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[InfiniteNine]

So, uh, Madoka 1-12

...

So you loved it?

 

[Blader]

I saw people talking about Mai Mai Miracle earlier. Does that mean there are (good) subs for it now?

 

[Joe Molotov]

Softenni Ep. 3

I doubt anyone's watching this, but...

...this part made me laugh. Also, I appreciate the creators' dedication to their craft by squeezing in a hot springs episode this early in the series.

 

[Joule]

Softenni Ep. 3

I doubt anyone's watching this, but...

...this part made me laugh. Also, I appreciate the creators' effort to their craft by squeezing in a hot springs episode this early in the series.

It's not best show but it does have an amusing gag here and there. I like it well enough to keep watching it.

 

[firehawk12]

It's not best show but it does have an amusing gag here and there. I like it well enough to keep watching it.

I'm still shocked about the 1 minute of cut footage. So lazy.

I think that's my icarus/Geneijin moment of the season... although, obviously, which much lower stakes. :lol

 

[Hitokage]

So you loved it?

One could say it was a nice installment in the tradition of unorthodox magical girl shows, but "unorthodox" really isn't the right term since this stuff has always been around since magical girls started fighting evil. However, it would have been a better show if it wasn't Shaft.

 

[Master Milk]

I'm still shocked about the 1 minute of cut footage. So lazy.

I think that's my icarus/Geneijin moment of the season... although, obviously, which much lower stakes. :lol

Yea, that was kind of unbelievable. The fact that they did it is one thing, but then they held it for so long. Oh well, it's not like I or anyone else is actually expecting anything from this anime.

 

[firehawk12]

Yea, that was kind of unbelievable. The fact that they did it is one thing, but then they held it for so long. Oh well, it's not like I or anyone else is actually expecting anything from this anime.

I just wonder how far ahead these things are locked and whether or not they had a chance either to animate a new scene or just have an shorter edit and gave have more commercial time or even an omake at the end.

Or maybe by this time everyone's working on the final episode so the best they could do was a crappy anime logo floating around the screen.

I dunno, it just seems unprecedented. I'd have almost preferred if they just pulled the episode entirely and then sold it as a "DVD bonus". Although, since it was a servisu episode, I guess it had to air just to make the discs worth selling.

 

[Lafiel]

One could say it was a nice installment in the tradition of unorthodox magical girl shows, but "unorthodox" really isn't the right term since this stuff has always been around since magical girls started fighting evil. However, it would have been a better show if it wasn't Shaft.

Amen.

 

[firehawk12]

Amen.

Poor Shinbo.

 

[jman2050]

My SHAFT-hating radar just went off, what's going on?

Oh, Madoka. Well, you love Shaft, you love them, you don't, you don't. Nothing more to say on that.

 

[Geneijin]

I'm still shocked about the 1 minute of cut footage. So lazy.

I think that's my icarus/Geneijin moment of the season... although, obviously, which much lower stakes. :lol

Hm, I was wondering what you were referring to until it suddenly clicked.

By the way, even if it was a joke at the time, I swear I'm blaming you for this. Episode 3 is going to be interesting to say the least.

 

[firehawk12]

Hm, I was wondering what you were referring to until it suddenly clicked.

By the way, even if it was a joke at the time, I swear I'm blaming you for this. Episode 3 is going to be interesting to say the least.

Hrm, what am I missing? :lol

 

[Geneijin]

Hrm, what am I missing? :lol

Spoiler

Someone's probably dressing up.

Damn your jinx!

 

[firehawk12]

Spoiler

Someone's probably dressing up.

Damn your jinx!

Wha, really? Did I blink and miss that? :lol

 

[JKTrix]

Amen.

Have to say I agree, though this is the very first thing from them that I actually enjoyed.

 

[Geneijin]

Wha, really? Did I blink and miss that? :lol

Spoiler

Look at everyone's wrist.

It's such a strong possibility now. You had to joke about it then!

 

[Joule]

Spoiler

Someone's probably dressing up.

Damn your jinx!

I thought this was apparent in episode 2's preview anyway?

All I got from that link was there's going to be a bbq.

 

[Uchip]

So i see Uchip is trolling the thread once again lol

Trolling is a word thrown around by people with weak counter arguments
anyway.. my net died (at a cafe now) so i couldnt post any more...
so there will be no "trolling" for a while

 

[Master Milk]

I just wonder how far ahead these things are locked and whether or not they had a chance either to animate a new scene or just have an shorter edit and gave have more commercial time or even an omake at the end.

Or maybe by this time everyone's working on the final episode so the best they could do was a crappy anime logo floating around the screen.

I dunno, it just seems unprecedented. I'd have almost preferred if they just pulled the episode entirely and then sold it as a "DVD bonus". Although, since it was a servisu episode, I guess it had to air just to make the discs worth selling.

Whenever I see stuff like that I just assume they're trolling for DVD/BD sales. The obnoxious animal head censors taking up half the screen anytime a pair of panties thinks about appearing on screen is the same thing.

They should know what will and won't fly past censors, if they even care about 2 AM anime. The studios are just trolling, a little too hard with this last ep.

Spoiler

The DVD version of Kanamemo Ep 5 was so much fun but still had too much steam. Trolling hard, but Haruka was still awesome.

 

[Geneijin]

How ironic.

I thought this was apparent in episode 2's preview anyway?

All I got from that link was there's going to be a bbq.

The preview to Episode 2 or the preview at the end of Episode 2?

You're asking a person who didn't expect it when it happened. ;(

 

[firehawk12]

Whenever I see stuff like that I just assume they're trolling for DVD/BD sales. The obnoxious animal head censors taking up half the screen anytime a pair of panties thinks about appearing on screen is the same thing.

They should know what will and won't fly past censors, if they even care about 2 AM anime. The studios are just trolling, a little too hard with this last ep.

Spoiler

The DVD version of Kanamemo Ep 5 was so much fun but still had too much steam. Trolling hard, but Haruka was still awesome.

I think it's clear that it was a tsunami scene though, not a "too hot for TV" scene.
At least, when you end the scene with the entire school being flooded, that's the safe assumption.

 

[7Th]

Gainax further confirmed for bros.

 

[Master Milk]

I think it's clear that it was a tsunami scene though, not a "too hot for TV" scene.
At least, when you end the scene with the entire school being flooded, that's the safe assumption.

Didn't one of the chicks end up completely naked? I wasn't paying attention to the tsunami.

 

[Lafiel]

My SHAFT-hating radar just went off, what's going on?

Oh, Madoka. Well, you love Shaft, you love them, you don't, you don't. Nothing more to say on that.

I actually like SHAFT and a number of their shows, but i couldn't help but feel throughout it's entire run that Madoka would have been a lot better in the hands of a other studio + director, i mean the fact that the best episode in the entire series wasn't even done by SHAFT proves my point, kinda.

 

[Joule]

How ironic.


The preview to Episode 2 or the preview at the end of Episode 2?

You're asking a person who didn't expect it when it happened. ;(

The preview at the end of Episode 2. I have a pretty good feeling that the one off shot of

Spoiler

the girl in a white dress was a dress up Anaru.

I could be wrong but that's how I took it.

 

[Branduil]

One could say it was a nice installment in the tradition of unorthodox magical girl shows, but "unorthodox" really isn't the right term since this stuff has always been around since magical girls started fighting evil. However, it would have been a better show if it wasn't Shaft.

More conventional, probably. Better, I doubt.

 

[Hitokage]

More conventional, probably. Better, I doubt.

More conventional? As if Shaft actually broke their run of unoriginal works here?

 

[firehawk12]

Didn't one of the chicks end up completely naked? I wasn't paying attention to the tsunami.

Well, they would have done the censorship stickers anyway, if that was really the problem. :lol

More conventional? As if Shaft actually broke their run of unoriginal works here?

Boring Shaft is still more interesting than nearly everything else out there.

 

[Nonoriri]

More conventional, probably. Better, I doubt.

Madoka is pretty conventional though.

 

[Haly]

I think Branduil means conventional in terms of camera direction, animation, art style, etc.

There would be no Ume faces, Ikea showrooms, Impossible Architecture, Shinbo Head Tilt (TM), etc etc.

Can you imagine PMMM without Unlimited Rocket/Musket Works. It is not a world I want to live in.

 

[Branduil]

More conventional? As if Shaft actually broke their run of unoriginal works here?

I was referring more to direction and style than anything. Looking for "originality" in storytelling is an impossible game.

 

[Hitokage]

Boring Shaft is still more interesting than nearly everything else out there.

That speaks to how bad its competition is more than anything else.

 

[Dedication Through Light]

Seikon no Qwaser II - Ep 3
Fun episode. I must admit, I was literally as happy as Hana was. I love Hana's VA...ka-ka-ka-ka-ka-katja sama! "Tremble! Prostrate yourself before me in fear!" is definitely one of my favorite catchphrases, so brutal when they say it.

 

[Geneijin]

The preview at the end of Episode 2. I have a pretty good feeling that

Spoiler

the one off shot of the girl in a white dress was a dress up Anaru.

I could be wrong but that's how I took it.

Spoiler

Look at everyone's wrist. Now that you mention it, Anaru is a possibility but the preview didn't show Yukiatsu's, which is why I suspect it's him. Plus, he has a watch on his left wrist as shown in the OP.

 

[7Th]

I was referring more to direction and style than anything. Looking for "originality" in storytelling is an impossible game.

I'm pretty sure Nonoriri was talking about that, too.

 

[Haly]

You take what you can get when it comes to anime, I think that's why most of us enjoyed PMMM so much.

It wasn't particularly special, just an old formula that was well executed.

 

[Branduil]

That speaks to how bad its competition is more than anything else.

Anime!

Just look at that list of fake shows that is somehow supposed to be better than what we actually get.

 

[Geneijin]

Well, they would have done the censorship stickers anyway, if that was really the problem. :lol

You know what show has the least censorship?

Spoiler

Dog Days

 

[firehawk12]

The preview at the end of Episode 2. I have a pretty good feeling that the one off shot of the girl in a white dress was a dress up Anaru. I could be wrong but that's how I took it.

Just watched it again and it looks like Anaru or perhaps the other random girl that shows up.

And, I also noticed that Hourou Musuko and Working and another anime whose name I can't read/recognize popped up in the credits... which means they do somehow get permission or work something out with those companies before putting them into the show.

I still don't get the brand name thing though, but oh well. I mean, American shows will just not mention any brands at all and photoshop out the logos.

 

[JKTrix]

Seikon no Qwaser II - Ep 3
Fun episode. I must admit, I was literally as happy as Hana was. I love Hana's VA...ka-ka-ka-ka-ka-katja sama! "Tremble! Prostrate yourself before me in fear!" is definitely one of my favorite catchphrases, so brutal when they say it.

I've only seen one episode of K-On, but I find it hilarious every time I think of Mio saying her lines.

 

[Hitokage]

Anime!

Just look at that list of fake shows that is somehow supposed to be better than what we actually get.

Tag Quote here.

 

[7Th]

I think Branduil means conventional in terms of camera direction, animation, art style, etc.

A Madoka produced by Madhouse and directed by Maasaki Yuasa/Ryosuke Nakamura/Hiroshi Hamasaki wouldn't have been conventional. At all.

 

[Haly]

I shudder to think what PMMM might've been like under Yuasa.

 

[firehawk12]

Spoiler

Look at everyone's wrist. Now that you mention it, Anaru is a possibility but the preview didn't show Yukiatsu's, which is why I suspect it's him.

Spoiler

Well, he's at the store buying one, it seems.

That speaks to how bad its competition is more than anything else.

Well, yeah. I don't deny that either.

You know what show has the least censorship?

Spoiler

Dog Days

Dawg Dayz > A Game of Thrones confirmed! Naw, I just wanted to say that. :lol

 

[Branduil]

A Madoka produced by Madhouse and directed by Maasaki Yuasa/Ryosuke Nakamura/Hiroshi Hamasaki wouldn't have been conventional. At all.

It also would likely have been a different show.

 

[Geneijin]

Spoiler

Well, he's at the store buying one, it seems.

Spoiler

I forgot to add he has one too already, which I just edited. Look near the end of the AnoHana OP. Watch on his left wrist.

 

[7Th]

It also would likely have been a different show.

Maybe, but you guys talk as if Shaft/Shinbo had a monopoly on relatively stylized anime direction.

 

[firehawk12]

Spoiler

I forgot to add he has one too already, which I just edited. Look near the end of the AnoHana OP. Watch on his left wrist.

I feel like we're starting to get into the Madoka speculah stage of the discussion now. :lol

 

[Joule]

Spoiler

Look at everyone's wrist. Now that you mention it, Anaru is a possibility but the preview didn't show Yukiatsu's, which is why I suspect it's him.

That would certainly put a very different spin on things if it works out that way.

Spoiler

That 'girl' also looked like she had a pink wristband just like Anaru.

We'll find out soon enough in any case.