Winter 2012 Anime Thread of Roundcats Up in This
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Jex
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People aren't expecting the same type of show as those other works, especially because they know what the story of the show is.
It's not like there was a big rumour going around saying "Watanabe is making a new show!" and everyone was going "Will it be like that Bebop thing"?
We are just looking for a well directed show with awesome music.
We're expecting something good because our idea of good(and Watanabe's) isn't limited to one genre.
So I finally got the chance to sit down and watch Summer Wars. I think I'll be buying the Blu-Ray. Great movie that manages to say more about the relationship between the online and real world than anything I've seen Hollywood attempt. Sucked that I couldn't rent it anywhere though. This is the "service problem" that people are talking about here. It's not even available to buy digitally anywhere.
I never thought I'd say this about an anime movie, but the extended family in Summer Wars actually reminds me quite a bit of my own. Massive number of rambunctious family members gathered in one place, rural setting, too many out-of-control kids, etc.
I never thought I'd say this about an anime movie, but the extended family in Summer Wars actually reminds me quite a bit of my own. Massive number of rambunctious family members gathered in one place, rural setting, too many out-of-control kids, etc.
Jex
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Just a little bit.
firehawk12
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All I know about the show is that it involves Jazz. So I expect lots of cameos from real life jazz musicians and so on!
Yes. I liked the Cowboy Bebop series a lot.
It was one of the first things I bought when I started collecting.
However, for me that isn't enough to know for certain I will like something.
I will probably end up liking this, but not because of who made it.
I bought the Treme DVDs and I live not far from NOLA and I know what its like over there, so I can be pretty sure that nothing Japan has made so far really quite compares to it. Its not really about Jazz. It is about the lifestyle of New Orleanians and the shit they have to deal with on a daily basis. THey are very optimistic people who love nothing other than hanging out with friends having fun and thinking about life. NOLA is a total shithole of a city with the best people in the world.
firehawk12
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I was half joking, of course.
Even if there was a jazz culture in Japan, I can't imagine an anime/mango doing it any justice.
Jex
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At least it will sound great.
It's probably healthier than the one in America.
not quite related: I mean, Haruki Murakami owned a jazz bar until he started writing novels. And people go to jazz clubs to brood in thriller novels.
I was half joking, of course.
Even if there was a jazz culture in Japan, I can't imagine an anime/mango doing it any justice.
I's love to see a mango that could do NOLA justice. It would be a very special mango indeed.
firehawk12
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Novels > mango/animu though.
It'll be an Ameri...go... (I can't think of a clever portmanteau thing for American comic books) that would probably touch on that anyway.
ColossalLazy
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Yoko Kanno and the guy who made Cowboy Bebop, this gonna be gud even if it is a manga adaptation and a story about highschoolers. Already waiting for dat OST.
hosannainexcelsis
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Noitamina is a block of programming on Fuji TV. It was started with the goal of airing shows aimed at audiences that most anime wasn't made for, particularly female audiences with shows such as Honey and Clover, Paradise Kiss, and Nodame Cantabile. The past year has been rough for the block as it's experimented with more otaku-audience shows, which have turned out pretty bad. Guilty Crown is the low point. However, with next season it seems to be going back to its previous goals. Time will tell if it that will continue.
Shows from noitamina that I can wholeheartedly recommend are episodes 9-11 of Ayakashi leading into Mononoke, Trapeze, Wandering Son, and Usagi Drop.
Noitamina describes a timeslot on Thursday nights on Fuji TV which was originally designed to be devoted to "anime for people who don't watch anime" - girls, working adults, that kind of thing. Over time that has become more like "WTF is this show?" or "WTF is this otaku shit doing in this timeslot?" but it's always had a varied output.
I have no idea what kind of shows you like or may/may not have seen. Most noitaminA shows are at least average, with only a few outright terrible shows in the timeslot - it's just unfortunate that two of those aired last year.
Look at the Wikipedia list, look at the synopses, and generally watch the ones that don't sound too sci-fi (although I maintain that Jyu-Oh-Sei is mostly good, and No. 6 is merely dull rather than shittacular).
firehawk12
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New Orleans, Louisanna.
firehawk12
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Old anime sucks anyway! Right?
I should have figured this one out, I thought it was this but I figured it was New OrLeAns.
NOLA is just how us Louisianians refer to it. Its an endearing term.
Fractale had a great OP also. I actually havent watched anything from Fractale or No6 EXCEPT the OPs lol.
Anyway, work beckons as usual.
On the other side of this 12 hours is another glorious CCS marathon session and 4 days off, so I'm excited!!
Fractale had a great OP also. I actually havent watched anything from Fractale or No6 EXCEPT the OPs lol.
Anyway, work beckons as usual.
On the other side of this 12 hours is another glorious CCS marathon session and 4 days off, so I'm excited!!
darkside31337
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I don't really care what you folks think of Ano Hana but I'm kind of insulted it's being lumped with the likes of [C] and Fractale. I guess general GAF has superior taste than AnimeGAF or something.
And in the old days noitaminA only churned out one series a season anyway. There have been several years with only two good nointaminA series, hell some years only had one good show. Nothing has changed other than more fodder being churned out on top of the good stuff.
And in the old days noitaminA only churned out one series a season anyway. There have been several years with only two good nointaminA series, hell some years only had one good show. Nothing has changed other than more fodder being churned out on top of the good stuff.
The graphics are so much better now.
Who here ever said they had good taste?
darkside31337
Tomodachi wa Mahou
Since nobody has mentioned it yet, bad news shounenbros:
Funimation announced on Thursday that it has suspended production on all future Blu-ray releases of the Dragon Ball Z television anime series, including the Level 2.1 disc that was originally scheduled to be released on March 27.
Funimation said that it had produced the Blu-ray editions of the series due to fan demand; however, the company explained that "due to technical challenges of restoring from the original film frame by frame, we are unable to continue these releases by way of this process." The company added it will re-evaluate its process of creating these Blu-rays and will research more efficient methods of restoration.
Crazy.
Funimation announced on Thursday that it has suspended production on all future Blu-ray releases of the Dragon Ball Z television anime series, including the Level 2.1 disc that was originally scheduled to be released on March 27.
Funimation said that it had produced the Blu-ray editions of the series due to fan demand; however, the company explained that "due to technical challenges of restoring from the original film frame by frame, we are unable to continue these releases by way of this process." The company added it will re-evaluate its process of creating these Blu-rays and will research more efficient methods of restoration.
Crazy.
ColossalLazy
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Instead of restoring everything, they should cut the parts where the fighters stare at each other for like a entire episode.
So, Kai then?
firehawk12
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The important question - does NOLA have a lot of moe?
I like anohana a lot.
firehawk12
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When the Saints Go Marching In is the best song ever?
Dedication Through Light
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No wonder they have money for so many new series...guess thats one series I can cross off my to see list.
[C] had an interesting premise at the start, and then it more or less went nowhere with it, much like Anohana, except Anohana managed to recover in the second half of the last episode.
Crash Station
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So would you watch an adaptation of a standard harem series if it were directed by Watanabe? Would you not be at least cautiously optimistic?
Along with the usual recommendations of Nodame and Usagi Drop, I would throw Kuragehime and Moyashimon out there too.
Neither was particularly complete as a show due to being cut short from their source material, but I thought they were very well done for as far as they went.
Neither was particularly complete as a show due to being cut short from their source material, but I thought they were very well done for as far as they went.
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