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This was really cute albeit a bit generic. The teasing dynamic has been done quite a lot now so it’s gonna take some extra oomph to make this one stand out. I’ll give it a couple more episodes but even as a slice of life connoisseur I wasn’t really feeling episode 1.
Is it just me, or is that “cinematic” postprocessing effect more intense now? It feels “shakier” than S1 and I was kind of hoping that they would only use it during sidestory episodes…
I didn’t remember it being like this either, but I rewatched season 1 before this and the effect has been there since the very first episode. At least in the blu-ray release. It’s possible it wasn’t originally there in the TV release but now that they’ve added it they’re sticking with it.
That’s quite a wait but if Studio Bind keeps up the quality it is worth waiting for.
Also eventually we will (if not already) be able to generate brand new fake people anyway, so they won’t even need the extras. Obviously that won’t work for the actual main cast, but for background actors it makes sense. Crowds and far away people have already been done in CGI for over a decade now.
Even the highest quality anime isn’t very complex compared to any live-action footage so it compresses incredibly well. The better groups also use vapoursynth filters to fix errors on the blu-rays like bad anti-aliasing and banding. So the best encodes will actually look better than a remux which is never going to happen with live-action.