I thought this was a joke, is this an actual plot thing?
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I thought this was a joke, is this an actual plot thing?
Basileus777
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It's not a plot thing.
Admiral Woofington
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That reminds me I watched the Thing again recently. Still as amazing as ever and my favorite horror film
WickedLaharl
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"good harem" is an oxymoron
ThatChairMan
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Well, you're around the point where the writer changed, so things should be picking up soon.
MetroidPrimeRib
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the one with the spidergirl
Big ass, lazy spider, lol
PdotMichael
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Endless Eight was a weak troll. Eight seasons full of Endless Eight episodes would be mentionworthy.
MetroidPrimeRib
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There are too many sleeves in this thread
nintendoman58
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This is a new level of torture for interrogations.
the one where it's clear the bulk of the harem is just there for crazy misadventures and the main girl is obvs gonna win so they can quit with the shitty love triangle bullshit and just go on crazy misadventures
Wasurenagumo?
Monster Musume
hosannainexcelsis
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Urusei Yatsura, which was in many ways the earliest progenitor of the harem genre and so existed before its formulas were codified.
Cornbread78
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Yes, about that, the grand wheel is turning and the stage has a name, endgame has a name now and that is significant.
The Throne Wars can not be anything but the endgame given was Doflamingo has said.
Does Teenage SNAFU count? Hachiman has like 4 girls that like him.
Saekano is decent as well, though I won't say it's good.
Also a lot of people like Monogatari.
MetroidPrimeRib
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The only thing more dangerous then monster girls is ones from a Souls game
Never heard of that, time to look it up
Really depends on how many Yonkou Luffy actually ends up tussling with. Shanks and Blackbeard don't seem to have the massive amount of followers that Kaidou and Big Mom do, too. This 100 chapter long arc was just to take down someone who was an underling of the real target.
Oh, sorry. I missed your post.
I was throwing it out there to see what wasn't an oxymoron, haha
I don't think Luffy and crew will be able to escape if he want to be the King of the Pirates.
Cornbread78
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John Blade
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Well...going to try to go back watching Rahxephon as I kinda stop watching anime for a bit. If this doesn`t work, I will stop watching anime for another 2-3 weeks. Look like steeping out from watching anime help me a bit here but going back will be the hard part.
I gotcha. I was just flipping back and forth between multiple threads and stuff.
Joe Molotov
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hosannainexcelsis
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Endless Eight was an interesting experiment (as was the whole surprise second season of Haruhi), and KyoAni put a lot of work into it. But it was not good television. It had no artistic value. It was a prank that went on for far too long. It only exists now as a historical footnote which no one (except perhaps you) wants to relive.
Better uses of the television medium would be things such as Flowers of Evil (the whole thing but particularly the long stretches without dialogue) and the first episode of Osomatsu-san.
Admiral Woofington
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Don't know if it's a 'good' harem but the one tenchi muyo spin-off is pretty decent from what I recall.
http://myanimelist.net/anime/5781/Isekai_no_Seikishi_Monogatari
http://myanimelist.net/anime/5781/Isekai_no_Seikishi_Monogatari
These days I view it mostly as a way for them to pad out the rest of the season they were contracted to do while keeping the way clear for them to do Disappearance without having to use the episodes for the actual season.
If they had just been doing it and had enough filler for the rest of the season, three episodes I think would've been perfect.
If they had just been doing it and had enough filler for the rest of the season, three episodes I think would've been perfect.
names2hard4you
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Just when I thought I had gotten over this show's ending, just when I thought it wasn't lingering in my mind anymore, it gets brought up... SNAFU. Why were you so good. Why must I live with this agony. Guys just freeze me and wake me up when S3 airs.
Or if somehow KyoAni decides to make a Hyouka S2. Thnx.
Admiral Woofington
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Whch 4 girls were into Bathachiman? I mean I know 2 of them are obvious the others seemed to have just seen him as a friend.
names2hard4you
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Well Yui and Yukino for sure. Iroha, maybe. Who would the forth be? Saika? LOL.
Basileus777
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It's obviously the teacher. And Iroha is hardly a maybe.
names2hard4you
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Ahhhh the good days when we had SNAFU discussions. Between those and guessing the whole "whodunit" in Rokka, I kinda miss having a show that has the whole community engaged. There have been more, but those 2 shows definitely come to mind.
It's a fan theory that kind of works. Haven't read the LNs so I don't know.
MetroidPrimeRib
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Haikyuu 17
This episode was really cool, lots of good animation on the movement and some neat direction tricks using stuff like perspective. The show has hit its stride and if people are so adamant of it improving in S2 then I look forward to that.
Oh, and I'm also glad the pacing of this is pretty quick and it isn't spending 10 minutes on each volley.
This episode was really cool, lots of good animation on the movement and some neat direction tricks using stuff like perspective. The show has hit its stride and if people are so adamant of it improving in S2 then I look forward to that.
Oh, and I'm also glad the pacing of this is pretty quick and it isn't spending 10 minutes on each volley.
It's pretty much just between Yui and Yukinon. I can't imagine Iroha being in the race considering how late her character was introduced plus her crush on Hayama seems real. I purely see them as just friends that flirt around. I'm a diehard Yui fan and will die with this ship. Damn it all.
Basileus777
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Monday through Thursday is a wasteland.
Shouldn't that give you time to trim the backlog at least?
MetroidPrimeRib
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Friday is good, Ushio and Tora, Kagewani, Noragami and Hackadoll.
Other then that Osumatsu-san on Monday and Gintama on Wednesday for me on the weekdays.
But yeah most of the best shit (OPM, Owarimonogatari, Gundam) is frontloaded on the weekend.
names2hard4you
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I kinda marathoned through season 1 and got all caught up, I too think season 2 is already better in certain aspects. So far, and this may just be me, but the humour seems to be a little better. Same goes for animations and those dynamic angles that you talk about. There's also more female characters joining the fray, so it's not just the guys and the manager anymore. If the OP is indication of it, there seem to be more incoming.
#teamIroha is the only team that matters. Also, never forget:
It's canon.
I watch Sakurako-san on Wednesday, The Perfect Insider on Thursday and Noragami on Friday. They are all pretty great. Saturdays is fucking packed as hell though. Sunday is only Gundam and OPM.
Your Friday is saturday for me doe.
names2hard4you
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Lol that Iroha end route video is so good. Iroha is great so I wouldn't be as mad if she won over Yui. http://youtu.be/Eb_3gy395lc
I still haven't stumbled accross any, but I'd say the biggest issue with harem as a genre is that it's little more than a power fantasy, so placing the MC on a pedestal and having the girls fight for him is kind of par for the course. I would like seeing a show where
While it works as a subversion, I think it mustn't have been fun neither for the audience who were watching it week after week nor for those of us that watched it later. I guess it makes sense if you think about it in-universe as Haruhi was forcing everyone to repeat the same things over and over until they worked the way she secretly wanted them to though, and that the absurd number of loops was the plot point that set The Disappearance in motion, but it still was boring as hell.
...Thinking about it more and more, I guess I've got to agree that showing the loop in two or three episodes only wouldn't have had the same impact, so I guess it did something right, even if it was at the expense of becoming infamous for it.
Admiral Woofington
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If Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei counts, then at least it isn't much of a power fantasy.
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