Only SHAFT stuff I've seen is Madoka, the Kid Icarus short, and these gems. I feel like I'm missing out at times!
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Winter-Spring 2014 Anime |OT3| People incapable of guilt usually do have a good time
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Only SHAFT stuff I've seen is Madoka, the Kid Icarus short, and these gems. I feel like I'm missing out at times!
well they have some shows that aren't worth any second to be wasted on
Disappointing, but after the first episode I don't know why I expected any better.
You haven't watched Soredemo Machi wa Mawatteiru? smh
watch monogatari seris plz
I was first (unknowingly) exposed to their charms in Tsukuyomi Moonphase. Its been love ever since. They pick such weird things to adapt like Denpa Onna and bakemonogatari and Arakawa and some more typical things like soredemo and szs but with their own special stamp of awesome.
I think that was before I got really got back into the hobby. I did my part a couple months later after seeing this impassioned plea however. I'll open it up soon. Promise.
Tried bake once and couldn't get into it. Kinda want to give it all another try though after seeing the Kaiki OP and
nekomonogatari gifs
You need to get on Monogatari asap!
whut about denpa onna and arakawa under the bridge
I understand the motivation, and not everyone has the personality to stand out in a crowd, but it's also important to recognize whether it's actually an issue and when you're letting a vocal minority get the best of you.
Only know of the first due to the corndog dude's forced avatar and the second because I could swear people describe it as "secret best show" or something! I have gaps I'm slowly filling!
KirbYuuYuu
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Was actually hoping to find some Mushishi BDs. Only DVDs for a decent price. Bah.
Nope, no BD, and yes it's a steal at that price.
I don't understand it at all. And really if people are so stupid as to think that way, I don't think they'd have anything sensible to say on any topic. I'm kind of shocked such people exist.
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure 24-26 END
I need a slice-of-life show starringJoseph Joestar.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA I hope I get the same reaction
Shows such as?
I watched first season of Arakawa, it's pretty good. Definitely more worth your time than some of the filth you will encounter later on in Monogatari.
Nisekoi, Sasami, Nisemonogatari
The two "do you judge people based on their avatar" threads aren't helping, for sure.
aww that sucks. Oh well I'll buy it.
Living for the Day After Tomorrow 10-12 + Final Thoughts
I always do my research before, during and sometimes after I watch a show, and the Japanese wiki confirms that Kotomi and the bed and breakfast elements were anime original. With a premise like this, some sense of closure was needed in order to make things feel complete, and while I'm not 100% sure what came after, with the small cast the show had, I felt it followed through on its premise well enough. The themes of family, love and maturity were obviously intertwined in various ways, and largely reinforced one another. Like the old adage of kids wanting to be adults and adults wanting to be kids.
I wish Shoko had gotten a little more to do in the second half, and a chance to make some more friends her age, but Karada was definitely the lynchpin of this entire story. Episode 8 was one of my favorites because of that montage. Someone who was forced to grow up (in more than one way), but still lacks the knowledge necessary in order to make it really happen. The show knew exactly what it set out to do, and accomplished it. The ending with Kotomi was foreshadowed at least an episode or two in advance, and sometimes it's better to leave things unsaid (it's clear why it worked), but maybe a little bit more on the lore of the wishing stones would've helped - but I compared this to Natsuiro Kiseki, and that stone never had much explanation either. One of those things I need to suspend my disbelief for.
Just about every character is more than just a friend, just family or just a lover. Often, I found some combination of one in all of them. Karada is "family" and a friend. Shoko is a lover, but became a friend and a surrogate part of the family herself. Tetsu slides between lover and friend. All the permutations playing into each other made the relationships carry a bit of weight - again, the small cast. The animation had some really nice scenery, and it worked well. Not top-level, but it was pleasing.
It turned out to be a pleasant supernatural romance in the end. I wasn't sure of the level of drama, but while it had a heavy undertone to it, it always kept the heartwarming there, mostly in flashbacks. And while Hiro and Shoko did clearly have sex in the flashback, it's just a natural thing, and barely elaborated on, since the show wasn't focusing on that, but I'm pointing it out.
Worth the watch.
The trickiest part of going through the backlog is keeping the alternating shows with enough variety so that I don't overload on the same thing too much. Which is why my next show isKannazuki no Miko the Fairy Tail OVAs and movie.
I always do my research before, during and sometimes after I watch a show, and the Japanese wiki confirms that Kotomi and the bed and breakfast elements were anime original. With a premise like this, some sense of closure was needed in order to make things feel complete, and while I'm not 100% sure what came after, with the small cast the show had, I felt it followed through on its premise well enough. The themes of family, love and maturity were obviously intertwined in various ways, and largely reinforced one another. Like the old adage of kids wanting to be adults and adults wanting to be kids.
I wish Shoko had gotten a little more to do in the second half, and a chance to make some more friends her age, but Karada was definitely the lynchpin of this entire story. Episode 8 was one of my favorites because of that montage. Someone who was forced to grow up (in more than one way), but still lacks the knowledge necessary in order to make it really happen. The show knew exactly what it set out to do, and accomplished it. The ending with Kotomi was foreshadowed at least an episode or two in advance, and sometimes it's better to leave things unsaid (it's clear why it worked), but maybe a little bit more on the lore of the wishing stones would've helped - but I compared this to Natsuiro Kiseki, and that stone never had much explanation either. One of those things I need to suspend my disbelief for.
Just about every character is more than just a friend, just family or just a lover. Often, I found some combination of one in all of them. Karada is "family" and a friend. Shoko is a lover, but became a friend and a surrogate part of the family herself. Tetsu slides between lover and friend. All the permutations playing into each other made the relationships carry a bit of weight - again, the small cast. The animation had some really nice scenery, and it worked well. Not top-level, but it was pleasing.
It turned out to be a pleasant supernatural romance in the end. I wasn't sure of the level of drama, but while it had a heavy undertone to it, it always kept the heartwarming there, mostly in flashbacks. And while Hiro and Shoko did clearly have sex in the flashback, it's just a natural thing, and barely elaborated on, since the show wasn't focusing on that, but I'm pointing it out.
Worth the watch.
The trickiest part of going through the backlog is keeping the alternating shows with enough variety so that I don't overload on the same thing too much. Which is why my next show is
B-but Kaiki...!
Thats just weird. But then I pay zero attention to avatars. Its names and the content I pay attention to. I don't think I could recognise any poster by their avatar.
Avatar > Tag > Username for me.
Mekaku guy needs to get a life.
Does the Kana Asumi AI robot internet waifu thing not having feet symbolize a not-so-hidden urge from the fanbase to cripple and thus cut off any possibility of their waifu leaving them, as in, their fear of real human beings--and freedom exhibited by such people--manifested as this cutely voiced, all too crippled, explicitly not-real totemic fetish that calls them 'master' and dotes and caters to their needs.
Does the Kana Asumi AI robot internet waifu thing not having feet symbolize a not-so-hidden urge from the fanbase to cripple and thus cut off any possibility of their waifu leaving them, as in, their fear of real human beings--and freedom exhibited by such people--manifested as this cutely voiced, all too crippled, explicitly not-real totemic fetish that calls them 'master' and dotes and caters to their needs.
Maybe they can put her in a wheelchair.
toei anime farmfactory strikes again
KuwabaraTheMan
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Rowdy Sumo Wrestler Matsutaro 2:
It's still pretty much impossible for me to care about Matsutaro, and he doesn't really seem to have been changed at all based on the events of the first episode. I wasn't expecting an overnight transformation, but he's still just so unlikable. It's a shame, because I like the old school style look of the show, and the music is pretty solid, but I really just can't get behind the main character at all.
It's still pretty much impossible for me to care about Matsutaro, and he doesn't really seem to have been changed at all based on the events of the first episode. I wasn't expecting an overnight transformation, but he's still just so unlikable. It's a shame, because I like the old school style look of the show, and the music is pretty solid, but I really just can't get behind the main character at all.
How idiotic. Shes a ghost in the machine, who are frequently depicted like that.
Watch Soredemo.
Fine, after Hyouka.
I figured she was a corrupt program. Then again, she is bound to him (unless he sends her through email, apparently).
Also, I feel like the whole "master" thing is a callback to I Dream of Jeannie.
A Black Falcon
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"But I didn't care to try to write it any better" isn't a good excuse for such awful world-building and character design, though! It's a pretty bad excuse, in fact.
It does help, but even series without consistent magic can be good... but it definitely helps if the magic actually does make sense and follows rules. This is something which annoys me in games when, for instance, they have a magic system where the player and computer work by completely different sets of rules (this is not particularly uncommon)... that may work within a game, but it's clearly not consistent.
Anyway though, in this series, there are lengthy explanations of magic all over the place for sure, but in the end most of it serves to explain how amazingly incredible the MC is, really.
I'm not spoiling the plot, just explaining how the world setting and main character work. There are some minor plot spoilers, but those are in spoiler-tags and none are anything major; I don't talk about anything significant plotwise. The issues I discuss are more important than that, it's about general themes, not specific events. I do think that there's a difference between those two things -- reading that won't spoil the plot. It just explains how ridiculously dumb the writing is.
I disagree there for sure. Maybe if people had been forewarned about how SAO gets even WORSE later on, maybe some of them might not have watched it, only to turn on it later once it got too stupid even for them... (I greatly disliked SAO from a conceptual level so I never had that problem myself, fortunately.) All that SAO-love early in the series was quite annoying, it's one of the things that got me to stop reading the anime threads for a while. But yes, I do like to know what I'm in for in a series, as far as themes and the like go.
Is Harry that broken? I never read those books, and only watched a couple of the earlier movies... but if he is, then yes, that would fit perfectly. Nice description there.
It's definitely unfortunate that anime, manga, and LN writing is so often so, so low quality.
mekaku city actors - 01
This lost me like halfway through when it stopped being this inversion of Sasami-san and the... masked guys came in.
I'd prefer it to have remained a two man show between a man and his computer but all the chu2 cruft gets in the way.
Uh, okay bro. Hope you weren't overwhelmed by the sincerity of the post~
This lost me like halfway through when it stopped being this inversion of Sasami-san and the... masked guys came in.
I'd prefer it to have remained a two man show between a man and his computer but all the chu2 cruft gets in the way.
Uh, okay bro. Hope you weren't overwhelmed by the sincerity of the post~
It's the title of a famous, somewhat polarizing Harry Potter fanfic, not a description.
Is Harry that broken? I never read those books, and only watched a couple of the earlier movies... but if he is, then yes, that would fit perfectly. Nice description there.
I'm actually referring to a fanfiction, in which a 11-year-old Harry revolutionizes magic by applying the scientific method (vaguely). And yes, he's completely broken, so much so that they had to make the invincible villain from the original even more broken.
chickdigger802
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nisekoi 14
good times. Marie's true form is great.
i like her sinister ojousama pose.
she even has a tlrd momo lust face!
This could have some use:
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good times. Marie's true form is great.
i like her sinister ojousama pose.
she even has a tlrd momo lust face!
This could have some use:
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hipbabboom
Huh? What did I say? Did I screw up again? :(
From now on, I'm going to start telling Korean women my nick name is East Dragon then give them a wink
nah.
nisekoi 14
good times. Marie's true form is great.
i like her sinister ojousama pose.
she even has a tlrd momo lust face!
This could have some use:
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Every girl in this show is so damned cute!
Admiral Woofington
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So I'm just a pretty face to you?!
You're a pretty face in dapper clothing, though!
Nisekoi is squee
Sasami Can be skipped
Nisemonagatari is decent and has several redeeming qualities.
https://twitter.com/FUNimation/status/455166513390305280/photo/1
Attack on Titan on Toonami. May 3.
edit: more importantly it's at the front of the block.
Attack on Titan on Toonami. May 3.
edit: more importantly it's at the front of the block.
Somewhat better image of Embarrassed Yuuko/KirbYayoi
I'm reminded of Ace Attorney
Dual Destinies
I can't fight that logic. That is truthful logic.
Good for those that wanted it. I'm not one of those. But it should be a ratings draw, so I'm happy either way.
Ugh. This is going to be the gateway anime of the 2010s isn't it?
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