Ah, sorry. I didn't write it here but I did in the Fancy poster thread. Should be no more than $15 domestic, but I'd have to calculate it if it's international. It'll be shipped in a strong 3" tube wrapped in kraft paper and tissue paper via USPS Priority.
Another solid few episodes! Kanon was adorable. Definitely prefer short hair look. Loved Elsie as usual. Best bits were the quick flashbys of the characters, when you'd see Elsie dressed as an Idol!
The songs were really good. I'm not too into following the voices of the seiyuu to recognizing them in other anime or games, but the actress was a great singer.
Keima was great again as usual. Mother amazing as well. Loved seeing her and Elsie hug it out.
Suddenly harem anime! And one of them would count for NTR! Unincluded in this is the sister, who is definitely more dere than tsun, making her better than most tsundere characters by a landslide.
And we get backstory on how Tsuchida fucked up with his initial chase.
You could argue it was ostensibly a fitting way to conclude a specific season yet not quite satisfying as the ultimate series finale. Which is why I'd actually say the resolution was kind of mediocre, in terms of lacking enough surprises to make it exciting, but more or less being what I honestly expected to see at this point. I'm feeling more indifferent than truly unsatisfied in that respect.
There was some nice action involved albeit with nothing really special. Most of the loose ends were connected to the future setting, which they only tangentially addressed, but the present stuff was almost too predictable in its resolution.
So long, Haruto! It's not like we couldn't already tell you were going to lose memories and die or anything!
In the end this ride concluded with a bit of a whimper rather than a standing ovation, even if the last episode still had some good scenes and decent one-liners. Can't really compare to the Code Geass finale though, which I wanted to rewatch (and did!) right after it finished.
Overall, most of Valvrave was fun to watch so I guess the experience wasn't too bad.
Yeah, I actually agree that the English translation you quoted still works really quite well. It just works in a completely different way from the original text (there was certainly no commentary on Japanese tastes in the original text, for a start ) and I'm not sure if that's something a translation should be aiming for.
...I'm also not sure how intentional the departure in meaning really was. >.> It seems more likely to me that they just picked "enchanting" as their best approximation of "mashou" and the newfound irony came about by accident. Maybe I've just had so much experience with bad translations that I can't give them the benefit of the doubt any more ~.~
Same studio as DxD and most of the same staff (including direction and character designs). As a nice little bonus, the MC is 16, the main girl is 23. Spring 2014.
A NEW LOVE RIVAL! HINAGIKU! Child of the mafia dude we've seen in episode 6. All this continuity! She really stole the episode from the first half, in where we saw someone get to work with her dad after the act of flattery.
Straight up strolls in declaring a marriage, and gave Blue Hair Sensei more screenn time. Best Hanamaru.
Is it just me, or does Senjougahara's mere existence block more lady-cocks than almost any other anime character I can think of naming? Girl isn't even ever on screen and is nearly a titan to these poor harem trapped girls. Meanwhile, every single girl in the harem is apparently going to sleep in Araragi's bed. I guess that, in the name of fairness, Hanekawa has slept in Senjougahara's bed, too. Araragi's running like a free love cult here or something, I dunno.
Is it just me, or does Senjougahara's mere existence block more lady-cocks than almost any other anime character I can think of naming? Girl isn't even ever on screen and is nearly a titan to these poor harem trapped girls.
Instead protagonist meanders from girl to girl and his girlfriend barely exists. I referred to Senjougahara as a Titan because that's all she is: a giant, insurmountable obstacle. The girl has literally 0 character development. She desperately needs an arc dedicated to herself at this point. Araragi at least gets development via interaction with others, but Senjou is just some bullet point on his resume.
And thus we reveal the hidden truth. Yamamoto isn't oblivious when it comes to relationships when they're not actually directed at her! In fact, SO IS HER SISTER! These two somehow managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
And Blue Hair became a teacher so that way there would be more macho students for the future, and is into macho men. Now that's a rarity.
I'll avoid talking about this in detail because I'm sure people will watch this in a few days, but man... what a ride. It's a film that is both fan-service and troll, something old and something new, mocking and genuine in its emotional moments... it is basically everything that Gintama has represented as a series for the last 5 years encapsulated into a movie that is a bit under two hours. Perfect.
In lieu of talking about anything specific, I'll just post the first shot from the film:
If this really is the end of Gintama as an animated property, then this is probably as good a sendoff as they could give us given that the manga is still going. It delivers upon the promise that was used to troll fans years ago in a clever way by using a gimmick that usually falls apart in most fiction.
I will say, if nothing else, this movie made much more sense than the
Doctor Who Christmas special
that just aired. Although I guess that isn't too hard.
Its an anti-piracy ad that plays before EVERY movie. Everyone watching the movie is supposed to know it and have seen it. That was probably what they were going for with the parody.
More information coming in the TYPE-MOON Ace issue on January 30.
They also finally made available the teaser PV from way back in July, the one they showed at the Kara no Kyoukai 3D theater screenings, but it's on Aniplex's Youtube channel, so here:
Zombie Ryuko is fucking awesome. I'm so ready for the second half of the series.
When Nui finally gets wrecked I will a happy motherfucker. FUCK THAT BITCH
SaiKano 12
Oh Chise... ;_;
And we're back where we started...
Golden Time 12
Koko, you're fucking clingy as fuck.
I really hope they do the right thing and use this as a lesson for you.
YEAHHHHH this won't end badly at alllll....
Well look who decided to finally show up.
oh god my fucking heart
Valvrave the Liberator S2 11
L-Elf inflitration mission
? I'm so fucking giddy right now.
No SERIOUSLY FUCK THIS GENKI LITTLE BRAT YOU DON'T GET TO TAKE YAMADA FUCKKKKKKK
L-ELF you fucking rockstar.
Infinite Stratos S2 12 END
"A bomb!"
Mediocre action, chopped up with awkward internal conflicts and dialogue, and all logic pushed aside for a stupid harem ending. Pretty par for the course. Ugh.
This season was trash. S1 was at least tolerable, if not mildly entertaining. Bleh. Charlotte better win next season
;_; I know it will never happen...
I'm also holding out hope that
they'll find away to re-adapt America's Rep into the show cause USA USA USA
Hey, remember when Nao was the star runner for her team in Smile Precure, and she fucked up by tripping? YEAH, repeat that for Koume, except the team part. Fucking Gainax!
Oh better yet, why are the siblings rather... clingy to their other sibling. I mean it's even weirder that it's an older brother for Koume.
As for Tsuchida though. He finally did it! He confessed!
TOO BAD HIS LINE WAS FROM THE ONE MANGA SHE READ! Fucking density!
Ehh, this was kinda underwhelming after last weeks hype as fuck ending. Still, I can't help but think of Reji's "backstory" scene and laugh every time the infantile chairman starts to fret over him.
Its an anti-piracy ad that plays before EVERY movie. Everyone watching the movie is supposed to know it and have seen it. That was probably what they were going for with the parody.
Ehh, this was kinda underwhelming after last weeks hype as fuck ending. Still, I can't help but think of Reji's "backstory" scene and laugh every time the infantile chairman starts to fret over him.
Holy shit Nadeko is fucking insane. I mean, I thought Hanekawa was insane, but nope. Hanekawa was terrifying because she was focused, and the Cat and the Tiger were her Stress and Frustration, but the Snake is just plain Nadeko going apeshit insane.
I mean that final shot of her smiling and laughing in the rain was nuts. I suppose it is more fair to refer to her Snake as the Basilisk or the Medusa or the Gorgon, but you get the point. The point is the girl has a Snake that is telling her it's God, and she compares Araragi to something beyond her reach. I will spare you further Garden of Eden Allegory, because there's another thing I want to get at instead. Meanwhile, Nadeko is fucking nuts. Flips out on her teacher, delivers a much deserved verbal beatdown to her classmates, and spends a full episode discussing her ascension to Godhood with a SCRUNCHY. Girl is literally discussing Godhood and inadvertently waltzing through a veritable sermon on Snakes and Gods with a SCRUNCHY. Also she completely seems to have forgotten all kinds of key scenes over the past two or three days so there's that, too.
I think this arc is about getting over unrequited crushes. When you're a teenager that stuff stings and you realize that the other person isn't ignoring you because they don't like you, but because you never even gave them a choice. Nadeko idolized Araragi, but Tsuhiki's commentary is on the mark: Araragi was only an idol to Nadeko, and it was a convenient means of her escaping further pain or trouble by having her stupid secret crush. Nadeko's gone from seeing herself as a martyr for her love to bargaining about it "what's wrong with just loving him from afar?" to impotent, misaimed anger and now she's in the bitterness of self-loathing that precedes actually moving on from it. If I'm right, which I tend not to be, that means this will all end with Nadeko giving up on her own.
Senjougahara continues to be an uncharacter, though. She doesn't even appear in this episode. She's just a ray of light from the heavens and the thunderous voice of the Great Jehovah or Zeus or Odin staring down at Sengoku and blocking her path altogether. It was touched on in both the Hanekawa arc and this episode that the way the other girls don't think less of Senjougahara is just plain unnatural. It's also worth pointing out that every single person who knows Araragi and Senjougahara (minus Araragi's sisters) has tried to kill one or all of them. Hanekawa's Cat tried to off Araragi and her Tiger was planning on burning Senjougahara alive.
Nadeko intends to kill both of them
, and Kanbaru's Monkey tried to kill Araragi. I guess Mayoi didn't try, yet anyway. The point is one of these days one of these monsters is gonna get the jump on Hitagi and then stuff's going to go down, because I really don't think Senjougahara's pencils are sharp enough to pierce a tiger made of furious flame.
Long story short Nadeko is batshit insane and Senjougahara is the "Orcus on his Throne" of girlfriends.
I laughed, I cried, I shipped every character I could together, and I laughed a lot more. Nothing will ever be able to replicate the fondness I have for Valvrave.
Thank you Eru Erufu for being best character of the year in any show
Thank you Tokishima Haruto for being you
Thank you Saki for usurping Shoko and becoming the best girl of the show
Thank you Marie for your Nobi actions
Thank you
magius
for being the best villians
Thank you Sunrise for giving me hot robot action. Seriously, you delivered.
Holy shit Nadeko is fucking insane. I mean, I thought Hanekawa was insane, but nope. Hanekawa was terrifying because she was focused, and the Cat and the Tiger were her Stress and Frustration, but the Snake is just plain Nadeko going apeshit insane.
I mean that final shot of her smiling and laughing in the rain was nuts. I suppose it is more fair to refer to her Snake as the Basilisk or the Medusa or the Gorgon, but you get the point. The point is the girl has a Snake that is telling her it's God, and she compares Araragi to something beyond her reach. I will spare you further Garden of Eden Allegory, because there's another thing I want to get at instead. Meanwhile, Nadeko is fucking nuts. Flips out on her teacher, delivers a much deserved verbal beatdown to her classmates, and spends a full episode discussing her ascension to Godhood with a SCRUNCHY. Girl is literally discussing Godhood and inadvertently waltzing through a veritable sermon on Snakes and Gods with a SCRUNCHY. Also she completely seems to have forgotten all kinds of key scenes over the past two or three days so there's that, too.
I think this arc is about getting over unrequited crushes. When you're a teenager that stuff stings and you realize that the other person isn't ignoring you because they don't like you, but because you never even gave them a choice. Nadeko idolized Araragi, but Tsuhiki's commentary is on the mark: Araragi was only an idol to Nadeko, and it was a convenient means of her escaping further pain or trouble by having her stupid secret crush. Nadeko's gone from seeing herself as a martyr for her love to bargaining about it "what's wrong with just loving him from afar?" to impotent, misaimed anger and now she's in the bitterness of self-loathing that precedes actually moving on from it. If I'm right, which I tend not to be, that means this will all end with Nadeko giving up on her own.
Senjougahara continues to be an uncharacter, though. She doesn't even appear in this episode. She's just a ray of light from the heavens and the thunderous voice of the Great Jehovah or Zeus or Odin staring down at Sengoku and blocking her path altogether. It was touched on in both the Hanekawa arc and this episode that the way the other girls don't think less of Senjougahara is just plain unnatural. It's also worth pointing out that every single person who knows Araragi and Senjougahara (minus Araragi's sisters) has tried to kill one or all of them. Hanekawa's Cat tried to off Araragi and her Tiger was planning on burning Senjougahara alive.
Nadeko intends to kill both of them
, and Kanbaru's Monkey tried to kill Araragi. I guess Mayoi didn't try, yet anyway. The point is one of these days one of these monsters is gonna get the jump on Hitagi and then stuff's going to go down, because I really don't think Senjougahara's pencils are sharp enough to pierce a tiger made of furious flame.
Long story short Nadeko is batshit insane and Senjougahara is the "Orcus on his Throne" of girlfriends.
I don't know what compelled me to just finish it tonight, but here I am.
I still wish Hinagiku got more time, but I do love the fact that she's part of the mafia, much to her chagrin. Gotta feel sorry when it comes to the power of density.
This show is rather cute, and has moments of hilarity. It's a good show no doubt, so you can't really go wrong with spending your time on it if someone gives the show a recommendation.
I also see that you picked up the theme this season.
major characterization on the girls, araragi taking most of the backseat and alot of them coming to terms with either no longer loving koyomi or just gave up on loving him.
Get ready for the next arc, once again when you get to the end of this next arc, tell me so I can post the video.
I also see that you picked up the theme this season.
major characterization on the girls, araragi taking most of the backseat and alot of them coming to terms with either no longer loving koyomi or just gave up on loving him.
Get ready for the next arc, once again when you get to the end of this next arc, tell me so I can post the video.
Hanekawa is entirely out of love with Araragi. I think she's just come to terms with having lost and being just friends. Plus her arc was more about accepting that the abuse her parents put her through wasn't her fault and becoming human.
But yes, I have noticed that a theme of the season is the death of
