ASSauLTxMasTER
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That episode was pretty damn good. Make that 2 weeks until our new OP. The next episode is memories/recap, which makes it episode 13.5.
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Attack on Titan (Shingeki no Kyojin) |OT| MMA Ultra(spider)man (NO MANGA SPOILERS)
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Jotamide
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Finally an episode worth watching. Battle for Trost 5 through 8 were shit. Also recap episode next week? I'll see you guys in 2 weeks.
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Deleted member 231381
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Great episode. Series has fully recovered - guessing the knowledge that a recap was coming up gave them time to do this properly. But yeah, really enjoyed this one. Episodes 1-8 and 13 are all amazing, episodes 9 and 12 are decent, and 10 and 11 are Dragon Ball Z filler level, I think would be my summation of this show so far.
Probably ran out of time. Will probably be fixed during the disc release.
Anyway, fun episode despite the weird pans. Too bad next week is a clip show. Hopefully they are able to catch up on the animation.
Also, since the anime censored it, the body that Annie was looking at was
Mina's
Horse Detective
Why the long case?
My
third favorite character is dead. 
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Deleted member 231381
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My third favorite character is dead.
What did
Marco do that made him a
Crash Station
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Spoilers, guys!
Gucci Messiah
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Great episode but next week is a recap? BORING, I'll see you guys in two weeks.
Yea, episode 13 is certainly the best episode since episode 8 and an actually solid offering that entertained and was watchably paced. Really, if the more of the series was like this, the hype would have been justified. Of course, we all have to march through the dreadfulness of a recap episode.
ShaoranWright
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It gave me the impression that the chapter was rushed and they didn't have enought time to finish it properly, I saw several pans slowed down to make them longer and still shots with audio that didn't matched what they were showing, there were even those purple bricks that weren't properly painted.
Those poor animators must be working like 24hrs a day trying to finish these episodes.
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Deleted member 231381
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I think the hype was justified. I mean, a 9:2:2 ratio of good:average:bad episodes is great - not sure what anime you're watching if that's not hype-worthy!
Survival Of The Fittest
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It's hard to enjoy a show knowing the people who make it HATE working on it because of near slave labor conditions and being underpaid and rushed all the time
Crash Station
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Chances are you've enjoyed a lot of stuff that was made as a result of near slave labor conditions and underpaid workers.
Hayao Miyazaki neglected his family to make his films.
ASSauLTxMasTER
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Good lockin' GIF of the episode ( gonna fix the loop options, give me a few ) :
No, nothing from this show has justified the calls of OH MY GOD, THIS IS THE GREATEST ANIME EVER! hype it has been getting.
Dedication Through Light
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Episode 13 Primal Desires - The Battle for Trost (9)
Finally it is hitting its stride once again. Sure the four minute recap felt way too long and kind of unnecessary considering we've been watching this battle for nine weeks now and have in no way forgotten or needed to be reminded about what had transpired, but time with Jean Kirsten company as well as Eren retrospective made it easily worth it. Im quite pleased with it all though was saddened...
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I hope the next arc is a bit more focused, condensed, and faster paced.
Finally it is hitting its stride once again. Sure the four minute recap felt way too long and kind of unnecessary considering we've been watching this battle for nine weeks now and have in no way forgotten or needed to be reminded about what had transpired, but time with Jean Kirsten company as well as Eren retrospective made it easily worth it. Im quite pleased with it all though was saddened...
Marco being offed already was quite shocking. I thought he was actually one of the more capable members of the crew but then to be done like that offscreen was unfair to him as well as to us. At least he wasn't ingested. I hope Jean can recover.
I hope the next arc is a bit more focused, condensed, and faster paced.
I think they are being too ambitions with wanting to completely recover that whole area, which also seems like it cant be done in the time allowed. And could Eren really go against a Colossal or Armored Titan? Though with him serving directly under Rivaille it could be possible if they work together, support one another, and make up for each others weaknesses. Good voice for him and matches the personality...and I can easily see how he and Eren have commanded the majority of doujins
Survival Of The Fittest
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None of them make it as glaringly obvious as this show has done I guess
watervengeance
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Episode 13 -
A lot of random missing shots this episodes. I can't believe they cut out Annie being awesome. She hasn't done anything all series and they cut it out.
Fuck yes. Someone else that appreciates Manten.
A lot of random missing shots this episodes. I can't believe they cut out Annie being awesome. She hasn't done anything all series and they cut it out.
Fuck yes. Someone else that appreciates Manten.
Crash Station
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20 seconds into the credits of episode 1? Because the beginning (and ESPECIALLY the OP) is very misleading in showing just what kind of series HxH is. It gets really friggin dark. And I don't mean that in the "dark things happen when you think about them, but kids wouldn't get that" way. I mean in a straight up "this is fucked up" way, especially the most recent arc, which is comparable to Attack on Titan in many ways. Also, the action and animation are top-notch, giving us some fantastic fight scenes.
Anyway, regarding more recommendations, what kind of stuff do you like?
DiscoShark
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Off the top of my head there's Fate/Zero, Katanagatari, Madouka Magica, and Jojo's Bizarre Adventure (2012 version). What I tend to do is just look at the yearly "GAF Anime of the Year 20XX" threads and just pick and choose from the various descriptions.
Here's 2010~2012 :
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=510801
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=459981
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=439791
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LOVED this week's episode. I can't say I disliked the last 2 episodes as much as other people here mainly because I went about 5 weeks without seeing any Shingeki and just breezed through everything in the span of a single afternoon but this last episode was most certainly one of the best so far. Shame next week is a recap.
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Deleted member 231381
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Eh. Not greatest ever, no, but certainly a contender for the best of the last 2-3 years. It's this, Hunter, or JoJo.
You miss the Fate/Zero and that is certainly in the contendership. Also, Once Piece if fans of that show are to be believed.
QuiteWhittle
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Heh, Hunter x Hunter and Gargantia are both very different from what their opening episode suggests.Though the former may require too big a time investment before it really shines.
Before Attack on Titan, I think the last anime I got into was FMA: Brotherhood. I just like relatively well-written, serious stuff. (Hence why HunterxHunter turned me off- it looks like some unholy spawn of Pokemon and JoJo's.)
Well worth it though, Hunter x Hunter is probably in my top 10 anime of all time (i'm counting the original and the current one together tho).
Attack on Titan isn't in the same class
wat. HxH is nothing like Pokemon or Jojo lol.
Attack on Titan 13
Man, it's really sad what happened to this show; the rushed schedule has really impacted the potential of the show. Even in this episode there were a number of incoherently edited scenes that were obviously not finished in time for airing. And what makes it sad is that it's obvious that this is a labor of love for a lot of the people working on this show, but there's just not enough time for them to realize their efforts. Hopefully the show is profitable enough and the producers have enough vision to release a Director's Cut with a bunch of stuff fixed some time in the future.
That said, this was a substantially better episode than the previous ones in pretty much every way. The pacing was finally good, and the climactic moment of the arc was handled with the appropriate care and gave the proper feeling of
Man, it's really sad what happened to this show; the rushed schedule has really impacted the potential of the show. Even in this episode there were a number of incoherently edited scenes that were obviously not finished in time for airing. And what makes it sad is that it's obvious that this is a labor of love for a lot of the people working on this show, but there's just not enough time for them to realize their efforts. Hopefully the show is profitable enough and the producers have enough vision to release a Director's Cut with a bunch of stuff fixed some time in the future.
That said, this was a substantially better episode than the previous ones in pretty much every way. The pacing was finally good, and the climactic moment of the arc was handled with the appropriate care and gave the proper feeling of
desperate sacrifice and triumph.
Just visually, that was what it read as.
Crash Station
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HxH is nearly 100% serious after the first few arcs. There's a reason people call it a deconstruction of standard shounen series.
I'm going to need a bit more information about what you like, like genres and stuff. Well-written and serious are pretty vague qualifiers. I'd recommend more stuff in the same genre as FMA, but many people would consider a lot of it poorly-written, so that won't mean much.
Looking through the top 10 lists.... I think I may just be in short supply, lol. (Sooooo much HS drama.)
Lord Ghirahim
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What the hell was that? Wow. I thought my player glitched several times. Sad.
Crash Station
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You mean the AOTY threads?
2012: 4 high school shows
2011: 3
2010: 2 (I will not count Drrrr even if it has a few HS characters)
High school wasn't even the main focus in most of these, so not sure what you're talking about.
Well, someone has already linked to the AOTY threads from the previous three years. That's mostly a good place to start, with a few exceptions.
There have been a number of very good shows in the last few years, such as
Hyouka
Fate/Zero
Kids on the Slope
From the New World
Bunny Drop
The Tatami Galaxy
Time of Eve
You're also welcome to ask for recommendations in the community anime thread.
Let's talk about this amazing .gif(pronounced gif)
finally moving the rock yess
They should just not make a new one. They're never going to top the first anyway.
Crash Station
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Well we've already heard it, so we know it won't be another Guile's theme unfortunately
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