{"id":8591,"date":"2020-10-07T14:08:15","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T14:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/?p=8591"},"modified":"2020-10-16T10:30:34","modified_gmt":"2020-10-16T10:30:34","slug":"no-guns-life-toaru-kagaku-no-railgun-t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/no-guns-life-toaru-kagaku-no-railgun-t\/","title":{"rendered":"NO GUNS LIFE & Toaru Kagaku no Railgun T."},"content":{"rendered":"

The action-drama No Guns<\/a> Life<\/a> has a visual similarity to Zetman<\/a>, an atmospheric similarly to detective<\/a> noir<\/a>, and a small ill-fitting streak of often ecchi-related comic relief. Personally I just strongly disliked Tetsurou and Olivier’s character design and wasn’t interested enough in the plot developments to stick with it beyond the first half.<\/p>\n

Yet another entry in the Index franchise<\/a>, Railgun T<\/a> takes place sometime between the Accelerator spinoff<\/a> and Index III<\/a>. It’s strange. Ideally you would want<\/em> consistent visual quality, right? Yet here the end result comes off as unnaturally natural. Like, there are fully drawn people walking around with detailed background destruction down to individual glass shards… the world actually looks real.<\/p>\n

And that’s the problem: Anime, in my opinion, shouldn’t look real. It’s disconcerting. Almost as disconcerting as the large amount of fanservice (e.g. there’s an entire episode dedicated to two characters’ quest to enlarge their bust size).<\/p>\n

Oh yeah, I also watched some of Eizouken ni wa Te o Dasu na!<\/a> recently; if you really<\/em> like the mechanics of making Anime (and don’t mind children’s drawings) give it a shot. I’m not all that fond of creator mythmaking myself and didn’t like the character design much either.<\/p>\n

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Toaru Kagaku no Railgun T:
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The action-drama No Guns Life has a visual similarity to Zetman, an atmospheric similarly to detective noir, and a small ill-fitting streak of often ecchi-related comic relief. Personally I just strongly disliked Tetsurou and Olivier’s character design and wasn’t interested enough in the plot developments to stick with it beyond the first half. Yet another entry in the Index franchise, Railgun T takes place sometime between the Accelerator spinoff and Index III. It’s strange. Ideally you would want consistent visual quality, right? Yet here the end result comes off as unnaturally natural. Like, there are fully drawn people walking around with detailed background destruction down to individual glass shards… the world actually looks real. And that’s the problem: Anime, in my opinion, shouldn’t look real. It’s disconcerting. Almost as disconcerting as the large amount of fanservice (e.g. there’s an entire episode dedicated to two characters’ quest to enlarge their bust size). Oh yeah, I also watched some of Eizouken ni wa Te o Dasu na! recently; if you really like the mechanics of making Anime (and don’t mind children’s drawings) give it a shot. I’m not all that fond of creator mythmaking myself and didn’t like the character design much […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[455,475,478,467,16],"tags":[172,180,174,173,176,439,178,185,184,187,175,183,62,412,411,476],"class_list":["post-8591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2019-autumn","category-2020-spring","category-2020-summer","category-2020-winter","category-anime-related","tag-action","tag-comedy","tag-comic-adaptation","tag-comic-relief","tag-drama","tag-dramatic-support","tag-dropped","tag-ecchi","tag-finished","tag-funimation","tag-incomplete-source","tag-school-life","tag-science-fiction","tag-series","tag-televised","tag-toaru"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t