Winter 2012 Anime Thread 2.22: You Can (Not) Outpost Cajunator
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You are doing nothing to reduce my hype levels!
Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann 5-15
Despite being a huge fan of mecha I have never fully watched TTGL, so I decided "hey why not?". I think two big things pulled the anime down for me, the fans, and spoilers. The fans for hyping the anime up as the best mecha anime ever, and spoilers for obviously telling me where the show will go.
Episode 8 is probably my favorite episode so far, the ones I would call good would be 8 and 15. The rest are decent, and all of them are hurt by knowing how over-the-top the show will get. Feats seem less impressive knowing what happens later in the show, and that hurts the show for me. I can see why people enjoy the anime, and I enjoy it too, but my expectations seemed a bit too high.
Despite being a huge fan of mecha I have never fully watched TTGL, so I decided "hey why not?". I think two big things pulled the anime down for me, the fans, and spoilers. The fans for hyping the anime up as the best mecha anime ever, and spoilers for obviously telling me where the show will go.
Episode 8 is probably my favorite episode so far, the ones I would call good would be 8 and 15. The rest are decent, and all of them are hurt by knowing how over-the-top the show will get. Feats seem less impressive knowing what happens later in the show, and that hurts the show for me. I can see why people enjoy the anime, and I enjoy it too, but my expectations seemed a bit too high.
hosannainexcelsis
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Crash Station
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Nope. It's a prequel taking place more 200 years earlier. There might be a few things you'd catch if you watched the original and you'd already know the techniques of certain Saints (which may or may not enhance your experience), but it's not required at all and I wouldn't even recommend it.
The king is dead, long live the king!
He has been directing that movie since 2005; that shit is never coming out.
That's generally how I felt about it. I think people get caught up in the scale of it all. it's pretty great but not the second coming like some treat it.
It was never my intention to lower hype levels! Tekken: Blood Vengeance is a very entertaining film! Don't hate!
Femmeworth
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Well, they are doing Thundercats for Cartoon Network. The writing has been on the walls!
Dedication Through Light
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I would hate to have known about that before hand. TTGL was one of the few anime last year that had me attached to my computer on netflix for like an entire day to run through it. Usually no other anime beyond marathons of the long running can keep me hooked for so long.
Simon/Viral were my favorites in it.
One really good thing about TTGL is that it got some people into mecha that wouldn't try it before hand. Mecha seems to have some negative stigma around it in certain parts of the anime fandom, so "entry" shows like TTGL are really nice to have. But there are always people that enjoyed TTGL and never give other mecha anime a shot.
Crash Station
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Recorder to Randsell 11
I wonder if we'll ever actually see the psychological effects on someone constantly being mistaken for a pedophile.
I wonder if we'll ever actually see the psychological effects on someone constantly being mistaken for a pedophile.
Jex
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Maybe he wasn't interested in Berserk and Thundercats?
You mean CGrserk.
Jex
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You can't raise the dead that easily.
I really don't think that Haibane Renmei qualifies as 'melodrama' at any point. It has honest, dramatic points, sure, but it's not 'melodramatic'.
Irresponsible Captain Tylor 3-6
Tylor is the best. always so relaxed in the face of peril. Surrounded by enemies?
Your crew
Episode 6 takes the cake so far though, because damn if that twist wasn't great. Those old crooks fucking deserved it lol, and while
Tylor is the best. always so relaxed in the face of peril. Surrounded by enemies?
just surrender.
is destroying the ship? Just let them do whatever they want.
they are busy saving their lives, Tylor is busy drinking some alcohol with the doctor and th hot nurse/spy.
hosannainexcelsis
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I thought you were ready to embrace the CG future.
They taketh Madhouse, they giveth MAPPA. They taketh 4C, they giveth... We're in for something good by my calculations.
Tylor's such a boss. Glad to see you're enjoying it. It's still almost impossible to believe that Bee Trains very own Mashimo was at the helms there.
I -am- still watching Black Rock Shooter TV!
Thanks, guess I'll watch Lost Canvas soon, then. It looks pretty good.
What's your opinion on it, anyway, since I'm already asking stuff?
Jex
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[Chihayafuru 23]
In this episode, the karuta club learn that to be a well-rounded human being you have to do more than spend every waking second of your life obsessing over karuta. To that end there are activities covered in this episode other than karuta! This made the episode far more interesting than many in this series, even though there was nothing particularly impressive on the production end.
If only this shows focus was as well rounded as this episode the characters and the world that they inhabit might be more fleshed out than it is.
(Go team Arata)
In this episode, the karuta club learn that to be a well-rounded human being you have to do more than spend every waking second of your life obsessing over karuta. To that end there are activities covered in this episode other than karuta! This made the episode far more interesting than many in this series, even though there was nothing particularly impressive on the production end.
If only this shows focus was as well rounded as this episode the characters and the world that they inhabit might be more fleshed out than it is.
(Go team Arata)
Crash Station
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I think it's great. I watched all of Saint Seiya and the other OVAs a few months ago, but found them rather subpar due to the limited animation, constant asspulls and shallow characters. Lost Canvas feels like a better production overall in both animation and writing. The characters felt like characters instead of living movesets and the battles maintained a level of tension while still pulling off believable strategies. And of course the animation was much better as the special techniques looked like more than people just doing poses while the backgrounds change.
Definitely recommended.
Jex
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I find that Do You Remember Love? reference particularly insulting because it helps to remind you how far we've fallen in terms of animating cool mechanical stuff.
firehawk12
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This is why sports (shows) suck. It's weird because I still have fond memories of OoFuri, which is basically baseball masturbation for baseball fan(girls) with people talking about how you have to properly hold a ball in order to pitch a slider or whatever... but man, when all the drama is tied up on winning and losing, you basically have very few options as a storyteller.
I feel like there's a way to balance the sports and the shoujo. Strangely, the only thing that comes to mind is that volleyball manga, Crimson Hero, but I have no idea what it's like.
Heh.
I like you.
Early designs for Saint Seiya Omega:
Man that looks so much better it's not even funny. Now I like the actual designs even less.
Crash Station
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Nice, now I'm kind of hyped
Just a warning, it's still technically ongoing. We have no idea when there's going to be more if ever, especially now that Omega is coming up. Sucks too since we're at the final section of it.
Fortunately, the manga is fully translated, so that's always an option. I'm still holding off, but I'll read it if there's no new announcement within a year or so.
RurouniZel
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Tylor's character is so much fun to watch. XD
come on - at least hes honest about who taken from who... good for him for being on Lupin.
FUCK No - way the fuck too many projects - it aint no where close to getting chopped.
Jex
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There's nothing inherent in being a sports show that precludes your story and characters from exploring lots of non-sports related topics e.g. : family, friends, romance, work whatever. Obviously the big matches will be important to the characters and the story of the show regardless, but there's always the potential to look at the characters outside of that particular setting. It can be about other stuff.
I guess Tomorrow's Joe is a bit like that, but I haven't watched it.
It can be, but the case to be made is that most sports anime/manga usually end up work-ethic porn anyway.
Neko Mimi Mode
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Mitsuru Adachi would like a word with you.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Not every show can be Friday Night Lights or even Adachi. It's unfortunate. Even the whole storyline about Chihaya being the "inferior" sister has basically been dropped at this point.
Yeah. I used to like procedure-porn, but there needs to be something more than that to keep me invested long term. I almost wished that Madhouse skipped through the karuta tournament and jumped to some of the later volume stuff in the manga, since there are at least new twists on playing the game rather than "it's so hard to lose but I need to keep trying".
Jex
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That was about as much of a storyline as Arata's girlfriend.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Yup. It feels like this train is beginning to derail after that really amazing start. I still enjoy the series and I very much adore the soundtrack, but the actual storytelling leaves me wanting.
Watching it without any previous knowledge is the best way to experience it. I watched it not knowing what the hell it was about at all at a bros place, and just sat there and watched the whole thing straight through.
It was probably one of the most awesome experiences of my life, and watching it untainted by any expectations is what made that experience for me.
Recorder to Randsell - 11
I laughed, not because this was funny or amusing or...anything really, but because I discovered that I seem to be subconciously counting how many times they've use the exact same pedo joke over and over and over...
I'm not going to rewatch the previous 10 shorts to confirm but I think it now stands at 9 out of 11.
I laughed, not because this was funny or amusing or...anything really, but because I discovered that I seem to be subconciously counting how many times they've use the exact same pedo joke over and over and over...
I'm not going to rewatch the previous 10 shorts to confirm but I think it now stands at 9 out of 11.
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