Gunslinger Girl -Il Teatrino- #04 — I Give Up

January 28th, 2008

 

Everybody loses.

Impressions:

The art and animation this episode was simply terrible. There’s really no other way to put it. I mean… come on. Look at these two shots of Olga (from 7:57) taken literally a couple seconds apart. Are the artists even trying? Plus when Angelica got pushed down, instead of actually animating that, it was shown as about 10 stills with a fade in between each frame. That’s how visual novels ‘animate’ things because they’re too cheap to have actual animation. This kind of thing shouldn’t happen at all in a real show. I can make a number of other complaints too, from the strangely solid chunk of wine to that really poorly directed knife scene, but I think you get the gist. This really is getting closer and closer to just watching the manga, and I really do mean that in the worst possible way… like listening to an audiotape while staring at pages of the comic. I’ll probably stick around until the Triela vs Pinocchio rematch, but unless it really amazes me, I think I’ll have to give up on this one. I like the story and all, but since I’ve already browsed through the manga, the past three episodes have done practically nothing for me.

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6 Shouts From the Peanut Gallery

  • FieryAeon says:
    January 28, 2008 at 10:45 pm

    I guess it must be really disappointing to see the animation quality go downhill after what we’ve seen from the 1st season, which was quite awhile ago. You’d think the animation quality would increase, not decrease.

    I’m seriously wondering if I should watch this now.

  • Totali says:
    January 29, 2008 at 12:19 am

    I love you Aroduc.

    …..just sayin.

  • Triela says:
    January 30, 2008 at 5:16 pm

    Ewwww look how huuuge they’re eyes ear. Sooooo NOT Gunslinger Girl!!! >___< Scond season isn’t that good… I don’t even consider it part of Gunslinger Girl… it’s just kinda… there. -_-;

  • DL Pulver says:
    February 10, 2008 at 3:30 am

    On the other hand: the direction is great, and the story line is as good as ever. So I’m going to stick with it.

    I’d rather have good writing and good direction, and good characters (which match the first season) and a plot that moves along than high budget animation. There’s plenty of flashy shows that are poorly written; a well-written show like Gunslinger Girls Il Tetrino is a treasure worth enjoying.

  • Triela says:
    February 11, 2008 at 11:28 pm

    No way. This season is poorly directed, animated, voice acted among many other things, which effects the entire anime. It just doesn’t need good plot and characters to be great.

    I think they didn’t stick with the personalitys of the girls from the first season. (Mainly Henrietta and Rico) They’re too bubbly and cute which makes this go even mor downhill with the lack of keeping all the characters well… in character. Henrietta makes all these werid noises, Rico smiles and laughs TOO much… Really the only girl that trully stayd in character was Triela. It’s like I don’t even know who these girls are anymore.

    Don’t even get me started on the character desiges. It’s like they didn’t even try.

    The action scenes are all awful so far. They’re poorly animated, and don’t make me feel amazed, or excited to see what happens next.

    There are more ways in which this season is a major downfall but I just don’t want to get into every little detail…

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