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[Dresden]

ex. 1

 

[wonzo]

Did they ever get around to releasing the BD's for Dennou Coil in Japan?

Gokujyo from what I read of it is about this one girl's quest to become the most popular slut in school. In her way are girls wearing clothes.

So it's like b gata h kei except the girl will only get sluttier as the story progresses?

edit: according to mangaupdates, it's a yuri fanservice show. ಠ_ಠ

sounds amazing. day 0

 

[Regulus Tera]

She's just happy with her looks! Surely that's a lesson everyone needs to be taught!

 

[Dresden]

Her ego is part of her charm. The other being her ability to molest this timid girl in the manga.

 

[Noirulus]

The real question is what her chain says.

 

[Dresden]

The real question is what her chain says.

Egoist, I think.

 

[Regulus Tera]

The real question is what her chain says.

EGOIST

She's a Guilty Crown fan. :X

 

[wonzo]

The real question is what her chain says.

i think it says egoist

 

[Instro]

Did they ever get around to releasing the BD's for Dennou Coil in Japan?

Yep!

 

[sleepykyo]

edit: according to mangaupdates, it's a yuri fanservice show. ಠ_ಠ

 

[Hellsing321]

EGOIST

She's a Guilty Crown fan. :X

DROPPED

 

[dimb]

ex. 1



http://i.imgur.com/vFVC8.jpg

I like the stuffed animal.

 

[Geneijin]

Understandable.
However cute has many facets, many of which do not involve a girl at all whatsoever.

But girls are more kawaii than cute boys.

 

[Regulus Tera]

I like the stuffed animal.

Girls just wanna have fun.

 

[Unknown Soldier]

How creepy are we talking here?

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Peeking-while-changing creepy or sniffing-used-idol-underwear creepy? ... or worse?

The games are somewhat ingenious in that you can play them perfectly normally if you want, you can behave professionally and raise your idols and support them and whatever in an entirely innocuous way. Alternatively, you can be very perverted and hit on them ceaselessly and grope them during the sequences where you have to touch them. For the purposes of the anime, Producer-san is entirely innocuous, which is likely intentional as I outlined during my previous post. He was actually pretty innocuous in the Relations manga as well.

Anyways, in terms of how you act, the game leaves it entirely up to you, but you can guess how most of the otakus in Japan who play these games behave.

Since I can't read a word of Japanese, I honestly don't know what the hell I'm saying to my idols during conversations. They probably think I'm batshit insane because I'll pick the normal option in one part and then the perverted option in the next part without even knowing what I'm saying to them.

Also, I didn't realize this before, but during conversations with Ryuuguu Komachi, you can touch them wherever you want as well when asked to do so. Iori is FUCKING HILARIOUS if you touch her DFC, I mean, this is Rie Kugimiya we're talking about, the sudden onslaught of tsun if you do it is worth feeling dirty afterwards that you touched Iori's DFC.

 

[Regulus Tera]

This is why NBAGAF looks at us with disgust.

 

[dimb]

Does DFC stand for what I think it stands for?

 

[Unknown Soldier]

Yes.

 

[wonzo]

Yep!

excellent, now if only they'd release it with english subs

 

[Solune]

But girls are more kawaii than cute boys.

That's what we have androgynous characters and Wandering Son for.

 

[dakkumauji]

Brave 10 1

What are girls doing in my sengoku period.

Besides that, the action didn't look too bad. I am interested in how the other people will fight. I also hope the priestess in distress doesn't end up always using her life ending powers all the time.

 

[Crash Station]

Phi Stain 14

Things happened with Cubic, but I honestly focused more on the OST which is giving me some very frightening flashbacks of Saya no Uta.

 

[Hellsing321]

Girls, listen to your father and turn this shit off right now 1

Hirano what the hell are you doing here? Shouldn't you be off killing Zombies. Unless...

Oh shit!

 

[duckroll]

Just one more day until the truth behind AKITO is revealed. I can feel the hype.

 

[PdotMichael]

the future shines bright for the anime industry

 

[trejo]

Rinne No Lagrange 1

An overabundance of gratuitous fanservice and mechas

Spoiler

suplexing

mechas. Honestly, what's not to like?

Okay so it's not perfect but this first episode's pace felt very energetic, which when handled right, comes across as pretty darn enjoyable. Consider me interested.

In a show full of hnggg, that really was a cheap shot by CLAMP.

I'm sorry, all I see are manhands.

Girls, listen to your father and turn this shit off right now 1

Hirano what the hell are you doing here? Shouldn't you be off killing Zombies. Unless...

Oh shit!

The show does come across as a tad more enjoyable when pictured against the backdrop of a zombie apocalypse.

 

[Regulus Tera]

the future shines bright for the anime industry

There's a reason they tell you not to follow the light!

 

[iavi]

Majikoi 6

That was funny. Camera Kid was pretty funny, and Capt--like a boss, lol. I'll be dropping this now though. I don't care for the general direction this adaptation went in. The reliance on visual gags, instead of the hilarious writing the vn had really takes away from everything.

 

[Regulus Tera]

Playing through Katawa Shoujo right now, I'm surprised at how good the animation* is for what are basically Flash-based pieces.

Mild spoilers for Emi's path follow: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcWNmtvKtxQ

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*Not really, it's just the editing that's pushing it up.

 

[Unknown Soldier]

Rinne No Lagrange 1

An overabundance of gratuitous fanservice and mechas

Spoiler

suplexing

mechas. Honestly, what's not to like?

We've been through this already. RnL doesn't have that much fanservice

Spoiler

compared to the Aika animes!

 

[Mandoric]

Tis true! It's the last refuge for the delusional anime fan. That's why things that cover their pervesness up with a "story" are so popular, those who believe they're against the perverse get to fool themselves into thinking that while some people may see the show as perverse in some degree that there's actually a story being told and those who like the perverse enjoy seeing people justify the perversion they're watching. Once a show actually crosses that line it's got to lose some fans as it's no longer bait for those fans that like to believe they're morally superior and they'll recognize it as such.

See, Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei, Bakemonogatari, whatever My Little Sister Can't be this Cute is in Japanese or any show where the cast is initially introduced by having the main help them to some degree just for them to now stick around later even though their time in the sun should have ended. I guess that's most anime. Anyways, yeah, that's my theory. Much the same as yours except the intention is different, it's not that it's less interesting it's that it takes away our plausible deniability and we can no longer pretend that underneath the harem trappings on the surface there's some real shit going on because, well, now there isn't.

I have no idea what the fuck you're talking about in the first paragraph, but in the second I don't think it's reasonable to place SZS on that list as they're explicitly zero-dimensional characters summed up by their name who are in it for situational comedy and eye candy.

 

[Mandoric]

We've been through this already. RnL doesn't have that much fanservice

Spoiler

compared to the Aika animes!

Panties. Off. Now. vs Panties. On. Now.

Round 1!

FIGHT!

 

[Steroyd]

i remember someone did actually watch it. Who was that brave masochistic bastard?

Firehawk, I think.

Spoiler

and me.

 

[A Black Falcon]

Majikoi 6

That was funny. Camera Kid was pretty funny, and Capt--like a boss, lol. I'll be dropping this now though. I don't care for the general direction this adaptation went in. The reliance on visual gags, instead of the hilarious writing the vn had really takes away from everything.

In a couple of episodes it turns to a focus on action, actually -- it doesn't stay harem comedy. For several episodes starting at ep. 8 it particularly focuses on action, with Momoyo facing off against the group of villain girls (the lead one in particular).

I actually thought it got weaker at that point though, I think the anime's better at harem comedy than it is action... I didn't really like ep. 1 that much either. I kind of start losing interest in the action episodes and after ep. 9 struggled to keep watching the show. The harem-comedy eps are mixed in quality too, but slightly better overall than the action ones (with 6 being my favorite episode, I think).

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Oh, and the less said about the series' "ending" the better... though I will admit, it was kind of funny in its stupidity, it is stupid overall. :lol

I'm giving it another ep or two, yeah.

It's actually different from what I've seen. Very different. But I think I see how the anime starts off now. This seems to start from the 'bad' end of Momoyo's path, which

Spoiler

has him getting turned down on the river, and then adapts the 'true' harem route where every girl in the dorm wants a piece of him; a path I don't believe you can even play until you beat every path;

a path I probably won't even play, if its this silly.

That's pretty much right, yeah, it starts

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after Momoyo rejects him, and focuses on how all four other girls like him in their various ways (blue hair the most obviously, for sure) but he ignores them because presumably he actually likes Momoyo the most. The plot moves a little bit from there later on, but that's the core of it, yes.

But the majority of the game isn't even about romance, for the most part; it's there, of course, but doesn't even come in till the very end of whichever path. It gets on with some serious stupidity then, but its actually a surprisingly good slice of life/comedy almost all way up to that. like Genshiken, but incredibly crude.

Slice of life comedy? Certainly not the anime. Maybe a bit in the manga, more so than the anime anyway, but still, I'm not sure if I'd use that word, no.

Anyway, does the game have action like the anime? I mean, at least a third or more of the episodes are focused on combat. I presume at least some of that shows in the game too...

Also, given that the game's an H-game, I'd think that there'd be a romance aspect at some point... there are hentai scenes with the main five girls and like four or five others too, right?

We've been through this already. RnL doesn't have that much fanservice

Spoiler

compared to the Aika animes!

Does anything, though?

 

[Defuser]

Playing through Katawa Shoujo right now, I'm surprised at how good the animation* is for what are basically Flash-based pieces.

Mild spoilers for Emi's path follow: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcWNmtvKtxQ

Spoiler

*Not really, it's just the editing that's pushing it up.

I've only finished hnnghnako route and halfway lily route. Sucks that my work is keeping me occupied.

 

[Tears For Fears]

Yamadas First Time. Dem translations.

 

[wonzo]

Playing through Katawa Shoujo right now, I'm surprised at how good the animation* is for what are basically Flash-based pieces.

Mild spoilers for Emi's path follow: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcWNmtvKtxQ

Spoiler

*Not really, it's just the editing that's pushing it up.

yeah, i just started emi's route after finishing shizune's and i'm impressed with how well done the animated shorts are

 

[RurouniZel]

This should be GAF's Mascot. He has a top hat and monocle!

CCS 12
Groundhog day.
This is exactly like groundhog day.
sakura playing the recorder is super hnnng.

I liked this episode a lot too. Cute end too. XD

 

[Morris]

Wandering Son 3 - 4

Poor Saori. They won't let her be Romeo

I'm liking this show, the artstyle is joy to the eyes. I'm still sort of conflicted about how the kids seem to be remarkably mature about the matter of Transsexuality during early adolescence, but eh..

 

[PdotMichael]

801 T.T.S. Airbats - 3

Great stuff, for some reason pretty underrated.
Too bad the manga never had an international release, the art style looks tasty:

The good old time as women look like women and not like cows or petite little boys.

 

[Unknown Soldier]

Yeah yeah, but are there pantsu?

 

[PdotMichael]

Not exactly panties but enough fanservice. It's still a Studio Fantasia production.

 

[Ryuukan]

Not exactly panties but enough fanservice. It's still a Studio Fantasia production.

So classy, it's like you wear two monocoles.

 

[darkside31337]

Just one more day until the truth behind AKITO is revealed. I can feel the hype.

I can't believe people are just glossing this over. For on the 12th day of January 2012 a familiar force shall arrive to claim what is theirs, once again Code Geass will be the savior of anime.

 

[PdotMichael]

So classy, it's like you wear two monocoles.

uhhh... what?

the funny thing is even if you cut all fanservice stuff out of Agent AIka you have still more great stuff than in almost all animes.

 

[Unknown Soldier]

I can't believe people are just glossing this over. For on the 12th day of January 2012 a familiar force shall arrive to claim what is theirs, once again Code Geass will be the savior of anime.

Nobody's glossing over anything. I think everyone's just wondering what Code Geass will be like without Lelouch, Suzaku, Kallen, C.C., Nunnally, and in fact the entire rest of the original cast. At best we would get cameos from Schneizel and Cornelia when they came by Europe before going back to Area 11 to tangle with Lelouch & Co.

Are you still excited now?

uhhh... what?

the funny thing is even if you cut all fanservice stuff out of Agent AIka you have still more great stuff than in almost all animes.

Are you going to watch Aika R-16 and Aika Zero?

 

[Ryuukan]

Are you going to watch Aika R-16 and Aika Zero?

Doing so would shatter his fragile delusions.

 

[darkside31337]

Nobody's glossing over anything. I think everyone's just wondering what Code Geass will be like without Lelouch, Suzaku, Kallen, C.C., Nunnally, and in fact the entire rest of the original cast. At best we would get cameos from Schneizel and Cornelia when they came by Europe before going back to Area 11 to tangle with Lelouch & Co.

Are you still excited now?

Yes.

Spoiler

 

[Ryuukan]

Nobody's glossing over anything. I think everyone's just wondering what Code Geass will be like without Lelouch, Suzaku, Kallen, C.C., Nunnally, and in fact the entire rest of the original cast. At best we would get cameos from Schneizel and Cornelia when they came by Europe before going back to Area 11 to tangle with Lelouch & Co.

Are you still excited now?

I remember Sunrise making all those Gundam OVAs without Amuro or Char. What were they thinking?

 

[NeonZ]

I remember Sunrise making all those Gundam OVAs without Amuro or Char. What were they thinking?

Before going with side stories for Gundam, we got several sequels using different members of the original cast in various ways, from main characters again to minor side cast or guest spots. I think that Sunrise jumping straight into side story material without first stablishing the Geass universe with at least one other mainline direct sequel might be a mistake. As it stands right now, Geass is way too focused on the figure of Lelouch and some other main cast members. That's why the reaction to this side story has been general weak. In the end, it'll basically need to stand up on its own strengths, making the whole Geass tie in pointless.