Admiral Woofington
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Autumn Anime 2016 |OT| The seasons change, but we're still Falling for Euri
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StoneHeart
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Strong first episode for 3-gatsu no Lion and All Out!. Keijo!!!!!!!! and Occultic;Nine, not so much. But I' think I'll continue watching Occultic;Nine though.
So far this Season:
3-gatsu no Lion
All Out!
Sound! Euphonium Season 2
Haikyuu!!: Karasuno Koukou VS Shiratorizawa Gakuen Koukou
Occultic;Nine
So far this Season:
3-gatsu no Lion
All Out!
Sound! Euphonium Season 2
Haikyuu!!: Karasuno Koukou VS Shiratorizawa Gakuen Koukou
Occultic;Nine
StoneHeart
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I agree, Sound! was definitely better and probably imo tied for best 1st episode with Haikyu!! this week. But as for a new series, I think 3gatsu had the strongest 1st episode.
Admiral Woofington
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One of these days I'll watch Haikyuu.
I just don't really care for volleyball as a sport. I want a good soccer anime.
I just don't really care for volleyball as a sport. I want a good soccer anime.
Yet you're not watching DAYS.
nintendoman58
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Haikyuu is over 50 episodes. Perfect show for me to hold hostage behind several Majin Bone viewers once I'm done with Penguindrum. 
Admiral Woofington
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I've heard bad things.
Haikyuu is over 50 episodes. Perfect show for me to hold hostage behind several Majin Bone viewers once I'm done with Penguindrum.
Shigurui beckons.
I know at least one person in this thread whose reception of it was supremely favourable.
Admiral Woofington
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Was it you?
MetroidPrimeRib
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Okada Gundam 27
Not feeling this new dudes plotline. Okada plz.
Dragon Ball Super 61
Man that was a good-ass episode. Black and Zamasu are great villains just because of how cocky and straight up evil they are. Goku and Trunks getting furious was great, especially when Goku started wrecking for a minute or two. The thing is I have no idea how Trunks, Goku and Vegeta are supposed to win because they can't die and are as strong as they are without the immortality. I hope Whis and Beerus or the King don't end up saving them.
Not feeling this new dudes plotline. Okada plz.
Dragon Ball Super 61
Bro, we're so evil. And immortal. And smug. I love you bro.
Man that was a good-ass episode. Black and Zamasu are great villains just because of how cocky and straight up evil they are. Goku and Trunks getting furious was great, especially when Goku started wrecking for a minute or two. The thing is I have no idea how Trunks, Goku and Vegeta are supposed to win because they can't die and are as strong as they are without the immortality. I hope Whis and Beerus or the King don't end up saving them.
Bonus smug.
I was going to remind you when the summer was drawing to a close but then I realised people who dare drop such a masterpiece in the middle don't deserve to witness the rest of it.
Nay sir, it was our comrade, currently fallen yet soon to be reborn.
So, Occultic;Nine. I now saw this. I get your complaints. I understood like nothing. It felt like the very first episode of Baccano!, but in a bad way. It looks like they wanted to introduce all characters but IT WAS JUST TOO MUCH.
I will give the show 1-2 more episodes. Maybe it gets better. So far, it really rushed past everything.
I will give the show 1-2 more episodes. Maybe it gets better. So far, it really rushed past everything.
I was going to remind you when the summer was drawing to a close but then I realised people who dare drop such a masterpiece in the middle don't deserve to witness the rest of it.
I think about it weekly but busy with books & 2016 anime atm so saving it for 2017.
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Hakaba Kitarou 04
This shows seems like it shot its visual and storyboarding bolt in the first two eps and the writing isn't in particular hurry to offset that.
Erin 19-21
I really liked that, due to her spending most of her teenagers years living the hippy life with John, Erin had problems inserting herself into a community. It gives her character a realistic flaw. She doesn't understand you can't disappear on people, she doesn't understand she can't eat whenever she want, she doesn't understand she doesn't have a private teacher anymore.
Her village seemed pretty rigid, however. But I guess her mum wasn't so she never learned how to behave into a community.
On other hand, I found weird that everyone was ultimately so accepting of her, she's looks different, and it's from a fantasy race everyone seems to be wary off and it's also given preferential treatment to some degree. I'm kinda glad the writer didn't go for a clichè bully storyline, but on other hand these kids are way to accepting.
I really liked that, due to her spending most of her teenagers years living the hippy life with John, Erin had problems inserting herself into a community. It gives her character a realistic flaw. She doesn't understand you can't disappear on people, she doesn't understand she can't eat whenever she want, she doesn't understand she doesn't have a private teacher anymore.
Her village seemed pretty rigid, however. But I guess her mum wasn't so she never learned how to behave into a community.
On other hand, I found weird that everyone was ultimately so accepting of her, she's looks different, and it's from a fantasy race everyone seems to be wary off and it's also given preferential treatment to some degree. I'm kinda glad the writer didn't go for a clichè bully storyline, but on other hand these kids are way to accepting.
Y'all are lucky that Chet Rippo ain't here to lay on the smackdown for dissing that Occultic;Nine titty.
Why don't you just watch it, dude.
Apologies for delayed response - it's been a long time since I saw the show or read the manga and don't think I really shared that view of it, but on reflection the story does jump around a fair bit.
I have a few explanations/views on that.
i) The manga itself bounced around between three different anthologies in its serialisation which could lead to a lack of connectedness.
ii) Its ensemble cast is quite often off in separate storylines - for instance, Mayama and Yamada's storyline is often totally separate from everyone else's. 3gatsu does spend much more time focused on Rei, but the primary focus of the story (as much as I've read of the manga) does something similar to HachiKuro in that a lot of time is also spent on the other shogi players that Rei faces.
iii) HachiKuro, particularly in its later stages, felt a lot to me like time was passing in very swift stages. Once we're past Takemoto's trip to Hokkaido, there seem to be many jumps in time in the narrative (particularly when we deal with later events). I took this as the storyline just choosing to show us significant moments in the characters' lives rather than their day-to-day studies, but this is perhaps overly generous given that I thought the show was wonderful.
Perhaps it wouldn't have aged well; I'd love to revisit the show some day now that I'm ten years older and my own university graduation and creative ambitions are some way behind me, and see how I feel about it.
Anyway:
3gatsu no Lion 1
I can't remember who it was up thread who was unsure where the difference between this show and Your Lie in April were and why people like this so much better.
Yes, there is a contrast in tones here. However, to me it's the difference between drama and melodrama. Your Lie in April, from its outset, is designed to be like an anime version of Love Story, the classic 70s weepy film; it's heavy on the tragic foreshadowing to drive its serious scenes and the backstories behind them are fairly over-egged.
3gatsu, on the other hand, grounds its drama in something less extreme, thus making the change in tone less whiplash-esque. I would also venture - although this is personal taste - that the comedy is handled better here; humour arises less out of comedy pratfalls and people hitting each other over the head, and more out of bizarre visual/audio detail (the cats! the morning routine!). The change in tone is also used to emphasise the more serious moments in general, particularly after the sisters leave Rei alone in their house at the top of the second act.
I'm not saying it's all perfect - I'm really not a fan of Nikaidou's voice, for instance - but I think the show is handling its serious and comic sides well.
My doubts about the show being too SHAFT-y, or stripping away Umino's tone, were unfounded; the opening montage, while perhaps a little cliched with its little French song and its shot choices, was particularly effective. The pacing is perfect, particularly during the shogi match, and exposition is handled gracefully at this stage.
Who knows? I might even keep watching it.
Most people would say Mob is better than OPM.
Admiral Woofington
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I'm enjoying the new episodes of IBO so far just ok. It isn't anything amazing though.
Eh in terms of rewatching potential and what I definitely want to own on blu-ray once it's finally fucking out, OPM has it beat. Critically Mob is better I guess.
Eh in terms of rewatching potential and what I definitely want to own on blu-ray once it's finally fucking out, OPM has it beat. Critically Mob is better I guess.
Thunderbolt Fantasy
Alderamin on the Sky
This is where I'm at as well.
nintendoman58
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Because I've yet to hear what makes it worth watching over stuff like Turn A, Big O, VOTOMS, Layzner, Patlabor, and other mecha shows I have to finish/get to.
That and after the garbage that was GBF TRY, I've lost what little confidence I had in Sunrise doing a Gundam sequel properly and am expecting IBO to fall apart later down the line.
I'd love to be proven wrong on this, but given Sunrise's track record, the chances aren't great.
names2hard4you
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Mob is the MUCH better show, no contest.
Oh okay, I'm only three eps in so I'll see how it goes. TF is on crunchyroll so I'll give it a whirl.
Most of the impressions of the first season and the new episodes were positive and as someone who's all about 2D mecha shouldn't you watch the biggest show this year that actually has them?
Sweetness and Lightning. Easily my favourite summer anime.
Heh, i watched both shows and also liked OPM more than Mob, doesn't really get much different even later on. Also i recommend Thunderbolt fantasy and Alderamin.
Runs away from thread.
nintendoman58
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I don't know, I haven't gotten the same impressions from most of the folks I know on Twitter.
All I've heard is that while the show is definetly competent and well-made, what's there that makes it unique enough to separate it from the standard UC-esque Gundam conventions?
Your priorities sure can be weird. Normally you throw yourself at everything that has 2D-mechs regardless of how awful the rest may or may not be.
Yes. OPM is good.
However Mob does so many different things in tone, art and visual presentation. Which is already strongly embedded in the OP and ED.
The comparison is not entirely fair tho. I didn't read Mob beforehand as I did with OPM. Before OPM anime even started I was getting sick about all the hype. It turned out more than fine, but that's what was expected.
Mob was a gamble that paid off extremely well. And the emphasis on Reigen was so good, I love it.
Her nose freaks me out more than anything else.
March comes in like a lion - Ep. 1
Strangely enough this show wasn't on my redar at all, given how much I like Your Lie in April as well as Studio shaft.
This episode was a very strong start and did a fantatstic job at getting me intrigued.
Quite a few secenes also reminded me of the first Kara no Kyoukai movie, which happens to be another anime I love.
Unless the show shits the bed halfway through, this is could t be my AOTY.
Strangely enough this show wasn't on my redar at all, given how much I like Your Lie in April as well as Studio shaft.
This episode was a very strong start and did a fantatstic job at getting me intrigued.
Quite a few secenes also reminded me of the first Kara no Kyoukai movie, which happens to be another anime I love.
Unless the show shits the bed halfway through, this is could t be my AOTY.
names2hard4you
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It's okay to like things that others don't. I agree with the others, you of all people should be watching this.
nintendoman58
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It all depends on the show. Me and many others expectations for IBO hit the floor during the reveal where it was stated that Mari Okada was on the project.
And given that she had most recently come off of WIXOSS, the incest-filled Madoka-Yu-Gi-Oh! rip-off, you can bet we weren't happy about it.
I gave Regalia a shot because I had no idea what to expect regarding the staff, and the design of the mechs looked super robot-esque. The plot description was also vague, which made me interested as well.
These are opinions from people I've known from the thread for three years. I watched Gundam 00 S2 + the movie against their warnings and I ended up wasting my time with one of the worst mecha products I've ever seen.
names2hard4you
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Have people I enjoy reading recommendations from sold me on shows and they were great? Sure. The opposite has happened too, in that something was praised and I just totally hated it, or found it boring. Some of the shows I enjoy the most each season are some that people don't really like or care for. In IBOs case, I've yet to see ANYONE on here speaking badly of it. Seems like your opinions of this show come from a select few that created this strange vacuum for you. You are not them, so why not create your own opinion? If I don't like vinegar and someone respects my opinions (fuck, please do yourself a favour if you exist and don't do that), does that mean that they too can't put vinegar on their salads?!
hosannainexcelsis
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Yuri on Ice 1
This is personal preference, but I'm not fond of the unrelentingly comedic tone this episode takes. Not that I'm intrinsically opposed to high-energy cartoony works - I can enjoy a show like Heybot after all - but with this kind of material it isn't working for me. The soft backgrounds and warm lighting seem ideally suited for atmospheric meditation, but the show chooses to barrel past most possible moments for repose. The extreme over-acting makes this feel like a typical live-action J-drama, actually, with their focus on highly stylized and exaggerated emotional expression. This is well made, and I'll probably want to watch it all at some point if only for the beautiful background art, but I don't think it'll be a priority to keep up with as it airs.
It's the swift passage of time you mention that I think is the sticking point for me. I really liked the first episode of Honey and Clover, but with each subsequent episode it felt like the show jumped some unspecified amount of time forward and character dynamics had shifted off-screen. So I felt it difficult to connect to the characters and follow their individual stories. I'll admit I only got four episodes in, so I can imagine the narrative cohering better as the series progresses, but I found the show much harder to enjoy than I expected.
This is personal preference, but I'm not fond of the unrelentingly comedic tone this episode takes. Not that I'm intrinsically opposed to high-energy cartoony works - I can enjoy a show like Heybot after all - but with this kind of material it isn't working for me. The soft backgrounds and warm lighting seem ideally suited for atmospheric meditation, but the show chooses to barrel past most possible moments for repose. The extreme over-acting makes this feel like a typical live-action J-drama, actually, with their focus on highly stylized and exaggerated emotional expression. This is well made, and I'll probably want to watch it all at some point if only for the beautiful background art, but I don't think it'll be a priority to keep up with as it airs.
It's the swift passage of time you mention that I think is the sticking point for me. I really liked the first episode of Honey and Clover, but with each subsequent episode it felt like the show jumped some unspecified amount of time forward and character dynamics had shifted off-screen. So I felt it difficult to connect to the characters and follow their individual stories. I'll admit I only got four episodes in, so I can imagine the narrative cohering better as the series progresses, but I found the show much harder to enjoy than I expected.
This so much.
Neoleo2143
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I mean, that's not even sexy. I'm creeped out by that, not titillated (if that was their intention, not a very admirable one), uncanny valley much? Also lmao at the nose. Just noticed that.
I hope it does well and leaves us at a good point. It can't do everything in the manga now, so a sequel would be nice.
Well I think it will be fine, given the exposure it gets: two live action movies and an anime of 22 episodes.
Digimon Adventure tri. 3: Confession
Hah I thought they would repeat the same thing as the last movie. Two new evolutions and call it a day.
Got something more out of it. I wasn't prepared for that scene with Takeru and Patamon crying. Or Tentomon going all out.
It ain't complete without
a trip to the Digital World
Instead, summers in Japan are hot man:
A room temperature of 41 degrees Celsius (105.8 degrees Fahrenheit) is nothing to sneeze at. Meiko's mom is one hell of a woman.
KirbYuuYuu
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SolidSnakeUS
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Is Ajin Season 2 not on Netflix for anyone else? I thought it was supposed to premiere 2 days ago?
Don't think this is an example of uncanny valley.
Or are you saying her cleavage literally creates a valley.
hosannainexcelsis
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Netflix doesn't put anime seasons up in Western countries until after they have finished airing in Japan, so Ajin season 2 will not show up there until sometime in January. (Netflix Japan, on the other hand, apparently does add new episodes each week.)
You are right about that, unless he thinks that these boobs are scary,because they almost look realstic.
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