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Reviews for "Koden X Prologue Part 1"

Pretty, but lacking in storytelling

I'm going to start off by saying that I love the animation in this. It flows well, and the camera shots and landscapes are really nice. I would say you need to do some work on character drawing, as some of your people are out of proportion and sometimes their movement wasn't very natural. But otherwise, great job.

One thing that bothered me was the script - I thought it was badly written, a sort of vague attempt at copying well known brilliant animes (such as Ghibli's works), but it was done wrong. The conversations were awkward and not very well done, and because of the lack of proper character development I didn't believe it. Not quite sure about the voice acting either.

I have to say the thieves were better protagonists, so I'm not sure what you were doing there...

All in all, It was a really nice start to a series, and it's clear you put a lot of effort into it, but you must must must work on your story telling.

7/10

-CC

i was impressed and unimpressed

i can really tell you how much potential this has

lets start with this GREAT animation and use of the bonetool (7 pts) but it was like watching a music video almost
seeing as this is your first episode you could have made it a LOT more distinct plot wise
like-
whats there purpose? what are they fighting for?
or where are they going?

you could have put alot more into this movie had you put in the time

too much fan-service

I belive you meant to create something epic. In some dimensions, this movie kicks ass, but the thing most important, the story, the meaning went to fan-service dragonball shit.

Look, animation is fucking great, drawings were decent, sure you had to put much much effort in special effects, such as reflections, smokes, wind. I felt the atmosphere of awesomness. Also, you for sure must worked yourself big time on animating stuff. Later on, in girl and bed scene, it went to shit. Room design was shitty, and you see that rooms in every fucking anime. You could design some more claustrophobic interior, imitate more dusty atmosphere.

I'm not gonna stomp on your chara design, cuz everyone have their own. I didn't however, liked it. The girl eyes were too much anime for my taste. It made her face very flat and 2d. When drawing static panels such as girl looking, or talking without spinning her head, try to put some more effort, beacuse she looked crappy. Also I see some other artist influence in man designs, but whatever, at least they looked better than the bitch.

Sound went really good though, I apprecieate, that you've been through this big effort to have your wery own music credits, and that's great for sure. Sounds quality and variety was also very decent, so here you earned big plus.

Voice acting was quite good, but you guys and girls must work on intonation and make your voices more convincing. But it was g00d.

And everything leads to storyline.

Nice thing for you to have such great prelude. To develop few petty thieves characters, lead them into the essence of GAYNESS (only one girl in this very movie, plus very underdeveloped and repetetive character, dumb fanservice bitch), then *POOF* you fucking kill them all to make killer intro to your super-vegeta character.

And look, he wakes up! He's so fucking awesome that his hair stays always the same, even if he lied few days in bed, propably in agony.

If you must build some dumb-ass funny jokes and "hilarious" situations, do it with some style, otherwise don't do this at all. Just to help the watcher avoid akward, stupid and totally unrealistic pepole behaviors, who all just act like like sociopats, unable to build normal, dull and making sense conversation.

-"i didn't realize I had a bunch of girls on this trip."
Please man. It's actually sad, beacuse you desperately needed at least one girl ther. Beacuse it was a gay trip.

Generally it's very good, you need to continue your work. But please, next time, making an movie, consider what I have wrote here.

3/5 7/10

ok i guess...

Great sound quality but needs more work on the graphics

well...

there was a ton of perspective issues with the human characters and i didn't enjoy the rotoscoping because it made the entire film look very fake.