have to make cuts and changes, and Scottish Deryn Sharp got herself brownwashed because Netflix. Still cute though.

>>23378203
Every country that's not America is third world. Didn't you get the memo?

>>23378350
Oh, so it's an adaptation. Should I read the books first to appreciate the changes or the anime works like a good introduction?

>>23378407
They're pretty squarely aimed at tweens, but still worth picking up for the gorgeous Keith Thompson artwork and also cute reverse trap tomboy x shota prince romance

>>23378407
The books are amazing. I suspect they will get better if you watch the show first and then have the full experience reading them. Netflix covered all three books in like 12 episodes, so you don't have to wait.

Cheap CG is a cruel mistress.

Was hoping against hope the Keith Thompson art would shine through in animated work, but no.
Oh well.
I also hate the dumping series all at once thing.

>>23378520
>>23378523
>>23378552
This is giving me flashbacks of drifting dragons. Very detailed art that failed to translate into CGI animation.

>>23377938 (OP)
Oh heck yah. Sounds right up my alley. I'll watch it next lol.

I wonder if someone could generate a Lora based off the novel artwork. Then extract all the frames from the episodes and use stable diffusion to redraw all the frames in the Lora style.

>>23378826
It would look like shit

>>23378627
>Very detailed art that failed to translate into CGI animation
Name two, any two, /m/ series that have been done well in CGI. Any two.

>>23379403
Gundam IGLOO
Jackie Chan

>>23379403
Macross Zero
Yukikaze

>>23379403
Code Geass: Akito the Exiled
Full Metal Panic: Invisible Victory

>>23379403
Majestic Prince, Gundam The Origin

>>23379403
Knight's and Magic
Zoids New Century Zero

>>23377938 (OP)
>an alternate history where Charles Darwin discovered DNA

>>23381212
is that a historical anachronism in my heckin steampunk mecha story????

>>23377938 (OP)
Haven't watched it yet.

>No Japan and no Mootxico appearances
Kinda expected after the total culling of side characters, yet it feels so wrong.

>>23385062
What did they cut from the novels? Never read them but the show did feel like it was definitely cutting some stuff out/would blow past a lot of stuff, especially since the show spends a lot of time in Morocco but then very quickly blitzes through Tunguska, New York and then where ever Tesla's place is.

>>23385079
>What did they cut from the novels?
A lot. The third part is different to the novel and only keep Tesla as the antagonist
Even the ending of the protagonists is different.

>>23378409
would you say it's comparable to Deltora quest and it's anime adaptation?

>>23385735
>Even the ending of the protagonists is different.
I knew that a lot of the ending was cut out due to how quickly the show breezes through it, but I didn't know that the endings were different. What happened in the original.

>>23386142
They fight Nikola Tesla and stop him from firing a superlaser. A reporter finds out that not-Cagalli is a girl. Not-Athrun stops the reporter from publishing the story about not-Cagalli being a girl by letting the reporter break his abdication.

>>23386164
>They fight Nikola Tesla
Do they actually fight him? As in a physical battle? The show just had him stand around while the Germans were approaching him.
>his abdication
Huh. In the show, all he said was that he was returning to Austria. Seems like a big plot point to cut out.

>>23378350
>Italy
>Already a boot
>Turn into into multiple boots and also eels
Though I appreciate them making Sweden and Norway look like dicks, just like in real life.

>>23381569
I had the same reaction, and it's because the complexity of the extended process involved in the discovery of DNA, its structure, and the ongoing effort to manipulate it in some useful manner being reduced to "Darwin figured it out" is comical. It's like an alternate history where the guy who discovered how to make fire also built the first ballistic missile.

>>23386185
>Do they actually fight him? As in a physical battle?
Yeah and Aleksandar ends up killing him also turns out that Tesla's Goliath actually doesn't really works and he mistook the destruction of Tuskegee by a meteor as the work of his invention
>Seems like a big plot point to cut out.
A lot was cut out from characters, motivations and events. For example in the novels the scar of Aleksandar doesn't happen in the same way like in the anime.
>>23386330
>Sweden and Norway look like dicks
Actually those aren't dicks but trolls.

>>23386518
*Tuskanga, not Tuskegee.

>>23386334
next you're gonna tell me 19th century europe wasnt capable of 15 ft tall bipedal war machinery

>>23379973
>Full Metal Panic: Invisible Victory
Lmao no

>>23379403
Zoids Chaotic Century
Zoids Guardian Force
Zoids New Century Zero

>>23378350
It's too late, Serbia. For you see, I have depicted myself as a machine wielding two knives, and you as a malding skelejak.

Also why is Ireland staring hungrily at Britain's ass?

>>23386185
>Huh. In the show, all he said was that he was returning to Austria. Seems like a big plot point to cut out.
Apparently they wanted to leave room for a sequel... Despite there being no published material for them to base one on.

>>23386518
>>23386520
So Tesla didn't give a bunch of black guys syphilis? Phew!

>>23379403
I think Bravern and Knights of Sidona have good CGI at least for the mechs in Sidona's case.

>>23386518
Westerfeld said Nikola Tesla is really popular in Japan so they weren't allowed to kill him in the show.

Westerfeld might have been fucking with people.

>>23391251
sidonia show absolutely fails to capture the feel of the manga's action sequences, and leans even harder into the haremslop

>>23391251
Especially Bravern.

>>23392898
The show turning into a harem romcom made me ragequit it.

>>23379403
Fafner
Aquarion

>>23398499
to be fair, those scenes are in the manga. polygon's lame sense of humor and weird cringe body language just makes them way harder to stomach
also it feels like they take up a greater proportion of the runtime

>>23389054
>Why is Ireland, who is two years away from launching the Easter Rising, looking for an opportunity to use that shillelagh when Britain isn't looking?
Truly, a mystery.

I like it, reminds of Ring of Red

I'm enjoying the occasional historical accuracy in Leviathan. Especially the British seizure of the Behemoth, which Turkey had already paid for. Reminds me of the seizure of two dreadnoughts which were being built in England for the Ottoman Empire. The British pressed the Sultan Osman I into service as Agincourt. originally built for Basil, who wanted an impressive ship, she had fourteen 12-inch guns in 7 twin turrets, more heavy guns than any other dreadnought.

The Agincourt could fire four 12-inch rifles fore, four aft, and (theoretically) 14 to either side. They never fired a fill broadside, for fear of breaking the ship's back.

forgot the image. Gomen.

The Turkish people had paid for part of the requisitioned ships' cost with donations through a subscription (early crowd funding) and there was a lot of anti-British sentiment because of the "illegal requisition".

>>23400660
>They never fired a fill broadside, for fear of breaking the ship's back.
That's an old wives tale

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Agincourt_(1913)?useskin=vector#cite_ref-26
>When a full broadside was fired, "the resulting sheet of flame was big enough to create the impression that a battle cruiser had blown up; it was awe inspiring."[23] No damage was done to the ship when firing full broadsides, despite the common idea that doing so would break the ship in half, but much of the ship's tableware and glassware did shatter when Agincourt fired her first broadside.[24]

>>23400685
>Much of the ship's tableware and glassware did shatter
Kek, imagine being an officer and not being able to eat on the fine china because you shattered it all.

>>23400685
Thank you. Glad for the correction. That erroneous factoid was something I learned in high school half a century ago and stuck with me. Yet another example of "Lies My Teacher Told Me".

>>23400685
Another thing they taught me was that England angered the Sultan by "Requisitioning" the two dreadnoughts Turkey already paid for. Soon after, Germany ingratiated Turkey by giving them the Battlecruiser Geoben and the light cruiser Breaslau. And that contrast was one of the influences that led the Ottomans to declare for the Central Powers.

It was decent but the CGI characters moved so weirdly
Also Tesla has major autism

>>23400685
It is worth noting that her gunnery was especially bad and she fired 144 twelve-inch shells and 111 six-inch shells during the battle without achieving a single confirmed hit

>>23379403
People have given you a lot of options but I am specifically going to name Blassreiter and M3 for their intent to wholly embrace the strengths of CGI. They use extremely outlandish, detailed and textured designs with no worry about inconsistency from frame to frame. M3 is also actually decently written.

>>23400656
The switching between pretty clever historical references and complete nonsense gets weird