Fate/Grand Order: Babylonia Anime

[Laserman]

That was a cool trailer.

[weeblord]

I feel this is gonna get hit hard by anti porygon measures.

[eddyak]

personally i didnt think apo audio was that bad
it was overdone for sure, but it matched overall direction of the anime

The dumb fucking distortion whenever something even vaguely loud happened was so, so bad.

It's one thing when Karna's massive explodey NPs go off, distorting sound for miles, but there is something very wrong when that sound's added to a lamppost falling over.

[Laserman]

I feel this is gonna get hit hard by anti porygon measures.

Are you talking about the Polygon incident? Why would they not take steps to prevents seizures? That seems like an obvious thing to do.

[bassgs435]

Point is, sakuga-heavy shows suffer from this because the flashier moments are ruined by said measures. Making you wait for BDs to see the sequences as they're meant to be

[noname14]

I like those distorted sounds...

[weeblord]

Are you talking about the Polygon incident? Why would they not take steps to prevents seizures? That seems like an obvious thing to do.

Due to the porygon incident, Japan has overly tight regulations that forces them to dim the screen when something more flashy is happening. They remove this dimming on BDs because people arent realistically getting seizures from the slight levels of flashiness thats present in anime, its just that rules are rules, especially so when issued by government, and they gotta follow it. If youve ever seen the actual porygon episode, it wasnt just a couple explosions, it was a full out strobelight flashshow. A bad combo of strobelight show and due to the nature and popularity of the show a massive audience of kids, meaning a big pool of possible undiagnosed epilepsy candidates.

[Laserman]

Point is, sakuga-heavy shows suffer from this because the flashier moments are ruined by said measures. Making you wait for BDs to see the sequences as they're meant to be

Due to the porygon incident, Japan has overly tight regulations that forces them to dim the screen when something more flashy is happening. They remove this dimming on BDs because people arent realistically getting seizures from the slight levels of flashiness thats present in anime, its just that rules are rules, especially so when issued by government, and they gotta follow it. If youve ever seen the actual porygon episode, it wasnt just a couple explosions, it was a full out strobelight flashshow. A bad combo of strobelight show and due to the nature and popularity of the show a massive audience of kids, meaning a big pool of possible undiagnosed epilepsy candidates.

So that's why some scenes in anime get darker then the rest of the episode. Oh my god, I never knew that done for those reasons.

[Radoom91]

What's wrong with their audio settings ffs.

[Wandering Swordwoman]

ISHTAR KICK

[Reign]

Saw the premiere. It was beautifully animated, as expected. Ishtar in particular was super expressive. Every word out of Merlin's mouth was hilarious, and Da Vinci wasn't far behind. Unfortunately the demon beasts were CG though, hopefully Tiamat isn't.

Episode 2 ends with Gil challenging Ritsuka and Mash as a test.

Also it was really heavy on the butt shots if that's your thing.

[Wandering Swordwoman]

Why would the tiamat not CG when her kids are CG

I don't mind as long as they are not too stand out
Care to share more? I'm hype for this weekend?

[Reign]

Why would the tiamat not CG when her kids are CG

Just wishful thinking. The beasts didn't stand out TOO bad but some shots were worse than others.

Care to share more? I'm hype for this weekend?

My favorite scene in all 3 episodes they showed was when Romani was ranting about how much Merlin sucks and Merlin was nodding in agreement at everything he said. During this Da Vinci is standing behind Romani, drinking a cup of coffee and looking off to the side like she's thinking "oh god here we go". Then a few minutes later when Merlin is bragging about being so good he'll make other Casters useless, Da Vinci gets mad and while she's shaking her fist Romani walks in from the side of the screen sipping his own cup of coffee.

Ana vs Kingu was cool, both used their chains to fight each other. The way Kingu strung Ana up reminded me of how Gil tied up Herc in UBW. And Ana was super adorably awkward when accepting the candy from the gate guard.

[mami-kouga]

I'll wait for the episode to make my verdict on the CG. That said, Tiamat is one of the few monsters I think would work fine with CG (with the proper shading of course) considering she's a giant lumbering mass.

The butt memes that I've heard leard leave quite the impression. As long as it's not distracting I don't care much.

That Romani and Da Vinci scene sounds hilarious though lol, was it the first or second episode?

[Levani]

What can you tell us about the music?

[Reign]

What can you tell us about the music?

Quite a few game tracks. The My Room theme played at the command room in episode 1. There was also a slow mix of that music from Galahad's rampage in episode 0 that played a few times. I think it's going to be a recurring leitmotif like how Apo had that one song that got remixed a lot.

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That Romani and Da Vinci scene sounds hilarious though lol, was it the first or second episode?

Second. Episode 1 ends with Kingu showing them the wall (and a brief cameo of Leonidas ordering troops) and then they meet Merlin and Ana right at the start of 2.

[Alternative Ice]

Did Ritsuka have any personality that you could see?

[Reign]

Did Ritsuka have any personality that you could see?

They seem to be going with the funny dialogue options since he said "Hello, I'm your cushion" when Ishtar crashed into him. He also got freaked out a lot, made a couple of "wtf is going on" faces. Beyond that he seems like an anime nice guy, so far.

[mami-kouga]

They seem to be going with the funny dialogue options since he said "Hello, I'm your cushion" when Ishtar crashed into him. He also got freaked out a lot, made a couple of "wtf is going on" faces. Beyond that he seems like an anime nice guy, so far.

Good. Doesn't seem to be on the level of Shimosa's take on Gudako, but as long as he's not utterly bland I can work with this

[Reign]

Oh yeah, this you know isn't going to matter for anyone here, but things the anime just mentions without explaining because they already expect viewers to know about:
-Merlin calls himself Grand Caster without elaborating what a Grand is
-They talk about Solomon and his plans several times without going into detail. Things like "Solomon did this" or "Enkidu is working for Solomon".
-don't explain the singularities or grails beyond "you've gone through 6 and this is number 7"
-Mash casually spoils Camelot by calling out to Galahad for strength when she uses Lord Camelot

Like we all expected it is absolutely not friendly to anime-only.