Katsugeki Touken Ranbu - 01

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Me and the other 10 swordfags in the board.

I didn't remember the name of this show from a season or two back when I dropped it before when I realized it was a fujo show. It seems ufotable's versions is a bit less about gay swords living together, but I'm sure once ufotable has blown their wad on this battle scene against the army of temporal zombie samurai it'll go straight back to the kitchen. Just like Shirou.

Is this thing like Xenoverse where they go around fixing things throughout time?

Ufo will delay the episodes so they won't have to do cooking scenes.

The historical revisionists want to change details in glorious nippon history thus changing the current future. The conflict is probably mostly about how the swords have to accept the past they had even if it means watching their previous masters be brutally killed again etc.

Ufo's Touken Ranbu is the serious one
Doga Kobo's Touken Ranbu is the SoL cute boys doing cute things one

This first episode was boring as fuck. I guess this is one of those shows that's extra fanservice for people who have already gone through the source material

I'm conflicted. The fight scenes are fun but everything else between that has this gay undertone that keeps bugging me

It's an anime made for a franchise targeted towards girls and fujos

Do the math

Ufotable is officially Michael Bay of anime - multiple works that look exactly the same use exactly the same tricks and share exactly same action scene storyboards with each other.

You watch this and there's no real difference from God Eater, Zestiria or UBW - the character designs, the storyboarding, the amount of special effects to obfuscate lack of substance.

OP seems great tho, but alas I already have summer popcorn show with Apocrypha so IDK if this is owrth continuing.

What gets me is how they invest so much effort into the action and animation but the storyboarding and directing always feels so stock in their tv anime. Like, it does the job and conveys the scene but it strictly stops at passable

Some otaku are so insecure they have bigger gaydars than actual fujos

About time one of these came out and it wasn't idolshit or ugly designs.

Why are you turning MAL posts into copypasta? There's no legit Ufofags only Fatefags and they're already busy with F/A.

There definitely exists people who defend Ufotable's adaptations

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This is the director's first time working as an actual head director. Ufo does this a lot since they've expanded a lot over the last few years.

Only Fatefags

*only stupid Fatefags

I didn't even watch all of UBW and this is still funny

do I need to watch touken ranbu hanamaru to watch the new series?

Nope.

This new show has a vibe that makes it feel like one of those adventure anime from the late 90's. Sure there's a lot of handsome men and they are evidently the focus here, but the backgrounds make it comfy to watch.

I doubt that will last long, it's going to become full-on ACKSHUN. Kondo is writing it, the same guy who did the script for most of God Eater and Zestiria.

>If it does, all I gotta do is come back and take out that kid, right?
What the fuck

What are the chances for kiwame?

>What the fuck
The majority of Otaku enjoy healing anime. But in reverse a large number of Fujo enjoy pain, suffering and outright gore. The more they love a character, the more they like watching him bleeding out in a pool of his own blood after getting both his arms cut off. Suffering is entertaining for women, this is why so many tragedies are created for female consumption.

Ufo is full of hacks but their pretty animation is enough to dazzle people and pull the wool over their eyes.

Why is that though? Whouldn't you think women will be more inclined to cutesy and happy endings? Instead otaku push out moeshit/school girls/idolshit nonstop and you're saying fujos would rather see their favourite cute boy suffer and die?

Also just gow gay does this show gets in case I'll give it a try?

I've played the game and it was boring for me too. I hope it was like that just because it needed to set up the story and infodump stuff to people who don't know what it's about. I don't want another Zestiria.

Yeah. The entire first episode didn't feel like it was at all trying to hook viewers in. The show's just for people who want Touken Ranbu.

Can I expect the swords who have nipples in the game to keep them or are they gone like in Hanamaru?

Why do they do this? Tourabu is a really popular franchise, so a decent adaptation is guaranteed to sell. Is it just because they think that fujos will buy it nevertheless, so they're free to fuck it up?

Don't tell me we are only getting a handful of swords? While it's a good idea to focus on a few none of them is a favorite of mine

Women are always surrounded by cute and happy shit, why would they crave more of it? Seeing a suffering bishie kickstarts their motherly instincts, or they're just sadists.

>you're saying fujos would rather see their favourite cute boy suffer and die?
You have to ask females why. But one source just claims that crying about other people's pain feels good. While a different person just claims that nothing is hotter to her than a man with both his hands nailed to the floor with blood going everywhere.

Looking at literature and manga writtten by women for women, and you see that a large number are insanely complicated tragedies where no one was going to have a happy ending. Fruits Basket, for example. Or RG VEDA by CLAMP. This is what sells, what women pay money to read. Hopelessness, death, betrayal, unending suffering.

So women are the ultimate edgelords?

>So women are the ultimate edgelords?
They aren't emo, they just get pleasure from reading and watching painful stories. It just seems to be the exact reverse of Otaku wanting nothing more than little girls being happy all day every day.

Honestly speaking, after the borefest which was Hanamaru, even a mediocre show would be an improvement. Chances are it won't be anything groundbreaking, but as a one in a dozen story, it will present at least some proper entertainment, I think.

Are you literally retarded? A lot of the nips enjoyed Hanamaru, which was just swords doing cute things, and SoL shows always have a female following, hell, a good chunk of K-ON audience were girls.

Women love drama and things like double suicides, torture, and murder are guaranteed to have that.

It almost seems like Hanamaru s2 is a better bet for my favorites, especially if Katsugeki ends up being only 1 cour. At least I like Yagen, but that's not much.

>Are you literally retarded? A lot of the nips enjoyed Hanamaru, which was just swords doing cute things
Of course they do. But they also struggle with their urge to see sword boys "break" on screen, as they said many times. The men had to bleed for the women, that's what men are for.

>still replying to /r9k/-kun
People will never learn.

You don't like pic related?

Anyway we're getting lot more swords according to promo and ed but it obviously won't be as many as Hanamaru.

His mom mistreated him a lot, don't bully.

Ufo has been handling a lot of anime lately, so to manage the extra workload they promote their staff internally instead of bringing-in outside hires.
A tourabu anime is bound to sell well or at worst give decent publicity to the game so unless they anger the original fanbase somehow with a massive fuckup, they have nothing to worry about.

I think the appeal of this anime is to see your favorite swordfu engage in cool action scenes, ufo became the go to studio for that sort of stuff.

Don't shove your fetish down everyone's throat, faggot or at least do your homework, because no one wants to see any sword dying, who the fuck would want a KanColle again.

I wouldn't seeing a sword break.

I wonder if they'll do it.

Why didn't nitroplus ask "that" guy to write for the series, then?

>Don't shove your fetish down everyone's throat, faggot or at least do your homework, because no one wants to see any sword dying, who the fuck would want a KanColle again.
Yes they do. That is the entire point of separating the franchise into two shows. That's the entire point. It doesn't have to be permanent, but someone has to "break".

KanColle's issue was more like trying to be both serious and comedic, leaving it in a situation that it wasn't particularly good in either.
Characters dying or at least struggling to get through difficulties - if done in proper moderation - can help making the conflict more impactful. If the heroes would succeed too easily, it would make the story sort of weightless.

>Characters dying if done in proper moderation - can help making the conflict more impactful.
What about no. Why would anyone want their favorite boat or sword to die?

A favorite character dying can be painful, that's for sure, but trying too hard to keep everyone alive can lead to situations which are very prone to break the suspension of disbelief (see KanColle's Deus Ex Machina-ridden final episode for an example).

>but trying too hard to keep everyone alive
Don't be a hypocrite, if your boat wife were part of the main characters you wouldn't want her to sink.

I'm not a hypocrite. I wouldn't be happy about it, of course, but if the plot goes in a direction that a loss like that is unavoidable, it cannot be helped. Not to mention, potentially every single character is a favorite to someone. If you would attempt to keep everyone happy, you would need to put gratituous amounts of plot armor on the whole cast and that would be silly.

That hack is Ufotable's president so the incompetence is from the very top.

It's called schadenfreude.

Could they have gotten someone that doesn't sound like every nasally male seiyuu ever to do the OP?

The problem is that Ufotable doesn't have their priorities straight. If you're doing an adaptation for a big and popular IP then that's the one thing that you shouldn't fuck up. Because how you handle that adaptation shows licensors how you'll handle other projects.

But like I said, the focus of the series are the "well animated" action scenes. They built their portfolio on that kind of stuff. I don't think the story is the priority here.

Tourabu don't have a real story, they can do whatever they want, it's pretty much impossible for them to ruin this.

user, while it is true that girls are fond of drama (to be more specific girls are fond of actual storytelling in general) they aren't interested in actual tragedies unless there is a good reason for it. And if it's just suffering porn then girls will get turned off by it.

What girls like to see is a character suffering, growing from their experiences, and then triumphing.

They said the same about Kancolle.

And now seeing as their shows are consistently failing despite their good visuals they've now become the quintessential example of the fact that when it comes to anime, animation isn't everything.

People in general hate bad endings and any kind of producer knows that from Hollywood ones to anime, they always make sure to plug-in a happy ending.
But I think girls are even less tolerant for bad endings, usually bad end stories flop initially but build a cult following over time, ones targeted at females never do, they're forgotten forever.

KanColle didn't have a SoL spinoff by the king of CGDCT - Dogakobo.

Characters and story is what sells, people got used to great animation, even shit like Kemono friends can be a hit now.

People have said that about every Ufotable adaptation and yet they find a way.

Stop jinxing it

Even if some of the swords did get killed off in this series, it's not like they'd be dead in the franchise as a whole.

No, girls want to see a character suffer and then get healed by cock.

This. What the fuck was up with that?

It's sung by Tsurumaru's seiyuu.

You'd think they'd get a proper singer or band to perform the OP when the ED is by Kalafina.

Stop bullying Saito.

And yet the series that do this tend to be forgotten by them.

Getting one of the VAs to do it probably gets them more money.

If only they had used one of the VAs that can actually sing.

Gotta shill for a popular seiyuu's singing career.

That doesn't leave many options.

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He can do better, not like a real singer, but the song didn't help.

Maybe they should've picked characters whose seiyuus can sing then. I'm still mad that Katsugeki has almost no swords that didn't already appear in Hanamaru.

It makes sense that they'd focus on swords that are popular. Hanamaru S2 should have some of the newer swords in it though.

Out of the current cast, Saito's the only one trying to launch a singing career.

Didn't Uguisumaru at least mention Ookanehira in Hanamaru? I want an episode dedicated to them, with an ending sung by OnoY and Kakihara. They've both been in idolshit so they should be able to sing nicely.

Oodenta and Genji bros weren't in Hanamaru, and Honebami had no screentime.

Sword voiced by Aoi Shouta when.

His song in Hanamaru was much better.

It'd have to be another trap sword.

I want an episode entirely dedicated to Ookanehira getting beat up by all of the Tenka Goken.

No thanks.

But I wonder who'll voice the new sword. Any guesses?

That was boring and shitty, why did I even bother.

Hopefully never since he can't voice act to save himself.

He's fine.

DELET

He should stop.

As far as seiyuu singers are concerned, he's not that bad.