in lieu of my usual seasonal anime post, i think i’ll just post about this specific anime for now. maybe i’ll get to a full-on anime post down the road. it’s been a few seasons already since the last one, no? feh…whatever.
a new anime cropped up this season, yozakura quartet. or so i thought. apparently this is the second iteration of the series…the first debuting in 2008. i don’t really remember how much anime’ing i did back in 2008, so i’m not surprised i missed it. i did the research however after watching the first episode of the new season…the series creator was the illustrator for another favorite of mine, durarara!!. the similarities can definitely be seen in the character designs. the reason i did the info digging was because, holy shit, it is seriously one of the best looking animes i’ve seen in a long while. i of course immediately went looking for the original release, and have so far been severely let down by the animation quality. no criticism of the series itself, but the old series and this new one couldn’t have possibly been animated by the same studio.
*interlude*
erm, so on closer inspection, the new series is an OVA and is actually animated by a different studio, tatsunoko. this could possibly explain its higher quality (as an OVA)…or tatsunoko really is worlds better than the old studio, nomad. yea i don’t know or care…it’s still f’ing gorgeous to watch.
I think my brother has been trying to get me to watch this. I guess now I have to.
the story and characters are pretty cool, but the style of the tv anime didn’t seem to suit it that well. not like durarara’s style, or the ova, which suits it alot better…