Kotetsujo no Kabaneri (Knocking on the Walls of the Armored Fortress) [Anticipation]

[pinoscotto]

Originally Posted by MisaoFan

New details next week, plus there's already an official website opened!
http://kabaneri.com/

after the perfect insider finale, i suppose?

[MisaoFan]

Originally Posted by pinoscotto

after the perfect insider finale, i suppose?

Either that or maybe after the first half of said episode.

[Stark700]

Holy shit, I just saw the animation for this but was amazing. There was a Titan-like monster or something that was briefly played as well.

Edit: Coming Spring (April) 2016)

[Dragonria]

The website posted above got updated with some character design/Staff etc

Hiroyuki Sawano (not surprising?) is doing the music and Yasuyuki Ebara is the chief animation director.


Look like Shingeki no Kyojin to me

[moodie]

holy shit the cg is amazing

is that cell shading I see? if so its done far better here than god eater

inb4SnKclone

[Stark700]

Key visual

[kyuudere]

Original character design :
Haruhiko Mikimoto (Macross character designer)
Chief Animation Director, character designer for anime :
Yasuyuki Ebara
Action Animation Director :
Tatsuro Kawano

[Dragonria]

Cast:

Spoiler:

Ikoma is voiced by Hatanaka Yū
Mumei is voiced by Sayaka Senbongi
Ayame by Maaya Uchida
Kurusu by Masuda Toshiki
Takumi by Kaji Yuki
Kajika by Kanae Oki
Yukima by Mariya Ise
Sukari by Osaka Ryota
Kibito by Kensuke Satou
Biba by Miyano Mamoru

Full Staff:

Spoiler:

Director: Araki Tetsurou
Assistant director: Tanaka Hiroyuki
Series Composition & Script: ôkouchi Ichirou
Original Character Design: Mikimoto Haruhiko
Chief Animation director: Asano Kyouji
Chief Animation director & Character Design: Yasuyuki Ebara
Music: Hiroyuki Sawano
Script: Ookouchi Ichirou/Seko Hiroshi
Concept Art: Moriyama You
SF Research: Kiyomune Miwa
Concept Board: Yoshida Shirō
Director of Photography: Kazuhiro Yamada
Design Works: Gyoubu Ippei
Design Assistance: Tamagawa Shingo
Setting Production: Junpei Kasao
Prop Design: Tsuneki Shinobu
Design: Moriyama You & Ebara Yasuyuki & Marufuji Hirotaka
Main Animator: Tezuka Kyouhei
Action Animation Director: Kawano Tatsurou & Sera Yuuko
Sound Direction: Mima Masafumi
Sound Effects: Kurahashi Shizuo
Editing: Aya HIDA
Art Director: Yoshihara Shunichiro
Art Design: Aoki Kaoru & Sono Yoshihiro & Taniuchi Yuuho
Colour Design: Hashimoto Satoshi
CGI director: Yabuta Shuhei
STUDIO: Wit Studio

[desrtsku]

I can't believe the first 'SnK ripoff' is done by the same studio, the same staff with Yuki Kaji somehow shoved in it.

[moodie]

Originally Posted by desrtsku

I can't believe the first 'SnK ripoff' is done by the same studio, the same staff with Yuki Kaji somehow shoved in it.

saying aot clone is going to be a dumb criticism tbh

thats like saying all battle harem is an infinite stratos clone
or all mecha is a gundam clone
or all battle shounen is a dragon ball z clone

[desrtsku]

Sorry, I couldn't resist.

[dark998]

Looks amazing, as expected of the staff behind Guilty Crown and Shingeki no Kyojin. Im glad Sawano is back as well, his scores are great most of the time.

[Marcus H.]

You can't blame anyone for the comparison, really.

[Kismet-chan]

I'm pretty hyped for this -- any similarities between series or worries over Okouchi's writing (by some) be damned. Really hoping this'll be good.

[MisaoFan]

Already predicted to be steampunk from the start, what surprised me is that it'll have its own Feudal Japan equivalent in this.

Mikimoto designing the characters is kind of surprising, but then he already worked on Unicorn which also had Sawano on board.

That said, I'm very hyped for this, together with Divine Gate as the only two shows I hold great hope for the first semester of 2016. The PV leaves me in joy at how amazingly animated it is but then again it doesn't mean it will not end up being visually flawed considering the studio in charge.

And as moodie says, don't make premature comparisons with other similar series and throw too much senseless tantrum towards Okouchi's writing, I just prefer to wait until the first few episodes will come out, that's where the anime will truly shine its initial quality.

[The One Above God]

Holy crap, that PV and key visual look amazing. Although it's kiiiiinda like SnK, with all those machinery and what looked like magic thrown around, this might just make itself stand out from SnK. Also, dat CG.

[Fairy Water]

It's the truth that it's look like a AoT wannabe anime but I will still give it a shot when it's out.

[wavehawk]

Originally Posted by kyuudere

Original character design :
Haruhiko Mikimoto (Macross character designer)

- And here I thought I saw Minmei in there somewhere...

Originally Posted by moodie

saying aot clone is going to be a dumb criticism

- the monsters remind you of Titans, but they don't look like giants (look closely at scenes where humans actually fight them in melee, they're human-sized), so they're..more like zombies, kind of. Can't shake the Titan-like feel of the monsters but I'm pretty sure things will change as more trailers come out showing how they're not giants.

Part of the thing that makes Titans from AoT is their size. If you have normal human-size monsters it's a different feel and I think they really should start showing that so as to be distinct and avoid the comparisons.

Originally Posted by MisaoFan

Mikimoto designing the characters is kind of surprising, but then he already worked on Unicorn which also had Sawano on board.

- .....*

Yoshikazu Yasuhiko did the character designs for Gundam Unicorn. He's the same guy who did the character designs for the original Gundam series.

Mikimoto did the character designs for Gundam 0080 War in the Pocket and is the mangaka of the Ecole Du Ciel series.

Their art styles are nowhere alike, even though they both tend to use the same medium (Watercolors) a lot. 'Yaz's art style tends to be more crisp while Mikimoto has a more airy feel. Not going to post examples here, you can do a google image search and you can see the difference.

[MisaoFan]

Originally Posted by wavehawk

Yoshikazu Yasuhiko did the character designs for Gundam Unicorn. He's the same guy who did the character designs for the original Gundam series.

Mikimoto did the character designs for Gundam 0080 War in the Pocket and is the mangaka of the Ecole Du Ciel series.

Their art styles are nowhere alike, even though they both tend to use the same medium (Watercolors) a lot. 'Yaz's art style tends to be more crisp while Mikimoto has a more airy feel. Not going to post examples here, you can do a google image search and you can see the difference.

Sorry if I made the mistake, I thought their artstyles are a bit similar and I had a tendency to confuse them but now that you said it, I'll refrain from it.

[Irenesharda]

Well, combining the team of Attack on Titan and the writer of Code Geass and Valvrave with a PV that good. AND with Sawano doing the music?

Well, you definitely have all my attention. Plus the summary sounds pretty interesting. I'm guessing that they are going to have to find the original monster that started creating the Kabane and kill it. I wonder how long this series is supposed to go?