Thirty Days of Anime -- Day 22: Animation Studio you'd Most Like to Slap

[seawasp]

I need to catch up with these. So much time, so little to do -- wait a minute. Strike that. Reverse it.

No cut for this one, my answer's too quick.

I suppose I'd like to slap ALL of them for promoting certain habits/tropes that really annoy both me and Kathy, but that's not the question.

If I have to choose one, It's gotta be Gainax, for Evangelion. All of the studios have done something I don't like, but Eva's the giant dysfunctional thousand-pound gorilla in that room.



The List:
Day 1 - Very first anime:Saint Seiya
Day 2 - Favourite TV series: : The Vision of Escaflowne
Day 3 - Your anime crush: Belldandy, from Ah! Megamisama/Ah/Oh My Goddess! and Shun from Saint Seiya
Day 4 - Favourite Film: Tonari no Totoro/ My Neighbor Totoro
Day 5 - Anime character you feel you are most like (or wish you were): Shikamaru from Naruto Shippuden
Day 6 - Most annoying anime character: Mihoshi, Tenchi Muyo!
Day 7 - Character you’d most like to slap: Sasuke, Naruto Shippuden
Day 8 - Most epic scene ever: End battle of YuuYuu Hakusho: The Poltergeist Report Movie
Day 9 - Saddest anime scene: Belldandy erasing herself from Keiichi's life in Ah! Megamisama/Ah/Oh My Goddess!
Day 10 - Favorite slice of life anime: Koko wa Greenwood
Day 11 - Favorite mech series: Giant Robo: The Day The Earth Stood Still
Day 12 - Best instalment of a franchise you don’t like: Nihao My Concubine
Day 13 - Worst instalment of a franchise you do like. Dragonball GT
Day 14 - Current (or most recent) anime wallpaper: Picture of Son Goku with Shen-Long done by my wife Kathleen
Day 15 - A reality check for a genre you like : Power-warrior anime and internal sanity/consistency!
Day 16 - An anime classic that simply doesn’t work for you: Neon Genesis Evanjellydonut... er, Televangelist...er, Evangelion
Day 17 - Best Background Music: Giant Robo: The Day The Earth Stood Still
Day 18 - Best Five-team: Yoroiden Samurai Troopers/Ronin Warriors (no link, too expensive)
Day 19 - Change you’d like to make to any one anime: Specific Change: Eliminate one nasty action from the history of Juraia-sama in Naruto/Naruto Shippuden. General Change: Eliminate the Saiyajin focus and expand capabilities and screen time for all major characters in Dragonball Z.  
Day 20 - Most ambiguous anime character: Selected Maraich and Patalliro, from Patalliro!
Day 21 – Favourite OAV Series : Except for two I've already mentioned, Bastard!!
Day 22 - Animation studio you'd most like to slap: Gainax, for Neon Genesis Evanjellydonut...er, Evangelion
Day 23 - Anime you think had the best, or most intriguing art
Day 24 - Favorite anime hero or heroine
Day 25 - Best anime villain
Day 26 - Your favorite harem anime
Day 27 - Favorite anime opening theme song
Day 28 - Favorite anime companion/summoned creature
Day 29 - Best Anime Music Video
Day 30 - Favorite anime ending theme

Comments

[xander-opal.livejournal.com]

Being a big fan of Mechwarrior/Battletech, the studio I'd most like to slap, with a bat, is Harmony Gold, owner of the Robotech stuff.

[arcadiagt5.livejournal.com]

SNAP! :)

Although rdmasters will probably chime in shortly with a slightly more... energetic suggestion for dealing with GAINAX. :)

[arcadiagt5.livejournal.com]

I don't think that is entirely fair.

The original SDF Macross anime (the Japanese version) was released in 1982 which predated Battletech by approximately 2 years.

And as far as I know the Macross mecha were designed for the show by Shoji Kawamori, and the page for the VF-1 indicates that the release of the first 1/55 model in 1983 also predated the release of Battletech.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VF-1_Valkyrie

[xander-opal.livejournal.com]

It isn't the Veritech fighters that are the issue, it is several others-- the one that comes to mind is whatever likeness the Warhammer from Battletech resembles.

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

I'm not an anime fan (although I enjoy it when I watch it). Usually, you can follow something of an episode even when you don't actually watch the series.

I've never seen more than a few eps of Evangelion and none of those made the slightest bit of sense whatsoever.

[arcadiagt5.livejournal.com]

Probably the Tomahawk, which appeared on screen in Macross no later than episode 6. This puts it in 1982.

The Zentraedi officers pod (aka the Marauder) appeared no later than episode 7.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Super_Dimension_Fortress_Macross_episodes

[rdmasters.livejournal.com]

Ah, a cue.

Very well, I will oblige.

As I said to arcadiagt5, there is nothing wrong with Gainax that cannot be solved with the application of near-c impactors. Lots of them. Repeatedly. Down to bedrock. And then do it again, just to be sure.

[arcadiagt5.livejournal.com]

Grins. Gotta say that that line just isn't getting old. :)