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[cajunator]

I wish I could watch the show with you all, but now I have to go to work.
Which is sorta depressing. Because I dont even get my 7 days off anymore I get fucking 4 days off. after 84 hours of working.

 

[CornBurrito]

So this is how the next Hosoda film will resolve.

Everyone tweets at the same time and gives the main character the power to beat the big bad.

Can tweets charge the Spirit Bomb?

 

[scy]

@A!MG Opening: I couldn't remember what it was at all ... until about five seconds into it. Guess it is unforgettable...

Can tweets charge the Spirit Bomb?

Yes but it misses anyway.

 

[Articalys]

So this is how the next Hosoda film will resolve.

Everyone tweets at the same time and gives the main character the power to beat the big bad.

Isn't that sorta what actually happened in Our War Game? Along those lines, at least.

 

[CornBurrito]

Yes but it misses anyway.

Hey it hit that one time...

 

[wonzo]

These are from scenes already shown in the anime I assume?

yeah, the elevator scene was kinda disappointing in the anime. i really wanted to see that bit animated

Isn't that sorta what actually happened in Our War Game? Along those lines, at least.

*thatsthejoke.tiff*

 

[DrForester]

Well I suppose it's movie time now. Going to take a quick shower then pop it in. O:

No impressions?
No reaction?
No "That dress was adorable" ?

 

[InfiniteNine]

No impressions?
No reaction?
No "That dress was adorable" ?

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=33439928&postcount=899

It was a cute dress. O:

 

[RurouniZel]

I wish I could watch the show with you all, but now I have to go to work.
Which is sorta depressing. Because I dont even get my 7 days off anymore I get fucking 4 days off. after 84 hours of working.

Sucks to hear that. Work environments seem to be turning to shit everywhere.

 

[InfiniteNine]

EVERYTHING IS SO DIFFERENT

 

[PdotMichael]

I wish I could watch the show with you all, but now I have to go to work.
Which is sorta depressing. Because I dont even get my 7 days off anymore I get fucking 4 days off. after 84 hours of working.

hnnng

overtime moe!

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[DrForester]

Roughly all we got out of trejo re: ending impressions was blskdjhf ::head explode:: so you have to give Infi a break.

Oh, I forgot, the important thing with the ending of the tv series is to pay attention to the timing of the bells that signal who 'won' teh duel revolution, and thus indicate when/how/why.

And that this is the best song. Especially if you share my refined taste in depressing dirge-like choral music.

Now there's a good discussion topic. Favorite duel songs.

 

[BluWacky]

Now there's a good discussion topic. Favorite duel songs.

AMMONITE! and WHEN WHERE WHO WHICH.

 

[Ezalc]

hnnng

overtime moe!

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What the hell is going with her boobs here.

 

[firehawk12]

Tamayura 11 Moeno no aware 11:

Yup! Thank you SatoJun!

 

[PdotMichael]

What the hell is going with her boobs here.

"π/"-moe

http://dic.pixiv.net/a/π/

 

[scy]

Hey it hit that one time...

Hey, assuming it misses is close enough to right anyway :x

What the hell is going with her boobs here.

Glad I'm not the only one to get that out of this.

"π/"-moe

http://dic.pixiv.net/a/π/

I really shouldn't have been surprised by this.

 

[Soma]

So i've spent the past 2 or 3 days watching Penguindrum from the beginning to the latest episode. Man. I don't even know how to feel anymore. The plot twists and how everything comes together (well almost everything). All I know is that the next episode can't come soon enough.



The last anime I marathon'd was Bakemonogatari earlier this year. And that was only 15 episodes >:/

 

[Thoraxes]

Thing to remember with the Utena movie is that if you have any questions, just remember what Ikuhara said. "Because it's cool"

I guess i'll buy that once I hit the start of the last major arc of Utena the series then.

 

[Ezalc]

"π/"-moe

http://dic.pixiv.net/a/π/

There is no bag, or seatbelt or anything that could be causing that in the picture you posted above.

 

[wonzo]

I guess i'll buy that once I hit the start of the last major arc of Utena the series then.

i'm pretty sure the last set of the remastered dvd's includes the movie

 

[InfiniteNine]

I want magic changing lengths hair.

EDIT: NO NEW DADDY NOOOoo

 

[Gintamen]

There is no bag, or seatbelt or anything that could be causing that in the picture you posted above.

It may be a bit exaggerated, but a totally normal occurrence, if you raise only one arm. physics lol

 

[Ezalc]

It may be a bit exaggerated, but a totally normal occurrence, if you raise only one arm. physics lol

I thought of this too but there is waaay too much of a difference between the two.

 

[trejo]

Now there's a good discussion topic. Favorite duel songs.

AMMONITE!

 

[DrForester]

I always loved "Last Evolution" as far as Duel songs went.

 

[InfiniteNine]

I'm so confused right now.

 

[DrForester]

I'm so confused right now.

"Because it's cool". That's the answer.

 

[trejo]

I'm so confused right now.

Hell I'm still confused.

 

[zeroshiki]

My penguin-bro, let me bring the great message to the world.

Director/Script Concept: Mamoru Hosoda
Script: Satoko Okudera
Character Design: Yoshiyuki Sadamoto
Animation Director: Takaaki Yamashita
Art Director: Hiroshi Oono


So it looks like Hosoda's new studio is confirmed, and Madhouse has another 10 nails in its coffin. Lol.

So to add to this,

http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20111213-00000012-eiga-movi

I don't have time to do the whole thing but this article talks about how Hosoda and Yuuichi Sato (producer for Summer Wars and Piano no Mori) built the studio and how they said it was "a very small studio, the best form to make good works"

They're still in the process of VA auditions with an eye on a summer release next year. They also plan on making the film festival tours.

 

[PdotMichael]

Oh! My Goddess (OVA) - 2

Oh god, my heart is broken. A cyring Belldandy is my Kryptonite.

 

[InfiniteNine]

What happened to infi? Is he still alive? I have to know what he thought of the car wash scene.

Edit: fuuuuu

That's when I started being super confused!

 

[DrForester]

it wasn't until about my 3rd watch of the Utena movie that I caught that the Jeep was

Spoiler

Wakaba

Also, I think i9 should have waited a day or two before tackling the movie.

 

[hosannainexcelsis]

I don't have time to do the whole thing but this article talks about how Hosoda and Yuuichi Sato (producer for Summer Wars and Piano no Mori) built the studio and how they said it was "a very small studio, the best form to make good works"

There sure have been a fair number of people coming out of the corpses of Madhouse and Gainax - Hosoda, Imaishi, Masao Maruyama. It'll be interesting to see how this current industry shuffle settles down in a few years.

 

[duckroll]

So to add to this,

http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20111213-00000012-eiga-movi

I don't have time to do the whole thing but this article talks about how Hosoda and Yuuichi Sato (producer for Summer Wars and Piano no Mori) built the studio and how they said it was "a very small studio, the best form to make good works"

They're still in the process of VA auditions with an eye on a summer release next year. They also plan on making the film festival tours.

Post this in the other thread too. Thx.

 

[firehawk12]

So to add to this,

http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20...0012-eiga-movi

I don't have time to do the whole thing but this article talks about how Hosoda and Yuuichi Sato (producer for Summer Wars and Piano no Mori) built the studio and how they said it was "a very small studio, the best form to make good works"

They're still in the process of VA auditions with an eye on a summer release next year. They also plan on making the film festival tours.

Huh, loli furries.

 

[Pachael]

They should have somehow connected AKB48 to the Macross mythos; considering macross took place in a time where AKB48 (could) have existed.

Kawamori et al should have released just the concept art initially as a 'secret project' and folk might be inclined to think that it's an extension of Macross F or related to the 'Macross 30' project. Maybe it still is!

 

[hosannainexcelsis]

Chihayafuru 11

I would never have expected I could become so fired up about karuta, but that's what happens when you've got a well-made show with characters you care about - you'll root for them to succeed at whatever their passion is.

It's nice how they manage to keep Arata in the loop despite him being mostly disconnected from the current narrative thrust.

So, the outcome was never really in question, but I found it kind of funny how they tried to - in the very last minute - make you sympathize with the opposing team. Which, in itself, is fine because that's how Japanese sports fiction seems to work, but it's like they forgot that the guy was an ass last week. It's just some weird characterization quirk that probably popped over from the manga and should have been rewritten.

People aren't usually 100% unsympathetic asses or 100% sympathetic angels. The human condition is mixed. There was nothing inconsistent about the characterization of the opposing team.

Spoiler

The ace looked down on Chihaya and his opponents in general, but had respect for his teacher and teammates and wanted to win for them - sounds perfectly natural to me.

 

[firehawk12]

People aren't usually 100% unsympathetic asses or 100% sympathetic angels. The human condition is mixed. There was nothing inconsistent about the characterization of the opposing team.

Spoiler

The ace looked down on Chihaya and his opponents in general, but had respect for his teacher and teammates and wanted to win for them - sounds perfectly natural to me.

That's not my problem with the character. In the previous episode, the guy basically said he liked breaking pretty girls or something to that effect. Perhaps that can be as misogynistic as you want to read it, but to go from that to what they gave us here was just odd.

 

[hosannainexcelsis]

That's not my problem with the character. In the previous episode, the guy basically said he liked breaking pretty girls or something to that effect. Perhaps that can be as misogynistic as you want to read it, but to go from that to what they gave us here was just odd.

And this episode we saw him trying to emotionally manipulate and break Chihaya. The only moment that could be construed as sympathetic for him was the interior monologue where he expressed respect for his teacher and fellow team members (all male, by the way). I have no clue what you're seeing.

 

[Ezalc]

Needless 1
This has the wrong kind of Yamada in it.

 

[Thoraxes]

i'm pretty sure the last set of the remastered dvd's includes the movie

Haven't bought last set yet, so I guess that's why I had no idea. Gonna borrow the last set from a cousin when I see her at Christmas.

Needless 1
This has the wrong kind of Yamada in it.

You will be wrong... if you read anything past the show.

 

[firehawk12]

And this episode we saw him trying to emotionally manipulate and break Chihaya. The only moment that could be construed as sympathetic for him was the interior monologue where he expressed respect for his teacher and fellow team members (all male, by the way). I have no clue what you're seeing.

That, if they needed to make him consistently sympathetic, they could have done a better job of it?
All of the villains in say, something like Giant Killing or OoFuri, have better developed character arcs.

 

[Ezalc]

You will be wrong... if you read anything past the show.

What wrongada get's better in the manga or something?

 

[hosannainexcelsis]

That, if they needed to make him consistently sympathetic, they could have done a better job of it?
All of the villains in say, something like Giant Killing or OoFuri, have better developed character arcs.

O...K? I don't think they were trying to make the opposing team super sympathetic or anything, just show what they were fighting for. I don't think they need to give extended backstories for what are minor characters we'll likely never see again.

Spoiler

Arata is the real villain anyway.

 

[Crash Station]

What wrongada get's better in the manga or something?

He gets a lot sexier, that's for sure.

 

[Cwarrior]

Fate Zero 11
Now that was an epic and interesting conversation unlike that nonsense that toke place in ep1.
Rider shows off just how manly he is, while Gilgamesh laughs his ass off at

Spoiler

Saber for getting her mind and beliefs crushed.

 

[firehawk12]

O...K? I don't think they were trying to make the opposing team super sympathetic or anything, just show what they were fighting for. I don't think they need to give extended backstories for what are minor characters we'll likely never see again.

Spoiler

Arata is the real villain anyway.

Sure, and it's been done better elsewhere. It was unnecessarily perfunctory and seemed to exist by virtue of satisfying the sports cliche. I mean, it's not like the all girl team from last week's episode got their moment, so why this guy?

Perhaps the only thing that might explain it is if he comes back in some future volume that probably won't get animated.

And I agree, Taichi is the real villain.

 

[NewFresh]

hnnng

overtime moe!

http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=12466728

Overtime moe~ makes me think of those long nights where cajunator goes far too long without Hnnngg-ing his brains out.

 

[hosannainexcelsis]

Sure, and it's been done better elsewhere. It was unnecessarily perfunctory and seemed to exist by virtue of satisfying the sports cliche. I mean, it's not like the all girl team from last week's episode got their moment, so why this guy?

The all girl team from last episode didn't have any individual characterization, whereas this team did, in addition to having added relevance to the main characters by Taichi and Porky's opponents being shades from their past and making Chihaya's opponent becoming personally invested in her. All this ups the stakes, as you would expect for a final compared to a semifinal. In light of this, I don't find the moment out of place.

And I agree, Taichi is the real villain.

I'll never understand you.