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[iavi]

I skimmed through ANN's best of 2011 feature thing and I smiled when I thought of how you guys might react to their selections.

This is the kind of shit that makes me see just how broad, flimsy, and fucking ridiculous, the idea of taste is.

 

[DrForester]

Nah, because they also speak about stuff outside the USA. Lord knows why.

What on that list wasn't released (or officially streamed) in the US?

 

[Jex]

Yeah, why have standards or even opinions at all? Let's just post pictures of moe cockroaches all day.

Nah, we can have standards.

You just have to like what I like. Deal?

 

[NewFresh]

I skimmed through ANN's best of 2011 feature thing and I smiled when I thought of how you guys might react to their selections.

Nope

 

[Branduil]

If you mean your tag then it was from an agreement from both of us. I held up my end, but you haven't held up yours.

I already had the tag before that.

This is the kind of shit that makes me see just how broad, flimsy, and fucking ridiculous, the idea of taste is.

The problem isn't the idea of taste, the problem is that anime journalism is a bad joke.

 

[Jex]

What on that list wasn't released (or officially streamed) in the US?

"Unlicensed Gems

Carl's Pick: Ano Hi Mita Hana no Namae o Boku-tachi wa Mada Shiranai.
Theron's Pick:: Ben-To"

 

[Hitokage]

I already had the tag before that.

This and that are different things.

 

[Articalys]

I skimmed through ANN's best of 2011 feature thing and I smiled when I thought of how you guys might react to their selections.

"Train Wreck Award: Fractale"

Welll, that's one thing you might all agree on, at least.

 

[cajunator]

Its amazing how some can think of watching NTHT as torture when I really enjoy it so much.
Im sure he would hate Saikano as well.

La Princesa Tutú 13:

I wish I had the patience for making gifs. Still images can't do this episode any justice, CGI water be damned.

I tend to sound repetitive regarding Tutu, but the show merits it. This cour finale encapsulated everything that has made this first half not only enjoyable, but emotionally satisfying. Seldom have I watched anything were I felt that no element is out of place (

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actually, that would be a lie, because that flashback to the classmates and Mr. Cat felt too much like a cartoon and not enough like a ballet piece

). Putting Schwanensee at the forefront was a stroke of genius. While the piece serves to amplify the emotional drama Tutu and Fakir go through, it manages to overtake the story and makes them seem as a visual representation of the actual piece. Again, the ballet in this is fucking brilliant.

Plotwise there are some big holes (

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at what point did Edel save Fakir? where did Fakir fall if the lake was just an illusion?

), but the point of this show has never been included such trivialities. Ahiru's core conflict was handled sublimely, definitely echoing the mantra of "love conquers all" without feeling cynical about it. My only disappointment is that I cannot figure out where this will go at all during the second season. Sure, there's stuff about Mytho

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having to fight the Raven and all that shit

, but what about Ahiru herself? It seems that her character arc is done through... or is it?

What a delightful cartoon. Too early to rate it, but I would give it five tutus out of five if I could right now.


¡Polvo de diamante! Entre cuates.

Glad you enjoyed this adorable and special series.
It almost wasnt given a chance here annd for a while you could lnly order it online directly.
Then they released that total joke of a boxset with the stacked disc..
Its criminal how they treated the release of this show.

 

[Jex]

"Train Wreck Award: Fractale"

Welll, that's one thing you might all agree on, at least.

They certainly picked the safest of the safe bets!

 

[Branduil]

This and that are different things.

Well, either way, feeling obligated to finish Ippo before watching other things has pushed me over the edge of apathy and made me watch almost nothing recently. I hope you're happy

 

[Dresden]

They certainly picked the safest of the safe bets!

What's In A Name? Award: Welldone the Pussyhand, Mardock Scramble is up there.

 

[DrForester]

"Unlicensed Gems

Carl's Pick: Ano Hi Mita Hana no Namae o Boku-tachi wa Mada Shiranai.
Theron's Pick:: Ben-To"

Well obviously that one would include unlicensed stuff. Lack of Penguins is obviously infuriating.

 

[Regulus Tera]

More Princess Tutu shit: OMG the animation in the promotion trailer is amazing.

Glad you enjoyed this adorable and special series.
It almost wasnt given a chance here annd for a while you could lnly order it online directly.
Then they released that total joke of a boxset with the stacked disc..
Its criminal how they treated the release of this show.

It's awful, really; this show deserves a lot more. I haven't finished it yet, but it's already quite memorable. It's very unlike most anime I've watched, and with a heartfelt message too.

Tutu reminds me of old-school Disney movies at times, except that the girly girl is not a worthless potential-wife-in-fridge damsel in distress.

 

[Jex]

What's In A Name? Award: Welldone the Pussyhand, Mardock Scramble is up there.

So classy.

Did you watch Touka Gettan? It's a bit like that. Except it's not wacky chronologically, it's just almost staggeringly incoherent. And has more lesbianism.

Stop almost selling Yami to people, you monster.

It is deep and sad and subtle and it made me cry rivers of tears. Like Clannad.

See what I mean? We don't agree about this or about some other stuff, so you shouldn't be allowed to talk about it!

 

[hosannainexcelsis]

Well obviously that one would include unlicensed stuff. Lack of Penguins is obviously infuriating.

How could penguins compete against the "perfect" Ano Hana?

 

[dakkumauji]

Hoping that they go back to magical boys killing giant flying whales, but it looks like it'll just be more harem antics for the most part. Eh.

So I never watched the first season. Should I bother at all?

 

[Jex]

Well obviously that one would include unlicensed stuff. Lack of Penguins is obviously infuriating.

It can't rival Ano Hana's emotional intensity or Ben-To's sheer manliness. Clearly it's not worth mentioning.

 

[Dresden]

So I never watched the first season. Should I bother at all?

No.

 

[Geneijin]

I personally don't see any point dissecting a show like some do. All I find that leads do is focusing on the negative. Take Natsume S3 for example, I never noticed the "bad animation" many people have commented on. If I went back, which I won't, and looked I know I would see what people were talking about. Now, what I did notice was the better animation in season 4, episode 1. For me, knowledge of a shows flaws is not required to appreciate its strengths.

That's kind of missing the point with that example. A better example would be none other than Persona 4 from last season. It reeks of being a lazy adaptation with noticeably bad animation which occasionally detracts from some scenes because of how poorly it's handled.

Ashamed to admit. It doesn't affect me much, but its annoying to hide it. But yeah, i can see it not being much of an issue as most people are geeks to a certain extent anyway

Sounds like we need an intervention. What's the worse that can happen if you revealed to your friends you still like anime?

What I find fucken strange about the one piece dub is that they removed every trace of the amazing orchestral sound track, why fuck did they do that for? too good for baka gaijin ears?

I blame the people who liked the DBZ music by Bruce...

 

[sleepykyo]

I skimmed through ANN's best of 2011 feature thing and I smiled when I thought of how you guys might react to their selections.

I've only seen episode of Queen's Blade: Evil Eye but I still feel confident that Rosario + Vampire is the better trashy series. Death scene of the year just sounds like a dickish section to have.

Hanasaku Iroha and Bunny Drop got mentioned so I'm happy.

 

[Jex]

I watch a lot of foreign films in order to maintain my image as a pretentious, pseudo-intellectual snob, so I've gotten pretty good at simultaneously eating & watching subtitled entertainments over the years.

::sips tea with pinky out::

Surely nothing is more pretentious then foreign animation about sickly girls.

 

[Hellsing321]

I skimmed through ANN's best of 2011 feature thing and I smiled when I thought of how you guys might react to their selections.

This is why we can't have nice things.

 

[iavi]

The problem isn't the idea of taste, the problem is that anime journalism is a bad joke.

The writing is clunky in a large portion of anime journalism, and can't complete it's job of suggestion, of validation, but to question the actual choice... my issue there is the common, direct and indirect usage of 'taste' as a descriptor, when I've come to see lately that it's a total fucking nondescript. I want to laugh at their choice of Angel Beats, for example. I want to laugh it off the fucking internet, but that's really nothing more than vanity & I. Funky shit.

 

[wonzo]

Hoping that they go back to magical boys killing giant flying whales, but it looks like it'll just be more harem antics for the most part. Eh.

I really can't expect anything good from this after how bad the latter half of the series was.

I skimmed through ANN's best of 2011 feature thing and I smiled when I thought of how you guys might react to their selections.

...but I ultimately pulled the trigger on Angel Beats! as my #1 because I found it to be the single most entertaining series that I watched in 2011. No other series had a better concept or put together a more satisfying mix of humor, action, music, character development, and emotion. It has some of the year's most gut-bustingly funny moments (rocket-powered student desks!), great insert songs with beautifully-animated performances, a generally high level of technical merit, and the classic Key touch at wringing out tear-jerking moments. Yeah, it is a little heavy-handed at times, but its final episode is also a sterling effort which embodies the desire for closure that lies at the core of the series. (Hmmm, that's four out of five with a “strong finish” comment. Coincidence?)

...

...Croisée in a Foreign Labyrinth fell a little short primarily because it never achieved much real substance. Tiger and Bunny looked like it has promise but I never kept up with it; same with the widely-praised Chihayafuru and Stein's Gate. And Wandering Son? I recognize that it's a quality series but did not find it entertaining or involving in the slightest.

................I just don't know what to say.

So I never watched the first season. Should I bother at all?

Nah. The first half was actually fairly enjoyable but then it went to complete shit as they tried to add a serious plot.

 

[Jex]

Nope. no closet otakuing here. I used to be, but then it kind of faded as time went on, really. Now everybody knows my love for jpop, animu, manga... though...You think just being into anime's bad? Wait till people get a whiff of VN from you. Even other nerds will start hating, there is no escape.

It's like being a huge fan of karuta, other people just don't understand!

I thought nerds generally hung out with other nerds, like in clusters or swarms?

There has to be nerd hierarchies.

 

[mAcOdIn]

So I never watched the first season. Should I bother at all?

The first half of the show was fun, I don't care what others say.

Ramen fighting ninja vampire girl was awesome.

 

[Crash Station]

So I never watched the first season. Should I bother at all?

You should watch the first season. One of the best shows of 2011.

 

[Jex]

Damn, you could totally dress up as Riki from Violence Hero:Riki-Oh with that sweet coat.

 

[Regulus Tera]

Is anyone else a closet otaku irl? I'm not ashamed of it as a hobby, but if my friends find out, i'm in for some societal consequences. And will probably labelled as "that guy" among my closeknit group of friends.

I need to find new friends.

All the people I work and study with know about my hobbies. I am pretty sure they don't think highly of them, but it has never got into our relationship. My actual friends, on the other hand, share those interests and geek out with me.

The best part of being an adult is that you don't have to give two shits about what other people think of you.

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Unless you are doing something illegal!

There has to be nerd hierarchies.

It needs to be updated for the inclusion of bronies, admittedly.

 

[Jex]

Speaking of spock uniforms and other such nerd paraphernalia, this berzerkah costume is pretty cool.

Not enough CG effects to be berserker.

 

[Hitokage]

It needs to be updated for the inclusion of bronies, admittedly.

And the impending Hosodapocalypse.

Not that it was ever correct to begin with, though.

 

[Regulus Tera]

Not that it was ever correct to begin with!

You only deny this because you post in FurryGAF!

 

[Dresden]

SF fans . . . feels good man.

:smug

 

[Hitokage]

You only deny this because you post in FurryGAF!

It clearly doesn't fully dig into the possibilities of the anime column to place categories like Manfaye or 40 year old men who ride the train with a lovepillow.

 

[darkside31337]

Sailor Moon 20

Azunyan totally stole Usagi’s look! And I think it’s about time Usagi bought a new swimsuit.

This episode is terrible. Easily the worst of the 20 I’ve watched so far. This was totally a filler episode, Nephrite is nowhere to be seen. The only redeeming parts were Ami and Rei in their swimsuits. Usagi must have said she was scared about 100 times this episode. There really is nothing good.

Applicable statement to a some of you doubters in #animegaf. You know who you are

 

[InsaneZero]

It needs to be updated for the inclusion of bronies, admittedly.

Replace the spot for furries with bronies, put furries lower in the hierarchy, and it matches perfectly.

 

[NewFresh]

You only deny this because you post in FurryGAF!

Crossovers are bound to happen

It clearly doesn't fully dig into the possibilities of the anime column to place categories like Manfaye or 40 year old men who ride the train with a lovepillow.

But that is standard of any true anime fan.

 

[Branduil]

Where do "people who write geek hierarchy charts" fit on it?

 

[Hitokage]

Replace the spot for furries with bronies, put furries lower in the hierarchy, and it matches perfectly.

Actually some furries hate bronies too.

 

[DrForester]

Most people don't notice that furries is on the same level as the low level of everything else according to that chart.

 

[Dresden]

Where do "people who write geek hierarchy charts" fit on it?

The equivalent of gaming journalists in the gaming nerd hierarchy . . . so a tier above fanfic writers.

 

[Regulus Tera]

It clearly doesn't fully dig into the possibilities of the anime column to place categories like Manfaye or 40 year old men who ride the train with a lovepillow.

shounen fans > Mecha fans > moé fans > cosplayers > moé fans who buy dakimakura > moé fans who buy dakimakura and ride the subway with them on full view > moé cosplayers > Manfaye

................I just don't know what to say.

It's the exact same feeling I get when I read Game of the Year articles!

 

[Jex]

Obsessively long and detailed posts about random Japanese stuff. I like the mango reviews.

Is there any other kind?

 

[Hitokage]

Most people don't notice that furries is on the same level as the low level of everything else according to that chart.

Oh shit, you're right. It's not a one-way chart!

 

[darkside31337]

Most people don't notice that furries is on the same level as the low level of everything else according to that chart.

I have seen this chart a million times and never noticed this before. Now I don't feel as bad.

 

[DrForester]

Just need a new branch

Animation fans
|
Batman tas fans
|
Bronies
|
Celestia fans - Luna fans

 

[sleepykyo]

Don't know. Does watches animated erotica fall under erotic fanfiction or fantasy artists that can't get breasts right? For that matter, why does the latter even get a category?

edit: Mind blown.

 

[Regulus Tera]

Just need a new branch

Animation fans
|
Batman tas fans
|
Bronies
|
Celestia fans - Luna fans

|
7th

 

[Jex]

Only twice! Plus 1 marathon of both series!

And you dare call yourself a fan.