Teach us about Japanese animation studios
I seen you guys talk about various studios for a several months. Can you teach us (me) of your extensive knowledge/opinion of them. Or I could google stuff for at least a hour. I may list your descriptions on the thread
August 10, 2014
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pierrot - adapted naruto and bleach... *cough*
PA Works is known for the pretty visuals and melodrama (which i like)
Deen is known for taking perfectly fine source material, tearing it into pieces, burning them, and turning the remains into an anime
Sunrise - arguaby the most successful of them all because of Love Live. they're are [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBRrCY5uhWY]swimming in money[/url]
Kyoani a sht.
May I direct you folk to P.A Works for some soothing eye candy.
Isn't Trigger basically the new Gainax? Oh yes, Production I.G <3
@Novagnome24 don't forget PA Works
From my personal impressions
Madhouse - made a lot of great shows at one point, but is currently in a slump
Kyoto animation - very high budgets, very mediocre shows. Also tons and tons of moe
SHAFT - Hipsters love it. Artsy, but usually pretentious visuals.
Xebec - Ecchi to the max
Silver Link - Ecchi to the almost max
Gainax - Balls to the wall insanity
GONZO - Bad most of the time
DEEN - Bad all of the time
Sunrise - Makes a lot of originals' usually just bad mechas. Oh, and Love Live.
Bones - Made Eureka Seven, and then ruined it. Sucks at storytelling.
A-1 Pictures - Well, they did make SAO, but then again they also did make Shinsekai Yori. Usually fails to deliver, but has decent production values.
White Fox - Usually has good visuals, but doesn't really make good use of them.
Production I.G - Usually makes pretty good sci-fi shows.
That's all I can think of at the top of my head.
you'll know it's shaft when it's shaft. it's just too obvious so stop discussing it already
one of the most shaft styled shows that wasn't made by shaft recently was sakura trick by studio deen
[quote=Yumtoast]SHAFT isn't the only studio to do head tilts.
we saw a bunch of them last season from other studios[/quote]
Currently this season Tokyo Ghoul and today's Aldnoah.Zero had a head tilt.
@Yumtoast
You know it's Shaft when you have spine tilts.
@Yumtoast: I JUST WANTED TO BE USEFUL FOR ONCE
on a side note: I want to be a butterfree
[quote=djmaxaaron]You will always be able to tell if Shaft is producing an anime.
Because there will always be a head tilt.[/quote]
SHAFT isn't the only studio to do head tilts.
we saw a bunch of them last season from other studios
You will always be able to tell if Shaft is producing an anime.
Because there will always be a head tilt.
Sunrise studio 5 made a bunch of Gundam, Gintama, and Fairy Tail
Plenair has a thing for Gintama and Fairy Tail. I see
you don't need to learn or memorize which animes they did. Just that you'll start to recognize the studio names.
dont worry about it too much , u will learn as u watch on
learning the studios that produce anime wasn't ever something i 'studied' by looking up stuff.. the knowledge just comes to you eventually
so far yes, white fox has a pretty good track record for a new studio
I'm looking at White Fox Ltd. since it animated Katanagatari which I liked. Also Devil is Part Timer and Akame no Kill which I watched some. I can't judge the similarities from just remembering those o 3 o
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Fox
manglobes best work was twgok
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let's just ignore the good shows they've done bc they botched a mediocre gag/harem series
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1. look up your favorite animes
2. look at their studios
3. google/wikipedia that studio
4. look at the list of animes each studio did
after doing this, you'll start to recognize what each studios did what when people talk about them
or you can just google best anime studio or something
PA Works is a good studio too
@Yumtoast:
Not even close.
Still waiting on that Little Witch Academia
[quote=Darkness129]Studio Trigger is a rising star studio even though Kill la Kill wasn't very good..[/quote]
tfw TRIGGER didn't save anime
I think Ufotable is the most advanced animation studio in recent years.
Kyoto Animation is a good one but it might come off as overrated due to producing many popular shows like Haruhi, Chuunibyou and Free.
Studio Trigger is a rising star studio even though Kill la Kill wasn't very good.
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I agree with @Above. Deen and Gonzo are terribad.
All you really need to know is that Deen and Gonzo are terrible, as is the current Gainax. Most other studios are big enough that you can't say they're 100% bad or good due to having multiple teams of varying quality. Also Shaft is known for overusing directorial techniques like closeups/quick cuts/still images while characters talk.
Some are big, some are small, some are controlled by greedy folk.