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Not sure if it counts as anime since it's from the US (I'm at least a decade out of date of the current nomeclature) but it evokes the style of older mech based anime. It's surprisingly made by Rooster Teeth (the old Red vs Blue machinima folks) with some big name voice actors. The first episode will be free and premiere in a few days but apparently the rest will be locked behind a paywall on their site.
I'm fairly starved for years for giant robo cartoons (a scant few titles like Knights of Sidonia and maybe Voltron on Netflix occasionally scratching the itch) but I don't feel like signing up for yet another streaming service that I'm has only one thing of possible interest (i.e. the CBS All Access situation with Star Trek).
I'm not familiar with whatever RWBY is so I'll have to look it up later tonight. The only thing I've occasionally followed Rooster Teeth on is video game news coverage on youtube when it pops up on their the Know channel.
Mildly surprised you haven’t heard of RWBY. But yeah, they’ve been running a preview for this before every episode of RWBY this season so I’ve been waiting for it to check it out, though the preview shows very little.
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warboss wrote: I'm not familiar with whatever RWBY is so I'll have to look it up later tonight. The only thing I've occasionally followed Rooster Teeth on is video game news coverage on youtube when it pops up on their the Know channel.
RWBY is a very interesting series, quite good too. It basically started as an Anime parody which morphed into something much greater. The animation in the early episodes is primitive, but its gets better as they got more experience and more funding.
The group also managed to survive and strive on despite Monty's untimely death. They've kept going on in his memory, its really a touching story behind the scenes.
Its on Crunchyroll if you want to catch up.
Here is a cut together of all 4 previews they did for it to wet your appetite.
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Cato Sicarius, after force feeding Captain Ventris a copy of the Codex Astartes for having the audacity to play Deathwatch, chokes to death on his own D-baggery after finding Calgar assembling his new Eldar army.
Never heard of it until your post and I had to look it up to see what it stood for (apparently some character names). The only thing from rooster teeth that I've watched in years since before Halo 3 came out has been the occasional "the Know" gaming news snippet on youtube. The only reason I know about this gen:lock show is via an ad on youtube that I didn't automatically skip because I saw stompy robots.
There is a difference between bad cgi, and low budget cgi I feel. Rwby was more low budget than bad. I think they made good use of what they had available, and it’s gotten better since.
Watched the first two episodes of Gen Lock. Don’t see a lot of the staring mechs just get, but what you do see is interesting compared to the other tech. My main complaint is the bad guys seem too evil so far, intentionally shooting down fleeing civilian transports and unleashing indiscriminate biological* weapons on a civilian population, and we have zero motivation for them yet as well.
*Nanites, which are not technically biological, but as it’s just a cloud that kills everything it touches functions basically the same.
*Nanites, which are not technically biological, but as it’s just a cloud that kills everything it touches functions basically the same.
At that scale, nanomachines are borderline biological anyway, at least in the sense that the function and interact with the world through similar mechanisms as stuff like bacteria and viruses. Sci fi likes have them literally full of tiny whirling gears and wires, but that's about as well represented tech as hacking most of the time.
It took me a second to realize it was David Tennant voicing the professor, took me by surprise. The use of music works spectacularly with the action scenes.
The scene in episode 3 that talks about media felt quite relevant to today's problems.
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Enjoying it so far. Voice acting is great, the animation is on par with most mecha anime, and the story's more unique than most mecha animes.
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I haven't sat down and watched this yet but I did flip through it a little.
You guys that think the animation is terrible: I have a question. It looks OK to me, neither great nor terrible. However I don't really watch almost any anime so I have almost nothing to really compare it to. What do you guys think is "good" looking anime so I can contrast it?
The only other recent anime I saw was the Netflix Godzilla and I didn't like that style very much, or at least, while it is technically excellent they made some style choices I didn't care for. That's about all I have to compare.
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It's pretty solid so far. First season is over, eight episodes long. Good twists to it and solid voice acting, with what feels like better animations than RWBY for the most part.
The people in the past who convinced themselves to do unspeakable things were no less human than you or I. They made their decisions; the only thing that prevents history from repeating itself is making different ones.
-- Adam Serwer
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