Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-108.23.148.194-20140118015155/@comment-82.12.156.248-20140118102322

XDex wrote: Tropes are tropes for a reason. If they were uncommon, then they wouldn't be tropes. You write what makes for the best story, not what avoids all previous works like the plague. A show that used only things that have never been used before would quite frankly suck.

In any case, I think (aside from the obvious answer in the soundtrack) the writing is the strongest point of the series. It certainly isn't the animation (or at least, half of the animation), and everyone loves to rip the voice acting. The story, humor, and characters are all very well done, and that all comes back to good writing.

P.s. If you'll notice, a lot of the credits is the same names over and over. Yeah, there's a bunch more than 10 or whatever, but it's still an absolutely tiny crew.

Oh there's certainly more. All together there are about six major people involved with the soundtrack (Jeff, Casey Lee and Sandra Lee Williams, Lamar, Steve and Alex) and likely a few more working with the latter two on the episode scores (though I have no ieda if Sanra or Lamar are credited, unlikely given that they only feature here and there). But the crew, given that they are putting out 10-16 episodes of 12 minute animated content that so commonly gets put into comparison with some of the more successful lesser known anime shows in existence, is tiny.

As for the animators: I do stand corrected. Everytime I've watched Black and White I've ignored the end credits and just enjoyed listening to Wings whilst doing other stuff until the end credits scene.