The second half being bad only makes you realize that the first half is good pretty much only due to a single character and as a whole, wasn't that great anyway.
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The second half being bad only makes you realize that the first half is good pretty much only due to a single character and as a whole, wasn't that great anyway.
stump sock
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it's pretty much textbook "neat idea, LOL execution"
Looking forward to the GOTY thread!
It was the number 1 example of that until Attack on Titan came around and blew it out of the water in that category.
stump sock
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drink some water myggen
AoT at least tricks you for a few episodes with good art and animation, Death Note was ugly from day 1
jeff has already seen modern anime peak, to be fair
not gonna be super crazy or anything, just polished up last year's thread real good
also, what stump said
not gonna be super crazy or anything, just polished up last year's thread real good
also, what stump said
Twin Tails
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It's literally an anime version of Dexter. Every character but the protagonist sucks, every story but the story directly affecting the protagonist sucks, and as they stall for ways to prolong the inevitable it just gets downright insulting.
At least
Kira didn't get off scott free and become a lumberjack.
stump sock
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Piston Hyundai
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had my mouth agape on christmas staring at fallout 4's
what part of what I said would imply any disagreement with that
i kinda wanna know where's this gif from, daydream
that's what happened in Dexter? haha, oh man
that's what happened in Dexter? haha, oh man
Wait, are you calling L the protagonist or do you thing Light isn't just the goddamn worst? One of those things I can agree with.
Light is one of the damn worst parts of the show. His evilness isn't even done in a semi-likable way like it is for Dexter. He's just an unlikable , unrelatable, juvenile asshat.
L, on the other hand, is the only redeeming part of the show.
Piston Hyundai
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I've never been angry at a television show except for the end of Dexter.
still got like two seasons of dexter to watch. show really went downhill fast after the halfway point after peaking with season
polar bear café, friend
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polar bear café, friend
stump sock
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Jeff should really watch Revolutionary Girl Utena. That's shows particular brand of insanity would either blow his mind or push him completely away. Would be interesting to see which side he'd come down on.
Attack on Titan is the biggest pile of shit I've had the displeasure of reading and the anime is somehow even worse. Its popularity seems to be coming from a good style and cool premise alone, because the pacing, plotting and writing are damn atrocious.
SAO is terrible, but it's a pandering fan service show that is giving its audience exactly what they want.
Attack on Titan is the biggest pile of shit I've had the displeasure of reading and the anime is somehow even worse. Its popularity seems to be coming from a good style and cool premise alone, because the pacing, plotting and writing are damn atrocious.
SAO is terrible, but it's a pandering fan service show that is giving its audience exactly what they want.
A Pretty Panda
fuckin' called it, man
which anime editor would like one punch man
I'm not going to take that from someone who liked Kill la Kill.
chicagocubsfan
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Ninja Scroll and Vampire Hunter D are both great older movies.
Also SAO and AoT are bad to mediocre, but the AoT game looks surprisingly decent.
Mostly because I agree with the poster above, the concept of AoT is cool, but everything else about it is kinda bland.
Also SAO and AoT are bad to mediocre, but the AoT game looks surprisingly decent.
Mostly because I agree with the poster above, the concept of AoT is cool, but everything else about it is kinda bland.
Sidonia no Kishi is a better Shingeki no Kyojin; at least it's good-looking. It ain't good though.
I'm looking at the images here and grinning. yup, that's for me
polar bear café, friend
I'm looking at the images here and grinning. yup, that's for me
stump sock
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show would actually be better if they just went all-in on the incest angle
at least the fucking video games have the decency to just be full harem and drop the pretense
at least it owned its stupidity and Mako is like GOAT sidekick material
Twin Tails
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nckillthegrimace
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Did Gibson also have a mirror-eyed girl street-samurai riding shotgun while he wrote the silicon-quick, bleakly prohetic adventure that upped the ante on an entire genre of fiction?
Piston Hyundai
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I don't know what kind of trick you thought you were playing by adding another digit there, because the show doesn't get to double-digits in the first place
Are we still talking about Dexter?
Your friendly reminder that Dexter did in fact have a incest story arc in the sixth season.
BreezyLimbo
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I'm replaying Divinity
ragon Commander, and damn that game never got its dues, did it? It's a pretty great game. I love the politics aspect of it, and the voice acting is pretty great.
ragon Commander, and damn that game never got its dues, did it? It's a pretty great game. I love the politics aspect of it, and the voice acting is pretty great.stump sock
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Jeff is actually pro-Ninja Scroll iirc. I wonder if that holds up.
and I bet all of GBE would enjoy One-Punch Man
OPM still isn't doing anything for me. It's got great art, but the comedy is sort of flat. GinTama does everything OPM attempts better and does way more as well.
Knights of SIdonia is a pretty fantastic manga from what I've read of it (Haven't gotten passed volume 10 or so). It dives into some shitty harem territory, but I don't think that aspect ruins it. It has such an interesting world and the pacing is actually good. Too bad that anime went with that awful all CG style.
A Pretty Panda
fuckin' called it, man
I like the premise of OPM more than the show itself. The action is cool though
Every time I read a new chapter of OPM, it makes me desperately wish Murata was doing literally anything else. His talent is so wasted on that series. It should've just stayed a dumb, poorly drawn webcomic.
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Infinite Justice
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I will agree with Jeff that there are certain scenes in the GITS movie that seems to just be show pieces or not moving the story along
The best part of Death Note was Ryuk and L
especially in that POS they called an ending.
like that scene were she's swimming for instance iirc
The best part of Death Note was Ryuk and L
especially in that POS they called an ending.
tricks are for kids
it's the the comedy that hits, though, with everything else being flat
shame there's less of the former in the second half
The anti-Endurance Run?
Piston Hyundai
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I agree.
Comedy is super subjective of course, but I don't think I've ever laughed reading OPM. Everything feels so damn tired and standard.
Friend of the site Greg Miller's GOTY
Wow, then you read more than I did; I got a little further than anime's season one. I don't know why then chose CG for it, maybe it's cheaper?
Wow, then you read more than I did; I got a little further than anime's season one. I don't know why then chose CG for it, maybe it's cheaper?
skLaFarebear
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Death Note has some issues, but I thought it was fine. Fantastic dubbing and music, an interesting psychological battle, and at the least, a main character who's more interesting than 90% of main characters from the shonen genre.
Code Geass is awesome tho and I'll fight anyone that disagrees.
Code Geass is awesome tho and I'll fight anyone that disagrees.
the voice acting adds a lot, i frankly feel the anime is superior in this case for this reason
stump sock
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it is kind of odd that someone who might honestly be one of the top 5 most talented modern manga artists is doing... that. but you also can't say that he hasn't used some parts of that series to really show off.
then again Akira Hiramoto is a ridiculously talented artist and he's been making Prison School for 4 years now. actually I kind of admire someone with that much skill just drawing a bunch of camel toes and sweaty boobs for a living
Infinite Justice
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The sad part is, the studio they're using is capable of doing some pretty great CG work. They also did Transformers Prime which consistently looked pretty great. They must just be on a shoestring budget for KoS. It's sad because some of the action is absolutely stunning and epic in the manga and it just doesn't get to translate well to the screen.
CG is actual trash masquerading as campy trash.
skLaFarebear
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At least those two artists are continuously drawing something most people like. Murata and Togashi pls! ;_;
Its a trainwreck of the best kind.
Its a trainwreck of the best kind.
I've started watching DC a few times and I love it, but I always get put off because there's so damn much of it.
Togashi is almost certainly the most talented manga (or maybe even action comic in general) writer of his generation, and yet he's always so damn inconsistent. It's frustrating as hell.
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