peaceiscloser
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I can sell off my ancestral land in the Philippines to Korean corporations. WORTH IT
Ether's got submarines.
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Fall 2013 Anime |OT2| The Rise and Fall of Kyoto
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I can sell off my ancestral land in the Philippines to Korean corporations. WORTH IT
Ether's got submarines.
Why do you have ancestral land? You've been a rich land baron this whole time and I didn't know?
peaceiscloser
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Yep, old Spanish insulares ancestors. The other half being indigenous chieftains.
Boy, you think you know a guy.
I'm curious, will watch.
I didn't know you were Filipino, I am too
(well partly)
peaceiscloser
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I'm curious, will watch.
I didn't know you were Filipino, I am too(well partly)
Filipino-GAF get in here!!!
Brain Powerd 10
I'd say I don't understand what's going on any more, but the truth is I never did. The first half of this episode was pretty dang boring, but the ending delivered with the crazy. Tomino has some issues with women, along with issues with depicting human interaction in general.
Bonus shot of Jonathan, who is either wearing invisible suspenders or suffering from severe nipple chafing.
I'd say I don't understand what's going on any more, but the truth is I never did. The first half of this episode was pretty dang boring, but the ending delivered with the crazy. Tomino has some issues with women, along with issues with depicting human interaction in general.
Bonus shot of Jonathan, who is either wearing invisible suspenders or suffering from severe nipple chafing.
KirbYuuYuu
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I thought I stepped into the wrong thread...
peaceiscloser
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YOUR NEW AVATAR :O
KirbYuuYuu
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Stayed up till 3:30AM getting it right because I fucked up badly in a program.
Brain Powerd 10
I'd say I don't understand what's going on any more, but the truth is I never did. The first half of this episode was pretty dang boring, but the ending delivered with the crazy. Tomino has some issues with women, along with issues with depicting human interaction in general.
Bonus shot of Jonathan, who is either wearing invisible suspenders or suffering from severe nipple chafing.
Everything I know about know about Brain Powerd I learned from Super Robot Wars J.
The thing the screencaps don't fully capture is the complete Tomino-ness of the script. Those lines and scenes are particularly bad and awkward, but the entire show is saturated with the exact same kind of incomprehensible dialogue and characterization. Any differences in the sensibility of a given scene are in degree, not kind.
And I'm not talking about the completely gobbledygook science fiction plot either, although that obviously contributes. The way that characters interact and speak in no way resembles anything recognizable; it's as if the entire script is nothing but non sequiturs, one after another.
It literally feels like the script was written by an alien.
And I'm not talking about the completely gobbledygook science fiction plot either, although that obviously contributes. The way that characters interact and speak in no way resembles anything recognizable; it's as if the entire script is nothing but non sequiturs, one after another.
It literally feels like the script was written by an alien.
Sounds pretty Tomino to me, yeah. Like in Gundam people say it is being a Newtype that explains why people say such crazy stuff, but the truth is that, after pacing, Tomino's greatest weakness is writing dialogue.
KirbYuuYuu
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I think a couple of those images kind give a feeling what drove to writing that episode in general.....
Mother complex
Mother complex
Is that the episode with the infamous minute long elevator scene that barely moves?
foxuzamaki
Doesn't read OPs, especially not his own
Honestly Tomino having a mother complex would explain a LOT about mothers in his works.
Redline
Flashy and entertaining. Plot was silly and way out there. The best thing is
Flashy and entertaining. Plot was silly and way out there. The best thing is
Roboworld ruining their own planet in their attempt to protect it from the racers.
Noooooooo.
Feels more like Tomino just finished watching Evangelion and said "I can do this too!"
KirbYuuYuu
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Jex
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I think it's worth taking a second to explain why this one of the most powerful, and most referenced, sequences in all of Macross. Firstly, a rough gif:
This sequence is actually about 14 seconds in length but it's sped up in the .gif. As we can see the camera is always centred on Minmay as she falls around, and eventually into, the cockpit of the VF-1. What's staggering about the animation in this scene is how many things are being animated at once all while the camera is moving throughout the action. Not only is Minmay, her clothing and her hair being animated but so is the VF-1 which appears to be a fully real 3D object and we have the camera that travels all the way from the outside of the craft to the inside of the craft and then back again all without a single 'cut'.
To animate all these things happening at the same time means that the animators had to practically redraw everything on screen from scratch every few frames. This is hugely time consuming because you're usually just changing some part of some character and leaving everything else in 'the shot' untouched, where as here due to the spectacular camera movement the animators have to re-draw all the details. When the sequence is broken down into individual images it looks something like this:
Of course, outside of the sheer technical accomplishment of the scene we also have the powerful imagery of Hikaru reaching out and catching Minmay in mid air. It's hardly surprising that such a powerful and resonant piece of animation has been replicated everywhere from Eurkea 7 to Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei.
Space Battleship Yamato 2199 1
I like the retroy designs of the ships, they look like submarines and planes. They feel light in the CG, but I hear that gets better. Overall a very nice-looking show from this first episode.
Story-wise not really that much to say yet, fairly typical premise, and it hasn't really launched yet. Best scene was probably the first, when
I like the retroy designs of the ships, they look like submarines and planes. They feel light in the CG, but I hear that gets better. Overall a very nice-looking show from this first episode.
Story-wise not really that much to say yet, fairly typical premise, and it hasn't really launched yet. Best scene was probably the first, when
everyone kept dying. Especially the singing at the end, with Kodai.
The more I learn about anime, the more I learn how much of Eureka 7 was referential to previous Super Robot shows.
Jex
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Another thing I got to mention, it combines super hot mechanical animation (nhghn 3D rotation in space) with super hot character animation all in a single seamless shot.
But I thought he already made Space Runaway Ideon.
Jex
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The world needs his crazy creative ideas, he just shouldn't be in charge of writing anything. Or editing. Or directing.
Maybe it was like Devilman Lady where Go Nagai was like, "Hey, remember me?"
Of course, he also predicted the Hosodapocalypse in that show.
Jex
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I don't know if Tomino is actively aware of what he's doing, or has done, or will be doing in the future. He just seems to kind of exist as a creative force that makes stuff because.
One of the great things about finally learning that the scene in Eureka 7 is a lift of the same scene in Macross (I only watched Macross sometime after) is that it in no way diminishes the impact of the former and the way it happens in Macross is still quite breathtaking.
I can't think of many straight copies/homages that don't have their impacts diminished because of that.
I can't think of many straight copies/homages that don't have their impacts diminished because of that.
Jex
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Not that I'm aware of...
rhizomatic
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Kawamori is doing that batshit crazy Nobunaga series next season, so probably not anytime soon.
Nothing last I checked. The FB 7 movie was released last year and that's about it.
rhizomatic
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Okay, this might be kinda :kayos of me, but what exactly is the Hosodapocalypse? I know who Mamoru Hosoda is, what he's worked on, and how he's one of AnimeGAF's darlings, but that's it.
Not currently; in fact, in the past 30 years, there have only been three Macross television series and a handful of OVAs and films, so it's actually quite infrequent for there to be Macross anything in the works at any given time.
The Frontier merchandising gravy train has to be nearly dried up by this point, so I'd love to hear at least something in the next couple of years.
It's a joke from a while back. Since the then-upcoming Wolf Children was going to be a great film, anime fans would become furries. Inspired by Mawaru-Penguindrum being referred to as the Penguin Apocalypse, which in turn is from Ikuhara's previous work with Utena.
Vincent Alexander
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Almost done with the Yorknew arc of Hunter x Hunter. I just wanted to pop in and say that I can't stand fights where one side holds back.
. I hate it. I'm not sure what the desired effect is, but it never plays out well in any anime. Ever.
The Zoldycks just finished fighting Chrollo. And in the end you find out Chrollo was holding back. Like, wow! He must be really really tough and badass!
That's unfortunate.
@madp now that I that think about it, you're absolutely right.
Aside for the fact its a high level technical craft.
That scene is very iconic and got referenced on everywhere, that's anime equivalence of King Kong's empire state building scene.
peaceiscloser
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- In The Beginning: Osamu Tezuka's Stories from the Old Testament 01
Oh my gosh wonderful cheesy late-90's music. It's like I'm watching Animated Stories from the Bible again. Were those animated by Japanese studios or are they all-American? I'll find out some other time.
For reviewing purposes I'm just going to watch this absolutely literally, as the show presents it.
"God said, let the water be filled with many living beings."
I think it's pretty cool they decided to show paramecium and other aquatic microorganisms before all the fish.
I love Tezuka's designs. They're just so classic and neutral. Especially that ridiculous kangaroo and an inexplicable sabre-tooth tiger. Or maybe it's a normal tiger. Eh.
The music that plays when Adam spawns is seriously lifted straight from Star Wars.
The man saw the woman and said
DAISUKE. And it was good.
How could you deny Eve's smiling face when she offers the fruit. Adam doesn't even blink. Interestingly enough God doesn't show up in person to confront Adam about the sin, everything just suddenly turns into death and wasteland and they're cast out right at the moment they eat the fruit.
Apparently the Garden of Eden is in space.
holy crap Cain is most annoying crying baby ever. imagine a fate worse than death. Also THATSAPENIS.gif
Finally some real dubbed dialogue. I love how the stock audio just randomly cuts out at times. Cain's anger at Abel is justified a little here in that Abel's flock of sheep come and trample his fields -- to the sound of saxophones.
Cain: "I've had enough of you!"
Abel (in the softest voice): "...Cain?"
Cain (in a constipated voice): "You always... AAGH. I can't... stand it!"
You have to hear it to believe it.Abel (in the softest voice): "...Cain?"
Cain (in a constipated voice): "You always... AAGH. I can't... stand it!"
Cain's banishment has oddly hopeful music.
At this point I'm seeing YouTube comments saying there are scenes that were cut for nudity and violence, so I'm probably going to look elsewhere for a Japanese sub.
KirbYuuYuu
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Yuushibu - 06
Yeah, we all know that feel.
This looks so dumb
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