Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway: The Sorcery of Nymph Circe’s 2D Animation and CG Are a Downgrade from Hathaway’s Flash, But It’s Still Worthy of the Big Screen
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The signs of Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway: The Sorcery of Nymph Circe’s visual downgrade from its predecessor were visible as early as its teaser trailer — I remember tuning in to that anticipated first look and feeling flummoxed by the dubious CG and awkward running-in-the-rain cut. I associate Hathaway’s Flash with strong-to-sublime 2D animation and solid-at-worst 3D mechanical objects, with the only distraction being the occasional incongruity between the ultra-detailed backgrounds and the human cast. So, this was not at all what I expected. The full movie is not consistently disappointing on the 2D animation front as I’d feared, though the general bar does feel lower than the first film’s. What bothered me more was that while Hathaway’s Flash provided animation highs that I still think back to fondly, like Kenneth Sleg slamming Gawman Nobile’s face into a table or Gigi Andalucia messing with a pen, what I remember most from The Sorcery of Nymph Circe are the not-so-good bits. One shot caught me off-guard with how unpolished the horses galloping in the far distance looked, while another featured increased fluidity that felt overdone and out-of-place compared to similar instances in other anime. ©SOTSU・SUNRISE©SOTSU・SUNRISE As for the CG, I was neutral about how they looked in the first movie, but I did remember the mobile suits projecting the sense of being mechanical giants and weapons of terror. Here, metallic objects like the Mafty ships and mobile suits usually come off as obvious 3D models with a flat, unappealing look (some non-metallic CG or VFX elements like the ocean water and explosions…
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