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Spring 2011 Anime Thread of ZAWA ZAWA, Money, emo Cyclops, and fun^10xint^40=Ir2
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Crash Station
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Jexhius said:
The hell? Didn't know that either.
InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
BDs for Katanagatari and Arakawa Under the Bridge getting released in the US on DVD and BD combo pack in July courtesy of NISA!
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/new...ca-adds-katanagatari-arakawa-under-the-bridge
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/new...ca-adds-katanagatari-arakawa-under-the-bridge
Jex
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That's kind of an odd way to put it. It doesn't seem likely that it will have any bearing on the work itself, so it doesn't effect how likely I am to watch it.zeroshiki said:
I thought that said Bakemonoagatari for a second and I nearly had a heart attack! Subbed commentaries! Ah well, Katanagatari is still a good show.InfiniteNine said:
InfiniteNine said:BDs for Katanagatari and Arakawa Under the Bridge getting released in the US on DVD and BD combo pack in July courtesy of NISA!
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news...der-the-bridge
Would buy Katanagatari for episode 4 alone.
Jexhius said:
Was making a joke. Although the author's character does influence my desire to start on something. I mean, Orson Scott Card is a terrible person and luckily Ender's Game isn't that good or I would have a dilemma on whether or not to read his stuff.
Hellsing321
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Deadman Wonderland 1
Having a prison as an amusement park seems like a bad idea. Interesting first episode. I haven't read the manga so I have no idea what to expect from this but I'll see what the games are like in the next episode I guess.
Having a prison as an amusement park seems like a bad idea. Interesting first episode. I haven't read the manga so I have no idea what to expect from this but I'll see what the games are like in the next episode I guess.
KuwabaraTheMan
Banned
cosmicblizzard said:
It's a pretty well known story. His previous series got canceled (was more popular than One Piece at the time) and wrapped up in a different magazine because of the scandal. That sex scandal is the main reason it took him so long to come back with Toriko.
I don't trust NISA. Their DVD encoding is terrible, I doubt they'll be able to encode a Blu-ray correctly.InfiniteNine said:BDs for Katanagatari and Arakawa Under the Bridge getting released in the US on DVD and BD combo pack in July courtesy of NISA!
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/new...ca-adds-katanagatari-arakawa-under-the-bridge
Infinite Justice
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KuwabaraTheMan said:
and he went back to the same Publisher (Shounen Jump) as well.
hosannainexcelsis
Member
Is it? That's good to know. On a related subject, what's the best of the NISA shows currently available? I need to get my hands on some of these beauties.Jexhius said:
Crash Station
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KuwabaraTheMan said:
I actually only started Toriko recently, so I don't know much about the guy. Crazy.
hosannainexcelsis
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I have faith! Or at least hope.7Th said:
Ano Hana 1
I liked it a lot, definitely will keep watching. The plot seems interesting, looks to be a really solid drama. Not sure which I like better out of this or Iroha atm, Im guessing that since Iroha has more time to flesh everything out it will end up being the better of the two. Assuming neither takes a nosedive halfway through.
I liked it a lot, definitely will keep watching. The plot seems interesting, looks to be a really solid drama. Not sure which I like better out of this or Iroha atm, Im guessing that since Iroha has more time to flesh everything out it will end up being the better of the two. Assuming neither takes a nosedive halfway through.
hosannainexcelsis
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Looks decent at least. They have a solid plot to work off of, so let's just hope whoever's writing the adaptation is competent. If nothing else, should be worth watching for Meguro.Hellsing321 said:
I don't know if I'll ever get used to seeing Index's name on the Persona series.
Jex
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Deadman Wonderland 1
This opening was kind of...excruciating? I don't know how else to describe it. The set-up/backstory at the start of the episode was one of the hardest pieces of nonsense a show has ever tried to sell me on and at no point did the story even bother to persuade me that it made sense (bar some throwaway dialogue). Perhaps this was the worst part of the episode.
At least it makes all the stuff that comes afterwards seem slightly less awful than it is, even if they are pulling from all the anime tropes they can muster. It's like a fourteen year old's version of what a "badass" story would be.
I'm sure Branduil should experience this masterpiece.
This opening was kind of...excruciating? I don't know how else to describe it. The set-up/backstory at the start of the episode was one of the hardest pieces of nonsense a show has ever tried to sell me on and at no point did the story even bother to persuade me that it made sense (bar some throwaway dialogue). Perhaps this was the worst part of the episode.
At least it makes all the stuff that comes afterwards seem slightly less awful than it is, even if they are pulling from all the anime tropes they can muster. It's like a fourteen year old's version of what a "badass" story would be.
I'm sure Branduil should experience this masterpiece.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Halycon said:
Jexhius said:
Boop. I see the first episode, OP included, more as nostalgia than mono no aware. The fact that a fixture of the past is made manifest is sort of the crux of nostalgia. It's like hanging on to something that you should throw away because you feel it has some emotional value.Geneijin said:
I'm assuming Menma will be part of the show until the end, so... at the moment, I can see a mono no aware ending but the show itself seems to want to hang on to the past.
Not sure why, but I vastly prefer the crappy in game 3d models than the anime versions of the characters. I'd like to think that even the portraits look better, but it's been a while.Hellsing321 said:
Wow, BDs? I'm guessing the Toradora/Persona/whatever else they have DVDs did well. I wonder if they'll go back and redo Toradora on BD.InfiniteNine said:
Ah, Toradora never had a BD release in Japan?
(Also, kids calling Nisio Isin a literary genius must be causing someone's head to explode :lol)
When Lost and BSG started becoming shit, for some reason I felt betrayed. Then I realized that TV shows don't matter and I'm mostly indifferent.7Th said:
I don't think I've be able to switch to "Irony mode" for a show mid-stream though. Maybe with Big Bang Theory, which is something I watch out of habit, but I realize is pretty terrible.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Well, before BSG I used to be a Ron Moore fanboy especially after I came to realize that Brannon Braga/Rick Berman are hacks... so there's that. Generally, if the show turns, I turn on the staff.7Th said:
Tim Minear is probably the only guy I can name that I sort of root for, and that's only because every show he works on gets cancelled. :lol
Crash Station
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Dresden said:
Oh shit, are they doing the Zakuro fight? Gotta watch that.
Hey, look. Haruhi game you'll never play.
I don't really care about the story, and I have no idea what she was doing (did she toss a 747? where did it come from?), but it was so awesome.cosmicblizzard said:
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Dresden said:
Isone can materialize stuff with her tongue or something. She's usually one of the more helpful people in battle. She makes some crazy stuff.
So. Damn. Retarded. Goddamn.
This is so stupid. This is so stupid. This is so stupid. This is so stupid. This is so stupid. This is so stupid. This is so stupid. This is so stupid. This is so stupid. This is so stupid. This is so stupid.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
I have no idea what's going on there, but I'm going to assume that's cheeky/clever framing?Halycon said:
So. Damn. Retarded. Goddamn.
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Seikai-ichi Hatsukoi 2
I know we have one sarcastic poster here who fake-loves it, so there's not much to add.
I will say it's strange to basically have shoujo manga beats in a BL text - especially since the show itself is about making shoujo manga. It's like Bakuman, except the dudes are in love with each other instead of having secret girlfriends they can never see for some arbitrary bullshit reason.
What's hilarious is you have the bad ass super shoujo love interest that says things like this:
And the protagonist goes all shoujo-tsundere like every other shoujo heroine (most shoujo heroines are either strong but not strong enough or weak and need to be protected after all) and won't accept the fact that he's in love with the dude.
Maybe watching Antique Bakery basically messed with my expectations of female representations of gay men. There are no guys going to Ni-chome to pick up random strangers in this show. :lol
Steroyd said:
Expecting normal human relationships in a CLAMP anime is like expecting a happy ending from Gen Urobuchi. Genre be damned.
EDIT - Also really, the whole teacher-student thing wasn't even the most creepy thing about those episodes, it was them going out of their way to point out just how perfect Sakura's dad is. It's so saccharine and idealistic it's off-putting.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Hrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrm...Halycon said:
umop_3pisdn
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firehawk12 said:
In most BL the characters aren't really meant to be representative of gay men. That's why the "I'm only gay for _____" trope comes up so often (as it's obviously unrealistic), and why they rarely if ever touch on actual gay issues. Instead the same-sex thing provides a context for an overly idealized romance, sort of like the whole Romeo and Juliet thing, by transgressing ordinary boundaries there is granted the appearance of greater depth or passion and thus deeper romanticism, and that's basically it. The main protagonist is essentially just an insert for the female reader. Not all BL is like that but most of it is, and these reasons are essentially why most gay people don't really care for BL.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
You're trying to trick me, aren't you?!Halycon said:
Yeah, I know. This is the first and only overtly BL show I've seen, so I figured I'd give it a shot just for shiggles.umop_3pisdn said:
I still find it interesting that Yuri written for women seems to be done fairly "straight" (ahahaha) comparatively though. At the very least, it's not just shoujo manga with two girls anyway - a lot of the teen stuff seems to be of the "I love my best friend but I don't want to creep her out" variety.
I guess the Japanese version of Queer as Folk is probably in book or film form. Figures!
Hellsing321
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Why the hell wouldn't you just watch the movie instead of watching mannequins stare at you for for dozens of hours?Dresden said:
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