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Fall 2013 Anime |OT2| The Rise and Fall of Kyoto
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Mockingbird
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Bunch of sick incestuous pedophile cannibals in this thread.
I had no idea this is what the story was about O_O
Space Dandy
Pupa
Inari KonKon
Kill la Kill 2nd half
Tonari no Seki-kun
Silver Spoon S2
SYD S2
Hoozuki no Reitetsu
those two Nobunaga shows
+ others I haven't looked at yet
Winter is looking pretty nice so far
Pupa
Inari KonKon
Kill la Kill 2nd half
Tonari no Seki-kun
Silver Spoon S2
SYD S2
Hoozuki no Reitetsu
those two Nobunaga shows
+ others I haven't looked at yet
Winter is looking pretty nice so far
KirbYuuYuu
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Best love story you'll ever sink your teeth in!
Space dandy will be groovy as fuck. The others are tbd.
Bunch of sick incestuous pedophile cannibals in this thread.
My Little Sister Can't Be This Delicious!
I'm sorry
Why are weird sci-fi Nobunaga shows a thing this season.
Kill la Kill 08
The characters are also starting to get tired. Not any one in particular, but more the fact that each seems so sorely beholden to a single trait. Everyone winds up feeling super flat and predictable, from the cardboard cut out one star villains that get blown over every episode to the main cast. The series is too simplistic and lacks likable characters to coast along. This episode needed to shake things up and keep pushing forward, but instead my excitement just continued to fizz out.
This was a pretty poor episode. The events occurring failed to add to the backstory in any meaningful way, instead reiterating the acutely obvious in tedious detail. At the same time the plot was not really moved forward, and the stage wound up being pointlessly set for the entire episode when really only the last minute or so mattered. Many of the set pieces here also just felt extremely weak, and not exactly conducive to action that held any sort of tension. Ideas presented like car battles on the highway and these pillars rising up out of the ground for students to fight over positioning on are either completely passed over or sputter out before they get going.
The characters are also starting to get tired. Not any one in particular, but more the fact that each seems so sorely beholden to a single trait. Everyone winds up feeling super flat and predictable, from the cardboard cut out one star villains that get blown over every episode to the main cast. The series is too simplistic and lacks likable characters to coast along. This episode needed to shake things up and keep pushing forward, but instead my excitement just continued to fizz out.
Yea the car battle was a complete miss for what that could have been. They could have done something ala Matrix Reloaded but nope.
Those eating sounds sound so good.
A Black Falcon
Member
Infinite Stratos S2 7 - Another average episode for the season, overall. That is to say, it wasn't particularly good, but could have been worse. As with some other episodes this season, this episode was broken into two parts.
The first part was Houki's first segment featuring just her this season; she's supposedly the main girl, of the five in the core harem, so it's interesting that it took so long. I guess Char and Laura must be more popular... understandably. Houki is okay, but Char and Laura are better. Still, most of this Houki segment was decent. It was kind of predictable that the photographer kept trying to get them to be closer, but it worked... until it hit the predictable, and always-really-stupid, "the girl hurts her leg and the guy has to carry her home" scene. Really this almost never happens, but if you'd believe anime you'd think it happens constantly... and of course thanks to sexism it's almost always the girl who gets 'hurt'. So yeah, that part was kind of bad. The rest before that was okay though.
The second part is about a new character introduced at the beginning of this episode, Russia's younger sister. Apparentl ythere is going to be a pairs competition, and Russia convinces Ichika into pairing up with her sister -- though she tells him not to tell her sister that she (Russia elder) wanted him to be with her (the sister), but doesn't explain why. She says that her sister is "gloomy", and by the end, yes, I can see what she means... Ichika has some work to do to get her to accept him as a teammate. But the episode ends without resolving this plotline, so yeah, this will certainly continue next episode (which should be soon now!).
For ep. 7's at-most-ten-seconds-of-plot,
This season sure is dragging out its plot pretty ridiculously! The amount of actual plot per episode is so ludicrously low...
IS S2 OVA - This OVA is a longer, more animated version of the water-park and festival parts from episode one that were skipped over with only a slideshow in the original episode. Well, the water park part, at least, is now fully animated, and it's the moderately amusing 'harem antics at a water park' stuff viewers surely were expecting. It's stupid, but amusing. The festival part, though... what happened? It's still half-slideshow! Seriously, they added very little animation to the festival part. Considering how much people must have paid for this disc, that's pretty awful. That made this OVA somewhat disappointing overall. The water park part was as expected, though; just your average stupid harem-antics-and-bikinis stuff.
As for some details, Pika-tan appears for a moment in this OVA! She's been inexplicably absent from the main episodes, so it was good she got in here. Seriously, put her in the show already. She was one of the best characters in S1, after all. Otherwise, Cecelia's plan was clever, and worked, too... but only for a few minutes. The multiple trips on the twin-slide were amusing too, and weren't 100% predictable either (
. And
to win Laura that giant prize was nice. But yeah... finish animating it before shipping an OVA. Come on.
The first part was Houki's first segment featuring just her this season; she's supposedly the main girl, of the five in the core harem, so it's interesting that it took so long. I guess Char and Laura must be more popular... understandably. Houki is okay, but Char and Laura are better. Still, most of this Houki segment was decent. It was kind of predictable that the photographer kept trying to get them to be closer, but it worked... until it hit the predictable, and always-really-stupid, "the girl hurts her leg and the guy has to carry her home" scene. Really this almost never happens, but if you'd believe anime you'd think it happens constantly... and of course thanks to sexism it's almost always the girl who gets 'hurt'. So yeah, that part was kind of bad. The rest before that was okay though.
The second part is about a new character introduced at the beginning of this episode, Russia's younger sister. Apparentl ythere is going to be a pairs competition, and Russia convinces Ichika into pairing up with her sister -- though she tells him not to tell her sister that she (Russia elder) wanted him to be with her (the sister), but doesn't explain why. She says that her sister is "gloomy", and by the end, yes, I can see what she means... Ichika has some work to do to get her to accept him as a teammate. But the episode ends without resolving this plotline, so yeah, this will certainly continue next episode (which should be soon now!).
For ep. 7's at-most-ten-seconds-of-plot,
Chifuyu denies having any siblings other than Ichika. So, either she's lying, or doesn't know about Madoka. I assume it's more likely the former.
IS S2 OVA - This OVA is a longer, more animated version of the water-park and festival parts from episode one that were skipped over with only a slideshow in the original episode. Well, the water park part, at least, is now fully animated, and it's the moderately amusing 'harem antics at a water park' stuff viewers surely were expecting. It's stupid, but amusing. The festival part, though... what happened? It's still half-slideshow! Seriously, they added very little animation to the festival part. Considering how much people must have paid for this disc, that's pretty awful. That made this OVA somewhat disappointing overall. The water park part was as expected, though; just your average stupid harem-antics-and-bikinis stuff.
As for some details, Pika-tan appears for a moment in this OVA! She's been inexplicably absent from the main episodes, so it was good she got in here. Seriously, put her in the show already. She was one of the best characters in S1, after all. Otherwise, Cecelia's plan was clever, and worked, too... but only for a few minutes. The multiple trips on the twin-slide were amusing too, and weren't 100% predictable either (
neither one ended with a lost bikini top!
them all working together
Most of Houki's scene was decent, but yeah, as I said above, that part where she hurts her leg and he has to carry her was very stupid.
Yeah, poor Laura, but that was inevitable given that Chifuyu was around...
For the spoiler part... yeah, I'm sure that'll happen eventually, sadly.
S1 had artistry, craft, subtlety, and nuance? Really? Sure, it was definitely different from S2, and is better, but I don't think I'd use those words to describe most of it... I mean, considering how horrendously terrible the writing and scripting usually were! I think more that the problem is that this season is just generic, instead of hitting that perfect level of "so bad it's good" that the first season did. Also, they added in way too much generic "and then the girls hit Ichika" stuff that the first season didn't have (and was better without).
Russia and Madoka are great, but aren't so great that they entirely make up for the generic mediocrity of the rest of the show. S1 is better.
Code: Breaker- fin
Sigh. There are issues with this show which leave me kinda conflicted. The core story is pretty solid and the show does a great job of fleshing out multiple sides in the conflict. I really do like how they tried to flesh out Hitomi's side. It helped to give the whole fight a morally gray aspect to it. The problem is with some of the characters. Sakura remains annoying as fuck throughout the show. She is beyond grating and doesn't even seem that important to the main narrative other than to yell or play the damsel in distress. Ogami undergoes a personality shift which I think is too drastic and not supported well enough when compared to his sociopathic personality very early in the show. Not to mention Hitomi's 'pep talk' at the very end which some of the stuff in there just felt a little forced considering he was seriously trying to kill them less than five minutes prior. There are also some other minor stuff like the macguffin ring that bothered me. The show generally does feel well executed but there are some issues with the writing that trip it up.
In short, it was a decent watch. I wouldn't call it great but it did a fairly serviceable job.
Sigh. There are issues with this show which leave me kinda conflicted. The core story is pretty solid and the show does a great job of fleshing out multiple sides in the conflict. I really do like how they tried to flesh out Hitomi's side. It helped to give the whole fight a morally gray aspect to it. The problem is with some of the characters. Sakura remains annoying as fuck throughout the show. She is beyond grating and doesn't even seem that important to the main narrative other than to yell or play the damsel in distress. Ogami undergoes a personality shift which I think is too drastic and not supported well enough when compared to his sociopathic personality very early in the show. Not to mention Hitomi's 'pep talk' at the very end which some of the stuff in there just felt a little forced considering he was seriously trying to kill them less than five minutes prior. There are also some other minor stuff like the macguffin ring that bothered me. The show generally does feel well executed but there are some issues with the writing that trip it up.
The storyboarding and animation were pretty good. I mean the sequence where Hitomi goes berserk in the final episode is amazing. Soundtrack was ok except the piece where Hitomi is sitting down in the final episode which I thought was fantastic.
I laughed so hard at this line
In short, it was a decent watch. I wouldn't call it great but it did a fairly serviceable job.
hipbabboom
Huh? What did I say? Did I screw up again? :(
I still believe it couldn't have been real.
If I am to take the universe that was established up until the last 5 minutes of episode 7 as being cannon then nothing that happened in that 5 minutes can be supported by anything EXCEPT for maybe the opening theme.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Narag just gets it. S1 is manic genius.
hipbabboom
Huh? What did I say? Did I screw up again? :(
hipbabboom
Huh? What did I say? Did I screw up again? :(
This show is great. Be sure to watch the second series as well before you watch the movie. Watching how the cast develops is the best part of these series, As for your worry, I won't spoil it for you but I will say this:
Do you really believe that a show with a zany sidekick like Sunohara will go that far in such a strange direction?
Hunter x Hunter Last Mission trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzafTryO2vQ
Thermae Romae 2 live action movie teaser
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXD4sUSM9XQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzafTryO2vQ
Thermae Romae 2 live action movie teaser
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXD4sUSM9XQ
hosannainexcelsis
Member
The official English lyrics are "All quartets lead, lead to...? Say la-la-la..." Which is... maybe a little better?
Mmm hmm.
As far as I've heard about Clannad, most people who've seen the movie recommend not watching the movie lol. I can't say since I haven't seen it, but from what I've heard of it, you should definitely go through the entirety of Clannad and After Story before you watch the movie if you intend to.
A Black Falcon
Member
The question about IS S1 is, was it as "so bad it's good" as it is because the people making it WANTED it to be that way, or was it an accident caused by a perfect storm of terrible -- awful writing, incompetent scripting, etc. Which one was it? I have no idea. So yeah, IS S1 may be a 10/10 show, but "genius"? I can't agree without significant reservations -- I am not at all confident that its "quality" was intentional.
And if you really do think that IS was legit genius and not just so-bad-it's-great... why?
(Also -- S1 E11 is worse than any episode in S2 so far. That episode was just dire.)
Nobody gets any in Infinite Stratos.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
S2 proves that S1 was genius. Otherwise, S1 would just be like S2!
A Black Falcon
Member
Well, S2 proves that the S2 director clearly does not have any idea about why S1 was so entertaining, and it IS more generic than S1 in some ways (such as the hitting-him stuff, as I said), but I don't think that says anything about how, exactly, S1 managed to be so near-perfectly absurd.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
S1 took the source material and produced a well considered adaptation that was fully aware of what it was. It could have just been a turdy harem, but it's more than that.
Basileus777
Member
This is some crazy revisionism that I never saw before S2 aired. When was Infinite Stratos ever anything but a trashy harem?
Well, I know nothing about IS S1, but from what I watched of S2, it's a disjointed mess, has little coherence, and feels like it was slapped together while it was being made. It's not surprising to find that S2 doesn't even have a series composition credit, and along with the rumors that the author himself wants to be more involved but at the same time is creating a production mess because his episode outlines aren't being delivered on time... I would say that it probably speaks more to how poor the production of S2 is.
A Black Falcon
Member
NouKome 7 - Quite entertaining episode! This show is bad, but it's mostly an entertaining good-bad show, apart from episode two (for reasons I said in my review of that episode). This episode was no exception: it was amusing. The episode is the match between the popular five and the reject five, and all five rounds were good stuff... or rather, the first four rounds and the President's trolling after round five were; round five itself was pretty weak (as the audience said as well). I was
Fortunately they managed to win anyway...
. S1 is also a complete mess in many regards, but it's a much more entertaining mess than S2 is. Like, S1 is endearingly incoherent and stupid for the most part, while S2 is generic/annoyingly incoherent and stupid... that kind of thing. Watch it sometime, you know you want to...
kind of glad to see the clumsy girl manage a win in round two, she was so pitiful that you had to kind of root for her... and later, that sure was nice of Yukihira, to not reveal Ayame's secret to the crowd! Isn't that the second episode in a row which mentions that that giant chest of hers is "enhanced"? And imouto girl acting yandere was creepy. The question is, was it really an act, or is that her real self...
Didn't you just say why, in list form?
I agree that S1 ended up being like that, but the question I have is, as I said, that I'm not sure whether that "fully aware of what it was" element was intentional or a lucky accident.
Yeah, for S2, that's all true, and I'm not at all surprised to hear that S2 has no "series composition" credit; it doesn't have any of that in the series, so if someone is working on that, they sure aren't doing much.
. S1 is also a complete mess in many regards, but it's a much more entertaining mess than S2 is. Like, S1 is endearingly incoherent and stupid for the most part, while S2 is generic/annoyingly incoherent and stupid... that kind of thing. Watch it sometime, you know you want to... Ah, I see.
One book a month? Fast writing, or short "books"? I guess the latter, most likely...
Yeah, for dramas and the like particularly, it'd be great to see some hour-long animes. TV comedies are usually half an hour in live action too, but dramas are usually longer...
I know this has been said, but well, it is from MMY's author. I think this series is better, though -- no problematic concept (I have some issues with MMY...), and no harem either (well, that samurai-like guy apparently has a harem, but he's a side character, not the main one, and isn't in the main party.), which is good.
R_thanatos
Member
What ? noDigimon Xros Wars 01
Well time to start a new show and once again, it's a show I started back before and stopped for reasons.
Hey, it's the Digimon season that no one likes, yes even less liked than Frontier! Well so far it's starting ok. We get introduced to the main character, his hyper-ness and his two new traveling buddies, which at this point are basically the girl and his 'rival'which I know doesn't actually evolve any past that
The Digimon world is pretty interesting at least. It's pretty much full on war now which is pretty different from past seasons where they'll just be one big bad or a team of team terrorizing stuff, not full on armies. No real opinion on the ally Digimon at this point and I guess I shouldn't hate them cause I'm going to get stuck with them anyway.
I also look forward to the Leomon death of the season as well, wwwwwwww.
Xwars is legit good ..the second season is legit worse since it got cut halfway and they stopped airing but where did you see that nobody liked that season , it started slow , but it really became awesome. Good characters , excellent antagonist aside from the monsters of the week and so much so much gattai ...
Enjoy 50 legit great episodes. Xwars 2 : time something is bad , don't bother ( that's the one nobody liked )
R_thanatos
Member
Can't choose for the OP, however my favorite ED is "samurai heart"
Menco - 07
Because everybody keep talking about the "tweeeeest" I thought its gonna be full bombastic episode, but the majority of episode actually your good old low-key drama that this show excel, aw yiss.
Liking the continuing theme about Masayoshi..
And about "that part", nope not buying it.. I think someone pulling Iron Man 3 here.
Donten
And Sakura Hanasaku.
DOES and SPYAIR made the best song for Gintama.
Because everybody keep talking about the "tweeeeest" I thought its gonna be full bombastic episode, but the majority of episode actually your good old low-key drama that this show excel, aw yiss.
Liking the continuing theme about Masayoshi..
the more what he wanted happening, the more he realize that not as wonderful as he thought
And about "that part", nope not buying it.. I think someone pulling Iron Man 3 here.
Donten
And Sakura Hanasaku.
DOES and SPYAIR made the best song for Gintama.
Basileus777
Member
Outbreak Company 8
These references are the only reason to watch this show, but they entertain me enough to scrub through it.
These references are the only reason to watch this show, but they entertain me enough to scrub through it.
Uh, since Char was introduced? It's been uphill since then and went downhill at the start of S2.
I think that's precisely the reason people reacted as they did. It was the last minute sudden shift that made it so jarring.
As for those assumed summary leaks. They are pretty easy to fake so this could be absolutely be a curve ball, but I just don't see it for some reason. The show gave no impression that something was off during that last scene at all. Rather, it was awkwardly serious (and the dissonance between the almost comical design of the monster and the way the policemen were disposed of was pretty weird).
Basileus777
Member
It was still a trashy harem, just with a heroine people liked. There are people here calling season 1 of IF genius, that's just crazytalk.
Infinite Stratos is and has always been textbook LN haremshit.
Yeah the Shift is pretty awkward in deliberate way, in one way its completely sold you off but also pretty comical, weird.
Listen to this wisemen.
Lock the thread before you go.
R_thanatos
Member
As long as you don't try to enter the walls IRL you'll be fine , see you soon.
Not at all. Episode 5 was where the absurdity, the drama and the melodrama shot up, and the show got better from there. IS has consistently been what it's been since Episode 1. It just became better with 5 and onward.
R_thanatos
Member
i honnestly think that IS is barely average or barely ok , by going by it's first season as a whole.
My real problem with IS is that unlike many shows around, there was barely any sense of progression for the main character ( or the heroines for that matter )
IS2 is much more entertaining because at least russia girl is putting moves and putting all the rest of the cast in place. Aside from Char , and a bit of houki , none of the girl had any real develloppement or change since the start , and even when char joined the generic harem heroine bus , nothing else happenned.
for all those reason i cannot say that IS became "better" after ep 5 , on the contrary it became "stale"
KuwabaraTheMan
Banned
I wouldn't say that. Xros Wars starts out slow, but it really picks up later on and becomes pretty good (even bordering on great at times in the second half).
It's the sequel that's fucking garbage (although I'd still not say it's quite as bad as Frontier).
R_thanatos
Member
Strike the blood - 7
Kinda "ok" episode with some confirmation that shaddy DTL guy is shaddy as hell and that bored people that live too long are really annoying at times.
I guess i shouldn't be surprised that the "sister" will be part of the plot later ...
Anyway , next episode time to bring another girl in the harem.
Jealousy does bring you a lot of problems
Kinda "ok" episode with some confirmation that shaddy DTL guy is shaddy as hell and that bored people that live too long are really annoying at times.
I guess i shouldn't be surprised that the "sister" will be part of the plot later ...
Anyway , next episode time to bring another girl in the harem.
[Katanagatari]
The books aren't very long, but Nisioisin's productivity is actually pretty damn humbling.
No sense of progression? Yet, you're praising S2 for what exactly? Because Russia's attempts at getting closer to Ichika gives you a better sense of progression? Progression? The same progression in S1 without the terrible flow of scenes and events in S2? I don't understand your point.
Seraphis Cain
bad gameplay lol
Golden Time 8
Man,
is pretty dumb. Good episode otherwise though! Chinami is adorable. :lol And holy shit @
. :looool
Man,
Ghost Banri
Banri doing the "MY BOYFRIEND" thing
Honestly, at least Frontier executes it's "Power Rangers but Digimon" premice. Bugger knows what premice the sequel tried to do.
R_thanatos
Member
When russia came there was a tiny attempt of making thing move forward a little ( for plot reasons she tried to give ichika new skills ), she also put a new blood in a cast that is only eating up ichika actions no matter what he does.
I'd argue that since the second part of S1 started nothing changed within the cast up to the second part of S2.
If you look at my post i'm saying that everything is stale since ep 5 ( or maybe 6 ) of the first season , this includes season 2 aside from the introduction of this new character.
I mean we're in the middle of S2 ATM , and china still hadn't a proper arc , england arc was shafted , char character progression started and ended right when she joined the rest of the female cast. japan gaining her mech didn't gave her anything aside from being able to be on equal term to the rest and the "looking at the sea" scene that did nothing overall.
The best i can do is to praise S2 to make me feel with ep 1,2,3 that they would change the dynamics even if a little but they didn't.
I'm still far behind on 2 episodes mind you ( i was away ) but i doubt anything significant changed since ichika birthday episode.
i know i'm asking too much since it's an harem anime but it's my convinction that IS hasn't changed in ages once the introduction arc for each girl was done.
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