Its true.....we just finished the longest filler season, had a couple of weeks of canon before going into what looks like an even longer filler season. The worst thing is the amount of bullshit is in this filler. It doesn't make any sense, I'm convinced the studio is on crack. How is this even allowed to happen? I don't know but I'm placing them below shit tier.......SP is now Koei Tier.
Its true.....we just finished the longest filler season, had a couple of weeks of canon before going into what looks like an even longer filler season. The worst thing is the amount of bullshit is in this filler. It doesn't make any sense, I'm convinced the studio is on crack. How is this even allowed to happen? I don't know but I'm placing them below shit tier.......SP is now Koei Tier.
Have you forgotten that this is meant to be Tsunade's dream?
She even had a dream in canon where she was with Dan, Jiraiya and Naruto and it was kind of touching but instead we get this. Weird characterisation, Tobi has byakugan, Sasuke and Sakura as genin facing against Sasori etc its just nonsense :/
Lets also forget TenTen dreaming about a the RtN cast whilst also being aware of being under a genjutsu.
Subete ga f ni naru latest
Okay, now we finally got some clue on what's going on with Magata Shiki past.l, and out S&M team finally decide to investigate this case. I'm still sticking out to this show because i want to know how its going to end, and see if my hyphotesis is correct.
Osomatsu-san 6
Should have gone full japan world cup
I still enjoy the dirty jikes and everything.
I like this show better when it's more focused on interpersonal drama, be it various tensions within the band or just plain lovey dovey stuff and as such, I liked these two last episodes more than what came before.
I like this show better when it's more focused on interpersonal drama, be it various tensions within the band or just plain and as such, I liked these two last episodes more than what came before.
Tragedy doesn't even begin to describe this. This episode was just brutally powerful and sad.
Everything comes together. The Beast Spear, Jie Mei, her brother, Ushios mother, the seal on Hakumen no Mono, everything.
And Hakumen no Mono continues to be utterly insane. That thing would sink Japan if it simply were to move.
For some reason I never think of this show when I'm thinking of my AOTY. Probably because I subconciously associate it with the 90ies.
But it absolutely deserves a high spot there!
I mean I do like their relationship and wouldn't consider it being pushed into the yuri direction if it weren't for strange moments like those, especially when they're among the most intricately animated bits of the show.
And yeh, since the characterization is strong, the interaction between these people can be quite fun to follow.
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In other news:
I just finished the SC2: LotV campaign and...Jesus rofling Christ it just kept getting more and more ludicrous. Again and again I had to perform single and double facepalms, laughed out loud and was shaken in my belief. Well, also half of the time I spend following the most unnatural sounding dialogue about uninteresting subject matters because I decided not to skip anything, especially not since there are achievements for listening to everything I think.
Wings of Liberty was badly written, HotS even worse and LotV has got to have reached some kind of trash LN tier.
Clannad After Story Ep 22
You know, I thought that the anime would go in this direction, so I was right about that.
However, I also thought that I wouldn't like,but I was very wrong.
It was just too good. I can't possible mad at that ending.
Now that the main story is over I will slow down a bit with the last 2 episodes.
The last two stories are cute, but not needed. You experienced what you needed to of Clannad. The ending was amazing regardless. It was written and presented in such a great way by tying in the story and events from throughout the anime. That song that s played during that ending Palm of a Tiny hand hits perfectly right there by mixing Nagisa's theme with everything else.... Beautiful...
The reason of Hakumen no Mono's seal, I think was quite clever. I'm no geologist though.
I kept getting bothered with by what I consider time paradox, but for the sake of the backstory exposition I can overlook it I guess.
Soundtrack was on point and timed well. My favorite part of the episode was the forging scene packed with emotions.
Oh, so would you look at that. Well let me guess, he's going to listen to this guy just because he's president even though I've been saying the same thing all year to no avail. Typical.
Oh, so would you look at that. Well let me guess, he's going to listen to this guy just because he's president even though I've been saying the same thing all year to no avail. Typical.
How can this be so good. How.
I don't even know how to comment on this since the battles in this show and the tension and the visuals and, well, everything just keep blowing me away.
Well, there's one thing: The Festum are like Pokemon at this point, with how many new types seem to show up every new episode (this is a good thing). And since Kazuki and Soushi are on duty now... gotta assimilate 'em all!
I approve!
Super disappointing "fight". Over with one swing. I was having some hope for a cool fight with the draconic design, but no. It breaks my heart. Bad looking faces doesn't seem to stop either.
The eccentric behaivour of Seimei, a long with a bit of curiosity on my part, on what will become of Yasusuke, stands out for me in an otherwise dull episode. Which there unfortunately has been too many of in this show so far.
How can this be so good. How.
I don't even know how to comment on this since the battles in this show and the tension and the visuals and, well, everything just keep blowing me away.
Well, there's one thing: The Festum are like Pokemon at this point, with how many new types seem to show up every new episode (this is a good thing). And since Kazuki and Soushi are on duty now... gotta assimilate 'em all!
I approve!
So Exodus is actually good? Watched 5 episodes of original Fafner back in a day but put it on hold as it wasn't that interesting and I had something else to do and forgot it completely.
Super disappointing "fight". Over with one swing. I was having some hope for a cool fight with the draconic design, but no. It breaks my heart. Bad looking faces doesn't seem to stop either.
The eccentric behaivour of Seimei, a long with a bit of curiosity on my part, on what will become of Yasusuke, stands out for me in an otherwise dull episode. Which there unfortunately has been too many of in this show so far.
So Exodus is actually good? Watched 5 episodes of original Fafner back in a day but put it on hold as it wasn't that interesting and I had something else to do and forgot it completely.
Heh, I was pretty much the same as you. I think I watched 6 episodes of the original then took a break. After some time I slowly continued my way through it. At least until I hit episode 12 (which is when the writer changes) and it instantly became a lot more interesting and better. And it just keeps getting better and better from there on, throughout the TV series, the OVA, the movie and now Exodus.
I regret nothing.
The first 11 episodes of original Fafner are quite slow and overly vague compared to the rest of it.
Slightly better, at least they started trying to solve the mystery.
But there are still thinks that wreck my head about this show. Why would the lab let Sensei and Nishino leave? Surely they'd keep them as witnesses. Also it turned a bit Scobby-doo giving them free reign of the lab since they said they could solve the mystery. Why would you believe those two bums could solve anything, why would they trust them at all?
Calling it now the killer is
Yamane(the dude with glasses who keeps helping them). Literally he is the only other guy who has done anything in the plot and he keeps helping the MCs, so by careful deduction he's the killer.
Great episode, it feels so nice to finally not watch any of that Veena crap that we recently had. Some pretty funny moments and Ebisu appears. He's pretty cool, I like him.
I remember being completely blown away by how strong Sein and Nicht were without their limiters when I first saw that. But after all the shit both have been through in DA and H&E, it makes sense.
I decided to try and watch this without subtitles since NNB is pretty easy to follow regardless and I wanted to test myself. I'm doing okay I guess.
The little story with Renge and her summer holiday friend should have won an award for direction or something. The art is kind of all over the place visually for anything that isn't close-up animation but the direction, voice-acting, timing and music generally are god damn impeccable.
I watched this ep a short while ago, and I've got to agree that the mini-arc of Renge and her new friend was downright amazing to watch. Having slogged through Angel Beats lately, I found it crazy that NNB managed to invest me more in Renge and her one-shot friend's relationship than everything Maeda threw at me to try and make me care about his show's characters in a whole one-cour anime (and failed miserably at that, at least for me).
I'm currently at S1E12, and I've got to say it's been a really fun and heartwarming ride all the way through. Nee-nee, Natsumi and her sister sometimes feel weak with how one-dimensional they are (Nee-nee and Natsumi are always lazy bums, while Natsumi's sister keeps trying to act her age and always ends up embarassing herself), but Hotaru's okay when she isn't in sempai-loving mode, and Renge and Ms. Candy Store are downright amazing to watch. That episode with the flashback to how the latter took care of the former and got attached to her after that was really heartwarming, and the final scene with both of them sleeping in Renge's bed just like they used to was the icing on the cake. Almost everything they do together feels both natural and really heartwarming.
That's really bad... but at least it isn't Detective Conan, where even manga episodes barely budge the plot forward. The set-up to the next eventual black organization arc takes so long it's downright silly, and even when those eventually happen the plot doesn't do much, since the way the show has introduced lots of new side characters means that they can just have the next BO include them, rather than actually help Shinichi get closer to his goal of getting his former appearance back.
Then there're episodes that deal with romance as plot development, but they always lead to nothing unless they concern a tertiary character at best.
Impressions for this show are such a mixed bag. I'm one of the few that's been enjoying every episode (aside from 5, that one definitely sucked a bit). I'm just glad that there is a mystery show at all. Sakurako-san's mysteries are way too simple and pretty much episodic.
My cousin and I are still into the show even though things are a bit hard to swallow at times, such as when they said they should be on their guard because of there being a killer in their midst, but not after they were having a snack while nochalantly chatting inside the laboratory.
The one thing that kind of ticked me off last episode was that they realized that F meant fifteen, but nobody has done a reference to the hexadecimal F. The whole "Magata has lots of books that go up to volume 15!" scene, that was the most annoyingly obvious way to present the characters with such an epiphany. Ever since ep1 I thought the title could've meant fifteen in hexadecimal, mostly due to how much the ending shows computer-related imagery, and Magata's masterpiece appears to be a custom OS, even though I didn't think to link the fifteen year period Magata remained isolated was with the whole F thing until a while before the episode went along with their reveal.
The barebones theory I've come up with so far (if it can even be called that at this point)
is that the whole F thing might be related to an integer overflow that happened right the moment the lab's systems went haywire after running for too long. I was also thinking that Magata's uncle might've had the power and means to have the lab's staff doctor the security tapes and thus allow him to keep meeting her, but now that he's dead it seems unlikely that he could've gone inside the lab and killed Magata, and that's not even holding into account the fact that he supposedly arrived by helicopter some time later, and that the people who were in the building actually witnessed his arrival.
I've also got to say that the way the show panned through the tools and objects that were inside Magata's room, and how it had shown the teddy bear and sewing machine one after the other might be a hint to something important being inside the bear...
I remember being completely blown away by how strong Sein and Nicht were without their limiters when I first saw that. But after all the shit both have been through in DA and H&E, it makes sense.
Heh, I was pretty much the same as you. I think I watched 6 episodes of the original then took a break. After some time I slowly continued my way through it. At least until I hit episode 12 (which is when the writer changes) and it instantly became a lot more interesting and better. And it just keeps getting better and better from there on, throughout the TV series, the OVA, the movie and now Exodus.
I regret nothing.
The first 11 episodes of original Fafner are quite slow and overly vague compared to the rest of it.
I mean I do like their relationship and wouldn't consider it being pushed into the yuri direction if it weren't for strange moments like those, especially when they're among the most intricately animated bits of the show.
And yeh, since the characterization is strong, the interaction between these people can be quite fun to follow.
I remember seeing that scene in gifs and thinking that yes, surely this is pandering but now that I saw it in context of neighbouring scenes or dialogue, I didn't get that impression anymore. I mean sure, it's a weird one but It helps that Reina is this eccentric weirdo and it's pretty much a singular scene of this kind. (so far)
For some reason I never think of this show when I'm thinking of my AOTY. Probably because I subconciously associate it with the 90ies.
But it absolutely deserves a high spot there!
The first half of this episode was fucking metal. Anyway, good episode. Lots of revelations and a good setup for the final fight which will somehow last another cour?
Noragami s2 07
I dunno I am not feeling this. The scene at the end with Yato's shrine was good but uh...other then that...I'm super close to dropping this?
Started watching Hyouka after all the praise it's been getting here. Only about eight episodes in, but I really like the atmosphere, production values, and the way the characters play off of one another, especially Chitanda and Oreki. Very good show so far. =)
Also, gotta get back on track with Fafner. I'm about halfway through the original series, and it's been pretty good, but I really want to get caught up so that I can watch the new stuff.
Started watching Hyouka after all the praise it's been getting here. Only about eight episodes in, but I really like the atmosphere, production values, and the way the characters play off of one another, especially Chitanda and Oreki. Very good show so far. =)
Also, gotta get back on track with Fafner. I'm about halfway through the original series, and it's been pretty good, but I really want to get caught up so that I can watch the new stuff.
As someone who also only recently worked his way through Fafner I can tell you this: the second half of the original series is even better and Exodus will blow your mind with how good it is.
Awwe yeah, ep. 18 felt like a random escape from the series, at first, until the final few seconds when they introduced the Elite #9 turd. It's interesting how they choose to go with Ikumi and his childhood friend to help him with the restaurant. I get it's meat and all, but that was a crazy mix right there. Looks like $hit is about to get real going into the final 5 episodes....