yeah, that one's my second favourite followed by G*ROCK
that's what you get for wearing coloured contact lenses like some kinda scrub
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Fall 2012 Anime |OT| Meet the new world, same as the old world
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Dedication Through Light
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Pretty creepy looking girl. She looks like she will be pretty annoying.
(the background looks beautiful)
Gunslinger Girl 13 - END
Too good.
If last episode was the action-filled climax, this was the denouement. Confronted with the consequences of what they're doing, the characters stop to ask, "Are we doing the right thing by turning young girls into cyborgs and forcing them to discard their lives to kill people?" The answer is appropriately complicated. Or inappropriately?
Either way, this episode cashes in on means both subtle (single bits of character animation speak volumes) and blunt (Beethoven's 9th) to bring us to its emotional peak. It's very bittersweet. Like the whole show, in lesser hands it'd seem stupid, but Madhouse manages to find something that feels profound inside.
The whole show, I've been kind of wrestling in my mind, ever since Hitokage inadvertently posed it in the form of an impression, with the question of whether Gunslinger Girl goes too far in objectifying its subjects. At the very least, it attempts to tread an incredibly fine line. The girls are powerful and capable, yet take on the appearance and mannerisms of the exact sorts of young girls that we see being cute everywhere in anime. They adore their handlers to a yandere-like degree. They are made into objects to be used at the whim of powerful older men. How could this not be controversial?
It's hard to preserve the girls' humanity by following their perspective, because that perspective is warped by their conditioning. I think Gunslinger Girl manages to get past this in a few ways. One is that it doesn't shy away from presenting how complicated and messy the whole business is. The technology behind them isn't perfect, and their relationships with their handlers can take some pretty awful forms. As a consequence of the whole setup, they regularly suffer. There's nothing glamorous or desirable about what they do.
The other is how the handlers' feelings are explored. As much as Gunslinger Girl is a show about girls with guns, it's also a show about jaded military men with hardened exteriors trying to carry out something they know is terrible. Even though many of them care deeply for their charges (perhaps too deeply), they're rightfully guilty over what they're doing, and they all deal with it in different ways.
Madhouse demonstrates all of this with care and craft, trying to avoid the extremes of tragedy-porn or perverse wish fulfillment. They do it with great direction, trusting their animators to communicate everything left unsaid, which allows the script to stay focused on presenting a grounded, realistic world. They really elevate the material in a lot of ways.
While I can totally understand why someone would still find the show objectionable (none of the things I described necessarily cancel out the charges of objectification), for me it worked incredibly well. I'm really happy I watched this show.
I feel privileged to have watched four shows this excellent in a single season. This is going to spoil anime for me.
Too good.
Not crying. Just... something in my eye.
If last episode was the action-filled climax, this was the denouement. Confronted with the consequences of what they're doing, the characters stop to ask, "Are we doing the right thing by turning young girls into cyborgs and forcing them to discard their lives to kill people?" The answer is appropriately complicated. Or inappropriately?
Either way, this episode cashes in on means both subtle (single bits of character animation speak volumes) and blunt (Beethoven's 9th) to bring us to its emotional peak. It's very bittersweet. Like the whole show, in lesser hands it'd seem stupid, but Madhouse manages to find something that feels profound inside.
I think I'm developing some kind of fetish for closeups. Those film courses from college have infected my brain.
The whole show, I've been kind of wrestling in my mind, ever since Hitokage inadvertently posed it in the form of an impression, with the question of whether Gunslinger Girl goes too far in objectifying its subjects. At the very least, it attempts to tread an incredibly fine line. The girls are powerful and capable, yet take on the appearance and mannerisms of the exact sorts of young girls that we see being cute everywhere in anime. They adore their handlers to a yandere-like degree. They are made into objects to be used at the whim of powerful older men. How could this not be controversial?
It's hard to preserve the girls' humanity by following their perspective, because that perspective is warped by their conditioning. I think Gunslinger Girl manages to get past this in a few ways. One is that it doesn't shy away from presenting how complicated and messy the whole business is. The technology behind them isn't perfect, and their relationships with their handlers can take some pretty awful forms. As a consequence of the whole setup, they regularly suffer. There's nothing glamorous or desirable about what they do.
The other is how the handlers' feelings are explored. As much as Gunslinger Girl is a show about girls with guns, it's also a show about jaded military men with hardened exteriors trying to carry out something they know is terrible. Even though many of them care deeply for their charges (perhaps too deeply), they're rightfully guilty over what they're doing, and they all deal with it in different ways.
Madhouse demonstrates all of this with care and craft, trying to avoid the extremes of tragedy-porn or perverse wish fulfillment. They do it with great direction, trusting their animators to communicate everything left unsaid, which allows the script to stay focused on presenting a grounded, realistic world. They really elevate the material in a lot of ways.
While I can totally understand why someone would still find the show objectionable (none of the things I described necessarily cancel out the charges of objectification), for me it worked incredibly well. I'm really happy I watched this show.
I feel privileged to have watched four shows this excellent in a single season. This is going to spoil anime for me.
Ultimadrago
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Well, maybe you had something better to do with your three minutes!
She's the one with the bolas in her hair right? Worst girl.
Kieli is good tho, they should just make anime of that.The writers of K have been officially revealed. These are the authors who make up the writing team GoRA:
Mamizu Arisawa (Inukami!)
Furuhashi Hideyuki (Black Rod)
Azano Kouhei (Black Blood Brothers)
Kabei Yukako (Kieli)
Rei Rairaku (Kanashimi Chimera)
Suzu Suzuki (Kyuketsuki no Oshigoto)
Takahashi Yashichirou (Shakugan no Shana)
Light Novel crap overdose. Gonna be shit, confirmed.
Ultimadrago
Member
Fucking tiny hats, man. Worst things ever.
Want to shove.
Hyouka, K-ON, and Nichijou have good character designs.
Chuunwhatever looks bad though.
KO Traveling Hobo
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Clearly it's some sort of mind control device that drills straight into the victim's head. Notice that it doesn't move at all, even though it should have flown off with all that bouncing around.
Also, she totally looks like Emi from Katawa Shoujo.
Sorry, but I don't think so. They look too stupid, unless they're not human, like animals.
Technically, it's a fascinator.
amishpriest99
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Got so wrapped up in watching Fantastic Children that I forgot about Chuunibyou. 8 episodes left but it is soooo good.
Finally, the name of the enemy.
RurouniZel
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I thought that was well, but promptly forgot 'cause she's only in the OP thus far and I'm trying to forget said OP.
Yaaay~
I like girl with tiny hat, only work for booth's girl tho.
ok...
Which show that have good chara design for you?
ok...
Which show that have good chara design for you?
hosannainexcelsis
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No. The primary studio being used is Studio Kanon, who worked with Brains Base on Hotarubi no Mori e and Natsume S3, with contributions by Studio Forest, who most recently worked with Kanon and the same art director on Uta Koi.
If you want to see what Studio Pablo is working on, they actually have a schedule up on their website. Assuming each column corresponds to a particular team there, the team working on Sengoku Collection has transitioned to preparing for a 1-cour show in the spring, the team working on Saint Seiya Omega will, after the show ends in March, begin preparing for a 1-cour show in the summer, and a third team that's been working on a game will begin working on a 5 minute show starting January.
I'm glad to hear this. I suppose it's bad for WSJ, as it's an admission that they've failed to turn Toriko into the next One Piece, but I was hoping that it wouldn't fall prey to the painfully slow pacing that has infected One Piece as that show drags itself out forever. I'd actually like to watch Toriko.
Shows that don't make the characters look stupid/cute/round.
Probably what you guys call generic. Geass, Star Driver, Gurren Lagann are good examples. One Piece too.
Chunnibyou demo Koi ga shitai!
Apart from the terrible OP the whole show seems like a standard average show but good nonetheless. Jun Fukuyama is a perfect fit for Yuuta the way he plays the straight man and dat lelouch voice when he goes dark flame master. Never thought I would see a Konami Code in a anime.
Apart from the terrible OP the whole show seems like a standard average show but good nonetheless. Jun Fukuyama is a perfect fit for Yuuta the way he plays the straight man and dat lelouch voice when he goes dark flame master. Never thought I would see a Konami Code in a anime.
It might be a little too early to read that much into this. Toriko still does well in the Jump weekly rankings and the volumes seem to sell pretty well, at least when I'm paying attention. This could just mean that Toriko is still smaller then Dragonball or One Piece, which shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone.
I was always under the impression that Toriko still got good ratings (in terms of several times what most late-night anime achieve) but that the ratings simply weren't good enough for Toei due to the perhaps unrealistic expectations for the series that you've mentioned. It's a shame to see it straight up pulled from the air like this, even if it preserves the quality of the series.
Want to hug.
I wonder if there's a tag for this sort of thing on Pixiv...
Dedication Through Light
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I hope it will just be a break or such and then it returns.
I liked her
As did I! She was a refreshing change, and sweet too.
Yep. :lol
Don't do it! I'm taking the bullet so no one else has to!
Here's hoping the girls get together and the guys are killed off within the first 10 minutes.
Of course! Anything you can imagine, you have it
(perverse or not)
「目薬」のイラスト・作品検索一覧 [pixiv]
http://www.pixiv.net/tags.php?tag=目薬
目薬 (めぐすり
とは【ピクシブ百科事典】http://dic.pixiv.net/a/目薬
Dropped. No wonder the manga is terrible.
LOL
The engrish look really bad.
Why did you edit?
One can hope.
The engrish look really bad.
RurouniZel
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hosannainexcelsis
Member
If you're airing in the timeslot Toriko is, you'd better be getting ratings several times larger than late-night shows!
And I can't see why it'd be a shame - I'd always rather a long-running adaptation stop running and maybe come back after a hiatus has let more manga material back up than for it to resort to uninspired filler or terrible pacing.
Of course! Anything you can imagine, you have it:(perverse or not)
「目薬」のイラスト・作品検索一覧 [pixiv]
http://www.pixiv.net/tags.php?tag=目薬
目薬 (めぐすり
http://dic.pixiv.net/a/目薬
Wow, I never thought that you of all people would be my enabler!
Fortunately, the low talent pool of Pixiv artists who specialize in such niche subject matters has saved me from myself.
Basileus777
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There were actually some shows yesterday, so naturally there was less discussion.
I only mean that it's a shame in that it was doing well enough for itself but was apparently still a disappointment to Toei. No debates here that hiatuses keep long-running shounen from being unwatchable.
I just know that sometimes, they go away and never come back (I'm looking at you, D.Gray-man.)
yes, I know that the plot goes to shit
PdotMichael
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That's true... she is a low-tier eyepatch girl.
Eye-patch moé isn't my specialty, but I really like her.
Cosmicblizzard is going to come after you. Lol.
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