Crash Station
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Gurren Lagann - 08
B-b-but he's in the OP!!
Watch up to 11 NOW.
Winter 2012 Anime Thread of Roundcats Up in This
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Watch up to 11 NOW.
Crash Station
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yyeeeessss
yesssssssss
thank you based E1 (AnimeEigo?)
PLEASE tell me this has subs with the original Japanese dialogue and not the Cartoon Network script.
Femmeworth
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More proof that the Rebuild series is worse than the original series. Bleh.
Outside of the "magic" suit I really didn't notice much fanservice in this ep of Rinne no Lagrange. I think my recent viewing of Eiken has something to do with that ;_;
holy fuck day 1
Zing!
Femmeworth
Banned
I don't think anyone actually disagrees with the "sequel" theory, at least at this point.
would've been classy with rei. asuka is such a slut.
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
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Nah,
there's always backups in the vat for that freshness.
it's a naturalistic approach to fanservice, imo.Nonoriri said:
I was just secretly hoping someone did. The evidence is overwhelming, but knowing Anno, he'll troll it all in the next 2 movies and then leave us hanging.
hosannainexcelsis
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The Idolmaster 10-12
The Idolmaster 13
The fully animated dances were cool, but everything else was incredibly painful to sit through.
The Idolmaster 14
Is this really supposed to be a serious plot? Feels like a farce.
The Idolmaster 15
Most enjoyable episode since 9. Thanks to the variety show format, this episode managed to be fast paced and, well, varied. Some of the segments didn't work, but some did, most notably the amusing mecha sequence which was the whole reason I watched this far to begin with.
Next episode looks to be going back to the serious stuff, so I'm out. I think I've seen all I want of this show.
The Idolmaster 13
The fully animated dances were cool, but everything else was incredibly painful to sit through.
The Idolmaster 14
Is this really supposed to be a serious plot? Feels like a farce.
The Idolmaster 15
Most enjoyable episode since 9. Thanks to the variety show format, this episode managed to be fast paced and, well, varied. Some of the segments didn't work, but some did, most notably the amusing mecha sequence which was the whole reason I watched this far to begin with.
Next episode looks to be going back to the serious stuff, so I'm out. I think I've seen all I want of this show.
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
Yeaaah I'm not regretting not watching this.
It's for the best.
I think ep.23 is worth watching for the comedy.
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Feels like I never have to watch the movies again now that I have this gif.
Unknown Soldier
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I see what you did there.
Yeah it's pretty representative of Rebuild, I better put a spoiler warning on that!
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
I just don't know why can't I muster myself to watch 2.whatever when I loved what they did in the first movie. Maybe I'm just burned out of Evangelion?
A Black Falcon
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Bamboo Blade 21-26 - I don't think I actually wrote anything about the last few episodes of the series, even though I watched them right after the rest of it (when I was posting about it some days back)...
Anyway, the last disc of Bamboo Blade is the original arc, an arc that doesn't come from the manga. I'm not sure whether it's better or worse than the part of the manga that immediately follows the part that got animated (it was about 60 chapters I think?), but... it's got some issues. It's better than the last arc of the manga for sure, but still, it has some problems. This arc focuses on the relationship between Tomo and a rival girl created for the anime who also loves Blade Braver, except she likes Blade Braver's often rival Shinaider, not Braver himself. They meet, are both in the Blade Braver movie through some sillily unlikely coincidences, fight, etc.
If I have any complaints about this part, the team's loss, and the following near dissolution of the team, were pretty contrived. Seriously, we're supposed to believe that they'd just all break up like that? Yeah... no. Also, it's kind of annoying that there's a six month timeskip between the second to last and last episodes. Basically, it's like there's this entire arc in between that they're not showing, so some things that the last episode focuses on, like the teacher coming back, etc, are made much weaker as plot points because, well, he just left at the end of the last episode... it wasn't exactly long ago, for the viewer.
On a related note, numerous times in this series matches are mostly skipped over, which is frustrating. It'd be nice to see more of the actual matches. But that'd require more episodes than a show like this would ever get, sadly enough.
Overall, very good show, definitely watch it. It's just too bad that neither it nor its spinoff Bamboo Blade B ever got another anime.
Kill Me Baby 2 - This episode is about on par with the first one, that is, mediocre. As with that episode it had a few maybe funny parts, some borderline slightly amusing stuff, some stuff that wasn't too interesting, and a whole lot of "Wow, these characters, and the MC in particular, sure are STUPID!". I mean, seriously, this MC is brain-hurtingly stupid. The art style, which makes these supposedly high school girls look like they're maybe eight or ten years old, doesn't help either, but at least the characters look about as old as they act... but I',m sure that's part of the joke.
I don't think anything in this episode was quite as silly as the ninja part of ep. 1, but still even though the show's not really good, I'm just amused enough to keep watching anyway.
For people not watching it, ep. 2 has jokes about stuff like playing tag and the MC being forgotten because she hides too well, etc.
Bodacious Space Pirates 2 - I really like this show. Seriously, this is most likely my favorite new show of this season, of the ones I've watched so far. I can see why some people would dislike the somewhat slow pace the show has, but I think it works fine. This episode is every bit as good as the first episode. The MC is great, she's a likable character and is clearly a good leader. Sure, some elements of her are generic anime MC (the cluelessness) or anime girl (working at a cafe where she dresses like a maid), but there was more of that in the first episode; in this episode we better see why she's the lead character.
As for the episode, it's broken into two parts, roughly. In the first part it shows the ending of the scene that finished ep. 1, followed by the MC and her mother going off into an uninhabited area for some weapon practice. This scene is pretty good, the two of them interact well and have a good relationship.
The second part shows the school's Yacht Club going on a real space excursion. The whole club of girls, and their new adviser guy, are going to space!
They clearly know what they're doing in getting the ship ready for its trip, too. I like that the show doesn't just skip over the preflight part, as most any other anime like this probably would, but instead makes it an important part of the series as well. It's a slightly more realistic direction than usual. Of course this is very far from a realistic (or serious) series, but still, it makes for a somewhat different episode, and I at least think it works well. The major conflict -- of what the MC decides to do once she learns that
-- was well told. She's a leader indeed. She may not know precisely what to do, but she's decisive and is going to try anyway. Good stuff.
Overall, this is just such a fun show to watch... I really like it, both in characters and plot. The visuals are solid as well. (The magic skirts were kind of silly of course, particularly given that it's in zero gravity on the ship, but eh... why not, I don't care really.) Yeah, it's good stuff. It's a light series, sure, but a good light series, and not entirely predictable, as ep. 2 shows. If it stays this good, I'll be wishing for this to be a multi season show at this rate... but given the usual luck with such things... eh, who knows, it could happen, maybe. It's just ... fun, I don't know a better word for it.
Yeah, I agree. I wasn't expecting something like that, given the first episode, so it was a nice surprise.
I have The Great Game, and yeah, it is a good book. It's definitely a subject that you almost never see mentioned, which is part of why it's good... a fair amount of the stuff it covers isn't stuff even I knew much about, for the most part.
It's top-tier mono no aware, yes, but I've said before how much I dislike some things about that premise, for sure.
I don't think the TV series is too much worse than the original, but I'm not exactly a huge fan of the original either, so...
Definitely an improvement in art design there, and maybe more like classic Saya?
... Why did you watch the second one? I know I watch bad shows sometimes, but Eiken's a bit much even for me...
Anyway, the last disc of Bamboo Blade is the original arc, an arc that doesn't come from the manga. I'm not sure whether it's better or worse than the part of the manga that immediately follows the part that got animated (it was about 60 chapters I think?), but... it's got some issues. It's better than the last arc of the manga for sure, but still, it has some problems. This arc focuses on the relationship between Tomo and a rival girl created for the anime who also loves Blade Braver, except she likes Blade Braver's often rival Shinaider, not Braver himself. They meet, are both in the Blade Braver movie through some sillily unlikely coincidences, fight, etc.
In the end, Tomo loses to the rival girl, as was foreshadowed several times in earlier episodes. This doesn't happen in the manga for many, many chapters -- in fact, she doesn't lose to another high school girl until vol. 13, near the end of the abruptly cancelled series -- but the anime was about to end, so it makes sense to put something like that in. This rival probably is more interesting than the one in the manga too, and that one has several dozen too many chapters focused on her as well... but I've complained about the manga direction enough. Anyway, it mostly worked.
If I have any complaints about this part, the team's loss, and the following near dissolution of the team, were pretty contrived. Seriously, we're supposed to believe that they'd just all break up like that? Yeah... no. Also, it's kind of annoying that there's a six month timeskip between the second to last and last episodes. Basically, it's like there's this entire arc in between that they're not showing, so some things that the last episode focuses on, like the teacher coming back, etc, are made much weaker as plot points because, well, he just left at the end of the last episode... it wasn't exactly long ago, for the viewer.
On a related note, numerous times in this series matches are mostly skipped over, which is frustrating. It'd be nice to see more of the actual matches. But that'd require more episodes than a show like this would ever get, sadly enough.
Overall, very good show, definitely watch it. It's just too bad that neither it nor its spinoff Bamboo Blade B ever got another anime.
Kill Me Baby 2 - This episode is about on par with the first one, that is, mediocre. As with that episode it had a few maybe funny parts, some borderline slightly amusing stuff, some stuff that wasn't too interesting, and a whole lot of "Wow, these characters, and the MC in particular, sure are STUPID!". I mean, seriously, this MC is brain-hurtingly stupid. The art style, which makes these supposedly high school girls look like they're maybe eight or ten years old, doesn't help either, but at least the characters look about as old as they act... but I',m sure that's part of the joke.
I don't think anything in this episode was quite as silly as the ninja part of ep. 1, but still even though the show's not really good, I'm just amused enough to keep watching anyway.
For people not watching it, ep. 2 has jokes about stuff like playing tag and the MC being forgotten because she hides too well, etc.
Bodacious Space Pirates 2 - I really like this show. Seriously, this is most likely my favorite new show of this season, of the ones I've watched so far. I can see why some people would dislike the somewhat slow pace the show has, but I think it works fine. This episode is every bit as good as the first episode. The MC is great, she's a likable character and is clearly a good leader. Sure, some elements of her are generic anime MC (the cluelessness) or anime girl (working at a cafe where she dresses like a maid), but there was more of that in the first episode; in this episode we better see why she's the lead character.
As for the episode, it's broken into two parts, roughly. In the first part it shows the ending of the scene that finished ep. 1, followed by the MC and her mother going off into an uninhabited area for some weapon practice. This scene is pretty good, the two of them interact well and have a good relationship.
Impressive gun too, giant laser blast!
The second part shows the school's Yacht Club going on a real space excursion. The whole club of girls, and their new adviser guy, are going to space!
I assume that that other guy on the station the guy is talking to is another pirate, this one as a contact on the station?
they're being hacked by another ship in the station
Oh, and as far as the whole pirate/privateer thing does, this episode again reinforces the idea that the government's on their side, for sure. These clearly are not "pirates" (privateers) this planet's government has issues with. I just want more of an explanation why, but I assume it's still forthcoming.
Overall, this is just such a fun show to watch... I really like it, both in characters and plot. The visuals are solid as well. (The magic skirts were kind of silly of course, particularly given that it's in zero gravity on the ship, but eh... why not, I don't care really.) Yeah, it's good stuff. It's a light series, sure, but a good light series, and not entirely predictable, as ep. 2 shows. If it stays this good, I'll be wishing for this to be a multi season show at this rate... but given the usual luck with such things... eh, who knows, it could happen, maybe. It's just ... fun, I don't know a better word for it.
Well yeah, you're not going to let a great parfait like that get away just because you're running away!Bodacous Space Pirates 2
I thought it was nice that she managed to hold onto her banana parfait during the action and finish it off. Chiaki and Marika make a nice team. Curious of what Kane McDougal is doing, thought he, Ririka, and Misa ought to be trying to get her prepared to be a captain.
Yeah, I agree. I wasn't expecting something like that, given the first episode, so it was a nice surprise.
I don't think there's anything here I could agree with at all, as my review above should make clear. Well, you are right that the pacing is a bit slow, but that's because they want to put in some detail and not just skip from action scene to action scene, and fortunately they know how to do the slow scenes well too, because this was a great episode.
I have The Great Game, and yeah, it is a good book. It's definitely a subject that you almost never see mentioned, which is part of why it's good... a fair amount of the stuff it covers isn't stuff even I knew much about, for the most part.
It's top-tier mono no aware, yes, but I've said before how much I dislike some things about that premise, for sure.
Lodoss War is okay, but it's so, so cliche... I've never really been a fan. I mean, it's okay, but nothing really special.
I don't think the TV series is too much worse than the original, but I'm not exactly a huge fan of the original either, so...
I really look how NOT-CLAMP the Blood-C movie looks; definite improvement over the Clampish look of the TV show. The more we get away from Clamp's style, the better.
Definitely an improvement in art design there, and maybe more like classic Saya?
... Why did you watch the second one? I know I watch bad shows sometimes, but Eiken's a bit much even for me...
But what did you think about the ED?
hosannainexcelsis
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Why would you watch Kill Me Baby when the reaction to it is overwhelmingly negative - oh right.
Ground Goku Arjuna 2
They can't even go without air conditioning for two weeks in the summer, such filthy fools.
They can't even go without air conditioning for two weeks in the summer, such filthy fools.
so classy
should've just stuck to watching the ED on youtube
i just had to see how bad it could get... i don't think it was worth it.
Unknown Soldier
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Okay, I admit it, this post made me laugh.
Femmeworth
Banned
I remember it being bad, but not that bad.
Unlike the Gurren Lagann movies,
which you need to watch >:|
Taraku-desgned high school students making a movie also reminds me of another work from more than 10 years ago.
I laughed more at this post than I did at KMB!
Depends on the timeline. It's inconsequential information, but I still don't know what year Rinne no Lagrange takes place in.
Unknown Soldier
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Just letting you guys know that I'm turning in my mancard for review and possible termination.
I can't marathon Sailor Moon. Before you repossess my balls, please recall that I successfully marathon'd RahXephon, Black Lagoon, Macross (everything), Yu Yu Hakusho, Lain, Last Exile, Full Metal Panic (everything), Baccano, Crest/Banner of The Stars, and LOGH. This last failure does not define me.
I can't marathon Sailor Moon. Before you repossess my balls, please recall that I successfully marathon'd RahXephon, Black Lagoon, Macross (everything), Yu Yu Hakusho, Lain, Last Exile, Full Metal Panic (everything), Baccano, Crest/Banner of The Stars, and LOGH. This last failure does not define me.
Yeah you have to be patient with it.
I'll just let you know ahead of time, it all pays off in the end.
Crash Station
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Hunter x Hunter R 15
It's really amazing how much the tension has been toned down. Looks like next episode might fix that though. Really hope so because this is one of the most intense moments in the series.
It's really amazing how much the tension has been toned down. Looks like next episode might fix that though. Really hope so because this is one of the most intense moments in the series.
It's too late, you've been logged in the AnimeGAF database.
You've fuckin' marathoned more than me, dawg
That was just recently.
Blue Gender, Ippo, Gundam stuff, Kenshin, Geass, TTGL, Elfen Lied... All I watch is marathons. And it can't possibly be healthy.
Nothing made me more bitter than RahXephon though.
Hmm, LOGH is huge. You can keep your card this time.
The last three shows that I marathoned before leaving for bootcamp were LOGH, Yu Yu Hakusho, and Gurren Lagann.
I got off that bus so ready. lol
It's implied
she treated piloting the mech as yet another sport, and her reason to continue piloting was merely out of obligation to repay that favor.
Now whether or not it's an acceptable reasoning is another thing.
I fully support this course of action.
Unknown Soldier
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The show makes it pretty clear she's piloting the Vox Aura because it shot her in the ass when she was drowning 10 years ago and she remembers that she's more or less bound to it, and it to her now. Though she wasn't privy to the conversation, when they were talking about it in the control room, they specifically said that once "Memoria" is established between Vox and pilot, only that person can pilot it from that point forward.
I get some Xenoglossia vibes from the relationship that Madoka has with her giant robot. I'm guessing this robot won't be Madoka's boyfriend though.
I'll contact your family should something happen.
You're missing the point. What is the reasoning/motivation for why Madoka agrees to pilot it in the first place, not why she can pilot it.
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