no point
I'll be honest, I went into this expecting the worst most overrated trash imaginable, but you did prove me wrong, so I give you credit there. The effort put into this collab is pretty apparent and it has its great moments. You get most of your points by disproving my expectations. However, there are quite a few big problems with this collab that make it mediocre in my eyes. Allow me to explain.
Graphics - They were decent as a whole, but they were inconsistent. Some of the parts were truly excellent. I have to hand it to Astropuff and Ginilla, because they did a great job and are pretty clearly the most talented animators in the collab. As much as I dislike anime, I really enjoyed those guys' parts. However, there were some parts that were just downright awful as well. Horrible, sloppy, awkward and didn't fit the collab. When you have parts like that and you spend 8 MONTHS on a collab, the collab leader really needs to do some quality control. However I have a hell of a lot more respect for the people who made sloppy low quality parts then I do for those who simply traced the characters from their favorite anime and passed it off as their own work. It is a crock of shit that these artists should get to bask in the success of the collab when they didn't even do their own work. Another case where the collab leader should have stepped in.
Style - my least favorite part of the collab. I've always disliked anime because I find its a cliche, overused and unoriginal genre. I find most anime is gut-wrenchingly painful to watch and utterly stupid, but I realize not all animes are that way. Still, when I see an anime with a compelling storyline or one that required an immense amount of talent to make, I find myself thinking "why couldn't the authors have made this in their own style instead of using the same damn style everyone else is using? Or why not just make it as realistic as possible, without the big eyes and crazy multicolored hair?" I've still never had that question answered adequately. Essentially, this collab is a tribute to all that I dislike. For that, I couldn't give you anything more than a 1 in that department. The 1 point is only because the talent of several animators was able to show through the tired style, IMO.
Sound - Really sappy music. It fit the anime style which is why I didn't enjoy it much. WOW MAN RIPPIN ELECTRIC GUITAR WHOA
Violence - Wasn't a big fan of the violence. It was well done at points but mostly was just the same old anime violence I've seen a hundred times before.
Interactivity - It was mildly interesting to read the authors' bios.
Humor - Very very very little humor, clearly not what you were going for though.
Overall - The whole collab felt like an introduction to a show or something. It has no point, the parts are just slapped together making an unattractive collage of good and horrible. It doesn't feel like it has a good rhythm to it, and the parts dont flow very well at all from one to the other. Its as if the only guidelines for the collab were "make a super cool awesome anime flash with a fight scene!" I think adding more of a theme to the collab would've improved it a lot. OR a better theme. Anime has been done to death and I'd really love to see the exceptional talent of some of the artists to go to better use. My two cents.
