After Kill la Kill (and Luluco) and given all the staff carried over from Gainax, it seemed like everyone in the mid 2010s expected Trigger to be like Gainax 2.0.
It's been years now and Trigger has done nothing but churn out a bunch of mediocre garbage. The animation is good, but aside from that none of their shows have any soul or originality. Even the most obscure Gainax shows tend to have some substance, but every Trigger production just feels like a quirky animation showcase written by a teenager.
Wtf went so wrong?
Wtf happened to Studio Trigger?
Ethan Cox
Samuel Morgan
>It's been years now and Trigger has done nothing but churn out a bunch of mediocre garbage.
So just like Gainax?
Jacob Gonzalez
Name a gainax show thats not gurren lagann or panty and stocking
Julian Perez
Bump
Lincoln Phillips
Kill la Kill was a disappointing pastiche of Imaishi's previous anime.
You can disagree with that opinion I guess but you can't disagree with the fact that it didn't live up to TTGL's numbers. So it was inevitable they'd pivot style-wise . It's a business.
Elijah Lopez
>Wtf happened to Studio Trigger
Nothing? Gridman and Promare were some of the best anime of the last few years.
>everyone in the mid 2010s expected Trigger to be like Gainax 2.0.
Thankfully Trigger has a more consistent track record than Gainax. For every good Gainax show there was a bunch of shovelware that nobody cares to remember like Melody of Oblivion, Princess Yucie or This Ugly yet Beautiful World.
>Even the most obscure Gainax shows tend to have some substance
Please, tell me about all the substance of He Is May Master.
>Verification not required
William Rogers
>Kill la Kill was a disappointing pastiche of Imaishi's previous anime
Sounds like TTGL.
Jonathan Parker
>Gridman and Promare were some of the best anime of the last few years.
lol
lmao
Aaron Morales
There's more Dead Leaves in KLK than TTGL by quite a long shot.
More Dead Leaves in PSG too.
Kayden Peterson
What are your favourites original TV show and movie of the last 5 years?
Joshua Edwards
Karekano.
Carson Miller
Darling in the Franxx killed their self confidence and I don't blame them.
Zachary Edwards
gunbuster was pretty cool
Jayden Peterson
Certainly not stylistically, KLK leans more towards Dezaki than Kanada and PSG is of course cartoons styled. They're more crass than TTGL but that's it. Point is that claiming than KLK is "pastiche" of Imaishi's previous works but TTGL somehow isn't it's idiotic, especially when you have stuff like the climax of the series LITERALLY lifted from his Abenobashi episode.
Carson Hall
>but every Trigger production just feels like a quirky animation showcase written by a teenager.
thats what teens want and you're not a teen any more so you're no longer in their target demographic
Luke Clark
KLK doesn't lean toward Dezaki in its actual animation direction almost at all. The art direction surrounding the academy, its aping more from Utena which is Shichiro Kobayashi and while he is associated with some of Dezaki's works the guy was prolific in his own right.
I don't know why you'd hand wave away PSG being "cartoony" as somehow dissociating it from Imaishi or Dead Leaves, since cartoony shit like smears are one of his hallmarks.
As for me calling it pastiche, it's because KLK is far too conscious of TTGL being their big success story. Every step of the way its in its shadow, never it's own thing. Pastiche.
Jordan Flores
Layouts, layers manipulation and overabundance of postcards are all Dezaki inspired, much more than anything in TTGL, while Dead Leaves is an explosion of Kanada school with little else in the way. You also seem to commit the usual mistake of associating Kanada with cartoons which couldn't be any farther from the truth, while PSG looks at cartoons for much more than its animation, like the characteristic flatness of the layouts, vector motion, recycle of assets etc.
>As for me calling it pastiche, it's because KLK is far too conscious of TTGL being their big success story. Every step of the way its in its shadow, never it's own thing. Pastiche
TTGL is the textbook definition of pastiche. There's nothing in it that wasn't made in the shadow of another Gainax anime, mainly Diebuster and Gunbuster, but Nadia, Eva and all the others too. And if we bring in Getter Robo and all the others robot anime that explicitly inspired it we can say there's nothing original in it altogether.
Christian Ortiz
Post-2011 Gainax shows are unironically better than today's Trigger.
Jason Bennett
They blew their whole load with LWA, even got more of it crowdfunded by the west, it was their best show, but they just didn't know what to do after that. And no one in the studio had any good ideas.
Luke Long
what happened is they didn't do a season 2 of Kill la Kill or another season of Little Witch Academia.
but still, be glad they're one of the rare studios that still do anime originals.
Henry Rodriguez
>Wtf
>lol
>lmao
Luke Hill
>mid 2010s
stop using this term