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2011 Fall Anime Thread - Bad Shows & Self Hating Nerds
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Yosuga no Sora 7
You know, I have never known a man with a sister, no matter how older or younger, that's more uncomfortable around female bodies than this punk. "Oh no! Leg! I must blush!", "Oh no! A slight view of the edge of a bra! Blush mode activate!" I mean Jesus, this kid has got to have some serious issues with shame on all the weird levels too since we all know that this show ends in twincest.
Bah, Glasses and Tits is about as fucked up, and now this show is starting to depress me, not because I'm lonely or anything, but because it's just so BAD.
You know, I have never known a man with a sister, no matter how older or younger, that's more uncomfortable around female bodies than this punk. "Oh no! Leg! I must blush!", "Oh no! A slight view of the edge of a bra! Blush mode activate!" I mean Jesus, this kid has got to have some serious issues with shame on all the weird levels too since we all know that this show ends in twincest.
Bah, Glasses and Tits is about as fucked up, and now this show is starting to depress me, not because I'm lonely or anything, but because it's just so BAD.
Guilty Crown 1
I've only watched this episode so far, so I have no idea if the show gets better in the other episodes, but the first one was boring, awkward and stupid. The main character was the worst part.
Arietty
The movie was really nice to look at, and the story seemed nice too! Then the movie ends and I'm left thinking "what?". I thought there would have been more to it, as it felt kind of a rushed ending.
Ponyo
This was another visual pleasing movie. Some scenes were just breathtaking, like Ponyo running on the sea. Yet, just as with Arietty, the end left me unsatisfied. The adventure the two of them experienced amounted to just that much? I was expecting something more.
Lupin III - Green vs Red
Nonsensical movie that just left me confused. Even as the movie ends, I'm not sure I got who of the two Lupin won (not that it matters). The best part of the movie was the confrontation at the end when, for just a moment, the animation does something quite cool. At the same time, in the last part the movie gets even more confusing, as there is no clear identification between what are past events being shown and what is the present, making it all even more of a mess.
I've only watched this episode so far, so I have no idea if the show gets better in the other episodes, but the first one was boring, awkward and stupid. The main character was the worst part.
Arietty
The movie was really nice to look at, and the story seemed nice too! Then the movie ends and I'm left thinking "what?". I thought there would have been more to it, as it felt kind of a rushed ending.
Ponyo
This was another visual pleasing movie. Some scenes were just breathtaking, like Ponyo running on the sea. Yet, just as with Arietty, the end left me unsatisfied. The adventure the two of them experienced amounted to just that much? I was expecting something more.
Lupin III - Green vs Red
Nonsensical movie that just left me confused. Even as the movie ends, I'm not sure I got who of the two Lupin won (not that it matters). The best part of the movie was the confrontation at the end when, for just a moment, the animation does something quite cool. At the same time, in the last part the movie gets even more confusing, as there is no clear identification between what are past events being shown and what is the present, making it all even more of a mess.
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
Netorare Crown 05: Shit just got delicious.
Wheelchair girl > Friendzone girl > Nekomimi girl > that other girl > Gai > Retarded backstabbing pop idol
Wheelchair girl > Friendzone girl > Nekomimi girl > that other girl > Gai > Retarded backstabbing pop idol
PdotMichael
Banned
Anime has moe, cartoon not
so
Anime > Cartoon
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so
Anime > Cartoon
qed
But here's the thing, the sex isn't tasteless. It's actually boringly tasteful. How they frame the sexual encounters is "natural", makes sense, and is tremendously boring. This is such a mediocre show that it appalls me. Tasteless sex is the domain of School Days, but that's used to repaint the male lead. Here, it's just sort of the one step that most other mainstream VN adaptations don't take. Boringly so. It's like, "here's some porn shit we couldn't be bothered to animate clearly". They didn't even use phallic imagery (i.e. rockets taking off, fireworks, etc.) that could have made these scenes much more interesting and humorous.faridmon said:
RurouniZel
Asks questions so Ezalc doesn't have to
Regulus Tera said:
. I won't be home for hours yet, can you PM and spoil me?Crash Station
Member
Kore Wa Zombie Desu Ka 2 coming in April!!!! Wooooooooo!!
Jex
Member
Well yes I'm sure that's what they were getting at. It's certainly been a crowd pleaser as far I can tell.Articalys said:
The stair climbing is like an awesome OP that just happens to take place in the middle of an episode. I can re-watch it for the same reasons that I can re-watch a great OP.icarus-daedelus said:
darkside31337
Tomodachi wa Mahou
Not all VN adaptations have the kind of source material The Watchmen did either, but even lube commercials can use that sort of BS.Jexhius said:
Yosuga no Sora 8
I swear, the MC is sooooooooo fucking weak willed to be bossed around by his sister like that. It amazes me that a person that neutered by his Goddamned twin sister can talk to anyone at all. This show continues to appall me with its awfulness and at this point it's like a train wreck: I know I shouldn't stare, but I CAN'T LOOK AWAY!
Vignettes aren't even trying anymore. It's just that bad.
I swear, the MC is sooooooooo fucking weak willed to be bossed around by his sister like that. It amazes me that a person that neutered by his Goddamned twin sister can talk to anyone at all. This show continues to appall me with its awfulness and at this point it's like a train wreck: I know I shouldn't stare, but I CAN'T LOOK AWAY!
Vignettes aren't even trying anymore. It's just that bad.
PdotMichael
Banned
Guys, I need help.
What should I watch first? Patlabor with all OVAs, TV anime and movies and Minipato again or Birdy the Mighty (and the both animes for the first time)?
What should I watch first? Patlabor with all OVAs, TV anime and movies and Minipato again or Birdy the Mighty (and the both animes for the first time)?
PdotMichael
Banned
Hitokage said:
Do you mean the birdy anime is bad?
Jex
Member
[Anne of Green Gables 36]
Obvious symbolism is obvious, but appreciated.
I've kind of torn on the last couple of episodes of this show. I think some of the material that they're covering is really interesting and the character development and interactions are as good as I've seen in any with fleshed out characters.
However, there's no denying that direction has been generally pretty rough. This episode and last episode both contain a number of mini-events that are strung together with no rhyme or reason, often passed over so quickly that we have not time to soak up what's going on in them. The editing is especially bad, destroying any kind of narrative flow by simply slapping various non-complimentary images next to each without any sense of style.
There's a few scenes that stick out, like the story club and the snowstorm, but they're the only parts that were allowed to 'breathe'. It's a real shame, because the shows slow, deliberate pace, which was achieved partly through really logical and thorough editing, is completely missing here.
Ah, I guess I'm not really torn, I no exactly where I sit.
Obvious symbolism is obvious, but appreciated.
I've kind of torn on the last couple of episodes of this show. I think some of the material that they're covering is really interesting and the character development and interactions are as good as I've seen in any with fleshed out characters.
However, there's no denying that direction has been generally pretty rough. This episode and last episode both contain a number of mini-events that are strung together with no rhyme or reason, often passed over so quickly that we have not time to soak up what's going on in them. The editing is especially bad, destroying any kind of narrative flow by simply slapping various non-complimentary images next to each without any sense of style.
There's a few scenes that stick out, like the story club and the snowstorm, but they're the only parts that were allowed to 'breathe'. It's a real shame, because the shows slow, deliberate pace, which was achieved partly through really logical and thorough editing, is completely missing here.
Ah, I guess I'm not really torn, I no exactly where I sit.
Eh, they're about as artistically legitimate as any music video, so it doesn't mean that they have to be high art. No one here's going to try and compare "Video Killed the Radio Star" with The Mona Lisa or The Last Supper.icarus-daedelus said:
In unrelated news, every time I open a new episode of YnS, a little part of me dies. When this is over, I'm going to be a mess...
PdotMichael
Banned
skipping the Patlabor tv anime is like skipping the "u" in fun.
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oh god, Ayase honey..., too bad the anime is sooo bad that even Ayase can't save it.
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oh god, Ayase honey..., too bad the anime is sooo bad that even Ayase can't save it.
Super late, but it really is one of the ugliest anime I've ever watched. Sadly it was a foreshadowing of things to come with newtaminA.icarus-daedelus said:I know everyone has forgotten about this series and moved on, but I just got a Hulu+ acct that'd make me feel guilty if I didn't use it, and [C] is pretty ugly. You can see stylishness trying to struggle for air but it is really drowning in oddly garish ugly. Especially some of those weird chins, a symptom of general lack of consistency in character art.
This is what 1.5Mbps gets you. Truly tragic.
What is this supposed to mean? That older people all have hideous jowls? No, because an extra ugly high school student has them, too. Some people are pointy-chinned sons of Temujin while others hail from the inferior bejowled race. I don't get it.
I have to talk at length about jowls here because neither I nor the characters seem to be all that into the rest of it tbh. (Except for sweaty bejowled guy, of course. Animators sure do love their grotesque close-ups of sweat.) All of the characters have incredibly weird, "off" seeming proportions that change from one scene to the next; plot appears to be battle shounen with moniez and, I presume, possible light social commentary on the way. MC is the wettest of blankets; I dunno why animu keeps insisting on putting these personality-free types as leads. See this dialogue exchange: "Huh?" "You know, you've hardly said anything other than 'huh' to me." "Uh." What wit, what charm.
Can't decide if episode 2 was better or worse than 1 but will probably not continue here. see u next series Nakamura~
Guilty Crown 5
Every episode should just be about the wheelchair girl doing wheelchair things.
People talk about how bad Shoe is but it's really the moeslut that drags the whole thing down. Her main contribution to this episode consisted of singing to herself, pressing her boobs into Shoe's back, muttering 'Shoe' in her moeslut way, and staring forlornly out the window.
There were a lot of bad moments this episode but the worst was probably the part where wheelchair girl wheels into Shoe's naked bum.
Every episode should just be about the wheelchair girl doing wheelchair things.
People talk about how bad Shoe is but it's really the moeslut that drags the whole thing down. Her main contribution to this episode consisted of singing to herself, pressing her boobs into Shoe's back, muttering 'Shoe' in her moeslut way, and staring forlornly out the window.
There were a lot of bad moments this episode but the worst was probably the part where wheelchair girl wheels into Shoe's naked bum.
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
Too lazy to open a PM, so (Guilty Crown 05 spoilers):RurouniZel said:
Shu walks into Inori walking into Gai's bedroom.
You should have posted the shot with her clothes falling off!Dresden said:
PdotMichael
Banned
I can't find my Decode DVDs, only the four OVA episodes
so I will watch Patlabor again with a Birdy the Mighty break after the first Patlabor OVA.
The opening song is soo catchy and fantastic, why do we need new animes if we can watch Patlabor again and again and again?
so I will watch Patlabor again with a Birdy the Mighty break after the first Patlabor OVA.
The opening song is soo catchy and fantastic, why do we need new animes if we can watch Patlabor again and again and again?
I gotta say, that's pretty awesome.Dresden said:
but now to my burden...
Yosuga no Sora 9
It could be that I'm going slowly mad, but since it seemed this last arc had some actually meaningful character development, I almost want to give it a pass. They even had fireworks when the couple consummated! But then I remember what kind of a pussy-ass shit bag the MC is and then I die a little inside...
Well at least the vignettes are still amusing. The "sex" sounds that happen when Haru and the meido bump uglies is hilarious. And now for the final arc, the twincest arc. I am soooo disappoint that they're not a class president arc for some reason now.
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
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