>>287515309
>you are already CGI

>>287515671
People keep bitching about it but imo its fine for the first 2 eps

>>287515759
retard

is it any good?

>>287515970
it's 3d slop

>>287516022
Im very sorry youre disappointed, uncle-san

>>287516226
I'm sorry your standards are so low that you can eat whatever shit they put in front of you and then get mad when people call you a retard for eating shit.

>>287516270
Dont get stressed out because of me, its bad for people your age

>>287515759
I might give it a shot if someone posts an "omae wa mou shindeiru" scene .webm that looks at the very least somewhat passable. Even OP ended up using a screencap of the old anime, so that does not exactly inspire confidence.

>>287516991
Rest in peace, old man-sama

>>287516991
Ken's a christian?

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>>287515970
It's alright.
I'm just waiting for Jagi.

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>>287515309
The first two were better than I figured they'd be, but the models are worse than the ones Lost Paradise used. Also I liked Ken in LP more. The ATATATATATATs were better. The Bruce Lee noises are about the same.

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There's a few 2d frames here and there

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>>287515970
I'm conflicted. It's clear that the people making it have a lot of love for the source material.
>Faithful manga adaptation
>Good VA work
>Uncensored gore
>Good color grading and direction
But the CGI is a big sticking point. They managed to make it look fine overall but it will always carry the caveat of "good for being 3D". It doesn't help that the few 2D shots that we get look gorgeous. Also the music has been kind of boring so far.
I give it a 6/10 so far but I will be forced to up that to a 7/10 if they nail Shin.

Oh this came out? Is it passable?

That's a lot of senseless violence. If only the 3dcg wasn't shit.

is there a full version of toshi's ai wo torimodose anywhere?

>>287515970
The fights are alright if a bit clunky. The movements mainly need the cherry on top to make punches and kicks feel heavy.

>>287515309
how soon?

>>287515759
I would say it looks fine 2/3 of the time, it use lighting and colors and camera position, is not lazy.... most of the times.
other times animation will be really stiff, like how the old man with the seeds move when he was "dying" the first time, instead of looking like he is almost dying, it looks like they didn't want to animate it.

But I agree, 3d parts are not as bad.

If people want to know how the show would look like if it was 3d, they would need to look the ending of episode 2, with shin, that scene was almost purely 2d, and wasn't that good either.

They left the You wa shock, I expected it to be a 1-of thing.

Jesus that flashback scene didn't hold a candle to the one from the original anime.

>>287518376
>Is it passable?
Ehhhh it's nice that they're adapting the manga more faithfully than the original anime did but it's definitely not good.

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>>287515309

Anyone knows the number of episodes this will have? Wiki states 12.

>>287515309
I always wondered if the final technique used in the /tv/ movie Kill Bill by the FeMC to... kill Bill... was inspired by Hakuto no Ken.

>>287520258
Not been announced, but I would assume 14 since they started with two double episodes?

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>>287519383
I feel like they're *this* close to making the cgi look good.
They got the right rendering technique down that lets them emulate the 2d look with the models but some parts, usually the hair and hands, just aren't quite there.
Pic related for example. I think it looks nice, the face, neck, jacket its all good. But then you see the hair and it just sticks out, reminding you its 3d especially in motion.

So
>episode 3: rest of chapter 4, plus chapter 5 and 6
>episode 4: chapter 7 and 8
Episode 5 should finish off the Shin arc with chapter 9 and 10 then.

>>287520258
Way more than that since they cast Raoh already.

>>287520647
Ken doesn't look too bad, but Bat looks horrible.

>>287520854
for me Bat flipflops from looking decent to shite depending on the angle
I think Shin got it the worst though, his hair and cape feathers looks like ass. It's might be why they gave him so many 2d shots.

>>287520833
So like 24 if they rush it and get to Raoh appearing or they simply show him earlier in an original scene to hype up everyone for a potential season 2.

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Man, they keep teasing all this cool hand-drawn stuff. Imagine if this was what we actually got. There was an entire scene done entirely in 2D, I guess they didn't have the models ready.

Also, the direction in this is pretty bad. Nothing has weight, all these iconic moments just come of flat.

>>287515309
The op is quite bad.

>>287521972
It's so forgettable I don't even remember how it sounds even though I've watched it four times already.

>>287521932
>they keep teasing all this cool hand-drawn stuff. Imagine if this was what we actually got.
It would still be bland and soulless like the 00s movie pentalogy. Better than the 3DCGI cancer I guess but that doesn't say much.

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Here's an easy hack to make the experience much more enjoyable. Start the episode, minimize it to the background, find the manga chapter of that same episode, then just read the manga along with voice dub and sound effects. It actually works very well, thanks to the faithfulness of lines and lack of filler.

>>287522060
If the entire show looked like these clips it'd be a pretty decent watch I'll tell you hwat. But of course that's not feasible with this level of detail, hence why they opted for movies/OVAs in the past, and CGI now. But that also raises the point of who this was made for. Boomers would not appreciate all this 3D shit and zoomers do not care for big muscular men at all, they wouldn't even understand why he screams in a high-pitch voice because nobody much cares for Bruce Lee nowadays. Nobody who made this was even alive in the 80s so they don't understand the appeal, which is why it feels so bland and empty.

>>287522731
I'm fairly sure it's meant to sell zoomers on the franchise, since while it's very profitable in general, practically all its fans are over 30.

>>287522731
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8faG3Y_i4I


Lee is eternal

>>287522780
>I'm fairly sure it's meant to sell zoomers on the franchise
I highly doubt that. It's all just a memberberry - voice actors are imitating the original anime, there's ai wo torimodose playing in the ending, visually it's trying to look like the movies era with the roided out designs. There's pretty much nothing in it that's appealing to zoomers.

What I would ask, new public would like the story of hokuto no ken?

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>Preaches love, justice, kindness.
>Everytime a new villain of the week bad guy appears, he intervenes to save the weak.
>But only after the villain and his gang have killed like 2/3 of the population of the village infront of his eyes and the now parentless children.
>Could have easily prevented all of those deaths if he didn't stand there and did nothing until he decides to get angry over the bad guy slaughtering people for fun.
What was his problem? Autism?

>>287523002
Post an example

>>287523002
There aren't any villains of the week on the manga.

>>287523002
Today's episodes practically started with him showing up and saving a guy about to be hanged.

>>287523102
guess you would mark the Shin generals as week villains.

>>287523102
Villains of the day then, there's one every episode and in between important arcs.

>>287523076
I'm not gonna look for and post a webm for you anon, I rewatched the original in preparation for this one like 2 months ago.
And I remember clearly that multiple times during the show that I wondered why Ken just stood there and let the grunt/gang leader just kill a civilian infront of him even though Ken could've saved them if he didn't wait for the villain to carve them open in a comedic violent fashion.

The 2d shots actually looking good pisses me off

This will get the Kingdom anime treatment TRUST

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If my memory doesn't fail me, this kid was much shorter in the orignal anime...
I guess we don't make kids as tinny here.

>>287523503
which is that treatment?
Is that anime that started 3d and became 2d at the second season?

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>>287523641
Yeah, just like Rin. Everyone looks much older some some reason, I bet that Rima girl from the next arc will too.

>>287523724
pretty much changed so they can get abused and is not "as wrong" or just so they fit the new tone, and not having masculine gore and some little toddlers running around with cute faces.
even if that would make the world more cruel.

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Source tells me Mr. Heart is stable.
Please God

it's owatta

>>287523002
He's a revenge addict. He needs to see them do something wrong and then get back at them.

>>287516927
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/U6Eie0o8l_Q

>>287515970
it's putrid shit

>>287515970
unnecesary but I'll keep watching, this anime season is bad

>>287523910
He's okay, don't worry about it.