Winter 2012 Anime Thread of Roundcats Up in This
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Ano Natsu de Matteru 4
I was hoping we could avoid the same cliche misunderstandings that exist everywhere else, but nope. Supporting cast continues to be miles ahead of the two leads, and yes, the biggest reason I am supporting Kanna is because she is voiced by Kaori Ishihara.
I was hoping we could avoid the same cliche misunderstandings that exist everywhere else, but nope. Supporting cast continues to be miles ahead of the two leads, and yes, the biggest reason I am supporting Kanna is because she is voiced by Kaori Ishihara.
Surprisingly, when I though about what my answer would be for this, the show that comes up is the first Fullmetal Alchemist series. I would have thought it would have been something older, but I guess I didn't watch as much anime as I thought before 2004 or so. Or at least not much anime that wasn't in a bowdlerized US primetime form.
Jex
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I don't really see where Princess Tutu fits into the whole scheme.
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
Resort Boin 3: Mika > Mitsugu > Nao > Momo-chan > Kanae > Maya WHY AM I WATCHING THIS SHIT THIS EARLY
Nothing ever one-upped the shower scene.
Jex
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Love Hina was the first fansubs I ever watched. It was back in 2000, and on some bad quality VHS tapes. I watched it because...hey...anime.
I would watch anything when I first started.
I'm not sure I would watch Love Hina now. It just isn't very interesting.
Jex
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sorry, we have a new Char.
Or had, rather.
I can't really mourn the death of generic rubbish, but I am surprised by it.
sorry, we have a new Char.
Or had, rather.
HNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNG
Jex
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So what you're saying is, unless one of your posts contains the phrase 'serious answer' I'm to assume that it's a non-serious response? My whole world is falling apart!
Crash Station
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Daily Lives of High School Boys 4
Yep, that's pretty much exactly how working the reception desk is. More often than not, it's pretty awkward.
Yep, that's pretty much exactly how working the reception desk is. More often than not, it's pretty awkward.
Infinite Justice
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Jex
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Who'd have thought that something is inconsequential as money could shape your perspective and behaviour?
Jex
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Don't even joke about that!
Not only is your soul corrupt, you happily wear this corruption on your sleeve. A true SHAFT prophet, here to spread the good word.
Don't forget how lovable Chris is.
You know, I think anyone in Japan (or perhaps, anywhere in the world really) would be able to make such a bland product like IS.
> Start a setting where the main character is special amongst other men
> Introduce 10 girls that hopelessly fall in love with said main character for absolutely no reason. Each girl must fall under a different Archetype/trope.
> Have lots of harem situations with each of the girl, as well as girl to girl conflicts.
> A bunch of action scenes to make it look like there's some kind of actual story
bam. who wants to be a millionaire? just dont become a dick afterwards
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
Listen to me Girls, I am your Papi 04: One minute into the episode:
...
Great, now I'm trying to figure out how many of the light novel to anime adaptations in the last few years have actually used that formula.
More tasteful than Haly's avatar.
Having not watched Nise, his avatar looks like a guy forcing a girl to fellate him...
PdotMichael
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Chihayafuru - 17
Pretty much a training episode but with fewer special attacks and more character developement.
Maybe I should change my anime gender, so that I can be part of the Josei target group.
Pretty much a training episode but with fewer special attacks and more character developement.
Maybe I should change my anime gender, so that I can be part of the Josei target group.
Well that's that.
Broshikosei 04:
No anime had made me laugh this much in years. I wish I was articulate enough to describe why the humor works so well, but I'm not. There's something about the awkwardness, the mundane subject matter, and the less-than-flattering way that they depict female characters that would be treated as moe objects by any other series.
The student council makes me wish that real-life delinquents were more comical and less cretinous.
I'd believe Koyomi would do that after watching the first episode of Nise
Hell you don't even need the main character to be special, he just needs to exist and the ladies will drop their panties in many of the adaptations.
Jex
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I'm not so much shocked by how generically generic it is, but how they're willing to can such a major hit. I mean it's clearly not what they want to be doing, but still.
CCS 47
Something pink and something very very GREEN.
A
. Sakura's school gets a lot of them.
and when Sakura goes to investigate,
This is obviously an issue that must be addressed.
That
dude looks rather chill.
The
now!
Something pink and something very very GREEN.
A
new transfer student
Something dodgy about this guy right off the bat.
Sure enough, it starts raining for no reason at all
Sure enough, it starts raining for no reason at all
she cannot activate her magic Wand.
This is obviously an issue that must be addressed.
That
Mr Clow
The
Clow Card book has Sakura's name on it
20,000 sales worth of blandness? Easier said than done. It takes talent.
Ahem, I mean talent and the perfect season/circumstances. My mistake.
Infinite Justice
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Jex
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Well, he's missing all the Nisemonogatari anti-hype.
But not nearly as satisfying.
Jex
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More tasteful than the shampoo scene, I guess.
They were only clean because of all the running water!
RurouniZel
Asks questions so Ezalc doesn't have to
sorry, we have a new Char.
Or had, rather.
Is... is this what they call love? \(//∇//)\
It is a rather impressive shop.
Well, I suppose it does take talent to make such generic stuff interesting (if it is). Although the english translation of IS novel doesn't do the source material any favors..
Ah, how could I forget
Jex
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∀ Narayan;34698947 said:
You're watching Chihayafuru, so you're already up to date on the best show. Natsume is good as well, but everything else is average to bad.
∀ Narayan;34704682 said:
Watching Bakemonogatari is a...good choice I suppose. However, moving from it to Nisemonogatari might be quite difficult because at the moment Nise is a far shoddier product.
My avatar is the Nise equivalent of this scene.
What I really mean to say is that you all should watch Nise 4. Your (anticipated) rage would only fuel my love for this show.
What I really mean to say is that you all should watch Nise 4. Your (anticipated) rage would only fuel my love for this show.
Wiktor
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Waaaaat??!!!
Jex
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This reminds me of what bothers me most about that most recent episode of Nisemonogatari - all the character interactions, and especially those ones, were actually very interesting. I liked it, as words, as audio, as character-banter and sparring - just not as a piece of visual storytelling. That's where it completely failed.
Very few seem to be displeased with the its current direction. At least the ratio indicates so anyway.
Sounds like someone hasn't watched it (yet). No further comment.
Jex
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Why would that happen? It's not selling well because people liked the episode with the cool action sequence in it - it's selling well the the fujoshi market and they don't really seem too bothered by how crappy and inconsistent the show looked a lot of the time.
I read the first volume of the novel and got bored. Was I supposed to watch the anime? Because the novel left a bad after taste
Jex
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I dislike seeing Chihayafuru and Ben-To not sell well.
You might want to stop looking at sales charts then. (Insert you favourite show here) probably won't sell particularly well unless it's one of those extremely popular otaku titles. If you enjoy works that explore different areas, themes, styles and approaches you might have to get used to them selling pretty badly.
Your words only make us stronger you know.
From what I've watched, average and bad (respectively) seems appropriate.
Jex
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Real friends watch School Days together.
PdotMichael
Banned
Ditto! The winter season is pretty nice if you like good shows.
Jex
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I've only seen Rinne, but it's inherently average (with pretty good production values). There's nothing special about it.
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