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[Mature]

Merry Xmas to everyone! Including those with JoJo cats!

I hope enough people get around to Yamato before the AOTY thread hits. Not because I care about it winning, but because it seems like a good place to spread the gospel to more casual anime fans.

I'm sure someone has linked to this already, but Bahi has some sweet Space Dandy gifs on on his blog: http://bahijd.tumblr.com/

This has hopped to the top of my to-watch list recently thanks to all the rave reviews. Kinda interesting how it didn't catch on until later in its life around here.

From the New World was genuinely good science-fiction.

It was better written than most anime that came out this year and the last.;p

From the New World is on the short list of best anime of the 21st century. Whatever production inconsistencies it had couldn't detract from how incredible the story was on every level (and the production at times really back that up, too; it wasn't like it was poorly produced). This is a great example of a genuinely adult and well thought out sci-fi anime that doesn't pull punches and backs up great social commentary with good character work.

Absolutely agree with this. I certainly jump to recommending it to anyone with the means.

Detective Conan 260:
Hey, that was a pretty good anime original case. I liked that they gave Kogorou the chance to be pretty perceptive and figure out a lot of what was going on himself, and there was a neat twist near the end. Of course, that means that almost everyone was guilty in some way. Nothing great, but it's a neat surprise to sit down for an AO case and have something that's actually pretty solid and has some well sketched out characters (and the one problem I had initially wound up actually being incorporated in the case, with the other murder method being specifically addressed as being unreliable).



Well, it's only two years old than Ace of the Diamond which just got an anime, so maybe there's still some hope alive. Shounen Magazine in general can be weird with anime; it took Hajime no Ippo well over a decade to get an anime.

Yay. I'd missed your DC posts. Oh, that reminds me:

(Merry Christmas folks)

 

[7Th]

I know Ai is one of the most popular Conan characters (only behind Conan himself), but I wonder if the she is also the author's favorite.

 

[hipbabboom]

I know Ai is one of the most popular Conan characters (only behind Conan himself), but I wonder if the she is also the author's favorite.

I was modeled after the authors first love so I'd imagine so.

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I am a liar. Sorry.

 

[jman2050]

All I want for Christmas is Yotsuba& animated by KyoAni.

By KyoAni you mean Dogakobo of course, right?

 

[ThreePiMatt]

Non Non Biyori 1-12 - Made my way through this now that its out.

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Not sure how I feel about it. It had its moments, for sure, but in all honesty the show was depressing as hell. I get that its supposed to be endearing, seeing these girls make do and have fun with what they have. But in reality, it was just constantly feeling sorry for everyone.

One thing that kind of bothered me was that early on, Ren-chon was clearly upset about living in the country, but they never really expand on that. I think it would have been nice for an episode or two where they actually go to Tokyo (or any city for that matter).

Also, they have a SNES-equivalent game console and VCR, yet they have an LCD TV?

 

[R_thanatos]

Will the circle be unbroken?



IS2 is an incoherent mess. Tell me exactly what Phantom Task was trying to do all season. I bet you can't because even the author has no fucking clue!

Attempt to kill off IS pilots, I think. I'm probably more confused by S2 Tabane.

An whilst IS2 is a mess, it had segments and characters I liked. Whereas Romanze may have had coherency but it was a bland unromantic story filled with bland characters of blandness. Aside from Cynthia who got far to little screentime. Also it frequently failed to carry the feeling of momentum with the armoured knights riding full speed that it needed to. But thats probably being nitpicky.

None of it makes any sense!

Lol Quasar is confused.

Spoiler

Phantom task goal wasn't to kill the IS pilots , their goal was to steal data from their IS , in order to make Their own brand of IS and sell It . Takabane is the one that is regulating the IS across countries , so technically phantom task should be her ennemy but she is so "mastermind" that she doesn't care. ( because she was the one that sent the unmmanned machine in S1 and she has other plans .. )
The one who want to kill a IS pilot is the orimura girl ( that is whith phantom task ) She want to kill ichika because he is in her way toward the elder sister . Phantom task is aware of this but doesn't really care since their goal is to harvest data ( they would rather have ichika for themselves but that's not really possible )
The bomb was just a way to see how everyone would react and a way to see each IS hability . And see if their Is were trully superior to the best ones at the academy.

This answer is without spoiler for the rest of the books that were not adapted by IS2.

 

[Branduil]

By KyoAni you mean Dogakobo of course, right?

That would be acceptable.

 

[injurai]

Merry Christmas Eva

 

[Mature]

I know Ai is one of the most popular Conan characters (only behind Conan himself), but I wonder if the she is also the author's favorite.

♦ Which character do you like drawing?
Haibara, I guess. It seems like she was popular among readers right from her first appearance. She is a character that does what I want to do, and says what I want to say for me. That is also why I use Haibara as the character that says out my comments on the “Conan News Agency”* website.

Sort of, yeah. (The Xmas pictures are from the website mentioned)

 

[Narag]

Yamato 2199 - 1

Man, enamored with this already for what's likely an unusual reason. Few things break immersion for me when watching something futuristic or scifi than poorly thought out display material. I was complaining about this on IRC a week or two back after watching Elysium and learning the titular space station ran off a couple IDE drives. To see such attention to detail and care put into something as seen above is so wonderfully refreshing and so very rare. I mean, everything else about the first ep (aside from the battleship physics) was great but display porn does such a great job in elevating this just a bit further. So good.


Also shoutouts to the 08th MS Team for this gem from back in the day:

 

[Shard]

Yea, merry Christmas those of the land of anime.

 

[Chronoexe]

Merry christmas Animegaf

 

[CorvoSol]

Feliz Natal and such.

Also Merry Christmas to Cajun in the land of the dead. At least he'll resurrect prior to Easter.

 

[Black-Wind]

Hanamaru Kindergarten

Just started and finished this one today ... really cute!
Actually loved this one lol! Recommending it as a sweet lil story for your winter break.

 

[MikeHattsu]

Yeah. God jul!

 

[KirbYuuYuu]

Time for a Merry X-Mas

 

[Branduil]

So that Earth Girl Arjuna OST... I'm 99% sure that my copy was shrink-wrapped for almost 10 years. There's an offer inside for a free bonus soundtrack... from Geneon... expiration date August 2004.

 

[Gbraga]

Blumenkranz is fucking godlike, sorry.

 

[KirbYuuYuu]

Blumenkranz is great unless you have some degree of german. Then it's a different story.

 

[firehawk12]

Yamato 2199 - 1

Man, enamored with this already for what's likely an unusual reason. Few things break immersion for me when watching something futuristic or scifi than poorly thought out display material. I was complaining about this on IRC a week or two back after watching Elysium and learning the titular space station ran off a couple IDE drives. To see such attention to detail and care put into something as seen above is so wonderfully refreshing and so very rare. I mean, everything else about the first ep (aside from the battleship physics) was great but display porn does such a great job in elevating this just a bit further. So good.

You should put up some NSFW tags before posting all that display porn.

Lol Quasar is confused.

Spoiler

Phantom task goal wasn't to kill the IS pilots , their goal was to steal data from their IS , in order to make Their own brand of IS and sell It . Takabane is the one that is regulating the IS across countries , so technically phantom task should be her ennemy but she is so "mastermind" that she doesn't care. ( because she was the one that sent the unmmanned machine in S1 and she has other plans .. )
The one who want to kill a IS pilot is the orimura girl ( that is whith phantom task ) She want to kill ichika because he is in her way toward the elder sister . Phantom task is aware of this but doesn't really care since their goal is to harvest data ( they would rather have ichika for themselves but that's not really possible )
The bomb was just a way to see how everyone would react and a way to see each IS hability . And see if their Is were trully superior to the best ones at the academy.

This answer is without spoiler for the rest of the books that were not adapted by IS2.

Tell me that any of that was in the anime.
Not like it matters since any new anime season would be years in the making anyway. And without something new like Russia, I don't know what S3 could do to make it worth watching.

 

[Gbraga]

Blumenkranz is great unless you have some degree of german. Then it's a different story.

Well, sure, but I think the song is still great even if the lyrics suck.

Is the german fucked up in Die Flügel der Freiheit too? Cause I really love it

 

[Ice Lightning]

So that Earth Girl Arjuna OST... I'm 99% sure that my copy was shrink-wrapped for almost 10 years. There's an offer inside for a free bonus soundtrack... from Geneon... expiration date August 2004.

I assume you got this through the Right Stuf holiday sale. The music CDs they have in stock from Geneon and other now defunct North American anime companies are in great condition, and they even will give you a replacement for the CD case in the shipment if they deem the outer casing scratched or show signs of being chipped and broken.

I hope more OST and other CDs will be bundled with anime releases in the coming years. I miss the days of domestic anime CD releases.

 

[KirbYuuYuu]

Well, sure, but I think the song is still great even if the lyrics suck.

Is the german fucked up in Die Flügel der Freiheit too? Cause I really love it

If it's Sawano's work, sure.

 

[Gbraga]

If it's Sawano's work, sure.

lol

I guess you're right.

 

[KuwabaraTheMan]

Still about an hour until Christmas on the east coast, but Merry Christmas to everyone in here.

Yay. I'd missed your DC posts. Oh, that reminds me:

(Merry Christmas folks)

Yeah, I hadn't had a chance to watch much of it lately, but hopefully I can be able to start going back through the anime again (and catch up sometime in the next decade or so...)

Excellent Christmas pics. Haibara is pretty adorable in those.

I know Ai is one of the most popular Conan characters (only behind Conan himself), but I wonder if the she is also the author's favorite.

Yeah, she's definitely always one that Gosho mentions as being a favorite of his. It kind of shows in a lot of ways, too.

 

[Branduil]

I assume you got this through the Right Stuf holiday sale. The music CDs they have in stock from Geneon and other now defunct North American anime companies are in great condition, and they even will give you a replacement for the CD case in the shipment if they deem the outer casing scratched or show signs of being chipped and broken.

I hope more OST and other CDs will be bundled with anime releases in the coming years. I miss the days of domestic anime CD releases.

Yeah the condition seems great, I just LOL'd at the sticker on the front promoting a bonus CD offer that expired 9 years ago.

I can see why Geneon went under. The CD comes with a booklet with the lyrics of the songs and a bunch of pictures from the anime.

 

[Shard]

Blumenkranz is great unless you have some degree of german. Then it's a different story.

So exactly like Before My Skin Dries then.

 

[KirbYuuYuu]

So exactly like Before My Skin Dries then.

Sure why not.

 

[FelixOrion]

Felix Navidad animegaf

 

[Shard]

Sure why not.

Oh right, Before My Body Dried/Don't Lose Your Way. Oh god that song sucks if you know English.

 

[Branduil]

I gotta find out who killed my dad

 

[Ice Lightning]

Yeah the condition seems great, I just LOL'd at the sticker on the front promoting a bonus CD offer that expired 9 years ago.

I can see why Geneon went under. The CD comes with a booklet with the lyrics of the songs and a bunch of pictures from the anime.

Regarding the Earth Maiden Arjuna CD, if you decide to download the CD to your computer or other device the hidden 21st track will probably be tied to the 20th track. Here's what I detailed to cajunator earlier this month regarding this statement.

 

[KirbYuuYuu]

Oh right, Before My Body Dried/Don't Lose Your Way. Oh god that song sucks if you know English.

It falls apart right after the good part anyway.

 

[Jarmel]

I gotta find out who killed my dad

Sawano is a masterful lyricist who takes in account the shows he is working on. That's a true master at work right there.

 

[Branduil]

Regarding the Earth Maiden Arjuna CD, if you decide to download the CD to your computer or other device the hidden 21st track will probably be tied to the 20th track. Here's what I detailed to cajunator earlier this month regarding this statement.

Yeah, I was aware of the hidden track thing. It's neat, although I think I actually prefer the vocal version in this case.

 

[Branduil]

Sawano is a masterful lyricist who takes in account the shows he is working on. That's a true master at work right there.

Makes me surprised there weren't any English lyrics in Attack on Titan like

Spoiler

I'm really peeved about that titan eating mom.

 

[Jarmel]

Makes me surprised there weren't any English lyrics in Attack on Titan like

Spoiler

I'm really peeved about that titan eating mom.

I gotta find out who ate my mom.

 

[madp]

I gotta find out who ate my mom.

DEAD

 

[sonicmj1]

Space Battleship Yamato 2199.

I feel like Yamato is a different kind of sci-fi that's no less important or under-appreciated than From the New World. There's just not enough good sci-fi out there in general these days.

 

[Branduil]

COLD FUSION BOMBS FREEZE VOLCANOS

 

[Jarmel]

COLD FUSION BOMBS FREEZE VOLCANOS

That said, it still wasn't as stupid as Elysium.

 

[madp]

COLD FUSION BOMBS FREEZE VOLCANOS

"Gipsy Danger's analog. Nuclear!"

 

[Narag]

COLD FUSION BOMBS FREEZE VOLCANOS

It only gets better. (lol)

 

[sonicmj1]

"Gipsy Danger isn't digital, it's analog. Nuclear!"

Hey that plot point was awesome in Giant Robo.

 

[Joe Molotov]

Also shoutouts to the 08th MS Team for this gem from back in the day:

Dat Cyrix 6x86 :dead

 

[Kazzy]

All this OST talk has reminded me that I was determined to purchase the Gunbuster soundtrack. Considering it's probably long since gone out of print, I think the price is actually quite reasonable at 6000 yen. Whether that's me just justifying it because of what it is, or Japan has just skewed my perspective on actual value, I'm not sure!

Wait, is that a Japanese version of Frosty?

Huh? I always thought this was British or something.

I pray that you were being facetious. Although it probably has one of the most annoying Christmas songs of all time, it's a damn classic!

 

[zeroshiki]

6000 yen gets you both Final Fantasy X and X-2. Spend your money there.

 

[Deputy Dangle]

White Album 2 - 10-11
I think this show should have started wrapping things up an episode ago. Right now all the unnecessary flashbacks come off as simply spinning its wheels.

 

[Ice Lightning]

All this OST talk has reminded me that I was determined to purchase the Gunbuster soundtrack. Considering it's probably long since gone out of print, I think the price is actually quite reasonable at 6000 yen. Whether that's me just justifying it because of what it is, or Japan has just skewed my perspective on actual value, I'm not sure!

Here's what I found for a Gunbuster OST at CDJapan. http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/series_list.html?sid=1037&media=CD

I have no idea if the one in-print OST is the one you are looking for.

 

[KirbYuuYuu]

6000 yen gets you both Final Fantasy X and X-2. Spend your money there.

Well that is giving Square money... that would be used for what we don't want.

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will buy Bravely Default