Comments on: Gunslinger Girl - Il Teatrino - 09

by: helena

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 11:08:37 +0000

I think the character design is what is pulling this series down (the hair, especially) - as well as the low fps. The scenery scenes were quite splendidly rendered, I thought.

by: Solaris

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:48:09 +0000

Uhm… the Triad is late… I hope they aren’t dropping it :(

by: totoum

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 07:08:36 +0000

lol windspirit , i didn’t say “with friggin better animation.” but i thought it strongly ;)
And i do wonder,we were originally told the show would air in spring 2008 and out of nowhere the announcment was made that it would start airing in january,i wonder what artland could have done if given 3 extra months to animate it.
Though I do agree with psgel about this episode being the most visually pleasing episode of Il Teatrino yet,seems like there was more details,not to mention that the lack of great animated action sequences was made up by some interesting storyboarding,and again the soundtrack did its job.

by: Windspirit

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 04:13:56 +0000

Same thing with friggin better animation. I love yoy, totoum.

Dude… Need subs for this show, anyhow, it’s just awesome…

by: totoum

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 02:26:53 +0000

And i’ll repeat myself again (not that i’m mad or anything) but I have a huge problem with this sentence:

“It really captured the essence of Gunslinger Girl, more than Madhouse could ever have done with the first season, just because they kept focusing on just the girls, whereas Artland so far has focused just as much on the adults around the girls.”

Poor madhouse didn’t really have a choice,since all they had to work with was vol1 and 2 (that’s all that had come out) which focus only on the girls,they did add some filler that i think made the story better.
Artland is working with vol3-5:they develop the adults a lot more which is why this part of the series is arguably the most popular (vol 6-8 are very controvertial)
I’m sure that if madhouse were doing il teatrino,they’d also develop the adults,it’s not hard to do:just follow the manga.
But like you say,artland doesn’t just follow the manga,they’re also doing good filler with beatrice,it’s probably easier to do filler when you’ve got yu aida (the creator of the manga) writing the script for you :) since no one knows the characters better than him.He’s probably using the anime to develop beatrice,a character he never got around to developing in the manga.

I guess all i’m trying to say is give madhouse vol3-5 of the manga and yu aida to write the filler and they would probably be able to do the same thing as artland.