
Outside of the action scenes, large swathes of the film are camera pans over static shots while the only real animation is a repeated gesture or the movement of lips. And that trade-off is the 90s' greatest budget-saving trick. Of course, even when the characters are just standing around talking, everything is still breathtakingly beautiful.For animation of this detail, however, there has to be a trade-off. Moreover, everything is wonderfully, unbelievably detailed-backgrounds and characters alike.įor animation of this detail, however, there has to be a trade-off. There is no sign of the typical moé-invoking art style common in most modern anime-even in the case of Cereza who is legitimately a little girl. The male characters are all walking Adonises-thin frames covered in muscle (regardless of age)-and the females are all Barbies busty, thin, and with legs that go on for days. It shares a dark style and hyper-detailed character designs along the lines of classics like Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust. Visually, Bayonetta feels like some of the most beautiful anime feature films from around the turn of the millennium.
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So while the story of Bayonetta was a bit drawn out and confusing in the game, the movie streamlines it into a tight and rather enjoyable plot specific locations, order of bosses, gameplay-related story developments-are left by the roadside. This is mainly because the creators of this film knew what to cut and what to keep: The overall story and major plot points are kept, while needless details-i.e. However, Bayonetta is one of the few anime adaptations I’ve seen in which the story works better as a film than as a game. After all, a story that is designed to be told over the course of 15 to 80 hours often suffers greatly when stuffed into a feature-length (or even series-length) time limit Too often, when making an anime adaption of a game, directors tend to keep too close to the source material-which is often to the anime’s detriment.
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As I watched Bayonetta: Bloody Fate, the new anime film based on PS3 and 360 title Bayonetta, two thoughts kept running through my head: This is the most 90s anime I have seen in a decade,” and “this is even more over-the-top than the game was!
