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Fall 2013 Anime |OT2| The Rise and Fall of Kyoto
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Theonik
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No harm in beating dead horses!
URUSAI URUSAI URUSAI URUSAI URUSAI
Admiral Woofington
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What's the name of the singer of the Space Dandy OP? I heard another song of his (title in japanese so.. yeah) and I loved it, same funky beat. I want to see if any of his stuff is in Amazon or itunes.
Once you're through SDFM, consider immediately following it with Macross: Do you Remember Love?, Macross Plus, and Macross Zero. DYRL is a movie and Plus and Zero are four and five part OVAs, respectively. All of them tremendous through and through.
Yasuyuki Okamura.
hosannainexcelsis
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Jojo's Bizarre Adventure TV 19
Oh those wacky Nazis.
Oh those wacky Nazis.
KirbYuuYuu
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Hyouka 19
Pretty much a two character episode. Oreki trying to prove that he isn't amazing in Chitendo's eyes
There was some almost mouth to mouth in this episode!
Pretty much a two character episode. Oreki trying to prove that he isn't amazing in Chitendo's eyes
And yet just from the announcement game they were playing, he actually reached the conclusion of the announcement. Simply put, he lost.
There was some almost mouth to mouth in this episode!
Sawashiro, Tomatsu, and Tanaka are my favorite seiyuus by far.
hosannainexcelsis
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A tragically failed experiment, that was. I would love to hear Ayako Yoshitani in another anime, in a role that's as appropriate for her as Urabe was, of course. Looks like she's just done a few small roles in TV dramas since MGX.
Is that the chronological order to watch them?
Not entirely but watching Zero first is a bad idea.
SDF Maross -> DYRL (in-universe movie about the events of SDF Macross) -> Macross Plus (set some years later, beautiful work)
Zero is a prequel set before SDF Macross.
This was one of my favorite episodes of the series for some reason. The interaction between Chitanda and Oreki in this episode for me was great, how he was trying to walk her through his thought process about these things to try to prove that he really isn't that special,
only to hit the nail on the head on what was going on just by that announcement and realize that he basically is.
Rie has leading role in at least 4 currently running shows.
What about Frontier and Seven?
KuwabaraTheMan
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That was such a good episode (although pretty much every episode was). It's kind of amazing how much they were able to get from such a small thing.
Theonik
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Hyouka 17
Such a good episode.
And they nail it effortlessly. The juxtaposition of
Oreki being competent but not doing anything and thus hitting Satoshi, the student council president and what Irisu told Oreki to try and manipulate him on the movie arc is so good. Also they sold them all banzai!
Basileus777
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To clarify, it's really a prequel to Frontier. It's actually one of the few cases where there are connections that are more than references. Watch Zero before Frontier, not at the start.
Admiral Woofington
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RahXephon Series
I gotta say it was better than I expected. I thought it was going to be a very cheap imitation of Evangelion, but instead it was an enjoyable romance mecha show. The last few episodes went full retard so I was afraid it would end similar to Evangelion, but I'm glad to say it ended in a satisfactory fashion. Don't know if I'd recommend it to anyone besides those wanting to watch another psychological/depressing mech show ala Evangelion as even the romance aspect of it is very weird compared to other anime.
I gotta say it was better than I expected. I thought it was going to be a very cheap imitation of Evangelion, but instead it was an enjoyable romance mecha show. The last few episodes went full retard so I was afraid it would end similar to Evangelion, but I'm glad to say it ended in a satisfactory fashion. Don't know if I'd recommend it to anyone besides those wanting to watch another psychological/depressing mech show ala Evangelion as even the romance aspect of it is very weird compared to other anime.
KirbYuuYuu
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The thing about Chitendo for me is that she's sort of like a Super Guide. The answer has to satisfy her, and if it doesn't, it's basically the wrong answer. So I wonder if it's not so much him, but rather Chitendo being a guiding process of sorts.
Reminds me of Ace Attorney 5.
We're not here to make mountains out of mole hills, and yet that's what Mr. Wright does best.
Hyouka 20
Getting close to wrapping this up, we have more quality time with Oreki and Chitendo on New Years. You can smell the purity in this episode.
Military strategies were had
in order to get out of a shed.
Admiral Woofington
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Just to clarify why are so many in AnimeGAF against a possible second season of Hyouka? Is it because you've lost any hopes of KyoAni doing it justice like with the first season, or because there's no source material?
So sdfm, dyrl, plus, seven, zero frontier?
Four of five novels were part of the adaptation.
dakkumauji
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Dunno who else is that popular as a male seiyuu I guess besides Wakamoto and even then he's mostly doing one off roles than being a main character.
I do like Nakamura, Sakurai, and Kakihara these days as well.
hosannainexcelsis
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Jojo's Bizarre Adventure TV 20
This is supposed to be the impressive episode? I can only conclude that people watching Jojo during its TV airing were really starved for animation, as this wasn't particularly impressive - sure, it was better than average for the show, but not really by a large margin. There were some nice cuts in the last half of the episode during Caesar's fight with Wamuu as well as some nice art, especially during
. But overall I'd say the amount of animation wasn't that much more than the other better episodes of the show, and the art in episode 8 was more consistently excellent in detail and shading. Maybe my action animation expectations have been skewed upwards after watching Yozakura episodes 5 and 6, but I think I would have found this underwhelming even if I hadn't watched that.
That said, this was still an entertaining episode per usual. It did a good job of fleshing out Caesar
A fight without Jojo doesn't sparkle quite so much, but there was still some interesting strategy on display. We're clearly approaching the finale now, and I'm very interested in seeing how things wrap up.
This is supposed to be the impressive episode? I can only conclude that people watching Jojo during its TV airing were really starved for animation, as this wasn't particularly impressive - sure, it was better than average for the show, but not really by a large margin. There were some nice cuts in the last half of the episode during Caesar's fight with Wamuu as well as some nice art, especially during
the mourning
That said, this was still an entertaining episode per usual. It did a good job of fleshing out Caesar
just in time for him to die! But isn't that always how it happens? I'll pour one out for you, true Italian at the end.
Admiral Woofington
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I can't remember exactly which page it happened but during a typical (at least this season from what I've seen) "KyoAni has turned to shit" replies, I recall a couple of peeps saying they wouldn't want a possible Hyouka S2. I may be remembering wrong.
Yeah meant to say "not enough" source material. Nevermind now haha. Either ways does this mean the Hyouka author is the japanese GRRM? aka taking forever to release highly anticipated novels?
No, they're not highly anticipated, or even anticipated. He writes a lot of other stuff.
hosannainexcelsis
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They're not highly anticipated. The Kotenbu novels of which Hyouka is the first were completely unknown before KyoAni's adaptation and there hasn't been new material since that I know of.
Basileus777
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That's what I'd go with if you were going to watch them all. It's not terribly important though because the plots/characters are mostly unrelated.
It's true. ; ;
To be honest, what order you watch them in isn't really important. Also, I wouldn't recommend 7. Can't speak about Frontier having not seen it. I'm too scared of a CG filled Macross.
IIRC, I watched Jojo 15-20 in a row, and by the time I hit 20, it was like going from using a pair of seriously outdated glasses to a brand new prescription pair. It was amazing.
From worst to first there.
Funny thing is a jpeg saved at a good quality would look much better and be much smaller in filesize to boot.
dakkumauji
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Tokyo Ravens 06
What I learned from this episode is that being a lolicon is better than beingTL. Or the other way around.
What I learned from this episode is that being a lolicon is better than being
TL. Or the other way around.hosannainexcelsis
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IIRC, I watched Jojo 15-20 in a row, and by the time I hit 20, it was like going from using a pair of seriously outdated glasses to a brand new prescription pair. It was amazing.
I have to imagine the BD corrections dull the effect.
KirbYuuYuu
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Hyouka 21
Yeah I knew there was a reason why Database was loony with his dialogue through the show, jesus christ, I think he's insane. INSAAAAAANE
Even hurt someone who wasn't part of the calculations, Chitendo.
Dickdickgoose
Even hurt someone who wasn't part of the calculations, Chitendo.
Dickdickgoose
Theonik
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Untrue. Infact, JPEG would not offer any substantial space savings to PNG at more than 80% quality.
Also this is a matter of principle. Feel lucky I'm too lazy to use even more ghastly formats.
hosannainexcelsis
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Gross. Glad I didn't have to live through that.
Joe Molotov
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Here's what you need to know about Macross Frontier:
Ranka >>> Sheryl
Don't let Sheryl stans confuse you.
link me the uncompressed png and i'll show you otherwise
Being stubborn about stupid shit often gets people banned on GAF.
Either that or we get a twenty page thread.
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