The first episode of Black Rock Shooter TV is pretty silly, but you don't really understand what you're in for until the second episode when Yomi's mom shows up. You're thinking "finally, an adult," and then she turns out to be just as insane as all of the children. That's when you know it's something special.
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ZachDeKoromaru
Banned
Your mind on hatewatch.
Theonik
Member
:Okada
Your mind on hatewatch.
Your mind on hatewatch.
Image two is where I realized Samurai Flamenco was probably going to be generic garbage/ a less interesting fujoshi-bait retread of Kick-Ass.
Image three is where I put it on the "I guess I'll watch this" list of horror, along with that thing where she eats her nee-san.
Your mind on hatewatch.
Until finally,
KOTORITORI'S HEART WAS FILLED WITH HAPPINESS
KOTORITORI LOVED ANIME FOREVER
KOTORITORI REMEMBERED THERE WAS NEVER A SECOND SEASON OF EUREKA SEVEN
hosannainexcelsis
Member
Hyouka 11.5
It's easy to tell that this is an anime-original story, because the writing is a lot less literary than the other episodes. Oreki being tacitern both orally and mentally helps to create that impression. The "mystery" is the worst one in the series, as it has no relation to the characters, is utterly banal, and completely pointless - there's no reason someone couldn't have simply approached the woman and asked if she had an earring or not. There were a few nice character moments though, and an attempt to provide some fallout from the effect of the film arc on Oreki. I don't agree with those (firehawk) who say this is the most important episode of the series or whatever though.
It's easy to tell that this is an anime-original story, because the writing is a lot less literary than the other episodes. Oreki being tacitern both orally and mentally helps to create that impression. The "mystery" is the worst one in the series, as it has no relation to the characters, is utterly banal, and completely pointless - there's no reason someone couldn't have simply approached the woman and asked if she had an earring or not. There were a few nice character moments though, and an attempt to provide some fallout from the effect of the film arc on Oreki. I don't agree with those (firehawk) who say this is the most important episode of the series or whatever though.
Seraphis Cain
bad gameplay lol
BRS TV is Petty Jealousy: The Anime
¡Buenas, al habla un manchego! Recuerdo visitar los foros de Meristation de vez en cuando durante algunos años, pero nunca acabé por registrarme ahí. Yo era más de EOL. :-D
Y en cuanto a lo de hablar sobre series o películas, la verdad es que este hilo es muy variado y uno acaba hablando de cualquier chorrada ligeramente relacionada con la animación. Yo posteo pocas veces opiniones sobre tal o cual serie, y más sobre noticias o curiosidades (ya te habrás dado cuenta de lo muy 'off-topic' que se va la gente por estos lares) y por el cariño que le acabas tomando a determinada gente. Esto hace que estar en 'AnimeGAF' sea algo parecido a estar en un punto de encuentro como otro cualquiera, solo que con gente más afín a tus gustos personales, por lo que si quieres no dudes en pasarte por aquí para decir cualquier cosa, aunque no sean impresiones tuyas sobre lo último que has visto. Se agradecerá ¡y es que estamos en el apartado y olvidado subforo de las comunidades, al fin y al cabo!
ZachDeKoromaru
Banned
Corvo is essentially the Kotoritori of AnimeGAF.
KuwabaraTheMan
Banned
Space Brothers 71:
That costume they put Mutta in was ridiculous.
I'm happy to see that they're trying to do some interesting things with Hibito now, and he's not being so obnoxiously perfect.
That costume they put Mutta in was ridiculous.
I'm happy to see that they're trying to do some interesting things with Hibito now, and he's not being so obnoxiously perfect.
It makes a lot of sense for him to be running into panic issues related to his experience, so I'll be curious to see how he can cope with this. It makes it clear that even though he survived, that near death experience is going to stay with him for a long time.
Seraphis Cain
bad gameplay lol
Aw fuck
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2013-10-11/stage/voice-actor-tomoyuki-dan-passes-away
Fuck. I loved him in Kamen Rider W.
RIP
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2013-10-11/stage/voice-actor-tomoyuki-dan-passes-away
Fuck. I loved him in Kamen Rider W.
RIP
chickdigger802
Banned
Your mind on hatewatch.
I like that it turns into a crow at the end.
Quem?
EDIT: OH BOY NEW ANIME THREAD IN OT ABOUT NOSES GUYS! Somebody link 'em to Panty & Stocking ep 5!
ALSO: I found out today there is an XL-3 Booster pack for my Bandai Spirits ARX-8 Laevatein! I also found out it IS MORE EXPENSIVE THAN THE MODEL ITSELF.
Why doesn't she just eat it? Why?
FelixOrion
Poet Centuriate
It is the way of the world.
Order placed. thank you so much!
Have a cute!
oh god my heart
Your mind on hatewatch.
Toriyama, no!
Would you eat poison?
Extended sales list:
As it turns out, Watamote literally sold just below the cutoff from the short list, showing once again how a high BD cutoff can hide shows that actually didn't sell completely terribly.
Updated Summer 2013 Preliminary First Volume Sales list. Shows that have new numbers or improved their position are bolded:
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2013 09/30~10/06 BD List
-- (*28) --- 1,205 **1,205 **1 Watashi ga Motenai no wa Dou Kangaetemo Omaera ga Warui! v1
-- (*29) *11 1,192 *12,448 **2 Code Geass BD Box
-- (*31) *21 1,112 **6,535 **2 Date A Live v4
-- (*35) **8 1,071 *13,840 **2 To Aru Kagaku no Railgun S v3
-- (*42) *18 *,920 **6,898 **2 Fate/Kaleid liner Prisma Illya v1
-- (*44) *85 *,753 *37,191 **7 Shingeki no Kyojin v2
-- (*46) *86 *,701 *50,170 *12 Shingeki no Kyojin v1
-- (*48) *15 *,652 **7,675 **2 High School DxD NEW v1
-- (*49) *67 *,646 *10,185 **4 Dragonball Z Kami to Kami RE
-- (*54) *22 *,534 **5,762 **2 Boku wa tomodachi ga Sukunai Next v3
-- (*55) *79 *,513 *18,565 **4 Free! v1
-- (*56) *29 *,510 **3,507 **2 Haiyore! Nyaruko-san W v5
-- (*57) *78 *,509 *22,223 **4 Dragonball Z Kami to Kami LE
-- (*59) *16 *,481 **6,901 **2 Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Come wa Machigatteiru. v4
-- (*63) *24 *,454 **4,356 **2 Choujigen Game Neptune v1
-- (*65) *13 *,449 **9,826 **2 Kidou Senshi Gundam SEED Destiny BD Box v2
-- (*66) 114 *,442 *55,893 *15 ONE PIECE Film Z LE
-- (*68) *14 *,431 **8,560 **2 Suisei no Gargantia v2
-- (*71) *88 *,411 *22,584 **6 Love Live! v6
-- (*73) *26 *,397 **4,056 **2 Kakumeiki Valvrave v4
-- (*74) *34 *,395 **3,101 **2 Servant x Service v2
-- (*75) 118 *,376 *41,450 **6 To Aru Majutsu no Index Endymion no Kiseki LE
-- (*76) *43 *,370 **2,587 **2 Karneval v5
-- (*78) *28 *,349 **3,682 **2 Roukyuubu! SS v1
-- (*83) *71 *,334 **4,047 **3 Love Lab v1
-- (*86) 113 *,311 *22,415 *11 Love Live v5
-- (*88) *37 *,306 **2,890 **2 Dangan Ronpa v2
-- (*90) *32 *,296 **3,167 **2 Mardock Scramble Haiki
-- (*94) *44 *,289 **2,399 **2 Uchouten Kazoku v1
-- (*95) *41 *,278 **2,588 **2 Hentai Ouji to Warawanai Neko. v4 LE
-- (*98) --- *,274 ***,274 **1 Aku no Hana v3
-- (*99) *47 *,273 **2,279 **2 Kami Nomi zo Shiru Sekai BD BoxUpdated Summer 2013 Preliminary First Volume Sales list. Shows that have new numbers or improved their position are bolded:
Shows with a [●] dot were sold on DVD but did not rank in that format due to cutoffs, meaning their "true" sales are probably a bit higher. For the better-selling shows like that (Kinmoza, Illya, Neptune, Uchoten), it means possibly several hundred "missing" DVD sales.
dakkumauji
Member
I honestly wouldn't have expected Blood Lad to be the worst selling show of the season.
I still think the 'mystery' in that episode was a fabrication by the other three. I realize this doesn't have a lot of basis in the text, but it fits neatly with the apparent non-mystery nature of the thing (search for a ring) and the different way characters act. Of course it could just be that Takemoto isn't very good at this 'mystery' thing, unlike Yonezawa.
Seraphis Cain
bad gameplay lol
Even if Watamote bombed, at least it didn't super-bomb like Kitakubu or C3-bu.
The fact that it outsold Genei/Daybreak Illusion is slightly surprising, though.
The fact that it outsold Genei/Daybreak Illusion is slightly surprising, though.
Eh, I have other places for that.
I guess Japan hated the wanker they passed off as an MC as much as I did.
Yonezawa wrote the story though. Takemoto scripted it.
Honestly, my suspension of disbelief didn't truly break until episode 4. The whole whiplash from dealing with one rotten situation to another totally lost me, and at that point I couldn't stop laughing.
That makes my reaching theory more likely at least.
Anyway, 11.5 had cool Kigami effects. So it's good in my book.
FelixOrion
Poet Centuriate
I love all the small background details that trigger hides in plain sight. I did not catch these my first time through and I'm sure there's a lot more. Like:
Why were they eating the grub croquettes when they could being that chicken?
uhhhhhhhhhh i wonder what mermaid tastes like
That actually makes sense in the context of KLK...
Ha, I didn't even see the chicken.
With NTHT, it was clear that bullshit was going on early, but the way it would push my limits without blatantly stepping over the line until the last moment left me pissed off instead of amused.
KirbYuuYuu
Member
Yeah, this show is really stacking up the quick sight gags.
Cat fucking! Cat fucking everywhere!
Nope they definitely changed some stuff...plot remains the same, just the order of things and how things happen have been changed somewhat. Comparing the first episode to the first chapter it becomes pretty obvious
HolyBaikal
Banned
Gingitsune episode 1
I'm a little bit tired of the whole "baka" 'trope' or whatever that's so common in anime. Where someone says that as an emotional outburst. It might seem like an aspect of Japanese culture, but it seems more clearly to fit into a certain archetype of character.
It seems less like something people just do, and something more like it is done to make characters seem cute and a little more tsundere influenced. Character development is nice, but I wish she were a little more mature to begin with. The situation feels a bit forced.
I believe much of what happened this episode is what a lot of people derogatorily refer to as "melodrama". I'm a total fall for melodrama, so I loved it. I can't watch melodramatic bits of anything without crying.
Though I do wish this show tried to do so to me without doing it in such a... cliche fashion. I feel... emotionally moved and unimpressed at the same time. And I get the feeling I'll like this anime a lot less than Kamichu!. Nonetheless I'll keep watching it.
I'm a little bit tired of the whole "baka" 'trope' or whatever that's so common in anime. Where someone says that as an emotional outburst. It might seem like an aspect of Japanese culture, but it seems more clearly to fit into a certain archetype of character.
It seems less like something people just do, and something more like it is done to make characters seem cute and a little more tsundere influenced. Character development is nice, but I wish she were a little more mature to begin with. The situation feels a bit forced.
I believe much of what happened this episode is what a lot of people derogatorily refer to as "melodrama". I'm a total fall for melodrama, so I loved it. I can't watch melodramatic bits of anything without crying.
Though I do wish this show tried to do so to me without doing it in such a... cliche fashion. I feel... emotionally moved and unimpressed at the same time. And I get the feeling I'll like this anime a lot less than Kamichu!. Nonetheless I'll keep watching it.
Galilei Donna 1
When I saw the first scene of this I thought I'd accidentally fired up Arpeggio of Blue Steel.
Not feeling it at all. Vague Fractale vibes. All of the characters who got more than a few lines are grating in one respect or another, especially the eldest sister who is basically Lawful Good-bot. She's like Sakurakouji Sakura without the endearing dorkiness or any hint of self-awareness in how the show portrays her. The other two sisters aren't actively offensive, but we're supposed to swallow the idea that these are average moe girls who just happen also to be mechanical geniuses without this rather extraordinary aspect of their identity permeating throughout their overall demeanor and behavior. There's no eccentricity or wit; their "skill" is all too cleanly walled off from the rest of their identities and so there's a jarring disconnect between their behavior and their assumed level of intelligence.
I've always disliked the hereditary talent trope in anime, and with their prideful mother continually lording their ancestry over them, I certainly hope that their abilities aren't ultimately implied to exist just because they're Galileo's ancestors rather than that fact simply having served as the motivation for the family to become prodigious engineers. Hopefully future episodes can remedy my concerns with the characterization.
I also see they're taking the Arcana Famiglia route of "we want to give this show an Italian feel but don't actually know anything about Italy so we'll just have characters say 'bambina' sometimes and give them the only globally ubiquitous Italian surname we know" approach to setting.
When I saw the first scene of this I thought I'd accidentally fired up Arpeggio of Blue Steel.
Not feeling it at all. Vague Fractale vibes. All of the characters who got more than a few lines are grating in one respect or another, especially the eldest sister who is basically Lawful Good-bot. She's like Sakurakouji Sakura without the endearing dorkiness or any hint of self-awareness in how the show portrays her. The other two sisters aren't actively offensive, but we're supposed to swallow the idea that these are average moe girls who just happen also to be mechanical geniuses without this rather extraordinary aspect of their identity permeating throughout their overall demeanor and behavior. There's no eccentricity or wit; their "skill" is all too cleanly walled off from the rest of their identities and so there's a jarring disconnect between their behavior and their assumed level of intelligence.
I've always disliked the hereditary talent trope in anime, and with their prideful mother continually lording their ancestry over them, I certainly hope that their abilities aren't ultimately implied to exist just because they're Galileo's ancestors rather than that fact simply having served as the motivation for the family to become prodigious engineers. Hopefully future episodes can remedy my concerns with the characterization.
I also see they're taking the Arcana Famiglia route of "we want to give this show an Italian feel but don't actually know anything about Italy so we'll just have characters say 'bambina' sometimes and give them the only globally ubiquitous Italian surname we know" approach to setting.
hosannainexcelsis
Member
Damn, this looks good.
HolyBaikal
Banned
Well, I've now looked through the fall chart of anime. And I'm pressed to find something that personally interests me. Gingitsune was the first that caught my attention. But upon a closer look, there isn't much else that sticks out to me as interesting.
I think that most people here know my taste. Would someone here please recommend me an anime?
I think that most people here know my taste. Would someone here please recommend me an anime?
kill la kill
kill la kill
Maybe this is the mystery film? IG is showing a large number of works at SLA after all...
http://www.productionig.com/contents/works_sp/94_/index.html
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/new...-hand-drawn-anime-film-giovanni-island-teaser
It also says Production I.G will handle the worldwide distribution of the film outside of Japan, so...
When the pirate dude said "Salvatore", all I could think of was that scene in Inglorious Basterds where Brad Pitt says arrivederci over and over.
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