Yay, I'm not alone anymore! Someone else has seen the opening!
You said you thought the movie was a little baggy in the middle, and I can see where you're coming from. But what did you think of the drama involving the new girls from Million Live? I thought, compared to a lot of the 'dramatic' moments from the series, it was a very good way of setting up character conflict. Even if that part runs a little long, it was a great way of exploring how Haruka had developed from where she started.
How did you wind up seeing it? Is it finally out on disk now?
The disk release is out next week (8th, I think) - I've got a copy of the +Shiny Festa edition due to come in the mail, but some folks have gotten it early and I got a little impatient, particularly given I'm going to be away when my disk copies turn up. Kind of wish I could say I saw one of the Videom@ster screenings in Japan, but I'm not lucky enough to be over there for 9th, unlike seemingly half the other P's I know.
I think the drama is generally handled somewhat less hamfistedly than it was in the series, but I'd probably have to see it with subtitles to formulate a proper opinion on it - whilst I've no problem picking up the general gist of what was going on, my Japanese is nowhere near good enough to be able to fully capture the nuance of it. I like the Million Lives in general, though I do with we got to see a bit more of the girls other than Kana and Shiho doing things.
well that certainly interesting. one thing that stand out is the world building that they seem really good and make interesting at that.
anyway first arc basically introduction of pirating. how the space combat look like. somehow they go very detail at that. also relationship Marika and Chiaki seem create nice chemistry
again. great with world building. this time is with real pirate action. which bassicalyl friendly neighborhood pirate which do it for entertainment or complicated errands. serepindity story was okay. but it certainly add interesting history.
So the MC gets forced to run for student council president since he's in a club that does nothing useful but to eat candy all the time and the candidate most likely to win is going to shut them down.
And the student council is really serious stuff since somebody is giving out hefty bribes and running people over with a car to prevent scandals from happening.
well that certainly interesting. one thing that stand out is the world building that they seem really good and make interesting at that.
anyway first arc basically introduction of pirating. how the space combat look like. somehow they go very detail at that. also relationship Marika and Chiaki seem create nice chemistry
Mouretsu Pirate 07-12
again. great with world building. this time is with real pirate action. which bassicalyl friendly neighborhood pirate which do it for entertainment or complicated errands. serepindity story was okay. but it certainly add interesting history.
well that certainly interesting. one thing that stand out is the world building that they seem really good and make interesting at that.
anyway first arc basically introduction of pirating. how the space combat look like. somehow they go very detail at that. also relationship Marika and Chiaki seem create nice chemistry
Mouretsu Pirate 07-12
again. great with world building. this time is with real pirate action. which bassicalyl friendly neighborhood pirate which do it for entertainment or complicated errands. serepindity story was okay. but it certainly add interesting history.
This is how you do a first episode of a fantasy show. The epic opening that comes straight from a heavy metal fantasy, the introduction of the protagonist and what I assume is the other lead, and the introduction of the third lead.
The animation and art style? Absolutely breathtaking. No joke I felt like I was watching The Road to El Dorado. It was that great in animation. The fantasy setting is fairly standard high fantasy, which isn't a bad thing. The action was great and awesome to look at, so smooth. The design for the leads was also something worth noting as a ginger afro lead with thick lips isn't something you see everyday.
I laughed my ass off in the opening with the two leads
running around in horses on rooftops
these are by far the bravest horses in the history of anime, they gave zero fucks.
The music? Fucking exquisite. The trailer had that part that it switched into that weird j-heavy pop rock that killed the mood, but there was none of that in here. The music was definitely a strong point as well.
The leads in particular made the show. Their dynamic will be probably be something similar to Samurai Champloo. We have the clown, the serious knight, and the lady who needs to go somewhere (who kicks ass as well).
I cannot recommend enough for everybody to watch this show. I think that outside of Fate Stay Night this was the strongest opening first episode.
I need moar. Nao. I'm calling it right now this will be the surprise hit of the season.
Grisaia no Kajitsu - 01
I rarely got interested in VN adaptation, but this one seems interesting for me to stick with it for a while. I wonder what's the secret everyone's hiding
I saw duckroll post the thread and some people excited, but Fate Stay Night and Log Horizon 2 seems to have like 90% of the attention. Regardless depending on how good this turns out to be, AOTY voting will be really. REALLY. Fucking hard.
All I can think of is the terrible level of security in the Versailles. People walk in and leave like its some kind of lowly tavern.
I'll have to rewatch this finale to see if it actually makes sense and there are some things that I think were left unexplained. Kudos at least for resolving neatly the issue of
Oshima Ojima runs into both the current student council president and the girl who is the candidate to become the next president and they both advise him to run as well even if he doesn't want to.
And then Ojima gives a glowing speech for recommending somebody else in the Food Research Club for president instead, which of course makes everybody want him to be the president even more.
Oh, and a scene with candy liquid spread all over... Right...
Grisaia no Kajitsu 1
Well its intriguing. Everyone seems to have masks that are 3 layers thick. And that goddamn ratio, why?
And i like how mc poker face everything, including BOOBS BITCHES.
well, i'll stay.
I guess I need to start catching up on stuff. Last season all I watched was Prisma Illya, Aldnoah.Zero and Jojo's Bizarre Adventure.
Denki-Gai no Honya-san - 01
Okay, I admit this is pushing a lot of the right buttons for me. Haven't laughed this much in quite some time. In fact, I'm only halfway through the episode and am taking a break because I need a breather, haha! I just hope they can maintain this momentum throughout.
Grisaia no Kajitsu - 01
I rarely got interested in VN adaptation, but this one seems interesting for me to stick with it for a while. I wonder what's the secret everyone's hiding
Fast, funny, and charismatic. This is exactly what we've come to expect from Magic Kaito. The story is very clearly being adapted in a similar way to the TV specials, but A-1's entirely different execution allows it to not be a redundant entry. There was even some decent animation! It already feels like this would benefit from going off the rails of the source and making itself even crazier. I didn't notice too many big changes yet (Aoko lives next to Kuroba?) but I hope the people involved go all out.
I think the lesson Toichi teaches Kaitou about "always having a poker face" is one that we really see come to play from Conan's perspective. The jokey, whimsical Kaitou Kid of the TV specials and TV series is a stark contrast to the calm and collected one that appears before and is challenged by Conan. And, given by how effective his charisma and bluffing is around Conan (at least initially) it's an aspect well illuminated.
The OP wasn't bad, but I can't help but feel a little bit of white washing went on...:
4 minutes in:
Cool kid that likes to look at panties. Tsundere girl that gets violent. Magic tricks. Fights in the middle of the class with everyone acting as it's the most normal thing in the world. Classy thieves.
Kaitou was originally referred to as Kaitou 1412 (the case number being 1412), but Yusaku Kudo (Conan's pops) intentionally misread it as a hastily scribbled Kid which gave him the new name.
Yeah... I'm almost certain I won't continue to watch this show... there's just too much too many things its asking me to accept with no explanation. I'm not event talking about major plot points but rather the moment to moment stuff.
Definitely the downside. But when your downside of anime is "they didn't break away from a sad trend in female design" I'll take it as something minor at this point.
Grisaia no Kajitsu 1 - thought first episode was really well done, we got character intros, some some funny lines from MC good ending. Judging by the end they are doing all routes? Hope for more that 12eps.
Hope it doesnt blow.
All I can think of is the terrible level of security in the Versailles. People walk in and leave like its some kind of lowly tavern.
I'll have to rewatch this finale to see if it actually makes sense and there are some things that I think were left unexplained. Kudos at least for resolving neatly the issue of
Hahahahahahaha. You have no idea how long I've been silently reading your impressions of this show. Nodding along. Laughing and crying with you. Just waiting for the end of it all. I had to really restrain myself from replying to anything because I didn't want to spoil any of the experience.
When I got to the end of the series, I think the first thing I said when the episode ended was "Goddamn, they actually intended to troll everyone with Robespierre! ROFLMAO!"
Bahumut - 1
ohohohohohohohohoooh, wipe my face with that sweet sweet high quality animation.
Loving the cast already, and the show is already smelling like adventure. So good.
I can't even believe its an adaptation
Grisaia no Kajitsu 1 - thought first episode was really well done, we got character intros, some some funny lines from MC good ending. Judging by the end they are doing all routes? Hope for more that 12eps.
Hope it doesnt blow.
If it wasn't for the weird fanservice shit, this would actually be a perfect episode that you could show to just about anyone.
Even with that...distraction this was still an extremely strong first episode. Quite possibly one of the best first episodes I've seen in years. I hope they can keep this up.
