Basileus777
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Autumn Anime 2017 |OT| Makes us all rotten
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What year am I in?
PdotMichael
Banned
You guys will never learn it.
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I also bought a bottle of Umeshu for a Plum Splet, only a cute OL is missing.
Technically speaking, it's a prequel so it'd be fine but you may not know who one or two of the characters are and may also miss a few subtle hints. Fair warning though, most of the action scenes are in the final act of the movie so if you're not a fan of a lot of talking then this movie may not be for you.
Theonik
Member
PdotMichael
Banned
No salt, just Umeshu, Soda Water (both 1:1) and lemon juice.
AquaWateria
Member
Wait it seems like Tokyo Ghoul re may not be after the events of the second season.
Source
https://mobile.twitter.com/YonkouProd/status/915943224400683008
The website says that it's being announced two years after Root A. So maybe they will reconn everything in Root A and follow the manga.
Edit: Still not optimistic, but we do know the manga timeskip takes place 3 years not 2.
Source
https://mobile.twitter.com/YonkouProd/status/915943224400683008
The website says that it's being announced two years after Root A. So maybe they will reconn everything in Root A and follow the manga.
Edit: Still not optimistic, but we do know the manga timeskip takes place 3 years not 2.
hosannainexcelsis
Member
I would bet that itll ignore the previous anime and go off the :re manga. That often happens for anime adaptations of sequel manga.
AquaWateria
Member
We might get a Black Butler situation.
Honestly my biggest worry is the staff. I just hope they change it especially the director. Who knows though it may be the same staff.
Crimson_Echidna
Banned
Yeah, that wouldn't surprise me if they just don't mention Root A at all. The real telling sign will be how they plan to address
Hide's disappearance.
PshycoNinja
Member
We are still using GAFer names as tags?
Admiral Woofington
Member
Would yours be loving KEY?
KirbYuuYuu
Member
I mean it's his key feature
nintendoman58
Member
I don't think he even watched Rewrite.
Basileus777
Member
Just Because! 1
Now this is the :firehawk show of the season.
Now this is the :firehawk show of the season.
PdotMichael
Banned
Cornbread78
Member
Kings Game ep.1
Oh my, this is hella bloody. This could be good if it stays this demented the whole season!
KirbYuuYuu
Member
Harsh statement. You boys got rougher sincr I fucked off for a whipe
Dedication Through Light
Member
King's Game franchsie is the best, I hope this leads to Origin anime.,
Please explain.
Cornbread78
Member
Just Because ep.1
Oh my. This was a treat. Everything is just starting, but the presentation was excellent and I really liked the OST and they way they captured the little moments in the character interactions. In short, this was good; really good in subtle kind of way. I hope they keep this up for a full season!
SolidSnakeUS
Member
I read most of the King's Game manga and I didn't really enjoy it. I can skip the show. I like horror/mystery/fucked up things just fine, but meh.
PshycoNinja
Member
You can't boil me down to that. I have very sophisticated tastes.
Huehuehue.
I have more to offer than my love of KEY and Kyoto Animation.
Doesn't mean I won't love it. (I was busy the season it came out. Hence why I don't think I posted in that season's thread. I've been meaning to watch it. But it wasn't written by Jun Maeda, so... I'll get to it.)
KEY shows are great. If friends are preventing you from watching KEY shows they aren't your friend.
AnimeGAF has seen stuff... It's hardened them.
Joe Molotov
Member
Good, K-On belongs in the toilet.
I'm sorry, I like K-On.
KirbYuuYuu
Member
I have seen some of this stuff, I really don't think that was the right choice of words
Jex
Member
[The Night Is Short, Walk on Girl]
Did you enjoy the The Tatami Galaxy? Would you care for a film set in that same world, but even zanier and more frenetic? Then you'll probably enjoy The Night is Short, Walk on Girl. I certainly did. (I'll just refer to it as "The Night is Short" if you don't mind). It's probably worth noting up front that while this movie shares some characters from The Tataxmi Galaxy, it is in no way part of the same story as that show.
The Night is Short follows the story of a man and a women (each unnamed, in classic Tatami Galaxy fashion) who are involved in a series of ridiculous, occasionally romantic, adventures over the course of a single night in Kyoto. In a similar way to the Tatami Galaxy, The Night is Short takes what seems like a fairly standard idea and then layers in absurdity, literary references, trickster gods, musical numbers and, of course, the triumphant return of Johnny. It took me awhile to get into the rhythm of this movie because it doens't really adhere to the beats of traditional narrative stories, but once I was over that hump I started to really enjoy the story. While the 'plot' feels slight, there's a thematic richness to the text that touches on fate, love, isolation, anxiety and ultimately on the way in which humans are connected to each other.
What's really remarkable about the movie is how much of a piece it feels with Tatami Galaxy. It feels like this movie could have come out the year after Tatami Galaxy was released. To some extent that shouldn't be surprising because the film is based on a novel by the same writer as the Tatami Galaxy, it features characters from The Tatami Galaxy, it has the same director, script writer, same musical band and character designer. But it's more than that. The movie retains many of the stylistic elements of the series such as the rapid-fire line delivery, the same colour design, the use of internal monologue and all of Yuasa's trademark, highly subjective visual metaphor where the world itself reflects the emotional turmoil of the characters. Considering how difficult it is in to keep teams of people together in the anime industry it's remarkable that they managed to so effortless recapture the same style as the The Tatami Galaxy.
Where the movie parts most dramatically from the direction of Tatami Galaxy is in the movie's pacing and kineticism. There is almost no downtime throughout the entirety of The Night is Short, for better or worse. It is full blown Yuasa wackiness right from the first minute and it only gets wilder and more unhinged as it develops. I went back to re-watch The Tatami Galaxy and the direction in that series is sedate and reflective by comparison. Yuasa's cinematography is so unchained in this movie that I forgot that he'd just made a relatively restrained series such as Ping Pong. The energy level that this movie builds to and maintains is more reminiscent of Mind Game. I don't think this will be to everyone's taste, especially those who are fans of Yuasa's more sedate works. I liked it, but I still thought the movie could have done with some time to breathe and it took me a little while to get on board with the visuals that Yuasa was hurling at me.
While I enjoyed the movie I still feel it could have used a bit more polish. The movie needed some breathing room to allow you to acclimatize to the characters and the world. Certain scenes showed the tell tale signs of being shot in a manner to make them cheap, whereas I would have preferred to see them animated in full. The presence of 'flash style' animation in places may distract some, I didn't have an issue with it because most of the movie looked great and featured tons of interesting movement. Even with these minor quibbles, I am really grateful that Yuasa (somehow?) gets to make movies like these, which appears to have zero commercial value, in the year 2017.
Did you enjoy the The Tatami Galaxy? Would you care for a film set in that same world, but even zanier and more frenetic? Then you'll probably enjoy The Night is Short, Walk on Girl. I certainly did. (I'll just refer to it as "The Night is Short" if you don't mind). It's probably worth noting up front that while this movie shares some characters from The Tataxmi Galaxy, it is in no way part of the same story as that show.
The Night is Short follows the story of a man and a women (each unnamed, in classic Tatami Galaxy fashion) who are involved in a series of ridiculous, occasionally romantic, adventures over the course of a single night in Kyoto. In a similar way to the Tatami Galaxy, The Night is Short takes what seems like a fairly standard idea and then layers in absurdity, literary references, trickster gods, musical numbers and, of course, the triumphant return of Johnny. It took me awhile to get into the rhythm of this movie because it doens't really adhere to the beats of traditional narrative stories, but once I was over that hump I started to really enjoy the story. While the 'plot' feels slight, there's a thematic richness to the text that touches on fate, love, isolation, anxiety and ultimately on the way in which humans are connected to each other.
What's really remarkable about the movie is how much of a piece it feels with Tatami Galaxy. It feels like this movie could have come out the year after Tatami Galaxy was released. To some extent that shouldn't be surprising because the film is based on a novel by the same writer as the Tatami Galaxy, it features characters from The Tatami Galaxy, it has the same director, script writer, same musical band and character designer. But it's more than that. The movie retains many of the stylistic elements of the series such as the rapid-fire line delivery, the same colour design, the use of internal monologue and all of Yuasa's trademark, highly subjective visual metaphor where the world itself reflects the emotional turmoil of the characters. Considering how difficult it is in to keep teams of people together in the anime industry it's remarkable that they managed to so effortless recapture the same style as the The Tatami Galaxy.
Where the movie parts most dramatically from the direction of Tatami Galaxy is in the movie's pacing and kineticism. There is almost no downtime throughout the entirety of The Night is Short, for better or worse. It is full blown Yuasa wackiness right from the first minute and it only gets wilder and more unhinged as it develops. I went back to re-watch The Tatami Galaxy and the direction in that series is sedate and reflective by comparison. Yuasa's cinematography is so unchained in this movie that I forgot that he'd just made a relatively restrained series such as Ping Pong. The energy level that this movie builds to and maintains is more reminiscent of Mind Game. I don't think this will be to everyone's taste, especially those who are fans of Yuasa's more sedate works. I liked it, but I still thought the movie could have done with some time to breathe and it took me a little while to get on board with the visuals that Yuasa was hurling at me.
While I enjoyed the movie I still feel it could have used a bit more polish. The movie needed some breathing room to allow you to acclimatize to the characters and the world. Certain scenes showed the tell tale signs of being shot in a manner to make them cheap, whereas I would have preferred to see them animated in full. The presence of 'flash style' animation in places may distract some, I didn't have an issue with it because most of the movie looked great and featured tons of interesting movement. Even with these minor quibbles, I am really grateful that Yuasa (somehow?) gets to make movies like these, which appears to have zero commercial value, in the year 2017.
You needn't apologize for stating the facts.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
New Anime thread for me to not post in. RIP.
Oh yeah, ANIME SUUUUUUUUUCKS
(gotta get that in once every new thread)
Oh yeah, ANIME SUUUUUUUUUCKS
(gotta get that in once every new thread)
Garo - End
Well I did not expect or even intend to actually finish this before Vanishing Line starts. Apparently I underestimated how good this was
It took me a while to watch the first few episodes but then I basically watched almost everything in a week...
Anyway, I sometimes thought that the soundtrack gives off Nier: Automata vibes and it turns out that those suspicions were well-founded, as the Garo soundtrack is also by MONACA. Which means it's fantastic, if those names don't mean anything to you (feel free to feel bad in that case).
I don't really have much to add as everyone is shilling for this show around the clock anyway, so I'll just add my voice to the choir and say, yes, this was absolutely fantastic, watch it.
Now on to the movie I guess.
And don't worry, I know that no season 2 exists.
Well I did not expect or even intend to actually finish this before Vanishing Line starts. Apparently I underestimated how good this was
It took me a while to watch the first few episodes but then I basically watched almost everything in a week...
Anyway, I sometimes thought that the soundtrack gives off Nier: Automata vibes and it turns out that those suspicions were well-founded, as the Garo soundtrack is also by MONACA. Which means it's fantastic, if those names don't mean anything to you (feel free to feel bad in that case).
I don't really have much to add as everyone is shilling for this show around the clock anyway, so I'll just add my voice to the choir and say, yes, this was absolutely fantastic, watch it.
Now on to the movie I guess.
And don't worry, I know that no season 2 exists.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
I can't hear the expression "King's Game" without hearing it in drunk Rise Kujikawa's voice.
Cornbread78
Member
Anyone watch the 1st episode of Sengoku Night Blood? Anything there?
At least I'm not the only one...
At least I'm not the only one...
Yuasa on Yuasa sounds great. I was sold just by getting the same kind of aesthethic as TG but glad to hear it doesn't disappoint.
Joe Molotov
Member
Kings Game - 1
Might be due to playing Danganronpa V3, but I am totally into this fear and despair killing game anime. First ep certainly didnt hold any punches.
Just because! - 1
Now this was a home-run for me. Hits the melancholy of ending a chapter in your life just right. Perfect Fall Anime.
Might be due to playing Danganronpa V3, but I am totally into this fear and despair killing game anime. First ep certainly didnt hold any punches.
Just because! - 1
Now this was a home-run for me. Hits the melancholy of ending a chapter in your life just right. Perfect Fall Anime.
Cornbread78
Member
Pretty much my reaction to both. King's Game was brutal from the opening scene forward
and Just Because had really good aesthetic, ambiance and tone to it..
Apparently year of the bull given these lies about me
master billings
Banned
There's a surprisingly large number of edgy anime this season. Love it!
Cornbread78
Member
Hellwarden
Member
Trash.
Trash as far as the eye can see...
Joe Molotov
Member
This new Kirby anime is kinda weird.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
I need to get Aguri's thoughts on endgame lootboxes.
mrpallyguy
Member
All lootboxes are trash