Magic Kaito 1412 Anime Discussion Thread

[k11chi]

So yeah, the art so far doesn't seem so good. At the very least, let's hope the animation will be good.



Hope people, hope!

Lmaoooo xD r0flcopterZ ... Wow...

It's... Old man Jii?

[Iwamoto Yuri]

I can't get over the fact how stupid jii looks, lol.

[KaitoHedgehog]

The video that was posted has been taken down, but I was able to find the trailer at Dailymotion.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x26awo ... shortfilms

All I have to say is... Dat Art. Dem faces. Jii-san. 'Nuff said. It might actually turn out to be a very interesting anime, and I'm looking forward to watching it. I think I had my hopes too high up for the art, though.

[skyechan]

Found a second promo and the clip from the REVALCY site that you have to have a Japan IP (or something) to view on dailymotion:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x26q7pq_magic-kaito-1412-preview-2_shortfilms

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x26axt2_magic-kaito-1412-ending-revalcy-white-of-crime-preview_music

[Jecka]

I think I'll like the ending song, but this is coming from a 30 second clip. Hopefully it's entertaining enough because I don't really like the opening song so far :x

[chinpokomon]

it's finally here!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rbw4nSoBNGA

great opening, too bad there aren't many spoilers but the song is so awsome and I really like the animation

[Jd-]

The first episode has a lot of retread from the previous series--a lot. However, I can understand why. They want this series to stand entirely on its own and of course want the origin to be covered as in-depth as possible. Overall, apart from the art, which is a little rough around the edges on the whole, this can definitely go places. They've done all they can to give this series its own identity instead of making it seem like a Conan spin-off, so I feel pretty confident it can be interesting.

Spoiler: Minor spoiler for Episode 2

They're already bringing in Snake, which is great.

The second episode will be an adaptation of the "Blue Birthday", with the above worked in. As I was saying earlier in this topic, what this series really needs is a week-to-week story connecting everything, instead of just random adventures (especially since we have to retread some here).

[Jecka]

Really good so far. As Jd- said, bunch of retreading, but at the same time they made it closer to the manga which made it different. The art's still meh, but at times it didn't look too bad.

[k11chi]

I think the soundtrack for this is really good atleast. The beginning felt sort of weightless for some reason but otherwise it's not bad.

The Touichi part where they did the trick with Jii was kind of sweet.

[Fujiwara]

Spoiler:

Is it just me, or does the episode just scream 'Toichi isn't dead!' at you?

Also, I'll bet that shadowy Kaitou figure we briefly see is Kaitou Corbeau

The art is ... bad. Just bad. And the episode is missing light-heartedness I've come to expect from MK. So far, I like the Kid specials a lot more than this...

[dogfish44]

Can't say I'm a fan of the artwork. It's not as bad as I'd thought from the trailer, but I'm definitely more partial to the art in the specials.

Spoiler:

Looks like they've dealt with the catch-up fairly well, here's hoping they don't completely retrace the steps of the manga and the specials. I'm curious to figure out who the Not-Kaito is now.

[Okiyakaivan]

Magic kaito 1412 have how many ep?

[Jd-]

Magic kaito 1412 have how many ep?

24 as far as we know.

[Okiyakaivan]

Magic kaito 1412 have how many ep?

24 as far as we know.

Arigatou

[Kor]

Honestly, this wasn't as bad as I dreaded it to be (the way some people talked about it in the cbox made it sound like it's some sort of atrocity). The art is kinda meh, and some stuff felt off, but besides that it was fairly decent.
I'm interested to see what this show will be like after it's done retelling the stuff that was already covered in the former specials.
Got used to Mao's voice as Aoko fairly quickly.

The songs aren't too bad, but I'm not a fan of the OP. It sounds like a very typical A-1 show OP, which isn't a crime on its own, but I don't think that type of OP fits to a series like Kaito Kid.

Are we going to stick to this topic for episode discussions, or should we start with independent threads for every episode? Also, should we move this thread to the Kaito Kid board, or leave it here?