KirbYuuYuu
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Well looking pretty is a KyoAnus thing I guess.
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Well looking pretty is a KyoAnus thing I guess.
To be honest, the problem isn't really the "pandering". It's the entire tone of the show and how it is written. It's impossible to salvage it because it's not just about good action or whatever - the direction of the entire series so far is top-tier. That's the ultimate tragedy. It's extremely well directed and well animated, but the material is complete garbage. The things which come out of their mouths is garbage. The subject matter of a number of scenes are garbage. The narrative is garbage. The character relationships and interactions are garbage.
I think that by putting a ton of real effort into the show, KyoAni actually makes it worse, because I think the majority of people who would actually appreciate what goes into it, are not those who would care for what is being made. Those who do care about this sort of material, in my experience, doesn't really ask for much in the way of the effort being put in here. What a waste.
You're hardly alone on that. I'm genuinely surprised at just how ridiculous the show is; it's as if the wacky otaku-pandering hijinks are out of a different show entirely, and can't have been what sold anyone on the idea of the show in the first place. The original CM didn't advertise any of this shit (frankly) so it can't have been a major selling point of the LN... can it?
PdotMichael
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How can something be "extremly well-directed" if it hurts the anime?
It's like KyoAni doesn't get it how shitty and cheesy the original source is and only increase the dumbness with the straight and serious adaptation.
KyonAni cycle
When something captures the essence of a scene in an ideal way, it cannot be argued that the direction is excellent. The composition of shots is creative, and most of the scenes exhibit a very good understanding of how to communicate feelings and emotions with visuals alone. It doesn't hurt the anime, it just hurts me, because it's a waste of effort for garbage.
Joe Molotov
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KyoAni's Sick Depraved Shit - Episode 5
I thought I could handle it after last week. I can't. I want to die. Someone please kill me.
Ban this sick filth:
Man, I dunno even know if I can hate-watch this shit.
Kyoukai no Kanata 4-
The ending of the episode was pretty good actually. The problem is the fucking comedy hijinks and the character fetishists that are the two male leads. If they were more normal then the show on the whole might be a lot better. As a whole, the show is gorgeous visually. Just shit like the photo shoot make me want to grind my teeth.
The problem is that KyoAni doesn't want to step out of their safe zone and instead of taking a somber tone all the way through, they try to insert elements of essentially other shows into this one and it doesn't work.
The ending of the episode was pretty good actually. The problem is the fucking comedy hijinks and the character fetishists that are the two male leads. If they were more normal then the show on the whole might be a lot better. As a whole, the show is gorgeous visually. Just shit like the photo shoot make me want to grind my teeth.
The problem is that KyoAni doesn't want to step out of their safe zone and instead of taking a somber tone all the way through, they try to insert elements of essentially other shows into this one and it doesn't work.
DeadRockstar
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Kyoukai no Kanata 5
I thought the text on duckroll's screencaps would be internal monologue about Mirai, but it's dialogue spoken right in front of her lol. Ew. I guess megane bishoujo was no longer descriptive enough for Akihito.
Weirdly enough, on paper the episode was decent. It showed a group of people lonely by necessity attempting to achieve some degree of happiness and normality; The process of which actually highlights how shitty their lives can be. I guess the direction is to thank for that. Shame the dialogue and everything else make it impossible to care.
As usual, I loved how the episode looked.
I thought the text on duckroll's screencaps would be internal monologue about Mirai, but it's dialogue spoken right in front of her lol. Ew. I guess megane bishoujo was no longer descriptive enough for Akihito.
Weirdly enough, on paper the episode was decent. It showed a group of people lonely by necessity attempting to achieve some degree of happiness and normality; The process of which actually highlights how shitty their lives can be. I guess the direction is to thank for that. Shame the dialogue and everything else make it impossible to care.
As usual, I loved how the episode looked.
hosannainexcelsis
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Why would Gatoh want to attempt to salvage LN shit when he has his own LNs to write? Especially when his buddy Takemoto isn't directing.
Why does that piss you off? You should be happy that he's doing something he actually enjoys instead of getting involved with garbage like this. He doesn't even work for KyoAni. More power to him I say!
Wait, what?
But Chuunibyou S2 also means more Dekomori and Nibutani. Also, didn't they say in the interviews that they were going for more of a full romcom and less drama in S2?
Well, I guess that could be a positive or negative thing depending on your point of view.
KirbYuuYuu
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Ojamajo Doremi Naisho 10
Only thing good about this episode was Momotaro.
Other than that, I want this episode stricken from canon.
Can't believe he called Onpu ugly. You don't tell that to girls. What a dickwad.
Only thing good about this episode was Momotaro.
Other than that, I want this episode stricken from canon.
Can't believe he called Onpu ugly. You don't tell that to girls. What a dickwad.
As others have said, it is okay to skip ahead. Once the show finally starts ramping up it is great.
Like Shoji Gatoh of FMP?
Yeah I kinda blinked at that, too.
This whole thing is frustrating because the directing is topnotch for the most part and it is a great show visually, it's just the writing is so putrid in that the world building is bland as fuck,that's assuming there is even a world to build, and the characters really aren't that interesting. I really hate how KyoAni waste their time on these stupid LNs (I'm not just talking about KnK) and try not to make something more meaningful or just better. Like can't they hire actual good writers and just do anime originals? BONES does this.
If I'm suffering, everybody should suffer with me.
The same one. He's pretty much doing Amagi Park(or something) now and I think he actually started working on FMP Another as well although I'm not sure his involvement on that one.
If I'm suffering, everybody should suffer with me.
The same one. He's pretty much doing Amagi Park(or something) now and I think he actually started working on FMP Another as well although I'm not sure his involvement on that one.
hosannainexcelsis
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OK, bringing up BONES when talking about good writing is not the best thing to do, considering their track record of the past several years.
Besides, that is what KyoAni did for Tamako Market, their anime-original IP. Reiko Yoshida isn't perfect, but she is among the upper ranks of anime screenwriters.
There will never be more FMP anime, will there?
I'm referring to old BONES. Even now, they're hiring Sato and Nobumoto for Space Dandy.
And I would disagree about Yoshida but then again, considering how piss poor 90% of anime screenwriters are now...
Kyoukai no Kanata 5
I loved that last
because it really impresses on me the fact that I do not give two shits about any character in this show. Except maybe Mitsuki as snarky comic relief but even then that's not enough on its own. Mirai just suuuuucks.
Holy crap though the second half of this episode was just plain bad in just about every non-visual way.
I loved that last
fireworks scene
Holy crap though the second half of this episode was just plain bad in just about every non-visual way.
One of the anime tragedies of our time.
Very very positive things.
Theonik
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It's not so much an issue of speed though there is a hilarious speed obstacle with Parcelforce. Basically, when a package is held by customs they will clear it for you without asking (unless the sender specifies that they should not but that also means you need to go to the place where the package entered the country which might be the nearest airport or not). When they do that however they charge ~$15 for that 'service' (literally filling in 2 forms) then they lock your package in a box somewhere in their depot where you have to wait for them to deliver an invoice that you can then use online to pay the customs charge + handling fee, which adds a minimum of an extra 2 days in the process when they could just let you pay online from the tracking instead of have you wait.
It depends, you can get round it with mail, less so with couriers like EMS. It gets even worse in other countries.
Only if Nanami is involved somehow.
You save on the Parcelforce charge but the customs might get higher past a certain value.
And yeah the sender has to mark the package if they don't want the courier doing things with it.
HI THERE WE'RE MAKING A NUDE MODELING JOKE!
WAIT, NOT A JOKE, IT'S A SERIOUS OFFER!
OKAY NOW WE'RE MAKING A GAG ABOUT LOLI NUDITY!
HAHA, IT'S A JOKE, DID WE FOOL YOU?
WAIT NO, IT'S NOT A JOKE AFTER ALL! TA-DA!
*barf*
Admiral Woofington
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Kyoukai No Trying Too Hard 05
You know, this show isn't as bad as I want to make it out to be. If the entire show kept the mellow tone it'd be fantastic. If Akihito stayed depressed or they explored how being a half-youkai affects him more, it'd be fantastic. Instead we get the really forced comedy that makes me cringe, alongside daily life of high school students and then maid outfits.
I don't want to bash the LN, but why? The ED and harry potter like-chanting from the preview give off a great mood. If they had more action involving Akihito it'd be great. But as of right now he hasn't done much besides side-character material, and he's supposedly the protagonist (or one of them)
You know, this show isn't as bad as I want to make it out to be. If the entire show kept the mellow tone it'd be fantastic. If Akihito stayed depressed or they explored how being a half-youkai affects him more, it'd be fantastic. Instead we get the really forced comedy that makes me cringe, alongside daily life of high school students and then maid outfits.
I don't want to bash the LN, but why? The ED and harry potter like-chanting from the preview give off a great mood. If they had more action involving Akihito it'd be great. But as of right now he hasn't done much besides side-character material, and he's supposedly the protagonist (or one of them)
A Huge Battleship
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Add me to the list of sufferers. Though I survived Parcelforce when I bought the Ultimate Madoka figure, so this isn't that bad in comparison.
Also my waifu was waiting for me when I got home so that dulled the pain.
Really impressed with the quality of this, and it cost me less (INCLUDING shipping) than the freakin' import charges for the LWA blu-ray. Some primal urge compels me to wear it at work during the next charity dress-down day.
The thing is, it's lose/lose for me. The drama was, well, let's just leave that subject alone for now, but as heavy-handed as it was, it was also the only thing that made the romcom stuff bearable to me because there was still this undercurrent of conflict over embracing individuality versus the utility of integrating into society flowing through the interactions.
Now that everyone has this triumphant validation for the weeb LARPing and are (presumably) going to be presented with even less opposition to indulging in their fantasy world and depicted through a totally nonjudgmental, uncritical lens, it sounds pretty insufferable to me. No offense to anyone who enjoys the show; I just don't like anything that actively glorifies otaku lifestyle.
Nah that belongs to stuff like Infinite Stratos.
KirbYuuYuu
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With a top notch directing creme no less :/
You forgot REQUISITE GRATUITOUS BREAST ENVY GAG AS THE PUNCHLINE
Please come soon Thursday, I'm in desperate need of Mako's nonsensical monologues after this tripe.
In a way, stuff like IS isn't as bad, because it's zero-ambition garbage. KnK is worse because it's talented people making trash with pretensions of quality.
Admiral Woofington
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I gotta agree here. That's the perfect description. Imagine what they could make if they buckled down and chose something not from a light novel. Like original material from talented writers. Heck a good seinen manga.
Or what I want them to do because I feel it fits them perfectly, Harry Potter anime. With Ron-senpai and Harry-kun.
Honest truth, I did laugh a bit at the photo double-subversion.
Add me to the list of sufferers. Though I survived Parcelforce when I bought the Ultimate Madoka figure, so this isn't that bad in comparison.
Also my waifu was waiting for me when I got home so that dulled the pain.
Really impressed with the quality of this, and it cost me less (INCLUDING shipping) than the freakin' import charges for the LWA blu-ray. Some primal urge compels me to wear it at work during the next charity dress-down day.
WHERE DID YOU BUY THIS WHERE?
WANTWANTWANTWANTWANTWANTWANT
I would fucking kill to see them tackle a Harry Potter anime.
Mako is the bestest. She would certainly never approve of something as wretched as KnK.
No need to imagine, Hyouka already exists.
DeadRockstar
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At least KnK is equal opportunity and doesn't limit the lewd behaviour to the males. They threw Aya's character under the bus in episode 5. "NBD, it's for her personal collection."
I was just yes-anding BGBW, but it would have been a good origin story for me.
That said, a teacher at my school did get fired for telling certain girls they didn't need to do the work because they were pretty, amongst other things, so there was exposure to creepy adult behaviour.
I was just yes-anding BGBW, but it would have been a good origin story for me.
That said, a teacher at my school did get fired for telling certain girls they didn't need to do the work because they were pretty, amongst other things, so there was exposure to creepy adult behaviour.
Admiral Woofington
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Yeah. They do a fantastic job with setting the mood and animation of magic, this'd be great. Of course it'll never happen but you could do something similar.
Was Hyouka based off a LN? Because if so, I'll edit my statement to "good LN" if not, original statement stands. I think the only other anime I found brilliant that is based off a light novel vs a manga was Spice and Wolf. Not Durara. Fuck that thing.
Baccano? Also there's like five million Slayers LNs, although I haven't seen the series so I dunno if it's brilliant.
Hyouka is Schrodinger's Light Novels.
No, I kind of get that. It's just that those considerations don't apply when shipping personal orders from Japan to the US. Like I said, to us EMS is just a relatively seamless handoff to USPS Express class (1-2 day air normally) for these kinds of things. Sometimes they'll open up the box for inspection, but that's done without your input.
A signature is required, though, be it at the door or when picking up at the post office if you weren't there for the first delivery attempt. And to be clear, it's not like EMS is cheap for us. It's just not a big deal.
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