| An interview article with Sato Tatsuo was distributed at Comiket 78. He talked about Basquash! project, which was widely publicized as Kawamori Shoji's new project but wrecked into confusion by the dismissal of the director Itagaki in the middle of the series. He complained that the scenario he wrote was completely re-written in the storyboard. "I had put the hometown of Dan at the center of the story and described the moon just as a symbol because I didn't want to complicate the background." But in the anime, Dan went deeply into the mystery of the moon. "It's common that episode directors make minor changes in the lines and the characters, but it should not happen that they completely alter the composition of the scenario." In order to keep the consistency of the story, Sato had to come up with new lines during the voice recording. He also pointed out the flaws in the concept of "Basquash" game. "We put too much emphasis on the feeling of speediness and neglected the reality as an athletic game. We didn't even fixed the rules of the game." Sato got stuck in the story-making, but the characters kept on taking their shapes. "In the preliminary stage of the project, the characters were much matured. But they turned into naughty kids in the storyboard. Then, the three idols were brought up to the main to fill the empty story with romance." He concluded "It had a potential to be a masterpiece. After all, Basquash had made a bridge to the anime in the next generation, I think. Please see what the people involved in Basquash will create next. It will be interesting, in various meanings." Sources: Scan of the article, Scan2 |
dtshykAug 17, 2010 11:56 PM
| I don't think Basquash! ever had the potential to be a masterpiece, Sato Tatsuo is just too enthralled in his own work... (´_ゝ｀) |
| Basquash felt a bit unique and was rather enjoyable but I fail to see anything that made it groundbreaking. |
| I actually rather enjoyed Basquash, though it's foot and boob fetish got alittle annoying at times. Why the sudden talk about it though? It's been ages since its airing. |
| Tatsuo Sato is an incredible screenwriter and director and I pretty much agree with what he's saying. Basquash should have at least been a good anime, which it was clearly not for obscure reasons. |
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| I was considering whether to watch Basquash or not. |
dtshyk said: He concluded "It had a potential to be a masterpiece. After all, Basquash had made a bridge to the anime in the next generation, I think. Please see what the people involved in Basquash will create next. It will be interesting, in various meanings." Sources: Scan of the article, Scan2 I wonder what emoticon this statement warrants. |
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| Well, I liked Basquash(for only basketball, that's all). But yeah, it had a potential to be really good anime. |
| I remember watching Basquash and dropping it soon afterwards, which is something I rarely do. Just shows how awesome his mecha basketball concept was, though maybe it could have turned out better if the storyboard wasn't supposedly fucked up. |
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| TTGL style anime. You involve almost whole universe and in the end you get nothing. Like watching 26 episodes to get to the start of it. |
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| Was kinda sad how everything turned out when there was so much expectation built up when the project was first announced. It wasn't too bad, but definitely it could have been much better. Well, at least the concept was rather fresh. :P |
| I believe too that it had a potential to be really good anime. I enjoyed watching it. But something went wrong in the story, specially in the last episodes. |
| Its funny how describing anything that fail "has potential to be the greatest". |
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| Actually, I felt this could have been a really good anime. Not a masterpiece but at least something that in conversation is like "Oh yeah, this is good, but not like Basquash last season." Of course, somewhere it completely went to crap. What a waste. |
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HalRyder said: I actually rather enjoyed Basquash, though it's foot and boob fetish got alittle annoying at times. Why the sudden talk about it though? It's been ages since its airing. i couldn't agree more with u |
| He's fucking right it was messed up! The scenario change shouldn't have happened, they ruined it. I enjoyed Basquash but it could've been so much more. Fuck, Industry, stop messing with the authors gfkdghjkdshgsdnaghjmdahbnkjfbn!! |
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cyruz said: He's fucking right it was messed up! The scenario change shouldn't have happened, they ruined it. I enjoyed Basquash but it could've been so much more. Fuck, Industry, stop messing with the authors gfkdghjkdshgsdnaghjmdahbnkjfbn!! lol, I see the point. This guy has been raging on for a while. I enjoyed the show, I see what he means by it could've been better. Since the plot for the show became so over-ambitious that many questions were left unanswered. |
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garfield15 said: this.Actually, I felt this could have been a really good anime. Not a masterpiece but at least something that in conversation is like "Oh yeah, this is good, but not like Basquash last season." Of course, somewhere it completely went to crap. What a waste. |
Kvakond said: And this.garfield15 said: this.Actually, I felt this could have been a really good anime. Not a masterpiece but at least something that in conversation is like "Oh yeah, this is good, but not like Basquash last season." Of course, somewhere it completely went to crap. What a waste. |
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dtshyk said: "In the preliminary stage of the project, the characters were much matured. But they turned into naughty kids in the storyboard. Then, the three idols were brought up to the main to fill the empty story with romance." Yeah. That was obvious. The romance felt so forced. Basquash never had potential to be a masterpiece, however; what it did have, was potential to be a damn good anime. The first episode, in particular, created that impression. Unfortunately, as it went on... =( Anyway, it really is too bad about the director. Things could've turned out differently, I'm sure. |
| The first half was pretty good but second half killed it. |
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HalRyder said: I actually rather enjoyed Basquash, though it's foot and boob fetish got alittle annoying at times. foot and boob fetish..... annoying?? what madness is this? lol cause sadly thats the only part of this series that was enjoyable |
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