Commissar SFLUFAN Posted September 25, 2022 Share Posted September 25, 2022 Takashi Miike Directs Anime of Onimusha Game Series WWW.ANIMENEWSNETWORK.COM Anime from Sublimation to use late actor Toshiro Mifune as model for Miyamoto Musashi Quote Famed director Takashi Miike (live-action Ichi the Killer, Blade of the Immortal, Crows Zero, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable, Terraformars) will serve as the chief director of the series at Sublimation. Shin'ya Sugai (Dragon's Dogma, Shikizakura) is directing the series. The series will use the late prolific actor Toshirō Mifune (Rashomon, Seven Samurai) as a model for the character Miyamoto Musashi. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost_MH Posted September 25, 2022 Share Posted September 25, 2022 I don't know if I've seen anything from Sublimation. They're the same studio that did the Dragon's Dogma anime. Having Mike involved certainly has me interested, though. I don't think he's ever worked on an anime, though he has done some live action anime adaptations. I liked that I looked it up to make sure I wasn't wrong there and that's how I learned he voiced Pascal in the Animal Crossing movie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted September 26, 2022 Share Posted September 26, 2022 If cyberpunk was too crazy for Wade an anime by Takashi Miike is going to really be beyond what he can enjoy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted September 20, 2023 Share Posted September 20, 2023 November 2nd! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greatoneshere Posted September 20, 2023 Share Posted September 20, 2023 Definitely something I'm interested in checking out. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted September 21, 2023 Author Share Posted September 21, 2023 Whoever approved that music choice for the trailer should be fired. I don't mean "laid off". I mean literally set ablaze. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted September 21, 2023 Share Posted September 21, 2023 13 hours ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said: Whoever approved that music choice for the trailer should be fired. I don't mean "laid off". I mean literally set ablaze. The song is 🔥so it's only fair they are as hot as the song. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost_MH Posted September 21, 2023 Share Posted September 21, 2023 It is super weird to see Toshiro Mifune in this. That said, yeah, that song is so wrong for the trailer. Definitely want to check this one out. There's are a few anime this fall that are pretty interesting, this being one of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted September 21, 2023 Share Posted September 21, 2023 This is gonna be one of those "Indestructible" situations where everyone says "WTF" up front but as time goes on you say "hell yeah this song secretly fucking slaps" @Fizzzzle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted November 2, 2023 Share Posted November 2, 2023 Episodes are up now! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted November 3, 2023 Share Posted November 3, 2023 Checked out the first episode. I guess maybe I never noticed but this is one of those CG joints. However, we've come a long way that anime CG doesn't look like shit and the look is really good here. It's very convincing like something from a Arc System Works kind of thing. First episode is nearly 40 minutes long and the first half is a big setup for the second half. I though it was kind of tame early on but things get really wild towards the end. So far so good and I look forward to watching more! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted November 12, 2023 Share Posted November 12, 2023 Something I liked that there were bits of character building moments sprinkled between the action. If you recall I watched Zatoichi a while back and I felt that the flashback scenes really sucked the momentum out of the movie. However, with this show I think they are appropriately placed. Moments of the show reminded me of Asura's Wrath in a way, especially how one of the characters looked like Yasha. If they made a show or even remastered the games to look like this, that would be incredible. Do it Capcom! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greatoneshere Posted November 12, 2023 Share Posted November 12, 2023 12 hours ago, Keyser_Soze said: Moments of the show reminded me of Asura's Wrath in a way, especially how one of the characters looked like Yasha. If they made a show or even remastered the games to look like this, that would be incredible. Do it Capcom! Regardless of how much of a "game" people felt it was or not, Asura's Wrath was awesome - and not easy on the hardest difficulty. It was so unique and interesting I tracked down the artbook for the game - would love a remaster. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted November 18, 2023 Author Share Posted November 18, 2023 I just finished the series - it was a pretty entertaining "palette cleanser" after Blue Eye Samurai! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phaseknox Posted December 6, 2023 Share Posted December 6, 2023 I just finished the series, and it was good but not great IMO. It didn’t seem much like the game series that it’s based on, it just seemed like it’s own thing which is fine but I didn’t find it as compelling as the games. The animation and fight scenes are pretty good, but the story and characters didn’t do a lot for me. It just seemed kind of average overall, but I still enjoyed it enough to finish it and liked it enough to watch another season if there is one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greatoneshere Posted February 13 Share Posted February 13 On 12/6/2023 at 10:36 AM, Phaseknox said: I just finished the series, and it was good but not great IMO. It didn’t seem much like the game series that it’s based on, it just seemed like it’s own thing which is fine but I didn’t find it as compelling as the games. The animation and fight scenes are pretty good, but the story and characters didn’t do a lot for me. It just seemed kind of average overall, but I still enjoyed it enough to finish it and liked it enough to watch another season if there is one. Having just finished the show as well, I feel about the same way. Good, not great, not as good as Blue Eye Samurai, but not trying to do nearly as much either. It's a simple, straightforward, solidly told story with fun one-off characters, but not a lot of substance or depth here. Animation was solid for Sublimation Studio and stylized enough that it looked better than it probably was. I didn't see a lot of Takashi Miike's influence here other than the Japanese throat singing and the vibe of the setting, etc. and the show didn't really resemble the games too much but respected the games' world building at least. I'd watch a season 2 but between the Onimusha: Warlords remaster from January 2019 not meeting even Capcom's modest sales expectations (they cancelled remasters of the next two games as a result) and this pretty much being a self-contained story, I don't imagine we'll get a season 2 but I hope so. In the same way it doesn't seem like we'll get more Tekken: Bloodlines or Skull Island (or a season 4 of DOTA: Dragon's Blood). Which sucks. More Arcane and Blue Eye Samurai are coming at least. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted February 13 Share Posted February 13 1 hour ago, Greatoneshere said: it doesn't seem like we'll get more Tekken: Bloodlines You should play Tekken 8 as it has a nice nod to Tekken Bloodline, the fight between Hwoarang and Jin 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phaseknox Posted February 14 Share Posted February 14 5 hours ago, Greatoneshere said: I'd watch a season 2 but between the Onimusha: Warlords remaster from January 2019 not meeting even Capcom's modest sales expectations (they cancelled remasters of the next two games as a result) and this pretty much being a self-contained story, I don't imagine we'll get a season 2 but I hope so. I think that a remastered collection of the first three Onimusha games bundled together would have done well, because only releasing a remaster of the first game seemed half-baked. I remember when it came out I was really disappointed that it was just the first game and not the trilogy. 5 hours ago, Greatoneshere said: More Arcane and Blue Eye Samurai are coming at least. Yeah, I’m really looking forward to the next seasons of them because they’re a couple of my favorite animated shows in recent years. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greatoneshere Posted February 14 Share Posted February 14 14 minutes ago, Phaseknox said: I think that a remastered collection of the first three Onimusha games bundled together would have done well, because only releasing a remaster of the first game seemed half-baked. I remember when it came out I was really disappointed that it was just the first game and not the trilogy. Yeah I agree, Capcom's reasoning being they were testing the waters to see if there was demand there, and then since the first remaster didn't meet Capcom's allegedly modest goals, there was no need to continue with 2 and 3. Should have done the whole trilogy at once. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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