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Spring 2011 Anime Thread of ZAWA ZAWA, Money, emo Cyclops, and fun^10xint^40=Ir2
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Kettch said:
I dunno I feel like Shinbo series/OVA direction is like the sameface of character design or something. It isn't by-the-numbers in the fact that it is visually bland or average, it's that I feel I've seen it done in a specifically similar way enough times to the point where it becomes more predictable and boring than it might otherwise be.
duckroll said:
lolwut.
thetechkid
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Beelzebub 11 Seemed like a filler, but since I don't read the manga I have no idea. It was funny to see someone else lead the episode, also failure is always funny.
Beelzebub 12 The dad was the best part, hands done.
Beelzebub 12 The dad was the best part, hands done.
InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
What happened to Star Driver and Panty and Stocking then?Jexhius said:
Jex
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Well, that was almost too obvious. I mean, the man, the girl, the symbol. The symbol being destroyed at the end.icarus-daedelus said:
Although the end reveal also leaves us with the other typical question found in stories where the main character appeared to have been wrapped up in a false reality: is he still in one a the end? Although for Oshii the question tends to be answered "I don't care".
That's real power.Blader5489 said:
That's the infamous 'condensed lecture in Japanese mythology" episode. It must have been a bugger to translate.flawfuls said:
I watched the whole show twice, back to back, and only then did that episode start to make sense. It's brutal.
InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
You mean partially delivered. That show was a mixed bag of decent, horrible, and awesome.Lafiel said:Sadly only one delivered though.
I love fun. 12-year-old humor, not so much.Nonoriri said:
Fall was a weird season. All that hype for the new Bones mecha anime, the crazy new Gainax show, the female otaku Brains Base show, and that dumb incest show, and the best show of the season ended up being the Shaft show with maids.
KuwabaraTheMan
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shintoki said:
Star Driver was certainly more fun than Panty and Stocking, but it was still a disappointment.
Once I got over that it wasn't the show it could have been, I found it to be fun, if very inconsistent.
thetechkid
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shintoki said:
If you mean the biggest let down for a mech show in recent years, then yes.
Crash Station
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Mai-Hime 14
How does a highschool girl with no combat experience get out of being escorted by trained professionals? By head butting them of course.
Still kind of feel like the guys that destroyed the bridge aren't quite the bad guys here. White haired kid is still hella suspicious and we still have no idea what anyone's motive is. Either way, glad stuff is finally happening.
How does a highschool girl with no combat experience get out of being escorted by trained professionals? By head butting them of course.
Still kind of feel like the guys that destroyed the bridge aren't quite the bad guys here. White haired kid is still hella suspicious and we still have no idea what anyone's motive is. Either way, glad stuff is finally happening.
Jexhius said:
Shinbo's directing is pretty gimmicky, but at least he's creative. I just don't like 90% of what he works on because the material doesn't interest me. But Ando on the other hand, is one fucking awesome traditional director. He doesn't rely on gimmicks and unusual camera styles to compose his scenes, but his direction has an excellent film-like quality to it in terms of understanding how to compose a setting and the layout.
I love bringing up the fight on the bridge in Sword of the Stranger when discussing pure directing. The way the scene is planned and "shot" is really impressive because it's such a simple scene, and the methods used are so basic and unpretentious, but it achieves to much in terms of building multiple perspectives in an environment, and using them as points of references to give the "event" in the scene a true sense of three dimensional space and depth, while also allowing the audience to soak in the flavor of the setting and the time period.
So good.
Infinite Justice
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InfiniteNine said:
if its P and S i agree.
it and Star Driver were strangely on equal ground since they both had cool first and end eps with slim pickings in between.
hosannainexcelsis
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Trapeze 6
The calendar dates make me suspect that all these stories were supposed to be happening at the same time, but this confirms it. I like this series even more now.
The calendar dates make me suspect that all these stories were supposed to be happening at the same time, but this confirms it. I like this series even more now.
Hellsing321
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I've had root canals that were more entertaining than Star Driver.
Infinite Justice
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Uchip said:
mainly liked ep 6, last part of 10 and the second half of 12 tbh.
Hellsing321 said:
It surely was no Geass.
Infinite Justice
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jman2050 said:
Yea that ending was nuts LOL
InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
Not really it was mostly swung back and forth between horrible and decent range most of the time with slight bumps to awesome in Episode 6 and a few select skits. The final episode was pretty meh aside from the ending.Lafiel said:
Jex
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Sounds like classic 'nax!duckroll said:
Well is his directing is always extremely over the top, but at least the techniques he uses aren't devoid of meaning. Strong classical directing is great as well, as you mention with Ando, but as anime TV episodes tend to be lacking in both camps I'm glad that a diverse range of directors exist.duckroll said:
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