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wedora
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Dec 4 2010 09:11 PM Copied from my post in games/Touhou Project thread (not spoiler-laden): -----------------------------------------Here's some info on the Touhou OVA, courtesy of Lunatic Red (and pointed out by members at Doujinstyle): | QUOTE | Alright. Here's a quick sum-up of the anime some of us have been waiting for.
I am basing this on a review that I found on the net.
The animation is very well done and they manage to depict danmaku in an epic way. The environments are supposedly dark and twisted, filled with ruins and lots of debris for the characters to go "kyuu" on, so to speak. While the reviewer claims to not be able to put his finger on some of the spells used by the girls, it is still quite apparent that we'll be seeing some recognizable patterns.
Next up is the story, and here is where I believe the anime will lose most peoples' interest. It is a 10 minutes short, just like the other Anime Tenchou crossovers. While it is this short, the reviewer states that the story is actually quite good. I can't tell if this is simply his fanboy-ism speaking though. He also states that the fact of it being a crossover has no negative impact on the anime. The Anime Tenchou characters blend well with the Touhou characters and the audience gets what they want: Danmaku goodness~
Sorry to disappoint any of you who had your fingers crossed for a sudden appearance of your favorite girl, but the Touhou characters are pretty much limited to those who appear on the comercial poster. While I didn't read the part about the story (anti-spoiler), I did manage to pick out that it revolves around Reimu and Flandre for the most part. Reimu being the protagonist and Flandre being the antagonist, if you can even categorize them as such.
Characters that make appearances: Reimu, Flandre, Marisa, Yukari and Ran.
Characters that make minor appearances: Rumia, Wriggle, Mystia, Satori, Koishi, Suika, Murasa, Remilia, Patchouli and Sakuya.
As for the music. It seems like they did what many of us had hoped for (I know I did at least). They rearranged the original music! Woop the freaking doo!
Voice acting... the icing on the cake... is apparently not so good. The reviewer wasn't disgusted by it, but said that it was mediocre at best, lacking emotions and personality.
In the end, it seems he enjoyed it even after all of its flaws. Will the western fanbase do the same I wonder?
Feel free to dissect this review further as I only picked out the pieces of information I felt to be relevant. If you are going to translate the story part of the review, please post it in spoiler tags. Thanks.
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It looks like it may be a while till it gets out since it was only shown like a movie, hopefully they'll put a disc out at C79 or something. -----------------------------------------In summary, its a 10 min short with no digital version available at this point in time. It'll probably take a while for it to show up, so don't bother searching day and night for it. Unrelated but something I found interesting, here's a very well done character relation chart for all characters from Touhou 6 to 12.8. Pretty overwhelming. http://img802.imageshack.us/img802/932/b77...ae41239a14d.png |
Kid-Wolf
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Nov 27 2010 02:00 AM Oh yeah I forgot our fanbase can pretty much take anything upon themselves if the need arises. Although I kind of find it impossible to find that Eientei movie, even though the quality was kind of poor I mean it did have my favorite group of girls invoved. Besides the group that did it was well known for thier Touhou Music Videos though. |
wedora
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Nov 27 2010 12:15 AM Patience is a virtue. It is unlikely that it is in a suitable format at the moment. It also doesn't look like a camrip is floating around in the raws. They can't sub it if they have nothing to work from It'll eventually make its way into something usable, and I'm sure it'll get subbed by then. If it doesn't get done by a group, the ravenous lot of english-speaking touhou fans will find a way. |
Kid-Wolf
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Nov 26 2010 11:01 PM Well the ufotable OVA is now released and I'm kind of wondering if any sub group was going to pick this one up at all, or will this slip into the batches of obscurity. I mean I know there was one that pretty much focused on the Eientei group, and that was the oldest one made. So I'm hoping it doesn't get completely ignored here since I was going to make judgements after watching it though. |
Kid-Wolf
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Nov 22 2010 12:41 AM Ok since this is technically an unoffical OVA it came out on the 20th of November, and now to wait and see who will pick this up to sub it. Besides if the OVA does well we might get a series done out of this somehow. In the end I'm kind of on the fence over this, but I just hope things turn out well and that we don't have the argumentitive spliut between the games and the anime. |
Kid-Wolf
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Oct 17 2010 02:39 PM You know I kind of noticed something. With most of the deriviatve works like this they usually end up either using the SDM crew, the Yakumos, or maybe the Eientei group. Pretty much I think it's because th6 though th8 were considered as the three games that really made the series. It's probably were most of the memes and/or tropes come from. Although 9 would be hard to work with, while 10 is pretty much adding another rival shrine maiden to the mix, and of course 11 is just to dangerous to even attempt because of the ⥠at the end. Oddly enough I kind of want to see if Maribel and Renko will be dragged into this since they are on the outisde of Gensokyo wanting to go in. My guess I'm sure they are the two invovled in the hyjinks that will quite possible unfold when they premire it of course. |
wedora
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Oct 17 2010 12:02 PM For those who want to see the trailer, here's a camrip: from 0:34. It doesn't show much other than a few chars and what looks like a battle between Flandre and Marisa...and they're clearly where they shouldn't be, outside of Gensokyo. I guess they'll spin it as either Reimu or Yukari messing up the border. I'm not concerned at all, its meant to be a dervitative work according to everyone involved so I wouldn't be surprised if they crapped all over the canon. Its not supposed to be official so it doesn't matter to me...as long as they don't include Yukkuris (scary stuff). The camrip only has TH6 & TH7 characters, but you never know. Here's some character pictures: Most of Touhou cast, excludes TH12 (click to enlarge if it shrinks)Characters you're most likely to see or are already in the trailer: Reimu & Marisa (main characters)Scarlet Devil Mansion castYakumo group |
Kid-Wolf
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Oct 17 2010 02:07 AM They have confirmation that ufotable will be releaseing their doujin work for the game series by November of this year. The up side is I like the idea, but the down side is the stoy takes place outside of the Gensokyo border. On the up side at least Flandre is wholely involved with what the trailer showed. Although the video that shoed it was nothing more than a camcorder recording this promo video. It should still be up on niconico though. In any case I'm still having mixed feelings about this. Hopefully it'll epxlain why things are happening outside the Gensokyo border with this story now, or I sense terrible things that may happen. |
Kid-Wolf
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Sep 28 2010 06:42 PM The way things are going it would always seem that sometimes the fan made versions are usually well received if it's done right. Most of the times it ends up being nothing but a compilation of music videos, but never the less fun to watch. As for the other version being made I'm just wondering are they going to have it as a one-shot OVA or are they going to do something with it? Because I'm kind of lost on what's going on there. |
Marine-RX179
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Sep 28 2010 04:59 PM By the way, have you guys seen this doujin PV "Genso Kaleidoscope ~The Memories of Phantasm~" that was by the circle Manpuku Jinja? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlboFWvm2pAI first saw it on nico...think it was first uploaded about a week ago. Guess it shows what dedicated fans can do, comparing to some professional animation company having deform issues doing some anime half-heartly |
