Hellsing321
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Looks like she's now in love with fish girl as well. Such a hard life.
Winter 2012 Anime Thread of Roundcats Up in This
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Looks like she's now in love with fish girl as well. Such a hard life.
No one on GAF maybe. The series sold fine.
Planetes had a set goal on what the characters were doing from the very first episode, so far we don't know what the hell this pirating entails exactly other than they're the shichibukai and we're 4 episodes in.
Milky Holmes - 03
A new record was broken this day, Subaru needs to take some tips.
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
Fucking otaku.
The show was interesting to me. It just clicks with my interests, and I appreciate them explaining how everything works. As I said, there are plenty enough anime out there that go the Maru route and that's fine, but sometimes I enjoy a show that takes its time to explain its world. Could they have thrown in a bone or two with some action sequences? Yes I think they could. But it hasn't really been necessary and I can tell the show is building towards some exciting stuff. I think people definitely need to wait for more episodes to come out and then when shit starts getting real, they can marathon it.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
I'm the last person who wants ships blowing up and whatnot, but that stuff is just boring science fiction.
I understand tapping on a keyboard is probably the least exciting thing that you can show on screen, but at that point your writers need to figure out a way to avoid having hacking scenes altogether.
As for explaining the world - they've spent so much time explaining technology that Marika doesn't really take the time to even ask what kind of man her father was.
Jex
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So you're saying he made it way awesome?
Hey man, they keep us afloat with all those figures and soundtracks they keep buying.
Dedication Through Light
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I wish there was more of that stuff actually.
At least available to buy in the US.
International shipping's not that painful once you get used to it.
Come, join us.
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
Mirai Nikki 16: Yuno is so freaking cuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuute. Truly the best waifu.
Nobody should ever get used to that.
Hellsing321
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Cowboy Bebop and Utena are required viewing for anyone. Forget about Xam'd
Crash Station
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Kurogane no Linebarrels 1
Why is everyone wearing eyeliner?
I like how Kouichi goes from wimpy (albeit with a twist) to relatively badass and hotblooded in the span of 1 episode. That's promising.
Why is everyone wearing eyeliner?
I like how Kouichi goes from wimpy (albeit with a twist) to relatively badass and hotblooded in the span of 1 episode. That's promising.
RightStuf has some figures and other merch too. Most of the prices seem pretty comparable to what you'd pay with international shipping though...
Also, international shipping isn't that bad if you stick to SAL and not EMS or something.
I have bought a few things straight from Japan and shipped here, but I dont know moonspeak so it's kind of difficult to find a lot of specific things.
I'll second this recommendation. Sure, I blacked out due to boredom in the second half of the series and awoke to find a hazy mist of worthless mythology. But besides that, great show.
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
Another 04: 50% awful animation, 5% scary shit, 95%
I'll drop this show. The mystery is not mysterious, the characters are not intriguing, and the scares rely more on shock value than being actually structured.
My "currently-watching" list getting thinner gives me nice feelings.
I'll drop this show. The mystery is not mysterious, the characters are not intriguing, and the scares rely more on shock value than being actually structured.
The deaths are quite gruesome, but I could watch a highlight reel for that.
My "currently-watching" list getting thinner gives me nice feelings.
Here I thought you were going for the jugular again.
Bebop is almost essential viewing. Xam'd if you have time to waste. I can't say anything about Utena (yet...)
Cowboy Bebop.
Another - 04
We have a Final Destination situation on our hands people
And everyone is still being a dick in not telling main character the rules, they even spent a couple of minutes delegating that very issue, I'm sorry it can't be justified that you can't tell him after the first day, especially when he's breaking the conditions on his own without a clue in the world.
And that is the main reason why any tension in this show is nonexistant, and with everyone acting like a prick, means I don't care if the whole classroom gets wiped out, so all I've got is looking forward to some good death scenes every episode.
We have a Final Destination situation on our hands people
I had the nurse marked with the death flag since episode 1, surprised it took this long.
And that is the main reason why any tension in this show is nonexistant, and with everyone acting like a prick, means I don't care if the whole classroom gets wiped out, so all I've got is looking forward to some good death scenes every episode.
Bebop first, then Utena when you've got the rest of the boxsets. I haven't seen Xam'd but I haven't heard good things about it.
Go_Ly_Dow
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Time watch Nisemono 4 and see if it creeps me out as much as everyone else.
I loved it!
DUCKROLL POST IF YOU'R....oh wait.
I loved it!
DUCKROLL POST IF YOU'R....oh wait.
darkside31337
Tomodachi wa Mahou
As much as I find Bebop to be overrated it's definitely the best of that group and by a substantial margin.
Infinite Justice
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How did you feel about Dance in the Vampire Bund?
Jex
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Why ruin all the suspense?
Go_Ly_Dow
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More like extend their life-span so they can give us Darker than Black 3!
Jex
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You have two 'essential' shows there, followed by one 'okay' show. Really, anything but X'amd.
Now with 100% Yin.
A Black Falcon
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Yeah, it's great stuff...
Yeah, I thought of Planetes some too, except unlike Planetes, Space Pirates is optimistic, not serially depressing and tragic. I much prefer the optimism, myself.
... The humor's not painfully awful like Planetes' was, either. I didn't exactly love Planetes, though... I could see why people like it, but didn't so much myself overall.
They do indeed put some real effort into the tech, yeah. That's a welcome suprise in anime, you don't see that too often I think. And as for the music, I think that it's "pirate music"-inspired -- it feels appropriately piratey to me. Good stuff indeed.
Yeah, the new BSG is just too bleak and depressing. I watched it for a while when it came out, but stopped somewhere after the first season, I believe... it was just too dark.
On the other hand, yes, I still love Star Trek, and Voyager is certainly my favorite of the TV series.
Oh, something about a voice actor. You can probably guess my response to that, I could care less.I'm pretty sure he's referring to the fact that Fractale had Kana Hanazawa and ended up being pretty boring despite that.
Star Trek itself, yeah, but Space Pirates is different.
It's tolerable as a weekly show, but yeah, it'd be best marathoned, I agree. I think the best example of a show that really should be watched all at once on now is probably Last Exile, the waits are so agonizing between episodes that I kind of stopped watching not because I don't love it, but because I think I just want to watch it all at once... the tension between episodes in that series is too cruel.
Certainly wasn't as good though.
Those pacing problems you're talking about just aren't there though... maybe a little bit while they were on the planet, but since they took off into space, certainly not.
Magic. That is why they're called magic skirts, yes?
Agreed on all points, yes.
That's fine in Star Trek, and is perfectly good here too.
As cajunator said, it makes so much more sense this way... anime usually tosses people who should be completely unprepared into these situations and magically has them be good enough anyway, but it makes more sense when it's a more gradual process, as it is here.
Sure, there are plenty of pretty good shows that use that style, I agree, but this way does make more sense and is a good approach.
Woah. Indeed, that might be a new record.Milky Holmes - 03
A new record was broken this day, Subaru needs to take some tips.
But if you're say8ing that you don't like the pacing, it seems to me that what you are saying is that you do want more explosions and less details of spaceflight, but the way they're doing things is so interesting, I would not want it that way!
It's not just tapping on a keyboard, it's an electronic struggle between two ships, and it's got plenty of tension I think.
dakkumauji
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Infinite Justice
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Jex
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Yes, but life is short!
Sorry, thought this was amusing. Reminded me of Horizon and its chatterthons.
It's not just two people talking on a bridge for twenty minutes, it's a political struggle between two countries.
MotionBlue
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Rinne no Lagrange 04
No action, but still entertaining regardless.
No action, but still entertaining regardless.
Woof. Lan is going to be the best character.
After the last episode things have started moving.
That aspect was becoming more irksome than suspenseful.
Then perhaps instead of watching animu he should travel and see the world!
Yeah, it's not the absence of action that's the problem. Detailed depictions of technology are great, but that technology has to have some sense of presence beyond a monitor or technical terminology becomes pretty disposable. It may be more realistic for the operations of a spacefaring vessel to be controlled completely through a computer interface, but it's not engaging.
I don't think that anyone is criticizing the show just for using technobabble, but the sheer quantity of mundane ship operations being vocally described combined with the dullness of talking heads staring at monitors in a control room is a recipe for boredom. Some people think that the glut of terminology is "attention to detail", I just happen to disagree and think it's stretching for time.
About the hacking, I understand that for some people it might successfully create tension as a kind of cat-and-mouse game or detective story, but for me, I feel the same way about watching someone else do complicated computer work as I do watching someone else play video games: probably really fun for the person doing it, but far less so for me. The monitor should at least have some crazy representational shit going on like Radical Ed's computer in Bebop.
The best parts of the past couple of Mouretsu episodes were the scenes where more of the ship was on display and actual non-computer cooperation was required among the crew.
Fixing the stuck sail
"pinging"
the ghost ship was an illusion
darkside31337
Tomodachi wa Mahou
Usually you'd go from Season 1 to Season 2 before a Season 3, no?
Season 2 untz untz untz > uninspired Yoko Kanno
I kind of agree with you that they should apply the tech a bit more than just talking about it, but they are starting to. I think it will start to have a better pace from here on out.
Its one of those slow burning series, but I can really see it "taking off" at this point.
Now that they are accustomed to the ship and how it functions, the real fun can begin. But I appreciate them taking the time to set things up, thats all.
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