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Fall 2012 Anime |OT| Meet the new world, same as the old world
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There's no shame in enjoying a well made show about a part of modern youth culture!
hosannainexcelsis
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I wouldn't be able to look myself in the mirror if I did.
It's even better when you realise that
technically that may not even be her since avatars are your own creation. Someone else could jave just coincidently made an avatar that looks similar to her and Kirito will risk his life on a gamble. Take into account it was a heavily compressed screenshot so basically he just saw a girl with long red hair.
I don't miss some parts of it.
A Black Falcon said:I agree that "if a tree falls in the forest and no one's around does it make a sound" is stupid, but what, now you're even denying that people can have common themes in their works or something? I mean, I know you already said that people should not take popular opinion, popularity (or unpopularity), or anything else into consideration when looking at something but only their own thoughts, so this isn't exactly surprising, but yeah, I can't agree with either. I mean, you do have points on both issues; yes, people can indeed see things that aren't there because they expect them to be there from other works from the same person, popular opinion, or whatever. True. But that doesn't make those things valuable anyway. There's just as much positive as negative there.mAcOdIn said:
I mean, in this case specifically, of course people don't always do the same things in different stories or shows or whatever that they make, but the fact that people often have similar themes across their works is pretty clearly true. Yes, it can lead to people expecting something that may not happen or may not be there, but at least as often, or more often, it'll be accurate in some way.
But of course, the debate in literature about how far you should look into a story beyond the words that are on the page is of course an old one. Most of the time however criticism and analysis definitely do not stop with just what is seen or read. You clearly dislike that, but I think it's okay, mostly. I do agree that going too far into trying to imagine aspects of a story which aren't shown certainly can and will lead to a lot of speculation, but if
On the other hand, you know, English was never one of my favorite subjects. So much "Read this and then try to analyze it way past what is written"... sometimes it's interesting and suggests things that the writer may not have thought of, but other times it does seem like it's writing more into it than was there. But both sides of that are true in different cases, so I would not agree with you that it's an issue to that degree, just to less of one.
Like, I'm baffled as to how this reply got formed.
dakkumauji
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Gintama 136
Finding an apartment in Edo must be near next to impossible.
NOBORU
Finding an apartment in Edo must be near next to impossible.
NOBORU
I'm about to watch the last 5 episodes of this today.
Everyone's been pretty down on it in this thread, but so far I've enjoyed season 2 about the same as the first season. Nothing extraordinary, but the fact I'm still watching it means I like it better than most shows.
Am I about to enter the part where it gets bad? (Previous episode was the end of an arc.)
The ABF experience.
KO Traveling Hobo
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I miss ABF
I miss ABF
Me too.
Better late than never.
Well, truthfully, better never than late, but...uhh...better never than late than never...or something.
*makes a list*
I guess this means it's time to ask the important question: what team are you on?
Me likey. c'mon troll end
I miss ABF
Ah, you're right. I miss him too.
Come back to us, you loquacious lout!
EDIT: Team Makoto is the best team. Accept no substitutes.
I like football. I'd watch it
Lingirie Football League. Look it up.
I heard they respect the integrity of the game by settling for only the best officiating.
So you're the reason why.
RyougaSaotome
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Oh god, it's way too early for that. I still haven't seen all the teams in action!
Dedication Through Light
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Kingdom 20
Dont even know what Im watching anymore
. Truly a Wang of a joke indeed.
The new ED is alright though I already miss the old one, the song grew on me Voice of my soul...
Dont even know what Im watching anymore
Lord Changwen, Wang Yi is his lover? what even
The new ED is alright though I already miss the old one, the song grew on me Voice of my soul...
KO Traveling Hobo
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I wonder what team your student is on.
It is known.
Might as well check out Hitsuji no Uta
I thought you guys were exaggerating the level of wish fulfillment and all that, but I guess not. Damn.
aikatsu hair best hair confirmed
The wait is painful. Eat your heart out, Shiki.
ABF will always be a cool guy by me.
Also it's cool more people are experiencing im@s, but yeah, I always felt the early episodes were weak too. I think I like the show more retrospectively. It was always easy to get good screencaps for impressions at least.
Oh hell naw.
Shizuku is cool though
My Little Monster 3
I was afraid of how they would follow up the end of the last episode, but things went better than I expected. A couple new characters (I'm getting love rival vibes from Yamaken) and a fun storyline culminating in an interesting role reversal.
My only real complaint is the animation this episode was pretty questionable, but it's a minor quibble. Still my favorite show of the season so far.
KO Traveling Hobo
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"My hair is a scorpion. Your argument is invalid."
aikatsu hair best hair confirmed
Thats perfect!
dakkumauji
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Gintama 137
Now you literally got girls flinging themselves at you.
Now you literally got girls flinging themselves at you.
Astounding.
School Days 1
Uh.. okay.. let me see if I got this.
In the words of a wiser man than I, "What the fuck is this shit?!"
And seriously, I've never paused something so many times in my life. Putting up with the stupid was... quite the herculean task.
Does this show actually go anywhere, or should I just cut my losses and stop now?
Also, I had trouble spoiler tagging this as a list. Is there a way to do that?
Uh.. okay.. let me see if I got this.
0.Guy sees girl on train
1.Guy likes girl on train
2.Guy takes a picture of girl on train because some stupid urban myth
3.Other girl see picture on guy's cell phone. Other girl makes friends with first girl solely so that she can have guy meet her
4.Second girl sets up lunch between her, first girl, and guy.Second girl pretends to go to bathroom to leave first girl alone with guy
5.Guy tells second girl he plans on asking out first girl
6.Guy asks out first girl; she accepts
7.First girl admits to second girl that she already had crush on guy, thanks second girl for her services
8.Guy meets second girl while waiting for train, thanks her, tells her he'll make it up to her however she wants
9.Second girl.......kisses guy on lips and is seen crying on the train ride home
1.Guy likes girl on train
2.Guy takes a picture of girl on train because some stupid urban myth
3.Other girl see picture on guy's cell phone. Other girl makes friends with first girl solely so that she can have guy meet her
4.Second girl sets up lunch between her, first girl, and guy.Second girl pretends to go to bathroom to leave first girl alone with guy
5.Guy tells second girl he plans on asking out first girl
6.Guy asks out first girl; she accepts
7.First girl admits to second girl that she already had crush on guy, thanks second girl for her services
8.Guy meets second girl while waiting for train, thanks her, tells her he'll make it up to her however she wants
9.Second girl.......kisses guy on lips and is seen crying on the train ride home
In the words of a wiser man than I, "What the fuck is this shit?!"
And seriously, I've never paused something so many times in my life. Putting up with the stupid was... quite the herculean task.
Does this show actually go anywhere, or should I just cut my losses and stop now?
Also, I had trouble spoiler tagging this as a list. Is there a way to do that?
I just don't understand what's funny. Please, explain (even though the humour is already ruined).
Canis lupus
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Planetes 10
Hope it gets better, right now its just okayish.
Hope it gets better, right now its just okayish.
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
Another day, another victim.
Welcome back! Thought you had left.
Oh....it definitely goes somewhere
Just watch it all. Its not that long.
I'll just say, there are lots of tedious melodrama animes, but only one School Days.
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