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Fall 2013 Anime |OT2| The Rise and Fall of Kyoto
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Admiral Woofington
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White Album 2 13
Well. It was definitely a realistic portrayal of love and loss. Touma started out as best girl, became annoying a bit past the halfway point and quickly scaled back up to best girl in the last 3 or so episodes. Damn. Don't know if this will have a second season but I really do hope it is. Especially since Haruki isn't AS big of a piece of shit as the guy in the first WA. Also because Touma deserves a happier ending.
Well. It was definitely a realistic portrayal of love and loss. Touma started out as best girl, became annoying a bit past the halfway point and quickly scaled back up to best girl in the last 3 or so episodes. Damn. Don't know if this will have a second season but I really do hope it is. Especially since Haruki isn't AS big of a piece of shit as the guy in the first WA. Also because Touma deserves a happier ending.
Non Non Biyori 07
Renge is the best.
I love that she's pokerfaced 24/7 despite clearly still being, well, a kid
Freezasaurus
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Eh... That seems like a bit of a reach. Let's just say it's a stylish, upside-down #4.
I have been a ToonamiGAF supporter since the beginning, but it's hard sometimes... Kick-Heart hate most notably. =(
Ah! Thank you for reminding me. Still haven't seen Kaiba though. Feel free to berate me.
hipbabboom
Huh? What did I say? Did I screw up again? :(
Have you seen the porn version: The Girl Who Slept With Tim? I hear Jenna Jamison gave a better performance than Emilly Hirst.
Merciful heavens no.
KirbYuuYuu
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Well lets think of it like a SoL anime. The unimportant stuff (everyone else's auditions) happens between the episodes!
Now that my sick sick self is out in the open it's time for you to dump the list of everyone else's secret fetishes you've no doubt been fastidiously compiling in secret.
It depends entirely on how much they resent people who obey their parents.
amishpriest99
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Okay. I actually don't have a PS3 (yet) but I do have a PSP so maybe I'll take more of a look at them. Thanks for the information.
I've played Z2-1 on PSP and really loved it. Got me to watch or start watching series I hadn't seen before, such as Votoms. I still need to play Z2-2 though...part of my massive backlog ;_;
Crash Station
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Why?
yamato - 07
Huh, didn't expect this. The use of a line crossing ceremony to mark humanity's first passage out of the system - with all the poignant partings, farewells, etc that follow - took me by surprise. Humorous with some fanservice peppered all throughout, but there was some genuine emotion there too, and I felt my heart do stuff. Elegant, actually.
Also if Mars produces all the brown people, Mars is clearly the best planet.
Huh, didn't expect this. The use of a line crossing ceremony to mark humanity's first passage out of the system - with all the poignant partings, farewells, etc that follow - took me by surprise. Humorous with some fanservice peppered all throughout, but there was some genuine emotion there too, and I felt my heart do stuff. Elegant, actually.
Also if Mars produces all the brown people, Mars is clearly the best planet.
Some people just remember things, especially for people they consider noteworthy!
Speaking of which, today's ep of MLP was sufficiently but not ideally :hito.
Good point.
hipbabboom
Huh? What did I say? Did I screw up again? :(
I see what you're trying to do here but the art in AnH is an abomination and every technique you listed (which it uses) was executed terribly. I'm not against rotoscoping but this was bad. Blue Steel used CG pretty effectively.
My original comment was harsh but AnH is like an ugly baby. No one really loves an ugly baby... not even the mother. She just puts up with it because people hate deadbeat parents even more.
Anime is an audiovisual storytelling medium. Visual art is only one aspect.
Admiral Woofington
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Log Horizon 13
This was by far, the worst episode so far. Nothing against Crusty, but he's not Shiroe. His story with the princess was extremely meh. And I already didn't care much for the dungeon crawlers in the episode before this, so considering it went back to them I still didn't care much for them.
The best part of the episode was the AkatsukixShiroe moment near the end. Which of course was cut short
This was by far, the worst episode so far. Nothing against Crusty, but he's not Shiroe. His story with the princess was extremely meh. And I already didn't care much for the dungeon crawlers in the episode before this, so considering it went back to them I still didn't care much for them.
The best part of the episode was the AkatsukixShiroe moment near the end. Which of course was cut short
hipbabboom
Huh? What did I say? Did I screw up again? :(
Is there an audio book version of AnH available? (serious question)
hosannainexcelsis
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Flower of Evil's rotoscoping wasn't perfect, but it was pretty effective on the whole at creating the twisted reality that is the show's world. Combine that with Nagahama's skillful direction and cinematography and Studio Pablo's breathtaking backgrounds, the visuals were quite atmospheric.
If I may link to my own argument against GotY format from a few pages back.
Nafe considers everyone noteworthy! (seriously, Nafe, produce the list.)
KirbYuuYuu
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I doubt Nafe willl just produce a list now.
hipbabboom
Huh? What did I say? Did I screw up again? :(
Now I just feel like I'm either being trolled or a different art team took over after episode 2.
Show gets better as it goes along. This includes rotoscope proficiency and background work.
chickdigger802
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has there been anime where the fox eye guy wasn't a bad guy/double agent/ anybody suspicious?
And no brock is one shady ass guy.
And no brock is one shady ass guy.
hosannainexcelsis
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...you're seriously telling us that you didn't think the background artwork was good in AnH?
I mean yeah I had some issues with the rotoscoping at first but from the first episode Studio Pablo did an excellent job with the detailed background environments.
toneburst_country
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Yeah I'm just griping that we're not getting any dialogues between them since they're what got me into the series. I guess their interaction can be felt in how much her character changes once their relationship deepened, which is all behind-the-scenes as you've stated. I'm not sure more scenes of Gahara jabbing at Araragi would add much we haven't seen already, or Nisio might be holding onto these for later.
Also, the problem with Nise isn't the fanservice, which is arguably well-done (okay kind of a dubious accomplishment, but how many shows can you honestly say this about). The problem is the inconsistent writing and general air of pointlessness that betrays the tone in Bake since the two new characters are mostly treated as jokes. It's entertaining but sort of disposable.
I'm going to remember this line for a long time.
Crash Station
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HOLY FUCK I NEVER WATCHED DRAGON BALL Z BATTLE OF GODS.
I'm going to need to do that when I get back home on Monday and then promptly shift around my AOTY list.
I'm going to need to do that when I get back home on Monday and then promptly shift around my AOTY list.
It's a silly format that makes rankings meaningless and screws over shows with small but dedicated fanbases.
Honestly, I think we should just leave the AOTY voting format as-is. We can always have our own curated AnimeGAF awards later on.
YES, more Yuasa goodness.
Are you seriously criticizing the background art in Aku no Hana?
hipbabboom
Huh? What did I say? Did I screw up again? :(
I'm honestly telling you I didn't get that impression from the first couple of episodes which is all I was able to stand. Bad rotoscoping aside, the compositing left a terrible impression on me as well. The perspective of the animation sometimes didn't match with the background which lead me to write off all visual elements of what I watched. I didn't find the background work appealing.
It seems everyone is stressing detail from some of the screens just posted but quite honestly, I don't like it. I may be in the minority on this one and I'm certainly no learned and classy connoisseur of the business and general goings-on of anime so chances are this could be an offensive opinion but I don't like the way it looks at all.
yup
I clearly don't get it. I don't say that with sarcasm. A lot of people here who I generally regard as knowing a lot about anime clearly think its good but I find it ugly.
I'd like for it to stay the same as well. Seems like it'd force more consideration into placement while voting.
Even first two episode have really ace background.
hosannainexcelsis
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He's directing an episode of Space Dandy too.
KirbYuuYuu
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Hooray Winter Threads!
Freezasaurus
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I haven't watched Dragonball anything in about a decade. Is it really that good?
RIP third OTs
died with cajun. rip
KirbYuuYuu
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Ushering in a new era where we only have TWO THREADS!
If you don't get it up by Tuesday, Sword Art Online will definitely push it over! Lol.
Just making sure. You and I have a fundamental difference in our ideas of quality.yup
It's better this way.RIP third OTs
kayos killed OT4, cajun killed OT3, so you just know that somebody has OT2 in the crosshairs.
hosannainexcelsis
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Our only hope is that Bushiroad is so good it makes everyone forget about that other thing.
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