After what feels like an eternity, Sacrificial Princess and the King of Beasts have finally arrived. I was initially concerned about the animation quality and the challenge of fitting 15 volumes into 24 episodes, but the show has had a very strong start. As a huge fan of Sacrificial Princess and the King of Beasts, which is perhaps one of my favorite shoujo manga of all time, I was thrilled to see that the artwork and paint-like aesthetic were even more beautiful than what was shown in the PV. Additionally, the animation is much smoother than what was suggested by the PVs, which makes me question the shot selection in those videos. Nonetheless, I am extremely grateful for the show's quality thus far.
While I did admittedly doubt the show's debut at first glance of the PV and had concerns about the number of episodes the show would be adapted into, I think anyone can attest to the fact that I am a big fan of Chiaki Kon. I believe she is a very talented director if not one of the most talented at J.C. Staff currently working today. Many of the faults in a lot of her work honestly are not directly related to her, such as The Way of the Househusband or Gokudolls, many of which relied on producer input on the animation direction.
People tend to forget her works on Golden Time, Higurashi, or the various times she's worked on Sailor Moon or Precure. She consistently brings a fun vibe to the show. A lot of the cute expressions on Sailor Moon episodes she's boarded comes directly from her. So expect to see that when she does board her own episode. And talking about Golden Time, this show has the same designer as Golden Time in Shin'ya Hasegawa, and his designs really bring out the best in the characters. The manga covers have always had a paint finish to them, with very unique eyes and the way things are shaded overall. I think his rendition of the characters in this anime adaptation is really splendid. They're pretty when they need to be, threatening when they need to be, and look quite cute when they need to be. It's a great way to, I guess you can say, "anime-ize" the art style for a more general audience.
The episode was storyboarded by Satou, who has a great focus on eyes. The artwork for this show is often cute with a very pretty aesthetic, so when they do close-ups of certain characters with dead eyes, it's genuinely haunting as a contrast. The decision to change the tone of colors in those scenes, perhaps thanks to Nishida (whom I'm not familiar with), contributed greatly to this effect. It feels cold, in contrast to the warmth that Sariphi and Leonhart exude.
Now to the actual story portion, the pacing so far feels just right for a series like this, it gets the whole set up right away in the first episode, without really feeling like it's rushing it, and establish the tone shifts that you can expect from the show throughout. Sariphi and Leonhart's relationships remain cute in the anime and I hope to see the development of them that I've read in the manga continue to be seen in the anime as time goes on.
Urusei Yatsura (2022) TV anime will premiere in October 2022. The 2022 TV anime will adapt selected stories from the manga and run for four cours (a full year).
Key visual
Cast
Hiroshi Kamiya as Ataru Moroboshi
Sumire Uesaka as Lum
Maaya Uchida as Shinobu Miyake
Mamoru Miyano as Shūtarō Mendō
Wataru Takagi as Cherry
Miyuki Sawashiro as Sakura
Staff
Director: Hideya Takahashi, Yasuhiro Kimura
Series Director:
Series Composition: Yuko Kakihara
Character Design: Naoyuki Asano
Sub-Character Design: Kazuhiro Takamura, Mikio
Mechanic Design: JNTHED, Yoshihiro Sono
Prop Design: Ryō Hirata
Art Design: Kaoru Aoki
Art Director: Masanobu Nomura
Color Key Artist: Ayaka Nakamura
CG Director: Kanji Ōshima
Compositing Director of Photography: Yuuichirou Nagata
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Our biggest fear happened 😭 kengo has announced his graduation from the group this will happen in December 20 and the group will start again only as a 4 member group with Taishin, hikaru, Kaoru and shuhei.
Let's keep supporting them.
As the ones who are still in the group and kengo in his new projects.
The truth is right now I want to cry I saw this coming but I didn't wanted to be so early I haven't even been a year in the fandom, and I really wanted to see the 5 of them in live someday but now I never gonna have the opportunity but I'm not gona stop supporting them never.
I decided to do two rankings of my top 50 2.5D actors. One in terms of acting skill and level, and one in terms of how much I like them.
RULES:
1. They must still be active in 2.5D shows. (Bar Hirose Tomoki because I love him so much)
2. I have not taken their acting level into account. That is not to say they are bad actors but that hasn’t been taken into account when ranking.
Please don’t get offended, these are my opinions.
In the brackets I have the roles that really made me love them as an actor.
So here is the ranking: