Has there been any mention of what the free gift will be for Serial Experiments Lain from RightStuf? The release date is three weeks away now, and I can only assume it will be something other than another artbook since that is already included in the package.
Sword Art Online 16:
Could you be any less subtle, Sug? I mean, seriously...
So, Agil or whatever his name was is some kind of ultra-swag bartender in real life? And
enough people weren't sufficiently terrified by the SAO incident so that full-dive VR gaming is still actually a thing? I wouldn't think that an upgraded NervGear whose biggest selling point is "less likely to kill you!" would even remotely persuade me not to stay the fuck away from the technology forever, personally
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It was so weird to see Kirito basically do the
bumbling dude who stumbles into a violent situation and reveals that he's actually a 1337 pwnz0r master of killing shit after taking everyone off guard
thing considering how hard the show tries to avoid older fantasy anime cliches (say what you will about the show itself, but it's managed to avoid being a Slayers-alike, I guess) that whole sequence just took me out of it.
Kirito being excited at the prospect of killing dudes in-game
was also pretty weird, but......I guess that's what happened when you're half-crazed from
One Piece was better in the past. Even if the animation wasn't that good, the style made it much better. The actual episodes have a shitty pacing, it's unwatchable, unless you watch, like, 10 episodes in row.
Even the manga is getting pretty bad after New World. But I'm sure it can get better at least. Also, at least on the movies I will see something that resembles the good times of One Piece, even if they are original stories.
Anyway
Ixion Saga 03
Pretty shitty episode. The other two were good, so I'll continue to watch.
Seeing him punching this fucking annoying girl... why the hell does she even try to apply normal logic in front of Yakuza's and corrupt police? Is she fucking stupid? She does really thinks the world is black and white?
I'm convinced that Sakura as used by the anime is a pure comedy trope. It's actually pretty funny when used this way, and the show isn't afraid to abuse her just to make that point!
The best part is, world in Code:Breaker does seem pretty black and white though.
- There are bad people who are clearly bad, know they're bad, and just go out of their way to do bad things and make bad-people-faces.
- There are good people who don't do anything bad and hence gets marginalized, taken advantage of, and abused.
- There are super badass people who have special powers and acknowledge that they are bad as well, but go around killing bad people while telling them how bad everyone is. BAD BAD BAD BAD.
It's incredibly entertaining in a very base way, because of how over the top it is, and how effective the direction is at being the exact thing it wants to be. If I were to compare it to a videogame, I would say it's a lot like playing through Mass Effect 2 while doing as many of the Renegade options as possible. Sogood.
I'm starting to realize that it's really hard to marathon this anime. It's not like it's bad, I do enjoy its very lighthearted nature and the usual Shaft shenanigans that come with it, but at the end of each episode I don't feel compelled at all to check out the next one immediately right after it. I suppose that's the nature of slow slice of anime without a central story. I don't even know why I had plans to catch up this season and start watching Honeycomb. At the rate I'm going at, I will probably be done by the end of the year.
Anyway, as usual, all the Sae focused stuff were meh but Yuno and Yoshinoya saved the episode.
This feels really really bad.
However it is about a very interesting topic so I will follow it to see where it goes and to get the discussion it might spark.
Theres already a trailer and even an animated special episode coming for it too.
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If I were to compare it to a videogame, I would say it's a lot like playing through Mass Effect 2 while doing as many of the Renegade options as possible. Sogood.
He has much more variance and creativity in his male designs than his female designs in general, so while I sometimes just want to write it off as his style, I think the truth is that he either demands all of his women to have the same identical "sexy" figure or he just sucks with female faces/anatomy.
He has much more variance and creativity in his male designs than his female designs in general, so while I sometimes just want to write it off as his style, I think the truth is that he either demands all of his women to have the same identical "sexy" figure or he just sucks with female faces/anatomy.
I'm convinced that Sakura as used by the anime is a pure comedy trope. It's actually pretty funny when used this way, and the show isn't afraid to abuse her just to make that point!
The best part is, world in Code:Breaker does seem pretty black and white though.
- There are bad people who are clearly bad, know they're bad, and just go out of their way to do bad things and make bad-people-faces.
- There are good people who don't do anything bad and hence gets marginalized, taken advantage of, and abused.
- There are super badass people who have special powers and acknowledge that they are bad as well, but go around killing bad people while telling them how bad everyone is. BAD BAD BAD BAD.
It's incredibly entertaining in a very base way, because of how over the top it is, and how effective the direction is at being the exact thing it wants to be. If I were to compare it to a videogame, I would say it's a lot like playing through Mass Effect 2 while doing as many of the Renegade options as possible. Sogood.
He has much more variance and creativity in his male designs than his female designs in general, so while I sometimes just want to write it off as his style, I think the truth is that he either demands all of his women to have the same identical "sexy" figure or he just sucks with female faces/anatomy.
Either Warriors Orochi 2 on the PSP/Vita which isn't bad, just too much grinding to get everything (which you probably don't care). But, it is an older game so the characters look different and it looks somewhat dated being a PS2 downport.
There's also Dynasty Warriors NEXT on the Vita which isn't bad as an introduction since it does tell most of the story, but I'm not too fond of it after finishing it. This one looks good, uses the DW7 models, just wasn't as fun as DW7.
The amazon lady island proved he could draw different/more normal female body parts so i think the ridiculous proportions on the main cast is a deliberate style choice.
and re: Code;Breaker- I haven't seen it yet, but something being black and white isn't always a bad thing if it's executed properly. The Jojo's anime is as black and white as they come and still manages to be entertaining as hell.
And I mean the two girls with body issues. They're immediately more interesting than the heroines of either show, but obviously too depressing to be the leads.
I love/hate her. I hate her for bringing morality into a show that I would have been able to tolerate a lot more had it not ever been brought up. I love her for being passionate enough about that reality to try and save everyone. I like characters that don't like killing even when up against the absolute worst of humanity.
Of course later on, I hate her for not doing a damn thing despite constantly spouting her "don't kill" mantra. She (non-specific manga spoilers)
can actually stop these people from killing, yet she stands around and whines about not being able to stop them. Then she forgets about it and they have a beach episode!
Either Warriors Orochi 2 on the PSP/Vita which isn't bad, just too much grinding to get everything (which you probably don't care). But, it is an older game so the characters look different and it looks somewhat dated being a PS2 downport.
There's also Dynasty Warriors NEXT on the Vita which isn't bad as an introduction since it does tell most of the story, but I'm not too fond of it after finishing it. This one looks good, uses the DW7 models, just wasn't as fun as DW7.
Shes alright whenever they are in school (those scenes in school are so hilarious). Im fine with that, but the moment she gets off of school with him its like she goes into this weird clueless mode and its gets annoying.
Well, Oda only had two extremes there: traditional Oda-style attractiveness for the important characters (Hancock, Margaret) and comically exaggerated ugliness (everyone else). What we saw there wasn't so much natural diversity in character design as an intentional subversion of the "Amazon tribe" concept by having a tribe of ugly and misshapen women instead of perfect and beautiful women. Outside of an environment where he's intentionally making a point with the character design, nearly any female character that's young and plot-relevant has roughly the same body and often the same face. He just can't resist when he has no reason not to.
The niconico service will stream an event with two Japanese voice actresses from the Psycho-Pass and Robotics;Notes anime on Tuesday with live English translations. The event at the TIFFCOM 2012 trade market will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Tokyo (6:30 a.m. EDT) with screenings of the first episodes of both series.
After the episode screenings, Kana Hanazawa (Akane Tsunemori in Psycho-Pass) and Yoshino Nanjou (Akiho Senomiya in Robotics;Notes) will appear in an 8:30 p.m. JST (7:30 a.m. EDT) talk session complete with on-site English translations.
