#we’re doing some real the curtains arent just blue shit here so keep up

[s0fter-sin]

i’ve stopped expecting interesting animation from bones. the star and stripe fight is cool but like every other fight/moment in mha, it’s only cool bc the source material itself is cool; bones does nothing to elevate the manga

they rarely try to experiment with colour and style. i saw so many colourings of the moment star and stripe made a giant version of herself out of the air; people made her look like a cosmos, like it reflected and bent the sky around her, doing so many inventive things and for the anime to just make her an outline against that godforsaken sky? i’m disappointed

but people will take me saying i’m disappointed and spin it to me saying the fight was bad. it wasn’t, just like most fights and moments in the anime aren’t bad but that’s all bc horikoshi knows how to draw. they never do anything beyond that; they never try and adapt it. whether it’s bc of time, direction, budget, or what have you, they will never do something truly inventive with their colouring

i’ve said this before and i’ll say it again, it’s not just that the sky is blue; it’s what the blue sky represents and that is an unwillingness to broaden their colour palette or atmosphere to support the changes in the tone of the story. the story isn’t just “will midoriya get into his dream high school and achieve his dream job?” it’s child abuse and societal systems and their dysfunctions, it’s racism and morality and is it right to try and save someone who’s determined to destroy the world just bc they are also a victim?

look at the finale of atla, a show that mirrors the narrative tone of mha; it starts out bright and colourful and vibrant to match the happy and small stakes nature of the story and as the tone of the story changes, the environment changes to reflect that. the siege of the north pole? everything goes blood red when the moon spirit is threatened, then goes completely desaturated when it is killed with only fire bending having any colour. the day of black sun? uses a solar eclipse to change the lighting. the entire sozin’s comet fight? has red skies and lighting to show the threat

bones abject refusal to change anything about the art itself is a detriment to horikoshi’s complex narrative

#its not just about the colour of the sky #lets get that straight #we’re doing some real the curtains arent just blue shit here so keep up #colour and lighting are a very deliberate choice in any visual medium #and choosing to ignore it and not take advantage of it will just be a detriment to whatever youre creating #i see so many colourings of manga panels where they do insane things and really do next level colourings #and to then see the anime that has so much money and talent behind it just for it to be flat and emotionless with no atmosphere? #it sucks #when you can pick out a scene from something called the WAR ARC and it looks the same as the sports festival arc? come on #and i know theres more to making a scene out of a panel then there is to colouring one #but when these indie creators doing visually gorgeous colourings its hard not to feel like the anime is lacking #and when your colours are flat and your camera angles are uninteresting then what is the point of an anime adaptation #even if they do change things here and there like the endeavour v hood fight or all might v afo #it doesnt change that the majority of the time its the exact same #and when the storm eventually comes round? that wont satisfy me either enless they change the colors of everything as well to be desaturate #and fully embrace the new atmosphere that horikoshi has very deliberately drawn #class a v deku is the one time they did a sustained colour difference and theres a reason that went over so well #coming out of my cage and ive been doing just fine.txt #go beyond plus ultra #mha #bnha #my hero academia #boku no hero academia #star and stripe #shigaraki tomura #izuku midoriya #bakugou katsuki