I can only hope there are sharks, murderous jellyfish, and piranhas in Japan.
Winter 2012 Anime Thread 2.22: You Can (Not) Outpost Cajunator
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I can only hope there are sharks, murderous jellyfish, and piranhas in Japan.
AppleSmack
Banned
Yeah, your exactly like me lol. This entire anime reminds me of Higurashi and the OP is also growing on me. Their little club they made to investigate the curse is similar to Higurashi, along with the creepy atmosphere. The major difference is that there are more boys in girls in the "Another" club
DrForester
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if there was ever a show I wish i could wipe and re-experience fresh....
I might have to watch this. The director and animation director of Alice both worked on Lupin Part III too, which most likely describes it's wacky style. I hated it at first, now I quite enjoy it.
Just prepare yourself for lots and lots of weird sex.
Midori
welp
Kawaii~ such a cute movie!
Let me know if you need to talk to someone, I'm here for you.
AppleSmack
Banned
Steins Gate's 2nd half truly is some of the finest story telling in anime. Its so touching and epic.
Razgriz-Specter
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Yeah, your exactly like me lol. This entire anime reminds me of Higurashi and the OP is also growing on me. Their little club they made to investigate the curse is similar to Higurashi, along with the creepy atmosphere. The major difference is that there are more boys in girls in the "Another" club
Yeah started out with the uneasy feeling Higurashi had, atmosphere got better. now the last two episodes are in full Hig mode.
Im enjoying this alot, wont be kicking Higurashi out of my top 5 but its still good.
I stopped reading the manga at about this point to enjoy the rest of the show first.
don't know why I thought it but would be hilarious if
the solution of 15 years ago was two people in the class falling in love ha
AppleSmack
Banned
Yeah that should be about right. I could understand his reaction even more if its the one where we find out
she fails
RurouniZel
Asks questions so Ezalc doesn't have to
Oh god I remember watching that. ;_; So good, yet so sad.
Oh god. That ep. After it, I just had to get up and think shit out for a bit. What a
despairing take on existentialism.
Tenchi Muyo Ryo-Ohki 9
For all the time they spent building toward all this Sasami stuff the end result felt ultimately somewhat inconsequential but I guess she needed to get her own episode just like everyone else.
Tenchi Muyo Ryo-Ohki 10
Everyone except Ryo-Ohki. Until now, that is. It's a good thing I'm already furry for Hosoda.
Tenchi Muyo Ryo-Ohki 11
Have I mentioned how much I love the background work on display here? Take a look at this shot, for instance:
It lingers on screen for all of two seconds but it's such an arresting composition you can't help but commit it to memory. I mean, just look at it! It's so crazy and otherworldy. I love it.
And that's just one example out of many.
Tenchi Muyo Ryo-Ohki 12
One thing Ive noticed is that this show has a tendency to handwave away any explanations to stuff it doesn't feel like lingering on any more than it absolutely has to. Twice now they've used the "Yeah they occupy the same body. Moving on" card. And move on we do.
Lovey dovey Ryoko is most definitely hnng.
Tenchi Muyo Ryo-Ohki 13
I guess the biggest takeaway here is to always bet on Mihoshi. Also, that Jurai royalty family tree must be one impossibly tangled mess.
And speaking of tangled messes, I'm not really sure where I'm supposed to go from here. Talk about a fragmented franchise.
For all the time they spent building toward all this Sasami stuff the end result felt ultimately somewhat inconsequential but I guess she needed to get her own episode just like everyone else.
Tenchi Muyo Ryo-Ohki 10
Everyone except Ryo-Ohki. Until now, that is. It's a good thing I'm already furry for Hosoda.
Tenchi Muyo Ryo-Ohki 11
Have I mentioned how much I love the background work on display here? Take a look at this shot, for instance:
It lingers on screen for all of two seconds but it's such an arresting composition you can't help but commit it to memory. I mean, just look at it! It's so crazy and otherworldy. I love it.
And that's just one example out of many.
Tenchi Muyo Ryo-Ohki 12
One thing Ive noticed is that this show has a tendency to handwave away any explanations to stuff it doesn't feel like lingering on any more than it absolutely has to. Twice now they've used the "Yeah they occupy the same body. Moving on" card. And move on we do.
Lovey dovey Ryoko is most definitely hnng.
Tenchi Muyo Ryo-Ohki 13
I guess the biggest takeaway here is to always bet on Mihoshi. Also, that Jurai royalty family tree must be one impossibly tangled mess.
And speaking of tangled messes, I'm not really sure where I'm supposed to go from here. Talk about a fragmented franchise.
Inu X Boku SS 5: Sugita's character really made this a lot more amusing than usual. Everything can be classified as S or M! Needs more of this and the rest of the apartment's residence.
Papa 6: A little reprieve from the confines of one university student's tight apartment when the gang heads back to their old house. Was a little more usadrop this week which is nice to have. Fanservice is still there though. Sako is still creeping on them nieces and now even the 3 year old. Looks like Raika finally meets them next episode. Hopefully that'll be fun times.
Highschool DxD 7: The animation during that dodgeball game was sure unimpressive. The healing scene was good though. The latter half where they find servants for the newbie demons Asia and brotag was a lot funnier than I was expecting. Poor Slime monster. Its ability to dissolve clothes and brotag's perversion deserved each other. Pouring out a 40 for that.
Guilty Crown 17: Why would you even keep those two terrible dudes as high ranked guards Shu. Why.
Happy end.
Symphogear 6-7: The friendship between Hibiki and Miku start to get shaky as the whole relic and noise thing gets out in the open while Hibiki and Tsubasa get closer. Turns out Chris is just being used like a fool with some grand delusion that she'll stop wars with what she's doing. (How does summoning noise to disintegrate people factor into that I'm not sure). The bad engrish came about once again as Fine donned some gold armor relic. The fights are still kinda cool I guess with Chris's relic being some gatling guns + missiles combo (the armor looks way better than the Neshutanwhatever one). I guess I'm still enjoying the show. Chris is dumb though and the scene with the lost kids bleh.
Papa 6: A little reprieve from the confines of one university student's tight apartment when the gang heads back to their old house. Was a little more usadrop this week which is nice to have. Fanservice is still there though. Sako is still creeping on them nieces and now even the 3 year old. Looks like Raika finally meets them next episode. Hopefully that'll be fun times.
Highschool DxD 7: The animation during that dodgeball game was sure unimpressive. The healing scene was good though. The latter half where they find servants for the newbie demons Asia and brotag was a lot funnier than I was expecting. Poor Slime monster. Its ability to dissolve clothes and brotag's perversion deserved each other. Pouring out a 40 for that.
Guilty Crown 17: Why would you even keep those two terrible dudes as high ranked guards Shu. Why.
So glassesguy takes advantage of Arisa sexually inexchange for items in which she can use to stage a coup against our terrible Tyrant. They execute their plan to get out and succeed. Shu gets betrayed for being a douche and Gai cuts off his arm.
Symphogear 6-7: The friendship between Hibiki and Miku start to get shaky as the whole relic and noise thing gets out in the open while Hibiki and Tsubasa get closer. Turns out Chris is just being used like a fool with some grand delusion that she'll stop wars with what she's doing. (How does summoning noise to disintegrate people factor into that I'm not sure). The bad engrish came about once again as Fine donned some gold armor relic. The fights are still kinda cool I guess with Chris's relic being some gatling guns + missiles combo (the armor looks way better than the Neshutanwhatever one). I guess I'm still enjoying the show. Chris is dumb though and the scene with the lost kids bleh.
AppleSmack
Banned
Oh...Please no....If thats true then FFFFFUUUUUUUUU. The last scene makes your theory quite likely too.
The only bad part is that you're coming up to what I at least considered to be the slump episodes of the series. They're not terrible by any means, but man were they such a downer after the awesome of 16. It'll get back to those levels of awesome again though, so do not worry.
RurouniZel
Asks questions so Ezalc doesn't have to
The artistry of the original OVA series was quite lovely, the paintings were all very intricately detailed brimming with imagination. ^_^
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/images/FEATURE/222/Family.jpg
Hellsing321
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If you want to finish the rest of this continuity you'll need this. Its not great but I liked it better than most of the other continuities.
KO Traveling Hobo
Member
My two guesses are
1) the dead person's spirit has to be put to rest and 2)the dead person has to die/be killed.
RurouniZel
Asks questions so Ezalc doesn't have to
That's what I'm thinking too. I think
that's what the guy in the bar was alluding to when he was talking about how he had to do it, and that he saved everyone. It clearly bothered him, whatever it was he did, and that likely goes with killing someone. Even if it's for the greater good.
Higurashi sequel?
Too many fingers for that tehe
AppleSmack
Banned
Hmmm, yes but
I'm kind of confused how you can kill someone who is already dead. Maybe its all just symbolic? Nobody is really an undead but they call the person who is the "extra" an undead?
RurouniZel
Asks questions so Ezalc doesn't have to
Well they are inhabiting a body, perhaps that way? I mean yeah that's confusing, and I could be totally wrong and killing them just makes them respawn or something. Rekill? Now I'm confused. >>
Zero no Tsukaima F 4-5:
Saito, can I say you're a jerk? 'Cause you totally are. And I don't mean that in a "You have so many women around you I envy you you jerk!", I mean like he's an actual jerk. He's nothing but sweet talk when he's alone with Louise, but then suddenly
the much hotter Princess magically appears in his new home and BAM! Making out and shit. Seriously all the talk of him being in love with Louise is total bullocks. Thus, he's a jerk. So there, neener neener neener!
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
I finally finished the Penguindrum part of the Speakeasy podcast. Despite my complaints about the actual content it was thoroughly entertaining. It made up for the lack of academic research with hot-blooded enthusiasm. Nonetheless there are some problems:
- Dismissing people who don't like the show as "they don't get it" is probably a bad stance to take (even if I agree to a certain extent about how the majority of complaints are directed to what Penguindrum wasn't and not what it managed to be).
- Didn't they explicitly say the Penguindrum itself was
? So why all the juggling in the middle of the discussion?love
- There's no reason that a dub wouldn't have the same problems as the subs already do. That has nothing to do with the format of the localisation and everything with the quality of the people at work.
It seems to me like Lagrange only really has two modes: mecha mode or moé mode. The only reason the otaku-baiting had stopped for a while was because the animators were too busy animating robots and not silly girly stuff like skinny-dipping.
I think the difference in opinions here is that in my eyes the show hasn't taken a dark, brooding route yet. It has hinted at it through not-so-subtle foreshadowing and out-of-place flashbacks, but the overall tone of the show remains just as light-hearted. Mood whiplash hasn't set on firmly enough for me to notice it.
KO Traveling Hobo
Member
It's not like
the ghost is some incorporeal phantasm. It looks, acts, and feels alive. And if the ghost wasn't functionally alive, then all it'd take to identify the ghost is a routine physical and maybe an x-ray or something.
RurouniZel
Asks questions so Ezalc doesn't have to
Bold one: I always toss the opinion of anyone who takes this blanket stance out of the window, admittedly. I feel like it's the narrative's job to be as approachable as possible without crossing the line of unimaginative /dull, and the ones that don't are aptly labeled esoteric--which I believes to come with a negative connotation by default. There's varying degrees to that, of course, but the farther away it is the term in general, the better I believe a piece to be.
Bold two: From what I've seen, honest intellectuals are never sure, man; conclude until you reach the 'right' conclusion, and still continue to wonder about it, I guess.
Arjuna 06:
The insanity. The despair. Juna
, both figuratively and literally. There really wasn't a message this episode; Kawamori just wanted to make the viewer as depressed as possible.
. Maybe going off the grid and subsisting on bug-eaten weeds is the only way to save myself.
School Days 06:
MAKOTO YOU ASSHOLE. I'm really feeling bad for Kotonoha now.
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Blood-C 06:
Great fucking job Saya.
The insanity. The despair. Juna
going on a very bad trip
I am so fucking scared of ending up like the math teacher someday
School Days 06:
MAKOTO YOU ASSHOLE. I'm really feeling bad for Kotonoha now.
I still really like Sekai even if she's not completely innocent either. Too bad she's probably the one that dies at the end
Blood-C 06:
Great fucking job Saya.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Gintama 214/Four Divas Arc end:
The room gets a little dusty and I have to wipe my eyes when the end happens. I'm not sure why that happens every time I watch this episode... and I've seen it like 5 or 6 times now.
Gintama is still good.
The room gets a little dusty and I have to wipe my eyes when the end happens. I'm not sure why that happens every time I watch this episode... and I've seen it like 5 or 6 times now.
Gintama is still good.
Gintama 214/Four Divas Arc end:
The room gets a little dusty and I have to wipe my eyes when the end happens. I'm not sure why that happens every time I watch this episode... and I've seen it like 5 or 6 times now.
Gintama is still good.
Oh, you were re-watching! Nice. I was actually planning a revisit here, myself. I was thinking that it might be too soon though, lol.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
It's never too soon to watch one of the best anime arcs ever!
Trojita
Rapid Response Threadmaker
High School DxD Episodes 5-6
Anime of the season right here!
I'M GOING TO MAKE THIS BITCH CRY!
Another Episodes 1-2
Well this anime took a page from the Shiki rulebook of being way too fucking long for no reason. You should hear the ambient music coming out of my expensive speakers, creepy!
Scooby and the gang should arrive in this town.
Anime of the season right here!
I'M GOING TO MAKE THIS BITCH CRY!
Another Episodes 1-2
Well this anime took a page from the Shiki rulebook of being way too fucking long for no reason. You should hear the ambient music coming out of my expensive speakers, creepy!
Scooby and the gang should arrive in this town.
RurouniZel
Asks questions so Ezalc doesn't have to
Zero no Tsukaima F 06:
Wow, the bitch fight is in full force now. No one is letting up and they're willing to bitch slap each other over the worthless piece of shit MC. That's what makes me not like this show, so many impossibly beautiful and important people fighting over Saito the most bumbling stupid worthless protagonist. >>;
Wow, the bitch fight is in full force now. No one is letting up and they're willing to bitch slap each other over the worthless piece of shit MC. That's what makes me not like this show, so many impossibly beautiful and important people fighting over Saito the most bumbling stupid worthless protagonist. >>;
Someone is targeting AnimeGAF. Who will be next?
That's pretty true.
hosannainexcelsis
Member
It was a self-imposed ban.
Hellsing321
Member
I knew this den of sin wasn't long for this world.
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. And a penis is just a penis.
Shit, I gotta write the next chapter of The Unbound Uguu and the Eternal Tsun before they get to me.
New Moe-style Radar Detector/GPS to Be Released in March.
I'm impressed at the idea, and saddened that it has happened at the same time.
I'm impressed at the idea, and saddened that it has happened at the same time.
-Minsc-
Member
Gintama 214/Four Divas Arc end:
That picture; simple, yet so powerful.
Trojita
Rapid Response Threadmaker
"as well as unlock new costumes and dialogue for Kirishima. A "night-drive" mode where users can invite the character on a late-night drive has also been added."
HNNNNNNG
I... I need this to go with my Madoka phone-app.
KO Traveling Hobo
Member
Fistbump. It's not Sekai's fault that she's got a bigger set of ovaries than Kotonoha.
This view of Saya's efforts never occurred to me while watching, but damn if it doesn't make me laugh in hindsight. I feel like I watched the series the wrong way.
dakkumauji
Member
Sounds like a distraction during driving, yet makes perfect sense while driving alone. What a paradox.
RurouniZel
Asks questions so Ezalc doesn't have to
Zero no Tsukaima F 07:
Okay, all caught up now. So, stuff happens. And there's boob grabbing. And we have another hot elf. Dear god she better not end up in the harem, he already has more than enough hot women chasing his useless carcass around.
Wow, what's next, moe vacuum cleane-... oh god that's a terrible idea that will lead to terrible things! Forget I said it!
Okay, all caught up now. So, stuff happens. And there's boob grabbing. And we have another hot elf. Dear god she better not end up in the harem, he already has more than enough hot women chasing his useless carcass around.
Wow, what's next, moe vacuum cleane-... oh god that's a terrible idea that will lead to terrible things! Forget I said it!
Does this mean you're giving yourself for our sins?
Nah, the penis is never just the penis. It's a... nod to the struggle between man and his innate desire to divide and conquer.
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