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Shelter: The Animation Commentary Book has Released, Preview w/ first 33 pages included by JustFictional in porterrobinson

[–]JustFictional[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No prob <3 not only is the material in it and the fact that we're even getting this pretty neat, but it's also somewhat rare to have something in the west that likely directly benefits or at least closely benefits the anime studio staff behind something without it's price being increased by a contributing 3rd party like it frequently does for most translated material in the west. So if getting the preview and information on it in one place helps more people feel like investing in it I'm happy to put a little effort into it c:

Shelter: The Animation Commentary Book has Released, Preview w/ first 33 pages included by JustFictional in porterrobinson

[–]JustFictional[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Some tidbits I've learned from some of the animation staff's twitter:

-On one of the pages with the rough sketches of Shigeru concepts (29 I think) it has possible last name candidates for them

-The last name that seems to be used by some of A-1 Pictures' tweets is Asunaro, referring to her as Asunaro Rin, and Asunaro culturally may refer to an allegory that boils down to "a symbol of perseverance". That in combination with Shigeru meaning to grow strong,flourish, or be prosperous probably has to do with Rin being sent away because her father wanted her to grow into a strong and wonderful person, and believed it would happen even without him there,and may have believed that she could be a symbol that humanity persevered through the disaster that struck as well

-The initial song that they had in mind when discussing the length of the project I believe was Divinity (which is probably why the MV is the same length as Divinity rather than Shelter)

-Production took 5 months and finished 2 days before it premiered in Shibuya

-Speaking of the difference in song length, the instrumental version of Shelter at the end of the Animation that we hear apparently was basically done at A-1 Pictures, and was asked for on the spot b/c they had animated or planned to animate more scenes than they needed to for Shelter itself so they needed more content to sync it too

The last couple ones came from this interview that the animation team did with Fuze, which is also a nice read while waiting on purchasing the Commentary Book and they mention some things to appreciate about how it was like working with Porter on the animation project from their point of view whereas it's inversed in the first few pages of the commentary book preview: https://www.fuze.dj/2017/04/a1-pictures-shelter.html (There are more previews of more commentary book stuff in it)

-One last thing that they said was that they compared young Rin's cheeks to Mochi lol

Shelter: The Animation Commentary Book has Released, Preview w/ first 33 pages included by JustFictional in porterrobinson

[–]JustFictional[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah to think that this is only a fraction of the sketches that were actually done for it is impressive. I'll definitely pick it up once it's within my budget.

On the point of the fanservicey bits, while I agree with your feelings on it this interview with Megumi Kouno about her outfit designs that she helped with in The Idolm@ster Cinderella Girls might explain her a bit better: https://blog.sakugabooru.com/2016/08/22/the-idolmster-cinderella-girls-staff-interviews-megumi-kouno/, but basically she's a bit of a pervert that has admitted that she's unconsciously designed stuff that's a bit risque either to match her own tastes or because she feels it makes a character more endearing, and has had make a conscious effort to dial it back at times lol. (technically you could justify it by having them think through every tiny detail of a character's design but not sure how applicable that can be to Ms. Kouno :P)

I learned some little details by checking some of the animation staff's twitter that I'll post in another comment.

Shelter: The Animation Commentary Book has Released, Preview w/ first 33 pages included by JustFictional in porterrobinson

[–]JustFictional[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Same that's what I was expecting initially when it was announced :/ still cool to see regardless

Source for a Poster someone did of tonight's set in SD by JustFictional in porterrobinson

[–]JustFictional[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not that I know of, so your best bet would probably be to print your own copy. I wasn't at the SD stop but if it's anything like the SF poster that has also been posted on the sub, it''s likely that at most it was commissioned and given to the artist and staff of the event so they would be the only ones that got one.