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Ah, probably the only English dub I like.lazybones18 said:
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2011 Fall Anime Thread - Bad Shows & Self Hating Nerds
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lazybones18 said:
Yep, just woke my parents thanks to "Portal of happiness" :lol
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Romanes Eunt Domus
trejo said:
Almost there.
hosannainexcelsis
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Sket Dance 25
Rewatching this. I cannot get over what a shocking swerve this is. I can't speak to the quality of the adaptation, but the direction is very effective at creating the desired mood. The moment when
still takes my breath away.
Certainly one of the more memorable episodes of this year.
Rewatching this. I cannot get over what a shocking swerve this is. I can't speak to the quality of the adaptation, but the direction is very effective at creating the desired mood. The moment when
the color palette washes out to signal the onset of tragedy
Certainly one of the more memorable episodes of this year.
Jex
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Wait, what if, it's all part of the 'grand plan'? As in, the director is carefully directing the show to mess with the audience, just like the writer has clearly been messing with your expectations and understanding of the show since the first episode?Kettch said:
Then again, I can't give it that much credit. The old 'this is bad deliberately' line could be used to justify any fault of the show, which doesn't seem right. Perhaps it's a happy coincidence that the the trollish writing is paired with a director who is occidentally making a comedy?
Jex
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Well I won't disagree with your opinions on both of these works, but if you're short on time Steins;Gate is half the length of Code Geass and a very solid show to watch. It's actually good in the normal way, where as Code Geass is the greatest low-brow entertainment known to anime.trejo said:
Jex
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I have to agree. While some parts in the opening few episodes were well done, there was a lot of awkward direction and general blandness to counteract the interesting character work.jman2050 said:
Although that is a longer show than Penguin Drum.DrForester said:
At least there's a lot less Macross to wade through than there is Gundamdarkside31337 said:
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Romanes Eunt Domus
Goddamn he's so fabulous.Jexhius said:
I still hate that jerk.
Jex
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I don't know who it was but someone making Nichijou understood what made those moments and scenes work more than the random background noise that was a lot of the series. It probably wasn't the overall director, considering what the majority of the show ended up being.flawfuls said:
At least it was gorgeous to look at, with really great animation. I'll say what I always say when watching a KyoAni show: imagine this level of technical brilliance being used on something else, like a drama or even an action show. Something, anything beyond the 'lightweight' stuff they've been making for sometime.
Clairvoyance
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Dresden said:
I love Japan.
UberTag
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If you enjoyed the FMA dub, you should check out other dubs that director has helmed (Eden of the East, Summer Wars, the new EVA movies, Trinity Blood, Mushi-Shi, etc.). He's the most consistent in the business.Regulus Tera said:
Next dub project will be Shiki when it's released next spring.
Jex
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[Anne of Green Gables 17]
Just another old anime with bad art:
Script
This show has one of the greatest scripts in any anime series ever. Admittedly that's a low bar to clear, but they soar right over it. It really is hard to watch any other show admittedly afterwards without noticing how flat, shallow and trite most aime scripts are. Oh, I've always known that a lot of them are thoroughly rubbish, but the contrast really brings it to light in a way that I can no longer ignore. As you might expect this is fast becoming one of my favourite shows of all time, just like Marco before it, Takahata is an amazing director, bringing life and joy to the tiny minutia of everyday life.
Episode 17 - Story Discussion
If this was a modern show this would be the carefully structured and deliberately targeted 'yuri episode'. Of course, this show wasn't written in that style, so instead we get the amazingly melodramatic tone that I've grown to love. So many
Her pure love can even more my cold, dead heart.
Also included: the greatest school sequences known to anime. Yes, you can have interesting school material when you aren't churning out the usual highschool storylines which have been done to death by so many shows.
Just another old anime with bad art:
Script
This show has one of the greatest scripts in any anime series ever. Admittedly that's a low bar to clear, but they soar right over it. It really is hard to watch any other show admittedly afterwards without noticing how flat, shallow and trite most aime scripts are. Oh, I've always known that a lot of them are thoroughly rubbish, but the contrast really brings it to light in a way that I can no longer ignore. As you might expect this is fast becoming one of my favourite shows of all time, just like Marco before it, Takahata is an amazing director, bringing life and joy to the tiny minutia of everyday life.
Episode 17 - Story Discussion
If this was a modern show this would be the carefully structured and deliberately targeted 'yuri episode'. Of course, this show wasn't written in that style, so instead we get the amazingly melodramatic tone that I've grown to love. So many
tears. They really make it feel like it's the worst thing in the world to lose your best friend - which is how you should feel, but many other works would totally fail to capture the mood. As it's Anne, she goes far too far, but that's wholly in keeping with her character.
Also included: the greatest school sequences known to anime. Yes, you can have interesting school material when you aren't churning out the usual highschool storylines which have been done to death by so many shows.
Trent Strong
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Squid Girl 2 and a show from the makers of Code Geass are enough to make this a great season.
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hosannainexcelsis said:
Yeah, I've skipped around in it 5 times already. The direction really is impressive. It's rare to see everything come together so perfectly that even the least important scenes are important in shaping the mood. One of the things that impressed me the most was the
inner thoughts. Watching it again knowing the older brother was Switch (though I was able to figure it out pretty quickly) was great. Even when ignoring the twist, it's a great concept. I wish more shows had dramatic thoughts like that to display the cognitive dissonance between what the character is saying and feeling.
Also, my heart dropped a bit when
Switch said he wanted to kill himself at the barber. I guess it still hadn't registered in my mind what had just happened in a goofy comedy show before that point, because it really evoked an intense emotion in me.
Episode needs more love.
Regulus Tera
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If anyone wondered why they don't make more great, less-pandering comedy animes, look no further than the reaction both here and, going by sales, in Japan to Nichijou to have your answer... the fans don't want quality or actual attempts at non-pandering comedy, they just want fanservice, more fanservice and otaku jokes.
I mean, I like Lucky Star (for instance), but Nichijou is a great, unique, and funny sketch comedy show and deserves to be recognized as such, and not attacked by so many people, I think.
I mean, I like Lucky Star (for instance), but Nichijou is a great, unique, and funny sketch comedy show and deserves to be recognized as such, and not attacked by so many people, I think.
Yeah, the variety definitely is a strength of the show, certainly. On that note though, my one criticism is that they get into too much repetition, at times. Like, the whole "Mai trolls/is horrible to her friends" thing is done over and over and over and over and over, it does get a little old. Each of the groups of characters are like that, a lot of the time they basically repeat variations on the same joke each time. The brilliance of the show is that even if that is true, they manage to make varied and even unexpected. And also, there is some variety, so you often don't quite know what to expect. I mean, the character types are set, but the scenarios and jokes vary.darkside31337 said:
I would agree that not every skit is funny, certainly. Sometimes a majority of an episode wouldn't quite work. But with its skit-based structure, in every single episode I knew that there'd be something that was funny, and probably many somethings -- and that has always proven true. I haven't finished the show yet, but I'm nearing the end, and there aren't any entirely unfunny episodes yet, and I doubt there ever will be.
I haven't read much of the manga, but from what I saw of it, I agree that the anime is better.
Seeing so much Nichijou hate has been incredibly frustrating, yes, but don't react with violence, that's what they want!
Yeah, best show ever.Instro said:
Is that a Noodle Incident reference, or just a coincidence...Branduil said:
That's not Despera art though, that's a D&D-inspired character he drew... but yes, it's a great drawing, as always makes me want more from him...cj_iwakura said:I don't have anything new from Despera(I'm pretty sure I have it all), so I'll just share this.
I went to my school's anime club on and off for several years (in the mid '00s), we watched a mix of '90s and '00s stuff, not just new stuff. Some things I liked, others I didn't... but I'm sure that'd be true for anyone. It is fun to watch anime on a bigscreen, though (the club held its meetings in one of the larger lecture halls on campus, so it was shown on a nice big projector screen).cajunator said:
I don't remember any Naruto fangirls, but I do remember some Bleach ones.PdotMichael said:
EmmanuelMunoz said:
Apparently people think he won't in the anime because the fan outcry would be so much that they'd never want to even try it, even though the game endings do often go in that direction, sort of...
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I never thought I would live to see the day when Brandy finally took a troll too far and got the hammer for it. That guy LIVED on the fine line and he always got away with it, over and over again.
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You didn't watch Canal 5? D:trejo said:
You might have been at school at that time. They played it around 9AM.
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jman2050 said:
Wrong wrong wrong wrong etc.
It was really funny up until it got to the serious tone switch. I will almost always forgive a show which seems to be going nowhere in the early episodes if it manages to at least be funny, and this show was really funny.
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EmmanuelMunoz said:
Someone needs to draw me an anime Dom avatar. Dom is a True Bro, one of the Bro-est of all Bros in the history of Bro-dom.
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