"Yuasa is pretentuitous" would work too.
Winter 2012 Anime Thread of Roundcats Up in This
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"Yuasa is pretentuitous" would work too.
The closest you'll get to that is :cajun
That sentence itself isn't very pretentuitous though.
We need to go deeper.
We need to go deeper.
I think :cajun rolls off the e-tongue better than hnnnnghophile anyway. How would you even standardize the number of n's in hnnghophile?
Are English song titles that are basically sentences pretentious? (see: Fallout Boy or Panic! At The Disco)
edit: It would be interesting to see a GAF list of what they consider to be pretentious anime. The only one that ever comes to mind for me is Ergo Proxy, as I mentioned. I used to think the original EVA TV series was like this (especially the original ending) but I reeled back on that opinion to simply hating the show.
edit: It would be interesting to see a GAF list of what they consider to be pretentious anime. The only one that ever comes to mind for me is Ergo Proxy, as I mentioned. I used to think the original EVA TV series was like this (especially the original ending) but I reeled back on that opinion to simply hating the show.
You gotta point.
:cajun is catchier.
It is also the name of a small Porsche SUV and a certain lively bunch of folks I like to call neighbors.
MotionBlue
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Guilty Crown 8-12
Guilty Crown gets a lot of shit for the writing, some of which is warranted. Guilty Crown shines when it stops trying to copy every other successful anime.
RIP Lt. Dan
I'm glad Beta Shu finally got his shit together. Although the twist of his sister and his convenient memory loss felt very rushed and poorly done(Also predictable). I would like more closure between Gai and Mana, many many things are still left unexplained with them at the center.
Conveniently Gai's black trench coat survived the events unscathed, and with Shu/Inori! I predict a time-skip in which Shu don's the trench coat and becomes the bad ass we saw in episode 4.
The closure in episode 12 just didn't feel right. Maybe it was expedient pacing, maybe it was just the poorly done story dialogue, I don't know.
I'm glad Beta Shu finally got his shit together. Although the twist of his sister and his convenient memory loss felt very rushed and poorly done(Also predictable). I would like more closure between Gai and Mana, many many things are still left unexplained with them at the center.
Conveniently Gai's black trench coat survived the events unscathed, and with Shu/Inori! I predict a time-skip in which Shu don's the trench coat and becomes the bad ass we saw in episode 4.
The closure in episode 12 just didn't feel right. Maybe it was expedient pacing, maybe it was just the poorly done story dialogue, I don't know.
Guilty Crown gets a lot of shit for the writing, some of which is warranted. Guilty Crown shines when it stops trying to copy every other successful anime.
Maybe, but always obnoxious.
I don't think SHAFT ever thought they were doing quality work.
Just whatever they have to do to get that ramen money.
Jex
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Absolutely, it's a very interesting collection of stories. They aren't all as good as each other, obviously, but it's a strong collection.
Guilty Crown is sadly an exercise in taking a story heavily borrowing from other pieces and condensing it from a 26 episode to a 12 episode shot (thus far) and sticking in Shinji Ikari 2.0. You can't get attached to any characters, the pacing is awful and you want to punch the protagonist in the face whenever he is on screen.
Its like Uncharted.
Dedication Through Light
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Toriko 38
Sabrina? Interesting ending theme. 20 years, lol, cant believe I fell for that. Fun episode and intense.
Sabrina? Interesting ending theme. 20 years, lol, cant believe I fell for that. Fun episode and intense.
That's probably the more fitting word.
It's a shame that whenever Lucy is in the show she'll inevitably have to open her mouth and the sounds that will come out are like nails on a chalkboard attached to a cat being strangled by a banshee, to my ears.
I am not trying to get you to watch something terrible,
this time.
Jex
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Ergo Proxy explicitly reference various Philosophers and theories, calling it 'pretentious' isn't too much of a stretch.
I mean, it's called Ergo Proxy and characters have names like Proxy, Law, Real and Monad.
Have you watched it?
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This is how I define any pretentious work, be it anime, music or motion picture.
I think the most "pretentious" thing about Ergo Proxy is the writer actually think it's intelligently written and we are all idiots for understandably finding it boring or something.
I didn't know Aya Hirano got replaced by Chiaki Omigawaah.
Jex
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It's a word that can be taken off the internet as a whole!
fixed for more truth and stuff.
CONTROVERSY: Do pretentious and :moncole go hand in hand?
Ha. I remember a discussion about anime hipsters. Not much though, which is probably indicative of where it went.
Ha. I remember a discussion about anime hipsters. Not much though, which is probably indicative of where it went.
Monocles generally aren't pretentious because they tend to be correct in all forms. Pretentious has more in common with the term "posuer" or "fake monocle"
Jex
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Well, it seeks to discuss complex social and philosophical ideas. For example, here's how one blogger described episode 11:
Most of the time isn't used to judge the person itself (as normally we don't personally know them), as it is most notably used to (likely) point a disconnection between an extremely elaborated point of view and the emptiness of its proclaimed message in the eyes of the spectators. It is more a problem in reaching them accordingly.
Oh, could this be... irony, in my words?
The latter is carried about like a badge of pride, though.
Every story was done by a different production team. Even if its take on Ningen Shikkaku isn't to your liking, you should check out the rest.
If only.
darkside31337
Tomodachi wa Mahou
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D:
I used to find her voice incredibly annoying but I kind of like it now. It's certainly unique.
Infinite Justice
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That's not true at all, there's plenty of crap shows which show no desire to be something else.
Now, Glass Fleet is pretentious. Actually you can pretty much just list every Gonzo show.
Motion to replace the word pretentious with :fakemonocle
Should I have laughed? Cause I did.
Jex
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We're entering uncharted territory.
And of course they're all adaptations of different stories, most of which have different authors, so it's really just a collection of different short stories.
I liked it, but during the season it aired I must've forgotten about it for other more :cajun things.
EDIT: Nevermind, it was the season with The Sacred Boobsmith, Nyan Koi, Kamfer and Trapeze. I remember being disillusions with anime as a whole that season (because it was preceded by the glory that is Bakemonogatari) that I stopped watching stuff regularly.
So basically, if someone doesnt agree with something in an anime, it is pretentious?
Get your real definitions outta here!
What does TVTropes say about this?
Ugh.. Now that we have a definition I can't use it to mean whatever I want.
Like anything I don't understand or like.
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