Winter 2012 Anime Thread of Roundcats Up in This

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Did I mention how the otherworld scenes in BRS no longer serve any real purpose and are just pointless visualizations of the already incredibly obvious and overplayed conflicts.
 
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This episode was riveting from start to finish, with a long-awaited and personally significant battle, fight strategies that were exciting to watch play out, and an emotional conclusion.

Or that's what it should have been. As it was, the poor execution and problematic pacing made it boring. The art at the end was too poor to sustain the dramatic impact the narrative was going for.
 
Black★Rock Shooter 2: That was... weird.

I did quite like the real life stuff myself, but only because I already watched the OVA and already have a perception of Yomi and Mato's relationship. If I had only watched the previous episode and this I would definitely feel confused. Their bond has simply not been given enough time to foster, and indeed it might come out as incredibly manipulative to other people.

The CGI segments are still amazingly well-directed and indeed the highlight of the show, but I can't quite come to like the whole "here's the girls' internal struggles represented in video game form" vibe they opted to take for this franchise. It simply doesn't feel coherent in any respect with the rest of the show beyond the similar character designs. It's true that other action shows make such elements symbolical of internal character strife too, but in there it's more carefully woven into their structure, whereas here it always feels like I'm jumping from a Tetsuya Nomura video game to a soap opera.

P.S. Kagari is pretty cute. >_>

<_<
 
Black&#9733;Rock Shooter 2: That was... weird.

I did quite like the real life stuff myself, but only because I already watched the OVA and already have a perception of Yomi and Mato's relationship. If I had only watched the previous episode and this I would definitely feel confused. Their bond has simply not been given enough time to foster, and indeed it might come out as incredibly manipulative to other people.

I watched the OVA, you know. It's a completely different relationship born from completely different situations. You can't really use the OVA characterization or development to justify the events of the TV show since Mato's character is the only part of the TV show remotely similar to its OVA counterpart:

 
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Well that was a nice turn of events and some cool voids. And I guess the statement of scarves making characters cool and epic is true. Shu fit well into his role, but it was more shocking at the end there when
he laughed all crazily when he realized he could cause people to die by breaking their voids. Yahiro is so devious and cool too. I did feel bad for Souta though, but thats the only way they can get vaccines :(
2nd half was quite epic. The next episodes are going to be awesome I bet.
Gai!!!?! Revived, what even. Shu, Inori, Ayase are gonna be mindblown

Inori/Shu scene in the garden had nice style, I liked it, though what was it he realized?
 
I watched the OVA, you know. It's a completely different relationship born from completely different situations. You can't really use the OVA characterization or development to justify the events of the TV show since Mato's character is the only part of the TV show remotely similar to its OVA counterpart:

My point was that the OVA serves to fill up the gaps of the loosely-glued bond the telly version has managed to build between both girls. Indeed, the telly version's interpretation of their character is quite weak.
Stop it. The pain. It hurts me. IT HURTS ME. :(
You brought this on yourself, honestly.
 
At least in a show like Yami you can find amusement in how poorly put together it is, but in Rosario + Vampire there is nothing but pain.

I didn't mind Fade to Black too badly because the concept of turning up and everybody just wanting to fight you again was kind of awesome, but that delivery was shithouse.

I heard the manga of Rosario + Vampire was maybe bits of okay?

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Rosario manga is good. Can't speak for the anime though. I hear it's very different.

Yeah, it's a straight RomCom and the protagonist is a complete fucking idiot.
 
My point was that the OVA serves to fill up the gaps of the loosely-glued bond the telly version has managed to build between both girls. Indeed, the telly version's interpretation of their character is quite weak.

We will carve the suffering out of you.

The OVA doesn't really fill any gaps. It's a different show. The OVA BRS is like the original movie made in Japan, and the TV series is a Hallmark miniseries remake directed by Joss Whedon or something. :(
 
I heard the manga of Rosario + Vampire was maybe bits of okay?

The manga pulls a Negima by going full on battle shounen with sporadically good fights and some rather shocking twists considering how the story started out.

It isn't great, but there are shades of genius here and there.
 
The OVA doesn't really fill any gaps. It's a different show. The OVA BRS is like the original movie made in Japan, and the TV series is a Hallmark miniseries remake directed by Joss Whedon or something. :(
I'm just trying to make my experience a little bit more tolerable; call it denial. You clearly are on the way to reaching acceptance soon.
 
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If I was dragged out to a remote place by my friend just so I could see a view like this, I would punch him.

This episode wasn't nearly as effective as episode 6 was.
Part of that is that Inumaru isn't as colorful a personality as Kobayashi was, so it's difficult to care about what happens to him. The lack of a memorable and imposing antagonist such as Robert hurts as well. Another part is simply that the execution is weaker, especially the lazy pacing.
Pretty boring in the end.
 
I'm just glad that Ducky and I didn't waste any time making an OT for the travesty that is the B&#9733;RS TV anime. I'll always have the OVA and my fond memories of it.
 
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Yeah, these fights really are feeling like incredible filler. And what's the point of introducing the celestial power levels if a normal human can reach the highest one? New ED!

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What happened to needing to have your weapons rooted on the ground? Hell, what happened to actually needing trash to use your abilities? His explanation for receiving two weapons was also convoluted as hell, but that's to be expected.
 
The manga pulls a Negima by going full on battle shounen with sporadically good fights and some rather shocking twists considering how the story started out.

It isn't great, but there are shades of genius here and there.

It seemed a little interesting but I don't think I'll bother when there's all this other stuff I still need to catch up on...

why the fuck are you watching law of ueki miri
 
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What happened to needing to have your weapons rooted on the ground? Hell, what happened to actually needing trash to use your abilities? His explanation for receiving two weapons was also convoluted as hell, but that's to be expected.

That's just how the celestial powers work. They are not the same as the candidate abilities.
 
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Kagari: terrible anime character, or the most terrible anime character?

No words for this episode. Only immense shame that I allowed myself to be deceived by newtaminA yet again. They keep offering me the ugliest macaroons and I eat them up without getting the message.
 
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This episode had better than usual direction - the episode director also storyboarded some episodes of Baccano and Natsume, so it's not surprising that he knows what he's doing more than the others. There was a palpable energy and fluidity to the fight that I haven't seen before, and even afterwards there was some good use of cinematography to set up the power dynamics between the various characters. The usual design problems were still there, but it still managed to be engaging. Hopefully that can continue into the next episode, since it seems to be a pivotal one.
 
The OVA doesn't really fill any gaps. It's a different show. The OVA BRS is like the original movie made in Japan, and the TV series is a Hallmark miniseries remake directed by Joss Whedon or something. :(

Wat. lol

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Anyhoo, Amagami SS+ 6 made up for the boring by adding in lots of random service. I'll let you all discover the wonder that is Nii-Nii and cake Teacher.
 
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My mind cannot contain the awesome. Seriously, I am not even confident I could explain what just happened. All I know is it was among the most badass scenes I have ever seen in an anime. Forget Shin Mazinger, THIS is more like TTGL.

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But yeah, it was kind of hard to follow at times. I have no knowledge of Mazinkaiser beyond the fact that it's a more metal themed reimagining of Mazinger, but it still felt like they tried to cram too much plot into 3 episodes which just made it confusing. We still barely know anything about the characters and main duo beyond "they are incredibly badass dudes".

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Either way, I'm here for well-choreographed mech fights more than I am for the plot. It definitely delivered on that and is just making me crave more super robot shows with extremely hot-blooded pilots and good animation. Still looking for someone to top Simon, but that may be unfeasible at this point.
 
Thats should be safe since its not a sci-fi show.

I'm still not convinced that the plot won't eventually involve the characters battling against an international military organization that uses future technology to impose a jazz ban on Japan or something like that.
 
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There's a couple things wrong with this picture, but I'll leave that as an exercise to the reader.

The backstory was OK at first, but then it got ridiculously contrived and
the two-faced Director
was another villain straight out of Hell Girl. With such a simplistic view of human nature, it's hard to take what happened at the end seriously. The fight itself was another exercise in power levels and cheater powers and other nonsense.

I want the Cossack dancing back.
 
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Well that was a nice turn of events and some cool voids. And I guess the statement of scarves making characters cool and epic is true. Shu fit well into his role, but it was more shocking at the end there when
he laughed all crazily when he realized he could cause people to die by breaking their voids. Yahiro is so devious and cool too. I did feel bad for Souta though, but thats the only way they can get vaccines :(
2nd half was quite epic. The next episodes are going to be awesome I bet.
Gai!!!?! Revived, what even. Shu, Inori, Ayase are gonna be mindblown

Inori/Shu scene in the garden had nice style, I liked it, though what was it he realized?

In the garden scene Inori said something that was a lot like Mana. Then towards then end(when she killed the ex-president) you could see she resembled Mana a bit. I don't want her to turning into Mana mannnn
 
But no seriously, you all think you're turning me off on BRS, instead all you're doing is awakening my masochistic tendencies in full force.

And while I'm at it I'll catch up on Guilty Crown too.
 
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