Trojita
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Someone on my feed is doing work or something. Anyway, here are the new girls in Date A Live.
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Rest assured you'll be able to purchase the continuing adventures of Ichika and company, as Sentai Filmworks has licensed Infinite Stratos 2.
https://www.facebook.com/notes/sent...s-licenses-infinite-stratos-2/719245488102566
https://www.facebook.com/notes/sent...s-licenses-infinite-stratos-2/719245488102566
I've already got something of an idea. Koiwai was Kigurumi in Joshiraku, and she nailed that role.
PdotMichael
Banned
Renge Miyauchi gives me Ruri vibes. I guess I will watch the first episode.
Listen to what Corvo said.
Oh its going to get even lewder and crazier. I'm just a tad ashamed to say I'm excited for season 2.Someone on my feed is doing work or something. Anyway, here are the new girls in Date A Live.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
I want to believe that Japan can handle a mature love story where people do more than exchange furtive glances and put letters in each other's shoeboxes!
Good god...
Thank you Tsunako!
Yeah it was to be expected.
Too perfect.
I will buy this and I will hate myself for it lol.
dakkumauji
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Silly enough those two plus Pupa are the only shows that haven't had some announcement for streaming this season.
Terareflection
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You might as well give it a go, and see what you think of it. Don't let others influence your perception of the show though.
Look at it as Charlotte on Demand.
Oh dear god my heart. This Miku rendition of Platinum Disco is probably one of the cutest things Ive ever seen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-n3RBl-lHU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-n3RBl-lHU
Save 'N Quit
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Mushibugyo 26
So that was a pretty predictable end to the show. Kuro is still cute as ever and Jinbei is still an idiot who still doesn't realize who she really is.
I want to say I liked the series but there was some problems that I had that became pretty apparent during the second half of the show. Aside from Kuro (who is by far the best character), Mugai and maybe Haru (fanservice), none of the other characters were compelling enough to hold any interest, let alone an episode to themselves. Jinbei's idiocy was honestly too much, and while I will admit that I found it pretty amusing during the beginning, it just became a chore to watch him being so goddamn stupid each and every episode.
Another issue I have is that some of the battles were really mediocre. You can basically see how some of the fights (Almost all of the ones vs Sanada's Ten Crucifix) were done pretty poorly. This is incredibly disappointing since the battle vs the Insect Hunters, which was arguably the highpoint of the series, was so good. Guess whatever budget they had was put into those particular episodes.
I will say this about the second half. It gave us more Kuro screen-time, which is one of the best decisions this show has done.
6/10 Okay. Would recommend to anyone who wants to watch a generic action show without expecting anything special from it.
Well thats definitely how I see it.
KillerMan91
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The Wolf Children Ame and Yuki:
Dem feels. Great movie. Especially the soundtrack was godly.
Dem feels. Great movie. Especially the soundtrack was godly.
I usually skip OPs and EDs. I'll watch them once and if they're really good I'll check them out again like Watamote's ED in which Tomoko sings the whole thing and it's fantastic. But like, when I marathoned Kuroko, I probably skipped 45 minutes of OPs, EDs and previews in the 12 episodes I blew through.
hosannainexcelsis
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Wolf Children.
I love Platinum Disco far too much. This rendition is no exception.
happy bite is better though. why no full version until christmas?! ;_;
NAKAMA! Origami for life!
Well that sort of illustrates the problem doesn't it. When you can establish, develop, and resolve a believable love story within ten minutes it makes it kind of hard to build even a whole movie around, much less an entire series!
XiaNaphryz
LATIN, MATRIPEDICABUS, DO YOU SPEAK IT
Got a Best Buy gift card as a birthday present, Wonderful 101 or Zelda WW HD?
Im currently playing WWHD and its one of the highlights of my young life, but I would recommend W101.
Platinum Disco is a perfect song/video. Everyone should like it unless they are cold and dead inside.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Call of Duty?
Sure, it basically cheats with the montage. lol
Of course Japan can handle mature love stories - just maybe not in anime, and not as the focus of the story. In live action, one of the main subplots of Departures (Okuribito) is the effect that being an undertaker has on the main character's marriage.
What kind of story are you thinking of, firehawk? Can you give an example of a mature love story in Western media of the kind you want to see? Most romances in mass media I can think of are melodramatic or sappy. Is it "mature" as in "adult characters" you want, or just one that has a relationship with realistic ups and downs?
Did you watch Itazurana Kiss back in 2008? That covered a fairly long period of time at least for a relationship -
from first love through to marriage and then pregnancy
DeadRockstar
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Joshiraku is sadly(or happily when I get to it?) part of my infinite backlog. Good to know that she's got the skills though, despite the relatively small list of credits.
KirbYuuYuu
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Wind Waker HD is pretty great, but if you've played Wind Waker before, I would suggest W101 instead... provided you can handle over the top gameplay and leaving you on your own to really figure things out.
Actually chances are, I'd say W101 either way. The game needs more support.
Stop watching/reading stuff taking place in high school!
KirbYuuYuu
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But there are more single people in highschool than college and above!
XiaNaphryz
LATIN, MATRIPEDICABUS, DO YOU SPEAK IT
I like games like that. It's how I approached the Prison Architect alpha and games like Crusader Kings or Europa Universalis.
But college kids and adults don't watch anime.
Unless it's noitaminA, and even then college kids probably don't watch it any more.
In fact, that reminds me - firehawk, have you watched Nana? Not noitaminA because it aired on NTV but I'm sure that's the kind of thing you'd be looking for.
Hellsing321
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KirbYuuYuu
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Good! I had to try the demo again just to be sure, and I got the hang of it. Although apparently there was more to it than it really tells you. Granted, it at least gives you more than what the Metal Gear Rising demo did.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
That's all they make! Golden Time seems like an exception, not a rule!
I'll agree that with long form serial entertainment, it becomes basically impossible to do an actual "romance". If your show is hinged on whether or not two people will get together and mash bits, then you run into the terrible, terrible problem that How I Met Your Mother found itself in (as dakku would attest to!).
That said, I also understand that otaku probably don't want to see stories about people in relationships or whom have been married for years, which forms the basis of the majority of sitcom/drama relationships.
But, I'll admit, when I say "Japan", I basically mean sadlife nerds who watch TV at 26:35 because they have nothing better to do with their lives. I'm sure "real" Japan are watching fine Jdramas that aren't strictly set in high school. lol
I'm hoping this final season will redeem the show; it long went off the boil but I'm quite enjoying it so far...
Well, indeed. Mature relationship stories don't appeal to the target audience of most late night anime, so... they don't make them!
I usually skip EDs and write up during OPs.
hosannainexcelsis
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Montages are one of the best ways to express the development of a relationship though (see Up).
DeadRockstar
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Just tune in for the last episode. I doubt there will be more meaningful development than you could glean from the last 15 minutes.
PdotMichael
Banned
Duckroll was a false prophet.
Maison Ikkoku.
hosannainexcelsis
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Nerawareta Gakuen
This is one of the most overly post-processed anime I've seen outside GoHands. I hesitate to make that reference, since certainly Ryousuke Nakamura's aesthetic sensibilities are superior to anyone working at GoHands, but that almost makes it worse, as you've got attractive art and lots of pleasantly cartoony animation that often gets completely overshadowed by more lens flare than a J.J. Abrams movie. In almost every scene there was some element that made me go "Why the heck is that there?" Some of the color work gets to be overbearing as well. I also had to laugh when during the first half-hour pretty much every scene was filled with floating cherry blossoms, no matter the location. "Sunny with a chance of flower pedals" indeed.
The excesses in the visuals are mirrored by excesses in the storytelling, mostly at the end. For much of the movie the narrative proceeds logically, developing the character relationships on the one hand, and gradually building up the tension in the school on the other, but just when things come to a head everything immediately collapses. The progression of events, the character motivations, it all becomes extremely muddled and left me with a bad taste in my mouth. Especially with the cheap way the pre-credits and post-credits scenes were handled. The theme of communication is an interesting one, and there were a few thoughtful tidbits on the subject, but making its primary exploration be through familiar romantic comedy tropes made it less interesting than it could be, and of course the end completely obscured whatever the film had to say on the subject. Maybe Nakamura made the film for physics!
My favorite part of the film was that, when Kyogoku was playing Clair du Lune, the animators actually bothered to animate the real movements and keystrokes that would be necessary to play the piece instead of faking it. Big props for that!
This is one of the most overly post-processed anime I've seen outside GoHands. I hesitate to make that reference, since certainly Ryousuke Nakamura's aesthetic sensibilities are superior to anyone working at GoHands, but that almost makes it worse, as you've got attractive art and lots of pleasantly cartoony animation that often gets completely overshadowed by more lens flare than a J.J. Abrams movie. In almost every scene there was some element that made me go "Why the heck is that there?" Some of the color work gets to be overbearing as well. I also had to laugh when during the first half-hour pretty much every scene was filled with floating cherry blossoms, no matter the location. "Sunny with a chance of flower pedals" indeed.
The excesses in the visuals are mirrored by excesses in the storytelling, mostly at the end. For much of the movie the narrative proceeds logically, developing the character relationships on the one hand, and gradually building up the tension in the school on the other, but just when things come to a head everything immediately collapses. The progression of events, the character motivations, it all becomes extremely muddled and left me with a bad taste in my mouth. Especially with the cheap way the pre-credits and post-credits scenes were handled. The theme of communication is an interesting one, and there were a few thoughtful tidbits on the subject, but making its primary exploration be through familiar romantic comedy tropes made it less interesting than it could be, and of course the end completely obscured whatever the film had to say on the subject. Maybe Nakamura made the film for physics!
My favorite part of the film was that, when Kyogoku was playing Clair du Lune, the animators actually bothered to animate the real movements and keystrokes that would be necessary to play the piece instead of faking it. Big props for that!
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*claps*
Although really, it was just one element among many.
None! The only thing that comes close was when I was incredibly tired anyway, so I hit pause and then passed out.
I think Mayaka got a lot of development in the second half, especially during the school festival arc.
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