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Fall of Anime 2012 |OT2| O cursed spite, that ever I was born to UUURRRRYYY!!
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darkside31337
Tomodachi wa Mahou
Chuu2 5
It finally hit me that this is literally the closest I am ever going to get to some more fabulous Lulu Code Geass action
God bless this show. Rikka is so damn adorable.
It finally hit me that this is literally the closest I am ever going to get to some more fabulous Lulu Code Geass action
God bless this show. Rikka is so damn adorable.
It's mecha by a formality really. They do the space merc action thing then use the robot to wrap up an ep. It's not as much of a focus as I thought it'd be and sometimes it'll appear for under a minute just to make an appearance. Frankly, it'd be better without.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Yeah, that's a fair approach. At the very least, PreCure is probably the most overtly "for kids" thing that I've intentionally sought out and watched in a long, long time. I guess with Sailor Moon I have the excuse of nostalgia and with the random DoReMi episodes, it was staff-whoring. lol
But hey, let's all be BroCures together!
I like how the subject uses Chinese. Clever satire.
This GIF makes me so tired. I have stuff should be doing instead of making GIFs.
God.
Im going to go home and die watching this.
Ultimadrago
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Aah, what the hell. I have the time!
Good idea!
Dear diary,
I'm making quite the effort in marathoning Suite Precure today. Who would've thought I'd get so involved with this show? Not me!
Oh, I've also realized today that anger management classes may be in order. Because I've been hankering to slap the s*** out of firehawk12 for his shenanigans lately.
No, no! Firehawk12 is a respectable council member of the Rose. I'll settle for the thumbtacks in shoes route instead. Yeah. That sounds good. On another note...
I find myself becoming wary of our impending doom with each passing day. Some days I find myself staring at Tomat and catching a brief glimpse of the darkness that lies within his heart. If only Hitokage was still here...
P.S. I'm going to piss in my next bottle of apple juice and leave it in the fridge for the others to find. That'll teach Ultimadrago, Envelope, Mad Pierrot, and Darkside to stop drinking my shit!!!
Get on that and start a kickstarter! Haha
In the wrong way.
Haha
Well, sakuga certainly never hurts.
Yeah, that would help. Episode 3 is still one of my favorite episodes of SSO. I'm watching a lot of shows right now but as soon as I finish one or get more time, I think I'm definitely going to go ahead and get started watching Heartcatch.
Ok, thanks for clarifying that. I wasn't sure by the little bit I saw when looking up the show.
Or to start?
You speak the truth Pierrot, you speak the truth.
Sometimes I wish I was honest about some of the weird shit I like. Probably never will be though.
Yes, please. How can we judge ourselves without your list to go by?
First time I read this I took it as shipping Dekomori with herself.
And, y'know, it ain't our fault that the kids' shows that aren't mahou shoujo almost never get any kind of English translation. Would you feel less weird about watching Precure if, say, you were getting in some B-Daman and Danball Senki and Inazuma Eleven and Yu-Gi-Oh on a weekly basis too? There's some semblance of a thematic spectrum beyond just cute girls in the plastic-shit-peddling genre, but it's mostly locked away from gaijin eyes.
I still liked Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh and whatever into adulthood so the "demographic" stuff never even occurs to me because I never experienced a "growing out" process to begin with. Although I didn't follow Precure until I marathoned Heartcatch early last year, and even then that was initially only because of Umakoshi. Admitting this is going to make me sound like such a loser, but I think I'm so attached to the franchise regardless of quality now because blowing through Heartcatch got me out of the worst (at the time) emotional low of my life and I look to this shit as my one reliable ray of sunshine each week. It's colorful and optimistic and the themes are simple and positive and I just need that. So when I'm being a terrible apologist for the franchise like I am right now, it's only because my appreciation doesn't necessarily rely on quality. I would have never touched this stuff when I was in college and leaned way more monocle than I do now!
The joke was just going to be that I would link to my MAL, thereby implying that no anime is socially acceptable to like!
Suite Precure - 23
Oh crap! I just noticed.
AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
Oh crap! I just noticed.
Ultimadrago
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You know me too well, Ultimabro. All too well.
R_thanatos
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And this is why ..diaries should be kept personal ...imagine if cajun , kayos or chet made their diaries public ? ( don't deny i have accurate sources that told me that you all had diaries )
You've gotten too good at this game, Ultima.
You're allowed to like Ghibli, and maybe vaguely remember Dragon Ball, One Piece, and whatever Gundam was on TV when you were 14.
Knowing that Goku's voiced by a girl or mobile suit model numbers is right out, though.
chickdigger802
Banned
chu
Guy is falling into darkness. It's saddening.
Guy is falling into darkness. It's saddening.
Chet Rippo
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Sekirei 5
Hikari and Hibiki are pretty great, it's too bad they're not part of the main guys harem, so their fate is up in the air.
So now the harem is set, or at least the main ones as far as the ED is concerned. More will probably come, but the real fighting starts up next episode.
Hikari and Hibiki are pretty great, it's too bad they're not part of the main guys harem, so their fate is up in the air.
I swear, half the time her face is like that.
Ultimadrago
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R_thanatos
Member
Chuunibyou_Demo_Koi_ga_Shitai!_-_05
both imoutos are just awesome
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darkside31337
Tomodachi wa Mahou
If you have children, a whole wide world of knowing these things opens back up.
If you're of the age to have children but don't, you can pass it off until the person you're talking to discovers that you're buying that action figure for yourself.
Solution: Buy online, direct from the manufacturer!
R_thanatos
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Everybody forgets about the other imouto.
Poor thing, shes completely forgettable
BUt the little one can swing the sword of death and get to keep the children !!!
Everybody forgets about the other imouto.
Poor thing, shes completely forgettable
I mentioned her! Kuzuha's actually one of my favorite archetypes even if she doesn't have a lot of screentime.
I'd be interested in reading Cajuns. I'd bet there'd be many "hnnnnnngs" and "cute" throughout the entries. Kayos' would be a wall of text leading to a tl;dr. Chet's diary entries would be awesome.
Kidding Kayos90!
Whenever I plop down an armful of Pokemon plushies at the Wal-Mart cash register, I always make sure to ask what the return policy is because "I'm getting these for my niece's birthday and she might have some already".
None taken. lol.
I've thought it kind of funny how diaries used to be under lock and key and kept in a drawer or under a bed or something and now people feel compelled to use Facebook or twitter or something similar to tell everyone in the world what they're up to, assuming people actually care and thinking of themselves as some sort of mini celebrity or something.
Woah! Hey there!
After reading this I'm now inexplicably sad. I'm going to bed!
Shin Sekai 5-
This is without a doubt the worst directed episode I've seen in a long while, topping the clusterfuck AO one earlier in the year. I'm sitting there wondering if the whole episode is a dream sequence because of how badly directed it is. The lack of transition scenes, the ridiculous filter, the change in artstyle, and the camera angles really made this episode a mess.
This is without a doubt the worst directed episode I've seen in a long while, topping the clusterfuck AO one earlier in the year. I'm sitting there wondering if the whole episode is a dream sequence because of how badly directed it is. The lack of transition scenes, the ridiculous filter, the change in artstyle, and the camera angles really made this episode a mess.
Source. One better than the Japanese magazine publishers' trade group, or a really good explanation of how two-thirds of Jump readers are U-14 and 90% are still in compulsory education but its biggest title skews that far away.
Or how the TV show rated like this in 2011:
(KID is 0-1, TEN is 13-19, 1, 2, and 3 are 20-34, 35-49, and 50+ by gender)
Well there's three ways of following One Piece.
Two are the ones you listed--people who read Jump, and people who watch the One Piece cartoon.
But there's also the people who buy the tankoubon but don't (or no longer) buy Jump.
Adults reading comics but lacking interest in their cartoon adaptations is supposedly pretty common.
And if the only comic you're interested in in Jump is One Piece, and if you're not the type to worry about seeing the newest chapter as absolutely fast as possible, then you just buy the tankoubon. (i.e. "コミックス派" people)
So it's certainly possible for such a thing to be true without contradicting the Jump readership and TV ratings you posted, but as to whether it really is or not...you're not the only one raising an eyebrow at the conclusions being drawn from Kinokuniya's data:
http://detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/qa/question_detail/q1355335713
Chet Rippo
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firehawk12
Subete no aware
Ever since I got rid of cable, watching kids shows isn't even an option for me... I'm not even sure how to watch Pokemon nowadays. lol
And you know, I remember reading PonyGAF's reasons for watching that show when the whole thing about being a Brony was a thing (how quickly internet fads die), so I can understand finding something optimistic or fun about a show and just sticking with it. I suppose that's the same as me finding :firehawk to be an uplifting experience and why I will always be a lifelong SatoJun fan.
I guess there's also the interesting idea of feeling nostalgia for a concept rather than for an actual text. The fact that they're also in junior high probably adds a lot to that feeling as well.
But anyway, like what you like. Why not!
I meant it more along the lines of someone's "deepest, darkest secrets" like having a crush on someone or doing badly on a test were things they would write down but never share. Now people seem to openly and gladly share this very personal information with complete strangers.
As for the latter "assuming people care", I meant that silly stuff like posting what they had for lunch. The kind of essentially pointless information one would find these celebrity stalking type shows or websites to cover.
I didn't mean this as an attack on anyone, just an observation of the total contrast in how people handle their personal, private information.
You see? Awesome!
dakkumauji
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Chuu2Koi 05
It was pretty fun. The antics and their 'club activities' were all fun to watch, pretty random but still fun. Some scenes looked really nice as well.
It was pretty fun. The antics and their 'club activities' were all fun to watch, pretty random but still fun. Some scenes looked really nice as well.
Adding to the mix, Kino's mostly relatively upscale/urban locations, isn't it? I can definitely see most One Piece purchases there being made by adults just because I can't see most of the stores sitting on little kids' walks home. Whether these purchases go on the shelf of a normal guy who started at 15 and is now 30, on the shelf next to a figure, or get handed over at the dinner table as an apology for being home late are three completely different fates we can't divine even from that.
Now, this certainly isn't arguing that no adults read OP, but with 3 million or so sales a volume (and for tanks only I'd definitely buy that a greater proportion are longtime fans in their mid-late 20s) you can literally sell more to adults than any other comic sells at all and still only account for 20% of your readership.
chickdigger802
Banned
kore wa zombie ova
Gotta love that super smoothly animated taking off pants scene.
Gotta love that super smoothly animated taking off pants scene.
R_thanatos
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Just as expected ...
Chet Rippo
Member
I'm a man of few words.
chickdigger802
Banned
we all expect big things outta ya.
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