Do you take visual direction into account when rating anime?

Eva is literally a directional masterpiece, I honestly never expected Anno to be so professional at it
>take into account
It's an exploration of the visual medium, the most important one

Yes.

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What episode are Eva's production values supposed to start dropping? I hear people often complain that the latter half of the show look worse or that it has less animation but I never noticed a drastic change. (apart form the last two episodes of course)

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>Do you take visual direction into account when rating anime?
yeah that's why i rate naruto a 9/10

>>153292862
You keep posting this and nobody ever responds and Im actually starting to feel bad. We know anon, its ok that you like naruto. No one cares though, so that's enough now.

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>>153292951
the only people who should feel bad are all the naruto haters who dismissed this great show with le entry level anime meme despite it being better than anything that /a/ rates AOTS or AOTY

>>153292951
Call me a newfag but are you saying that the naruto visual direction threads are not ironic shitposting but some deluded anon being serious?

>>153291276
sure
that's one of the reasons I think Eva is so good, under that aspect it's the best anime I've seen
>>153292862
>yes [I take visual direction into account when rating anime]
pic unrelated I imagine

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>>153293346
>pic unrelated I imagine
what's that supposed to mean?

are you seriously trying to deny the brilliance of naruto's visual direction?

>>153293420
11/10 baito senpai.

>>153293420
yes that's what I'm doing
are you gonna prove me wrong or you're just going to keep posting screenshots of scenes you found cool?

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>>153291276
This is an audiovisual medium... of fokken course. How do you not?

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Not often, but I love it when a single episode's visual direction is surprisingly stand-out from the norm of the show it's from.

>>153292775
Aside from the last 2 episodes of course there really isn't a notable drop, the only scene that ever struck me as odd was Kaji and Misato talking after/during having sex, the shot doesn't change during the entire conversation, this is a technique that Eva uses often but here it doesn't seem particularly impactful or important to the scene. I'd love someone to prove me wrong on that but I always assumed it was because of tv censorship policies

If I did it would more often than not count against them, very few anime even bother with shot composition beyond very basic framing or obvious symbolism. When a show does use visual direction to it's advantage I am always happy though as like many others in this thread already stated, it can make the show.

>>153299511
Well, in that scene they wanted to focus more on the dialogue and the emotional dichotomy between Kaji and Misato in that scene. Actually depicting the sex would be unnessecary and keep the viewer from taking the scene seriously.

>>153292775
The values never dropped. EVA had a steady budget and was the highest rated anime airing that year. The final two episodes were originally gonna be what End of Evangelion was but the network went apeshit when they depicted Kaworu getting his head popped off by Shinji, which was hidden from the censors deliberately before the episode was aired on primetime TV. This was answered in a thread on Monday.

>>153299856
I'm not asking them to depict sex, most of the lengthy shot is during dialogue, they only start fucking again at the end. It just seems like a strange choice to have a static frame for that long, particularly during the dialogue about the cigarettes. I am all for not depicting the characters in the scene but I feel that several different shots of the room would have worked much better there.

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>>153299511
>>153299997
After episode 15 there does seem to be less mundane scenes animated, with the exception of episode 19 witch is visually one of the best in the show and episode 20 which is like 80% reused shots. That being said, the less active scenes fit the gradual change in tone of the show and reflect the mood of the characters.

>This was answered in a thread on Monday
The promise Anno made to the producer about not killing kids? That wasn't made up then?

>>153300307
I don't think it was entirely false, I had heard about the deadline issues and the problem with episode 24 before but Eva's budget issues are mostly a myth, the lowered production value is mostly a result of the heavy rewrites and resulting deadline issues because of all the changes Anno kept making.

>>153291276
>Do you take visuals into account when rating a visual work?
No, I just like reading the subs.