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[Hitokage]

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She always had undefinable generic but certainly fatal 'anime disease' where it's never defined what condition the character has.

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Actually in this case it's pretty clear she had breast cancer and got a double mastectomy for it.

 

[Jex]

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Actually in this case it's pretty clear she had breast cancer and got a double masectomy for it.

I meant that, up until the point

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when the extent of her condition was properly defined.

 

[A Black Falcon]

You should also watch Miami Guns and Amazing Nurse Nanako.

Miami Guns is a good suggestion, yes. That's such an absurd series... :lol The manga's good stuff too, too bad it was only four volumes.

The only way I would ever watch Garzey's Wing, if I were ever to watch it

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which will never happen, ever

would be dubbed. The Youtube videos of that dub are just so incredible. It might be the best dub of all time, and I mean that with the utmost sincerity.

Also, pantsu. Lots of pantsu. I need to watch more shows with lots of pantsu!

Why in the world would you not watch Garzey's Wing (dubbed, yes, of course)? Do you hate fun, or do you hate enjoying yourself?

How was it sexist? Excuse my ignorance.

How isn't it? Seriously. I described a major part of the sexism in that post, and it's quite overt and blatant.

Seitokai no Ichizon isn't the least bit sexist. He'd know the reason why the MC joined the student council and takes up all the council work by himself if he actually finished the series.

After-the-fact "explanations" don't revoke everything that has come before them, no. And it's definitely sexist.

Agent Aika 1:

Oh, my God. This is GLORIOUS.

How have I lived without witnessing this show, the greatest PANTSU show ever animated?

Or, as Pdot was saying: PANTSU PANTSU PANTSU PANTSU PANTSU PANTSU PANTSU PANTSU PANTSU PANTSU PANTSU PANTSU PANTSU PANTSU PANTSU PANTSU PANTSU PANTSU PANTSU PANTSU PANTSU PANTSU PANTSU PANTSU PANTSU PANTSU PANTSU PANTSU PANTSU PANTSU PANTSU PANTSU PANTSU PANTSU PANTSU PANTSU PANTSU PANTSU PANTSU PANTSU PANTSU PANTSU PANTSU PANTSU PANTSU PANTSU PANTSU PANTSU PANTSU PANTSU PANTSU PANTSU BOOBS PANTSU PANTSU PANTSU PANTSU PANTSU PANTSU PANTSU PANTSU PANTSU PANTSU PANTSU PANTSU PANTSU PANTSU PANTSU PANTSU PANTSU PANTSU PANTSU PANTSU PANTSU PANTSU PANTSU PANTSU PANTSU PANTSU PANTSU PANTSU BOOBS PANTSU PANTSU PANTSU

And then Aika's super powers transformation costume....wow.

Agent Aika sets a pantyshots-per-minute standard that I'm not sure has ever been matched...

Agent Aika 3:

Oh hey, now we have 2 women with tentacle-rape monster super-suits. This just keeps getting better and better, and in good ways!

Plenty of pantsu and pantsu and pantsu and boobs in this episode, but I think we could have guessed that.

The ED artwork is pretty awesome, and in a show full of awesome artwork, mostly of women's crotches, that's saying a lot.


The strangest thing about this show is the completely serious and straightforward overarching story. It's just like any other sci-fi anime involving a bishounen mad scientist, his flying secret rocket base, and his super-weapon he wants to use to destroy, I mean, save the world with.

This show is so incredibly 90's, though. The music is 90's, the art is 90's, the sound effects are 90's, everything about it screams the 90's. W
ell, the pantsu screams the progressive future of anime, a future we can all get behind!

Yeah, I like the fact that the series actually has a solid story. It's not just pantyshots with flimsy plot bits in between, the series does have a competent, if cliche, plot. The same is true for the two more recent prequel series, too.

Agent Aika 6:

In this show, every fight is a Bra and Panties fight. Nevertheless, the fights between Aika and Rie and the Commander were enjoyable, as was President Awesome's drunken karaoke brawl sequence.

The lack of bishie mad scientisto and his psycho imouto in this arc really hurts it story-wise. Yeah, there actually was something of a story in the first "season" of episodes 1-4. Without a story to balance out the shameless fanservice, the whole second "season" manages to feel rather desultory rather than glamorous. Well, I guess I'll finish off the original series at least.

After that, there's Aika R-16 Virgin Mission, which is 3 episodes when Aika was 16. The fanservice is just plain funny when Aika's supposed to be 26 years old. At 16, it's probably going to feel a bit dirty. Just a bit, not very much, I've been watching anime far too long to feel that dirty about that kind of thing anymore, especially since everyone always looks the same age in anime.

Then there's Aika Zero, which was made in 2009 and that I suspect will actually have a natively 16:9 aspect ratio and be in HD. I can enjoy my last round of shameless fanservice in 1080p. Hooray for technology's inexorable forward march!

Dirty? Well, maybe, but you could say that it makes it more like anything else in anime. I do think the older Aika is the better character, but oh well... even if it isn't as good, it was better than getting nothing from the franchise.

Also, she is a few years older in the second one of the new series than she was in the first one, if I remember right. Quality between the two series is similar though.

 

[trejo]

Yami to Boushi to Hon no Tabibito 10: A Visually Deconstructive Introspective Retrospective.

It's a good thing we don't have the smiley emote anymore cause I'd be abusing the shit out of it right about now.

 

[Articalys]

First thing I thought of, at any rate.

 

[zerokoolpsx]

Bodacious Space Pirates. Hahahahahahah. Prince of Tennis is still going? I thought it ended. Saw it so many years ago.

 

[Geneijin]

How isn't it? Seriously. I described a major part of the sexism in that post, and it's quite overt and blatant.

No, seriously, I don't understand how you get sexism from that. I'm reading it and I don't understand where's the offense is at all.

 

[cajunator]

See, as far as I know from my combined knowledge of high school physics & Madoka Physics*, a light-year is a unit of distance, not of time. So unless she was talking to a shaft of light - and, to be fair, there are many of those on the show, and she may in fact be delusional - it doesn't make any damn sense.

You're a million miles too early to catch me!! ...err, what?

...although she being half drunk could be a reason too.

Until you are approaching the singularity of a black hole where, theoretically, she would actually be correct.

 

[cajunator]

Simply too much for my feeble mind to comprehend.

Time and space apparentlly swap places, so instead of a black hole being a certain distance from you it is a certain amount of time away from you. So essentially trying to avoid a black hole would be like trying to avoid Monday.

 

[cajunator]

I still want a pet tampire.

 

[Raide]

Dare I ask what you'd need it for?

Research purposes.

 

[Hellsing321]

Research purposes.

The only research I could see Cajun doing is trying to build Moetron.

 

[Dresden]

The only research I could see Cajun doing is trying to build Moetron.

And one day, that research will lead to . . .

 

[trejo]

A worthy death, some would say.

 

[Raide]

A worthy death, some would say.

Moemageddon is something many dream of but few ever see first hand.

 

[cajunator]

Dare I ask what you'd need it for?

Thats a bloody good question isn't it?

 

[trejo]

Oh you.

 

[cajunator]

I would be perfectly ok with being killed by Steel Angel Kurumi.

 

[Unknown Soldier]

And one day, that research will lead to . . .

 

[cajunator]

What is that from?

 

[Dave1988]

What is that from?

Rinne no Lagrange.

 

[cajunator]

Rinne no Lagrange.

It does appear that I need to check this out.

 

[Hitokage]

I MUST TRY TO MAKE SENSE OF OUR CONVOLUTED SITUATION

SHOW ME THE POWER OF THE JAPANESE MAN-SPIRIT

THEN WHO ARE YOU? ARE YOU YAMATO-TAKERU-NO-MIKOTO? (Why was this even left untranslated?)

OH MY GOD I FELT LIKE I WAS HAVING A DREAM

 

[Steroyd]

Yeah, ignore the haters here. Tiger & Bunny gets a bad wrap in this thread because it doesn't have enough teengirl angst.

Huh? If anything it had glowing praise by everyone till the final third.

Nope. It is objectively the best slice of life in a very long time and for a long time to come.

Objectively it has incredible production values, but as a Slice of Life there are better ones.

HHHHHNNNNNNNNNGGGHHHHHH!

Holy fuck!

Everything is better dubbed.

But then you'd lose "nyan" and "geso"... well if the english alternative to mini squid would be squiiiiiii- I could live with it.

 

[Dave1988]

It does appear that I need to check this out.

Well, duh.

 

[Uchip]

But then you'd lose "nyan" and "geso"... well if the english alternative to mini squid would be squiiiiiii- I could live with it.

I wonder if the Japanese think that meow is cuter than nyan

 

[Raide]

I wonder if the Japanese think that meow is cuter than nyan

Thats just how cats speak in Japan.

 

[Defuser]

I wonder if the Japanese think that meow is cuter than nyan

That depends how cute the seiyuus are able to pull it off.

 

[darkside31337]

Ei Aoki is the best director of 2011.

Can't be said enough.

The only research I could see Cajun doing is trying to build Moetron.

Sounds like an NFL WR.

 

[RurouniZel]

Man, how does AnimeGAF deal with no sleep? o_o I'm getting old...

 

[Raide]

Man, how does AnimeGAF deal with no sleep? o_o I'm getting old...

Ask Cajun about Moesleep.

 

[RurouniZel]

Ask Cajun about Moesleep.

Are you suffering from sleep? Can't watch enough anime because you have work the next morning? Ask your doctor about Moesleep.

"Now I can watch as much moe as I want!" - Cajunator

Not everyone should use Moesleep. Side effects include heartache from Hhnnng, spasms of squee, and flushed cheeks. Consult your doctor if you have an erection lasting more than four hours.

Moesleep, it sleeps for you, so you can watch more anime.

 

[Defuser]

Man, how does AnimeGAF deal with no sleep? o_o I'm getting old...

It's like 8.53 pm here.

 

[cajunator]

Are you suffering from sleep? Can't watch enough anime because you have work the next morning? Ask your doctor about Moesleep.

"Now I can watch as much moe as I want!" - Cajunator

Not everyone should use Moesleep. Side effects include heartache from Hhnnng, spasms of squee, and flushed cheeks. Consult your doctor if you have an erection lasting more than four hours.

Moesleep, it sleeps for you, so you can watch more anime.

That is pretty spot on.

 

[Jex]

Man, how does AnimeGAF deal with no sleep? o_o I'm getting old...

Sleep is for old people, or those without access to caffeine.

 

[Steroyd]

Seitokai no Ichizon 1-2 - Quite unlike Seitokai Yakuindomo, this student council series about a boy in a mostly-girls school is a harem series, and is insultingly stupid too. Basically, the concept is that the one guy is a perverted otaku who tells the girls that he likes them all, might want a harem, etc, and also does most of the work too -- the student council president is easily distracted and doesn't like doing actual work, so he ends up taking most of the work on himself. Somehow the show presents this as a positive thing -- "look at how useful and good he is" or something -- but in fact it's annoying sexism. I really dislike that.

I'm sorry what!? All it is, is showing that there's more to him than just being a pervert, where the heck is the sexisim in that? It'd be more sexist if the one guy was absolutely useless surrounded by nothing but girls who get shit done and being anything other than an overt pervert with no redeeming qualities whatsoever.

 

[cajunator]

Huh? If anything it had glowing praise by everyone till the final third.



Objectively it has incredible production values, but as a Slice of Life there are better ones.



Holy fuck!



But then you'd lose "nyan" and "geso"... well if the english alternative to mini squid would be squiiiiiii- I could live with it.

Yeah I just placed an order for plushie Senjou. I need it.

And you have a point about moesounds. Moesounds arent as good in english for some reason, although I have heard exceptionally cute english voice acting.

 

[-Minsc-]

Ask Cajun about Moesleep.

I'd rather listen to Sleepy.

 

[Jex]

Time and space apparentlly swap places, so instead of a black hole being a certain distance from you it is a certain amount of time away from you. So essentially trying to avoid a black hole would be like trying to avoid Monday.

Actually, avoiding Monday is a skill that lots of people have developed over time.

 

[cajunator]

Actually, avoiding Monday is a skill that lots of people have developed over time.

Well, you can sleep through Monday, but the problem is that you are still hurtling towards an inevitable meeting with a blackhole.

 

[PdotMichael]

What the hell? 10 new pages! please, watch more animes.

 

[darkside31337]

I'm sorry what!? All it is, is showing that there's more to him than just being a pervert, where the heck is the sexisim in that? It'd be more sexist if the one guy was absolutely useless surrounded by nothing but girls who get shit done and being anything other than an overt pervert with no redeeming qualities whatsoever.

Oh dear.

What the hell? 10 new pages! please, watch more animes.

All these posts whining about there being too many posts are only contributing to the problem!

 

[cajunator]

I'm sorry what!? All it is, is showing that there's more to him than just being a pervert, where the heck is the sexisim in that? It'd be more sexist if the one guy was absolutely useless surrounded by nothing but girls who get shit done and being anything other than an overt pervert with no redeeming qualities whatsoever.

This sounds like Hanaukyo Maid Team.

 

[PdotMichael]

Oh! My Goddess - 9

ah! A bottle Dack Daniel's, the best way to survive a monday.

 

[darkside31337]

Oh! My Goddess - 9

ah! A bottle Dack Daniel's, the best way to survive any day.

Yeah it really is. Dack Daniel's is pretty hilarious. There was some funny website that had all these anime fake brands to it but for the life of me I can't remember what it was.

 

[DrForester]

Yeah, ignore the haters here. Tiger & Bunny gets a bad wrap in this thread because it doesn't have enough teengirl angst.

Maybe some people don't want a lead that's a total douchebag...

 

[-Minsc-]

Yeah it really is. Dack Daniel's is pretty hilarious. There was some funny website that had all these anime fake brands to it but for the life of me I can't remember what it was.

How about Godzilla Extra and Frankenstein?

 

[Noirulus]

I'm sorry what!? All it is, is showing that there's more to him than just being a pervert, where the heck is the sexisim in that? It'd be more sexist if the one guy was absolutely useless surrounded by nothing but girls who get shit done and being anything other than an overt pervert with no redeeming qualities whatsoever.

He hasn't watched the rest of the episodes either, where the backstory behind why he even joins the damn student council is shown.

 

[NewFresh]

Man, how does AnimeGAF deal with no sleep? o_o I'm getting old...

IRC

 

[darkside31337]

Bandai Entertainment, the subsidiary of Namco Bandai Holdings (USA) that handles anime and manga in North America, confirmed with ANN on Monday that it will not release either the Nichijō manga or the Code Geass R2 novels. Bandai Entertainment had announced in July that it acquired Keiichi Arawi's original Nichijō manga along its television anime adaptation, but both releases are now cancelled.

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There is no god.

ANN interview with Ken Iyadomi, President/CEO of whatever is left of Bandai Entertainment.

Some snippets:

In a decision made last October, but only now becoming public knowledge, Bandai Entertainment's corporate parent at Namco Bandai Holdings made the decision to exit the American home video business. Iyadomi says he wasn't privy to the fine details. "The decision was made in Japan by the contents SBU (Strategic Business Unit).

Bandai Entertainment's Most Successful Anime (in no order)
Cowboy Bebop (absolutely #1)
Escaflowne
Outlaw Star
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
Mobile Suit Gundam Wing

K-On is bomba.