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[trejo]

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Well yeah, but I don't think that's terribly important. She's only being kept alive by Kanba's continued intervention, and even in this episode the most important thematic element wasn't necessarily the threat of her death but the fact that the three of them keep going through these horrible things for stuff they aren't responsible for.

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I can certainly see it that way but it doesn't really change the fact that it probably could've been handled better. As it is now, I feel like it's kind of asking for a lot of concessions from the audience.

But enough of that. Anime is saved, ikuharapenis.gif, etc.

 

[cajunator]

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so many black bars.
What. is. this? government documents?

 

[trejo]

Guilty Crown 5

Kind of a throwaway episode, really. Not even Wheelchair moe and faux NTR could save this one. It's also been established now that Shu will just conveniently pull out whatever Void is necessary for the situation at hand. Sure is anime in here.

I'm sorry to say but, unless things start stepping up soon I think I'm gonna have to step off this not-so-crazy train.

 

[MotionBlue]

Guilty Crown 5

Kind of a throwaway episode, really. Not even Wheelchair moe and faux NTR could save this one. It's also been established now that Shu will just conveniently pull out whatever Void is necessary for the situation at hand. Sure is anime in here.

I'm sorry to say but, unless things start stepping up soon I think I'm gonna have to step off this not-so-crazy train.

Episode 5 cheapened the last 4 episodes with

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the bizarre NTR treatment

for me.

Maybe I just have a low tolerance to that crap.

As for the weapon convenience. I think

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he latently knows how to use/work a weapon when he draws it out from someone. Its the only thing that explains all his past bad-assery.

 

[RurouniZel]

Funny how this season's worked out.

Guilty Crown
Anime Saving Potential: 98%

Un-Go
Anime Saving Potential: 30%

Chihayafuru
Anime Saving Potential: 65%

Fate/Zero
Anime Saving Potential 25%

Ben-To
Anime Saving Potential: 0%

Judging from AnimeGAF reactions so far, Chihayafuru is the closest to it's prediction, and Ben-To would need to be pushed up another 60% at least. Guilty Crown would nosedive at least 50%. Fate/Zero would either stay right where it is or move up slightly.

 

[trejo]

87% of all percentages are useless anyway.

 

[trejo]

All my friends can't think of witty titles for these posts 6

So why is karaoke so big in Japan?

As for the weapon convenience. I think

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he latently knows how to use/work a weapon when he draws it out from someone. Its the only thing that explains all his past bad-assery.

Or perhaps the writers will just pull whatever the hell they want out of their asses whenever the hell they wanna. Too bad it hasn't been done anywhere near as masterfully as with Code Geass before it. But hey, there's still time.

 

[Crash Station]

Funny how this season's worked out.



Judging from AnimeGAF reactions so far, Chihayafuru is the closest to it's prediction, and Ben-To would need to be pushed up another 60% at least. Guilty Crown would nosedive at least 50%. Fate/Zero would either stay right where it is or move up slightly.

Mirai Nikki needs to be pushed up 70%, Hunter x Hunter needs to be pushed down 10%, Bokutomo needs to converted to the saving scale and then pushed down 60%, Phi Brain needs to drop 7%, C3 needs to be raised 29%.

Persona 4 6

The Aiya delivery service needs to be in Gold.

 

[scy]

All percentages may vary +/- 7%.

 

[cajunator]

There was a lot of karaoke stuff in Kannagi as well.

 

[trejo]

Based on my math Mirai Nikki is at 68.035487%. Unless you're rounding it up?

 

[scy]

Round all answers to two decimal places?

 

[iavi]

Dresden's whole list is invalidated on the sole fact that he has Working'!! at a zzz level of 45% with an anime saving potential of 0. I now demand that it's anime saving potential rise exponentially. Say, 83.45%. Fair?

 

[jman2050]

This season's OP is a bigger misfire than headlining last season's OP with Idolm@ster.

 

[trejo]

Well it is animugaf tradition, after all.

One-upsmanship and all that jazz.

 

[cajunator]

It's all about the Penguin Drum.

 

[Unknown Soldier]

This season's OP is a bigger misfire than headlining last season's OP with Idolm@ster.

Too bad THE IDOLM@STER ended up being one of the best of last season.

Based on my math Mirai Nikki is at 68.035487%. Unless you're rounding it up?

My calculations put Mirai Nikki at 93.826%. I think you failed to factor My Yandere Waifu into your calculations. A pity, she'll have to axe you now.

 

[darkside31337]

Funny how this season's worked out.
Judging from AnimeGAF reactions so far, Chihayafuru is the closest to it's prediction, and Ben-To would need to be pushed up another 60% at least. Guilty Crown would nosedive at least 50%. Fate/Zero would either stay right where it is or move up slightly.

What?

Fate/Zero has already saved anime. Clearly head and shoulders above the rest of the stuff this season.

Un-Go is at approximately -35% thus far at saving anime.

 

[trejo]

My calculations put Mirai Nikki at 93.826%. I think you failed to factor My Yandere Waifu into your calculations. A pity, she'll have to axe you now.

What formula are you using? I think you're failing to take the Whiny Bitch Yukiteru quotient into account.

 

[Hellsing321]

Admit gaf,when she did that pen balancing on her mouth you all want to take back that pen with your mouth.

 

[trejo]

I admit it. Not with my mouth, though...

 

[hellclerk]

Ugh, dat wheelchair moe is starting to get to me, but the opinions are so mixed. So what say you guys? Is Guilty Crown worth the wheelchair hnnnng material?

 

[Crash Station]

Ugh, dat wheelchair moe is starting to get to me, but the opinions are so mixed. So what say you guys? Is Guilty Crown worth the wheelchair hnnnng material?

It's getting there. Can only mean good things for wheelchair fetishists if Ayase's role continues to grow.

 

[A Black Falcon]

Funny how this season's worked out.



Judging from AnimeGAF reactions so far, Chihayafuru is the closest to it's prediction, and Ben-To would need to be pushed up another 60% at least. Guilty Crown would nosedive at least 50%. Fate/Zero would either stay right where it is or move up slightly.

Last Exile Fam's percentage should go up a good 60-70% -- of course, it should have been that high all along -- but other than that, the biggest difference I can see is that Maken-ki should have a negative number, not a mere zero.


On that note...
Maken-Ki 6 - There are two reasons to watch this show.
1. You want to make yourself suffer.
2. You like pantyshot-heavy animes with annoying jerk MCs.

... I'm not in category 2, so I guess category 1 it is...

Anyway, in this episode, we learn about the not-so-tragic past of the girl who calls herself his fiancee. (First - it's raining through most of this episode, and the flashback too.) Apparently, they met once before when they were children (she was already doing martial arts then, her father owns a dojo or something), and during the conversation she ended up saying she wanted to marry him, and he responded with something like 'sure, and I'll get stronger too." He's forgotten, but she won't tell him about it; instead, she wants him to remember, even though he doesn't. Oh, and naturally, she's mad at him for not remembering, as if people all remember things they said when they were five. ... Yeah, we need a :rolleyes for that one...

Anyway, after leaving her alone, because she told him to, a while after getting home the MC is convinced by the other two girls to go out and look for her, because they're worried. Of course they don't bother going though, just him, because this show is stupid/sexist like that. She's fine of course, but he does manage to save a cat that she had found, but had run away from her, from falling rocks with his powers, before almost getting crushed himself, and she saves him.

In conclusion, another moronic and awful episode in this season's worst show. ... So why am I watching anyway? Apart from what I said at the beginning, also at least it's not depressing... way too much anime is too sad.

 

[Geneijin]

I agree with that.
A problem with the way the show is built around this theme is that all the mystery stories have trotted over pretty similar material and been resolved in a similar ways. I'm glad this is only a one cour show.

Disagree. While the show's been thematically consistent, the content has varied enough between episodes. The real problem is the mysteries are all terribly uninteresting.

 

[Hitokage]

Queen Emeraldas 3-4 END

Damn it, now I feel like watching Captain Harlock.

 

[Defuser]

Ugh, dat wheelchair moe is starting to get to me, but the opinions are so mixed. So what say you guys? Is Guilty Crown worth the wheelchair hnnnng material?

With supercell's OP/ED why not?

 

[Dresden]

My numbers are completely accurate and Guilty Crown will become a great show.

Her legs don't work so she can't get away. Hot.

Isn't it electrifying?

 

[PdotMichael]

Patlabor OVA - 2

Oh Kanuka Clancy, she is so perfect.

Too bad I have this weekend some important things to do but after the first two episodes I'm totally in Patlabor fever again, so I can still watch some episodes.

 

[trejo]

My numbers are completely accurate and Guilty Crown will become a great show.

Good. Now we have someone to hold personally accountable when if it doesn't.

 

[Hellsing321]

Un-Go 5

Man this show is pretty boring but I keep coming back week after week. I think the ED has put a spell on me.

 

[Branduil]

Dragon Half

Half the dragon, all of the fun.

 

[firehawk12]

Pendrum 18 kind of showed me why speculah with this show is mostly impossible, since the characters are defined entirely at the whim of the plot and not the other way around.

Given that there is a novel series based on the anime, I can only imagine how strange it must read. You don't even have the excuse of "fabulous animation" or a "great OP" or whatever to carry the text at that point.

 

[Branduil]

Pendrum 18 kind of showed me why speculah with this show is mostly impossible, since the characters are defined entirely at the whim of the plot and not the other way around.

Well with how you always complain about how you can predict the endings of anime I would have thought you'd like that.

 

[SonicX_Zero]

Boku Tomo 6- Is that how Karaoke are priced in Japan? Whoa. Rika saved the ep. for me despite how flat it was for the most part.

 

[Jex]

Pendrum 18 kind of showed me why speculah with this show is mostly impossible, since the characters are defined entirely at the whim of the plot and not the other way around.

I think you've made the mistake of assuming you know who the characters are when perhaps the audience doesn't have all the information.

 

[hosannainexcelsis]

Pendrum 18 kind of showed me why speculah with this show is mostly impossible, since the characters are defined entirely at the whim of the plot and not the other way around.

Given that there is a novel series based on the anime, I can only imagine how strange it must read. You don't even have the excuse of "fabulous animation" or a "great OP" or whatever to carry the text at that point.

The narrative and writing have been the most consistently strong elements of Mawaru Penguin Drum. Its main weaknesses have been on the execution side - the direction, the animation, the art, and the pacing have at times gotten in the way of effective storytelling.

There's a difference between inconsistently defined characters and characters dealing with the theme of

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false selves and self-deception

.

 

[Hitokage]

I think you've made the mistake of assuming you know who the characters are when perhaps the audience doesn't have all the information.

Especially when considering a certain other show.

 

[Jex]

You guys will never understand the greatness of Patlabor, it's sad and sick at the same time...

Mecha porn in perfection!

This is true, even though the designs are at odd with nearly every other robot in that shows universe, at least it's given some explanation.

I'd like to think the wheelchair girl is a cool, unique twist on the typical tough girl mecha pilot character type, but I just can't help thinking it's nothing more than a terrible, terrible new fetish the Japanese have decided to add to their repertoire of "helpless girl" character types....

Hey now, it's not a new fetish at all!

 

[trejo]

Hey now, it's not a new fetish at all!

You can't say something like that and not showcase some examples!

 

[Jex]

That is slightly fucked up.

What are you saying about Japan's fetishes?

You can't say something like that and not showcase some examples!

Have you heard of Code Geass?

 

[Dresden]

Man, what if wheelchair girl was blind and a little sister?

:swoon

 

[Unknown Soldier]

Man, what if wheelchair girl was blind and a little sister?

:swoon

And a yandere!

 

[Hitokage]

<Anthy is a red herring>

Haha, I forgot about that particular claim.

 

[Dresden]

And a yandere!

:swoon x 2

 

[trejo]

Have you heard of Code Geass?

Yes but the show don't tell approach is always preferable.

And a yandere!

And had dat fang!

 

[Hellsing321]

And had dat fang!

So Moetron in a wheelchair?

 

[Hitokage]

Don't forget how she is secretly going out with her sister's girlfriend.

...and has DFC.

 

[Crash Station]

Fist of the North Star 1

In a post-apocalyptic world where power is law, one man will crush the bars in his prison cell with his bare hands despite already having obtained the key.

Off to a good start. A bit surprised by the censorship. I figured there would be brain matter and stuff everywhere. Thought that was totally fine back then.

 

[GaimeGuy]

what the fuck show are yo uguys talking about?