Winter of Anime 2013 |OT -4| It's not my fault!
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I don't think Disappearance's problem is really that it's too "long". Rather the problem is that it should have ended at a certain scene, and just left that as it is instead of continuing. I'm sure you all know what I'm talking about!
You are way too cruel.
Chet Rippo
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I need to blame someone.
dakkumauji
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Shakugan no Shanatan Begins
Now I'm waiting for the day where she actually uses the melonpan as an actual attack.
Now I'm waiting for the day where she actually uses the melonpan as an actual attack.
Chihayafuru S2 01
Ohhhh how I missed you Chihayafuru!
Still great music. Still great art style. Still the same loveable Chihaya and Kana is cute as ever.
So it appears that the Karuta Club is entering a new School Year. Chihaya and the others recruit new members, but most of them seem attracted to either her or Taichi. Still she wants to teach them how to play the game, but it could cut into her own practice time to play for the championship this year. She really loves this game so much. One of the students
that was kind of cute. I love this show SO FUCKING MUCH.
Great OP/ED too. My favorite is still the original OP though. So catchy.
This show better get released on disc.
Ohhhh how I missed you Chihayafuru!
Still great music. Still great art style. Still the same loveable Chihaya and Kana is cute as ever.
So it appears that the Karuta Club is entering a new School Year. Chihaya and the others recruit new members, but most of them seem attracted to either her or Taichi. Still she wants to teach them how to play the game, but it could cut into her own practice time to play for the championship this year. She really loves this game so much. One of the students
who joined because she is interested in Taichi sees a poem that particularly resonates with her.
Great OP/ED too. My favorite is still the original OP though. So catchy.
This show better get released on disc.
chickdigger802
Banned
space bros 40
space is scary.
space is scary.
For those interested in this kind of stuff, here's some nice Card Captor Sakura sakuga.
It depends on which scene you're thinking of! The one I'm thinking of is really funny!
Dedication Through Light
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Digimon Adventure 49 - 54 (end)
Pretty good conclusion, I guess this was a good start to the digimon anime and kind of cant wait for the next season to release March. Story could have been a tad bit better or olderish focused in terms of characters but over all pretty cool. Best ones were TK (cant wait for older TK) with the best digimon path of Patoman and that epic evolution
. Matt and Tai were also good, prefer Matt a bit more as I liked his story and background and wanting to protect everyone and TK too, actually best for him was
. I thought weakness were just the overall way for how the enemies were and just the whole second half not really caring much about them. I hope in the future we have human antagonists? Just for human v human things, and the music wasnt all that good. 6.
Good bonus sketches in the two gallerys on the dvd.
Pretty good conclusion, I guess this was a good start to the digimon anime and kind of cant wait for the next season to release March. Story could have been a tad bit better or olderish focused in terms of characters but over all pretty cool. Best ones were TK (cant wait for older TK) with the best digimon path of Patoman and that epic evolution
Magna angemon needed to be shown way more way better than Wargreymon
when he awakens from his dark side and rushes in and he and Tai have that heartfelt friendship moment to yield, the crest of friendship completely recovering Wargreymon
Good bonus sketches in the two gallerys on the dvd.
Cardcaptor Sakura is perfect in every conceivable way.
I'm glad I wasn't alone in being aggravated by all of this!
RurouniZel
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Agreed. :3
dakkumauji
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Fumina Konoe Strikes Back
This was a lot funnier. Also, I actually did get to see Shana attack with melonpan. Finally, the show fullfills one of my wishes.
This was a lot funnier. Also, I actually did get to see Shana attack with melonpan. Finally, the show fullfills one of my wishes.
I've always loved that sequence; for an NHK show with a forced educational element aimed at pre-teen girls, CCS always had great action.
I don't know whether it's a CLAMP thing as I don't remember it from many other shows, but I love the "tendrils" of water/wind that you get in this sequence siphoning off from the main body of the liquid/gas. It reminds me a lot of the trails around the girls in the Rayearth opening sequences, for instance.
I don't think thats unique to Clamp. I'm pretty sure I've seen other examples of that in older shows before. Cant think of specifics at the moment.
yn-neko hates a cat
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I enjoyed this back in the day... memories of it are inexplicably bound to memories of Angelic Layer which I also enjoyed immensely
Now I'm sure we're thinking about the same thing.
Damn. Hahaha.
I need to rewatch this eventually. So many good memories.
I enjoyed this back in the day... memories of it are inexplicably bound to memories of Angelic Layer which I also enjoyed immensely
Yes. angelic Layer is fantastic as well. I'm so glad to own both of them.
Would buy Us blurays in a split second if they were available.
Angelic Layer had some fun action with the battle dolls and the story concerning Misaki and her mother turned out to be really great. The nurse angel is probably the cutest one. Really REALLY fun show that I recommend to anyone.
Tsuritama Episode 1
Alright, so it was a bit late yesterday, so I put off watching this until this morning. I don't know what I was expecting, but I definitely was not expecting this. That was... well, something else. But let's get the elephant out of the room first. I am incredibly impressed by the aesthetics of the show. The use of colour is fantastic, and the backgrounds simply pop. It's all quite visually arresting, maybe not in the way that Hyouka, for instance, ever was, but amazing all the same.
Definitely a strong introductory episode, though. I didn't have any trouble getting into it. There's this confidence in how it presents some of the utterly bizarre things going on that I really like. It reminds me of Humanity Has Declined, in that sense. I also loved the way it represented Yuki's anxiety as water foaming over his head. It's fairly straightforward, but clever all the same. And leads the absolutely fantastic scene that occurs as Yuki is yanked out from the water by the tug of the fishing rod.
It's a bit early to form any real opinions on any of the characters, although I can't see myself being too big a fan of Haru. He got a little better as the episode progressed (he seemed to drop the weird 'bibibibi' thing). I do like Yuki, though, and I'm interested to see what's up the part-timer's butt.
With that all said, I'm not sure how this flew under my radar. It really has me hooked.
Guess I'll have to check out Code Breaker now.
Alright, so it was a bit late yesterday, so I put off watching this until this morning. I don't know what I was expecting, but I definitely was not expecting this. That was... well, something else. But let's get the elephant out of the room first. I am incredibly impressed by the aesthetics of the show. The use of colour is fantastic, and the backgrounds simply pop. It's all quite visually arresting, maybe not in the way that Hyouka, for instance, ever was, but amazing all the same.
Definitely a strong introductory episode, though. I didn't have any trouble getting into it. There's this confidence in how it presents some of the utterly bizarre things going on that I really like. It reminds me of Humanity Has Declined, in that sense. I also loved the way it represented Yuki's anxiety as water foaming over his head. It's fairly straightforward, but clever all the same. And leads the absolutely fantastic scene that occurs as Yuki is yanked out from the water by the tug of the fishing rod.
It's a bit early to form any real opinions on any of the characters, although I can't see myself being too big a fan of Haru. He got a little better as the episode progressed (he seemed to drop the weird 'bibibibi' thing). I do like Yuki, though, and I'm interested to see what's up the part-timer's butt.
With that all said, I'm not sure how this flew under my radar. It really has me hooked.
Guess I'll have to check out Code Breaker now.
dakkumauji
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Shakugan no Shanatan Revenge
Nothing's better than JCStaff cameos.
Nothing's better than JCStaff cameos.
Razgriz-Specter
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TheI don't think Disappearance's problem is really that it's too "long". Rather the problem is that it should have ended at a certain scene, and just left that as it is instead of continuing. I'm sure you all know what I'm talking about!
Haruhi in the sleeping bag
Damn that's icecold.
For reals.
chickdigger802
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hxh 62
animation budget is kinda meh.
loli(?) master is pretty dope.
animation budget is kinda meh.
loli(?) master is pretty dope.
R_thanatos
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urusai urusai urusai !!
shana-tan is alright ... and the lovely and cute marjory daw
True ...good things
Dedication Through Light
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Was a pretty dull episode and conversation. Though the carriage scene made me laugh a bit.
R_thanatos
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Ixion saga DT - 14
What a perfect waste of forshadowing !
Too many flashbacks even if they nailed the comedy pretty well
What a perfect waste of forshadowing !
Too many flashbacks even if they nailed the comedy pretty well
And a devious plan that turn into nothing thanks to cast stupidity.
I don't understand how you came to that conclusion, especially when it's usually the same arguments being regurgitated back and forth every time across both sides of the fence. That's not really indicative of the quality of what's being discussed, it's indicative that people are stubborn in their opinion.
I managed to withstand five seconds.
I don't know what I was expecting.
M_Night strikes again!
Ultimadrago
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The only Sword Art Online humor that required AnimeGAF's aid for the latter half was the Kanna-Gintama gif being fixed appropriately (Props to DakkuMauji). Aside from that, I laughed plenty simply from the events contained within
and reading fellow reactions to such events afterwards
That Mnight introduction/exposing style. It's quite signature.
Theonik
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The related video lead me to this. Quite a cool piece of Mechanical animation.
Boringness has nothing to do with the quality of the content either as it cannot be quantified. Though, by definition, if the show was just boring there wouldn't be anything to discuss and it was more than just 1 or 2 arguments as well. Lots of things were discussed.
OVA is worth a watch if you like mechanical animation. It's like everything that could possibly benefit from it did.
On that note, where have all the mechanical animators gone?
Hell yeah!
RurouniZel
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Getting old with no one to replace them as the skillset isn't in demand.
So after lurking for a long while, I finally got round to registering....
I've not really completed many series in the last 12 months (a screening featuring Nerawareta Gakuen and Wolf Children was probably one of the last things) but figured the new season would be something to get in on. Mainly since there's very few shows on it that look worthwhile.
That said, I gather Yami to Boushi to Hon no Tabibito is one of the series newcomers aresubjected to required to watch?
I've not really completed many series in the last 12 months (a screening featuring Nerawareta Gakuen and Wolf Children was probably one of the last things) but figured the new season would be something to get in on. Mainly since there's very few shows on it that look worthwhile.
That said, I gather Yami to Boushi to Hon no Tabibito is one of the series newcomers are
Theonik
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In addition pay for traditional 2D animation is much lower than CG animation. As a result, many young animators prefer to pursue that career path so shows are left with very slim options if they want to go the traditional route for mechanical animation which is also much slower and less iterative than CG. Mechanical animation is dying in the most literal of senses as the few people that practice it pass away or retire.
No one should have to watch that.
SLA? What'd you make of NeraGaku anyway? Most of the other people I've talked to who were at the Edinburgh screening hated the movie...
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Yeah SLA. I kinda liked it? Or rather I enjoyed about two thirds of it. Everything's ridiculous shiny with lens flares but really the most off-putting thing about the film was the story.
It makes an obscure sense as it plods its way through and then for the last 25/30 minutes they decide to cram in everything they forgot to tell you in a really confusing way and for the final scene you can almost hear them say "Look this bit is emotional because of REASONS."
For all that though, I liked it kinda and wouldn't mind rewatching it.
Welcome to animeGAF! Despite appearances we don't all really hate each other all that much here.
As for your question, only if you want to tackle the challenge and only if you think you're ready for it. Yami is not a beast one can take on unprepared.
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