#lapis re:lights

[fictional-birthdays]

Happy Birthday! (April 30th)

Twice H. Pieceman (Fate/Extra)

Shino Hazuki (Chaos;Head)

Eliza (Lapis Re:LiGHTs)

Angus (Animal Crossing)

Gato (Naruto)

Eikichi Nebuya (Kuroko no Basket)

Yoichi Tanaka (Ao Haru Ride)

Konoe A. Mercury (BlazBlue)

Kengo Miyazawa (Little Busters!)

Kuranosuke (Pop’n Music)

Shuichiro Oishi (Prince of Tennis)

Tatsuya Enomoto (K Project)

Tokiwa Anzai (Mewkledreamy)

Takuma Yuba (World Trigger)

Yuri Serizawa (Boyfriend Kari Kirameki Note)

[sayorine]

DAY 06 - @dollicous's event : a char I share a bday with !!

— genuinely I had to look up this char for this prompt 😭😭

— no clue what this char is from I just liked her design TT

f2u w/ credit !!

[ladies-of-fiction]

Characters Named Nadeshiko

Nadeshiko Benibara (Shuffle), Nadeshiko Hoshi (Shuumatsu Train Doko e Iku?)

Nadeshiko Kagamihara (Yuru Camp), Nadeshiko Minagawa (Bonjour Koiaji Patisserie)

Nadeshiko Kuronuma (Ouran High School Host Club), Nadeshiko Shimoike (A Centaur's Life)

Nadeshiko Omuro (Yuru Yuri), Nadeshiko Jougasaki (Itoshi no XL Size)

Nadeshiko Yamada (Futari Awasete Puramai Zero), Nadeshiko (Lapis Re:LiGHTs)

[kiramekishinkoukei]

[胡蝶たゆたう夜] ガーネット

[wlumiew]

lapis re:lights, episode 1 (2020)

[mew-cake]

Do you have any modern magical girls that other than Precure? I have been relying on older magical girls in the 80s-early 2010s to watch and enjoy the genre. Any 2024 ones or is there no more magical girls in this day and age? :(

BOY DO I

There are a LOT of magical girl shows releasing soon!

Acro Trip

Magi Lumiere (REALLY GOOD!! I'VE READ THE MANGA!!)

Princession Orchestra

The Story of a Girl who was Unable to Become a Mage

I can also recommend Yuki Yuna is a Hero, Madoka Magica, Tokyo Mew Mew New, Cocotama, Granblem, Pretear, Symphogear, Rilu Rilu Fairilu, Lapis Re:Lights, Jewelpet Twinkle, and Shugo Chara. I haven't seen Healer Girl but it's also magical vibes.

Some NON anime magical girl media too~

Sleepless Domain

Lolirock

Balala The Fairies

Catch Teenieping

Dame Daffodil

Magical Boy

Winx Club

Magical Warrior Diamond Heart

Maho Gokudo (in development but I'm excited)

[444lpblue]

The Witch and the Beast Anime's Outlook

I've finally awakened from my anime slump and have been catching up on a lot of anime. I learned my lesson about trying to do too much and watch too many shows. Therefore, I'm going to limit the number of anime I watch going forward so that I actually have time to write about them. I was barely finding time to watch the shows I've decided to begin, let alone write about them. I'm feeling a bit more comfortable now after grinding a ton, and I would like to talk about one of my anxiety-inducing and highly anticipated anime, The Witch and the Beast.

If you didn't know, The Witch and the Beast is possibly one of my favorite mangas of all time, if not my absolute favorite. It's very under the radar, and I think if you love the world of Ancient Magus Bride or enjoy The Case Study of Vanitas and want a darker twist with a highly aesthetically pleasing art style, I think you should give it a try. But back to the anime, like most people when their manga get adapted, when I first heard it was announced, I was extremely excited—after all, who wouldn't be? Getting an anime adaptation is probably one of the things you wish for your favorite series. After months of confirmation, we finally got the first teaser PV, which looked fine (I did have some complaints about it, but it was mostly fine). We learned that the studio working on it is Yokohama Animation Lab.

If you've been watching anime recently, you might have come across some of Yokohama Animation Lab's works, as they have been quite active since 2017. They have produced visually appealing shows such as Miru Tights and Lapis Re:LiGHTs. However, more recently, they've released shows with less-than-stellar visuals, like Kingdoms of Ruin, The Great Cleric, and Rail Romanesque 2. Even their highest-rated show at the moment, The Genius Prince's Guide to Raising a Nation Out of Debt, doesn't exactly have amazing animation quality; it's more of a passable-looking show. Which made the studio choice a huge large concern for me, as The Witch and the Beast is a series that relies a lot on its visuals. It's an integral part to the enjoyment of the series, it's a series that relies on its aesthetically pleasing artwork for the sake of showing off the characters and the worldbuilding.

However, studios aren't people, and I didn't want to adopt an incredibly negative outlook because the people working on it will change over time, and anime relies heavily on freelancers. The quality of the anime you see from individual studios will differ greatly. But there is a difference in that aspect to an extent in Yokohama Animation Lab, much like in this interview said. They are looking to become more of an in-house studio rather than freelance due to the costs of subscription programs. Oogami Yuuma emphasizes that while digitalization in anime is often viewed as a cost-cutting measure, setting up the required digital environment can be initially expensive. So they are seeking a cost-effective solution. His statement, to this day, still rings pretty true. If you look at the staff for Yokohama's series episode by episode, you might be surprised that a majority of the episodes do seem to involve in-house staff more than the average anime. However, that doesn't seem great when their recent quality, especially in shows like Kingdoms of Ruin, has been rather atrocious. In all visual aspects, animation (incredibly lacking), storyboarding (low quality and not engaging, scene flow to eachother like a slideshow), compositing (incredibly jarring). The only thing I can praise about it is its art direction.

I mentioned Kingdoms of Ruin specifically as it does share several key staff with The Witch and the Beast and I think it's just worth mentioning. Now with all that being said you can see how my worry for the adaptation was incredibly large at the time (in the fact it still is), but I've lessen my worry of it when I tried to look at the individual staffs working on this show and the stafflist of the recent Yokohama shows.

Unfortunately, I did sit through some episodes of Kingdoms of Ruin (do not recommend), and I found it interesting that the staff list for the show was rather small at times— a lot of animation directors, but not many actual animators. For example, one of the action-heavy episodes only had a singular key animator. It's as if they didn't have enough staff. I would say that Kingdoms of Ruin is of lower quality than even the average Yokohama series.

This got me thinking, where are the staff going? Well, there are several options. Yokohama has some upcoming releases, but unquestionably, their biggest series coming out is Whisper Me a Love Song (which I also love), followed by The Witch and the Beast. The other two upcoming series are not nearly gaining as much traction.

This is all just a guess that likely won't amount to anything, but just the type of series that The Witch and the Beast is and the fact that it's the series coming right after Kingdoms of Ruin, I think it's possible that it will end up benefiting from the staff that was missing from that series. I feel like Yokohama will try to put more effort into this series, considering they didn't opt for their usual newbies and completely in-house directors; rather, they got a veteran director in Takayuki Hamana.

Hamana has been in the industry for an incredibly long time, but chances are you haven't heard of him. Recently, he directed Power of Hope Precure Full Bloom, which had a lot of great cuts from what I've seen. He has also recently finished working on the Sorcerous Stabber Orphen series, which didn't receive the best reception (more so for its rushed nature rather than visuals). Additionally, he worked on the Rakudai Majo movie recently, which unfortunately doesn't have an English release yet.

While it's not like these recent shows have the best ratings on MAL or other sites, it tends not to be because of the visuals but rather the story, over which he likely didn't have much control, especially in the case of Precure. He's very much capable of delivering a good product if the source material and the script are solid. Beast Player Erin is his highest-rated work, but he also has shows like Library Wars or Arte, which I know many people like.

In studios like Yokohama, I always tend to favor veteran directors, as they have been in more situations and will likely be able to find a way to maintain quality better than newbie directors; their industry connections should allow them to get external staff to help out. Hamana has shown evidence of this many times, even in the rushed release of Sorcerous Stabber Orphen and the hazardous release pace of each season. They all still managed to have well-animated cuts here and there, and that has been a trend for a majority of his series.

If you just put some of his randomly directed series on Sakugabooru, for example, you'll find that every one of his series tends to have cuts listed there. I think this is a testament that Hamana, while he won't always make the best shows, knows who to bring in and how to manage them for the more important parts of a show. He's a very consistent director, and I think he's someone who could and likely will benefit The Witch and the Beast's studio situation a lot in terms of its production quality. Whether you'll like his directing style (which tends to remind most of 2008s anime) is an entirely different matter, but he is a source of hope in terms of its production quality.

And you know with all this talk of Yokohama and the many people, like me worried for The Witch and the Beast's quality, while I may not be a fan of the many visual direction choice that has been shown in the PV, we haven't gotten any real evidence that the production quality or animation quality will be bad. From the most recent PV and likely final PV, the character designs look fairly well-maintained for the most part. Close-ups are impressive. I also like the expressions for them, strong eye work. Overall CAD work seems good.

Though, essentially, there isn't a lot of animation shown, so that aspect of it can't really be touched on at the moment. So, conclusion? It's a really lazy thing to say since I made you read through this long spew of mine, but I don't really know either. It really is a wait-and-see situation; however, I do encourage you not to write it off just because of the studio choice. A good pick in a director like Hamana, and some other staff I haven't even touched on, like the character design by Hiroya Ijima, and the external studio situation in terms of releases, provide hope for the series, and I genuinely believe that, at the very worst possible version of the series, it probably will be about the Genius Prince's visual quality, which isn't great but won't be a complete disaster. However, with Hamana at the helm, I do expect a better quality show than that.

I'll see you guys next time on January 11th when the show comes out, because, trust me, I will be there.

[littleponeslex]

(H-L)

Hana no Ko Lunlun

Healer Girl

Hime-chan's Ribbon

Himitsu no Akko-chan

I. O. N.

IJewel BEM Hunter Lime

Kaitou Saint Tail

Kilala Princess

The Klutzy Witch - Fuka and the Dark Witch -

Kuromajo-san ga Tooru!

Kurumi-tic Miracle

Lapis Re:LIGHTs

Little Witch Academia

Part two!!

[idolscrapbook]

Lapis Re:Lights characters

WIP

[fictional-birthdays]

Happy Birthday! (May 23rd)

Chew (One Piece)

Lavie (Lapis Re:LiGHTs)

Momota Asuma (Boyfriend Kari Kirameki Note)

Peggy (Animal Crossing)

Deldry (Seven Deadly Sins)

Kensuke Fukui (Kuroko no Basket)

Silvio Orlandi (Muv-Luv)

Tetora (Log Horizon)

Rise Matsumoto (Yuru Yuri)

Yuri*chan (Pop’n Music)

[alex12agudelo]

Happy Birthday Takashi Mitsuya from Tokyo Revengers, Sen Kaibara aka Spiral from My Hero Academia, Elizabeth Liones from Seven Deadly Sins, Rikka Takanashi from Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions!, Karin Miyoshi from Yuki Yuna is a Hero, Kojou Akatsuki from Strike the Blood, Miki Hiiragi from Lucky Star, Masayoshi Kimura from Assassination Classroom, Lucifer and Angelica from Lapis Re:Lights who all share the same birthday. You guys are the best.

#takashimitsuya #tokyorevengers #tokyoribenjazu #senkaibara #spiral #myheroacademia #bokunoheroacademia #elizabethliones #sevendeadlysins #nanatsunotaizai #rikkatakanashi #lovechunibyoandotherdelusions #chunibyoudemokoigashitai #karinmiyoshi #yukiyyunaisahero #yukiyunawayushadearu #kojouakatsuki #striketheblood #sutoraikuzaburaddo #mikihiiragi #luckystar #rakisuta #masayoshikimura #assassinationclassroom #ansatshukyoshitsu #lucifer #angelica #lapisrelights #rapisuriraitsukonosekainoidolwamahogatsukaeru

https://www.instagram.com/p/DK05J_cu0n0/?igsh=M281NXVmZWc5eGVw

[nostalgicsummers]

I know Lapis Re:Lights is cancelled (as in the creators cut it- not that it's problematic) but I kinda miss it, the music isn't half bad and (even though I never finished the anime) I think that there could be a few babies in the series...

[anime--food]

Lapis Re:LiGHTs - Episode 5

[coqomlk]

anime icons for this? thx <3

here!

[moefang]

made myself a sadican wallpaper lmao

[animemascotarchive]

Alfred from Lapis Re:Lights!