Winter 2012 Anime Thread of Roundcats Up in This

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icarus-daedelus said:
Hey, now, that's surely not the only thing she eats. They also have Anthy's terrible shaved ice every once in a while.



Student council-flavored.
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I'll take a Nanami flavor, though I'm a little scared that I'll start
laying eggs
if I have too much. And I'm sure as hell not touching the
curry
.
 
Aw fuck, I can't do this i'm 30 seconds into Ano Natsu 4 and it's just too hard to deal with the embarrassing atmosphere around the main characters. Am I the only only who's weird like that?
 
Dance In My Blood said:
Space Pirates operates in the exact opposite way a show should. So far it looks like there will be 6+ episodes of high school girls on an emotionless and uneventful pleasure cruise. None of the characters interact with each other outside of the exposition of information. Pirates didn't need any of the episodes they've shown so far. They don't establish the characters well, or work towards telling the story that is obviously being set up.

I didn't post about episode four because I turned it off once in the middle when the high school girls said they would be attacked as they passed behind the sun because nobody would be able to see them.
I would make a joke about how people think this show is "realistic", but Pirates fans suffer enough without me piling it on.
I came back to it later and just wound up skipping through the last half of the episode. Guess what I missed out on. Literally nothing.
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They never said that bro
They said the pirates might be hiding in the shadow of the sun
Unless you can magically detect ships directly behind stars, it sounds right

Noirulus said:
Aw fuck, I can't do this i'm 30 seconds into Ano Natsu 4 and it's just too hard to deal with the embarrassing atmosphere around the main characters. Am I the only only who's weird like that?
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That happens to me when I watch Curb Your Enthusiasm
 
Noirulus said:
Aw fuck, I can't do this i'm 30 seconds into Ano Natsu 4 and it's just too hard to deal with the embarrassing atmospheres around the main characters. Am I the only only who's weird like that?
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That embarrassment stuff seems kind of diminished for Ano Natsu by the main character being a hallucinating psychotic and the love interest being an alien.
 
Dance In My Blood said:
That embarrassment stuff seems kind of diminished for Ano Natsu by the main character being a hallucinating psychotic and the love interest being an alien.
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If only he was hallucinating that
whole scene at the end of episode 3
. When embarrassing stuff like that happens I usually pause the video and take a break.
 
KuwabaraTheMan said:
Legend of Galactic Heroes 1:
So, it begins. There's a lot to take in here, including a lot of characters with long names and a number of different factions. I'm sure I'll get a handle on everything soon, though. The central characters in the first episode are all set up pretty well, and I think there was some good drama between them and some nice glimpses into what society is like for these people. I'm intrigued to see where this goes.
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It's a bit too late now but I'd actually recommend watching the movie version of the first two episodes - Overture to a New War. It basically extends and fleshes out the first two episodes, making them redundant.
 
K-On!! 7

if they didn't take the opportunity to sell shit like mio branded pencils or back-scratchers after this episode then kyoani royally fucked up a golden opportunity on getting some more of that sweet sweet otaku yen.

Noirulus said:
Aw fuck, I can't do this i'm 30 seconds into Ano Natsu 4 and it's just too hard to deal with the embarrassing atmosphere around the main characters. Am I the only only who's weird like that?
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nah, this shit happens to me all the time.
 
moonspeak said:
I didn't think the scene was so bad. I think was too distracted by the cool looking bathroom to care so much.
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And everyone seems to conveniently ignore how much Koyomi manservice there was in that scene! Let's ignore for the moment that there probably isn't one female Bakemonogatari fan in all of Japan; there have been a surprising number of shots of his washboard abs in Nise, whereas I can't recall a single moment of Koyomi in any state of disrobe in Bake. It was hard to feel anything about the scene when I was actively avoiding one character and trying not to look too closely at the other.
 
Branduil said:
The first few episodes obviously aren't bad, but episode 5 is where most people agree it becomes amazing.
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Episode 1 was amazing due to this scene - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzr0a0sKn6Q it blew me away when I first watched it back in 2004, I was like "this is the real shit"
Instro said:
Not Macross Plus?! Get him!
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But the original macross is way better than plus.
Jexhius said:
It's averagely average.
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Pretty much, at least some of it is fun!
 
ulysses said:
And everyone seems to conveniently ignore how much Koyomi manservice there was in that scene! Let's ignore for the moment that there probably isn't one female Bakemonogatari fan in all of Japan; there have been a surprising number of shots of his washboard abs in Nise, whereas I can't recall a single moment of Koyomi in any state of disrobe in Bake. It was hard to feel anything about the scene when I was actively avoiding one character and trying not to look too closely at the other.
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It's Hanasaku Iroha all over again.
 
jman2050 said:
Nisemonogatari 4

I know what I just watched, but a part of me doesn't want to believe it, but then I remembered it's Shaft and Nisioisin, but then I'm like they were never this shameless, but then I remember episode 2 of Bake, except this was something else entirely and holy shit Shinobu is awesome, how did she instantly become my second favorite character, wait hold on, it's her words, her WORDS, nothing else, certainly nothing visually, it's definitely her dialogue and voice, everything else is just gravy wait no, it's not, it's just incidental. Incidental I tell you!
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See, this is clearly a corrupted soul.
pizzaroll said:
As if they ever had any.
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Nah, you have to see episode 4 of Nisemonogatari to believe it. Not that you should. Ever.
 
Jexhius said:
It's a bit too late now but I'd actually recommend watching the movie version of the first two episodes - Overture to a New War. It basically extends and fleshes out the first two episodes, making them redundant.
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I'm glad you mentioned this at any rate. Any other viewing tips?
 
ulysses said:
And everyone seems to conveniently ignore how much Koyomi manservice there was in that scene! Let's ignore for the moment that there probably isn't one female Bakemonogatari fan in all of Japan; there have been a surprising number of shots of his washboard abs in Nise, whereas I can't recall a single moment of Koyomi in any state of disrobe in Bake. It was hard to feel anything about the scene when I was actively avoiding one character and trying not to look too closely at the other.
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Not gonna lie, Ararararagi-kun is pretty ripped.
 
slopeslider said:
They never said that bro
They said the pirates might be hiding in the shadow of the sun
Unless you can magically detect ships directly behind stars, it sounds right
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They say if the attackers wanted to try something they would do it behind the star "where people are less likely to see". Space is three dimensional. How do you hide from sight? And who is using vision to check out what's going on in space? Is Galileo looking up at the sky and checking out another star and noticing that the invisible blip of a space ship filled with high school girls is getting attacked? Who is going to see anything? It's pretty dumb. Not as dumb as everyone floating around in space with no tethers or jetpacks and not just drifting off into the void, but pretty dumb.
 
hosannainexcelsis said:
Perfect Blue

What a fantastic film. Satoshi Kon's love of blurring the lines between reality and fantasy works perfectly with the material he's dealing with: the idol business, which is all about turning a real person into an imaginary persona. It works both as a commentary on how producers, fans, and idols themselves react when that disconnect between the created and the original becomes apparent, and as a taut psychological thriller. The direction is top notch throughout, with lots of little careful touches. The opening sequence is brilliant in first setting up the disparity between the imagined and the real with the stage performance of a different kind of celebrity, sentai heroes, and then seemlessly moving the camera from that to a variety of different fans milling outside, each of which slowly gives us more information on our protagonist and her situation, as well as the makeup of her followers. I could go into great detail, but I'll leave at the Internet, television screens, fish, and mirrors.
The ending caught me by surprise but made perfect sense, which is the best kind of ending.
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It's pretty amazing how Perfect Blue was Kon's first feature length movie considering what a fully-formed work it is. I certainly prefer it to this final work, Paprika, in nearly every area.
 
Dance In My Blood said:
They say if the attackers wanted to try something they would do it behind the star "where people are less likely to see". Space is three dimensional. How do you hide from sight? And who is using vision to check out what's going on in space? Is Galileo looking up at the sky and checking out another star and noticing that the invisible blip of a space ship filled with high school girls is getting attacked? Who is going to see anything? It's pretty dumb. Not as dumb as everyone floating around in space with no tethers or jetpacks and not just drifting off into the void, but pretty dumb.
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Space is 3d, but everyone is not everywhere
I'd imagine the majority of people and government are centered near the planet, and from that angle you couldn't detect them
If someone were behind our sun we couldn't detect them, doesn't matter if space is 3d or not, there's a physical object in the way, and we are not everywhere looking everywhere from all angles at all times

You couldn't use infrared, the stars heat would throw it off
You cant use visual sight, the sun is in the way
And you cant use radar, there's a physical object in the way
 
Lafiel said:
Episode 1 was amazing due to this scene - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzr0a0sKn6Q it blew me away when I first watched it back in 2004, I was like "this is the real shit"
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Much like that fight, and this one later on in the series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQvAHEloOpY (Which happens to be my favorite anime fight scene ever) The use of first person really adds to, and in the second clip almost makes, the scene itself, imo. It's a shame you see it used so rarely, and with such tact at that.
 
slopeslider said:
Space is 3d, but everyone is not everywhere
I'd imagine the majority of people and government are centered near the planet, and from that angle you couldn't detect them
If someone were behind our sun we coudn't detect them, doesn't matter if space is 3d or not, there's a physical object in the way
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We can detect things behind the sun with radar or satellites. Let's say people on the home planet detect them during the attack. Then what? They take the long voyage out there and show up long after the attacking ship leaves? We are talking about a show with magic space sonar or something anyways.
 
icarus-daedelus said:
And yet you'll still be tuning in next week. For academic purposes, I'm sure!
It was one of the first anime movies I watched and it blew my mind at the time, so I hold it kind of dearly.

so what you're really saying is Perfect Blue > Paprika > Inception
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Totally off-topic. Your avatar zoomed in. :O
I am way too happy about this. >_>
 
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