Winter 2012 Anime Thread 2.22: You Can (Not) Outpost Cajunator
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My thing with Fairy Tail is that every arc that I read
pretty much had the same set-up and conclusion.
->
-> arc suddenly ends instead of ratcheting up the tension/intrigue/generally going into "shit just got real" mode when
. I kind of like various elements of it, but nothing was distinct or unique enough to offset the generic shounen and underwhelming resolutions.
Personally, it was a combination of the horrible CG magic circles and Happy's voice that caused me to drop the anime after a few episodes and switch to the manga.
I lost interest in the manga after the Gerard/Jellal/Gjgjgjgjgjg whatever he's called now arc
Enter new group of baddies
Natsu fights and loses
Natsu overpowers his opponent with a burst of shounen haato
Personally, it was a combination of the horrible CG magic circles and Happy's voice that caused me to drop the anime after a few episodes and switch to the manga.
I just finished this series myself, and I came away quite impressed. In what way did you feel the ending didn't respect the viewer's intelligence? I feel like it tried to wrap up everything a bit too neatly, but that's the extent of my complaints.
Dedication Through Light
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I was hooked by episode 7, the first real major fight after getting used to things first episode. Fights looked intense, in hd. They really do the effects and visuals well. Only flaw is just reused animation for characters but thats common to most anime when they started out if I recall.
Crash Station
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On that note, super media mogul Akimoto Yasushi (the creator of AKB48) says that Mari Okada is a genius and the AKB anime is in good hands with Kawamori and Okada.
There are no lols big enough for this.
Aw, not a fan of the Kugimiya cat?
Happy, Erza and Juvia are the only reasons to even bother with Fairy Tail.
Aw, not a fan of the Kugimiya cat?
To be frank it's kinda inappropriate selection. I'm fine with her voicing like that in gintama but it's grating in Fairy tail.
Wait,he did say that? LOL indeed.
KuwabaraTheMan
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Aim for the Ace 15:
Man, if this show was in the real world, Toudou and Ozaki would have a restraining order put on them. They're getting way more blatant about the fact that they just spend all their free time stalking Hiromi. It was nice to get more background on them, though, and to find out that the boys team actually practices and does stuff other than stalk members of the girls team.
Yeah, that was my basic reaction to the Fairy Tail manga (I can't remember when I last read it, but it has been awhile). It interested me in the beginning with the setup, but it quickly devolved into genericness, and the arcs are generally pretty unmemorable.
Man, if this show was in the real world, Toudou and Ozaki would have a restraining order put on them. They're getting way more blatant about the fact that they just spend all their free time stalking Hiromi. It was nice to get more background on them, though, and to find out that the boys team actually practices and does stuff other than stalk members of the girls team.
Yeah, that was my basic reaction to the Fairy Tail manga (I can't remember when I last read it, but it has been awhile). It interested me in the beginning with the setup, but it quickly devolved into genericness, and the arcs are generally pretty unmemorable.
Crash Station
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Juvia is the best kind of :cajun
Her schtick got old after a while but it was glorious while it lasted. The Gray fight was comedy gold.
Now, Lucy, there's a character that I wish would disappear. She adds absolutely nothing and is voiced by a harpy.
hosannainexcelsis
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Thanks; I'll throw it on the back of my back burner.
It's silly, but what else is he going to say?
Not calling Mari Okada a genius would be a start.
But we're splitting hairs. I'm fairly certain Akimoto had no fucking clue who Mari Okada was before someone prepped him for this interview. He probably doesn't even know there's an anime for AKB coming out.
I really dont know much about Fairy Tail other than i like the art and characters and music.
I do know enough about Bleach, however, to know its not for me.
What can I say? Mei is some powerful moe.
I do know enough about Bleach, however, to know its not for me.
What can I say? Mei is some powerful moe.
Quality drama in the works. It can't be worse than the earlier Aquarion Evol episodes.
Femmeworth
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Is Zessica really as great as I have been lead to believe?
Crash Station
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She's pretty great. One of the few reasons to watch.
Whoa whoa whoa. You mean to tell me that not only Kawamori but fucking Mari Okada's working on that AKB48 anime....oh my god I gotta see this.
Voiced by hnngazawa, one of if not the only character that's worth paying attention to.
Aw, not a fan of the Kugimiya cat?
Happy makes my ears bleed more than any Kugiloli can.
Now you've really got my attention.
The character dynamics have been bad and only entertaining when the story's premise hits its potential to overshadow that.
It wouldn't be their first time together. Don't expect much.
I've got to warn you though, everyone is really set in their personalities, despite having an episode being dedicated to their thing and supposedly undergoing character development (HA!), so it ends up getting stale in that respect.
As if the anime gods themselves have decided to shower upon us with their bountiful presence.
That sounds kinda kinky.
I don't think I would call that development. It's all been fleshing out characters.
Ahh, A quick look on ANN reveals they've worked together on Aquarion Evol. Hmm, I haven't seen the original Aquarion so that'll have to wait.
edit: i just noticed that Kawamori was also responsible for the mechanical design of Glass Fleet. amazing
Some of them have been fleshed out, but the likes of
hole filler and invisible girl
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Yunoha episode (7)
Episode 11
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
Persona Cuatro: La Animación Veintiuno:
lol dat cgi car chase
Charlie is a true oniichan. Pedoraragi would have already brushed Nanako's teeth.
Kudos to the director for not actually fucking up. No intrusive music when none was needed, no stupid comedy that breaks the atmosphere and etcetera. The best example of that is probably Dojima's incredulity at Charlie's confession of Personae and Shadows; you can feel his exasperation at Charlie's extraordinary confession, as well as Charlie's despair when his uncle doesn't believe him. I have been eager to call out on this cartoon's failings at handling serious moments, but I gotta give it credit where it is due.
lol dat cgi car chase
I think your complaint about the ending of Tatami Galaxy is also valid, but my feelings about the ending not fully respecting the viewer's intelligence basically come down to the way that it spells out the sort of "thesis" of the series, as it relates to the behavior of the protagonist.
Maybe this was because I was taking the series at a very slow pace, but at a certain point, I was trying on my own to put a pattern to each episode. What were we supposed to take from this? Why are we seeing each of these cycles? And the real commonality between all of them is that the MC always is trying to play a role, conform to some fanciful vision of life that he has in his head. He wants to be a perfect cyclist, or a perfect pilot, or the perfect companion for his penpal, and because he wants to fulfill this vision, he misses the "opportunity dangling before his eyes", both in the sense of Akashi and in the sense that his circumstances at the end of a given episode often aren't as dire as he thinks they are. There are nine episodes of this before Tatami Galaxy begins its concluding lap, and if the viewer asks herself at any point before then why these cycles are repeating, they might find this answer. Some episodes highlight it better than others.
Perhaps episode 10, and the first half of the finale, are necessary because Yuasa thinks it's important to dismiss some other possible false conclusion that he thinks people might reach. And perhaps my feeling that this conclusion is sort of overexplained comes from the MC's hyperactive internal monologue, which really can't help itself. But when the protagonist starts wandering through all his old rooms and is all, "Hey look at all these choices in my life, all these differences weren't so bad after all, would you look at that," I think it's being a bit obvious.
Perhaps episode 10, and the first half of the finale, are necessary because Yuasa thinks it's important to dismiss some other possible false conclusion that he thinks people might reach. And perhaps my feeling that this conclusion is sort of overexplained comes from the MC's hyperactive internal monologue, which really can't help itself. But when the protagonist starts wandering through all his old rooms and is all, "Hey look at all these choices in my life, all these differences weren't so bad after all, would you look at that," I think it's being a bit obvious.
This could all just be my impatience, though. When I look back on the ending, writing this post, it's not as bad as I might have initially thought. It's sort of like I solved the solution to a mystery story well in advance, and I'm getting impatient waiting for the author to explain the answer his way. A mystery should be able to lay out the clues to its answers in advance of the big reveal, so the reader can look back and follow the road of deduction for themselves. But if you arrive at the end of that road before the character in your story, waiting for everyone to catch up can be a bit tiring.
Jex
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Is this what they call posting?
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
god fucking dammit now I have to watch the rest of Prétear
i dont wanna
Jex
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Well who doesn't get excited for SUPER ALLOY-Z! That scene is one of many that's entirely sold off the back of the narrator being incredibly over-the-top. He's one of the few who could possibly rival the Kaiji narrator.
Yunoha's
she was perma invisible throughout the whole of episode 1-6, then opened up more from 7 onwards by making her visible to transparent,
Jex
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You sound like one of those folks who expect us to get to OT3. I'm sorry to say it aint happening!
Well they always have the option to do whatever the heck they want and forge their own ending.
Jex
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Hopefully it will end in the middle of a tense Karuta match and we'll never know who won.
LOST.
I'm a sucker for narrators like that. Time to wach Kaiji.
I kept telling myself I'd finish Kaiji s2 last year.
It was literally a character introduction episode for Yunoha to enter the main cast. Remember what most of the episode was about. Notice the only reason she reveals herself is to fix a misunderstanding in the love triangle but not any form of character development on her part.
Shin Mazinger Z 6
Actual progression to the next day. The last four episodes had been just one fight and I'd wondered if it would've been 26 episodes of the same battle at one point. I mean, I would've been fine with this but I could see others taking issue.
Infinite Stratos 5
Well the eyepatch and
made a strong case for liking Laura but given how much I don't really care for the first three girls, I think I'm on Team Char.
Armor Hunter Mellowlink 7
Mysterious intelligence officer remains as hardass as ever. This might be the best dogtag dangle done yet in the show too. Such a fanastic little device used to make Mellowlink's targets aware he's coming for them if a little impractical.
Thought the Scopedog here had a great sense of mass and balance while dodging that blast.
Actual progression to the next day. The last four episodes had been just one fight and I'd wondered if it would've been 26 episodes of the same battle at one point. I mean, I would've been fine with this but I could see others taking issue.
Infinite Stratos 5
Well the eyepatch and
bitchslapping Ichika
Armor Hunter Mellowlink 7
Mysterious intelligence officer remains as hardass as ever. This might be the best dogtag dangle done yet in the show too. Such a fanastic little device used to make Mellowlink's targets aware he's coming for them if a little impractical.
Finding out Mellowlink might have been targetting folk who were under orders themselves is going to throw stuff into disarray!
Thought the Scopedog here had a great sense of mass and balance while dodging that blast.
Glass Fleet 1-2
This show is pretty ugly in that I don't care for the character designs, and the CGI spaceships are hideous.
I'm also pretty sure the episode starts with Michel claiming there's no wind in space, only to end with Michel's hair blowing in the outer-space breeze.
Plot is kind of blah so far.
This show is pretty ugly in that I don't care for the character designs, and the CGI spaceships are hideous.
I'm also pretty sure the episode starts with Michel claiming there's no wind in space, only to end with Michel's hair blowing in the outer-space breeze.
Plot is kind of blah so far.
snickers
Jex
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Well you see that a certain character brings the wind wherever he goes.
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