Is Hiroshi Hamasaki the most underrated anime director? I never see him get credited for making 2 very good classics, and they hardly get mentioned together.
It's quite interesting watching S:G0 after and feeling just how much his prescense as the director is missed in that show. The oppressive atmosphere he brought to that adaptation of the first VN makes it one of the best VN adaptations alone. It really sells that feeling of them constantly being watched even better than the VN had.
>>288463681With those two I'd put him above Tomino and Kon.
Didn't he also to an AoT episode or two?
>>288463681>2 boring showsHe's exactly as renowned as he deserves to be.
>>288463785Tomino hasn't made anything decent in decades.
>>288463681Is Texhnolyze worth watching? Is it better or worse than S;G?
>>288463881It's one of my favorite shows. The first episode in haunting. I didn't care for Steins;Gate at all.
>>288463681I'd put him high tier, though not quite at the top with most of the truly renowned directors
>>288463881Totally worth the watch, arguably better than steins
>>288463881>spoilerIt doesn't even come close to SG in quality. It's more of a cult hit than anything else.
>>288463681he completely ruined his legacy with the awful Blade of the Immortal remake
>>288463681So does he exclusively do slow paced episodes and anime or what
>>288463681Nobody knows who that is. Im 100% sure he doesn't want annoying faggots like you to bother him either.
>>288463681Both of those anime are incredibly poorly paced and overly static in their direction. Even the SnK episode he directed had the same issue.
>>288463681>they hardly get mentioned together.Steins Gate is for normalfaggots and Tex is for pretentious fags, of course they are not mentioned in the same sentence
>>288463681Never heard of him even after watching anime for decades.
>>288463681He's based for Texh at least, S;G kind of sucked but oh well.
>>288463681He's a great director but moreso underrated as an animator. He was Yoshiaki Kawajiri's right hand man for a lot of his movies and also he basically solo animated the climax to Metropolis which is pretty cool.
>>288464333Understandable but you can see how distinctive he is after seeing what he worked on, no?
>>288463785Kon's filmography mogs him if the anime in the OP are the best that he has.
>>288463720I think the VN still captures that feeling and atmosphere of paranoia better.
>>288463785Kon is way better, crazy take
>>288463681I couldn't get past episode 5 of Texhnolyze. The constant panting and breathing filtered me.
>>288463681Neither of those are popular enough for him to become a big name.
>>288463881Yes, it's a way better anime than S;G in my opinion.
>>288463681If he's so good, where are the naked children? Any anime without pedophilia is complete onions garbage.
>>288465359S;G was hugely popular.
>>288463681No wonder the Steins;Gate anime was so much better than the VN.
>>288463720>S:G0One of the worst adaptations I've ever seen, it was obvious they had zero budget. The scene where Suzuha's mother dies was laughable because of how badly animated it was.
>>288466003Even writing wise S;G 0 is a big mess. I can't help but think that was the point of the series' decline.
>>288463785Same.
>>288464320Yes and the last four episodes in particular are god-tier. Ignore the people who slap the "pretentious" label on it, they're brown MALtards who are too embarrassed to admit that they don't have the temperament to enjoy something slow and atmospheric.
>>288466422Meant for >>288463881lmao
>>288466422>and the last four episodes in particular are god-tierYou're doing a better job of describing SG than Texhnolyze.
>>288463681>Hiroshi HamasakiWho?
>>288463681Just from those two anime I know he's a hack.
>>288466422>enjoy something slow and atmospheric.I dunno man, people use the same argument for games>just play through the bad parts to get to the goodWhy not just be honest and admit that the first half of Texhnolyze is horribly paced and that the hamfisted attempt of "show not tell" storytelling came off as incredibly pretentious?
>>288463681He also directed the Shigurui anime which although incomplete was also very competent and his style was again evident.>>288467067Nta bu anyone who uses pretentious as criticism of any media can easily be dismessed as a young underage brown retard
>>288466003Kurisu my wife
>>288463881Texhnolyze isn't similar to Steins;Gate at all to compare them..It probably has the greatest atmosphere in any anime I've ever seen and it's one of the most nihilistic and bleakest pieces of media I've ever watched.
none of you are pure. all of you are arguing in bad faith
>>288463681I still haven't watched tex
>>288463681Steins;Gate is genuine garbage, not something to be lauded for.
>>288467885Well I like both, but I like S:G a bit more, but I'm also an huge ABe fan, I still think that Lain and Haibane are better than tex
>>288463814Yes but iirc it was one of the Final Season slop ones
>>288463681lol I hate both of these shows. I had no idea they were from the same guy
>>288464198Yes.
>>288463681I dropped Steins;Gate back when I tried watching it, not impressed with it or his style.
>>288463681Weird, I never would've associated these 2 anime with each other.
>>288463681Both are vastly superior to the entirety of anime output this decade
>>288470274Low bar
>>288470274Frieren is better than both and I'm not being ironic.
>>288463681Replace Steins Gate with Shigurui. Steins Hate is just pretentious haremshit
>>288463681Texhnolyze is garbage and Steins Gate is a meme. This dude is genuinely a shitter that looked like an amateur film student when directing Tex and you're a tard that most likely has never even heard of half the greats of the old guard which were overshadowed by the big names everyone knows.
>>288463881It's shit just like S;G.
>>288466422There are plenty of great slow and atmospheric anime. Texhnolyze is just not one of them, it's fucking awful in comparison to something like Night on the Galactic Railroad.Also pretentiousness exists and it's a much less retarded to call it out as criticism than calling someone brown.
>>288467322For me it's Mayuri
>>288463681Hiroshi Hamasaki only co-directed S;G. A more appropriate example would be Shigurui, that one has the exact same feel as Texh.
>>288472081Yeah but I doubt it was the guy that would go on to direct Rerided that was responsible for all the interesting stylistic choices in S;G. You can tell all of Hamasaki's trademarks from a mile away
>>288463881It is better than that lowbrow normalfag slop, yes.
>>288471271>and I'm not being ironicYou ought to be though.
>>288463681I'm being generous when I say that both of those series are mediocre.
>entire thread bar the very first reply is just posts giving their drive-by opinions without elaborating and then moving onUtterly useless thread. /a/ is so shit nowadays.
>>2884730754chan in general has become by and large worthless ever since the /v/ermin rot took hold. Now no one has any opinions on anything, no thoughts, no beliefs, no nothing. It's just a cesspool of straw contrarians trying to get each other mad and vice signaling to appear tough and """based"""
>>288473075Give us your elaborated opinion then
>>288473075Well that's because the average poster here is a layman. It's always been like that but even more so these days. Hardly anyone that posts here is knowledgeable enough about directing in anime or animation in general to have a well thought out discussion so you just get endless "nah its shit" "nah its good" "nah its mediocre" posts. No point on trying to press them because they won't be able to give you anything interesting to work with.
>>288473075You could fix this by contributing yourself. I doubt you will though.
I dropped Steins;Gate in 6 episodes. I think the only thing I liked about it was the science aesthetic but it only had pretentions of being about anything sciencey.
>>288473075That's what you get with a retarded OP.
God , Steins haters on this board genuinely need to be killed Not even being ironic or whatever. You're all extremely fucking stupid. Also, nobody asked
You don't appear intelligent for shit talking highly rated stuff.. especially with the low brow way you speak when you """criticize""" it
>>288463681>they hardly get mentioned together.The reason why is because most people only have the capacity to understand the plot of something and nothing further. Watching even the first few minutes of the first episode of S;G (which I'm pretty sure he storyboarded/episode directed) you are hit over the head with so many Hamasaki directorial trademarks like the extremely harsh white lighting to convey an oppressive atmosphere, I'm pretty sure there's even a dragonfly in there which he loves to put in everything he works on for some reason. If you had seen Texhnolyze before watching S;G and weren't able to instantly connect that it's the same director that just shows how little someone pays attention to the visual part of this audio-visual medium. It's a shame but that's how most people are.
>>288473966Highly rated... by teens online? Woah
>>288473483Sorry but when your main character is wearing a labcoat I kind of expected him to be a bit more than just a drooling retard.
>>288463881Incomparable. No Akihabara weeb stuff, no waifus, no love story. Just pure fucking death.
so all the characters were trying to stave off extinction in their own ways? What was Yoshii trying to accomplish exactly?
>>288474926You're a fucking dumbass.
>>288475386There's two solid interpretations. You could either see him as this savior coming down with the goal of preventing the people of lukuss from stagnant like the theonormals had become which in itself is a type of extinction. From his perspective the oregano and class were leading people to that stagnation.Or you could see him in a more selfish light growing sick of the boredom he experienced on the surface and wanting to experience a spectacle for himself using the previous more virtuous reasoning as an excuse. The show doesnt really spell out which it is, I always leant more towards the former but there is a lot of support for the reading of the latter. It could also be a mix of both.
>>288473483So am I supposed to force myself to like Steins;Gate just because you say so? I genuinely gave the show 3 chances because of posters like you and each attempt only frustrated me more.
>>288473075Why is everyone itt acting like he's the main writer for these shows is what I'm thinking
>>288476025Because the subhumans see steins and feel the need to give their unsolicited opinion that nobody on earth respects
Why have there been so many S;G threads lately?
>>288476082Tourists
>>288463681>Reddit;Gate
>>288476462>Tourist that will never belong on /a/
>>288474926>chūni dipshit walks around larping as a scientist>retard is confused that he's also retarded
S;G 0 was really bad, hopefully he wasn't also on that one.
>>288463681Judging by this thread he's extremely overrated because good directors don't get more than 12 replies
>>288463881Texh is slow paced but good. You should give it a shot.
>>288463681Neither of those shows have good direction, otherwise there wouldn't be so many people talking about dropping those anime early on.
>>288463881You have to be patient with texhnolyze but it's worth it. far superior to steins which is just another time travel slop.
>>288463681>the most overrated director never gets any creditthe fuck
>>288463881The more you get tired of generic isekai #12438, boring romcom #32615, & redundant battle shonen #74027, the more you can appreciate Tex.
>>288463681No, because Steins Gate sucks
>>288463681Both sucks, both overrated, both flop
>>288466169Zero gave us the best SG girl so I forgive the writing being a mess
>>288480211Fuck, he's so ugly icant
>>288476082discord tourists and people that are still butthurt madoka was a better 2011 anime
>>288480124This
>newfags seething about a chinese cartoon they've never seen/v/ is leaking again
>>288481859S;G could've been genuinely enjoyable if the characters weren't rancid dogshit. As it is now the story is just a frustrating mess.
>>288463881It's an utter masterpiece if you like entire episodes of guys falling down stairs and getting prostituted to their dad. Yoshii is also very moe.
>>288463681Cool connection I guess, I didn't know a director was associated with both of those shows.
>>288480211Maho is pretty good, i just wish the rest of the story was better. I don't know what they were thinking with half of the subplots they tried to set up.
>>288463681Nobody's ever heard of him so sure he's probably underrated a bit. Wouldn't put him among the greats though.
