Joe Molotov
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Fall Anime 2014 |OT2| Idly waiting for the Dog Days of Sabre
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It blocks Miki posts.
House of Five Leaves 7-12 END
This turned out to be a remarkable little gem, one that I never heard beforehand and stumbled upon through pure coincidence. It shifted into an upper gear in episode 5th and never let go. One of things I liked the most here is that the story feels fresh, unique and never quite went where I thought I would. Even
I suppose again my pet peeve with the series is that it left some plot threads hanging.
I've raved about the music before so let me now do the same about the visuals. House of Five Leaves is not a big budget production and is devoid of any elaborate action sequences but it still manages to be quite a looker. It has a distinct character designs, good backgrounds but what I liked most about it was the lighting. With the main light source during nights being candles and lanterns, characters are constantly, partly covered with their light and partly clad in the shadows. It makes for some really neat visuals.
It's kind of hard to pinpoint what exactly is so good about HoFL. It's just a very well directed, melancholic and heart warming at the same time, character driven story. If you can enjoy slow burn shows, I recommend giving it a try.
Also, [URL="http://youtu.be/MByPy4ZMnNM?t=13m31s"]that lovely[/URL] OST.
This turned out to be a remarkable little gem, one that I never heard beforehand and stumbled upon through pure coincidence. It shifted into an upper gear in episode 5th and never let go. One of things I liked the most here is that the story feels fresh, unique and never quite went where I thought I would. Even
Masa turned out to be almost a decoy protagonist.
It is never said why Seinoshin betrayed his gang and Yagi's future course of action towards the gang is left for the interpretation of the viewer.
I've raved about the music before so let me now do the same about the visuals. House of Five Leaves is not a big budget production and is devoid of any elaborate action sequences but it still manages to be quite a looker. It has a distinct character designs, good backgrounds but what I liked most about it was the lighting. With the main light source during nights being candles and lanterns, characters are constantly, partly covered with their light and partly clad in the shadows. It makes for some really neat visuals.
It's kind of hard to pinpoint what exactly is so good about HoFL. It's just a very well directed, melancholic and heart warming at the same time, character driven story. If you can enjoy slow burn shows, I recommend giving it a try.
Also, [URL="http://youtu.be/MByPy4ZMnNM?t=13m31s"]that lovely[/URL] OST.
What is ad block? I don't know anything about ad block in gaf. >.>
sounds great!
Basileus777
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Yowamushi Pedal 33
Souhoku is full of morons, maybe I should just root for Kyoto. I wonder what excuse they'll have for Onoda to fall behind the pack and then miraculously recover on day three.
Souhoku is full of morons, maybe I should just root for Kyoto. I wonder what excuse they'll have for Onoda to fall behind the pack and then miraculously recover on day three.
Absolute Duo PV2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBkXWtMZlUk
We'll see I guess. I do think they need to either offer exclusive features on the pro version or reduce the price for what amounts to removing the adds.
I pay/paid for the pro version of Plex so I'm not against paying for stuff where it comes to things that start free. Ditto Crunchyroll.
They seem to be in a bit of a bind though, with a section of their community seemingly quite against exclusive features for pro users.
Another aspect I guess is the whole 'get new features first'. If they had a track record of major new features periodically (like Plex has) that would be worth something to some people. But really that isn't really the case. I guess from the end user, the only real major new features has been adding Manga support, but thats still only basic support. I'm still waiting for instance to see manga added into the whole feed part of the site.
Of course another curiousity with it is that the project has been open sourced. Not sure what limitations the apache license brings in terms of being able to fork the whole project.
I wish them the best of luck though, I really like it. Its really invigorated my use of such sites. Though that's mostly the really excellent android client.
looks cute/generic
Eva: 3.0+1.0 is slated for a winter/Fall 2015 release and Utada may be doing the films theme song Shameless plug here 
MikeHattsu
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Used that one. Thanks!
Why is Death Parade looking so good?
Also obligatory rant
Thank god for ANN, we'd be totally lost without people constantly linking their news and giving them clicks.
Also obligatory rant
Eva: 3.0+1.0 is slated for a winter/Fall 2015 release and Utada may be doing the films theme song Shameless plug here
Thank god for ANN, we'd be totally lost without people constantly linking their news and giving them clicks.
R_thanatos
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There is nothing wrong with this show. Huge cast of girl pursuing love in an honnest fashion and i'm sure you'll have your favorites.The mc is not dense and do his job well considering the circustances.
Not a groundbreaking anime but different enough for you to check it out.
It's one of those anime that does harem right
Why the hostility?
its a Vito thing.
No problem, no ill will against him, I'm sure he has his reasons and I'll look for a better source next time
. I don't really look up anime related news, I just chill on GAF and Blu-ray forums and chat with people who work in UK anime distribution at MVM, Manga, Anime Limited etc so that's where I usually get my bulk of news from, sometimes /a/. I'm more into old stuff so I don't pay attention to most news but a when something like KLK was announced, or the LWA Kickstarter I obviously found out not soon after but Eva is a big thing to be so I'm always excited at new stuff on that front.
MikeHattsu
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Gintama 038
Awww...
Gintoki and Kagura makes a big... cannon out of snow, they destroy lots of other snow sculptures and they take care of an old fart.
Awww...
Gintoki and Kagura makes a big... cannon out of snow, they destroy lots of other snow sculptures and they take care of an old fart.
I still need to finish Infinite Ryvius, man I have a bad habit of starting something and getting fully engrossed in it only to just fall victim to things that always happen to occur around that time that prevents me from finishing said show in a timely manner.
I find that I can only watch anime and shows in general at night, with the lights off in total darkness when I'm relaxed...the only issues is I've been getting super tired really early these days. No more awake at 5am watching shows, I'm generally waking up at that time now!
Anyone else have this issue? I think it stems from me making everything like an 'event' and over hyping things, so when I watch something I have to have 100% concentration. I even keep track of when I watch things etc. Basically I'm weird and it means I have times where I just don't get to watch shows and complete them.
I also tend to only watch a single show at a time, and that goes for games too so I tend to have a huge backlog!
I want someone to reassure me, watching a show and taking a say week (or two?) long break mid-way isn't detrimental to my enjoyment right? I usually do so and still enjoy the show obviously but always get this idea in my head that I kind of break immersion or tension for lack of better words when doing so and thus hinder the overall impact of the show. Man the main question is why do I over think something as basic as watching shows lol!
I find that I can only watch anime and shows in general at night, with the lights off in total darkness when I'm relaxed...the only issues is I've been getting super tired really early these days. No more awake at 5am watching shows, I'm generally waking up at that time now!
Anyone else have this issue? I think it stems from me making everything like an 'event' and over hyping things, so when I watch something I have to have 100% concentration. I even keep track of when I watch things etc. Basically I'm weird and it means I have times where I just don't get to watch shows and complete them.
I also tend to only watch a single show at a time, and that goes for games too so I tend to have a huge backlog!
I want someone to reassure me, watching a show and taking a say week (or two?) long break mid-way isn't detrimental to my enjoyment right? I usually do so and still enjoy the show obviously but always get this idea in my head that I kind of break immersion or tension for lack of better words when doing so and thus hinder the overall impact of the show. Man the main question is why do I over think something as basic as watching shows lol!
MikeHattsu
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Hi-sCool! Seha Girls 04
Jeffrey is quite popular!
There's football matches on rival channels and Saturn uses her twin sticks and almost gets married.
Jeffrey is quite popular!
There's football matches on rival channels and Saturn uses her twin sticks and almost gets married.
KuwabaraTheMan
Banned
So, what are the odds of this coming out before the third film even releases in the west?
Kemonozume 01
This, Kaiba and Tatami Galaxy has been on my to do list for long time and I guess it's high time I start chipping away at my Yuasa backlog. So far, out of his stuff, I've only seen Ping Pong which I found to be good but not great.
Anyhow this is pretty good so far. Good pacing, brisk dialogue, hilarious monkey and an actual sex scene in an anime. The art style is the weirdest thing I've ever seen animated but other than the hard to follow action scene at the beginning, I'm quite alright with it. Let's see where this goes.
Yep, it's Yuasa.
This, Kaiba and Tatami Galaxy has been on my to do list for long time and I guess it's high time I start chipping away at my Yuasa backlog. So far, out of his stuff, I've only seen Ping Pong which I found to be good but not great.
Anyhow this is pretty good so far. Good pacing, brisk dialogue, hilarious monkey and an actual sex scene in an anime. The art style is the weirdest thing I've ever seen animated but other than the hard to follow action scene at the beginning, I'm quite alright with it. Let's see where this goes.
Dedication Through Light
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Didnt realize the site was that costly to run. Since it taxes my hardware(s) more than mal, I ever only visit my hummingbird seasonally.
MikeHattsu
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Gugure! Kokkuri-san 04
Poor not-cute tanuki.
At least he's not a nice guy. And there's a perfectly normal earthling that takes care of his sister at school. Nothing weird about him either.
Poor not-cute tanuki.
At least he's not a nice guy. And there's a perfectly normal earthling that takes care of his sister at school. Nothing weird about him either.
Basileus777
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Yowamushi Pedal 36
Ok, I'm fully on-board with #teamMidousuji
I won't fault anyone for learning about stuff from there, as every possible way for more people to access interesting information isn't even enough, always cool to have more and more conscious followers of this (or any) form of entertainment... but sadly this isn't just "a Vito thing", because with the responsibility of attracting such number of followers also comes attached a threshold for fair reporting and proper sourcing/crediting I don't think they always meet.
Being a everything-goes news aggregator doesn't give a free pass on showing publicly part of that content they apparently show as 'theirs' in first or second-hand falsely, and even for extracts from copyrighted materials they are clearly unauthorized to reproduce.
Talking of other, more grateful things; several hours passed already since the Otaku no Video Blu-ray Disc release day commenced, and still no sign of good first reviews made by usual people like catalina (http://catalina.blog.so-net.ne.jp/) and such. Anyway, on these days when GAiNAX passes the 30 years mark since its inception, I can't think of a more fitting way to homage their anniversary than celebrating their roots like this!
KuwabaraTheMan
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Gundam: Reconguista in G 14:
New opening sucks. Bring back the old one! (Never thought I'd be saying that)
Man, Aida looked awesome in that outfit. How cruel of Tomino to only give us a very brief scene of her dressed up like that. I'm glad that we're finally finished with Raraiya being incapable of even tying her own shoelaces and she actually has a character and personality now. It took long enough to get there.
Everything is becoming pure Tomino in this show. The space battle with all these different sides all planning to betray one another was great. Everyone is just doing their own thing, and the result is going to be pretty mad. We also got an acceptable amount of time this episode for Genius Klim Nick and his group. I had to laugh at how relaxed everyone was in that prisoner interrogation. They were just all standing around having a casual conversation with one another.
New opening sucks. Bring back the old one! (Never thought I'd be saying that)
Man, Aida looked awesome in that outfit. How cruel of Tomino to only give us a very brief scene of her dressed up like that. I'm glad that we're finally finished with Raraiya being incapable of even tying her own shoelaces and she actually has a character and personality now. It took long enough to get there.
Everything is becoming pure Tomino in this show. The space battle with all these different sides all planning to betray one another was great. Everyone is just doing their own thing, and the result is going to be pretty mad. We also got an acceptable amount of time this episode for Genius Klim Nick and his group. I had to laugh at how relaxed everyone was in that prisoner interrogation. They were just all standing around having a casual conversation with one another.
I used to like ANN, I mean they seemed like a decent news source and in a sense they still are, but the more I learned, the more bitter I became. Their anime Christmas pic batch news posts actually link to pirated scans for example. When the Australian distributor mistakenly published Space Dandy episode 1 prior to its airing in Japan, their founder (now contributor) Sevakis called leakers destructive pschopaths (a grudge that stems from his own personal incompetence with the Oreimo leak). Ironically ANN started paying someone in Japan to get early magazine access, so they now regularly leak announcements prior to publication themselves.
If you follow Zac... the guy is just a bitter asshole that manages to give me serious competition in that department. They were so busy running their exclusive Viz interview on the new Sailor Moon release, nobody questioned the extremely dodgy remastered screenshot. Prior to their review Zac even went on about "screencap culture", you know people who actually care about video quality. Sure enough after people (&ANN) got their sets, he started spinning as if they're the ones that started talking about the Sailor Moon remaster quality issue.
Follow their news long enough and you start to notice some really inconsistent sourcing, they'll claim to find obscure things themselves sometimes (that you, funny enough, saw on twitter 2 days prior), yet credit matome sites for some really mundane stuff. Oh, and their CEO has the integrity of a used car salesman.
TL;DR: I'm allergic to ANN, I get rashes in the form of forum posts. Today it broke out. Sorry and happy holidays!
Pancake ass.
I used to like ANN, I mean they seemed like a decent news source and in a sense they still are, but the more I learned, the more bitter I became. Their anime Christmas pic batch news posts actually link to pirated scans for example. When the Australian distributor mistakenly published Space Dandy episode 1 prior to its airing in Japan, their founder (now contributor) Sevakis called leakers destructive pschopaths (a grudge that stems from his own personal incompetence with the Oreimo leak). Ironically ANN started paying someone in Japan to get early magazine access, so they now regularly leak announcements prior to publication themselves.
If you follow Zac... the guy is just a bitter asshole that manages to give me serious competition in that department. They were so busy running their exclusive Viz interview on the new Sailor Moon release, nobody questioned the extremely dodgy remastered screenshot. Prior to their review Zac even went on about "screencap culture", you know people who actually care about video quality. Sure enough after people (&ANN) got their sets, he started spinning as if they're the ones that started talking about the Sailor Moon remaster quality issue.
Follow their news long enough and you start to notice some really inconsistent sourcing, they'll claim to find obscure things themselves sometimes (that you, funny enough, saw on twitter 2 days prior), yet credit matome sites for some really mundane stuff. Oh, and their CEO has the integrity of a used car salesman.
TL;DR: I'm allergic to ANN, I get rashes in the form of forum posts. Today it broke out. Sorry and happy holidays!
I like this picture. It makes me happy.
Psycho_Mantis
Banned
Oh are we finally going to post christmassy pics of our favourite animes:
Happy Holidays!
Happy Holidays!
Its great. So sweet and pure.
Basileus777
Member
Amagi Brilliant Park 13
This was basically a bonus OVA episode tacked onto the end of the season. I can't say I found it very funny.
This was basically a bonus OVA episode tacked onto the end of the season. I can't say I found it very funny.
R_thanatos
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Sega Hard girls forever - 12
NOt much to say about this episode.
If you're still watching , chance that you don't mind the setting , jokes, sega saturn bullying so , well here is it.
So well , space harrier, not much to say other that it was fun and that overall i kinda liked the episode.
Megadrive now know how to dance !! i guess that 100 floor training paid off !!
NOt much to say about this episode.
If you're still watching , chance that you don't mind the setting , jokes, sega saturn bullying so , well here is it.
Sh*tjust got real
So well , space harrier, not much to say other that it was fun and that overall i kinda liked the episode.
Megadrive now know how to dance !! i guess that 100 floor training paid off !!
Gons got daddy issues. It reasonable that kite would cause him to flip shit.
just caught up with Prison School manga (read all that 4 days and I don't read manga often..) that was pretty... good so far. The comedy is mostly on point even though it is just mostly trashy comedy it's very well done, there are some very brilliant and well executed moments, it's definitely not another trash smut (or at least I like to think so right now! lol). I enjoy the continuity of the events and all the small things that happen and later return to play their role for those aha moments.
I'm very much looking forward to the anime now, it's very challenging to get this right and I don't mean just the censorship problems, the delivery, acting and it demands a whole lot of style in direction. I hope we get it. Censorship problems though damn Meiko scenes are gonna be so hard to bring to TV...
I'm very much looking forward to the anime now, it's very challenging to get this right and I don't mean just the censorship problems, the delivery, acting and it demands a whole lot of style in direction. I hope we get it. Censorship problems though damn Meiko scenes are gonna be so hard to bring to TV...
Theonik
Member
Wait. This is a real show? Why did no-one tell me?
Jex
Member
Twitter.
Should I?
Yup.
victreeb3l
Member
Well, there's Japanese aggregators like Yaraon and Otakomu where ANN pulls their fair share of news, but the majority of Japan is pretty much on twitter, most of anime series have official accounts, most are pretty good at tweeting news... in Japanese.
If you spend some time in this stuff, you eventually notice there's a bit of a pattern to all of this. So yeah, if you're casual, ANN isn't all that bad, I just wish people would stop linking them for everything. Take their stuff and leave them lying cold in a ditch
Unrelated but to make holidays more merry:
KirbYuuYuu
Member
Since Amagi's done until the 14th episode is released on video, I thought it was okay. I like the theme park premise, but the way it focused more on the mascots than anything else made it seem like an adult version of Jewelpet at times, or a cruder Muppets. Neither of those are bad, just not what I was expecting. The Elementario episode was my favorite, and I would've liked to see more of Elementario in general. The last episode's emotional moments did work, and it's not like it wasn't fun. It just didn't leave a super strong impression on me.
Still looking forward to seeing what KyoAni does next, after the Beyond the Boundary movies.
Still looking forward to seeing what KyoAni does next, after the Beyond the Boundary movies.
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