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sasuraiger
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There is a lot of ordinary "bad anime" being cranked out today-- most of it rote translations of dull fantasies about being very powerful in an RPG video game-- but less of the ambitious insane blockbuster failure oldtaku like me remember from the 80s and 90s.

Enter Studio Gohands, best known in infamy for the ambitious insane blockbuster failure Hand Shakers. Gohands is ideologically committed to a very particular and strange style: heavily CG-lit, over-animated 2D characters on top of photo-real CG backgrounds.

Gohands series look like what happens when video games try to look like anime and reach a strange animated uncanny valley state, like Time and Eternity.

Anyway, they have a new title out, trying to chase the "cute girls do a thing" genre. You can see most of Gohands' quirks in the trailer: impossible clothing and hair with every strand moving independently for no particular reason, water balloon boobs, aggressive lighting.

"So what? That's just a style!" you might say. To fully understand why people are so morbidly fascinated with Gohands, watch a little bit of Hand Shakers. It's one of the worst anime TV series I've ever seen. Every time they reappear, people are kind of hoping for something that bad. It builds character, yknow.


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in reply to @sasuraiger's post:

I can't help but feel like we're getting Full Gohands this time (the "action" at the end implies they're going in big) so I'm honestly super looking forward to it. It would honestly be great if they made a good anime, but I don't think the folks who made Hand Shakers, and then the stealth sequel to Hand Shakers in which everybody agrees the characters from Hand Shakers were incredibly beloved and memorable, will do that.

I don’t think this series is the one just from some of the aesthetic crimes I witnessed in this trailer but I am a “GoHands could make a good anime someday” truther, I think they were like halfway there with Masterful Cat. It would be highly divisive and visually nauseous but I do think a talented but offbeat director and writer could turn the violently uncanny GoHands house style to their advantage