(CR) Otonari no Tenshi-sama ni Itsu no Ma ni ka Dame Ningen ni Sareteita Ken

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Originally Posted by relentlessflame

I think the thing that especially suffered was the art consistency. I am actually a bit curious if any of it gets cleaned up for the Blu-Rays, as some parts of some episodes in particular were very off-model. There were certainly scenes that looked pretty good (and they put particular effort in the shots that were reproducing LN illustrations), but yeah -- it was kind of all over the map.

Also had probably one of the more low effort OP of the season. I mean, I kind of get what they were going for and I like the song (even if beyond the lyrics I'm not sure it fit this kind of romcom), but the animation..

[relentlessflame]

Originally Posted by Frontier

Also had probably one of the more low effort OP of the season. I mean, I kind of get what they were going for and I like the song (even if beyond the lyrics I'm not sure it fit this kind of romcom), but the animation..

Yeah, I commented on this earlier too. There were some parts in the OP that dwelled too long on stills, and it kinds of sticks out in a weird way. But I'm honestly not too sure that the issue here was the "budget" as much as it was the storyboard. And yeah tonally it was a bit weird at first... although actually the music composers created a pretty tasteful arrangement of it to accent key scenes in the rest of the content, so I think on the whole they made it work.

Interestingly, in a lot of cases the OP storyboarding is done by the anime's overall director, but in this case it seems to have been done entirely by someone else and animated by Studio Massket and One Order. This person doesn't seem to have any other known anime credits at the moment. And besides that, the overall director for the anime also doesn't seem to have any other known anime credits (that I can find at least). It'd be pretty unusual to bring in complete newbies to direct an anime series, so I wonder if they're just operating under an alias (or were using an alias before).

[EroKing]

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Originally Posted by EroKing

Mahiru wouldn't like being compared to a doll...but the comparison is apt .

[AP24]

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/new...389315/.198624

I think we’ll get another season

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Originally Posted by AP24

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/new...389315/.198624

I think we’ll get another season

I'd be totally down for it .

I mean, we got two seasons of Tomozaki-kun after all .

[relentlessflame]

Originally Posted by AP24

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/new...389315/.198624

I think we’ll get another season

Interestingly, it was number one when measured by series, but didn't make the top-10 by individual volume, so I guess that means that the entire series got a big sales bump from the anime and people decided to buy the whole set -- which definitely suggests that the anime accomplished one of its marketing goals. I guess the question is whether they figure a second season will bring another jump, but I suppose this still makes it a safer bet than unknown options.

[AP24]

Before the anime aired most volumes already sold above 30k. The anime caused an increase sales of 40k per volume average. So the average sales per volume should be above 70k now, and Vol 1 is probably close to 100k now. In addition this is just physical book sales. This series is already in the best-selling LN tier.

[scififan]

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Originally Posted by scififan

I'm honestly a tiny bit surprised that they decided to do this, as the "confession as a climax" is a very comfortable point for them to stop as an anime, but this is great. The novel series has not yet ended in Japan (it's up to vol 8.5; last anime covered until 4), but I wonder how long the author is really planning to continue it. In any case, something to look forward to!

For people who want to discuss further, here's the thread for the second season:
https://forums.animesuki.com/showthread.php?t=159615

(I should have posted this there... )