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Fall Anime 2014 |OT2| Idly waiting for the Dog Days of Sabre
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R_thanatos
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PSYCHO PASS 2 - 11
I liked it .
I might be in the minority but i liked this turn of events.
I like the fact that this subtle change in sybil has much potential for the future , i like kamui as a character even if i don't love him as a vilain .
I like that they didn't redeem that stupid inspector, even if they made her grow a little
Psycho pass 2 had , now that i think about it 2(?) problems
-Not enough episodes
-A vilain that wasn't charismatic enough.( i'm talking about kamui , there )
-Lack of develloppement for the rest of the cast
The bolded is the bniggest offender , PP2 lack those episode where you're expending your world and seeing things from a different perspective. GITS 2nd gig did this masterfully with flashback , and episode centered on 1 character , but Psycho pass didn't have the time to do that.
Togane was alright , but in the end it felt forced , i mean he obviously was evil , but that's because he was made that way and it kinda cheapened the deal.
If PP was 8/10 i'd guess PP2 is 6.5/10 it was still PP , but without the added flavor and it showed.
I liked it .
I might be in the minority but i liked this turn of events.
I like the fact that this subtle change in sybil has much potential for the future , i like kamui as a character even if i don't love him as a vilain .
I like that they didn't redeem that stupid inspector, even if they made her grow a little
Psycho pass 2 had , now that i think about it 2(?) problems
-Not enough episodes
-A vilain that wasn't charismatic enough.( i'm talking about kamui , there )
-Lack of develloppement for the rest of the cast
The bolded is the bniggest offender , PP2 lack those episode where you're expending your world and seeing things from a different perspective. GITS 2nd gig did this masterfully with flashback , and episode centered on 1 character , but Psycho pass didn't have the time to do that.
Togane was alright , but in the end it felt forced , i mean he obviously was evil , but that's because he was made that way and it kinda cheapened the deal.
If PP was 8/10 i'd guess PP2 is 6.5/10 it was still PP , but without the added flavor and it showed.
Razgriz-Specter
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Congrats! Enjoy it!
ThatChairMan
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I wonder if the anime will tone down the nationalism.
Femmeworth
Banned
I like how the video is private.
R_thanatos
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Were you not paying attention to the plot ?
It has been established that one of sibyl brains is that obaa-chan at a time, that's how it works , outsiders see the same woman , but depending on the issue at hand sybil put one of the brain composing sybil to control that body and it choose witch brain according to the issue to solve. During season 2 it was mostly that one woman , but in season 1 there was multiple brain/persona involved.
Akane didn't become friendly with kamui for no reason , her reasonning was explained last episode. It was her belief that sybil and kamui must meet , in order to solve the inconsistency that kamui can't be judged by sybil . Sybil then changed his viewpoint and didn't decide on a case to case basis but collectively.
Meaning a collective Sybil can judge a kamui that is a collection of entities. The paradox ends
Yes you were supposed to know the guy with the sniper dominator , they spend 2 episodes with him on the harbor He was the sole survivor outside the main cast and actually did things Heck he had 3 eps of screen time in season 2
Psycho pass number aren't randomly assigned. Sybil , now a collective entity ( including the one who pull the trigger ) are just adjusting to their new status. That was like the entire point of the second season.
Eyepatch girl was drugged and under kamui influence , her number couldn't go above a level where she could be killed by a dominator. This has been shown multiples times in S2 too.
Togane gets 899 because his hobby is to make other people numbers go up, considering the sybil system , he las the higest number ( explained 3 times in season 2 ) so i dunno what you want more for explanations.heck in his flashback he was killing things for a hobby under the care of his mother and HE killed several people in this season alone and was shown to have murdered his own mother .
Seriously weren't you paying attention to the story ? They were literrally PUtting all the clues in own faces SEVERAL TIMES so that everyone would get it .
Save 'N Quit
Banned
So not as good as season one. I will watch it anyways because I do want to see what happens and I did like season one. So, does the quantity of pretentious philosophical quote remain the same? I did not like that about the first season.
Oh great, more trash being animated. Yay.
CielTynave
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Just got my order from RightStuf and man, it's been a long time since I got the complete series of anything and it kind of blew my mind at how small these sets were lol. Before I only had the complete series of Noir, .hack, Chrono Crusade and Evangelion but just one of those takes up as much space as all 3 series I got today lol.
R_thanatos
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Twintail is still a AOTY contender - 11
"now i'm going to undo your twintails"
Oh god the blasphemy !!!!!
"now i'm going to undo your twintails"
Oh god the blasphemy !!!!!
Awesome. Is this a UK set?
yeah. Bluray sets are so compact compared to the literal dvd bricks of ten years ago. Very nice if you have to conserve space! Those series you mentioned especially had 6 or 7 volumes and in the case of my Kiddy Grade and Stellvia sets it was 8 discs!
Rightstuf ships on time. Any delay is because of the carrier.
victreeb3l
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WE ALL KNOW WHAT'S COMINGand it's still sad
That last scene was beautiful though.
I just hope it isnt super cliched or predictable. Cause we can all see from 10 miles away where this is heading. THROW US A CURVEBALL.
Yes, the OP is amazing. I feel so goofy cause I sing along to it too, the chorus part at least. Only when I'm alone though >_>
Yep
It's actually really nicely put together. I'm usually finicky about digipaks and such but it's all well made with nice fit and finish. Speaking of Anime Limited, here's their Q1 line-up for next year in the UK
January:
- Giovanni's Island Ultimate
- Giovanni's Island BD
- Giovanni's Island DVD
- Blood Lad Collector's Edition BD
- Blood Lad DVD
February:
- Tiger & Bunny standard edition BD
- Perfect Blue standard edition BD
March:
Q2 to follow soon
- Wings of Honneamise Collector's BD/DVD
- Wings of Honneamise DVD
- The Place Promised in Our Early Days / Voices of a Distant Star BD (finally)
- The Place Promised in Our Early Days / Voices of a Distant Star DVD (finally)
Escaflowne is planned for UK Blu-ray release in Q2 or Q3 next year. They are also interested in bringing some more Satoshi-Kon works over, and interested in securing Gunbuster.
Vaudeville Villain
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Space Dandy episode 11
That episode was pretty great. I love the pencil art (idk how else to describe it) once Dandy enters the Library. That ending though,
I also find it hilarious that Dandy is badass on accident, when it comes to fighting I mean, and everyone falls for it.
That episode was pretty great. I love the pencil art (idk how else to describe it) once Dandy enters the Library. That ending though,
Am I to understand that a videotape sparked a galactic war?
I also find it hilarious that Dandy is badass on accident, when it comes to fighting I mean, and everyone falls for it.
Wow.
Yep
Speaking of Anime Limited, here's their Q1 line-up for next year in the UK
Escaflowne is planned for UK Blu-ray release in Q2 or Q3 next year. They are also interested in bringing some more Satoshi-Kon works over, and interested in securing Gunbuster.
Nice packaging for it. US release is about to get volume 4. Vol 3 just shipped here.
If yall are getting Satoshi Kon works, hope for Millennium Actress. It is his masterpiece.
Did I post too many pics?
Ha it is a nice set. Feels really sturdy and high quality in person. Looking forward to Part 2 and 3 next year! I'm more into older shows, but for some reason I really enjoyed KLK
enjoyed it much more than lagann! :0
I actually got my copy of Patema Inverted Ultimate Edition Blu-ray, I might post some pics later.
Yeah I'm kinda glad the UK set is only 3 volumes, hopefully the gap between them isn't too much of a wait! Millennium Actress is the one I want for sure!
R_thanatos
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Yuki yuna wa yusha de aru - 11
Madoka ain't shit on yuki yuna... now that is suffering, that is despair , that is helplessness, that is odds against you.
I'm angry because i actually care about those characters and i care about their current situation..
I'm mostly angry because there is absolutly no way i can get a good ending now and that karin action during this episode were heroic , awesome , well animated , full of pride and incredibly sad at the same time.
I mean i'm not even mad at togo, i mean who wouldn't at least hesitate when faced with this situation , with the premise that she already lost many things she cares about.
I want to say "everything will be fine" but this won't be
I'm angry ... i'm less angry than 2 weeks ago , but still quite angry
Have fun with that because if i post a screen of this episode i'm GONNA LOSE MY MIND
Madoka ain't shit on yuki yuna... now that is suffering, that is despair , that is helplessness, that is odds against you.
I'm angry because i actually care about those characters and i care about their current situation..
I'm mostly angry because there is absolutly no way i can get a good ending now and that karin action during this episode were heroic , awesome , well animated , full of pride and incredibly sad at the same time.
I mean i'm not even mad at togo, i mean who wouldn't at least hesitate when faced with this situation , with the premise that she already lost many things she cares about.
I want to say "everything will be fine" but this won't be
KuwabaraTheMan
Banned
Shirobako 11:
Amazing. That ending was something else. It would be amazing if they really follow through on that. You can do it, Aoi. The dream sequence was also pretty hilarious. Especially with the great transition into it.
Poor Yano. On top of everything else, she now has to spend a lengthy car ride with Tarou. That's too much torture for one person to endure.
Amazing. That ending was something else. It would be amazing if they really follow through on that. You can do it, Aoi. The dream sequence was also pretty hilarious. Especially with the great transition into it.
Poor Yano. On top of everything else, she now has to spend a lengthy car ride with Tarou. That's too much torture for one person to endure.
This is the best bittersweet ending I can think of for Karin.
Assuming that Karin does not want to live as a deaf, blind cripple. Taisha get Karin's phone. They take away her Hero Status. She is no longer protected by fairies. She passes away peacefully (through drug overdose) in her sleep surrounded by her family and the Hero Club. Yuuna holds one hand. Her brother holds the other. Taisha erect a statue of Karin in one of her katas. Karin will always be a Hero.
Or they could just go with an everything will be fine ending. That would be good too.
Did I post too many pics?enjoyed it much more than lagann! :0
No, it just makes me jealous.
KirbYuuYuu
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Last bit of my Rightstuf haul
And hopefully they followed through with GitS SAC+2ndG and other things like Kino's Journey and Abenobashi
victreeb3l
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Shirobako 11
Damn. Business suit Miyamori. Little red riding hood Miyamori. Daaammmnnnnnnnn. Shes the best.
Laughed heartily at "Sunup" and "Neon Generation Avangaldon" lol.
Damn. Business suit Miyamori. Little red riding hood Miyamori. Daaammmnnnnnnnn. Shes the best.
Laughed heartily at "Sunup" and "Neon Generation Avangaldon" lol.
ColossalLazy
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Yowamushi Pedal 1-3
My blood was pumping through the race. Really good stuff.
Loved the part with the shocked faces when MC told about how he goes to Akiba on his bike.
My blood was pumping through the race. Really good stuff.
Loved the part with the shocked faces when MC told about how he goes to Akiba on his bike.
Hah don't be! I got Bebop on Blu-ray last year but I'm still jelly over the US release, looks awesome
Hah don't be! I got Bebop on Blu-ray last year but I'm still jelly over the US release, looks awesome
Did you pick up the Ghibli collection? Or the TTGL?
I made a mistake and never ordered the Bebop one...
CornBurrito
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No Game No Life Episodes 1-2:
So this is basically a show cynically exploiting everything wrong with the current anime fan base? We have panty shots with under aged girls, a borderline incestuous brother sister pairing, endless jiggling oversized breasts, Gary Stu main character, and in episode 2 we get what essentially amounts to rape and long term sexual slavery via tricking a woman into agreeing to some shady magic contract terms. This show is really fucking gross.
So this is basically a show cynically exploiting everything wrong with the current anime fan base? We have panty shots with under aged girls, a borderline incestuous brother sister pairing, endless jiggling oversized breasts, Gary Stu main character, and in episode 2 we get what essentially amounts to rape and long term sexual slavery via tricking a woman into agreeing to some shady magic contract terms. This show is really fucking gross.
It's effectively a series of con games by the siblings that's actually pretty engaging yet, unfortunately, obscured by a lot of your accurate criticisms.
Kanon ep 1
Finally decided to put this out of my backlog now that I have the time.
Nothing of much importance to say here. Ayu stole some taiyakis and Noyuki has lots of watches. Yuichi seems to have some sort of amnesia, and he probably already know all the girls in the show but don't remember any of them
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~Uguu
Finally decided to put this out of my backlog now that I have the time.
Nothing of much importance to say here. Ayu stole some taiyakis and Noyuki has lots of watches. Yuichi seems to have some sort of amnesia, and he probably already know all the girls in the show but don't remember any of them
can't blame him, I barely remember any of them outside of Ayu Ayu
~Uguu
why are you watching an obviously shit show?
MetroidPrimeRib
Banned
After much consideration I skipped the Miyazaki Box-set. I own all of the Ghibli Blu-rays so far (outside of Princess Kaguya) including duplicates (Steelbooks, Japanese releases etc) so I decided to save my money. The set looks lovely however! If only I had the cash to spare
I did get the Lagann Ultimate set however. It's pretty nice but I didn't really enjoy the show. My little brother loved it however so there's that!For everything wrong with it it was still very fun to watch. Certainly not a waste of time.
The first few episode have been so awful to a point that I find it hard to redeem itself. What were they going for except for the shock effect? Characters are all underdeveloped and we still don't know what everyone thinks about these recent events.
Sybil is the law, yet we have that awful inspector as the only character that have an opinion about it, bar Akane.
In fact the whole point of the show (including the first season) which about the hue and the crime prediction was mad null by these stupid recent events, aka, body swapping, what?
I still love the atmosphere and enjoy how hard ass Akane can be, but the work Urbo have done have been nullified in few episodes of this season.
That was only added heavily in the second 1 hour re-run (the directors cut) which I have to add, I wasn't fan of. But no, there isn't stupid philosophical monologues in these, but rather awful melodramatic dialogues and sheer stupidity.
A Black Falcon
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Correct on all points, except one -- it's not really "borderline" incestuous. I mean, the main character says how he's holding off on going after his sister until she's of age, which is a pretty clear statement of incestuous feelings and intent as far as I'm concerned, and of course it's moronically idiotic, but almost everything about the series is.
The only worth there is how over-the-top it is sometimes, and the lengths the author goes to to show how much smarter the MC is than every other thing ever alive.
Nah, that's just the author's way of showing how totally not overpowered his insanely overpowered protagonist is. I mean, the setup, as you say, makes it seem like he's "weak", that humans are weak, etc, but it's a blatantly obvious setup for his insanely overpowered invincible brain to save the day and defeat all foes. It's just a slightly differently-worded version of the same usual stupidly-overpowered-protagonist issue you frequently see in (badly written) shonen, nothing more.
As for the little sister, she mostly seems to just go along with his ideas as far as I've seen, though I admit I only watched a few episodes. She's supposedly "as smart as he is", but of course it seems to always be him with the ideas, etc. Her main function is for disturbing loli and loli-incest fanservice, most of the time... and, like the usual 'sidekick girl' character (as with Trinity Seven's MC's magical book) going along with just about any fanservicey idea the author wants to subject the female characters to. I mean, yeah, she's smart, but there sure seems to be a MASSIVE imbalance in which one of them actually does stuff, in the male lead's favor of course.
Akane is the only the saving grace of this show,
She is indeed one of the best characters this year.
The worst goes to Tarou from Shirabako
Dedication Through Light
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Fantastic design for the new Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V character (Yugo - CV: Shinpei Takagi). I cant wait. As Futoshi would say, SHIVERU!
MetroidPrimeRib
Banned
I haven't watched Akito yet
But I'm wondering who that handsomemasked eyepatched man is.
But I'm wondering who that handsome
Well, it's not like they're even trying to hide that. Just in case, it's probably also worth reminding people that's not a sequel.
In any case, I thought the first two chapters were fine, albeit different from the TV series in various ways, but mostly setup without a lot of forward movement, so this should be where it gets real. At the very least they're finally getting the last couple out of the way in quick succession.
Femmeworth
Banned
I don't remember Lelouch having a patch like that.
Vaudeville Villain
Member
Parasyte 8
Ha, Shinichi can't seem to catch a break with with satomi. Dead dog, showing a rather displeasing look toward her direction (cracked me up) and kana setting up Shinichi.
Speaking of Kana what's up with her seemingly Psychic powers? I also don't trust the new parasyte guy, he's pretty sketch. All in all though, a good episode.
Ha, Shinichi can't seem to catch a break with with satomi. Dead dog, showing a rather displeasing look toward her direction (cracked me up) and kana setting up Shinichi.
Speaking of Kana what's up with her seemingly Psychic powers? I also don't trust the new parasyte guy, he's pretty sketch. All in all though, a good episode.
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