The leg shots and arm shots are rather standard, but the snap, as you said, and hip thrust are both elements that have no equal in Peace's transformation. The explosion is fine, it's just the background element for Sunny's transformation, not part of the actual transformation itself - just like the blue and red flowers for Marine and Blossom in Heartcatch. Sunny's hair change is better than any of the others, since it uses fire, while the others simply use a glowing white blob to transform their hair. Peace's best element is the rock-paper-scissors element, but as the rest of her transformation is so boring, with the same leg - arm - chest shot that all the other girls have, it's not good enough to overtake Sunny's.
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The leg shots and arm shots are rather standard, but the snap, as you said, and hip thrust are both elements that have no equal in Peace's transformation. The explosion is fine, it's just the background element for Sunny's transformation, not part of the actual transformation itself - just like the blue and red flowers for Marine and Blossom in Heartcatch. Sunny's hair change is better than any of the others, since it uses fire, while the others simply use a glowing white blob to transform their hair. Peace's best element is the rock-paper-scissors element, but as the rest of her transformation is so boring, with the same leg - arm - chest shot that all the other girls have, it's not good enough to overtake Sunny's.
Ano natsu ep1-2
It hurts how uninspiring and cliché this is,
Bland highschool kid has run in with alien waifu who happens to go to his school and like always now has to live her, things to expect are tons of herpa derp fanservice moments also she able to heal him by kissing(my eyeballs are go fall out at the amount of times i be rolling them) , now add some shitty friends to get in the way by cockblocking for the next whatever number of episode this goes on for.
It’s clear the studio that brought us “aria”, jc staff isn’t even trying anymore when pumping out mediocrity, this just an excuse to hit the waifu generator to pump out multiple waifus that come in different flavours and colours (you want tsundere we got that in blue), also there that token brotag.
oh and love chain, this show a piece shit compared to school rumble now that's a good romcom with love chain shenanigans and glorious cockblocking.
It hurts how uninspiring and cliché this is,
Bland highschool kid has run in with alien waifu who happens to go to his school and like always now has to live her, things to expect are tons of herpa derp fanservice moments also she able to heal him by kissing(my eyeballs are go fall out at the amount of times i be rolling them) , now add some shitty friends to get in the way by cockblocking for the next whatever number of episode this goes on for.
It’s clear the studio that brought us “aria”, jc staff isn’t even trying anymore when pumping out mediocrity, this just an excuse to hit the waifu generator to pump out multiple waifus that come in different flavours and colours (you want tsundere we got that in blue), also there that token brotag.
oh and love chain, this show a piece shit compared to school rumble now that's a good romcom with love chain shenanigans and glorious cockblocking.
jump_button
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Nisemonogatari 09
To sum it up in a couple images and completely ignore the plot direction:
Level 2 hover hands?
Standard, individual elements, which doesn't work together with its best individual elements, that stick out and don't work well because of that.
No, it isn't. That argument only works if the background was on fire. The explosion is as much to the transformation as the finger snap. You're just looking to excuse it now.
The fire effect isn't any better than March's hair transformation, and they're on par with one another if the fire effect actually did anything else besides looking like fire. What the fire effect does is transition to the explosion in the background to distract you from the lazy hair transformation than anything else really.
I could make the same argument against Sunny's. It's just that Peace's works together cohesively much more than Sunny's because her posture is much better and isn't as fragmented as Sunny's. And the compact clap was on par with the finger snap.
Oh, and I'm not saying Peace's transformation is that much better than Sunny's. Just better than Sunny's. They're both weak transformations in general.
And level 3 distraction skills.
Haha, I don't think anybody really knows what Mardock Scramble itself was going for, let alone well-done-the-pussy-hand.
Jex
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I think we might have to just move all this Nisemonogatari filth into it's own thread because it's clearly nothing but pollution.
It’s strange someone would write about such an awful director(he show do look nice but thats it).
Time to wash my eyes out with some beautiful directed batman tas after that ano natsu crap.
Nagai does what he does well? He's not the most inventive, but his execution in the genre seems to have been pretty good as of late. *Say what you want about AnoHana, heathens. I agree with much of what that blogger says.
You finally admit that AnoHana had atrocious writing?
PdotMichael
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I don't know if copy the old tricks over and over again is good directing
This is the anime thread. We're the goddamn New Jersey Industrial Sector.
Trojita
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Nisemonogatari 09
To sum it up in a couple images and completely ignore the plot direction:
G Gundam 12
Episode title:
He's The Undefeated of the East! Master Asia Appears
My feelings on this matter:
This show is the best.
Shin Mazinger Z 3
The narrator might be the best thing about this. He goes out of his way to make sure you know something awesome is happening: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPI6tBQz93k
Gundam 00 S2 2
I forgot how much I disliked Wang Liu Mei and I almost missed the post credit episode continuation before the preview. I evidently also forgot Setsuna really is Gundam.
Masou Kishin Cybuster 3
Militizaration of a environmental cleanup crew seems like a bad idea when members are against it. I'm for at it at least if it gets the ball rolling on things. The conspiracy plot line that's beginning seems interesting.
Episode title:
He's The Undefeated of the East! Master Asia Appears
My feelings on this matter:
This show is the best.
Shin Mazinger Z 3
The narrator might be the best thing about this. He goes out of his way to make sure you know something awesome is happening: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPI6tBQz93k
Gundam 00 S2 2
I forgot how much I disliked Wang Liu Mei and I almost missed the post credit episode continuation before the preview. I evidently also forgot Setsuna really is Gundam.
Masou Kishin Cybuster 3
Militizaration of a environmental cleanup crew seems like a bad idea when members are against it. I'm for at it at least if it gets the ball rolling on things. The conspiracy plot line that's beginning seems interesting.
Animation that gets recycled constantly; like transformations in magical girl anime or combinations in super robot shows.
So you're essentially proposing the creation of an anime Yucca Mountain for quarantining radioactive series? Have you considered what would happen to residents of surrounding threads if there were ever to be a leak?
Jex
Member
While I wont claim to be familiar with his entire body of work I haven't seen any shows that would justify your claim that he is 'an awful director'. Perhaps you could explain how, exactly, he is awful at directing?
Still, atrocious I don't think I'd use. I've never really held that it had 'good writing', only that it wrapped up in a manner that left no open threads.
Who's not copying old tricks at this point?
Trojita
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It is so moe.
It's in my top 3, actually:
1. Cure Lemonade
2. Cure Sunshine
3. Cure Passion
I just like how Lemonade's transformation is short, stylish and good looking. Sunshine's is stylish and good looking, but also a one minute long monster.
Go_Ly_Dow
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Same. It's very entertaining and doesn't really have anything offensive that puts me off.
My hate for certain characters, and their choice of actions only makes the character relationships more enjoyable to watch.
Jex
Member
I think it speaks volumes about the about the quality of Shin Mazinger Z that the humblest of all super-robot attacks, the rocket-punch, is treated like a monumental event. How often does a show even try to make such a run of the mill occurrence exciting?
I'm not so sure I'd say that. His visual direction was on point with Anohana, but ultimately; even the narratological decisions come down to him don't they? I'm not sure how the hierarchy works.
Personally, I thought Kokoro's "disguise" was the best thing about the episode.
Dedication Through Light
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The one and only.
Gundam Age 21
Nice post battle type episode. Hard to come off the epic action of last episodes Zeydra v Age-2 fight but still nice. I think kid Flit was vastly better than Asemu
episode confirmed
Unless Asemu gets X-rounder capabilities, shocking that he doesnt have aptitude for it, then in the fight of Vegans v EFF at the Battle of Big Ring, EFF will lose, no way they can beat Zeheart's Zeydra.
She was just wants to find her happiness, bro.
I find this hard to debate. Damn you 7th D:
The writing sets the basic framework of the story, and while the director can choose to change or omit certain elements of it, the writer still influences the very foundation of it at least. Aquarion Evol is at its best when Okada isn't scripting. It's having a small renaissance in the last 3 episodes.
Glad I picked it up at episode 8 or so, then. It's been very enjoyable.
Me also...
chickdigger802
Banned
cabbage head was pretty great. Have no clue how that disguise was made... which makes it pretty hilarious
What's interesting is how different Aquarion Evol and Black Rock Shooter have been experience-wise. The last 3 episodes of Evol have had screenplays done by people other than Okada and they were way more entertaining than what the earlier episodes had done while BRS is suffering from an unrestrained Okada script since its introduction episode.
hosannainexcelsis
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I'm sure Nagai had some input into the story of Ano Hana, but the buck ultimately stops with the head writer. Given the difference in the level of writing competence between Ano Hana and Ano Natsu, it's hard to deny that Mari Okada was the weak link in the earlier show. I could also point to Black Rock Shooter OVA vs. TV.
The more I see of Okada's work, the more surprised I am that Hanasaku Iroha turned out as well as it did.
Miyazaki's been a bitter old man for a long time.
I don't think the original script would have been much better either if anyone else remembers.
Well, take Code Geass as an example and look at Guilty Crown. It's a surprise how well Code Geass turned out and much of that is thanks to Taniguchi among other reasons.
darkside31337
Tomodachi wa Mahou
Miyazaki showing how ridiculous how nostalgia bombing is. Anime in the 80s was garbage too. Great stuff.
It turned out well?
You do realize that this can probably apply even more to the industry of today than it did in the 80s right
hosannainexcelsis
Member
Yeah, I was thinking about that. It's too bad Okada didn't fully embrace Nagai and Tanaka's suggestion to focus on friendship, since the crazy romantic melodrama was perhaps the worst part of Ano Hana's writing.
chickdigger802
Banned
Precure 05I feel sorry for Happy. Her finisher hasn't worked on anything for like the past 3 eps =(
And lol Beauty is pretty much Precure Squid girl!
Crash Station
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You've haven't seen anything. The narrator at the end of episode 19 is probably the best thing a narrator has ever said ever.
Oh I've seen that from the link you dropped in here from a while back. It's actually one of the reasons I decided to give the show a shot.
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