I'd like to comment about your comment about the artwork isn't terrifying. It is, to make a really lame pun (Sorry. xD). To me, it is in that one short segment of High Octane Nightmare Fuel. Remember the part where Keiichi died in a heart attack in hospital? Scariest piece of anime I've ever seen. But then, I've never read (heard? It is a sound novel...) the game, so my Mileage May Vary.
At least the way I see it, when the animation is supposed to be scary, it works great (like the scene you're talking about). It's during the "normal" sections that the animation is sub-par. The characters' bodies are terribly un-detailed. However the thing about the animation that annoyed me the most? For almost every character accept Keiichi, their heads are far to large for their bodies. I mean, at some points Rena's head can be as large as her torso.
I agree with you on the characterization and use of violence in the series. It does a great job of avoiding gratuitous Gorn.
Reaction Image RepositoryTohno-san, I actually agree with you. What I was saying was that where it isn't terrifying (in order to carry over my earlier comment about the artwork actually helping add to the terror in some parts), it's really just bad, and that occurs in a lot of the normal scenes, and maybe one or two that were intended to be scary but fell flat.
The anime artwork is not as bad as the original game's artowrk.
I must agree on most points made here. The artwork is pretty bad in some points in the anime, but can be downright terrifying at other points. The characters definitely show a multitude of flaws that don't go away when inconvenient.
And, yes, I also like Miotsukhi-hen a bit more. They actually WORK for their good end, as compared to their "We have Hanyyu, we auto-win" routine.
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Here's the deal on this one. The anime is... acceptable, especially if you don't know what the series originally was. However, compared to any of the game versions and the manga version, the anime is but a pale replica. It's not incredibly noticeable to someone just wandering into it, although even though I watched the anime without knowing what was coming, I found Tatarigoroshi-hen to be incredibly rushed and felt that the way Keiichi was portrayed didn't follow any kind of thought-pattern whatsoever. This is largely because of cut-out character development in the first two arcs.
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