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Fall of Anime 2012 |OT2| O cursed spite, that ever I was born to UUURRRRYYY!!
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dakkumauji
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It doesn't have Sugita, dub is worse.
At least Jinrui is taking the top spot among shows that weren't already guaranteed sellers. That's the true #1!
except when it isn't: see the S1s of the S2s selling well this season
In fact, it's looking more and more like they actively prefer bad writing!
At least Takami Akai returned (well, he never really left the studio) recently to its previous position at GAiNAX, so all are amusing memories now. Many at the moment said the Spiral Nemesis was later incorporated as a representation of the anonymous force Mr. Akai criticized, but I don't buy that.
Some good moments, like the defense some 'channers' did of the episode in the comments section of the GAINAX Official Blog (there are two posts I made on it, I wrote nothing offensive but don't judge my rather embarrassing choice of pompous words):
グレン団活動報告「ドリル銀河に男の魂ッ！」: 第四話「顔が多けりゃ偉いのか?」
http://gainax.weblogs.jp/gurrenlagann/2007/04/post_8837/comments/page/11/#comments
Orion Home Video old promo has nothing on this, man!
Je vais tenter, essayer et re-pratiquer... tout pour vous mon chéri amí ! (Believe it or not, this space before the exclamation mark is very important in French).
Per cert, vosaltres esteu tots benvinguts a parlá valencià, ¡se més simple, noias!
Del Bosque's best achievement was appeasing the egos of all those "roosters in the hen", like the diplomatic pacificator or 'hombre tranquilo' he is touted as, but left too much leeway sometimes because of that, trying not to importunate anyone... do you remember Guti overboard moments? Or that he never had the balls to make Raúl step down just a little from his untouchable symbol status (it took Aragonés' stubbornness to finally drop him from the national team, and look how well that went!).
Now that I'm in a patriotic mood after these replies I'll say something I forgot to mention some days ago... Arrugas (Wrinkles) won NHK's The Grand Prix Japan Prize (http://www.nhk.or.jp/jp-prize/english/index.html)! Take that Japanese animation! Not even your country likes you anymore! 'Vamos todos... ¡España!¡España!¡España!'.
This image should be used more, I think.
And I thought you liked tsu ri ta ma, cajunator! :-(
They also mention making it go to festivals around the globe and such prior to the authoring for the disc release, but they don't say if it is going to be available in other ways before that.
All the information I've seen on the news here are showing pretty scary stuff. I hope all of you are doing well, East Coast fellowmen!
Chet Rippo
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Why not?
Suite Precure - 06
Kanade was such a jerk in this episode. Souta just wanted to show his appreciation for having her as a sister and
Hibiki laying that guilt trip on her was glorious though.
#hatesex
Kanade was such a jerk in this episode. Souta just wanted to show his appreciation for having her as a sister and
she just blows up in his face for getting the kitchen a little dirty. :/
Hibiki protecting her waifu. What a badass!
dakkumauji
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Pretty boys and some girls making fun of nations is back this Winter.
I will say it does look like the character designs got updated this time. Much more prettier than before.
I will say it does look like the character designs got updated this time. Much more prettier than before.
PdotMichael
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what was the point of the show again?
Dedication Through Light
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I would disagree with all of those. But it really isn't about what is better when you already have a sound engrained into you mind.
For me it's Akira. After watching it many times with the English dub (Including the first time I watched it), I can not watch it in Japanese. It may be better, but it just sounds wrong to me.
I can't wait for my eventual JoJo marathon. Taking it all in one sitting will be a glorious thing!
dakkumauji
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Fujoshi bait and making the South Koreans mad over an anime?
Train of Midnight
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That was my plan, but after watching the first ep I just couldn't wait. "Just the tip", I thought. "Just to see what it's like". There's no turning back after that. Although I'm probably going to marathon it once it's all done.
Would anyone recommend the original JoJo anime? I definitely won't watch it until this one is done, don't want to spoil the experience, but it looked really good. It had that classic feel to it.
Ultimadrago
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Protection we can believe in.
You won't have to wait much longer. In 3-4 weeks you should be able to watch all of Phantom Blood.
Joe Molotov
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I hope you don't have a heart condition or a manliness allergy, otherwise a Jojo marathon could cause you to have the most fabulous heart attack ever.
amishpriest99
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Exactly. JoJo rocks. Already one of my favorite shows of the year.
Train of Midnight
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FTFY
Sounds like an ad for Blood-Condoms.
Psh, if that were true, there would be Horizon haters.
Correct me if I'm wrong but in "the West" at least (which is what we're basically talking about in this thread, apologies to ducky and any other non-Western residents), SAO is far far FAR more popular than Horizon. A quick glance at AnimeSuki reveals twice as many people posting in the SAO threads than the Horizon ones on pretty much any given topic, for instance.
Japan is a different matter, but I'm not sure what the Japanese opinions on either show are, other than that they sell well.
Jex
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It's the franchise that keeps on giving.
Pandering to the fujoshi fanbase.
Jex
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I don't get the impression that many people even know what Horizon is, beyond the existence of it's ridiculous character designs.
Oh my god. This is amazing, lol.
compared to:
It's pretty crazy. Hopefully this season can bring some big sales. F/Z S2 will probably get on here once sales are reported too.
I guess I need to watch S2. I watched S1 and it was okay. Nothing amazing but the production values were good and it was entertaining.
dakkumauji
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Hakkenden: Tōhō Hakken Ibun TV Anime Slated for January
Sounds like pretty boys samurais with magic or whatever.
Sounds like pretty boys samurais with magic or whatever.
Now, in light of this information, are there also fewer mega-bombas this year? (I wouldn't know the appropriate number to use as the benchmark. < 3k? < 2k?) I'm wondering if the lower number of clear-cut successes this year is due to otaku being more conservative in their spending or because there was slightly more even distribution of sales among titles.
Brave 10 2: Electric Boogaloo? I'll take it.
Why would it take two years to walk to Qishan, but only two months via caravan? The speed of wagons isn't such that walking is only 8% as fast as the wagon. These are groups that traveled perhaps twenty to thirty miles a day, on good conditions. Scale is out of whack unless they're riding hard killing horses as they go, but then, at that point it's not a caravan.
And you have to wonder at the competence of these supposedly gifted equestrian warriors if they can't even prevent a couple of armored thugs with a single prison cart from kidnapping their women.
Jex
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Well, it depends how you define 'decent'. If you define it as a show with a high potential to sell well, than SAO would clearly be top of the list. If you're simply speaking about the quality of a series than there were plenty of shows as good as, or better than, SAO.
Yeah, I was going to bring that up too, it seemed thoroughly bizarre.
Tales of Xillia 2 OP
CG monster aside, it's good.
CG monster aside, it's good.
For a moment I thought it was a new THE HAKKENDEN OVA... damn!
The site I got the information from also has lists for other sales ranges, such as 5,000-9,999, and I agree. The 3k-10k range is a lot more filled out for this year than last year and this year isn't even finished. There are also a lot of <3k series in 2011.
I think a part of it has to do with less mega-hits this year. Sure, there are probably more sales in other places because there aren't as many people scrambling to buy the next volume of Infinite Stratos, but I'm curious to know what the sales are overall for each year.Well, it's kinda pointless to ask that question until this season's sales come in.
Dedication Through Light
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That also puts Accel World in like the top of the year too and Hyouka as well. (<9K).
The manga characters look amazing, too bad I guess they only got to nine chapters :/
Hopefully the va's for the main roles use their Natsu Dragneel and Shujin or Sai voice.
I'm contentious about your comment regarding reactions being relative to its popularity that I disagree with. And are we really setting a cutoff of 30,000 plus sales to qualify for this discussion? Why are we excluding the Japanese contingent when talking about their respective popularity? How much does the Western fandom even contribute to Japanese volume sales anyway for them to matter? It's like we've forgotten about Infinite Stratos already.
Gyrozetter - Episode 5
A new villain emerges! A new enemy Gyrozetter (designed by Kawamori!) appears! An awesome new transport ship for Arcadia! Hot springs! A cute stray cat! A training arc! More licensed car mecha used as training bots! And the beginning of the first major battle between Arcadia and Xenon! This episode totally makes up for the last two somehat bland and lackluster episodes.
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Don't forget Irie's forgotten CG short film he did in his free time at BONES: Shinjuku Satomi Hakkenden.
A new villain emerges! A new enemy Gyrozetter (designed by Kawamori!) appears! An awesome new transport ship for Arcadia! Hot springs! A cute stray cat! A training arc! More licensed car mecha used as training bots! And the beginning of the first major battle between Arcadia and Xenon! This episode totally makes up for the last two somehat bland and lackluster episodes.
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Don't forget Irie's forgotten CG short film he did in his free time at BONES: Shinjuku Satomi Hakkenden.
So even Mr. Irie's has forgot about it I see, because he could have posted it online time ago!
I believe he mentioned that they were thinking of ways to release it to the public, but never found the chance. Let's not forget that Sword of the Stranger was originally shown as a pilot film at TAF too, years before it was made into an actual movie. So it's possible something might still come out of it in future! Don't lose hope!
Interesting. I'm glad that the lower incidence of mega-hits has allowed some less-marketable shows to come closer to breaking even on their BD sales. Some of 2011's undeserved bombas still sting in my memory.
Obviously the 2001 Pioneer dub. They improved the Streamline dub in every way.
Kickstarter is a viable option... all is possible now, every hope and dream!
Jex
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Not only has the Kick-Heart met it's target, but it might actually reach it's 200K stretch goal. Crazy times: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/production-ig/masaaki-yuasas-kick-heart
dakkumauji
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Naruto SD 31
I don't even know anymore...
Pretty amusing episode. Jokes scattered around, no silly Lee skits that take up too much time, it was all right.
I don't even know anymore...
Pretty amusing episode. Jokes scattered around, no silly Lee skits that take up too much time, it was all right.
Train of Midnight
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Ooh, this is the first I'm hearing of this. Looks good!
I need to get caught up on that.
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