Kurokami the Animation

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Kurokami the Animation

Postby angelx03 » Sat Jan 10, 2009 11:11 am

Kurokami the Animation

This Sunrise series is based on a manga done by Korean artists who has done manwha before (most notably Unbalance x Unbalance). Interesting thing to note that it's already licensed by Bandai Entertainment, and they made great strides to do a simultaneous English dub broadcast (courtesy of NYAV Post) of this around the same time as the Japanese (well almost). So what that means is that the peeps of NYAV Post were working on the voice-over based on a bunch of rough sketches so it's up to Sunrise to actually animate their mouth-movement; this is how most voice-overs in cartoons are produced, and the English dubbers have the opportunity to do this so any complaints about shoddy script changes due to lip-flaps have now became MOOT! :o

Also for anyone who actually has the channel iaTV, you can check it out every Thursday at 8 PM Eastern/Pacific.

Now for the first episode, this actually a rather intriguing premise (which you can read the synopsis on ANN) which built a good amount of mystery though there's quite of bit of angst surrounding Keita throughout most of the first episode. Well, if you have the premise of ....
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your mom getting killed just because she saw her own copy, her fate has been totally sealed. Same near the end the of the episode of the little girl.....damn! :cry:


Kuro is the red-headed hot chick who fights with hand-to-hand combat, has obsession with ramen, and voiced cutely by Laura Bailey. I give props to Sunrise for making her fight scenes damn fluid and being utterly brutal; the impacts of her punches looks like it really does hurt and not to mention the moments she got hurt! :shock:
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Re: Kurokami the Animation

Postby Pas » Sat Jan 10, 2009 6:15 pm

I read the manage a while back and found the concept interesting, but I did think the main characters were slightly overpowered after seeing their first fight. It almost seemed like the generic "I'm gonna take a huge beating and get the crap kicked out of me before I kick your ass" type of thing.

Still, there's a whole lot of potential for this series, and considering I only read the first few chapters from the manga I am interested to see where they're headed with it.
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Re: Kurokami the Animation

Postby ScorpionP » Sat Jan 10, 2009 7:55 pm

The first ep really got me interested, especially the end of it =O
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Re: Kurokami the Animation

Postby Ishbalan » Sun Jan 11, 2009 12:12 am

Sure I'll check it out.
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Re: Kurokami the Animation

Postby LeapofFate » Sun Jan 11, 2009 12:59 am

I love the manga.

Sunrise better not disappoint me.
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Re: Kurokami the Animation

Postby LeapofFate » Mon Jan 12, 2009 1:54 am

LeapofFate wrote:I love the manga.

Sunrise better not disappoint me.


There really needs to be an edit button.

Anyways, I saw the first episode.
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I loved the animation and the fighting scenes.

What completely ruined the anime for me was that they through the original plot out the window.

They changed Keita from a 20 year old adult to a teenager.

Adding new characters [that was killed off].. Showing Keita's mother's doppelganger (doppleliner) at the train. [never happened in the manga]


I'll watch this, but it will never be as good as the manga.

This is another kick in the balls when I first watched Ga-Rei Zero. |:
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Re: Kurokami the Animation

Postby LeapofFate » Mon Jan 12, 2009 1:55 am

LeapofFate wrote:
LeapofFate wrote:I love the manga.

Sunrise better not disappoint me.


There really needs to be an edit button.

Anyways, I saw the first episode.
Spoiler :
I loved the animation and the fighting scenes.

What completely ruined the anime for me was that they through the original plot out the window.

They changed Keita from a 20 year old adult to a teenager.

Adding new characters [that was killed off].. Showing Keita's mother's doppelganger (doppleliner) at the train. [never happened in the manga]


I'll watch this, but it will never be as good as the manga.

This is like getting kick in the balls. I had this same feeling when I saw Ga-Rei Zero
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Re: Kurokami the Animation

Postby Ishbalan » Mon Jan 12, 2009 7:24 am

LeapofFate wrote:
LeapofFate wrote:
Spoiler :
I loved the animation and the fighting scenes.

What completely ruined the anime for me was that they through the original plot out the window.

They changed Keita from a 20 year old adult to a teenager.

Adding new characters [that was killed off].. Showing Keita's mother's doppelganger (doppleliner) at the train. [never happened in the manga]


I'll watch this, but it will never be as good as the manga.

This is like getting kick in the balls. I had this same feeling when I saw Ga-Rei Zero

I got incredibly confused when reading the synopsis of the show after watching the first episode. I couldn't remember anyone losing an arm.
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Re: Kurokami the Animation

Postby LeapofFate » Mon Jan 12, 2009 6:55 pm

Ishbalan wrote:
I got incredibly confused when reading the synopsis of the show after watching the first episode. I couldn't remember anyone losing an arm.


It will probably happen in episode 2 or 3.

Though, it happened straight in the 1st chapter of the manga. :roll:

What is also funny, it should of happened in the same fight that occurred in the first episode.
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Re: Kurokami the Animation

Postby chosef » Wed Jan 14, 2009 6:30 pm

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More like call the cleaning company.
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Re: Kurokami the Animation

Postby chosef » Wed Jan 14, 2009 6:34 pm

Nice paste I did there. Sorry about that.
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Re: Kurokami the Animation

Postby OmniStrata » Thu Jan 15, 2009 11:14 am

I thought Kuro's hair was pretty much black, as is her name...

Black God. I got that manwha [or is it manga? it is Japanese published] ^_^

I'M LOVIN' the fight scenes. Not a single recycled cell of footage 0_0 Very nice and painful to watch.

Note: this is Sunrise we're talking about. They're like one of the two best animators of a great fight scene. The other being JC Staff in my opinion.

Here's hoping for some good stuffs. And yes, I bought the manga domestically and I didn't recognize the first ep at all... Only that Kuro was so huggably cute ^_^
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Re: Kurokami the Animation

Postby OmniStrata » Fri Jan 16, 2009 10:56 am

saw the dub, it r0x. now if only unbalance^2 were animated... :shock:
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Re: Kurokami the Animation

Postby angelx03 » Sat Jan 17, 2009 12:56 am

Episode 2!

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A new baddie appeared and did one hell of a number against Kuro! Keita made his lame attempt to call the police, but his phone got knocked away and got killed. :shock:

So then Kuro retreated for now and created a pact with him in order to revive him. And together they were able to beat him!


Mmmm, cabbage. Yeah, I think I'll stick with this one. 8-)
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Re: Kurokami the Animation

Postby hayao » Fri Jan 23, 2009 2:23 am

so far its off to a good start. prob. wont be as good as the manga... but so far its holding my attention. The Episodes need to come out faster though GAAAH
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