I am all for this, as long as she sings.
Winter 2012 Anime Thread 2.22: You Can (Not) Outpost Cajunator
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I am all for this, as long as she sings.
Unknown Soldier
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In the case of MARU!, it's probably because the show is split cours and they needed to save more action for the cliffhanger which will presumably end the first cour.
I haven't given up on Maru. It's just on hiatus until it goes a new direction. Its still fun and HNNNG and colorful to look at. Its just gotten a little bit stale lately.
Jex
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But it's like Redline, in that it's mainly about really pretty animation. Isn't that enough?
Pretty animation is how Studio 4C made a name for itself, so I would say yes it is.
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
Everytime I see you write MARU I keep thinking of Poyopoyo. Which is a vast superior show to Lagrange, may I say.
He was clearly concerned about their health.
Unknown Soldier
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If they get Nana Mizuki again, maybe she will.
Honestly I don't think they need another Saya ever again. The only good thing which has ever come out of the Blood franchise is the original movie, everything after that should be buried in an unmarked grave and forgotten about.
Jex
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I guess you want to make a name for yourself, but this is the wrong way to go about it!
The content in episodes 2-5 only existed as flashbacks in the source material, and was not stretched out this long at all. In fact, I would say adapting the flashbacks was ineffective, and probably shoul've been kept in the way it was originally done. There's a lot better ways to do world-building in a visual medium.
(FYI I quit at episode 8 to see if the new arc would do anything for me) I wouldn't really call what the show builds tension. If anything, there's more a lack of tension in the actions they take. They had a good start with
Princess Gruier
an intruder
Now Texhnolyze is a great example of a balance of world-building, tension, release, and great pacing. A lot of the world is explained as the show goes on through the character interactions and actions, and rarely did the show ever stop to read you a manual on what's going on. You see what each faction stands for through their actions, you understand the technology through the rehab and its use, and you get a grasp for the world because the characters traverse through it and let the imagery explain everything while their own interactions take a front-seat, managing to present and progress simultaneously.
It doesn't make for captivating anime though. Where as in the novels you can have as much time as you want, and let a lot of the world building happen through the reader's interpretations, an anime has the advantage of... well, being an anime. If there's one thing I could say about the show is that it fails to make any use of the advantages it has now being in a primarily visual medium. There's lots about worlds you can explain through imagery, but the show falls flat when it comes to using that effectively to convey any kind of plot at all.
I think something i've been watching recently that does this effectively is Martian Successor Nadesico. They have the mechs, gravity-beam canon, computer AI, the Nadesico itself, and the daily tech used by the crew. All of it is effortlessly explained across the entirety of the show (i'm on episode 22 now); gives a solid amount of technobabble explaining the mechanics and theory of the weapons, ships, mechs and planetary habitation; establishes world/galactic relations and cultural phenomena in the present day society; and even presents a large cast of characters, their motives, their feelings, and the relationships between all of them on the ship. All of this is so effortlessly done and moves at an incredible pace for the amount of content in there, and show doesn't suffer in any way for it while delivering an experience with everything you love about Moretsu Pirates while significantly advancing tons and tons of these elements in the show.
Nadesico makes the cast compelling, the technology compelling, the galactic relations compelling, and overall just integrate everything so well through visual and spoken presentation.
They don't explain the buildup of her particular ability and attitude other than that her mother and father were pirates. There's no explanation for why she suddenly knows what she does, and is more subservient than her subordinates other than that there's a space pirate textbook that she's required to study. They have yet to really establish why she's even needed on the ship other than that they needed a blood related person to inhabit the captain title. The ship can run perfectly fine without her, and honestly it's yet been proven why she's more capable than the far-more capable people around her.
Her relationship with her mother was never really done in-depth other than her mom is awesome, she obeys her mom, and her mom used to be a pirate. Her grades failing are something they play off lightly too. While it shows that she's paying more attention to pirate studies, it's played off as no real consequence, especially with pirate faculty in the school. Sure, she wants to do both, so she does, without any crazy amount of conviction, and the grades become of no real consequence.
I can agree that it was interesting to see, but honestly the concept is such a simple one that it really didn't need to be such a heavy focus for three episodes. They literally repeated themselves over and over with each episode. I wouldn't have minded so much if it played a more integral part to space-faring strategies, but electronic warfare and the importance of it has completely been thrown away. Coorie handles it on the ship, and plays it off like it's nothing. There's no more real presence of it, and her abilities of it make any kind of electronic warfare seem like of no real importance.
Saya was special. They should just leave it at Blood-C and the movie and allow it to become legendary. To follow up on it would only serve to ruin the legacy.
Jex
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You just can't make that kind of ridiculous statement without unpacking what you mean.
Blood-C should never be forgotten.
Jex
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That's a weird way to talk about the cure for insomnia.
I'm pretty sure he means its good. Unless you mean that you don't think he means that he thinks its good. In which case you need to be clear what you meant.
Basileus777
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When I first watched the OVA I thought it was middling and fairly boring, but the TV series somehow has me looking back on it fondly.
Jex
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That's rather depressing. People should be singing it's praises across the land.
Hmmm.
Look, SHAFT are busy not animating the prequel series. They can't do everything!
I haven't seen the OVa, but the TV series is a disasterwreck so if the OVA is better, it might very well be kind of dull.
You must really hate the Tiny Bird book.
I almost didn't catch that :lol
Jex
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Well, I suppose I'm no longer alone (or just nitpicking) with my complaints regarding Nisemonogatari being inferior to Bakemonogatari. It never really pulled away from weak first couple of episodes, even with a few bright spots throughout the series.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
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At this point, this show has to be some kind of loving parody. It's just too self-aware not to be taken any other way by an older audience... and I'm sure the actual audience that it's intended for are happy that it's such a wacky show compared to all the angst in the last two Precure shows that came before.
At this point, this show has to be some kind of loving parody. It's just too self-aware not to be taken any other way by an older audience... and I'm sure the actual audience that it's intended for are happy that it's such a wacky show compared to all the angst in the last two Precure shows that came before.
KO Traveling Hobo
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Self-loathing?
Shin Mazinger Z 17-18
Uh, holy shit. I was having doubts after the Germany stuff but
was great. Giving Ashura even more spotlight has only paid off. I thought him tragic before but
I liked its character tic of requesting and being appreciative of the mechanical beasts was touched upon here. I'd wondered why since the first time I caught it.
Zeus' rocket punch deserves an amazing wtf too.
Show is just beautiful.
Uh, holy shit. I was having doubts after the Germany stuff but
jumping to the past last day of Mycenaean civilization and touching on the Zeus story
to be shunned by memories of its past selves? That's just cold. Its worsening identity crisis is rather sad too. I'm torn between the notion of informing a potential viewer just how much of the show is its story versus letting them be surprised on their own.
Zeus' rocket punch deserves an amazing wtf too.
Show is just beautiful.
Jex
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Working in retail?
Studio AIC is making a new Seitokai no Ichizon.
The only thing I wonder is if they're gonna continue off where DEEN finished, redo it, or do a continuity reset.
The only thing I wonder is if they're gonna continue off where DEEN finished, redo it, or do a continuity reset.
Jex
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Don't shun such information - Dresden is just proving that anime fans aren't quite the worst people on the internet.
InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
Excellent, I loved the first season~! Let's seen how someone that isn't DEEN handles it. O:
w00t!!
Bakumatsu 11
This show timeskips like it just doesn't give a damn, which is kind of cool. Keeping
the whole show is one big macguffin hunt, but that's just blatant. I do hope it doesn't linger here too long. New city same struggle.
This show timeskips like it just doesn't give a damn, which is kind of cool. Keeping
Nakaiya alive-again, however, is not cool at all.
Jex
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Come on now.
AIC? Excellent, they're masters of comedy unlike DEEEEEEN!!!
Jex
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Nothing can make up for that. Nothing!
firehawk12
Subete no aware
800 dollar Bakemono set incoming!
It could have Wario'ed. I mean, it's a sequel that's two years after the fact... and people have Horizon and IS to be all excited about.
A Black Falcon
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That show is horrible, it's too bad it gets a new season while the vastly superior other "guy in student council otherwise of girls" show Seitokai Yakuindomo apparently doesn't, it only gets a couple of OVAs...
Both aren't spectacular to be honest. Decent enough for a few laughs but not Nichijou or Daily Lives of High School Boys level.
Nichijou level? lol
Bakumatsu 12
That was a fun ep, with an interesting, inventive, if not undercooked visual direction. It needed a bit of finetuning, but I loved the flair.
Soutetsu's starting to get his
on, and the story seems to have alleviated my issues of redundancy, so far. Poor Kanna, destined to lose.
That was a fun ep, with an interesting, inventive, if not undercooked visual direction. It needed a bit of finetuning, but I loved the flair.
Soutetsu's starting to get his
evil genius
Jex
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They gave the 'people' what they wanted - plus all those glorious scenes that will be enhanced by the BD release !
the creativity of the monsters actually made it rather silly to me
are they putting on a show? i dont understand the logic
You think Seitokai Yakuindomo/Seitokai no Ichizon is superior to Nichijou?
KO Traveling Hobo
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They were finally getting to cut loose. It was like a festival.
that combined with saya just standing there with a derp face most of the show just took any seriousness right out and turned it into some kind of bizarre gore pandering
I actually like SYD (it's a bit of a guilty pleasure i think) but I don't think it's half as great as Nichijou.
I don't think a lot of other shows are either but that's just me :3
Are you me?
I like SYD too but it recycles it's jokes a bit too much. Although not as much as Baka to Test or Ika Musume, half due to its virtue of having an always expanding cast. I still enjoy all of them though. Nichijou's just on a different level.
Dedication Through Light
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