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Fall Anime 2014 lOTl Unlimited Tomino Works
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Celestial Method 10
Noel, no!
Wolf Girl 10
A small victory.
Akame 23
The scale is getting too big here. A 1 on 1 battle for the finale should be exciting enough.
Grisaia 10
I recognize Akane Tomonaga/Yukari Aoyama. She sounds like an older Ayane Sakura. The level of tragedy is reaching high levels, but I'm curious where this is going to go.
Girl Friend Beta 10
Music, start! The light music club takes center stage, and the good vibes this show give off are a nice way to end my Sunday marathons.
Noel, no!
Wolf Girl 10
A small victory.
Akame 23
The scale is getting too big here. A 1 on 1 battle for the finale should be exciting enough.
Grisaia 10
I recognize Akane Tomonaga/Yukari Aoyama. She sounds like an older Ayane Sakura. The level of tragedy is reaching high levels, but I'm curious where this is going to go.
Girl Friend Beta 10
Music, start! The light music club takes center stage, and the good vibes this show give off are a nice way to end my Sunday marathons.
Don't watch anything that has Fate/ in its title.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
I can't tell if that's a doll on his back or not.
They are 2 different routes of a visual novel. Both are not exactly stellar positions but Unlimited Blade Works at least has stellar production values. The other version not so much.
That said my advice is to watch Fate/Zero first, it's a prequel and it's head and shoulders above them.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
You should watch good anime like Yama no Susume or Hanayamata or Sabagebu!
NaDannMaGoGo
Member
Anohana - 02
Nokemon heh?
Okay that Poppo guy just doesn't make any sense. These characters are in highschool now but...he actually threw school and traveled several places in the world already with the money he made from his job (was he some prodigy programmer or what the fuck?). That's sounds hardly believable and otherwise I can't say I'm liking him much either, although I can understand that the show needs some kind of character like this to get everyone else together.
So in this episode some of the guys fulfilled a minor wish Menma had by playing Pok...sorry, Nokemon but obviously that was not what's required to make ghost Menma disappear.
Now I'm kinda afraid this may fall into a somewhat episodic format where our protagonists attempt to fulfill one of those wishes each week and it'll ultimately end with Menma's real wish being the reunification of all her friends because she's said they dissolved their friendship like that due to her death or so. And her original wish was all of them staying friends forever or so...
Also I'm not sure just how many years actually passed between Menma's death and the current events, but it feels kinda heavy handed how all these characters still have their regrets about all this daily and just happen to run into each other. Then again, ain't really a problem yet.
ED visuals are really nice, add to the great track.
Nokemon heh?
Okay that Poppo guy just doesn't make any sense. These characters are in highschool now but...he actually threw school and traveled several places in the world already with the money he made from his job (was he some prodigy programmer or what the fuck?). That's sounds hardly believable and otherwise I can't say I'm liking him much either, although I can understand that the show needs some kind of character like this to get everyone else together.
So in this episode some of the guys fulfilled a minor wish Menma had by playing Pok...sorry, Nokemon but obviously that was not what's required to make ghost Menma disappear.
Now I'm kinda afraid this may fall into a somewhat episodic format where our protagonists attempt to fulfill one of those wishes each week and it'll ultimately end with Menma's real wish being the reunification of all her friends because she's said they dissolved their friendship like that due to her death or so. And her original wish was all of them staying friends forever or so...
Also I'm not sure just how many years actually passed between Menma's death and the current events, but it feels kinda heavy handed how all these characters still have their regrets about all this daily and just happen to run into each other. Then again, ain't really a problem yet.
ED visuals are really nice, add to the great track.
Obaba from Ping Pong is the best female character this year.
Ah, well, hm. Yeah, that's pretty much true.
Terareflection
Member
All these positive posts about Cross Ange:
I won't fall for it!
:/
I won't fall for it!
:/
Turin Turambar
Member
Valvrave vs Cross Ange, who wins?
Hellsing321
Member
The correct order is to not watch either.
So, I usually don't hijack threads I'm normally not seen in for my purposes, but it's for my girlfriend... She is doing a little quiz and one task is to name several anime characters by their silhouette. We already got most of them, but just don't know the last two ones. Would be really grateful for any help for a fellow gaffer! It's not a competition for money or other noteworthy prices, so don't worry about that. Oh, and it's not cheating if nobody knows 
So these are the two missing silhouettes. Please excuse us if it's terribly easy and should be known. Our knowledge of the genre is quite little.
So these are the two missing silhouettes. Please excuse us if it's terribly easy and should be known. Our knowledge of the genre is quite little.
So, I usually don't hijack threads I'm normally not seen in for my purposes, but it's for my girlfriend... She is doing a little quiz and one task is to name several anime characters by their silhouette. We already got most of them, but just don't know the last two ones. Would be really grateful for any help for a fellow gaffer! It's not a competition for money or other noteworthy prices, so don't worry about that. Oh, and it's not cheating if nobody knows
So these are the two missing silhouettes. Please excuse us if it's terribly easy and should be known. Our knowledge of the genre is quite little.
Archer/Gilgamesh for the first one.
Cross Ange is such a weird show, it has an ecchi female prison/thing, a world so messed up that is almost comical and a main character that manages to be likeable despite treating everybody like trash.
I keep watching it because the coming rebellion (and the MC) has a lot of potential but I fear that it may be drown in it's own stupidity... some of the jokes are hillarious though.
I keep watching it because the coming rebellion (and the MC) has a lot of potential but I fear that it may be drown in it's own stupidity... some of the jokes are hillarious though.
Really, Tusk?, did you just asked Ange about the carpet matching the drapes?! lol
Turin Turambar
Member
I paused and re-winded a bit to see if I had skipped a line or two, it was totally sudden and random. We can understand him falling on her because it's supposed to be accidental, but him directly stating that wasn't an accident. These trollish writers...
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
FSN UBQ 9
Finally an episode worth commenting about, if only it had been Shirou and Shinji, instead of Issei in that room
Imagine just how much it could have earned earned if it was SasuNaru being shown instead of some bad fanfic.
I was going to respond to this but then I remembered.
MetroidPrimeRib
Banned
There are similarities. Crippled sister, dead mom, cast out from the royal family. But Lelouch is a strategist, Ange seems content with just going guns blazing and hoping for the best, and Ange's brother is no Schneizel. Really no one seems to care for tactics (her brothers plot was really really dumb) and the guards are utterly incompetent. I doubt she'll try and form anything like the Black Knights either. She'll just use her soon-to-be harem and the mighty Rito Yamato as an army.
Cross Ange is a weird show, I can't decide if it's improved or if it's just getting better at being entertaining shlock.
It is funny how some of the character interactions are better then those in Fate/Stay Night though!
Obaba is definitely the best.
28th iirc? should be in the fine print somewhere
Well I genuinely liked ValveRave, and even the reviews of episode 1 of Ange turned me off forever.
SPRING
looks like the guy on the right was photoshopped in from a different anime.
MetroidPrimeRib
Banned
Well this looks interesting..I had no idea this exists.
This must be quite a show. One of those brilliant trainwreck things. Damn you Jex Im going to watch this and hate myself for it.
Aoi in Shirobako, and by proxy the CG girl.
Fate Zero and avoid everything else.
Maybe watch Fate Prisma Illya for the cute/yuri
As long as Esdese lives everything is cool.
I bet she wont.
Also your avatar is DA BEST
Never. Rightstuf always has sales. Like always.
Unless you mean THIS sale, which ends shortly after Christmas.
The one on the left looks like Gilgamesh from the Fate series.
R_thanatos
Member
How does it feels to be the vilain in a magical anime , Sdburton ? Satisfied ?
Akame Ga Kill Episode 23: Kill The Empoeror
Keeping with the show as a decent choice as Wave is finally getting time to shine, but this episode became baffling.Was the giant laser shooting emperor needed
I'm reading those spoilers and i have no idea what happenned
Did they gave the emperor a giant robot bodyguard ?
That's not an human on his back
Thanks to both of you, appreciate it! Seems correct, found the original pic
Only the one on the right needed now. Reverse image search on google and tineye sadly didn't help.
Jex
Member
I mean, in many ways you're not wrong, but that's not even the biggest problem with Ange's character.
Yes, she's constantly the subject of physical, psychological and even sexual abuse but that doesn't really detract from the amount of genuine character development she's undergone or her strength as a lead character. They do undermine the entire text because it's full of ridiculous, degrading fanservice for the purpose of titillation.
Aside from that Ange is a tough, no-nonsense warrior whose the most powerful mecha pilot in the show and she's surprisingly stable on a physiological level considering the events of her life. The most damning criticism of her character is actually something different to the aforementioned abuse she receives.
More problematically, there are now two occasions where Ange has had to be saved from a really precarious situation by some man e.g. Space Jesus himself. The fact that he has to bail her out of these problems weakens her character considerably because she shouldn't have let herself get put into those bad situations to begin with. Yet, she did, just so that some man could swoop in to save her. This seriously detracts from her agency and ability to carry the plot foward.
The emperor's ultimate Imperial Arms is a giant death robot. Tatsumi evolves Incursio to stand a chance, defeats it, but sacrifices himself to spare some civilian casualties...though the emperor had to kill hundreds if not thousands from beam spam.
Start with the first ep of Fate/Zero. Stop at the last ep of Fate/Zero.
as always, Fate Zero and then stop.
hipsterpants
Member
I'd say it has improved. It's still trashy but it seems pretty self-aware and has moved away from the super hardcore edgy attempted rape/dead 12-year olds/etc. of the first few episodes. Even if the only emotional reactions I have are laughter and wanting everyone in Mirusugsghsui empire to be horribly murdrered by DRAGONs I actually look forward to watching it every week.
Turin Turambar
Member
Alas, for me Valvrave was an "ironic watch". It had a few moments on the second season but also it got more boring in that season.
Alternately, read the F/SN VN (Realta Nua, sex scenes off) and Fate/Zero novels. Neither anime has the whole story and neither is very good. Fate/Zero is better as an anime, but is still not great. The original works are okay; Type-Moon seems doomed to crappy adaptations. The VNs aren't the masterpieces they're hailed as, but they're better than the anime would lead you to think.
Im thinking it is, which is why I want to watch it.
The blood is in your hand guys..
King Gilga
Member
Watch Fate/Zero and pretend the rest of the franchise doesn't exist.
Ignore the people that tell you to play the VNs, they're bad.
Putting aside the quality of the VNs, I don't think Fate/Zero stands on its own very well. It has too many open plot threads that are left open because Fate/Stay Night deals with them. The series and the novels that spawned them are a prequel that is designed as one; it expects you to have knowledge of the universe and, to some degree, knowledge of what happens in Fate/Stay Night. I don't consider it a good entry point even if it's better than the original work (largely because Nasu is an inferior writer to Urobuchi).
Chocotto Sister Advent Calendar Day 07
Bit of a serious turn here, as Choco struggles to understand just what romantic relationships are. I'm not going to say this goes against the comedy-centric first episodes, because romance elements have been there since the start, and because part of growing up is realizing there will be tough times, too. Her relationship with Chitose is my favorite, because even if they don't fully realize it, they're both lonely together.
Bit of a serious turn here, as Choco struggles to understand just what romantic relationships are. I'm not going to say this goes against the comedy-centric first episodes, because romance elements have been there since the start, and because part of growing up is realizing there will be tough times, too. Her relationship with Chitose is my favorite, because even if they don't fully realize it, they're both lonely together.
I'm surprised you don't like FSN.
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