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Fall of Anime 2012 |OT2| O cursed spite, that ever I was born to UUURRRRYYY!!
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Is this your first time seeing a Tsukkomi?
The VA is extremely annoying.
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Chet Rippo
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Because he has night shift.
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Man you need to stop watch many show if can't drop something, this one is 2 cour you know.
Btw I don't think its anything lika Toradora, don't know from where the comparison come.
Ow...
*Suddenly got image cajun as Bartender*
Never gets old.
I'm probably going to give it a couple of more episodes and if it doesn't get better, I'll drop it. I haven't found it good from the get-go so two more is my limit.
Haha, Matsuoka's rising voice intonation he does for the tuskkomi lines is the only really interesting thing the protagonist has going for him at this point.
This show has potential, but Sorata's definitely going to have to develop some for it to live up to it.
Okada is involved, director seems to be a fan of Tatsuyuki Nagai, J.C.Staff is animating with decent production value and it's 2 cour.
Not to mention the character similarities and probably love drama down the road.
Actually, I don't think Okada was in charge of this episode. Kamoshida Hajime (the writer for the novels) was in charge of the script for this episode, Kanbe Mamoru was in charge of storyboarding, and Takashima Daisuke was the episode director.
Edit: I agree that any similarities to Toradora are due to Okada. Other than that, I agree with fertygo. I don't really see it except at a very superficial level (JC Staff, a group of people with personal conflicts, two guys and three girls).
There we go.
I really love this OST. Not at all what I'm used to and that's a good thing.
Also I'm a huge fan of jazz.
The main character is taking care of a girl who can't take of herself (Taiga). Misaki's personality is similar to Minori. There's the whole love drama bit, in the form of Misaki and Jin's relationship. This is of course assuming nothing happens between Sorata's female friend and Sorata that starts another love triangle issue. Not to mention both MCs feeling out of place in society and trying to fit in. The character designs themselves are pretty close in style to Toradora.
Sounds about right.
KO Traveling Hobo
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Is Tsukkomi humour good at all?
Japanese language puns and tsukkomis/theotheroneiforgotthename are pretty bad.
Taiga was nowhere near as bad as the girl in Sakurasou no Pet na Kanajo. Not even close, Taiga was essentially just fucking messy, this chick, she, she can't even buy food and shit.
I don't want to pretend that either stories are fantastic but Toradora's definitely a step up from Sakurasou no Pet na Kanajo and the girl's aren't even comparable. Sakurasou no Pet na Kanajo's girl requires you to believe that somehow, this girl hasn't picked up any of this basic info until she meets Sorata, this is a leap that no human should be able to make. She had people watching her all this time and yet no one told her about money? Pants? Or anything of the like? Clearly she's not supposed to be actually handicapped in any way because in episode 2 she actually learns about having to actually purchase food, she picked that basic info up in one anime day from a single experience so how the fuck did she go 15 years or so without picking up that info? So she's not actually incapable of learning anything the writers just chose for her not to learn anything over the course of her entire life just so she could learn it all with this Sorata dude. How novel.
Anyways, I'm just watching this show for the cats, screw the characters.
I don't want to pretend that either stories are fantastic but Toradora's definitely a step up from Sakurasou no Pet na Kanajo and the girl's aren't even comparable. Sakurasou no Pet na Kanajo's girl requires you to believe that somehow, this girl hasn't picked up any of this basic info until she meets Sorata, this is a leap that no human should be able to make. She had people watching her all this time and yet no one told her about money? Pants? Or anything of the like? Clearly she's not supposed to be actually handicapped in any way because in episode 2 she actually learns about having to actually purchase food, she picked that basic info up in one anime day from a single experience so how the fuck did she go 15 years or so without picking up that info? So she's not actually incapable of learning anything the writers just chose for her not to learn anything over the course of her entire life just so she could learn it all with this Sorata dude. How novel.
Anyways, I'm just watching this show for the cats, screw the characters.
Ultimadrago
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He supposedly has watched Gintama, so I'd guess not.
Taiga was completely able to take care of herself and Sorata doesn't feel out of place in society. Sorata's issue is that he doesn't know what he wants to do with his life.
These are all real stretches. A point of similarity is that there's a "love drama" between Misaki and Jin? Aside from "love drama" being super vague, Misaki and Jin's relationship is emulated nowhere in Toradora because Minori and Ami were
interested in Ryuuji, not Kitamura. If anything, Toradora was much more of a harem than Sakurasou, which is probably going to end up as a love triangle at most unless another girl is included.
It's also funny to me that the episode that causes all of the Toradora comparisons is the one that Okada isn't involved with. As for the art, the use of bright, saturated colors might be similar, but Sakurasou uses much more of a tinted color scheme in each of its scenes (with way too much lens flare).
And how the character designs in this:
are similar to this:
I will never understand.
Black Republican
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Medaka now has red hair??? super sayain??
mind blown.
Heh, Unzen is pretty cool though, interested to see how his character goes.
mind blown.
Heh, Unzen is pretty cool though, interested to see how his character goes.
Did you even watch the last season? Or are you talking about the image above?
He's clearly watching the final episodes of last season right now.
Black Republican
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season 1, just catching up
Ohh... carry on then... I didn't even read the part about Unzen... >.<
I thought he was talking about the scene in the last episode of this season.
Still think they look closer to Joshiraku than anything.
Question for everyone, what's up with characters who constantly have a cigarette hanging out of their mouth? Is it the mark of bein a cool dude?
Jex
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You can't win a war on terror, my friend. It would be naive to think otherwise.
Yes Taiga wasn't as much as an idiot however both MC's are pretty much providing cleaning services and taking care of the MC. Sorata does have an inferiority complex however this episode and prior ones show that he is having problems fitting wherever he is, be it at Sakarasou due to not being gifted or in the normal world where he's still considered eccentric due to the cat issues.
Love drama in this case meaning that you have one party, Jin, trying to avoid the other one and does so by involving third parties, in this case being other women. Jin isn't being honest with his feelings and sleeps around, therefore he is hurting Misaki. That's a love drama. Yes the pairing doesn't match up 1:1 to Toradora however much of the basic premise is fairly similar, albeit somewhat common. I mean this episode we had Sorata getting mad at Jin for not ackowledging Misaka's feelings, we had that happen a few times in Toradora with Kitamura.
I wasn't comparing just this episode but the entire show.
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Life after being shrunk is a hard knocked life.
Jex
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Good.
Good!
That's...unfortunate. I don't quite see why it would do that poorly, that's like sub-fractale levels. For any of the complaints I might have had with the show I still thought it was a pretty good series overall and it certainly had some of the better written characters of the entire year.
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Jex
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It would have worked better if it didn't look so goofy.
Toradora is never about pursuing your personal goal/dream though, which the theme for Sakurasou.. that's why I don't find what so similar between those two beside the little stuff. Just look to your own post Jarmel, you even making many point about what different between both series.
Jex
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They were just being factual.
Sorata isn't considered eccentric because of cat issues. I haven't seen any indication of anyone thinking he's eccentric for it. He's not allowed to keep cats at his dorm, which is why he's in Sakurasou.
I still don't see the parallels between Kitamura and Jin. Who was the third party Kitamura involved? If I remember correctly, Kitamura had someone else he was legitimately interested in. If what you're saying is, "A character doesn't acknowledge another character's feelings and that's why it's similar," that idea completely ignores what was going on in Toradora. In fact, saying that any show where a character doesn't acknowledge another character's feelings makes this show more similar to shows like Hyouka.
Both shows involve Okada and the MC caring for the main heroine. There are probably some other small, coincidental similarities (the MC doesn't even care for the main heroine for the same reason, like how the "love drama" is different in both series), but I'm still not seeing the similarities.
Of course there are differences. It doesn't mean that there aren't a lot of similarities as well.
Jex
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I skipped that entire recap first time through. I mean, why bother watching when we all know that recaps are just a waste of your time.
Redline are very mediocre movie though.
Ultimadrago
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"OFF!"
They are really not very similar.
Exactly.
One piece is already dead
There some odd one piece trend going on.
I don't when a trendy brand like bape started making one piece shirts, his wearing one of them http://www.bape.com/onepiece
hosannainexcelsis
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I don't think the lack of sales should come as a surprise. The kind of show Natsuyuki Rendezvous is - a realistic, understated adult drama - isn't the sort of thing that appeals to people who are interested in buying anime.
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