Blurray version too right!? For dat superior quality...
Winter 2012 Anime Thread of Roundcats Up in This
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Blurray version too right!? For dat superior quality...
hosannainexcelsis
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I was thinking about checking out Bodacious Space Pirates, but its hideous OP sapped all motivation to do so.
If only there were some way to skip it.
Hellsing321
Member
Even more reason to stay away from it.
Just picture dat bathroom architecture in glorious 1080p. Mouth-watering.
Well it depends, but usually people are enjoying it by that point if they're still watching it.
Unknown Soldier
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What kind of stuff? Abject boredom?
hosannainexcelsis
Member
A bad OP is often a sign of a bad show!
I would love to have a bathroom like Araragi's.
I know man, that bathroom might be the single greatest thing to come out of this series, and that's saying something.
Dedication Through Light
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Hideous? I think it grows on one...unlike the hideous Another OP, now that is terrible, that group should be barred from singing for anime.
Unknown Soldier
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Ali Project should be barred from existing, but oh well. They need to air new episodes more than once a week, the anticipation starts killing me about 5 minutes after I watch the episode.
But what about bad shows that have good OPs?!
You're right about TNG not being immune to entire episodes of that sort of thing, though I haven't watched much since my teenage years so my memory is beginning to dull on the specifics. I think that Mouretsu is still far more about its characters than its technology; the writers obviously think that this interminable blow-by-blow of the
electronic attack on the Odessa II
re: Hanekawa, I knew that the
hair
glasses
She obviously loved Araragi at that time, but the end of that arc resulted in her agreeing to cease pursuing him rather than her actual feelings for him dying out, I think.
feeling sadness at the fact that she'll only ever be there as a friend, nothing more.
Unknown Soldier
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Many bad shows have good OPs, but it's rare to find a good show that has a bad OP. Another is an example of this.
Stop hating on Shaft!
hosannainexcelsis
Member
A bad OP is a sign of laziness or incompetence that will likely carry over into the rest of the show, but a good OP could be the result of getting someone more talented than the rest of the staff to do it and so can't be viewed in a similar fashion.
Razgriz-Specter
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I just started watching Amagami SS, Im really surprised how much im liking it. every girl is likeable in some way imo.
Femmeworth
Banned
You bought Oreimo? Oh wait, of course you did. -_-
Code Geass sure didn't have any good OPs.
KuwabaraTheMan
Banned
Heavy Metal L-Gaim 2:
Amu and Kyao are already bickering like an old married couple. I like how Daba and Kyao felt out of their element in the big city. So far, the setting of this show and the fact that everything has had a chance to breath. There's some hints as to where the plot will be heading, but so far the pacing has been pretty refreshing.
That's probably a good sign that it isn't worth watching.
Amu and Kyao are already bickering like an old married couple. I like how Daba and Kyao felt out of their element in the big city. So far, the setting of this show and the fact that everything has had a chance to breath. There's some hints as to where the plot will be heading, but so far the pacing has been pretty refreshing.
That's probably a good sign that it isn't worth watching.
Hey, the OP is one of the few good things about the show. What other anime can you name that opens with a SAILOR CHANTEY? It fills me with hope that this week might be the week that the show actually gets good, though the fact that I need to be refilled with that hope every week kind of speaks for itself.
darkside31337
Tomodachi wa Mahou
How dare he buy shows he actually liked. The audacity, the horror of it all.
Well that just won't do. You need to pick one girl and scoff at anyone who disagrees with your waifu of choice.
dakkumauji
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Poyopoyo Kansatsu Nikki 1
I want one of these in my life now.
I want one of these in my life now.
Nisemonogatari 04
Noooo I miss Hanekawa's older design
I thought this episode was pretty solid overall. I liked a lot of Araragi's dialogue for some reason here and also dat cathedral/bathroom design haha.
Persona 4 animu 15
It was okay I guess as it's pretty obvious that it wouldn't live up to the sheer amazingness of last week's episode oh man. Interesting turn of events at the end of this episode too...
Noooo I miss Hanekawa's older design
I thought this episode was pretty solid overall. I liked a lot of Araragi's dialogue for some reason here and also dat cathedral/bathroom design haha.
Persona 4 animu 15
It was okay I guess as it's pretty obvious that it wouldn't live up to the sheer amazingness of last week's episode oh man. Interesting turn of events at the end of this episode too...
Femmeworth
Banned
Well, supporting Aniplex USA is a pretty horrible thing to do in its own right.
Also I just found this post.
At least he admits it.
Crash Station
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I wish there was a full version of the first time it was played with the rest of Brook's crew. Definitely more epic.
hosannainexcelsis
Member
Their Baccano BD boxset was well put together and well priced.
Cajun's always been pretty upfront about his lack of standards.
I can't buy into that too much, or rather I don't think I could get into the mindset of trying to guess at the quality of a show based on its OP. I mean I really didn't like either Penguin Drum OPs for example...
I know that feel, bro. Everything about Brook's backstory just tears your heart out and tramples on it, and then they come up with the most amazingly bittersweet melody for the anime adaptation of the Bink's Sake song. Just because of the emotion behind it, it's one of my favorite musical pieces in all of anime.
I heard that they didn't even bother to make English-language menus for the BDs but merely used the Japanese menus and annotated them. Is this true?
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
Mayo Chiki! 06:
Mayo Chiki! 07: Episode 2:
Furries too!? This show truly has something for everyone. Even in all its pandering it is great to see it have a fun jab at obsessive otaku the likes of Subaru fangirls.
Mayo Chiki! 07: Episode 2:
Episode 6:
Episode 7:
Where the fuck was she hiding those funbags!?
Femmeworth
Banned
That's only because it was an upscale, and Funimation had already released it.
PdotMichael
Banned
You know, thermal expansion and stuff. And a beach is a hot place.
RurouniZel
Asks questions so Ezalc doesn't have to
Glad I'm not the only one who felt compelled to make a direct comparison, though I used shots from the same episode.
Razgriz-Specter
Member
Really wish it had something more appropriate for the show like Higurashi, Ghost Hunt or Shiki's.
hosannainexcelsis
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The menus are in both English and Japanese - barebones, but they look nice and get the job done.
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
Maru Maru Poyo (Maru!) 04:
The pro-cat agenda of this show is off-the-charts.
Watashi no Chiisana Uma: Yujo no Mahou Desu 41: This is about as tense as you can get this premise to work, even if the ending was telegraphed very obviously. The way they handled the message was pretty nice too, making fun of the formula while still hammering on the importance of nakama.
Femmeworth
Banned
Some serious binding must be involved.Glad I'm not the only one who felt compelled to make a direct comparison, though I used shots from the same episode.
dakkumauji
Member
I think it was worse than that. I heard they didn't bother translating any of the on-screen text on the show, which makes it harder to understand the jokes in the episode previews.
Persona 4 16
IT'S A TRAP!
I also liked that the team isn't scared of shadows or whatever else might come their way but instead they are scared of the status Old Age.
Gotcha. That doesn't sound so bad, though Aniplex taking the easiest way out with some of their releases and then charging the absolute max that they possibly can for them is still pretty sad. I'm surprised that Baccano even got an artbox for its BD release and wasn't just the Japanese packaging.
Glad I'm not the only one who felt compelled to make a direct comparison, though I used shots from the same episode.
All this proves is that coat tail tuxes are awesome and should come back in style not as butler attire.
hosannainexcelsis
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Actually the lack of structural cohesion in Penguin Drum's OPs prefigured the lack of structural cohesion in the show as a whole.
Indeed, most of Aniplex USA's releases are ridiculously priced. I would love to buy Fate/Zero, but alas.
They're the most cynical company in the North American anime industry. With a few exceptions, cater exclusively to a small group compulsive collectors for whom price is no object and fuck everyone else. It's their prerogative to use a high-cost, low-customer business model instead of a more Funimation-like business model, but it feels exploitative when they take it to the pricing extremes that they do. I'm not even buying Madoka, much less Fate/Zero.
I'm near-broke and need the money for a Vita, but that's beside the point 
Knight in the area 4
It keeps being hilariously bad. The doctor
Also, I laughed during Seven and Kakeru's talk at the park
. That shit felt way too cheesy to me. I don't know if the goal of that scene was to move me emotionally or not, but it scored some laughs.
The best part of the episode though was the preview for the next episode.
It keeps being hilariously bad. The doctor
busting out a book about heart transplant people having memories and stuff of the people they received the heart felt absurd to me. I still feel like she has some secondary goal.
where she tells him the heart he received was from his brother
The best part of the episode though was the preview for the next episode.
Femmeworth
Banned
I kind of want to buy Madoka, but $40 minimum for only four episodes is fucking ridiculous. At least it has a dub, though. Aniplex has their head up their ass about as far as Bandai Visual. On one hand, it shows they care fuck all about piracy and on the the other it shows they want to fuck over those who do want to legitimately buy/own the product.They're the most cynical company in the North American anime industry. With a few exceptions, cater exclusively to a small group compulsive collectors for whom price is no object and fuck everyone else. I'm not even buying Madoka, much less Fate/Zero.I'm near-broke and need the money for a Vita, but that's beside the point
Funny thing is that if you have the cash, the hellish $400 Aniplex releases might not be a bad investment. I think I saw one of the Kara no Kyoukai sets go for $800 on ebay once, so I guess it's not exactly flushing money down the toilet.
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