Rewatched this and I have to say it holds up really well. The

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>>149136874
Cool character designs too.

Yoshitaka Amano is a god.

Isn't there supposed to be a new Vampire Hunter D tv series coming soon? I hope they keep the god tier character designs from Bloodlust.

>>149136874
Much better than the book. Pity the BDs look so bad.

>>149137372
Amano's designs with Kawajiri's direction is fantastic.

>>149136874
Supposedly there is going to be a new tv series? This true?

>>149137819
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/feature/2015-10-30/the-resurrection-of-vampire-hunter-d-part-i-hideyuki-kikuchi/.94794

>"produced entirely in cg"

FUCK

>>149138040
THEY CAN'T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH THIS!

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>>149138040
>"produced entirely in cg"

>>149138040
Oh god damn it.

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>>149138040
Well.... at least it's sumtin

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>>149138040
>CG

First berserk and now vampire hunter D. God help us.

All I heard is that vampire hunter D has stupidly OP universe breaking characters. Kinda turns me off to it.

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>>149138040
Oh no...

>>149138285
CLANG

>>149138285
Is Berserk 2017 at least going to be mostly 2D? Any PVs for that? Or is there truly no hope?

>>149136874
Vampire guy did literally nothing wrong. He really didn't deserve any of the suffering he endured.

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>>149137760
Technically Yukata Minowa's designs, but he really nailed Amano's style.

>>149138285
It could be alright, Digital Frontier does nice looking CG.

>>149138262
I think you are confusing D with Alucard

>>149138262
wut

>>149138262
No? It's vampires and guys with crossbows and guns.

>it took me a second rewatching before I realized she was dead at the end
Fuck I felt retarded for not picking up on that the first time.

>>149138506
It's better than the book ending where They both die to a bullshit 1-shot arrow and then D and the other hunter chick just fuck off and leave their corpses on the floor.

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>>149138323
He did turn some villagers into vampires.

>>149138262
D is pretty hax, but the stories also focus on the more vulnerable characters to build tension. Like if D's dead or busy fighting somewhere else we switch to the POV of his clients or fellow hunters trying to survive.

>>149138323
Didn't the village try to lynch him?

>>149138323
He failed to protect his waifu.

>>149138601
He was relatively young and weak for a vampire.
One thing the book did better than the movie was get across how pants-shittingly terrified of D he was.

>>149137372

I never liked his FF work.

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>>149138262

It does, but those are rarely the focus of it. The protagonist is just an invincible ship bringing you through very harrowing lands. I think there are heavy sci-fi elements only because the author thought his books would never sell without them having a sci-fi focus because that was the craze back then (I think there were still heavy shockwaves from Star Wars), so he make it vampire hunting set in the far future.

>>149138367

He's not, Alucard checks the closet at night for D.

>>149138705

The book makes everything more depressing, at least the movie salvages a good end.

I watched it for the first time a couple of months ago and it was fucking excellent. The end was great too, I loved Leila.

>>149137652
Pretty sure it's been hit by the curse of 100% CGI.

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>>149138912
"good-bye D, good-bye! Promise you'll come back and see us. Promise!"

Made me tear up, back in the day.

>>149138106
What's wrong, anon, do you hate the future?

;___;

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>>149138106
>>149139079

you fools

vampire hunter d is a horrific, desolate, dystonia universe. Don't you see this perfectly fits the motif?!

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>>149138912
That is so beautifully 80s.

>>149138323
>Bringing your own waifu to her death.
>Having to live with that for eternity.
Pretty bad suffering right there.

>>149138912
I like the nice 80s pantsu shot at 13 seconds.

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>>149139009

The part that gets me during the ending sequence is when he rides by that dusty old mosque just standing by itself in the middle of a desert. It only really sunk in then how ancient D is and how far into the future the movie is set.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPuu9HNUcN4

The eternal struggler.

>>149138367
No. Higher level vampires in Ds universe make alucard look like weak. D and his father could absolutely crush alucard.

>>149138754
>Invincible ship

Eh sounds kinda boring there. I liked how he was in the first movie more. Powerful but not quite invincible.

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>>149139283

>Powerful but not quite invincible.

Did we watch the same first movie?

D is a boring gary stu and the books are genuine fujoshi garbage
Bloodlust movie actually changed many plot points including the entire ending due to how shit it was in the book (lol Meyer and the girl get 1 shotted by an arrow, D and the hunter bitch mock their corpses and leave them to rot the end)

Blood lust was a fine movie. The 1985 first movie based on the first book was okay but its flaws were evident.

The books are just unreadable with the amount of purple prose throughout though.

>>149138285
The game also has the CLANG. clearly nobody minds it but memesters on 4chan

>>149139260
It's been ages since I watched or read Hellsing but I thought Alucard had been cursed by God, who in the series is the real and omnipotent version, to live forever and there was basically shit-all anyone could do about it? He would just release more and more power as the situation he found himself in became more dire.

Could be wrong, and I don't really know anything about the D series beyond the movie.

>>149138040

Fuck me why

>>149139384

He has different levels he goes to, but it eventually culminates to releasing all his devoured souls to fight as his army, has a suite of cool abilities, but comparing him to D is silly. He would genuinely shit his trousers with D just standing around.

>>149139238
The first movie doesn't really cover it well, but I think the second mentions that the series takes place over 10,000 years into the future. Where man has risen to great heights and then collapsed. Only for Vampires to slither out of the night and take control and use their super science and magic to create all sorts of abominations and monsters that roam the Earth. Now the Vampire civilization has collapsed and we're exploring a post-post-pose apocalyptic world.

>>149139534

I thought "vampires" were what men once were but the remnants of the former empire now living in their own little detached kingdoms where they rule with terror.

>>149139534
Don't aliens invade at some point and cause a 1,000 year galactic war?

>>149139576

Considering how long the books run I'm not surprised.

I think Cthulu even showed up at some point but ended up getting his ass kicked.

>>149139534
Actually, the world got nuked in 1999 and the Nobility took over after that.

>>149139576
Yes. Some vampires like Mayerling (Meier Link in the movie) were hailed as heroes during that war.

>>149139717
Is there any artwork of the aliens?

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>>149139746

Only this image was ever found.

>>149139317
I remember him struggling with a creature in the counts mansion and he was actually knocked out or "dead" once. He never really one shotted his enemies either so I assumed he wasnt.

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>>149139804

It's adapted from an early book so he struggles a lot more than he usually would. The vamping up of his powers as time goes on is cool the way he goes places.

>>149139384
No he was cursed by the devil. But he isnt invincible. Not completely. If you put a stake through alucards heart when he releases all his consumed souls to fight as his army he will die permanently.

Thats why the major destroyed london and pit alucard and anderson against each other. To kill alucard you have to exhaust his arsenal and strike before he reloads.

>>149139510
There must be something in the books then, because in Bloodlust D seemed strong but not that strong, and he didn't seem to have any hax powers; although from reading about the series I guess he does. I think it's time I dug it out of my archive and watched it again.

>>149139834
Was it because he hadnt honed his powers yet or was younger?

>>149139784
Ayyy you're a pretty funny guy.

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>>149139879

Bloodlust D and '85 movie D are both adapted from early books.

Matching these adaptations would prove a nice spectacle but any beyond and it's a one-sided massacre.

>>149139906

Just cranking up of power as the series progresses, I guess. Apart from a few things his powers were 'always' there but apparently he just chose not to use them, the best thing about him is how he gets a lot of situations done with just a regular longsword and his sword skill.

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>>149139746
They show up in "White Devil Mountain" but there were no illustrations of them in it, surprisingly.

Speaking of aliens, there's a comic in the works called "Message From Mars" based on a short story by Kikuchi.

>>149136874
It's also amazing how in butchering the original story it improves it immensely

>>149140147
Cool. A little disappoint that there's no art of them. The series has some cool monster designs and I was curious how an alien would appear.

>>149139992
>there but apparently he just chose not to use them
The early books do cover him trying NOT to use his vampire abilities like he's afraid of them. The later books kinda forget that part and he vamps out at the slightest provocation.

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>>149140355
Might be some pics of them in later, we're slowly catching up with the Japanese releases.

They're described as very tall and thin, with four arms and wearing black battle armor. I imagined something like the Engineers/Space Jockeys but more Amanofied.

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>>149140439
>very tall and thin, with four arms
Considering how Kikuchi has talked about being a fan of the old Hammer horror movies, that description makes me wonder if he ever got into pulp sci-fi like the John Carter series.

>>149140540
I wouldn't be surprised, he really likes Lovecraft and other old school authors.

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>>149136874
What the hell? I just finished this movie and I now I went on /a/ to find a ready made Vampire hunter D thread. Must be a Halloween phenomenon on /a/

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Leila is cute!

CUTE!

C U T E !!!!!

>>149139869
That's partially correct.

For one Alucard will only let humans "kill" him, and secondly even if you drive a stake through his heart he will just go to sleep until he is awakened again.

Schroedinger Alucard on the other hand exists and doesn't exist at the same time.

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>>149141060

Okay so if you had the chance, who would you kiss?

D?
Leila?
Meierlink?
Charlotte?

>>149138040
YAMEROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

First they fuck up Berserk and now D. Holy shit what's next, Vagabond? Mugen no Juunin? Vinland Saga?

Fuck this gay anime world.

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>>149138040
shaking my head to be honest sempai.

>>149141132
>Schroedinger Alucard

That still kind of upsets me.
Wouldn't dying to the major have technically counted as dying to a human?
isn't that what he wanted?

Did he only want his bff anderson to do it? wtf?

>>149136874
never thought this movie was that great but yeah the animation is top tier

>>149141060
That scene where she's talking to him while he's buried during the storm is pretty dang comfy.

>>149141272
Meierlink needs a hug.

>>149141457
>Mugen no Juunin?
Beetrain already fucked that up years ago, and they didn't even need CGI to do it.

>>149141527
>Wouldn't dying to the major have technically counted as dying to a human?
Cyborgs!=humans

>>149138040
Well the first movie was alright without Bloodlusts great animation quality. So maybe it'll be fine?

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>>149141132
>secondly even if you drive a stake through his heart he will just go to sleep until he is awakened again

Nope. Nothing implies this. He only awoke after this happened before because van helsing let him live in order to establish the hellsing organization. He can die.

>he only lets humans kill him

The only a man can kill a monster line isnt exactly literal.

>>149136874
Only the animation does. The story is weak as shit as well as the characters (Charlotte is fucking awful). Its technical merits are to be praised given that this was a digital production yet still looks like it was done entirely on cels.

I felt bad for the bounty hunter that was bedridden and could only run around in his spirit form. They made the brothers better characters in the anime than the novel.

>>149144022
The story is actually nice, and compared to a lot of anime films and TV series it's good too. Leila is probably the most fleshed out character. What makes a character good, is it development or how well they are portrayed? Or is it just whether you like them or not? Because characters can be portrayed without development; as in the case of D (for the most part) in this movie. He's a matured character, he's not going through a life changing crisis or discovering himself as a person so there's not going to be the kind of character development people usually complain about a series lacking. I agree that he's not very well fleshed out, but part of that is due to his stoic, silent and aloof personality; there are illustrations of his character in the things he does and says but they're sometimes small and subtle.

As I said before Leila is the most fleshed out, you get to see more of her personality and emotions than any other character and she even changes and develops a bit. Meier and Charlotte are kept pretty mysterious until the end, I agree Charolotte wasn't much of a character, Meier could/would have been if it wasn't for the direction of the setting and story to keep him and his motivations mysterious. If you think about it there's a lot to explore in his character, but not the time to do it. Remember this is only a short movie.

>>149136874
It made me start buying the Nook versions of the books.

>>149137652
>>149138040
It's 100% Berserk Broadcast CGI.

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>>149144367
>The story is actually nice, and compared to a lot of anime films and TV series it's good too
>Precedes to not explain what makes it good or what makes the characters good

>>149144572
It was a more than adequate rebuttal given the great length, depth and insight of >>149144022

I didn't have that much room left anyway, but I did explain a little of what made some of the characters good. Nice reaction image and greentext thought.

>>149138040
Is CG really unforgivable? I loved me some CG cartoons way back in the day and it doesn't look terrible.

Is it just an opportunity cost thing? What might've been?

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>>149136874
It's amazing. The music and artistry are both out of this world. If only it had been an hour longer, the pacing wouldn't have felt so rushed and Carmilla wouldn't have felt so tacked on.

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>>149138040
>produced entirely in cg

>>149146698
Name 1 recent fully cg tv anime that doesn't have shitty animation and framerate.

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>>149138323
Also, he has a cool name.

Yeah, about the novel, HOW MUCH OF A GIANT SUB DO YOU HAVE TO BE TO LET A BEDRIDDEN SKELLY LITERALLY RAPE YOU ON A REGULAR BASIS?

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>>149141060
I love the art style so much. Why can't we have more?

>>149146887
Wut?

>>149146956
Yeah.
It's what happens to Leila in the novel.

Rape is one of the main staples of Hideyuki Kikuchi's writing, and one of his main strengths as a writer.

>>149146999
So he's a shit writer. Good to know what to avoid.

>>149147058
He's a great writer with a beautiful style, and he writes some of the best rape out there.

Question to the novel readers: Do they ever explain how powerful D really is? I see a lot of you saying alucard would shit his pants against D but I haven't seen a single example of why.

>>149147155
It's not really consistent. And I doubt Alucard would shit his pants against D.

Alucard is almost invulnerable, whereas D can fairly easily be taken down (at least temporarily) if you manage to land a good blow.

But let's just say that D can use simple rituals to break out of pocket dimensions, and since Alucard's body is basically a pocket dimension, D isn't disadvantaged against him.
On the other hand, we don't know if Alucard can do the same; and D's hand ALSO happens to be a pocket dimension.


Really, most of D's power comes from his hand. He's a ridiculously over-skilled swordsman but it's nothing compared to the magical shit he can do with his hand.

>>149147308
Hand is also voiced by a great Whose Line is it Anyway actor.

>>149145867
>It was a more than adequate rebuttal given the great length, depth and insight of >>149144022
You literally said nothing. Its find that you blindly love a shallow flick but pretending its anything more than that especially given the director behind it you're pretty fucking stupid. I agree that the characters weren't particularly memorable or good and the story ironically enough needed less focus since it wasn't engaging at all.

>>149146817
Haven't watched many, I don't have any real references.

>>149147478
Let's see what you DON'T consider a shallow flick.

>>149147591
Patlabor 2. Boy that was hard.

>>149147478
>flick
>>>/tv/

>>149147657
OPINION
DISCARDED

>>149147657
Now THAT is a shallow flick: It's just Oshii pissing away all the budget and talented animators he's been given, in order to tell a boring, subpar espionage story that underuses the setting it takes place in, all that in order to make a moderately insightful point that's entirely wasted on an audience that (rightfully) doesn't give a shit about it.

It's a high-budget vanity project. Hard to be more shallow than that.

>>149147832
>underuses the setting it takes place in
Oh you're just mad because it wasn't about robots punching each other.

>>149147887
OR about fun police comedy/drama with all the characters we know and love.

>>149147887
Which is legitimate.

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>>149146698
>tv
No, tv CG anime is still far from good. At best you get some decent short CG sequences or acceptable mecha, because mechanical objects play to CG's strengths. But full CG anime is still shit most of the time with a few polished scenes.

Movies fare a little better due to high budgets, but they aren't exactly ghibli masterpieces either.

>>149141527
Integra made it a point to mention that despite technically being human he was still more of a monster in spirit than almost anyone else. She wasn't wrong, the fucker was beyond insane.
>>149142170
>you will never have a cute, spunky tomboy partially bury and watch over you in a super cool tree during a super comfy storm
But then again considering he has to suffer with the curse of immortality maybe it's for the best we don't know that feel.

>>149147107
>with a beautiful style

His novels are littered with purple prose throughout - it makes them terrible to read.

>>149148569
WHATS WRONG WITH THE FRAME RATE!?

>>149147936
You have what, 70 episodes of that already. Oshii even wrote the funniest episodes of the show, and you get mad when he directs one fucking movie that's different.

>>149138040
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyrJUKC3L-U

>>149138040
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=du4IoVgOJdU

>>149149536
smooth 24fps pans. what more do you expect?

>>149149536
Japs found full 24-fps CGI to be too unsettling so they play it back at 8 fps to look like cheap TV anime from the 70s.

>>149149688
The problem with Patlabor 2 is that it's not a Patlabor movie at all. It's just Oshii up on his soapbox whining that Japan is full of pussy-ass bitches since the end of the Cold War which he wrapped in Patlabor clothes.
It's nothing more than a shallow political rant dressed up in Oshii's usually fantastic visual direction.

Hah, I just downloaded this to watch this Halloween.

>>149138874
>Pretty sure it's been hit by the curse of 100% CGI.
That's depressing.
I mean, it's nice that the Japanese want to keep trying not to suck at 3Dcg, but they need to work harder or give up.

Kind of a massive shame that VHD was digitally mastered so that a pristine film telecine can never be had.

>>149136874
This is Bloodlust, right? I have the Dual Audio on my backlog, what's better, the sub or the dub?

>inb4 dub
I only ask since this was made during a time when dub makers seemed to actually give a shit about making good dubs. Not to mention the setting of the anime is unjapanese as hell.

>>149152114
The dub is excellent.

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>>149138040

>>149151139
Personally I think they just need to give up and bury it. I would rather watch cel drawn anime outsourced to African animators than watch CGI.

>>149146953
moe uguuuuuuu~

>>149152734
Anime is not made on cels anymore, baka. at the very least compositing has been digital for over a decade now.

And I agree with >>149151139 that they need to keep honing their tools. In the end CGI is just another tool in the box among several.
I think what needs work is a way to better match 2D and 3D so the transitions look less obvious. That way it would be a lot easier to switch between scenes as needed instead of making it an all-or-nothing thing most of the time.

Toei tries with precure, since they are making the CG models for the characters anyway.

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>>149138040

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>>149136874

>Just rewatched the pitch video of the Ninja Scroll sequel

>Looked fucking awesome

>Kawajiri hasn't done anything for years now, since the industry doesn't recognize him anymore

Fuck.

>>149154515
The biggest issue with Japan and CGI, especially for its TV shows, is that they try to make it look like traditional 2D animation. With as flat a surface as they can pull off and a stuttered framerate.
When they embrace the 3D, they can do great. Like the Captain Harlock movie from a few years ago.
But so long as they feel the need to ride the "anime style" with CGI, it will continue to look horrible.

>>149136874
It's GOAT. Yoshiaki Kawajiri is a god, but his distinct style and vision had to die with his career for MOESHIT.

I'D BE DOWN FOR A VAMPIRE HUNTER D PUPPET SHOW

PUPPET SHOWS ARE GOOD
AND THEY FIT YOSHITAKA'S STYLE PERFECTLY

BUT FUCK 3D

>>149152114
Never watch dubs.

>>149148726

I want a sword patterned just like his. Functional with an L6 bainite blade.

>>149152114

The only movie that I watch exclusively dubbed.

>>149147058
The books get less rapey after volume three, and he dials the purple prose down considerably.

>>149152114
I kinda prefer the sub, but pick whichever you want first and give the other track a listen later. There are some pretty interesting differences between the two scripts.

http://altvampyres.net/vhd/d2ej.html

>>149157069
I don't even know if there's a Japanese track for the Bebop Movie.

>>149152114
The dub is mostly great, but they do pronounce "dhampir" as "dhampeel" which is just awkward, even when coming from Mary Elizabeth McGlynn, who is normally excellent in all her roles.

AAAAAHHOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUUUUHHH https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jle2I1mSUWI&index=18&list=PL233956656E665A75

>>149155209
But that would be missing the point of the exercise. You would be yielding to the tool instead of mastering it to do your bidding.

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>>149147308
D becomes as strong as a full vampire if he tastes blood, usually from his own wounds. He's also immune or at least highly resistant to stuff like running water and sun sickness (it takes years to affect him instead of months like most dhampirs).

This was the result of horrific experiments conducted by the Sacred Ancestor to create more powerful lifeforms, which is why D holds a pretty big grudge against him.

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>>149137372
The Final Fantasy guy?

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>>149159014
yeah i was also suprised when i found out.
still haven't found a picture more worthy for my desktop then pic related.
Angel Egg was probably the most final fantasy looking anime he did

>>149157069
English voices over anime just sounds wrong to me, and always has done. I know that the Japanese VAs probably sound cringy to a native moonspeaker just like English VAs do to us, but still.

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>>149159274
I own some of his art books. Beautiful stuff.

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>>149147308
>But let's just say that D can use simple rituals to break out of pocket dimensions, and since Alucard's body is basically a pocket dimension, D isn't disadvantaged against him.
>On the other hand, we don't know if Alucard can do the same; and D's hand ALSO happens to be a pocket dimension.
Remember kids, never put a bag of holding into a portable hole.

>>149160530
why are you posting a fucking shoggot

>>149161256
It is difficult to express a sense of dread about getting sucked into the astral plane. So it has to stand in for negative consequences.

>>149138040
Fug

>>149136874
The OST is 10/10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99_ZYBFJIhk

>>149158455
They're trying to use a scalpel to do wood carving. Sure, it can work when you're patient and have a steady hand, but they've shown time and again that they don't have the patience, skill or money to use that tool the way they want to and shit out terrible, malformed lumps of wood each time.
There comes a time when you need to accept that the tool you're using is not the right one for the job.

>>149164836
but the tool evolves to fit new needs. yesterday's scalpel is today's vibro ceramic knife which also happens to cut through wood reasonably well.

And there is actual work put into integrating 2D-style rendering into 3D pipelines. I don't think it has been used by the anime industry yet, but look at live2d, they integrated it in the unity engine. I assume the same could be done with maya.

Innovation and know-how to apply it probably takes years to trickle down to smaller studios.

So I think in the long-term it should be feasible. It's just that we'll have to suffer while it does.

And CG is already everywhere anyway. They get used for interiors and urban environments (nature is still safe), mecha, cars, props, crowds, distance shots, dances, sfx, etc.

The greatest obstacle are organic cel-shaded entities.

>>149160266
It's justice he got so well known.

>>149138040
For fucks sake

>>149138040
dude you might as well kill me you have given me the most depressing news ever FUCKING GOD WHY

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>>149136874
I should do myself a solid and read the books. This movie still remains one of my favorites and I would rewatch them after a while. Are the localized novels worth picking up?

>>149147832
>shallow flick
I've seen more critical analysis of Patlabor breaking down that single movie then anything in regardless to that piece of shit Bloodlust. At thispoint the only people who hate Patlabor 2 are retards who don't like Oshii or even worse NOT MUH PATLABOR faggots who only watched the TV series.
>vanity project
The same people who made the TV series and the OVAs worked on the movies as well dumbfuck.
>>149151123
>The problem with Patlabor 2 is that it's not a Patlabor movie at all
That's not a criticism
>soapbox whining that Japan is full of pussy-ass bitches since the end of the Cold War which he wrapped in Patlabor clothes
Wow...way to out yourself as a complete nimrod. No wonder you liked Bloodlust

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>>149147308
>He's a ridiculously over-skilled swordsman but it's nothing compared to the magical shit he can do with his hand.

Dude, D could cut Alucard with his sword and he would die forever because that's how good his sword skill is, he's able to outcut even Mystic Eyes of Death Perception with nothing but pure skill and a regular longsword

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>>149136874
Man this was a fun movie, I hope we'll get anot->>149138040

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

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>>149170718
but could he win against a simple farmer with too much time on his hand?

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>>149172294

Yeah he'd probably give the farmer something to think about for the rest of his life.

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>>149172294

Going beyond the usual feats of ability like cutting freaking lasers in HALF at point-blank range, he once cut a hologram and it couldn't reform it's shape.

>>149170662
You're really not helping your case at all.
You haven't said anything in defense of Patlabor and are just bitching that people don't like it.
It's time to put the keyboard down and walk away. You're just coming across as a kid throwing a tantrum at this point.

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>>149139534
I just realized this is probably the greatest fucking story i've ever read

>>149152114
The movie was originally done in English. The Japanese version is technically the dub in for movie.

>>149175183
They were produced at the same time.

>>149175392
It was made with the intent for American release and theatrically released only in English. Japanese theaters showed it in English with subtitles. The Japanese dub didn't come out until later on dvd. If someone's policy is to always watch media in the original language, then they should watch this in the original English. If they are ok with dubs, and like Japanese more, then watch the Japanese dub.

>>149175876
>Japanese theaters showed it in English with subtitles.
I don't remember that at all and I followed the production religiously back then. I do have a bad memory though.

>>149146953
First you'd have to simplify it for TV animation if it wasn't another movie, and then you'd have to deal with the awful taste of otaku making it unprofitable.

>>149175998
That's what google told me. If you look it up and the source looks wrong or inaccurate to you let me know.

>>149146817
Bubuki Buranki is getting there. It's not perfect, and the second season is a big step up over the first, but they're definitely getting there.

Give the studio a few years and we might have something to work with.

>>149175876
>>149175998
If you are just going by wikipedia, I'm not sure if you should trust them on this. While it did get released in theaters in Japan in English I'm fairly sure the Japanese language version came out shortly after, as they worked on them both at the same time.

>Urban Vision released the movie on DVD and VHS on February 12, 2002, with only the English audio.[7][better source needed]
I'm certain I have a subbed VHS copy from the initial release. If my VHS tapes weren't boxed away at my parents I'd go look now.

Interesting thread.

>>149178119
Surprised it lasted this long. But much like the vampires, it's a transient guest destined to fade away sooner or later.

>>149169381
Go for it.

>>149176201
Sounds like we have a mystery.

>>149176201
actaully... if your have the original release of the DVD version. There's some making of featurettes that explain english was the language they went with first. And that it was put into theaters with japanese subtitles. 'S fun stuff, watching the VA for the Vampire Hunter with the cigar acting with a pencil in his mouth.

>>149172815
Ok, that's pretty hax.