That scene is pretty far down on the list when you actually talk about the most unbelievable things that happen in the show.
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That scene is pretty far down on the list when you actually talk about the most unbelievable things that happen in the show.
hmm.. Glass Fleet looks interesting. In a horrible way.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlHiifmrc7w
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlHiifmrc7w
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Saiunkoku Monogatari > Fushigi Yugi.
hosannainexcelsis
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If anyone decides to watch Glass Fleet, don't forget to watch the abridged series as well.
Persona 4 15
Charlie is a sexy beast.
If they don't get NanakoI will be severely disappointed. Kids lovea lamp for a giftlamps.
Yosuke isn't jelly about Broswag hogging the girls, he's jelly that he can't be where Yukiko is.
You don't get it, he wants that sword IN him...
Twist of a twist:
Chris is everyone. Everyone is Chris. Itadakimasu!
Short hair Senjou > Anne ... ?
A Black Falcon
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Thermae Romae 1 - This series is indeed fantastic, like the manga. It's really too bad that it's only going to be six half-length episodes, it deserves much more...
The series has two main focuses. One is teaching the viewer about Ancient Rome, and their bathing in particular. The other is about how awesome Japan's bathing culture is. Both get a significant focus in the show. The second's a bit overdone at times, but it is true that an ancient person would find the modern world pretty amazing, certainly. But still, yeah, this is really good, definitely a must watch.
... I don't remember stuff like that
in the manga though... :lol
Maria Holic 2-3 - :lol, yeah, this show is pretty funny stuff... I'll definitely be continuing with this! Also, and I don't know if I thought of this with ep. 1, but the visuals remind me strongly of Bakemonogatari's style at times (in the intro particularly, and occasionally in the show), and indeed it's by the same studio, so that makes sense... It breaks the fourth wall a couple of times here too. Usually I don't like that, but it was kind of amusing here.
Poor MC though, all she wanted was her yuri paradise and she got roped in with this guy. :lol
Brave 10 1 - Okay show about a bunch of bishie warriors and the girl travelling with them in Sengoku-era fantasy Japan. ... Yukimura Sanada's one of the main characters though (the "brave 10" are the heroes he is gathering, specifically)? I can't help but think of the Yukimura from Samurai Girls...
Apart form that though, this was decent but not great. Pretty cliche stuff through and through, from the quite tsun main guy (he should just say "I totally don't want to go with you at all!" and get it over with...
) to the somewhat childishly useless female lead. She has a special power of course, but knows nothing of it. She's also got a tragic recent past, etc.
Also, the MC girl's costume is quite thoroughly historically inaccurate, from the hotpants to the skirt. Oh well...
I also rewatched several of the Slayers movies recently, most notably Slayers Great (and also Slayers Gorgeous a bit ago). The movies and OVAs are all entirely free of any serious plots, but some of them are funny. Gorgeous is good, but Great is just average for a Slayers movie. Oh, sure, it's entertaining, Slayers nearly always is (I love the franchise...) but predictable, and there is better. Still, certainly funny enough to watch. The somewhat ridiculous battle between Lina and Naga's giant golems was good stuff.
I will say, though... seriously, Lina's got absolutely no conscience at all. How many people died when she fired off that Dragon Slave right in the middle of the lake next to the town? I mean, like a third of both fortresses was blown apart, the lake -- which earlier had been full of boats -- blown apart, etc... I know that in Slayers it never, ever yshows anyone actually getting killed when Lina uses Dragon Slaves in populated areas -- instead, even people just yards away somehow miraculously survive, as happens here with the people in the grandstand -- but seriously, when you see the scale of the destruction when the camera pans out that idea is pretty ludicrous. But either way, Lina, she doesn't care at all and just runs off. And yet in other episodes, in the main TV serieses, she gets quite angry at enemies trying to destroy cities and such. What, she thinks that only she should be allowed to do that or something? (And yes, this is indeed why Slayers Revolution's joke that
)
... That is indeed both awesome and horrible.
It's second to Lain on my list, but otherwise yeah, anime doesn't really get better than Haibane Renmei.
What, being even more amazing than the first season?
Indeed absolutely true.
The series has two main focuses. One is teaching the viewer about Ancient Rome, and their bathing in particular. The other is about how awesome Japan's bathing culture is. Both get a significant focus in the show. The second's a bit overdone at times, but it is true that an ancient person would find the modern world pretty amazing, certainly. But still, yeah, this is really good, definitely a must watch.
... I don't remember stuff like that
guy with a robot head
Maria Holic 2-3 - :lol, yeah, this show is pretty funny stuff... I'll definitely be continuing with this! Also, and I don't know if I thought of this with ep. 1, but the visuals remind me strongly of Bakemonogatari's style at times (in the intro particularly, and occasionally in the show), and indeed it's by the same studio, so that makes sense... It breaks the fourth wall a couple of times here too. Usually I don't like that, but it was kind of amusing here.
Poor MC though, all she wanted was her yuri paradise and she got roped in with this guy. :lol
Brave 10 1 - Okay show about a bunch of bishie warriors and the girl travelling with them in Sengoku-era fantasy Japan. ... Yukimura Sanada's one of the main characters though (the "brave 10" are the heroes he is gathering, specifically)? I can't help but think of the Yukimura from Samurai Girls...
Apart form that though, this was decent but not great. Pretty cliche stuff through and through, from the quite tsun main guy (he should just say "I totally don't want to go with you at all!" and get it over with...
) to the somewhat childishly useless female lead. She has a special power of course, but knows nothing of it. She's also got a tragic recent past, etc.Also, the MC girl's costume is quite thoroughly historically inaccurate, from the hotpants to the skirt. Oh well...
I also rewatched several of the Slayers movies recently, most notably Slayers Great (and also Slayers Gorgeous a bit ago). The movies and OVAs are all entirely free of any serious plots, but some of them are funny. Gorgeous is good, but Great is just average for a Slayers movie. Oh, sure, it's entertaining, Slayers nearly always is (I love the franchise...) but predictable, and there is better. Still, certainly funny enough to watch. The somewhat ridiculous battle between Lina and Naga's giant golems was good stuff.
I will say, though... seriously, Lina's got absolutely no conscience at all. How many people died when she fired off that Dragon Slave right in the middle of the lake next to the town? I mean, like a third of both fortresses was blown apart, the lake -- which earlier had been full of boats -- blown apart, etc... I know that in Slayers it never, ever yshows anyone actually getting killed when Lina uses Dragon Slaves in populated areas -- instead, even people just yards away somehow miraculously survive, as happens here with the people in the grandstand -- but seriously, when you see the scale of the destruction when the camera pans out that idea is pretty ludicrous. But either way, Lina, she doesn't care at all and just runs off. And yet in other episodes, in the main TV serieses, she gets quite angry at enemies trying to destroy cities and such. What, she thinks that only she should be allowed to do that or something?
(And yes, this is indeed why Slayers Revolution's joke that
that inspector guy's main charge, after he arrested Lina, was "being Lina Inverse", and that none of her friends could contest the validity of the charge either, was so funny -- it's so true...
... That is indeed both awesome and horrible.
It's second to Lain on my list, but otherwise yeah, anime doesn't really get better than Haibane Renmei.
What, being even more amazing than the first season?
Yeah, Chris really is the worst. He's such a ridiculously horrible person across the board that it's just absurd...Earth Maiden Arjuna 13 END
See this dude? Yeah, that smug douchebag. Thanks to this fucking piece of shit over 120 million people had to starve and suffer. All of this shit could have been avoided if he just explained to people what the hell was wrong and what was going on in a calm and collected manner instead of the whimsically metaphorical shit he liked to spout to others. Clearly his hatred of words is thanks to his complete and utterly attrocious people skills.
Also fighting the visualisation of earths suffering with fancy rave glow-sticks.
he thinks nothing of causing the deaths of millions because he is secretly doing some not-so-nice things (all because he's so kind or something of course), and hates words so he thinks that unless people can read his mind he won't tell them anything... it's pretty ridiculous. It'd be hard for him to be a more unlikable, horrible character, I think. I mean, it's probably possible, somehow, but he tries hard to make imagining such things difficult.
Indeed absolutely true.
hosannainexcelsis
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Might as well watch dubbed.
Well I don't think the sub is available for streaming. The dub is quite good though.
RurouniZel
Asks questions so Ezalc doesn't have to
Persona 4 15
Charlie is a sexy beast.
Subtitle needs to be shopped to read "I am so bored"
You get kugishota, iirc, with the sub but I'd go dub.
Hellsing321
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Well of course. Yoskue is deeper in the closet than Kanji.
I've never posted in the anime thread before, but I figured this was the right place.
I just finished the first season and the OAVs of Darker than Black, and I'm surprised I'd never heard of it before I saw it on Funi's website, because it's one of the better shows I've seen in a while.
The 2-part episode format was a double edged sword in that it did a really good job of developing side characters
But Hei is a boss so it's all good.
It's not an instant classic or anything, but I'd definitely put it in the "pretty damn good" category. And it manages to remind me of better shows like Bebop or GITS:SAC without being a crappy ripoff.
Now it's time to watch the second season and hope it's not crap.
I just finished the first season and the OAVs of Darker than Black, and I'm surprised I'd never heard of it before I saw it on Funi's website, because it's one of the better shows I've seen in a while.
The 2-part episode format was a double edged sword in that it did a really good job of developing side characters
before killing them off, sending them away, making them disappear into thin air, or revealing they were already dead.
It's not an instant classic or anything, but I'd definitely put it in the "pretty damn good" category. And it manages to remind me of better shows like Bebop or GITS:SAC without being a crappy ripoff.
Now it's time to watch the second season and hope it's not crap.
I'm prepared for the worst
Femmeworth
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According to Anime-GAF, there is no second season.
Did you wonder just what the fuck happened near the end of the OAVs? Now take that ending and stretch it out for an entire season while tossing in drunk chinese men and naked lolis. That's what the supposedly mythical season two is.
Glass Fleet 1
Why is this guy's hat so fabulous?
Why does a space faring civilization have no long range weapon capability?
did i see a horse drawn cart traversing the hull of a starship???
Back in the day I used to catch shows in the middle of their run on adult swim. It would always be the middle of the series long after characters were introduced and established so I'd wouldn't really know who the characters were. I wouldn't know why things were happening but things happened. This episode felt just like that.
Why is this guy's hat so fabulous?
Why does a space faring civilization have no long range weapon capability?
did i see a horse drawn cart traversing the hull of a starship???
the people the people the people
Back in the day I used to catch shows in the middle of their run on adult swim. It would always be the middle of the series long after characters were introduced and established so I'd wouldn't really know who the characters were. I wouldn't know why things were happening but things happened. This episode felt just like that.
Infinite Justice
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Its funny people think there was a second season of DTB
yep its that fucking bad to fans here
If they did a second season, I bet it would be awesome just like the first. Too bad they never did though.
Is it?? I have really enjoyed Saiunkoku Mongatari (well the 30 eps of it I watched so far) but I figured Fushigi Yuugi was better. Well that's interesting. The shows are certainly similar in scope.
SOMEBODY STOP HIM BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE.
Thanks thread for reminding me of another one I've been meaning to watch in Darker Than Black. I'm kinda craving some action anime, preferably things with great fight choreography or gunplay, any suggestions? It doesn't have to be recent.
Meanwhile, I'm all caught up on Nisemono and wow, they went full retard with all the smuttiness didn't they?
was well played though.
Meanwhile, I'm all caught up on Nisemono and wow, they went full retard with all the smuttiness didn't they?
Kanbaru assaulting Koyomi and the latter pulling a Mayoi
Crash Station
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Guilty Crown 13
Back to back badasses right there.
Kind of weird to see an aftermath episode turn into a festival episode. Not exactly what I want out of the former. Oh well.
The way the Void power has changed seems pretty cool.
Either way, Ayase's Void is pretty cool provided she isn't using it all the time. Still gotta have that wheelchair moe.
I really like the new OP. Shoe looks badass with the scarf and for some reason, angry as hell. Maybe asking for him to pull a Simon is too much, but the OP gives me enough hope that he can at least get out of the wimpy phase. Dude is already donning a better expression when using the Inori sword. I also like how Shu and Inori are being compared to Gai and Mana, sort of a "carrying on the next generation" message (even if the latter kind of suck). ED is cool too.
Back to back badasses right there.
Kind of weird to see an aftermath episode turn into a festival episode. Not exactly what I want out of the former. Oh well.
The way the Void power has changed seems pretty cool.
It looks like it might be an auto-activating system based on a user's high emotional state, or perhaps a specific kind of emotion.
I really like the new OP. Shoe looks badass with the scarf and for some reason, angry as hell. Maybe asking for him to pull a Simon is too much, but the OP gives me enough hope that he can at least get out of the wimpy phase. Dude is already donning a better expression when using the Inori sword. I also like how Shu and Inori are being compared to Gai and Mana, sort of a "carrying on the next generation" message (even if the latter kind of suck). ED is cool too.
The funny thing about physics is it only exists if you believe it does.
In anime anyway.
From School Days to Glass Fleet. Animugaf is on a roll.
InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
So is Yami up next?
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
The Knight in the Area 03: This show is preeeeetty awful at handling drama; hopefully we get some football antics soon. The animation downgrade and horrible soundtrack didn't help either!
So to make up for that lameness we have some Seven instead!
So to make up for that lameness we have some Seven instead!
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Did they stop doing Gran Turismo jazz?
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Sadly, yes. Instead they've replaced it with awful 10am soap opera musica. The hospital scenes are hard to take seriously because of that (also, janky editing and bad dialogue).
InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
Hito. O:
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
God fucking dammit why do you guys make me undrop this show every fucking week now I have to check this shit out in the (vain) hope that it is indeed truly badarse.
He gets a scarf and a trenchcoat. If all that swag can't save a man's spine, nothing can.
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I'm gonna end up watching the whole show because of you motherfuckers.
Oh so that's how it works.
A girl finally stands up for herself and you're no longer interested in her.
Crash Station
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I'm clearly in the minority here. I haven't disliked a single episode among the last 4 or so. Don't force yourself, dude.
not what i signed up for man
There's a sign-up sheet for this now?
Do you have to specify which working limbs you'll accept or is it more of a case-by-case thing?
I'm glad the fence is in the shot. To let you know that she's a prisoner to her chair.The symbolism of Guilty Crown is super deep:
Why do I think it's cool when Bakemonogatari does the same thing?
She definitely wants Shoe... I mean... Shu, but locks up her feelings behind her caged heart. Also I like it in bakemono too.
Because Shaft makes it look good.
The symbolism of Guilty Crown is super deep:
Those wheels are huge.
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