K-ON! 02: Failure art and some strange clothes
Posted: April 10, 2009 Filed under: Uncategorized 26 Comments »Uber Casualwear
Pink-on-pink pajamas vs. Sweater + shorts + YELLOW SKIN
Obviously, little miss yellow skin wins.
Little sister with “this is too big for me” sweater and tight-fitting clothes = win
Out on the Town
“Hey main character, come over here so we can get some screentime!”
Ritsu is wearing what all Japanese schoolgirls wear: big white ponchohoodies with green laces and a random blue zipper thing, with a long-sleeved orange shirt inside! And don’t forget the red/black-striped bracelet! I’m not very fashion-smart, but I think a garment like this really shows off your slim body by hiding it under three cubic yards of fabric!
Gumi-chan is wearing something more… realistic. You could actually see people wearing this in America at some slightly formal occasions. Probably Japan too.
And then there’s Mio. Jeebus. What is that?
She’s got her purple fakeboner pants and her blue/purple jacket with a plain white shirt inside.
I’ll be frank: the purple pants are what prompted this section of this post. They were so damn ugly (or at least stood out so much) that I knew I had to post them.
“Hey losers! Be glad I, the main character and best girl on this show, am here to boost your ratings and popularity!”
Yui has a cute outfit. It’s almost as awesome as Yumemi’s outfit at the theme park:
Pink shorts are always a plus. Shorts like Mikoto’s shorts (not exactly undergarments!) are even better.
And then we get normal clothes for Mio, Ritsu (sorta), and Tsumugi… and Yui dons a random denim dress-like object.
It looks like one of these barrels…
fin.
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god why??? why cant you let me have my fun?? omg you suck. you promised me reviews on page 2! not more art badgering!! from now on everytime i see an art breakdown page, im going to post one thing, yes you guessed it….
RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE
HAHAHA!
But Page 2 is more of a “why are they wearing this…?” deal. It’s not art, it’s clothing design! ＼(゜□゜)／
you want something to tear apart? go watch eden of the east ep1 and explain to me how a buck naked foreigner waving a gun in front of the white house doesnt get shot or arrested..go!
Hahah, I’ve seen the screenshots!
It’s quite late now, so I’ll try and get to it tomorrow… 😀
QUALITY animation? In my KyoAni anime?
INORITE?
Still, this is leagues better than… *shudder* Munto…
i think you’re being a bit too harsh on some of those shots… especially when the characters are drawn from a distance. you’re not going to see perfect form and painstaking detail when the entire person is only 3 inches tall.
also re: yui’s denim dress: it’s called a jumper. it’s supposed to look like that.
Hahah, that’s true! Still, many of them can be done better, and I expected something such from KyoAni…
There’s no excuse for the art in the close-up scenes, though!
LOL KyoAni has outsourced their animation team to Zimbabwe.
Tru.dat!
Whoa…. Never thought they would slip sum of teh bad art to it’s final form.
I’m sure the folks at KyoAni would get sum responses from K-On! fans, so maybe a proper art re-edited version be on BS-i channel (gotta luv the widescreen), or perhaps on a DVD release?
I’m not so sure about a re-edited version (though I’m with ya’ on the possibility of a re-edited version for DVD), but the widescreen version should look better anyway :p
You can blame the economy for the lack of anatomy. Did you know how much a nose job costs nowadays?! Multiple that by four. XD
Dang, I can’t argue with that! (Not that I’d want to, haha)
>>>“Hey main character, come over here so we can get some screentime!”<<<
Yes, non-title characters suck.
Damn it, you got me there.
…
Shit.
Hmm,
Well I think some of what you report is clearly just a case of point-of view distortion.
K-On!’s style seems to primarily be one where the outline of the characters becomes “dashed” or vanishes when a part of their body overlaps itself, explaining the phoetus hands (if you were to imagine them having an outline, with the fingers curled forward, and the entire hand pointing towards the camera, I’m sure you’ll get what I mean).
As for faces, the problem with them primarily seems to be the angle of the face doesn’t look “right” versus the angle of the entire head, probably a result of them trying to stay away from using many lines.
I am very impressed with the instruments in the series, even if it is all product placement advertising!
That could be true, but I’d have to disagree on the fetus hands thing. It’s happened much more than once (I’m pretty sure I got the term “fetus hand” from another aniblogger), so it can’t be just this scene!
I think you’re mistaking a style thing — which appears repeatedly and looks intentional to me — for a failure thing.
K-ON’s not Haruhi, it looks (for lack of a better word) cartoony. It’s an extension of the simplified and stylized look of Lucky Star. It allows them to convey realistic body language etc. without spending a boatload of money and time to do detailed art in each frame.
Feel free to talk about how much you dislike the stylized look of K-ON (I can easily see how you wouldn’t), but don’t confuse it with blunders.
That said, I do have to give you a couple of those screencaps, though (Mio’s neck, for instance). And of course the magical brand name change on the guitar…
I can see how many of the things I pointed out could be considered an overall style issue (the hands and the muzzle are the most obvious pieces of evidence here), and I can’t argue with that.
Still, I can’t see art style being used to justify some scenes like Yui’s stubleg scene (looking awfully like a Nendoroid there…).
I didn’t notice the brand name change on the guitar, but that sounds like (quoth Artefact) “an egregious error!”
The failures here seem pretty consistent with what you’d find in any other Kyoto Animation show. Why the indignation? Has your adulation of KyoAni obscured your memory of KyoAni?
Perhaps my overly romanticized view (not to mention fuzzy memories) of KyoAni has set my standards too high, I’m not sure. But I can’t remember anything of this sort from TMoHS or Lucky Star (though I’d have to say that CLANNAD and Munto had about the same quality as this episode).
Haruhi was less toony, but yes, it and Lucky Star had the exact same failures in spades. As did AIR, as did Fumoffu, as did TSR, as did Kanon 2006.
Ah, then it must be me. D: (On another note, I’m ashamed to admit that I had to think for a minute or so before I realized what “TSR” stood for.)
This anime isn’t that bad… I know I couldn’t do any better lol
This is the biggest load of crap I’ve ever seen! All these things aren’t fails at all! You don’t know sh*t about style!