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Fall of Anime 2012 |OT2| O cursed spite, that ever I was born to UUURRRRYYY!!
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Litchi de Hikari Club 7
The more I see of this, the more I think it's an adaptation of some unreleased 4koma Maruo did.
The more I see of this, the more I think it's an adaptation of some unreleased 4koma Maruo did.
Fall 2012 Preliminary First Volume Sales
*5,197 *1 K [DVD+BD]: 2012/11/07
As a reminder, both volumes 1 and 2 of K went on sale last week; this is just for volume 1. Full numbers will be out in a bit.
edit: Actually, it seems we have the full details for both K volumes, at least:
K Vol.1 -- 3,590 BD, 1,607 DVD
K Vol.2 -- 2,632 BD, 1,047 DVD
*5,197 *1 K [DVD+BD]: 2012/11/07
As a reminder, both volumes 1 and 2 of K went on sale last week; this is just for volume 1. Full numbers will be out in a bit.
edit: Actually, it seems we have the full details for both K volumes, at least:
K Vol.1 -- 3,590 BD, 1,607 DVD
K Vol.2 -- 2,632 BD, 1,047 DVD
So I guess their shameless attempt to pander to multiple otaku markets semi-worked?
So I guess it will settle at about the Manabi line.
So I guess it will settle at about the Manabi line.
Most likely the v2 that have full price sold under 4k, so...
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Chet Rippo
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That's a sizable drop right?
Also their skirts are too short, suggested hemlines:
You are an awful person.
Lol, good prediction.
I'd like to think that near the end of the series Girls und Panzer will pull all the way back and reveal that it is actually the world of BattleTanx on the Nintendo 64 in the far flung future. That is my ideal ending for the show.
It would also explain the colored tanks.
I never said it's detailed (although certain panels most surely are), but that it's unique in that it uses mostly soft edges (it's hard for me to really describe it) while most other manga use a "sharper" style, the character faces and clothes in Magi have a unique flow to them, they just seem "softer", at least that's how I see it. And while the character designs aren't too detailed (for the better) they are all easily recognizable and memorable, and transfer amazingly into animation. You can tell a lot of care and attention went into designing them.
Weekly BD/DVD/CD Sales for November 5-11:
Blu-ray
*1, 7,328 **7,328 Tari Tari vol.3
*2, 3,694 **3,694 Oda Nobuna no Yabou vol.3
*3, 3,590 **3,590 K vol.1
*4, 2,632 **2,632 K vol.2
*5, *,916 *30,716 Sword Art Online vol.1 Limited Edition
*6, *,893 *34,336 Strike Witches The Movie Limited Edition
*7, *,815 ***,815 Moyashimon Returns vol.3
*8, *,458 170,106 Evangelion: 1.11 You Are (Not) Alone
*9, *,439 **5,543 Five Star Stories Reprint Edition
10, *,381 *20,662 Kyoukaisenjou no Horizon II vol.2 Limited Edition
DVD
*1, 2,210 *,**2,210 One Piece 14th Season vol.14
*2, 1,607 *,**1,607 K vol.1
*3, 1,202 *,**1,202 Naruto: Shippuuden Kyubi Shoaku to Inganaru Kaiko no Sho vol.2
*4, 1,047 *,**1,047 K vol.2
*5, 1,035 *,**1,035 Himitsukessha Taka no Tsume NEO vol.1
*6, *,918 *,***,918 Nintama Rantarou Movie
*8, *,829 *,***,829 Oda Nobuna no Yabou vol.3
10, *,711 *,***,711 Moyashimon Returns vol.3
13, *,588 *,**2,906 Momo e no Tegami
14, *,585 1,165,097 Tonari no Totoro
16, *,505 *,*13,974 Kuroko no Basket vol.4
19, *,428 *,**2,696 Inazuma Eleven DVD Box vol.3
22, *,416 *,***,416 Fairy Tail vol.34
23, *,395 *,**8,238 Sword Art Online vol.1 Limited Edition
29, *,308 *,***,308 Sore Ike! Anpanman
30, *,300 *,***,300 Kono Danshi, Ningyo Hiroimashita.
Single CD
*5, 23,047 23,047 Ixion Saga DT "DT Suteru" "Let's go ED"
*8, 10,721 10,721 Bakuman. 3 "Pride on Everyday"
12, *8,730 *8,730 Code:Breaker "Dark Shame"
19, *4,660 67,991 Muv-Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse "Go to the top"
20, *4,313 *4,313 Jormungand: Perfect Order "Laterality"
22, *4,044 *4,044 Gintama' Enchousen "Moonwalk"
26, *3,598 14,706 Little Busters! "Little Busters!" "Alicemagic"
28, *3,503 50,427 Mahou Shoujo Madoka★Magica Movie 2: Eien no Monogatari "Hikari Furu"
30, *3,022 *3,022 K "Tsumetai Heya, Hitori"
32, *2,774 69,646 Mahou Shoujo Madoka★Magica Movie 1: Hajimari no Monogatari "Luminous"
34, *2,754 *2,754 Hidamari Sketch x Honeycomb "Yume Gumo"
35, *2,647 *2,647 To LOVE-Ru Darkness "Foul Play ni Kurari"
39, *2,510 20,101 Macross FB7: Ginga Rukon - Ore no Uta wo Kike! "Nyan Nyan Fire!! ~Totsugeki Planet Exposion" "Virgin Story"
41, *2,413 17,823 Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai! "Sparkling Daydream"
44, *1,984 *1,984 Girls und Panzer "Enter Enter Mission!"
49, *1,751 *6,726 Gintama' Enchousen "Let's go out"
Blu-ray
*1, 7,328 **7,328 Tari Tari vol.3
*2, 3,694 **3,694 Oda Nobuna no Yabou vol.3
*3, 3,590 **3,590 K vol.1
*4, 2,632 **2,632 K vol.2
*5, *,916 *30,716 Sword Art Online vol.1 Limited Edition
*6, *,893 *34,336 Strike Witches The Movie Limited Edition
*7, *,815 ***,815 Moyashimon Returns vol.3
*8, *,458 170,106 Evangelion: 1.11 You Are (Not) Alone
*9, *,439 **5,543 Five Star Stories Reprint Edition
10, *,381 *20,662 Kyoukaisenjou no Horizon II vol.2 Limited Edition
DVD
*1, 2,210 *,**2,210 One Piece 14th Season vol.14
*2, 1,607 *,**1,607 K vol.1
*3, 1,202 *,**1,202 Naruto: Shippuuden Kyubi Shoaku to Inganaru Kaiko no Sho vol.2
*4, 1,047 *,**1,047 K vol.2
*5, 1,035 *,**1,035 Himitsukessha Taka no Tsume NEO vol.1
*6, *,918 *,***,918 Nintama Rantarou Movie
*8, *,829 *,***,829 Oda Nobuna no Yabou vol.3
10, *,711 *,***,711 Moyashimon Returns vol.3
13, *,588 *,**2,906 Momo e no Tegami
14, *,585 1,165,097 Tonari no Totoro
16, *,505 *,*13,974 Kuroko no Basket vol.4
19, *,428 *,**2,696 Inazuma Eleven DVD Box vol.3
22, *,416 *,***,416 Fairy Tail vol.34
23, *,395 *,**8,238 Sword Art Online vol.1 Limited Edition
29, *,308 *,***,308 Sore Ike! Anpanman
30, *,300 *,***,300 Kono Danshi, Ningyo Hiroimashita.
Single CD
*5, 23,047 23,047 Ixion Saga DT "DT Suteru" "Let's go ED"
*8, 10,721 10,721 Bakuman. 3 "Pride on Everyday"
12, *8,730 *8,730 Code:Breaker "Dark Shame"
19, *4,660 67,991 Muv-Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse "Go to the top"
20, *4,313 *4,313 Jormungand: Perfect Order "Laterality"
22, *4,044 *4,044 Gintama' Enchousen "Moonwalk"
26, *3,598 14,706 Little Busters! "Little Busters!" "Alicemagic"
28, *3,503 50,427 Mahou Shoujo Madoka★Magica Movie 2: Eien no Monogatari "Hikari Furu"
30, *3,022 *3,022 K "Tsumetai Heya, Hitori"
32, *2,774 69,646 Mahou Shoujo Madoka★Magica Movie 1: Hajimari no Monogatari "Luminous"
34, *2,754 *2,754 Hidamari Sketch x Honeycomb "Yume Gumo"
35, *2,647 *2,647 To LOVE-Ru Darkness "Foul Play ni Kurari"
39, *2,510 20,101 Macross FB7: Ginga Rukon - Ore no Uta wo Kike! "Nyan Nyan Fire!! ~Totsugeki Planet Exposion" "Virgin Story"
41, *2,413 17,823 Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai! "Sparkling Daydream"
44, *1,984 *1,984 Girls und Panzer "Enter Enter Mission!"
49, *1,751 *6,726 Gintama' Enchousen "Let's go out"
firehawk12
Subete no aware
PA WORKS BEING PROGRESSIVE!!!!!!
firehawk12
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No pants furry military yuri girls > sad pathetic nerds who play video games.
Kingdom 24
My, god that's two episodes in a row without any CG whatsoever. Whatever's gone wrong, it seems to have "fixed" itself going by the preview. Still, what they lost in CG they've more than made up for with just how shit everything looked:
POMF =3
My, god that's two episodes in a row without any CG whatsoever. Whatever's gone wrong, it seems to have "fixed" itself going by the preview. Still, what they lost in CG they've more than made up for with just how shit everything looked:
why
I thought this is video game forum?
Now this is the biggest surprise of all. I didn't know Ixion Saga DT is popular.
Canis lupus
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A full season of Higurashi and then some episodes are awaiting me and I can't bring myself to watch it further.
RyougaSaotome
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Yesterday work was running a bit late, so I figured I'd do the rounds and check in on all the school clubs until it was time to head home. After poking my head into the art club, I invited myself in and found that aside from the two gentlemen sitting in the back, the class was entirely composed of girls.
What were these girls drawing? Doujin, sketches of their favorite anime, etc. Terrified of the stray foreign teacher discovering their fujoshi tendencies, I made myself at home and started chatting them up about recent shows and shit. Discovered some hilarious stuff about some of my 7th graders and her tastes in anime; she's a huge fucking Yu Yu Hakusho fan and nearly did a lap around the room when I told her I used to be a big fan back in the day.
The bigger news being that Magi is the big thing amongst 7th and 8th grade girls right now. As they put it, it's currently experiencing something of a "boom." Hahaha.
Unsurprisingly, they all love K-On!, dug Hyouka, and are currently enjoying Chuu2 like crazy. SAO is also getting the consistent amount of love it seems to always get from the middle school girl audience.
I always find it fascinating to see what these age groups think of recent shows/what they're watching. For example, their love of K-On! stems from the very basic "they're just like us! It reminds me of when I hang out with my friends" sense of closeness/nostalgia/whatever you want to call it. Of course, they're much less articulate about it and tend to say something more along the lines of "The girls are cute and they're like us and they're cute and TEEHEEHEEHEE *insert ridiculous amounts of preteen/teenage girl giggling here*"
Though the best moment came today when one of the girls was like "Elliot sensei, do you... nevermind." After pressing her to ask me, she finally spoke up and asked if I was familiar with boys love. "Oh yeah, one of my good friends who works at a manga publisher used to drag me around with her to all the shops!"
I think one of them almost fainted. Hahaha.
What were these girls drawing? Doujin, sketches of their favorite anime, etc. Terrified of the stray foreign teacher discovering their fujoshi tendencies, I made myself at home and started chatting them up about recent shows and shit. Discovered some hilarious stuff about some of my 7th graders and her tastes in anime; she's a huge fucking Yu Yu Hakusho fan and nearly did a lap around the room when I told her I used to be a big fan back in the day.
The bigger news being that Magi is the big thing amongst 7th and 8th grade girls right now. As they put it, it's currently experiencing something of a "boom." Hahaha.
Unsurprisingly, they all love K-On!, dug Hyouka, and are currently enjoying Chuu2 like crazy. SAO is also getting the consistent amount of love it seems to always get from the middle school girl audience.
I always find it fascinating to see what these age groups think of recent shows/what they're watching. For example, their love of K-On! stems from the very basic "they're just like us! It reminds me of when I hang out with my friends" sense of closeness/nostalgia/whatever you want to call it. Of course, they're much less articulate about it and tend to say something more along the lines of "The girls are cute and they're like us and they're cute and TEEHEEHEEHEE *insert ridiculous amounts of preteen/teenage girl giggling here*"
Though the best moment came today when one of the girls was like "Elliot sensei, do you... nevermind." After pressing her to ask me, she finally spoke up and asked if I was familiar with boys love. "Oh yeah, one of my good friends who works at a manga publisher used to drag me around with her to all the shops!"
I think one of them almost fainted. Hahaha.
KO Traveling Hobo
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Gold. I love these stories.
This is like one of my Japanese animes.
They could make a delightful slice of life anime about your life.
YomeColle update:
I just thought it was funny that they were so lazy when taking this cap that they didn't bother removing the guy from the frame. Go figure. lol
I've never been sure what to make of this one:
That's Ichika's "Welcome home" card, but there's Kaito's head in the bottom left, and all three of this card's voices are her frantically trying to "explain." Am I being NTRed here??
You should post this type of stuff more often. I love your stories.
The song is pretty awesome.
Saint Seiya Omega 29 - 31
Well, I must say I enjoy the direction the series has taken, it's like a tournament arc of sorts, a no holds barred shounen, really sweet. They'll probably continue with this setup of Twelve Zodiac Temples until the final showdown (I expect this to last at least until episode 42), and I would enjoy it if they did. It's simple, but effective, with no need for filler crap. The show might actually redeem itself for everything in this second arc.
I just checked and this is basically how the original show played out? Fine by me.
Anyway, I really hope Kouga gets a more interesting attack, the Ryu Sei-Ken is kind of boring, although it seems they switched it up a bit with the uppercut or whatever. But he still needs something new, pronto.
Visually these three episodes didn't have any exciting animation, but the character models looked good for the most part, especially during close-ups, which is great.
When can we expect another Umakoshi episode?
Well, I must say I enjoy the direction the series has taken, it's like a tournament arc of sorts, a no holds barred shounen, really sweet. They'll probably continue with this setup of Twelve Zodiac Temples until the final showdown (I expect this to last at least until episode 42), and I would enjoy it if they did. It's simple, but effective, with no need for filler crap. The show might actually redeem itself for everything in this second arc.
I just checked and this is basically how the original show played out? Fine by me.
Anyway, I really hope Kouga gets a more interesting attack, the Ryu Sei-Ken is kind of boring, although it seems they switched it up a bit with the uppercut or whatever. But he still needs something new, pronto.
Visually these three episodes didn't have any exciting animation, but the character models looked good for the most part, especially during close-ups, which is great.
When can we expect another Umakoshi episode?
RurouniZel
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Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Overture to a New War (may include some spoilers for the show)
Nothing particularly groundbreaking in terms of storytelling, but nevertheless a moment of praise for a series that’s so verbose.
Lohengramm Musel. So, same shit, different day? I understand the necessity to bring the new audiences up to speed, but by doing so you create an entire first act that’s frankly devoid of anything interesting going on. I think it was firehawk (?) who complained about the talking heads in his review of the movie? There’s actually (and this is totally empirical; don’t fucking ask me to time and count the lines in the film) much less verbosity in Overture than in a regular episode of LotGH, but most of it is concentrated in the first forty minutes of it. It’s a very frontloaded work, and I honestly felt tempted to skip much of it.
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Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure 06
MY BLOOD IS BOILING WITH AN AWESOME HEAT
AND I JUST PEED MY PANTS
So, lots of mixed feelings about this one. Good things first: great mechanical animation (the Valkyries have always been a joy to watch, but even the regular fleet ships looked gorgeous in movement), the soundtrack is as classy as usual, and the lack of a narrator fits the medium better this time around. The movie also touches upon
im yang wenli and i command space fleets
the relationship between Jessica Edwards, Jean Robert Lappe, and Yang Wenli. While nothing too blatant, it lays out Yang’s feelings in the triangle with more melancholy and reluctance. He seemed to be fairly asexual for most of the show –or, rather, quite uninterested in women issues until the women threw themselves upon him. The depiction of the love triangle here makes it clear how Yang is sacrificing his own feelings for the sake of Jean Robert. It’s pretty much in agreement with his assessment many episodes later that he denies himself a normal life because of the bloodshed he feels he’s entitled to. Not that that’s much of a problem right now in his pre-Iserlohn days, but still. Speaking of the love triangle, I adored the way the director handled the dine-out sequence. It’s about five minutes straight devoid of any dialogue and just clean character animation carrying it through.
That said… I don’t believe the thing works at all. The movie is still structured like an episode of the television series. It just happens that it spends about forty minutes of background information about the aforementioned love triangle and lots more of Prince Braunschweig and/or the Imperial nobility being fucking arseholes towards Lord Reinhard von
Who the shit is this monocle dude anyway?
Regardless of what you think of the first two episodes of LotGH with all its pompousness and scarce animation, it immediately throws you into the heat of the action and later fills you up with all the niggly details that make the cast of Legend so rich and varied. That opener leaves a strong impression and sets the tone for the rest of the series: vast in scope, larger than life characters, and tons of sweet pew pew. The first half of Overture is unlike anything else in the show, and it seriously put a damp on the rest of the experience for me.
The :dtl is already going off the charts and I still have to watch Golden Wings!
I don’t want to sound too cynical about it. I thought it was neat; I just wouldn’t advise anyone towards watching this instead of the actual two first episodes. Three surreptitiously mute Poplans out of five.
I think this may be the only instance of a Dutch angle in the entire show.
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Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure 06
MY BLOOD IS BOILING WITH AN AWESOME HEAT
AND I JUST PEED MY PANTS
RurouniZel
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Dat lack of presence! Hnnng! ;P
RyougaSaotome
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There's definitely enough wackiness in my life on a day to day basis to fill a 24 episode series. Fo sho.
An anime concerning my at-work antics would be a great show too.
Dedication Through Light
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The op and its versions are funny.
R_thanatos
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Sakurasou no Pet na Kanojo 01 - 04
i didn't know what to expect when i started the first episode.. i knew at best that it had a school setting of some wort but that's it ..
i was pleasantly surprised i ended up enjoying it ..
First the graphics.. the animation is well above average in most points
Second the voice work is accurate towards the characters
third the characters themselves are "cliché" ( most of them ) BUT it works properly because they have all a goal , hobby and except the MC at first a clear direction.. i enjoy characters that are straight in their views of the world and by the time Ep4 finished i'm happy that the plot reached a stable loop ..with his setting now clearly defined .
It was kinda obvious by the anime rules that our quiet girl would be more than that but i'm glad that the "reveal" affected our MC this way ...it kinda forced each character to present himself in a new light .. On a similar note , the duo genki girl / pimp writter is also a sub plot that i hope will get adressed in the future ..
The voice actress / friendzoned girl has lost the fight ..but maybe not the war even if as of now is at a clear disadvantage .. i'll see how this will work out ..
Last but not least the hikikomori programmer with his maid-chan AI is not bad himself he will need his own specialised episode in the future and i hope they will deliver.
Well ..thank to his casting and the fact that the characters are not idiots , i've managed to enjoy this anime .. I hope they will keep this up but it was without a doubt a good start
i didn't know what to expect when i started the first episode.. i knew at best that it had a school setting of some wort but that's it ..
i was pleasantly surprised i ended up enjoying it ..
First the graphics.. the animation is well above average in most points
Second the voice work is accurate towards the characters
third the characters themselves are "cliché" ( most of them ) BUT it works properly because they have all a goal , hobby and except the MC at first a clear direction.. i enjoy characters that are straight in their views of the world and by the time Ep4 finished i'm happy that the plot reached a stable loop ..with his setting now clearly defined .
Congrats !
It was kinda obvious by the anime rules that our quiet girl would be more than that but i'm glad that the "reveal" affected our MC this way ...it kinda forced each character to present himself in a new light .. On a similar note , the duo genki girl / pimp writter is also a sub plot that i hope will get adressed in the future ..
The voice actress / friendzoned girl has lost the fight ..but maybe not the war even if as of now is at a clear disadvantage .. i'll see how this will work out ..
Last but not least the hikikomori programmer with his maid-chan AI is not bad himself he will need his own specialised episode in the future and i hope they will deliver.
Well ..thank to his casting and the fact that the characters are not idiots , i've managed to enjoy this anime .. I hope they will keep this up but it was without a doubt a good start
Train of Midnight
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You should probably just postpone that indefinitely. You'll be better off.
I finally got around to watching Magi's sixth episode this morning, and I enjoyed it a lot. I thought that the anime expanded the actions sequences quite well. Also, I actually really liked how it further developed Morgiana's recollections of her past - the anime made them most more poignant. Those were grim scenes but well realized in comparison to the manga.
Joe Molotov
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Smile Precure 36
Awwww hell nah! I know this isn't some filthy BOY invading my pure, virginal yuri wonderland, and a baka gaijin at that!
Disgusting. Akane, why are you hurting Nao like this??!
Awwww hell nah! I know this isn't some filthy BOY invading my pure, virginal yuri wonderland, and a baka gaijin at that!
Disgusting. Akane, why are you hurting Nao like this??!
Theonik
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Best way to display it is hiding it behind other figures so you can see only the buns.
Hellsing321
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Ultimadrago
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Accel World SP 1-2
Outstanding.
I must apologize for insinuating these shorts for being like OreImo's terrible commentaries or Sword Art Offline.
This is the something I never asked for, but keeps on giving.
Outstanding.
I must apologize for insinuating these shorts for being like OreImo's terrible commentaries or Sword Art Offline.
This is the something I never asked for, but keeps on giving.
Dedication Through Light
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40K for SAO v1, impressive.
Anyway, good for K, hopefully in the realm of an s2 release, I hope.
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