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Spring 2011 Anime Thread of ZAWA ZAWA, Money, emo Cyclops, and fun^10xint^40=Ir2
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Jex
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This is starting to get ridiculous. These are the shows I'm currently watching this season:
Steins;Gate
Kaiji S2
Dororon
[C]
Ano Hana
Tiger and Bunny
Hanasaku Iroha
Fireball Charming
X-Men
Toriko
as well as
Yondemasu yo, Azazel-san
Sket Dance
Denpa Onna to Seishun Otoko
Although there's a high probability I'll drop the last three. Either way, it's a mad season.
Hopefully some of the good shows will fall to pieces after a few episodes and I'll have less to keep up with.
Steins;Gate
Kaiji S2
Dororon
[C]
Ano Hana
Tiger and Bunny
Hanasaku Iroha
Fireball Charming
X-Men
Toriko
as well as
Yondemasu yo, Azazel-san
Sket Dance
Denpa Onna to Seishun Otoko
Although there's a high probability I'll drop the last three. Either way, it's a mad season.
Hopefully some of the good shows will fall to pieces after a few episodes and I'll have less to keep up with.
He should do it, if only to prove himself a man. Bring it in carefully, out of the blue, a casual mention. "Hey, Mio, lets go out for ice cream or something!" "Sorry Ritsu, Yuiichi wants to go out to a movie." *insert relationship character gag here* or something like that, and watch the otaku boil over, but on a delay. Just long enough to make a strip about how dumb the otaku were for assuming they'd never see anything male their age evar.A Black Falcon said:
STFU uncultured swine. And it makes sense now, turns out the song was produced by a Japanese indie band. Been listening to some of their stuff and they have that same off-kilter Japanese punk edge. Good stuff. The use of the vocal effects are pretty solid and mixes well to provide a more electronica style sound. Great mix of sound.Branduil said:
I'm watching
Dororon enma-kun
C
X-men
Hanasaku iroha
Nichijou
Tiger and bunny
Anohana
Dropped so far
Steins;gate
Will be watching
Kaiji S2 (when i finish S1)
Moshidora (when it airs)
Amusingly with the exception of Nichijou and Tiger and bunny. I'm actually excited to watch new episodes of these every week!
Dororon enma-kun
C
X-men
Hanasaku iroha
Nichijou
Tiger and bunny
Anohana
Dropped so far
Steins;gate
Will be watching
Kaiji S2 (when i finish S1)
Moshidora (when it airs)
Amusingly with the exception of Nichijou and Tiger and bunny. I'm actually excited to watch new episodes of these every week!
Crash Station
Member
Mai-Hime 19
Yes, fall even further into the pits of despair!
You realize Toriko is a battle shonen in the same hour time slot as One Piece, right? Gonna be going for a while unless the ratings take a nose dive. Might want to drop it now unless you want to take a chance with an actual series like this.
Yes, fall even further into the pits of despair!
Jexhius said:
You realize Toriko is a battle shonen in the same hour time slot as One Piece, right? Gonna be going for a while unless the ratings take a nose dive. Might want to drop it now unless you want to take a chance with an actual series like this.
Crash Station
Member
Jexhius said:
True. If you have no problem keeping up with it every week for the next forever, I say go for it. Things get pretty nuts later on.
Crash Station
Member
Dresden said:
Now I want a Saint Young Men anime.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Jesus film project? Huh. Given that the studio is just animating the story though, I'm not sure if these will be any more than just fancy looking Veggie Tales.Dresden said:
hosannainexcelsis
Member
trejo said:
I'd never let that get too friendly.
doomed1 said:
Bad musicians don't make a song avant-garde. There's ways to make music outside the mainstream that don't involve putting a terrible singer who can't sing on pitch in front of muddy instrumentation and boring rhythm and harmony. Unless it's intentionally ironic - but that still doesn't make it worth listening to.
firehawk12
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Man, why'd you have to go and bring that up.Dresden said:
hosannainexcelsis
Member
firehawk12 said:
I'd go see fancy looking Veggie Tales. At any rate, it'll probably be better than the last anime project about Jesus.
Oh, now you just be troll'n, everyone knows that "hipster" doesn't mean anything. I said why I like it, now you gotta say why you think it sucks.Branduil said:
firehawk12
Subete no aware
(I promise I won't use images anymore. )
AnoHana blahblahblah 1: For me, this will be fighting with Hanasaku Iroha as the best show of the season. It's a nostalgia bomb waiting to explode into, as Lafiel surmises, mono no aware goodness. At least, I'm hoping it goes that way anyhow. I could see them going the other way as well (although I'm not sure how, short of the show becoming wacky later on).
Generally I ignore text on screen, especially since I have to think about it when it comes to Japanese, but the way they used them was just a bit too on the nose to ignore:
Underground person - the meaning should be obvious, I suppose.
West East (although I assume those carrot thingies are Japanese for something) - I'm assuming it's meant to evoke separation.
A suicide prevention sign, which was helpfully translated. The way it was framed was both neat and hitting you over the head as well.
Given how I was mostly disappointed with the early parts of Wandering Son, perhaps not knowing anything about the source text is for the best. I have no adaptation anxiety and I'm just willing to go with it.
And, let's just call Eva a Christian anime and leave it at that!
Also, Branduil x doomed1 is now my favourite pairing of the anime thread.
)AnoHana blahblahblah 1: For me, this will be fighting with Hanasaku Iroha as the best show of the season. It's a nostalgia bomb waiting to explode into, as Lafiel surmises, mono no aware goodness. At least, I'm hoping it goes that way anyhow. I could see them going the other way as well (although I'm not sure how, short of the show becoming wacky later on).
Generally I ignore text on screen, especially since I have to think about it when it comes to Japanese, but the way they used them was just a bit too on the nose to ignore:
Underground person - the meaning should be obvious, I suppose.
West East (although I assume those carrot thingies are Japanese for something) - I'm assuming it's meant to evoke separation.
A suicide prevention sign, which was helpfully translated. The way it was framed was both neat and hitting you over the head as well.
Given how I was mostly disappointed with the early parts of Wandering Son, perhaps not knowing anything about the source text is for the best. I have no adaptation anxiety and I'm just willing to go with it.
Wow, was that made to proselytize to Japanese audiences?hosannainexcelsis said:
And, let's just call Eva a Christian anime and leave it at that!
Also, Branduil x doomed1 is now my favourite pairing of the anime thread.
I honestly feel so happy for my own personal tastes there's at least 3 character-driven dramas this year in anime (wandering son, iroha, anohana) and with a another one to look forward to next season (bunny drop).
The only thing that would make this year better for those kind of shows is if wandering son were given a full 22-episode run, although if it did we might have not gotten ano hana!
The only thing that would make this year better for those kind of shows is if wandering son were given a full 22-episode run, although if it did we might have not gotten ano hana!
AnoHana is good. Too early to see if it's better or whatever than some other random show this season but the first episode is good stuff.
I do feel sad that there's a shortage of hot-blooded manly action shows this season. Where's the blood, the gore, the explosions? All this steady stream of dramas is bound to emasculate me.
I do feel sad that there's a shortage of hot-blooded manly action shows this season. Where's the blood, the gore, the explosions? All this steady stream of dramas is bound to emasculate me.
Fallen_Hero
Member
So guys, I just finished Mushi-shi. I thought it was overall quite enjoyable but I was disappointed in the lack of closure at the end
What should I undertake next?
even though I'm not exactly sure what they could "close."
firehawk12
Subete no aware
I'm right with you. Although, I figure a 22 episode run of Wandering Son would have bankrupted whoever made it given the market these days. I wonder who they had to kill to get an extra episode (that never aired, of course).Lafiel said:
Honestly, all I really would want now is a good, serious adult anime. In my dream world, there's some Japanese director who has seen The Wire and wants to make an anime adaptation set in Kyoto or Osaka or something.
I thought you had Dog Dayz and Kaiji?Dresden said:
AnoHana 1
"And on top of that, why did you appear as a mature version of yourself?" lolwut?
That was pretty damn good other than the incessant loli ramblings but I can see those being toned down later on. I'm really interested in most of these characters, the twin-tailed girl specially so. I'd say I'm still on the Iroha faction but I see no reason not to play both sides, like a double agent, if you will.
It's a good season for drama, this one. Hell, it's a good season for pretty much everything. It's kinda daunting how many shows I'm liking thus far.
"And on top of that, why did you appear as a mature version of yourself?" lolwut?
That was pretty damn good other than the incessant loli ramblings but I can see those being toned down later on. I'm really interested in most of these characters, the twin-tailed girl specially so. I'd say I'm still on the Iroha faction but I see no reason not to play both sides, like a double agent, if you will.
It's a good season for drama, this one. Hell, it's a good season for pretty much everything. It's kinda daunting how many shows I'm liking thus far.
Dissonant styles aren't uncommon and a few are famous for them. It's a manner of expressing something that "normal" music can't. It's just not often you hear something sung this legato in such a high pitch, so I can see how it would annoy, but the vocal style was done by design. I think the song fits the show really well, personally, especially with how SparklesInMoonlight speaks, and the lyrics more or less are about the MC being the only one who bothers to talk to the blue haired pariah. I'm sorry all music can't be a Hallelujah Chorus to your ears.hosannainexcelsis said:
And it takes one to know oneBranduil said:
Crash Station
Member
Gory shows will be coming. Deadman Wonderland had a pretty gory intro IIRC.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
I know.zeroshiki said:
Which makes no sense since the Yakuza/Ryu ga Gotoku are half way there and they seem to sell well to the nerds.
The thing about that is with how cheaply they make anime, television shows and films and whatnot, a serious adult drama with ambition on-par with the wire is fairly unfeasible, there's always manga for something like that (possibly). I remember hearing about a serious gritty police manga that went on for over 15-20+ volumes or something, forgot what the name was though.
With the kind of market that exists for anime, I don't think we they deserve something like The Wire. No one would watch it so I guess it kinda solves itself.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but those games do indulge the kind of power-fantasies that nerds obsess over.firehawk12 said:
Crash Station
Member
Mac x ABF
doomed1 x Branduil
What other animu-gaf pairings are there?
Fake e: Well that's a hell of a post to start the page with :lol
Deadman Wonderland? Yeah it is.
doomed1 x Branduil
What other animu-gaf pairings are there?
Fake e: Well that's a hell of a post to start the page with :lol
trejo said:
Deadman Wonderland? Yeah it is.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
I dunno, wouldn't it be cheaper since they could pretty much draw anything they wanted in order to recreate a gritty night life full of shady crime and Yakuza running around?Lafiel said:
Those Yakuza games probably cost Sega nothing at this point. :lol
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Oh, that was epic. Image macro flirting!
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