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Spring 2011 Anime Thread of ZAWA ZAWA, Money, emo Cyclops, and fun^10xint^40=Ir2
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InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
A cat didn't try to rip off my arm two years ago so I say they stay on top!trejo said:
Heh, the Evas are easy mode. Get an idea behind the mechanics of AT fields and they're basically a literal deus ex machina win-everything powerJexhius said:
You're just mad that I can enjoy mindless FUCK YEAH EXPLOSIONS AND BONER POWERS! and end up getting bored of meduka is suffering after a while. Besides, the editing and pacing of Hidan no Aria is just so much more enjoyable. DEEEEEEEEEP isn't always better.Branduil said:
Crash Station
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InfiniteNine said:
A dog didn't try to claw my eyes out last year. In fact, one even came up to me and licked the wound that little fucker caused. Dogs are nicest animals ever.
NotebookJ2
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Dresden said:
I dunno, I think the fandom have probably predicted and anticipated every possible ending, including troll endings at this point, which is kinda scary.
Maybe if there was some traitor subplot shenanigans though...
InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
Tell that to the scar on my arm. )< I was just throwing away the damn trash.cosmicblizzard said:
Hellsing321
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Its really the futon eating the pizza.Dresden said:
Anohana 1 - I think a while back i said the premise would work a lot better if it was about adults instead of teens, however i think I've partly changed my mind about that matter, as the whole
thing kinda flips around what i initially thought would be a story mainly concerned about nostalgia.
Overall - It was a pretty solid premiere albeit probably the most depressing show this season, i just hope it doesn't come off as to tear-jerky as the series progresses, but there's a good amount of potential for a high-quality character-driven drama here.
Definitely isn't as good as Hanasaku Iroha that's for sure though.
ghost
Overall - It was a pretty solid premiere albeit probably the most depressing show this season, i just hope it doesn't come off as to tear-jerky as the series progresses, but there's a good amount of potential for a high-quality character-driven drama here.
Definitely isn't as good as Hanasaku Iroha that's for sure though.
mind=blownHellsing321 said:
QB=Maxwell's demonNotebookJ2 said:
It'll turn out that the kind of entropy the lolaliens are trying to prevent is informational. :3
Presence of tsun-tsun romance means Aria is barred from entering the FUCK YEAH EXPLOSIONS club.doomed1 said:
I'd have to give it to Kira for infesting two series instead of just one.flawfuls said:
Oh please, learn how to invert an AT field and their shit is fucked. That's actually what I love about Evangelion's sci-fi. It's basically metaphysics manifesting in our world, and everyone is completely dumbfounded on exactly how or why.zeroshiki said:
I think this is a little baser than tsun-tsun romance here. It's more like straight up tsun-tsun lust. I think this Aria chick gets wet from being the damsel. This isn't Toradora! or SnS or anything like that, this is Buddy Cop Movie: HS Anime Edition. It's going to be awesome if that first episode means anything. :3Dresden said:
Hellsing321
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Shinn is awful in every way imaginable.flawfuls said:
InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
I think I'll ignore everyone's suggestions and watch Happy Kappi instead.
dragonlife
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Thanks to Netflix, I watched the entirety of Baccano today. I really, really liked it I knew nothing about it and just watched it on a whim. The first episode was a bit slow and slightly boring, but the second episode hooked me and everything after that was pure love.
I knew nothing about it and just watched it on a whim. The first episode was a bit slow and slightly boring, but the second episode hooked me and everything after that was pure love.InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
Who are Shinn and Kira?
Jex
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[C] 1
Well, that was exactly what I expected based on the impressions that have already been poster here. Somehow it kind of worked. Well, it did the traditional 'open with big dramatic thing that's not explained explicitly and then move on with the usual show' technique which is a fairly common manoeuvre to make sure the audiences don't fall asleep.
It was pretty darn good.
Sket Dance 2
Yawn.
Well, that was exactly what I expected based on the impressions that have already been poster here. Somehow it kind of worked. Well, it did the traditional 'open with big dramatic thing that's not explained explicitly and then move on with the usual show' technique which is a fairly common manoeuvre to make sure the audiences don't fall asleep.
It was pretty darn good.
Sket Dance 2
Yawn.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Calling mAcodin!Geneijin said:
You know, I remember starting it and I remember the ending, but the act of actually watching the whole thing must have been erased from my memory. I honestly can't remember watching it.Joule said:
Oh wait, now I remember the Chow Yun Fat cat robot. Wow... maybe I'm going senile.
True.icarus-daedelus said:If it does, you have only yourself to blame this time.
Fanwanking to piss off 7th incoming.
Denpa Onna to Seishun Otoko 1
I don't know how Shaft is assembled, but if they are grouped into "teams", then it's very clear that this was the Bakemonogatari team. Superficially, it has the same visual aesthetics of Bakemonogatari, but it had a lot of the pacing beats and interesting/odd cuts/angles as well. The main character is very reminiscent of one Mr. Arararararararagi-kun.
Probably the one big visual motif was the main character's backwards headcocking, which is something I feel like Araragi did several times (although I could be misremembering).
At least in here though, obviously it's meant to suggest oddity and a questionable reality.
One thing I've found interesting is that a lot of Shaft's shows feature an out of place protagonist who is trolled hard by an outsider. They don't exclusively work on these types of works, but off hand there's Bakemono, Arakawa, Natsu no Arashi, Maria Holic and Madoka (and even SZS if you think about it) feature this in one manner or another. And thematically, Denpa itself feels a lot like Arakawa... just without the gag/joke a minute pacing.
I'm not sure what draws them to these types of works... or if it's just a funny coincidence. But they take the fish out of water/trolled hard theme and run with it and it usually works out. They probably work better when it's a guy being trolled by a girl though, mostly because they like to play with gender dynamics. (I suppose you could argue that the girl from Maria Holic is a "guy")
Either way, clearly this is where all the Maria Holic money went. When they did Arakawa and SoreMachi, Arakawa was clearly the "cheaper" show but at least it still looked fairly good. This time it looks like the balance was completely thrown off - unless something drastically changes next week.
Anyway, at the very least I'm intrigued by the show. Shaft be a Shafting!
Edit: I also thought they made a very, very, clever Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? reference with the "daughter", but I checked wiki and the characters' names are George and Martha. Maybe that was what they were going for and someone fucked up? It would have been a badass reference anyway.
I'm still one of the few not annoyed by Kirino, so I don't see Kuroneko as being better.Joule said:
Also, link broken.
And that is why I didn't reply earlier. I'm predicting it will be.Lafiel said:Anohana 1 - I think a while back i said the premise would work a lot better if it was about adults instead of teens, however i think I've partly changed my mind about that matter, as the wholething kinda flips around what i initially thought would be a story mainly concerned about nostalgia.ghost
Overall - It was a pretty solid premiere albeit probably the most depressing show this season, i just hope it doesn't come off as to tear-jerky as the series progresses, but there's a good amount of potential for a high-quality character-driven drama here.
Definitely isn't as good as Hanasaku Iroha that's for sure though.
The day that never came, Naruko/Yadomi, Yukiatsu/Yadomi/Menma, etc.
It's going to be lonely on this side, but AnoHana is my type of show more than Hanasaku Iroha. I can't help it!
I hated that type of visuals in the Heartcatch EDs, and I hate it in Happy Kappy.InfiniteNine said:
It's the Shinbo headtilt . It came like 5 or 6 times in the first episode of Maria Holic Alive and pretty much every show they've made recently features probably way too much of it. To quote a blogger I follow: "Looking over your shoulder" the show.firehawk12 said:
Blargh let's try that again Though I'm pretty sure everyone who's watched Dog Days 2 already knows what I'm linking.Geneijin said:
InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
Never seen Heartcatch! Although I'll probably end up doing nothing again and not watch that either. It's sad that legitimate medicine is effecting me more than the experimental medicines I test on a regular basis. *slumps over* I've legitimately done nothing the past two days.Geneijin said:
firehawk12
Subete no aware
You know, you're right! (Of course, I just subconsciously tilted my head when I typed that... god damnit). For some reason I've never really noticed it until now. :lolJoule said:
Yeah, I am going senile.
I expect the ending to be incredibly bittersweet and
mono no aware
Think one reason i like hanasaku iroha more (outside of the technical aspects like direction etc) is there's actually a stronger sense of humor in it, the closet thing to comic relief in AnoHana is Menma, and i don't find her antics to be that amusing!
duckroll said:
Pretty much.
So you have this alternate world where its participants are required to engage in economic deathmatches at least once per week. Judging by the description for Selective Matchmaking it looks like Masakaki's job is to feed to the higher-up participants a steady flow of new players to feast off of. Under the Yu-Gi-Oh trappings it's pretty much a deregulated stock market with the brokers able to place bids on the matches of other participants as well as the ability to prey on weaker opponents by bidding for the right to "deal" with them.
I don't know if it's a good thing that reading about the show is more interesting than watching it--the beginning was good stuff, but when the loser of that duel trainwrecked himself the show shifted to Kimimaro's oh-so-dull life, he who is stuck in that grind for a civil servant job.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Aroo?!Lafiel said:
Well, I'm gonna watch this thing tomorrow anyway.
Hellsing321
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I've tried doing that maneuver and it kills my neck. Screw you, Shinbo!firehawk12 said:
firehawk12
Subete no aware
That's why it's subconsciously discomforting! :lolHellsing321 said:
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