MetroidPrimeRib
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I'll just hope Redbox has it
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Autumn Anime 2016 |OT| The seasons change, but we're still Falling for Euri
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I'll just hope Redbox has it
Hellwarden
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I didn't finish the original Gravity Rush.
I feel like the people behind that game made the gravity mechanic, but they didn't build anything interesting gameplay wise around the mechanic.
I feel like the people behind that game made the gravity mechanic, but they didn't build anything interesting gameplay wise around the mechanic.
Admiral Woofington
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I thought it was the most boring piece of shit I've played in a long time, I fell for gaf hype and I'm now curious how much of the praise was for waifu talk.
Before no man's sky it was my most regretted buy.
Gravity Rush was a neat concept. What keeps it afloat is the charming characters, interesting world, and great soundtrack.
I'm really excited for GR2 though. Taking those things that were good about the first game and expanding them in a meaningful way could make a fantastic game.
I'm really excited for GR2 though. Taking those things that were good about the first game and expanding them in a meaningful way could make a fantastic game.
Your Name
I got to watch this on a flight home today - thankfully the plane had decent screens, so the visual quality wasn't really impacted.
It was phenomenal. Kept me fully engaged the full way through. The start was a little bumpy in how they introduced the two characters switching lives, but I get the feeling it would make more sense on a rewatch.
Re the plot:
Unfortunately, there is a pretty big plot hole here, I think -
A pretty glaring and unfortunate flaw in the premise. I just worked on the assumption that by some crazy odds, neither of them noticed.
I was afraid they were gonna
So yeah, I really loved this film. It was beautiful, and the story was really engaging with some solid twists.
I did not like 24cm per second, but loved Garden of Words, and this. Hope the director can keep things up.
I got to watch this on a flight home today - thankfully the plane had decent screens, so the visual quality wasn't really impacted.
It was phenomenal. Kept me fully engaged the full way through. The start was a little bumpy in how they introduced the two characters switching lives, but I get the feeling it would make more sense on a rewatch.
Re the plot:
The timelines being 3 years out of sync was a great twist - really made for an interesting second half, and caught me completely off guard.
it doesn't really make sense that neither character realized the time difference. All they had to do was look at a calendar. Hell, look at their phones. Read a news article. Anything!
I was afraid they were gonna
go for a 24cm per second esque ending and have the characters never meet up again, glad that wasn't the case though. Felt bad seeing them forget each other. Which happens to be my second issue with the film - it felt sort of arbitrary that they only started forgetting each other in the second half,though maybe you can just write that off as a changing influence of the comet.
So yeah, I really loved this film. It was beautiful, and the story was really engaging with some solid twists.
I did not like 24cm per second, but loved Garden of Words, and this. Hope the director can keep things up.
MetroidPrimeRib
Banned
Gravity Rush (along with P4G and to a lesser extent Danganronpa) feels like the game people wanted to push to prove the Vita had actual games, but they should've pushed Muramasa Rebirth instead
Gravity Rush: The Animation - Overture | Parts A & B
First part seemed okay. Gravity Rush kind of has this thing where Kat has really good character design and VA work and the effort on other characters that show up just kind of plummets off a cliff. This is rather annoying when Raven is featured prominently but they don't want to put in very much work or spend very much on VA.
The second more serious half was kind of just unbearable and lame. For all the stuff you could do with GR it sure doesn't seem like this anime took very much advantage of the setting or ideas unique to the series. Didn't seem like they were able to really leverage the iconic music from the first game either. At least Studio Khara got to animate an Inazuma Double Kick I guess.
First part seemed okay. Gravity Rush kind of has this thing where Kat has really good character design and VA work and the effort on other characters that show up just kind of plummets off a cliff. This is rather annoying when Raven is featured prominently but they don't want to put in very much work or spend very much on VA.
The second more serious half was kind of just unbearable and lame. For all the stuff you could do with GR it sure doesn't seem like this anime took very much advantage of the setting or ideas unique to the series. Didn't seem like they were able to really leverage the iconic music from the first game either. At least Studio Khara got to animate an Inazuma Double Kick I guess.
"Vita absolutely has real games! Look at this enhanced port of a Wii title which no one bought the first time!"
MetroidPrimeRib
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its a good-ass game...
hosannainexcelsis
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Yeah. I can understand people who didn't like Gravity Rush because it wasn't a particularly deep game, but I was captivated by its aesthetics and setting. I'm really looking forward to the sequel.
It's got a similar approach of imitating 2D anime in CG, though not quite as impressive. I think the storyboarding and direction is just average, but there's some really great backgrounds and effects and it's reasonably charming overall.
Since when did that matter?
Girlish Number 12
Kind of a lukewarm finale, if I'm using Shirobako as the standard. I like that everything was more or less resolved (except Gojo's love affair with Momoka's agent and Koto). I hope we get more of this eventually.
Still one of my top anime of the year.
Kind of a lukewarm finale, if I'm using Shirobako as the standard. I like that everything was more or less resolved (except Gojo's love affair with Momoka's agent and Koto). I hope we get more of this eventually.
Still one of my top anime of the year.
Cornbread78
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I liked GR on my Vita, but the gyro aiming often pissed me off (Kat would fly waaaay off target) and made some of those gold trials impossible.
The_Inquisitor
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God I just finished "Your lie in April". I know I am late to the boat but damn... I cried.
Hellwarden
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6 hours into The Last Guardian
What makes or breaks The Last Guardian for many people may be how tolerant they are of general gameplay vagueness. TLG is a game that doesn't want to stop to explain things, yet paradoxically reminds me how to perform basic movement options every once and a while. I'm never really sure if I'm pointing Trico at the ledge he can clearly go up on or just vaguely in a general direction of it.
What makes or breaks The Last Guardian for many people may be how tolerant they are of general gameplay vagueness. TLG is a game that doesn't want to stop to explain things, yet paradoxically reminds me how to perform basic movement options every once and a while. I'm never really sure if I'm pointing Trico at the ledge he can clearly go up on or just vaguely in a general direction of it.
Flip Flappers - Episode 6
I thought I already watched this but I guess not. I thought the episode was almost over but there's 7 minutes left. I'm already falling asleep. Wtf is this. :/
Edit: Oh it was the Tachikawa episode. Explains why it felt like a rejected Death Parade episode. Roflmao.
I thought I already watched this but I guess not. I thought the episode was almost over but there's 7 minutes left. I'm already falling asleep. Wtf is this. :/
Edit: Oh it was the Tachikawa episode. Explains why it felt like a rejected Death Parade episode. Roflmao.
Okay decided to finish up stuff I was actually watching this season (admittedly very little, so my backlog increases) and watched a bad anime because that's what I do.
www.working!! [END]
Last episode was good. Whole series definitely has a bit of a rushed pacing especially when compared to the regular seasons and servant x service. But I really did enjoy it, and the ending was pretty much complete. As much as I'd love another season, this felt good as an ending. I liked it a good deal, though maybe not as much as Working!!.
Recommended, but probably only if you've watched the other series too.
Kiss Him Not Me [END]
Yeah... I feel about the same with this as I did the manga tbh. Interesting premise wrapped up in pretty mundane execution of a reverse harem. It gets... kinda boring tbh. Honestly this show shines when the MC goes full out fujoshi (doubly so when its with other characters) but outside of that its pretty stock standard. Also, it may just be me, but the voice of the main character sounded... weird. Like she had some odd reverb or softness or was in another room or something. Maybe its just the VA or something, who knows.
It doesn't do enough for me to recommend it, but it won't bite or hurt you.
Dragon Crisis! [END]
Story and characters ended up being nothing special, its definitely not the worst thing I've ever seen. Its just that this idea and type of show has been done to death and has been done significantly better by many different shows. I'd even say its worse than something like Hidan no Aria (which I personally didn't mind, but I know people didn't like it).
Also, unless I missed something (which I don't think I did) the show never adequately explains any of its major plot elements (seriously they talk about "Lost Precious" a lot but all I could gather was that they are special muguffins which have people's souls in them or something and they are magic... idk) Nothing really makes sense in this show due to lack of explanation.
I really wouldn't recommend this one tbh. Its very much a poor man's shakugan no shana on pretty much every front, so you'd be better off watching something like that instead.
www.working!! [END]
Last episode was good. Whole series definitely has a bit of a rushed pacing especially when compared to the regular seasons and servant x service. But I really did enjoy it, and the ending was pretty much complete. As much as I'd love another season, this felt good as an ending. I liked it a good deal, though maybe not as much as Working!!.
Recommended, but probably only if you've watched the other series too.
Kiss Him Not Me [END]
Yeah... I feel about the same with this as I did the manga tbh. Interesting premise wrapped up in pretty mundane execution of a reverse harem. It gets... kinda boring tbh. Honestly this show shines when the MC goes full out fujoshi (doubly so when its with other characters) but outside of that its pretty stock standard. Also, it may just be me, but the voice of the main character sounded... weird. Like she had some odd reverb or softness or was in another room or something. Maybe its just the VA or something, who knows.
It doesn't do enough for me to recommend it, but it won't bite or hurt you.
Dragon Crisis! [END]
I pretty much just watched this 'cause I thought it would be crap, and really felt like I needed a crap anime to watch. I was right. You know you're dealing with a bad Deen show when odd and lazy animation choices are being made (stick figures, really?!).
This appears during all interstitials. Unimaginable horror
Story and characters ended up being nothing special, its definitely not the worst thing I've ever seen. Its just that this idea and type of show has been done to death and has been done significantly better by many different shows. I'd even say its worse than something like Hidan no Aria (which I personally didn't mind, but I know people didn't like it).
Also, unless I missed something (which I don't think I did) the show never adequately explains any of its major plot elements (seriously they talk about "Lost Precious" a lot but all I could gather was that they are special muguffins which have people's souls in them or something and they are magic... idk) Nothing really makes sense in this show due to lack of explanation.
I really wouldn't recommend this one tbh. Its very much a poor man's shakugan no shana on pretty much every front, so you'd be better off watching something like that instead.
3-gatsu no Lion 11
This is like three good episodes in a row now. Maybe this whole thing will turn out pretty well. That'd be nice. Really strong use of exaggerated and almost goofy sound effects for things like people shuffling across the floor. The serenity Ren finds really comes through and it does feel like we get to know more about the Kawamoto family just by being around them, not through forced situations or exposition. I'm glad the show can have warm episodes like this after the tension of the last episode, and the pacing has found a point where it doesn't feel like the tonal whiplash people criticized earlier on.
Your Name spoilers
Regarding this point...
some people also have the theory that to cross over to "the other side" where the shrine was, they had to leave something important to them behind to safely get back to the living world. In Mitsuha and Taki's case, it's their name/memories of one another.
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Still waiting for the blu-ray to be released.
It's not even the best anime movie of the year (I'd rather watch A Silent Voice of either part of Kizumonogatari, for starters), but it's good and it's got an extremely broad appeal, and I say that as someone who doesn't really get along with a lot of Shinkai's earlier work.
Dedication Through Light
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And Beyblade Burst.
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture...ans-new-miyazaki-makoto-shinkai/#.WGJimlN96Ht
Right from the horse's mouth. Your Name is not that great!
Right from the horse's mouth. Your Name is not that great!
Camel Master
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Yes and its more dangerous than ever. They are all made of metal, shits intense.
And he's even humble. Truly an improvement over Miyazaki we deserve.
Bbbbut budgets don't matter.
lol
Jojo DIU 21
There was an amazing thing about this episode: there was a dog, in the immediate vicinity of Kira and for a prolonged period of time at that, one that even set up all of Kira's troubles here and yet, it survived. Unscathed, unharmed, alive and well. What is this sorcery. I take it back about Araki regressing as a writer.
Dedication Through Light
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Im so hyped to finally check out beyblade burst.
Theonik
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If the new Miyazaki says it I guess it's true!
Jex
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Truly, a man who knows his limits. Perhaps he is wiser than I gave him credit for.
OniBarubary
Banned
I was in NYC for Christmas and managed to catch a showing of the 4K restoration of Belladonna of Sadness. I...might need to do a longer post or thread examining it and unpacking my thoughts about it.
It's a 1973 animated film by Osamu Tezuka's MushiPro that along with the X-rated Cleopatra pretty much bankrupted the studio. Tezuka and Eiichi Yamamato worked on and planned a trilogy of movies aimed at a more adult audience which included 1001 Nights, Cleopatra and Belladonna of Sadness. Tezuka wrote and directed the first two with Yamamoto but left the studio before the third leaving Yamamoto to handle it himself.
It is...calling it weird is a bit of an understatement. It is very obviously inspired by the West's HEAVY METAL magazine style and the psychedelic drug trips and imagery of the times, a la a Yellow Submarine or such. Just, you know...entirely about sex. Like holy shit this movie drips with sex. Some violent, some sensual, some a giant penis-headed Satan.
Sometimes it's hard to call it animation as 70-80% of the film is still captures of pictures (gorgeous pictures but still). As a result there are some really interesting techniques to pick out if you look.
Never really seen anything like it. Love the 70s Lady Snowblood singing intro explaining the movie.
It's a 1973 animated film by Osamu Tezuka's MushiPro that along with the X-rated Cleopatra pretty much bankrupted the studio. Tezuka and Eiichi Yamamato worked on and planned a trilogy of movies aimed at a more adult audience which included 1001 Nights, Cleopatra and Belladonna of Sadness. Tezuka wrote and directed the first two with Yamamoto but left the studio before the third leaving Yamamoto to handle it himself.
It is...calling it weird is a bit of an understatement. It is very obviously inspired by the West's HEAVY METAL magazine style and the psychedelic drug trips and imagery of the times, a la a Yellow Submarine or such. Just, you know...entirely about sex. Like holy shit this movie drips with sex. Some violent, some sensual, some a giant penis-headed Satan.
Sometimes it's hard to call it animation as 70-80% of the film is still captures of pictures (gorgeous pictures but still). As a result there are some really interesting techniques to pick out if you look.
Never really seen anything like it. Love the 70s Lady Snowblood singing intro explaining the movie.
SliceSabre
Banned
Stella no Mahou END
Cutest girls making cute video games. MC struggles with her art that never seems to satisfy her. This show is everything I and everyone else expected it to be and I'm happy with that.
names2hard4you
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Wait, wait, wait, wait, what? Did I miss this? I got the idea that they were close friends or colleagues in the same field, but never that they were going out?
Valdfellgar
Banned
Sounds pretty down to Earth to me. All this downplaying actually makes me want to see it more now.
MikeHattsu
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Finally finished some posts about some of the anime locations I visited while in the Chubu region:
A ton of places from Hanasaku Iroha:
http://mikehattsu.blogspot.com/2016/12/hanasaku-iroha-kanazawa-station.html
http://mikehattsu.blogspot.com/2016/12/hanasaku-iroha-cultural-complex.html
http://mikehattsu.blogspot.com/2016/12/hanasaku-iroha-cafe.html
http://mikehattsu.blogspot.com/2016/12/hanasaku-iroha-shopping-street.html
http://mikehattsu.blogspot.com/2016/12/hanasaku-iroha-yuwaku-part-1.html
http://mikehattsu.blogspot.com/2016/12/hanasaku-iroha-yuwaku-part-2.html
http://mikehattsu.blogspot.com/2016/12/yuwaku-onsen-tourist-information-center.html
http://mikehattsu.blogspot.com/2016/12/hanasaku-iroha-poster-locations.html
And I even visited the festival based on the one shown in Hanasaku Iroha:
http://mikehattsu.blogspot.com/2016/12/hanasaku-iroha-bonbori-festival-2016.html
A place shown in Lucky Star and another from Kuromukuro:
http://mikehattsu.blogspot.com/2016/12/lucky-star-kenrokuen-garden.html
http://mikehattsu.blogspot.com/2016/12/kuromukuro-toyama-castle.html
And finally a bunch of places shown in AnimeGAF's favorite anime Hyouka ;P
http://mikehattsu.blogspot.com/2016/12/hyouka-shopping-street.html
http://mikehattsu.blogspot.com/2016/12/hyouka-riverbank.html
http://mikehattsu.blogspot.com/2016/12/hyouka-cafes.html
http://mikehattsu.blogspot.com/2016/12/hyouka-school.html
I'll post about more Chubu locations later...
A ton of places from Hanasaku Iroha:
http://mikehattsu.blogspot.com/2016/12/hanasaku-iroha-kanazawa-station.html
http://mikehattsu.blogspot.com/2016/12/hanasaku-iroha-cultural-complex.html
http://mikehattsu.blogspot.com/2016/12/hanasaku-iroha-cafe.html
http://mikehattsu.blogspot.com/2016/12/hanasaku-iroha-shopping-street.html
http://mikehattsu.blogspot.com/2016/12/hanasaku-iroha-yuwaku-part-1.html
http://mikehattsu.blogspot.com/2016/12/hanasaku-iroha-yuwaku-part-2.html
http://mikehattsu.blogspot.com/2016/12/yuwaku-onsen-tourist-information-center.html
http://mikehattsu.blogspot.com/2016/12/hanasaku-iroha-poster-locations.html
And I even visited the festival based on the one shown in Hanasaku Iroha:
http://mikehattsu.blogspot.com/2016/12/hanasaku-iroha-bonbori-festival-2016.html
A place shown in Lucky Star and another from Kuromukuro:
http://mikehattsu.blogspot.com/2016/12/lucky-star-kenrokuen-garden.html
http://mikehattsu.blogspot.com/2016/12/kuromukuro-toyama-castle.html
And finally a bunch of places shown in AnimeGAF's favorite anime Hyouka ;P
http://mikehattsu.blogspot.com/2016/12/hyouka-shopping-street.html
http://mikehattsu.blogspot.com/2016/12/hyouka-riverbank.html
http://mikehattsu.blogspot.com/2016/12/hyouka-cafes.html
http://mikehattsu.blogspot.com/2016/12/hyouka-school.html
I'll post about more Chubu locations later...
Admiral Woofington
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I finished www.working
It wasn't bad but it wasn't anything to write home about. But there's a chance it'll rank in my top 10 if anything at the bottom was only there because I couldn't think of anything else to rank
It wasn't bad but it wasn't anything to write home about. But there's a chance it'll rank in my top 10 if anything at the bottom was only there because I couldn't think of anything else to rank
hosannainexcelsis
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The latest Sakugablog article is a good collection of information driving home just how chaotic TV anime production has gotten. The shift to movies/OVAs we're beginning to see can't come soon enough to save these poor animators' lives.
Cornbread78
Member
lol.
One of the most consistent shows of the year for me, along with Poco's Udon World, Mob Psycho and Tales of Zestiria.
Dedication Through Light
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Admiral Woofington
Member
"he can't afford a house that big, make it smaller"
Yes, if he acknowledges that there is much room for improvement, I look forward to his next film more.
I dont remember this
NaDannMaGoGo
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Yuri on Ice's last episode had 49 (credited) key animators? Sounds like a nightmare to coordinate all that. Producers am cry.
Also, KyoAni sure stands out like a sparkling star looking at those statistics.
hosannainexcelsis
Member
KyoAni is the only animation studio that operates without relying on freelance animators, even having their own wholly owned subsidiary studios in Osaka (Animation Do) and Korea (Studio Blue). Thus they can have a much smoother production pipeline than when production assistants are trying to juggle a hundred studios and freelancers. Combined with a comparatively small output, this allows KyoAni to sidestep all the problems with modern anime production.
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