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K-ON is one of only a few truly mainstream animes the whole decade of the 2000's!
Winter 2012 Anime Thread of Roundcats Up in This
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K-ON is one of only a few truly mainstream animes the whole decade of the 2000's!
Jex
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That's a change?
Fucking magic pixels.
Down. Grade.
More of a dominatrix, going by the CMs.
It's just GGPO lag.
Would be true if they didn't butcher the other waifus as well (except Kanbaru).
Yeah it's just a bad shot:
Jex
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The y is entirely optional. Both jo and jyo are correct romanizations.
dakkumauji
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Working'!! 13
That wasn't a bad last episode. It kinda felt like a season finale, in some vague attempt. At least, they didn't try and make it all about Inami and instead focused on Polar.
I liked the focus Matsumoto gotten, which I guess is some sort of tradition if Working gets a third season. The sudden appearance of Yamada|Male was good and Yamada still had her moments in the episode.
Not a bad season, I had some laughs and I won't hate a third season.
Yama-dash!
That wasn't a bad last episode. It kinda felt like a season finale, in some vague attempt. At least, they didn't try and make it all about Inami and instead focused on Polar.
I liked the focus Matsumoto gotten, which I guess is some sort of tradition if Working gets a third season. The sudden appearance of Yamada|Male was good and Yamada still had her moments in the episode.
Not a bad season, I had some laughs and I won't hate a third season.
Yama-dash!
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
My nakama!
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Let's stick to Kanji-only for names!
I can now sleep at night knowing Senjo's hair is a ponytail.
And now I have sleepless nights again.
And now I have sleepless nights again.
Go_Ly_Dow
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Oh shit!
Nope, that's Hanekawa Tsubasa.
Dreams being crushed right now.
darkside31337
Tomodachi wa Mahou
So Senjougahara and Kanbaru really did swap looks. I'm not sure what to think now.
Araragi is gonna swap girls too!
hosannainexcelsis
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I don't really care what Senjougahara's hair looks like as long as her personality stays the same.
Jex
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You're clearly all messed up.
...What the hell? Seriously?
His sisters are smaller to better fit in his closet of waifus.
Jex
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From what I understand (actual spoilers for Nisemonogatari) :
I wont need to write those because it's an actual plot point in the show. Really.
"On Haircuts and Character Development in a Visual Storytelling Medium"
Also, Erigu: I am a sad now.
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
FUCK YES
darkside31337
Tomodachi wa Mahou
YES!
Only thing that could make this better is if the shows opening had bagpipes.
"Oh, that could be neat."
-clicks link-
"Cleats and a soccer ball?"
-quietly close tab-
I just recently bought Inazuma Eleven for the DS, this must now be watched.
Give it an episode or two, the premise is quite good.
Jex
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I would, but, there have already been essays about that. We ('we') all know that, in lots of stories when a women cuts of her hair it's deeply symbolic. It might be about the loss of a loved one, a rejection of femininity, or some other important event. 'Serious business' haircuts are frankly rather common.
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[Nastume S4 Episode 1 - Revisited]
That's right, I decided to watch this episode again, except this time I opened my eyes a bit wider and paid a lot more attention the presentation and the direction. Right off the bat it's pretty clear that the production team is trying extremely hard to move away from the 'Studio Deen/SHAFT' quality of the last season. It's pretty clear that they know how bad the last season looked and they invested quite a bit of time making this opening episode punchy.
First things first: the new OP. While it does feature the classic 'Natsume encounters monsters that no one else can see' theme they mix it up by featuring 'lil Natsume as the hero. Which, of course, is just an excuse to create this adorable scene that never actually happened:
Next up we get a long-shot of Natsume and his friends walking down the road.
It doesn't look like much until you realise that they're using layers of background art to give depth to the frame. The sky, mountains and foreground characters are all moving at different speeds. It's a subtle effect, but it actually draws you into the picture and creates the illusion of depth. Just in case you didn't notice how many background layers are at play they add a car driving through the middle layer to draw your eye to the background. It's very well done.
The next thing I noticed was how much 'unnecessary' movement there was in the episode. By that I mean animation that didn't need to be there, but which added to the overall quality of the world.
For example, the designs of these guys means that their fur moves whenever they move, which means more work for the animators. Natsume's scarf and bad were also moving realistically and, more impressively, his hair was moving in nearly every single scene. It wasn't static the entire episode, which is pretty neat. They even added in a tiny frog to the scene of Nyanko and the Horse Demon talking. The frog does nothing but jump around, it has no story relevance, neither is it symbolic. They just added another object that needed to be animated to show that they could.
Hell yes, Nyanko-Sensei got lots of fun sections of animation all to himself. I guess there's lots of things you can tweak and stretch on him to great effect.
If this wasn't enough for you they increased the man-service level by giving Natsume a totally gratuitous bath-scene:
All in all, a pretty great opening to the season.
Why not just watch the Inazuma Eleven anime?
PdotMichael
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but Dragonball would be the better choice if you want something Inazuma Eleven related.
Yep. I thought you knew, since that's also how it goes in the novel series....What the hell? Seriously?
(although I'm a bit puzzled at Kaiki's character design... that one seems contradictory... unless there's an upcoming twist in there somewhere)
If the voice acting has the same Oliver Twist cockney accents as in the game, then I'd rather shoot myself.
I meant it in a surrounding myself with football kind of way.
The dream is dead.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
はい!
I guess it might not hurt to try it with the way the rest of this season looks. But still, soccer.
I'd love to read more of the novel, but the Baka-tsuki translators prefer to work on shit like Hidan no Aria and Infinite Stratos.
EusthEnoptEron is the only one that picks up interesting stuff like Tabi no Deyou, Gekkou, Zero no Maria (Amazing novel, best among the selection available on the site) and it seems like the Bakemono translators are on break or something. Bleh.
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
Keep on hating haters!
darkside31337
Tomodachi wa Mahou
You closed your tab because you're so excited and giddy in anticipation for the best anime of the season? I'm right there with you.
That seems a bit drastic. Just because it's the greatest voice acting ever doesn't mean you should off yourself out of despair of knowing nothing else will be as good, gahvnah.
Hellsing321
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You only quoted one person
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