Hubris comes before the fall, as Justice, a former Nine Solder, told Natsuko. We finally depart from the episodic format as butterfly effects reveal aspects of the Tale of Perishing universe that Natsuko was never aware of.
Gotta say, reusing Natsuko’s ability sequence is very smart. Not only it looks very pretty, but it reduces the cuts the animators have to draw.
Having reusable cool looking transformation and attack sequences is nothing new, but having the main character’s face constantly covered by hair so they mostly don’t have to animate her eyes and mouth is a new one on me.
Yeah, not even Violinist of Hameln pulled that one. (They did have one character who wore a half-face mask all the time so that they could get away with not animating her lip movements as even a simple flap, and I think I remember several conversations where the speaker was deliberately shot from behind.)
Of course, there’s no way Zenshu has VoH’s extreme budgetary constraints, where they literally had to make 1 ep’s worth of funding cover 2 eps of footage.
Hubris comes before the fall, as Justice, a former Nine Solder, told Natsuko. We finally depart from the episodic format as butterfly effects reveal aspects of the Tale of Perishing universe that Natsuko was never aware of.
Gotta say, reusing Natsuko’s ability sequence is very smart. Not only it looks very pretty, but it reduces the cuts the animators have to draw.
T-posing to assert dominance.
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Having reusable cool looking transformation and attack sequences is nothing new, but having the main character’s face constantly covered by hair so they mostly don’t have to animate her eyes and mouth is a new one on me.
Yeah, not even Violinist of Hameln pulled that one. (They did have one character who wore a half-face mask all the time so that they could get away with not animating her lip movements as even a simple flap, and I think I remember several conversations where the speaker was deliberately shot from behind.)
Of course, there’s no way Zenshu has VoH’s extreme budgetary constraints, where they literally had to make 1 ep’s worth of funding cover 2 eps of footage.