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Fall Anime 2014 lOTl Unlimited Tomino Works
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Gotta sprint to the finish now!
Ah, I should bring up something from earlier on.
If you're even remotely curious about how Nunnally is alive, you can go back to episode 18 and notice there are some odd things about the whole escape arrangements that Schneizel set up for her. There's a ridiculously detailed explanation available online but, in short, there were two shuttles instead of one.
Her assistant lady was in the decoy ship that Rolo saw get blown up by the explosion, but the ninja maid was with Nunnally in a different one. This isn't made too clear to the viewer unless you go in looking for it. I think it works out, considering Schneizel had just confirmed that Lelouch was Zero one episode before, which made Nunnally his obvious weakness.
Her assistant lady was in the decoy ship that Rolo saw get blown up by the explosion, but the ninja maid was with Nunnally in a different one. This isn't made too clear to the viewer unless you go in looking for it. I think it works out, considering Schneizel had just confirmed that Lelouch was Zero one episode before, which made Nunnally his obvious weakness.
I see Ikuhara already rehashing his own works.
ZachDeKoromaru
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But now with animal ears.
looks worse every time i see it
The plot for the new Yatterman series has been revealed. It's telling a story of a world where the Yatterman have won, and established a kingdom... that's not a good place. Probably not, like, Akame ga Kill! bad, but you wouldn't want to live there. So, for a franchise that has always had its fame by focusing on the villains, a girl (voiced by Eri Kitamura) shall take on the mantle of Doronjo and start a revolution.
I'm not super familiar with Yatterman (I know it was on AnimeSols a while ago, but the funding didn't go through), so seeing this late night take on it sounds really cool. It's okay if they're like Team Rocket because they were the ones who inspired them. And maybe getting in some ideas for a late night audience, too.
I'm not super familiar with Yatterman (I know it was on AnimeSols a while ago, but the funding didn't go through), so seeing this late night take on it sounds really cool. It's okay if they're like Team Rocket because they were the ones who inspired them. And maybe getting in some ideas for a late night audience, too.
Well, it's Ikuhara after all. I think we should expect this sort of stuff from him. Still looking forward to...whatever he is trying to accomplish here, which can't be deciphered beforehand.
Soooooooo looking forward to this. Haven't been this excited since Sakura Trick.
AquaWateria
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These finally arrived, yesssssss!
The D-Gray man DVD was cheap and plus the Blu-Ray is sold out/out of stock forever so I got this instead.
And the Gintama Movie Blu-Ray I had to get no matter what especially since it's the movie form of the Benizakura Arc. Which is one of my favorite Arc's in Gintama, soooo good.
I really hope Sentai releases the other Gintama Movie Be Forever Yorozuya, because I'd buy the crap out of that Movie in Blu-Ray.
I don't like yuri, but I'm going to watch this for Ikuhara alone.
Admiral Woofington
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you're assuming I haven't seen the most manly brooklyn anime eve'
ShinRPGamer
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Day 6 of RightStuf sale is up. A bit of a letdown today but here are the notables:
A Certain Scientific Railgun: $24
Kampher: $24 for the BD $17.50 for the DVD
Madoka Rebellion: $85 (Dat import)
Wolf Children: $14
Yu Yu Hakusho: BDs are $17 DVD are $12
A Certain Scientific Railgun: $24
Kampher: $24 for the BD $17.50 for the DVD
Madoka Rebellion: $85 (Dat import)
Wolf Children: $14
Yu Yu Hakusho: BDs are $17 DVD are $12
A director having recurring imagery across all of their works is rehashing now?
For both this and Rolling Girls I still have NO idea what these shows are about and if I should be hype or not. At least the Rolling Girls PV had some sick fight animation. I need some good fight anime to watch and if Rolling Girls can be like Kill la Kill but with actually good fight animation & choreography and fewer tacked on alien subplots I'd be super down for that.
It is when it's nostalgia fanwank.
Razgriz-Specter
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Selector Spread WIXOSS ep10
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This show man... this show.
KirbYuuYuu
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Yoooooo
Sweet. I guess I'll grab Grave of the KirbYuuYuus while I'm still buying fucking anime
All Legendary animator had fanwank over themselves over various cut that referencing their own work then.
So? Just because numerous people do it, doesn't make it a good thing.
strangedopamine
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Can't wait to watch this! 2015 will be off to a great start!
Maybe we should wait for the whole context of the recurring imagery (the staircase, right?) before deciding whether it's fanwank or not. Plenty of directors have little recurring motifs and images throughout their work. Hell, even Oshii does it with that dog of his. It's not a bad thing at all, it's just a nice little nod to their older work. Nothing harmful, really.
Jex
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The best advice anyone could ever give.
Femmeworth
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It's called postmodernism!
Well, it does come across as a production relying on cheap appeals. Ikuhara gotta eat.
Jex
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C'mon guys, I think we all need to calm down and give Jarmel some space. I mean, he did refer to Miyazaki as a mere director of children's cartoons so it's understandable that those high standards are hard to hit.
Jesus, you're fucking hung up on that. And if you're still going to have a stick up your ass, quote it correctly.
That's bullshit and you know it. Because no one can advocate those cut is totally bad just because its been done before, like Itano's Circus or Imaishi's Manga cut.
Oh come on, repeating overt symbolism is fairly different than someone imitating another's animation style. Not to mention for that to be even valid, I would have to be accusing Itano or Imaishi of doing it.
Also Itano Circus is a fairly good way of capturing missile barrages in regards to the camera angles.
Eh, it didn't come across like that to me, but I understand your point. I think there's going to be some lower-hanging fruit in this series than Utena references, though.
Not sure if this is something terrible that actually happened or if I'm somehow being made fun of.
Edit: Apparently it's the former.
"Nostalgia" is a meaningless critical buzzword that only gets bandied about in the absence of anything deserving actual complaint. If the protagonist walks up a staircase to the same song every episode to duel someone, then there's cause for the knives to come out, but extrapolating "Ikuhara is a hack/out of ideas!" from a single callback to a previous work in promotional material designed in part to court fans of his old works is nonsense.
It was a joke/lighthearted comment.
Jex
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I mean, you're right, quoting the whole thing is only fair. Perhaps I should permalink it somewhere so that it remains available for accurate quoting in perpetuity:
Strangely enough, I still haven't seen The Wind Rises which should tell you how excited I am to sit down with another work from the senile Miyazaki.
Oh and here's another post that I did:
Note that I didn't say children films were bad in either. So if you're going to try for ad hominems, do a better job of it.
I thought the subject is bring back your past work just for reasons.
If that's your complaint, than we better wait of better context, that staircase scene might as well only last for 3 sec.
Actually, looking at the sale details, it seems that the sale prices will last until December 28.
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KirbYuuYuu
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I doubt anybody would accuse Abrams of fanwank because of lens flares (they'll accuse him of nostalgia fanwank for a shitload of other reasons though and rightfully so). That's because it's just his visual style. With a number of animators, they have signature styles because that's just how they draw. That's different though than a director knowingly putting a scene/character/object/line, usually in a bad manner, that is a throwback to their or another's prior work.
Yea there might be some great indepth or contextualized reason why there is an identical looking spiral staircase but it seems it's mostly for nostalgia pandering. It's honestly not a big deal, it's a much bigger deal when you have an entire series built around it (Rebuild films), and I was making a joke.
KirbYuuYuu
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I guess I'll go masturbate to some spiral stairs in the mean time, what is the airing date of Lesbian Bear Storm? 2015 or actually December but most of the show is in 2015?
Yeah, I thought something like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJyYlic8Pto gonna brought upon too.
Exact looking scenes in anime is a thing, as long its not done in Rebuild 3.0 manner, I'm fine with Obari, Nakamura, or whoever always bring back their best hit.
KirbYuuYuu
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Well she has a beaver, but it might just be an error.
Jan 2015
There is stuff like the Kanada Dragon which is done almost purely for nostalgia points at this point.
KirbYuuYuu
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Well there goes my plot of having Lesbian Bear Storm win AotY
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