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[SDBurton]

Saki: Zenkoku-hen - 13 [END]

Good bye mahjong and lesbians... for now.

Ahhhhh I want more! ;_;

Pretty chill episode for the most part, now we wait

Spoiler

for another eternity

for the next season.

What's interesting to note near the end is that

Spoiler

looks like Kyouko Suehara will indeed be Saki's greatest threat in the competition (aside from her sister). Which is pretty fucking cool as she has no powers whatsoever (at this time). If they manage to develop her into some sort of beast while keeping her powerless I'll be very impressed.

Paging Chet. nsfw

 

[Kite]

Newest Trigger anime: Ninja Slayer

 

[Psycho_Mantis]

This summer will be glorious in terms of AnimeGAF whining due to SAO. I hope people who never post here come by just to start discussing the show and go absolutely crazy talking and discussing their favorite waifus and how cute KiritoxGirl are.

I dunno. I don't think it will beat Anime-gafs state when Oreimo was airing. Or maybe I'm underestimating the shit that is SAO.

 

[Save 'N Quit]

Any person with real taste will come in here and discuss their favorite husbando this summer.

 

[SDBurton]

I dunno. I don't think it will beat Anime-gafs state when Oreimo was airing. Or maybe I'm underestimating the shit that is SAO.

You're definitely underestimating the shit that is SAO. :lol

BUT!

BUT!

Since Kirito is a girl in this sequel, this will basically be a yuri paradise for me if all the girls continue to throw themselves at him. #makinglemonadeouttalemons

 

[Pancakes]

Non Non Biyori season 2 announced

http://yaraon.blog109.fc2.com/blog-entry-23031.html

[Nyanpasu Intensifies]

 

[ZachDeKoromaru]

I'll be timestamping any time Miyukichi is present in SAO2 for the saner Miyukichi lovers, please look forward to it.

 

[Mothman91]

ISn't there supposed to be a post about all the spring anime coming out, i don't know what's good to watch or anything.

someone fill mein.

 

[PshycoNinja]

The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya 10

This is a much more cohesive experience when watching it in it's actual order. The fight was kind of cool. I need my hilarity back though. I need more of Haruhi's antics.

 

[Eusis]

One thing that I don't understand is people judging an anime based of a first episode which I simply can't comprehend, like if I did that I would of dropped so many good anime like Hunter X Hunter, FullMetal Alchemist, Log Horizon, and etc.

Well, there's judging, then there's failing to be hooked. I can't make an entire judgement on a series off an episode, but I can say it failed to hold my interest... Or in extreme cases just looked really bad and wasn't worth my time, like something I caught off a Newtype sample eons ago about a kid and his teacher harem or whatever.

The first episode, if not the first few minutes is like an elevator pitch, and shows like Samurai Flamenco and Kill la Kill definitely had my interest from the first few minutes.

 

[Psycho_Mantis]

Newest Trigger anime: Ninja Slayer

Expecting cool ninja fights, but seeing how Trigger labelled KLK as a fighting anime and then produced some of the worst animated fights I have seen in quite some time I'm going to be disappointed.

Oh Trigger, will you be forever destined to be inferior to BONES:

I mean:

So inferior...

 

[R_thanatos]

Saki: Zenkoku-hen - 13 [END]



Ahhhhh I want more! ;_;

Pretty chill episode for the most part, now we wait

Spoiler

for another eternity

for the next season.

What's interesting to note near the end is that

Spoiler

looks like Kyouko Suehara will indeed be Saki's greatest threat in the competition (aside from her sister). Which is pretty fucking cool as she has no powers whatsoever (at this time). If they manage to develop her into some sort of beast while keeping her powerless I'll be very impressed.

Paging Chet. nsfw

You took the words out of my keyboard.
This was a damn fin season but Saki the nationals should have been 26 eps !

We need to have the finals and the solo tournament afterwards ! There is so much to see ... OMG those beach screens !! OMG the yuri ..so strong , so intense ..so good.

13 eps were good but it's not enough i WANT MORE.

 

[PshycoNinja]

Expecting cool ninja fights, but seeing how Trigger labelled KLK as a fighting anime and then produced some of the worst animated fights I have seen in quite some time I'm going to be disappointed.

Oh Trigger, will you be forever destined to be inferior to BONES:

I mean:

So inferior...

Yeah BONES does some really cool fight scenes. Even Blast of Tempest had some cool action scenes in it.

 

[Soma]

One Week Friends Episode 01

Yeah that was nice.

I've enjoyed what I've read of the manga (which is a mostly 4-koma) but it's also very slow paced. I imagine some people interested in this might find the "progression" in this story a little frustrating but that could be expected with stories dealing with this brand of subject matter. The atmosphere is definitely very saccharine which is something I like and the overall art direction and music is fitting for this story. I'm mostly keeping up with this to see how they'll eventually explain the whole memory thing but for the time being it's a very solid and enjoyable adaption.

 

[Dedication Through Light]

Is anybody even still watching Nobunaga the Fool
I know there's no episode today but I don't think I can take this much longer

Wait theres no episode today?! That was the highlight of sundays and then Mitsu's response last week, a week break at such a bad time

 

[Articalys]

Crunchyroll picked up another couple card-game-based anime for simulcast, Oreca Battle and Dragon Collection. Both series will be Mondays at 3:30am PDT.

http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-ne...ream-oreca-battle-and-dragon-collection-anime

ORECA BATTLE will be available to Crunchyroll’s Premium members worldwide ex Asia, and available to free members in the following territories: USA, Canada, UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden.

DRAGON COLLECTION will be available to Crunchyroll’s Premium members worldwide ex Asia, and available to free members in the following territories: USA, Canada, UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden.

They're both half-length episodes that air back-to-back in the same half-hour timeslot, by the way.

 

[Dedication Through Light]

Crunchyroll picked up another couple card-game-based anime for simulcast, Oreca Battle and Dragon Collection.

http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-ne...ream-oreca-battle-and-dragon-collection-anime

Perfect was hoping for both of those to be done in english and what a surprise for CR to get them all. Majin Bone, Oreca Battle, and Dragon Collection delivering on the anime to watch right upon waking up in the work week.

 

[Rafa=FedKilla]

Any person with real taste will come in here and discuss their favorite husbando this summer.

Is that competition for Free!?!?

 

[AquaWateria]

Expecting cool ninja fights, but seeing how Trigger labelled KLK as a fighting anime and then produced some of the worst animated fights I have seen in quite some time I'm going to be disappointed.

Oh Trigger, will you be forever destined to be inferior to BONES:

I mean:

So inferior...

Definitely, bones have some amazing animated fights if you include FMA and Soul eater, but with Kill La Kill from Trigger it just kinda failed later on. I mean the first episode looked like it was going to have some great fights because it looked over the top but then it just sunk. Hopefully Ninja Slayer doesn't get the same treatment, we can only hope.

 

[madp]

Crunchyroll picked up another couple card-game-based anime for simulcast, Oreca Battle and Dragon Collection. Both series will be Mondays at 3:30am PDT.

http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-ne...ream-oreca-battle-and-dragon-collection-anime

Challenge accepted, Crunchyroll.

 

[Link Man]

One Week Friends 1

Adorable show, something nice to wind down with after the excitement of Friday's and Saturday's anime schedule. Art reminds me strongly of Usagi Drop.

 

[dakkumauji]

Captain Earth 01

Well hey it looked pretty great. I liked the faces and the childhood flashbacks wasn't all that bad.

It just wasn't FABULOUS enough for me to want to keep watching though. ~_~

That flumpool OP was pretty stellar though.

 

[Hitokage]

Madoka Rebellion

In the end, the only god seen at work here is the writer and his pen. Sure, that point discontinuity might have enabled cool new shit to be put onscreen, but everything could just as easily have gone the other way were it not for the desire to have cool new shit and now it's not even clear what the overall arc means.

Kyubei was right.

 

[Haly]

Not a single comment on the transformations I am disappoint.

 

[Nordicus]

Koi Kaze 8

I think I can summarize this episode in one sound:

HHHHHHNNNNGGGGGGHHHH! (baby Nanoka is just so cute)

Koshiro reminisces about the few moments he and Nanoka shared before their parents divorced. He had that tendency to be extremely quiet and then downright bark at people when annoyed enough, just like he has now. Nanoka didn't really like that back then either.

Then while visiting his mother, Koshiro hears from her just how much Nanoka had been looking forward to meeting him, and how high a pedestal she puts him on.

He's finally determined to become a good big brother and nothing more... though I know that's not going to be succesful.

 

[R_thanatos]

Madoka Rebellion

In the end, the only god seen at work here is the writer and his pen. Sure, that point discontinuity might have enabled cool new shit to be put onscreen, but everything could just as easily have gone the other way were it not for the desire to have cool new shit and now it's not even clear what the overall arc means.

Kyubei was right.

kyubei ? right ?
DOES NOT COMPUTE

 

[nintendoman58]

Madoka Rebellion

In the end, the only god seen at work here is the writer and his pen. Sure, that point discontinuity might have enabled cool new shit to be put onscreen, but everything could just as easily have gone the other way were it not for the desire to have cool new shit and now it's not even clear what the overall arc means.

Kyubei was right.

Finally, someone else agrees with me about the fact that what happened kind of screws up the entire franchise instead of going all

Spoiler

"What Homura did was so in character and I love the movie because they actually were able to do that."

Well I for one, certainly don't like the fact that Madoka has essentially become Code Geass.

 

[Taruranto]

Captain Earth #1

Eh, I liked it. It does have some SD vibes going on, but SD main problem was that it used Utena formula, without understanding what made Utena great. This one seems more close to Gundam with a bit of Eva.

 

[Hitokage]

Not a single comment on the transformations I am disappoint.

Poses were done well. Kind of got caught up in themselves overall, as if they lost their purpose halfway in only to remember it after a bit.

Finally, someone else agrees with me about the fact that what happened kind of screws up the entire franchise instead of going all

Spoiler

"What Homura did was so in character and I love the movie because they actually were able to do that."

Well I for one, certainly don't like the fact that Madoka has essentially become Code Geass.

Spoiler

I can see the argument that at that point Homura was incapable of being handed an existence with Madoka even if it's what she desired, but by passing on that it leaves everything in a limbo that isn't really resolved outside being able to say "oh hey Homura is Satan to Madoka's God now!" Er ok, now what? What was even accomplished? To love is folly? Sure, I guess.

 

[Soma]

kyubei ? right ?
DOES NOT COMPUTE

Humans are pretty damn incomprehensible.

 

[PshycoNinja]

Finally, someone else agrees with me about the fact that what happened kind of screws up the entire franchise instead of going all

Spoiler

"What Homura did was so in character and I love the movie because they actually were able to do that."

Well I for one, certainly don't like the fact that Madoka has essentially become Code Geass.

Alright Nintendoman. Which of your recommended anime should I start first?

 

[Tenumi]

Bored out of my mind on a Sunday, time to work on the backlog...

Squid Girl Season 2: 1, 2

Ah... so relaxing. Humor is still just as nice as the first season. Loved watching Squid Girl learn the fickle nature of children's attention spans.

 

[Haly]

Kind of got caught up in themselves overall, as if they lost their purpose halfway in only to remember it after a bit.

A metaphor for the show itself.

BASED SHAFT.

 

[hipbabboom]

Nice writeup. From the first line, I take it you've read the manga - I'll be interested to hear which you prefer by the end.

Koi Kaze is probably the only incest show I would call legitimately great. More people should watch it.
Edit - Actually, if Utena and Penguindrum count, those are pretty great too.

As far as incest is concerned, I like how Koi Kaze

Spoiler

paints the sick disgusting fucks for what they are. Seriously a pedophile and a under-aged seductress... a perfect match with no future

. Dat ending though >_<!

 

[nintendoman58]

Alright Nintendoman. Which of your recommended anime should I start first?

Start Madoka first, then Gurren Lagann.

Madoka is fairly short, and watching Gurren Lagann after that made me feel so good.

 

[Hitokage]

A metaphor for the show itself.

BASED SHAFT.

Touche!

 

[gashikunFLCL]

Saki: Zenkoku-hen - 13

Now to wait forever for another anime season...and manga chapters.
Fuck you KOBAYASHI Ritz, write your damn manga!!

 

[SDBurton]

You took the words out of my keyboard.
This was a damn fin season but Saki the nationals should have been 26 eps !

We need to have the finals and the solo tournament afterwards ! There is so much to see ... OMG those beach screens !! OMG the yuri ..so strong , so intense ..so good.

13 eps were good but it's not enough i WANT MORE.

Agreed! It feels like we're just getting started and now we're stuck here waiting for god knows how long until another season gets greenlit. I want more and I want it now!

 

[PshycoNinja]

A metaphor for the show itself.

BASED SHAFT.

Oh... I see what you did there. ;P

Start Madoka first, then Gurren Lagann.

Madoka is fairly short, and watching Gurren Lagann after that made me feel so good.

FYI, there may be a huge gap between Madoka and Gurren Lagann. Lots of anime and all that. That cool?

 

[ZachDeKoromaru]

Shaft should just adapt Ume-sensei's other works now that Madoka is done. Mostly because there are no translations!

 

[nintendoman58]

FYI, there may be a huge gap between Madoka and Gurren Lagann. Lots of anime and all that. That cool?

Should be okay. Like I said, Madoka isn't very long. You'll probably be finished with it in no time. And as long as you get to Gurren Lagann after that at some point, I'm happy.

 

[Andrew J.]

FMP The Second Raid 08

Tactical genius or no, there's a reason you don't give people this young and inexperienced a command position.

Tessa's projecting pretty badly here. Blaming Sousuke for not being honest about wanting to be with Kaname, when she's not being honest about the same thing.

Concussions are no joke, man.

You can reassign your personnel with no regard to their personal feelings, or you can train them to use weapons requiring a certain mental and emotional state, but trying to have it both ways is just dumb.

 

[Hitokage]

Madoka Rebellion (cont.)

Overall, I really feel that the movie leaned on the weaker aspects of the TV series even as it tried to be ambitious. It possibly should be no surprise that it was on a road to nowhere.

Edit: Yes, Haly, I know.

 

[PshycoNinja]

Should be okay. Like I said, Madoka isn't very long. You'll probably be finished with it in no time. And as long as you get to Gurren Lagann after that at some point, I'm happy.

And you said you wanted me to watch School Days just for the reactions? Oh boy...

 

[nintendoman58]

And you said you wanted me to watch School Days just for the reactions? Oh boy...

Okay, I was joking about that one (partially). I gave it some thought and I kind of regret asking you to watch that. You reactions would be hilarious, but the show itself is not legit good.

Madoka and Gurren Lagann are legit good shows that I think you would enjoy.

 

[Haly]

Madoka Rebellion (cont.)

Overall, I really feel that the movie leaned on the weaker aspects of the TV series even as it tried to be ambitious. It possibly should be no surprise that it was on a road to nowhere.

Edit: Yes, Haly, I know.

hurhurhurhurhurhurhurhurhurhurhurhurhurhurhurhur

 

[PshycoNinja]

Okay, I was joking about that one (partially). I gave it some thought and I kind of regret asking you to watch that. You reactions would be hilarious, but the show itself is not legit good.

Madoka and Gurren Lagann are legit good shows that I think you would enjoy.

Nah I don't mind. If other people would find my pain amusing then who am I to deny them such entertainment?

 

[AquaWateria]

You know something I realized in Mahouka, the dude at the end of the opening with his magic pistol looks like Aoba from Buddy Complex. Just a funny observation.

 

[firehawk12]

hurhurhurhurhurhurhurhurhurhurhurhurhurhurhurhur

Her?

 

[Hitokage]

I just realized that Madoka Rebellion is the Liar's Paradox put into anime form.

If it's a metaproduction expressing how Shaft sucks, then the symbolism is false.
If they actually just suck, then the elements that make it meta wouldn't be there.