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[cajunator]

Right, well throw all that blacktext out the window, top form! I also find it funny (and awesome) how that GAF tan is basically a Char Expy despite being drawn earlier in the year.

I dont know what a char expy is but i have drawn a lot of my own characters. Send me a pm if you want to see others. There may be a lot of hnnnng so be warned.

 

[Basileus777]

LOGH: My Conquest Is the Sea of Stars and LOGH: Overture to a New War

This has me hooked, Overture to a New War was especially good. Though I don't know where I'll find the time to watch something this long.

 

[wonzo]

team kotori is where it's at

 

[Jex]

LOGH: My Conquest Is the Sea of Stars and LOGH: Overture to a New War

This has me hooked, Overture to a New War was especially good. Though I don't know where I'll find the time to watch something this long.

Well, it's one of those things where you'll have to make some time. Be warned, however, that the show requires your full attention. It's something you can't kind of watch casually, or else you'll miss far too much of what is actually going on.

 

[Mature]

How come the dude producer guy doesn't have a team? =/

 

[Dresden]

How come the dude producer guy doesn't have a team? =/

Because he's us.

 

[NewFresh]

Because he's us.

Meta~

 

[Instro]

Switch me over to team Azusa.

I was lost but now I am found

Azusabros are cool dudes.

 

[Mature]

Because he's us.

Yeah, team me.

 

[Hellsing321]

Switch me over to team Azusa.

I was lost but now I am found

I had forgotten she was even in the show.

 

[jman2050]

I didn't watch the show but I remain on team Rie on principle

 

[Frosteey]

I had forgotten she was even in the show.

She's shown up as recently as the pudding episode.

 

[trejo]

Team Dat Fang remains the superior team even if her episode sucked shit.

 

[Dynedom]

I lost it at "if it were good writing".

Hey now, there's nothing wrong with being hypothetical (even if it is a fleeting dream).

LOGH: My Conquest Is the Sea of Stars and LOGH: Overture to a New War

This has me hooked, Overture to a New War was especially good. Though I don't know where I'll find the time to watch something this long.

Take it one season at a time if you're facing constraints. There's nothing wrong with assessing and looking back on each season individually before moving onto the next one.

edit: My biggest advice is to AVOID watching the "Next Time On" segments after the credits on each episode and avoid looking at the names of each episode at all cost. There's a reason why the title of each episode only appears at the end of that episode (I might me forgetting some exceptions). The reason for both is that they tend to contain spoilers.

It's something you can kind of watch casually, or else you'll miss far too much of what is actually going on.

Can or can't?

Oh yeah, I should remind everyone that Ikuhara started putting actual episode footage after the credits during the tail end of MPD. If you're the kind who stops watching when text shows up you missed stuff.

He really is a crafty bastard. I'm happy I got into the habit of watching past credits for like everything.

 

[Instro]

I had forgotten she was even in the show.

Had to give her less screen time after realizing the rest of the girls could never compete.

 

[cajunator]

Im still with team Takane although in her absence i will settle for Makoto.

 

[Jim E. Rossler]

They do.

OP doesnt count

They usually cut away to some scenery or some object instead of the playing

 

[Dynedom]

Can we do another wacky Dynedom "name your favorite ____ anime?" dealy?

Name your favorite anime with a material in the title!

Go!

Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood

 

[Articalys]

So about 2011 anime of the year voting and stuff, I have an OP ready and was going to wait until after the holiday weekend to start things, but if there's a lot of people who want it to start earlier I can post it whenever. Or if the winter season topic will start soon (since almost all the fall shows are over) I wanted to start alongside that if possible.

 

[Basileus777]

Well, it's one of those things where you'll have to make some time. Be warned, however, that the show requires your full attention. It's something you can kind of watch casually, or else you'll miss far too much of what is actually going on.

Yeah, I can see that this isn't the type of series you want to leave aside for a long time or else you might forget about some of the politics or motivations of the side characters.

Take it one season at a time if you're facing constraints. There's nothing wrong with assessing and looking back on each season individually before moving onto the next one.

edit: My biggest advice is to AVOID watching the "Next Time On" segments after the credits on each episode and avoid looking at the names of each episode at all cost. There's a reason why the title of each episode only appears at the end of that episode (I might me forgetting some exceptions). The reason for both is that they tend to contain spoilers.

I think I might try the season at a time approach. I usually don't watch the "next time on segments" for shows I'm not watching as they air, so that works fine for me.

 

[cajunator]

GOLDenboy

 

[Nonoriri]

OP doesnt count

They usually cut away to some scenery or some object instead of the playing

The comment is about effort not frequency, when they are animated playing it is full of effort.

But "sudden spikes in animation quality" in a series with a very consistently above average to excellent standard of animation isn't really a good meter for "sakuga" quality in the first place.

 

[cajunator]

Sakuga. Isnt that the whole action scene thing?

 

[Nonoriri]

Sakuga. Isnt that the whole action scene thing?

TL Note: Sakuga means plan.

Just as Sakuga'd.

 

[LayLa]

one of the most striking things about the animation in K-On is the accuracy of the instrument playing - the fingers are in the correct places pretty much all the time - a rarity in depictions of instrument playing in live action TV never mind animation

 

[wonzo]

Sakuga. Isnt that the whole action scene thing?

Kinda, this lecture on youtube does a pretty good job of explaining it.

 

[trejo]

All according to sakuga just doesn't have the same ring to it.

 

[dimb]

team kotori is where it's at

This is the truth.

 

[cajunator]

I wish i had a catgirl.
Wouldnt that be pretty groovy?

 

[Nonoriri]

Kinda, this lecture on youtube does a pretty good job of explaining it.

Ben (of Anipages) briefly addresses the term and its origin here.

(Note about the term Sakuga 作画: Sakuga is used among some western fans today to refer to flamboyant or particularly nice animation in anime, presumably something learned from the online Japanese community devoted to following animators, but in fact sakuga is just a generic word meaning "animation". You can have good sakuga and you can have bad sakuga; sakuga isn't a term of approbation. In old anime pre-dating Toei Doga (pre-1957), sakuga was one of the words used to credit the animators. Literally, it means "the person who drew the drawings". When used alone in latter-day anime, it often means that the person credited with sakuga drew all of the animation. Normally, animation would be broken down into genga (key animation) and doga (inbetweens), but if someone draws all of the animation themselves, they will be credited with sakuga.)

 

[dimb]

I wish i had a catgirl.
Wouldnt that be pretty groovy?

Not worth the litter box upkeep. Trust me.

 

[Nonoriri]

I wish i had a catgirl.
Wouldnt that be pretty groovy?

A real man wishes to be a catgirl.

 

[cajunator]

A real man wishes to be a catgirl.

I didnt want to disturb you guys too much with my fantasies.

 

[iavi]

It's christmas eve, animu-gaf! Gather up the alcohol and drink to a coming year full HNNNGGGGing, fapping, fapping while HNNGGGing, misanthropy, and :firehawk.

 

[shintoki]

I wish i had a catgirl.
Wouldnt that be pretty groovy?

I just wish I was pretty...

And to think I'm a guy.

 

[cajunator]

Sounds like my kind of party.

 

[Crash Station]

Steins;Gate 2

This is probably the most fascinated I've been by something that I don't fully understand. Chaos;head was like that too.

 

[cajunator]

Been wanting to watch chaos head.
Is it worth buying?

 

[Instro]

Been wanting to watch chaos head.
Is it worth buying?

It starts interesting, but takes a nose dive rather quickly...so no.

 

[Unknown Soldier]

A real man wishes to be a catgirl.

Square-Enix has had 2 games where you can be a catgirl...

Spoiler

Being a catgirl is quite literally almost the only fun thing about those games.

 

[wonzo]

Been wanting to watch chaos head.
Is it worth buying?

It's supposedly a rather bad adaptation of the VN so it's probably not a good idea to buy it.

 

[Uchip]

I wish i had a catgirl.
Wouldnt that be pretty groovy?

how do two pairs of ears work
it makes no sense!

Spoiler

i still want one

 

[cajunator]

how do two pairs of ears work
it makes no sense!

Spoiler

i still want one

Oh it makes perfect sense!

 

[GaimeGuy]

Moar penguin drum ep 24 beautifulness (spoilers obviously)

I... I'm not crying

 

[Hazaro]

So with the terrible season over everyone can go back to marathonning LoGH.
Fantastic.

 

[Neo C.]

Gintama 202-203

YES YES OH YES. That's how you come back from a hiatus with style, baby.

I've become such a fanboy for this show.

Too slow, Nappa.

 

[Jex]

It's christmas eve, animu-gaf! Gather up the alcohol and drink to a coming year full HNNNGGGGing, fapping, fapping while HNNGGGing, misanthropy, and :firehawk.

You make it all sound so wholesome.

I guess there aren't that many 'Christmas themed' anime movies to watch, apart from Tokyo Godfather's of course!

 

[Branduil]

You make it all sound so wholesome.

I guess there aren't that many 'Christmas themed' anime movies to watch, apart from Tokyo Godfather's of course!

Haibane Renmei has a celebration which seems pretty similar to Christmas/New Year's.

And that episode of Toradora I guess.

 

[cajunator]

You make it all sound so wholesome.

I guess there aren't that many 'Christmas themed' anime movies to watch, apart from Tokyo Godfather's of course!

Actually there is this OVA called Itsudatte my Santa. It is very very hnnnngh.

 

[Steroyd]

The final battle is set:

http://i.imgur.com/SpNP5.png[IMG]

Christmas day, Hideyoshi vs. Lelouch.[/QUOTE]

Doesn't that defeat the purpose of this male saimoe thingy.

[quote="jman2050, post: 33713482"]Haruhi is the last good show KyoAni has made. Fact.[/QUOTE]

I don't know, while I did enjoy Haruhi, and Kyon was the saviour of anime, they did dick around by having the episodes out of order, not endless eight bad, but was still annoying.