Last night at Gavs house we watched probably one of the worst animes i've seen ever and i was desperate to talk about it on my blog so what i thought i'd do is run through why this animation is such a travesty with the knowledge i have so far as an animator.
The first thing that we're hit with is an intro song which seems too good for the quality of the rest of it, according to Gav it is a song from a Japanese fighting videogame however i couldn't back this statement up with any evidence. Once the intro is over we hear the voice acting which is riddled with peaking puffing and popping, most likely due to a low quality microphone, furthermore the volume levels of each of the characters are extremely different which can be extremely jarring during a dialogue between two characters. The language of the characters is beyond belief, all of the characters' speech is spoken with some kind of fake accent that doesn't seem to similar to any real life accent, though the badly pronounced occasional Japanese word hints that it may be an attempt at a Japanese accent. The final outro seems to be a mix of all of the issues i have already listed with some badly played musical instruments thrown in too.
The animated quality consists of only key frames with a slightly altered duplicate to attempt to give a sense of realism to the characters as no real person is completely still, however there is nothing else, with some shots consisting of only one frame at a time, i would talk about how the creators uses the 12 principles however it seems that they've all been ignored for the most part.
The art of Nyan~ Neko Sugar Girls is extremely terrible, all of the characters faces and bodies are extremely badly proportioned with the volume of different parts of the characters seeming to change from shot to shot. The bodies of the characters mostly consist of rectangles, with two large balloon like objects for breasts on one of the characters. All of the drawing and colouring seems to have been done in MS Paint with very clear issues that happen with working with MS paint, like some pixels not being properly coloured because the colour is only a few points away from being pure white, and a very difficult to work with colour pallet. There is no shading apart from a large dark shadow under the breasts of the girls which seems not to follow traditional lighting rules, hinting at the possibility of this anime existing in a dimension where the laws of physics are not the same as our own.
The story line is very difficult to follow, mostly because the voice acting quality is so terrible, but after looking up the plot on google it seems i didn't really miss much. The plot consists of two cat girls named Raku-Chan and Koneko-Chan who hang out with a guy named Hitoshi-San. Hitoshi gets kidnapped by a man who plans to rape him (Hitoshi later begins to have feelings for his kidnapper which makes me feel uncomfortable as it trivialises rape). He gets saved by the girls but Then Raku gets bitten by a squirrel, and everyone thinks she gets rabies, but actually a "neko demon" is inserted into her body.
Overall this anime is a mess, but it's a lot of fun to watch when drunk and is a very good pick me up when we are beating ourselves up about our own work. At least we will never create something as bad as Nyan~ Neko Sugar Girls.
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