#also mostly only drawing her out so i have a ref for when i inevitably cave and draw the selfship olric fanart

[vodkaslyme]

I drew my farmer kinda goofy last time for the bit but I wanted to take a crack at what they'd actually look like.

[yiulee999]

Hey! What do you think of OPM season 2? I still love it & am looking forward to next weeks new episode but i just wish Saitama had more screen time ;-(

hey nonny~! 

apologies for the late reply, its a combo of not getting notifications (tumblr u useless trashbucket) and being on surgery rotation (i miss sleeping so much) 

firstly, i am truly glad you still love it and look forward to the new episodes!!! 💖💖💖please dont let anything i say from this point on dissuade you from that enjoyment 

THAT BEING SAID 

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ive only watched up to the second episode, and i am having Such Difficulties convincing myself to keep watching. i know my rxns to ep 1 were overall pretty positive and I stand by it but the more i watch the more the Cringe/Hypercritique starts take over. 

Turns out, the art style had a bigger impact than i thought on the length of which i enjoy shows. personally, i just really like when anime/shows have a happy marriage between writing and artwork. and when show directors know how to interpret writing, how to set up a scene (the angle, the music, the pacing), and then communicate with artists who have the skills to bring that idea to life using the medium they’re given -- that’s when writing becomes storytelling. OPM’s writing is still fantastic since they’re going off ONE (whereas GoT has the opposite problem where the production value is 4K and the writing is early 2000s livejournal/fanfiction lol god why is everyone dropping the ball in 2019??)

As for the art, since opm switched to jc staff and shingo natsume & co. left for other projects ( ;;_____;; im emo ), its inevitable we would see a drop in animation quality and i find myself constantly getting distracted by things i never used to get concerned about in the first season (bc of the high bar of expectations set by s1 artists/directors, like theres just no way jc staff would match up it to all of that and i feel bad for them, they’re trying their best but that doesn’t mean theyre immune to critique on the artistic liberties that they’ve taken that i feel as a viewer, may not have been the best choice?) 

the shading: no, just, unnecessary and distracting and why is it the center of saitamas face, im by far no expert in lighting but a bish can tell something doesnt look right??? 

the shading pt II: color choices. just gonna say i was not expecting sai’s ‘hair shirt’ in ep 1 to be bright-ass neon green, it was a little jarring at first and i miss him in red ;-; i get hes supposed to have poor fashion choices but i dont see him as the type to pick something that stands out so much in the crowd, like he likes to be left alone. NEON doesnt really relay ‘hi dont mind me im just barely existing here lol’ 

the shading pt III: genos arms/neck. okaY so the bby looks good in screenshots. like he’s shiny and nice to look at when nothings moving. bUT this is animation?? movement of objections is different from still life manga so making every single scene almost 99% like murata’s panels translates a little awkwardly to the screen (like staff is lucky bc murata’s a force of nature with his panels playing out like a movie for ref). but when genos moves, the arms are just distracting bc everything around him is drawn simply without shadows so they stand out by themselves and i (visually) forget about the rest of him haha. 

the pacing: it feels scripted, person A says this so we’ll show person A in the shot, then person B is saying something so we have to cut to person B, etc etc like keeping pretty steady to manga lines to the point where i was starting to get bored bc i knew what was coming. it was really intervaled? like someone had to be saying something at a certain effect and i think s1 had more dramatic pauses (lol) but thats how you can place emphasis on scenes to have an emotional impact if the character doesnt say anything and just let the soundtrack do some talking and the cadence of the script will change too (im 10000% talking about the sunset scene in s1 god bless. like it was slow, there was MOOD there wasn’t any rush and really gave the viewer time to think about the relationship between the two characters and what that moment meant to each of them) i feel like there were several scenes that could have been more like in the scene where sai protected fubuki, could have been a little more dramatically emphasized (aka just a pause) so the viewer could get a chance to understand that he purprosefully shielded her or when genos says that strong heroes are drawn to saitama--bUT nope its the same pace, like c l o c k w o r k just like my t eARS--

the fight scenes: how do i even start. the one scene that got me INTO opm (like watching the anime, reading the manga, drawing fanart, writing fanfic, reading fanfics etc) was kickstarted by the fight scene between genos and saitama in s1 that was circulating on tumblr a while back. i thought the characters were interesting and the fight was badass and it just looked SO COOL. (also the forehead flick at the end just kinda sealed my fate). going from that to s2 fight scenes where its mostly cut scenes and freeze scenes?? where theres a cut out behind the characters back?? during a fight scene????? this isn’t a calling card or an anime opening??? i dont understand. when they dont do cut scenes, its interesting but my initial impression is just underwhelmed. i can find good parts but it feels like i have to replay the scene to notice it? theres also an overwhelming amount of graphics/cgi manipulation that overpowers the actual art sometimes. its lacking some of the fluidity that comes from hand drawn fight scenes from first season. OTL

the sound directing: so i thought that the mood just felt off for certain scenes and the sound didn’t seem to support the scene as well (unless it was like the character’s theme or smtg) and i looked it up and the sound director was also replaced (Yoshikazu Iwanami replacing Shoji Hata). i have no idea if the sound director is also in charge of character lines but there were parts were fubuki was monologuing and i had no idea she was inner monologuing, i thought she was talking out loud and that just took extra effort on my part to re-orient myself (im nitpitcking i know but its just how i watch shows lol) 

there are still some parts i like about the animation:

fubuki looks bangin and i love her👌👗

all of this just made me realize how insanely lucky we were to have an amazing s1 and just have it exist and how i really could not care less if they had just waited forever to make s2 as long as we had the same crew come back. but anime is still a business and the quicker they dish out merch/seasons, the more money they can bring in. which they do in the short run but they would bring in more if they spent a little more on quality in the long run and it becomes one of those classics that ppl will rewatch and keep recommending to ppl who want to get into anime and oh my god we’re never gonna have that now, are we. if im gonna rec it to a friend its gonna be ‘read the manga!’ or ‘just watch s1!’ uGH. its just an unfortunate situation, its not one person’s fault either, so many factors go into what made opm s1 so spectacular and seeing s2 just made me appreciate s1 more. i guess im happy to have a s2 regardless? 

i’ll still watch to support (and bc i like suiryuu and wanna see sai in a karate gi and wig lol). maybe i just have to get used to the new style. 

so in summary,

[drizzys-selfship-sea]

Today I learned that tumblr doesn’t like it when I try to upload pictures I made in GIMP, so heck me and heck my digital art I guess (this ref used to be transparent, but I had to add a background and screenshot the image so I could upload this hhHHHH)

Anyway here she is: my ndrv3 s/i, Asahi Kuroki, the Ultimate Daydreamer!

Info about her will be under the cut:

-She’s 5′5

-She’s basically a walking contradiction (grouchy but sweet, shy but loud and excitable, hates people but highly empathetic, etc.)

-She can actually tolerate a lot unless she’s in a frazzled mood.

-She almost never takes off her headphones because covering her ears makes her feel more secure.

-In a similar vein, her ears are very sensitive so she hates prolonged loud noises and crowds, since they can cause her to have auditory overloads.

-Fears being abandoned because of being “annoying,” which is why she’s so shy and nervous.

-Though she’s usually a bit grouchy because she’s just done with reality and the very act of being alive, so she doesn’t fear death. Her life has no value to her.

-Zones out a lot and tries to push away reality in favor of her fantasies (though she becomes more grounded as the game progresses).

-She doesn’t like confrontation, or at least confrontation when alone.

-She has a lot of trouble stringing her thoughts together into words, so she stammers over herself a lot.

-She’s way too trusting and gullible for her own good, leading her to be taken advantage of very often in the past.

-This is mostly because of how she doesn’t like doubting people because she thinks that would be considered rude.

-She is quite observant, though, and will notice if something is wrong with someone she loves.

-Despite how overemotional she can be sometimes, she’s a logical thinker at her core.

-Bottles up her very aggressive emotions so she won’t bother anyone even though it physically pains her (which is part of why she can be so passive-aggressive sometimes).

-She overthinks everything.

-She likes to talk, but is too worried about being annoying to talk as often as she wants to.

-She gets excited really easily and when she gets hyped up she gets very loud.

-Do not interrupt her when she’s daydreaming, it’ll immediately put her in a bad mood. Y’know what just don’t interrupt her at all.

-She’s a pacifist.

-Mostly only wants to beat the game for everyone else’s sake because she’d rather stay in the academy than go back to the real world.

-Some part of her is usually in motion at any given time because she has a lot of pent-up energy and also it helps her think.

-Clicks her tongue sometimes when she’s in thought, and often ends up talking to herself when she’s doing something.

-Always cries when she doesn’t want to, can never cry when she needs to.

-She draws and writes a lot because that’s the best way to get her ideas down without bothering anyone.

-Good singer but terrible dancer.

-Protective of those she cares about and is insanely loyal.

-During situations of crisis, she can turn off her emotions and zero in on finding a solution.

-Introverted and enjoys her space and alone time (though she is very cuddly with those she loves).

-Promises are EVERYTHING to her. If she makes a promise, she will keep it no matter what. If you make a promise to her, she will hold you to it.

-Flip-flops between holding grudges forever and being too forgiving.

-She has poor ankles, so she can’t make sharp turns or she’ll trip real bad (and she also can’t swim). 

-Used to bite herself as a way to relieve stress, but she swore it off before the game. She still absent-mindedly nips her fingers sometimes because it doesn’t count as stress-biting if she’s not stressed and doesn’t bite hard.

-Used to be in a dark place mentally, but she’s trying to get better (though she still gets caught up in bouts of self-hatred on occasion).

-Before the game, she was a sly, selfish, highly manipulative problem child who would gladly use violence to solve her problems. She had a group of “friends” that she had wrapped around her finger, and she mostly only used them for what they could do for her. She wanted to get into the game just to see how long she could last, and her family basically bribed Team Danganronpa into letting her in so they could be rid of her.

-Her fabricated past had her on the other side of this. People would take advantage of her constantly and her family kept trying to push her into a mold she wouldn’t fit into, and then acted upset when she inevitably didn’t fit the mold. She only had one friend (who was the one who made her swear off stress-biting).