To not detract from the more important female character designs, probably? It's not really fair to compare it with something where the male character designs are supposed to be appealing and interesting.
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Autumn Anime 2015 |OT| Like leaves on a tree were falling one by one.
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To not detract from the more important female character designs, probably? It's not really fair to compare it with something where the male character designs are supposed to be appealing and interesting.
Truth be told, there's never anything for me so I'm very used to this. You thought that you was alone but I was always by your side, suffering
Script and Storyboards by him were finished IIRC.
Fuck that stupid caveat. Completely unnecessary.
Sir Blaming
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Back from the dead. Time to post.
Asterisk 4
Cringe mode activated. Argh why.
The fight scene this time around felt super sloooww. And come on, make up your mind to be embarrassed or teasing now.
Calvary 4
Surprisingly well done. They managed to knock out the park with the scenes in this episode, and there it is, they finally became a couple.
Valkyrie Drive 3
Woah! We starting off with BDSM already?
The faces this time around is definitely gif worthy, plus that ending "lady....lady", PLEASE I CAN'T STOP LAUGHING ALREADY.
Asterisk 4
Cringe mode activated. Argh why.
The fight scene this time around felt super sloooww. And come on, make up your mind to be embarrassed or teasing now.
Calvary 4
Surprisingly well done. They managed to knock out the park with the scenes in this episode, and there it is, they finally became a couple.
Valkyrie Drive 3
Woah! We starting off with BDSM already?
The faces this time around is definitely gif worthy, plus that ending "lady....lady", PLEASE I CAN'T STOP LAUGHING ALREADY.
They were? I was thinking that was the case to be honest but then I remember hearing elsewhere very recently in fact that the storyboard was "nowhere near finished, not even close" but looking back I guess that they were indeed completed and it was just a case of misinformation. Its been a while so forgive me for the slip up and thanks for the correction!
Might be true of the script, but I'm pretty sure Maruyama said at his panel at this years Otakon that the storyboards weren't completed, and even if they were and he could get funding, there isn't a director currently working in anime that he'd trust to complete the movie to anything like the standard he'd want it to be.
Honestly, at this point, just let it go.
names2hard4you
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Cavalry is still the better of the two in my opinion. Episode 4 tuned down the fan service quite a bit and actually told a pretty cool story. Not to mention the battle which was super bad ass. We also got an actual
couple
Asterisk on the other hand was weird. It's been this way since episode 1 and I keep saying it, but it takes itself too seriously. Like, I know that the scene in which the MC takes down all the robots is supposed to be cool and all, but how am I supposed to take it at face value while he keeps holding the girl in his arm the whole time?! LOL. I get that you wanna make him seem powerful and stuff, but that was just so unnecessary. Even the girl asks him to put her down and he just nonchalantly says "bear with it for a bit". Like, u wut m8.
Hmm I didn't know about any new updates on the storyboard status. But yeah, I've heard of the huge hurdles they have.
Edit: Hmm this Otakon transcript didn't really mention storyboards but what do I know, I wasn't there lol
http://bayoab.info/live/live2.php?panel=73
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http://studioclimb.com/news_SK.html
Wonder if these are glimpses of it
Cornbread78
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LOL, I'm enjoying them both for different reasons, but yeah, Calvary has been the better of the two thus far. Both had cute endings this week, (the actual confession/ "couple" scene was pretty damn good) which again is why these two shows are waaay too much alike, lol.
CopperPuppy
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Marathoned Kekkai Sensen this weekend. Had a blast, absolutely love the setting. Also, the OP song is one of my favorites in a while.
Same here, they scratch different itches.
I prefer Asterisks world building, but Cavalrys battle scenes are really great and the relationship part is actually going somewhere.
I was - bayob does an insane job of managing to cover these things, baring in mind he types them out in real-time as the panel is ongoing (video and audio recordings of panel sessions are often a major no-no with Japanese guests), but inevitably some things end up getting paraphrased or shortened in favour of getting the important general gist of what is said across.
Maximilian Kolbe
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Cavalry's battle scene is just MC running so fast then enemy keep throw flashbang grenade and done, fucking kill my eyes.
Not saying Asterisk is better anyway.
Joe Molotov
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Oh, you know.
names2hard4you
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Unless they specifically say "I love you" or something along those lines, there is no relationship in anime lmfao. I'm just saying, I'm 99% sure the Asterisk MC in his own head didn't confess or anything of the sort. He just for some reason thinks that his life goal is to protect her, since well, he was pretty aimless up until that point.
Sure, the content of the battle scenes are nothing special, but the presentation is really good.
The cuts and especially the use of the camera give it this three-dimensional feel and sense of speed. And the soundtrack is really good and they know how to use it.
Cornbread78
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C'mon dude, we had a double confession in Calvary this week, that's more than we could ever ask for from one of these shows. They only choose to become partners in Asterix, and yeah, she too tsun tsun for a full confession, lol.
names2hard4you
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Even then, it's better than cutting down 100+ previously unbeatable robots while holding the damsel in distress in your arms, because it's 2ez lmfao. I mean I laughed out loud. So far this season the only show to do that is OPM and that's intended at least.
Oh no I'm not complaining I was actually pretty surprised that it happened so soon, that was pretty great. I'm just saying Asterisk still has no relationship set in stone. The show is a 2-cour, so the full blown confession is only probably gonna happen in 2016 aha.
Dedication Through Light
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Ace of the Diamond Second Season Episode 30 The Kings' Roar
Its hard being a Kawakami fan, permanent sadness and struggles. But I have faith he will improve someday and be very vital for Seido's performance.
I wonder how the Yakushi Ichidai game plays out I want Yakushi just so we get more Seido Raichi which would be fun. But then it would be their third time playing them and that could be too repetitive for a writer. But then I want to see Yakushi growth.
I also want Coach Kataoka to stay with Seido, why watch from the sidelines when you can watch from the frontlines, Boss!
Final 30 seconds was the most pumped up thing ever. More roaring please.
Its hard being a Kawakami fan, permanent sadness and struggles. But I have faith he will improve someday and be very vital for Seido's performance.
I wonder how the Yakushi Ichidai game plays out I want Yakushi just so we get more Seido Raichi which would be fun. But then it would be their third time playing them and that could be too repetitive for a writer. But then I want to see Yakushi growth.
I also want Coach Kataoka to stay with Seido, why watch from the sidelines when you can watch from the frontlines, Boss!
Final 30 seconds was the most pumped up thing ever. More roaring please.
Cornbread78
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So Asterix is 2 cour and Calvary is only 1? That would make sense of the pacing then.. Are both complete LN, or still ongoing? Just wondering if we will get the standard "You want an ending? Well, fu(k you, go buy the books.."
Dedication Through Light
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For an anime in the same setting, I think the male chara of Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku o! PV is less appealing than Bell.
names2hard4you
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Yeah, Cavalry is only a 1-cour FOR NOW, Asterisk is a split 2-cour with the second part airing in Spring 2016.
SliceSabre
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As I watched that I was reminded of the classic *teleports behind you* meme. I mean they were trying to hard to make him seem cool and make Juris wet.
names2hard4you
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Cornbread78
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I guess it worked, she was sky high in the end and he made it to bed with her by his side, right?
If this happens in either of the shows, it'd be glorious.
Oh man I love this, what is it from, also is it any good. O:
names2hard4you
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Busou Renkin. Is it any good? I think the image alone answers your question LOL.
Hellwarden
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Oh studio Deen.
Your continued existence baffles and confuses me on multiple levels.
names2hard4you
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So uh... I just saw this trailer for a LIVE ACTION version of Prison School. This is going to be insane isn't it. And shitty too lmfao.
Cornbread78
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Emma: A Victorian Romance ep. 1-3
The tone of this anime is really hard to describe so far. It melow in toneand really slowly paced, with some good music in the background. With that being said, something feels weird about it, almost out of place. Maybe that is the pacign of teh first three episodes and the events so far. I mean, Hakim from India coming from India on elephants and falling for the same girl? C'Mon something is off here since he already has a harem of his own. You can definately see where there will be issues down the road because of the classic Caste system between societies. This should be interesting...
The tone of this anime is really hard to describe so far. It melow in toneand really slowly paced, with some good music in the background. With that being said, something feels weird about it, almost out of place. Maybe that is the pacign of teh first three episodes and the events so far. I mean, Hakim from India coming from India on elephants and falling for the same girl? C'Mon something is off here since he already has a harem of his own. You can definately see where there will be issues down the road because of the classic Caste system between societies. This should be interesting...
Admiral Woofington
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you'll know you have reached the point the show gets good when you watch the episode where they're basically just eating.
names2hard4you
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Interesting start time. Every Tuesday at 1:11 AM
NaDannMaGoGo
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Sasameki Koto [1-13 - Complete]
Well would you look at this, Girl Love RomCom that actually delivers, apart from ending prematurely. Above average writing and really good direction, even though the director Eiji Suganuma doesn't have any other work I know about or highly rated at least.
There were also easily my favorite bits of Engrish yet in there.
(3.7MB webm warning) proof
7/10 - gonna read the manga.
Well would you look at this, Girl Love RomCom that actually delivers, apart from ending prematurely. Above average writing and really good direction, even though the director Eiji Suganuma doesn't have any other work I know about or highly rated at least.
There were also easily my favorite bits of Engrish yet in there.
(3.7MB webm warning) proof
7/10 - gonna read the manga.
hosannainexcelsis
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Deen is making what will likely be the best TV anime airing next season.
Wasn't that what ep 25 is about ? With hot pots or something ?
Admiral Woofington
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yeah. 25 or so. So you have 20 or so episodes to go haha.
I know it's hard but it's worth it. One can't think of it as "I basically have to watch 2-cour mediocre to ok comedy season before getting to the good part' but think of it as ' I gotta watch less than 1/10th of bad show to get to the good part'
That doesn't help lol, nowadays having to watch anything longer than 26 eps fills me with dread. No clue how I managed to marathon like 650 episodes of Naruto and Bleach back in the day.
Non Non Biyori 01
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I watched an episode of moe SoL show and I lik ... and I didn't turn it off ! Clearly I'm progressing both as an anime connoisseur and as a human being.
NaDannMaGoGo
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Yo Phaze, you gotta finish up Eureka 7!
Admiral Woofington
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I mean don't think about it like "here's a show I HAVE to watch" and more one that you get to watch.
Unlike Naruto and Bleach this focuses on the funny 95% of the time so the arc are shorter if there's one at all.
Find points you could watch a show with and watch an episode that day. Keep it to one a day or something. Having dinner/lunch or something. That's how I watched Gintama back in college.
MetroidPrimeRib
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Osumatsu-san 04
Yeah, this is certainly a few steps below Gintama when it comes to comedy. Show looks great and the visual comedy is also good, but it doesn't have the same hooks Gintama does.
Yeah, this is certainly a few steps below Gintama when it comes to comedy. Show looks great and the visual comedy is also good, but it doesn't have the same hooks Gintama does.
I'm ... hmmmm in the process of healing the damage that was inflicted upon me by that show. And thinking about whether I've it in me to withstand more of that.
Cornbread78
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Wow, it's not that bad dude. The ending was awesome.
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