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Fall 2013 Anime |OT2| The Rise and Fall of Kyoto

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hipbabboom

Huh? What did I say? Did I screw up again? :(
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When I started watching this season, I wanted to believe that the MC would finally grow a back bone and tap himself some sweet sweet cold sister-ass. Of course I would be disappointed. It is anime after all and god forbid there's actually character progression.

Also, this may be the first series where the MC seems to get weaker by the season.

KirbYayoi said:
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So in other words, the cross-over episodes exist just to save Toriko's ratings :(
 
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Etrian Oddity

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So this is topical to current anime seasons: Where the fuck is Sambomaster in the anime scene? :p

Every credit sequence these guys are in turns to gold:

Best Naruto op

Best Bleach ed

Kuragehime ed (their last anime appearance)

Densha Otoko ed (also featured in Ouendan 2)

...okay, so maybe "best x" is hyperbole, but they have a great repertoire of popular rock, and they haven't been featured in a show in a while. I can't be the only one missing these guys, can I?
 
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CorvoSol

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Shin Mazinger Z 24

I was not expecting
Professor Yumi to detonate himself along with the lab and Pygman. That was some amazing stuff there.
Also, this is only what, the third time
Kenzo Kabuto has come back from the dead
, while the end of the series lends some credence to the possibility, I'm left doubting the reality of this situation once again.
 
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CorvoSol

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Shin Mazinger Z 25

Something I appreciate, aside from the crazy awesome episode that this was, was that Professor Yumi realized the full implications of what he had set in motion by weaponizing Photonic Power and simultaneously proving to the world how terrifying it was. I mean Dr. Hell is fighting with the power of the Gods, and the Mazinger Z is the Hand of God, but Professor Yumi is just a man who has needed the help of many people to do what he has done. Unlike Dr. Hell and Juuzou, Yumi isn't playing around with the power of the Gods, he's representative of humanity and human effort.

And the machines he has built are winning against machines built by Gods.

Basically no matter what Yumi has to realize that either Photonic energy can now never come to the hands of man and bring about a new energy source for mankind or he must forever risk that a Photonic war will break out and end the world.

Considering the original Photonic power was no doubt conceived of with nuclear power in mind, this is an apt comparison.
 
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Freezasaurus

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Last Exile Fam 3-9

Am I at the bad parts yet? I'm still enjoying it. It's not epic like the first series, but it's still enjoyable. Only thing I've noticed about the villains so far is that they're a bunch of good-for-nothin's.
 
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CorvoSol

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Shin Mazinger Z 26

WHAT IN THE FUCK!?

WHAT WHAT WHAT WHAT WHAT. I can't even process that ending. I cannot actually put my brain around that. That's a sequel hook, right? There's a sequel, right? Because what in the fuck did I even just see? I mean it was all going amazing with Kouji gaining stupid awesome powers and the revelation that Kenzo and Dr. Hell seriously fucked up Asura but that fucking triple cross at the end is absolutely fucking insane. I mean the opening credits teased the FUCK out of the fact that Asura would tear itself in twain but I thought that shit was symbolic. Holy shit. HOLY SHIT. Hades just slices Mt. Fuji in two. I mean holy shit. I don't know how close this was to the original Mazinger, but if Great Mazinger picks up at all I need to know because WHAT IN THE FUCK WAS THAT ENDING EVEN.

Good God, Asura is the main character of this show to the point of actually winning it. Holy shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit. My brain is so gone now.
 
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Basileus777

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Admiral Woofington said:
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Best girl.... won? It's hard to say what's a victory considering the plans for the future.
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Won?
I figure she's still going to move away, and no one will end up with Haruki. It looks like a set-up for a time skip. We'll see a winner if they ever adapt more of the source material, which might not happen if they feel this season is enough to promote the VN.

And I want to know more of Takeya's history that they keep hinting at.
 
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foxuzamaki

Doesn't read OPs, especially not his own
CorvoSol said:
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I freaking love this show. Yeah, Sayaka and Kouji's romantic developments have been shoehorned here in the end and yeah, the Venus A and Borot have been chucked in with basically no explanation for the sake of getting them in, but who cares? Kouji and Sayaka were still cute and still better than a bunch of anime couples that DO get loads of time. More than that, though, Kouji's marching into a trap he knows is a trap as the themesong plays in the background and everybody is wigging out was just damn awesome. Next episode is gonna be a crazy throwdown and that's how it should be.

I love you, Mazinger.

Monogatari SS 9

LOL

Monogatari SS 10

Big Shinobu > Big Hachikuji

I don't think we're out of the woods on this arc just yet because Araragi was all beat up at the end of Hanekawa's arc and he's still okay here, plus the start of school was fairly early in Hanekawa's. I was expecting this arc to result in Araragi discovering he couldn't save Hachikuji, or that for the world to be saved Hachikuji would have to die. Turns out I had the right plot, wrong girl. The zombies looked like Anti Spiral Life Forms. All in all not bad, especially Araragi's reaction to seeing Mayoi alive and his age, which was much sweeter and less pervy than I expected. That said, I don't think this arc, if it actually is concluded, was anywhere near as powerful as the last arc. Particularly because it really didn't advance Mayoi's character at all. I suppose it helped Shinobu, but not to the same degree the previous arc did. I hope we get more character focused arcs as the show goes, which sounds really stupid since all arcs in this show are, but I mean that I would like better examination of the characters. If not oh well. As long as we don't sink back to Nise levels I'll live.
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Keep in mind that that arc concentrated on shinobu going forward.
 
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wonzo

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Gingitsune 11-12 END

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A good ending to a pretty decent series with the odd moments of brilliance. The closest thing I could compare this show to is Natsume Yuujinchou and I'd probbaly put this somewhere between the third and fourth seasons of taht (leaning on the former) in terms of overall quality. A shame the heralds really weren't anywhere near as interesting as the various spirits Natsume would run into.

still, inari, konkon next season will def. be a much better show unless they fuck that up somehow

cajunator said:
Except it isnt bad.
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It will be if the irredeemable first season was anything to go by.
 
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cajunator

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wonzo said:
Gingitsune 11-12 END

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A good ending to a pretty decent series with the odd moments of brilliance. The closest thing I could compare this show to is Natsume Yuujinchou and I'd probbaly put this somewhere between the third and fourth seasons of taht (leaning on the former) in terms of overall quality. A shame the heralds really weren't anywhere near as interesting as the various spirits Natsume would run into.

still, inari, konkon next season will def. be a much better show unless they fuck that up somehow


It will be if the irredeemable first season was anything to go by.
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Good god she is precious
 
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DiGiKerot

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Gundam Build Fighters #12

Even if the rest of the episode had been ass, which it most certainly wasn't, the
Don Quixote/Nether Gundam
gag would have validated the entire episode.
 
NeonZ

NeonZ

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CorvoSol said:
Shin Mazinger Z 26

WHAT IN THE FUCK!?

WHAT WHAT WHAT WHAT WHAT. I can't even process that ending. I cannot actually put my brain around that. That's a sequel hook, right? There's a sequel, right? Because what in the fuck did I even just see? I mean it was all going amazing with Kouji gaining stupid awesome powers and the revelation that Kenzo and Dr. Hell seriously fucked up Asura but that fucking triple cross at the end is absolutely fucking insane. I mean the opening credits teased the FUCK out of the fact that Asura would tear itself in twain but I thought that shit was symbolic. Holy shit. HOLY SHIT. Hades just slices Mt. Fuji in two. I mean holy shit. I don't know how close this was to the original Mazinger, but if Great Mazinger picks up at all I need to know because WHAT IN THE FUCK WAS THAT ENDING EVEN.

Good God, Asura is the main character of this show to the point of actually winning it. Holy shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit. My brain is so gone now.
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There's no sequel to Shin Mazinger. The ending, with the
Mycenae appearing right after Dr.Hell is defeated and crushing the Mazinger Z is a reference to the final episode of the original Mazinger Z anime, and beginning of the Great Mazinger manga, but Shin Mazinger's story has quite a few differences from all other versions, so there's nothing that actually follows its cliff hanger completely.

For example, in Shin Mazinger, we get a brief glimpse at the Great Mazinger and its pilot, but he calls himself "Blade", while Tetsuya Tsurugi, the pilot of the Great Mazinger in the other versions of the story, seemingly died years earlier. Of course, "Tsurugi" means "Blade", so he might have been a cyborg Tetsuya or an android or something, but you won't see that followed up in the other versions of the show where the pilot is just Tetsuya. Kenzo Kabuto seemingly dying and returning not entirely human is a part of the original story, but not his betrayal in the backstory.

There was also a movie in the 70s with yet another take on Mazinger Z fighting against the Mycaene (Mazinger Z Vs Ankoku DaiShogun). The second Mazinkaiser movie is yet another version of the Mycaene invasion (it has a completely different set up from the others though).
 
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duckroll

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Yamato 2199 - Episode 7-12

This is really a much better show than anyone deserves in this day and age. In the modern era of JJ Abrams entertainment passing as scifi, this really has no place in reality. Actual character development, real effort put into designing alien worlds, space hazards, civilizations, politics, compelling antagonists, intriguing mysteries and historical truths which feel like they're a natural part of the narrative instead of breadcrumbs artificially hooking the audience. I don't think I've enjoyed a serialized space opera this much since Babylon 5.

There were some real highlights in this batch of episodes too. I like the more relaxed side showcased with the Yamato Radio stuff, and the line-crossing ceremony was a really nice touch which continues the parallels between traditional sailing and space travel. The episode about Analyzer and the android was pretty good too. But the real highlight was how they expand on the Gamilas characters and politics. Depicting a war isn't very compelling if it's one-sided, and it's great to see how they realized that really early and have started building stuff up for the audience to consider the various angles.

Sooooo good.
 
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R_thanatos

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A Black Falcon said:
Do you mean "if I haven't watched the second season"? Because as I said I did finish the first half of the show... I dropped it at the halfway point, just after
Tamahome's (that was his name, I think) family, all of those younger siblings he cared so much for, were all murdered by the enemy nation just to make him mad, or something like that.
That was enough, I was done. Dealing with Miaka's unbelievable idiocy was one thing, but that plus pointless tragedies? No thanks. I like fantasy, but not that.
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Well i thought you'd had dropped the show in the first season ..my bad ..i actually know people who couldn't bear it anymore and dropped the show after the first half of the first season because they couldn't stand several characters.

Seriously though, I know that anime MCs are often stupid, but she should be considered for inclusion on the list of the most annoyingly stupid ones...
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I blame the author for that ..i think this was trully deliberate in order to do as much drama as possible.
From what little I know about the second half, from story summaries and the like, that sure sounds accurate.
I mean, I know that some of the guys in the harem get killed off... pleasant. And I'm sure there's more.


On that note, Miaka's friend who ended up in the enemy country was pretty dumb too... though she had better reasons for it, with how
the evil leader of that nation was conning her.
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Well arata kangatari use the same sub plot actually... Yes i'm sad.

It sounds like the curse of modern short anime seasons struck again. Frustrating. :(
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It is.

cnet128 said:
And how. Waifu 100%.
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hey hey ! Is she an angel ?

I loved that moment.
 
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Vito

Banned
Planet:Valkyrie x Chihara Minori; Part 1 short ver. (site: http://p-valkyrie.jp/)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxBcG-9BxiM

Song Lyrics: Aki Hata
Composition: Daisuke Kikuta (Elements Garden)
Arangement: Iwahashi Hoshimi (Elements Garden)

Directed by: Ei Aoki
Original character design: Takashi Takeuchi (Type-Moon)
Character Design: Kanami Sekiguchi
Imageboard: tanu
Sound Drama Screenplay: Katsuhiko Takayama
Music Production: Lantis
Production: Infinite
Animation Production: P.A. Works
 
Theonik

Theonik

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Seikon no Qwaser 07
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Secret best girl
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More lolidom anitcs and new character introductions. It's kinda interesting how they are for once trying to give an enemy a semblance of a background with Sodium. It will be such a shame when they conclude this arc in the most dumb and boring way possible later. RIIIIIP
 
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kiryogi

Banned
CorvoSol said:
Shin Mazinger Z 23

I freaking love this show. Yeah, Sayaka and Kouji's romantic developments have been shoehorned here in the end and yeah, the Venus A and Borot have been chucked in with basically no explanation for the sake of getting them in, but who cares? Kouji and Sayaka were still cute and still better than a bunch of anime couples that DO get loads of time. More than that, though, Kouji's marching into a trap he knows is a trap as the themesong plays in the background and everybody is wigging out was just damn awesome. Next episode is gonna be a crazy throwdown and that's how it should be.

I love you, Mazinger.

Monogatari SS 9

LOL

Monogatari SS 10

Big Shinobu > Big Hachikuji

I don't think we're out of the woods on this arc just yet because Araragi was all beat up at the end of Hanekawa's arc and he's still okay here, plus the start of school was fairly early in Hanekawa's. I was expecting this arc to result in Araragi discovering he couldn't save Hachikuji, or that for the world to be saved Hachikuji would have to die. Turns out I had the right plot, wrong girl. The zombies looked like Anti Spiral Life Forms. All in all not bad, especially Araragi's reaction to seeing Mayoi alive and his age, which was much sweeter and less pervy than I expected. That said, I don't think this arc, if it actually is concluded, was anywhere near as powerful as the last arc. Particularly because it really didn't advance Mayoi's character at all. I suppose it helped Shinobu, but not to the same degree the previous arc did. I hope we get more character focused arcs as the show goes, which sounds really stupid since all arcs in this show are, but I mean that I would like better examination of the characters. If not oh well. As long as we don't sink back to Nise levels I'll live.
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ProTip: Paying attention to the arc titles means you're getting trolled by Nisioisin. :D Letting something like that get in the way of what was such a powerful moment is unfortunate.
 
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R_thanatos

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kiryogi said:
ProTip: Paying attention to the arc titles means you're getting trolled by Nisioisin. :D Letting something like that get in the way of what was such a powerful moment is unfortunate.
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I think corvo is going to fall into every trap Nisio is going to make.( and i honnestly think he has so far )
 
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