Season 4 movies update: Sailor Moon Eternal - Delayed to 2021 (Part 1 on January 8th & Part 2 on February 11th)

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Oh please no... Tamegai draws these huge/long noses that are very unappealing in modern artstyle. Ikuko Itou is better. Also I really hope, albeit unlikely, for them to stop using old stock footage and attacks. Usagi's attacks in Stars are terrible, As for Chiaki Kon - they limit her so far but she can do dark stuff really well and for Stars they better let her inject that
I think it would be better if TOEI released Tamegai's old settei for Stars in an artbook because it is interesting to see his renditions of the Eternal Senshi, Heavy Metal Papillon, and Cosmos.
 

Joaco95

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Chiaki could do a good job with Stars. Her style (environmental expressiveness) is what makes Crystal III/Eternal alive, and Stars has a good (and gorgeous) load of surroundings. They could hire Ikuko Ito this time for animation. The duet Chiaki-Kazuko was great and very classique, but the one Chiaki-Ikuko could be la crème de la crème.
She can't make a good good atmospheres. I hate how all the important scenes with her just look like regular ones.
 
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That fugly character design can stay in 2015 IMO. The animation budget isn't that big to being with, so at least give us beautiful characters to look at.
Sakou has improved her art.
 

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She can't make a good good atmospheres. I hate how all the important scenes with her just look like regular ones.
Right? I find especially the atmosphere and environment is extremely lacking + the sterile backgrounds. Someone here on the forum wrote in his/her review that Eternal felt like eating cardboard. It really missed to get me emotional. To feel something.

I don't think Sakou will come back. The nostalgia formula worked better for the franchise so I can imagine they either stick with Tadano or get Ikuko Ito or Hisashi Kagawa. Or someone from the staff that is already familiar with the characters and the production.
 

Joaco95

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I beg to disagree, there is nothing left from season 3 when it comes to the designs. The body proportions, the faces, the eyes, the coloring - it is all different. The only thing that stays is they look much much younger.
it may not look like that on the character sheets, but some scenes on the movies they really looked like S3 with new faces, and I'm not just talking about the retrace from last season (mars henshin its just s3 body with eternal head lol)
 
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it may not look like that on the character sheets, but some scenes on the movies they really looked like S3 with new faces, and I'm not just talking about the retrace from last season (mars henshin its just s3 body with eternal head lol)
Especially when it's side close up shots of their faces. Not all of them though but yeah at times it feels like I'm looking at season 3 style.

That and also the moe-fied body proportions. They probably cut off those arms from :rei:'s speech animation cause it would look really off. Sacrificing the arm animations made the speech lack impact.


Right? I find especially the atmosphere and environment is extremely lacking + the sterile backgrounds. Someone here on the forum wrote in his/her review that Eternal felt like eating cardboard. It really missed to get me emotional. To feel something.
I think that's a problem with modern anime these days. I just watched Sword Art Online season 1 and the background artwork looks amazing. Then watching Seasons 4 of Sword Art Online and majority of the backgrounds look lifeless.
 
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Season 3 definitely left a lot to be desired most of time in terms of style. Some of those shots are in the Eternal film too but the Eternak film also has some gorgeous shots.

S1-2 of Crystal had problems in some parts but looked real great in others, like Jupiter's debut episode. However, to me, none of the girls in the early parts of Crystal S1-2 look like more like. They look like older teens (young adult women).

The style of S1-2 when done right is way too sophisticated for a lof of folks to handle imo. It's very beautiful but not "cute" to me.

It seems like it would have been a style to use for Stars or something though. Eternal should have been something they started with and maybe progressed into the more sophisticated style for the final Arc.

I wish the smoothness of animation was as good as the best parts of Eternal movie.
 

sapphire91

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it may not look like that on the character sheets, but some scenes on the movies they really looked like S3 with new faces, and I'm not just talking about the retrace from last season (mars henshin its just s3 body with eternal head lol)
These are the animators take on them sadly, but it has nothing to do with the designs. And please no Hisashi Kagawa - I know strars had some episode with everyone looking manly, but it is not part of the nostalgia I hope.
 
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Especially when it's side close up shots of their faces. Not all of them though but yeah at times it feels like I'm looking at season 3 style.

That and also the moe-fied body proportions. They probably cut off those arms from :rei:'s speech animation cause it would look really off. Sacrificing the arm animations made the speech lack impact.




I think that's a problem with modern anime these days. I just watched Sword Art Online season 1 and the background artwork looks amazing. Then watching Seasons 4 of Sword Art Online and majority of the backgrounds look lifeless.
I wonder if anime are doing that to save money and time .Backgrounds in anime today do look cheap with no effort put into it.
 

sapphire91

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I wonder if anime are doing that to save money and time .Backgrounds in anime today do look cheap with no effort put into it.
I have seen that happening in manga for ages. I have read manga from 70s and 80s that has a lot of background details, and after the 90s they gradually put less and less detail in the backgrounds in general, while zooming on characters, using patterns, or completely white pannels.
 

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There's fewer animators in Japan, fewer with many years of experience, and shorter deadlines than ever, plus budgets are usually still strict. I think for the average show it's not plausible to pump out as many shows as we get per season now with that kind of detail. Thankfully there's still movies and OVAs, but I feel like it's just a sign of the times.
 

sapphire91

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There's fewer animators in Japan, fewer with many years of experience, and shorter deadlines than ever, plus budgets are usually still strict. I think for the average show it's not plausible to pump out as many shows as we get per season now with that kind of detail. Thankfully there's still movies and OVAs, but I feel like it's just a sign of the times.
Yeah sometimes people are like "Well, everything is digital now, it is much easier to correct and fix, and to apply filters and brushes and stuff and things look worse than when everything was hand-drawn", but they forget the whole deadline, the massive amount of projects, the small wages and overwork as well as the fact a lot of these animators are free-lancers that needs more work done to make the ends meet.
 
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These are the animators take on them sadly, but it has nothing to do with the designs. And please no Hisashi Kagawa - I know strars had some episode with everyone looking manly, but it is not part of the nostalgia I hope.
I would want a Sadamoto drawn Sailor Moon.