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[jman2050]

7th dashing my hopes. Sisters of Wellber was in my backlog >.>

Your avatar is mesmerizing.

 

[Steroyd]

HSOD - OVA

I knew something was missing from the original run, a beach episode and with that HSOD is now complete.

 

[Jex]

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.

You're going to make the internet cry. But but Homura’s room etc. Or something. I think they did an okay job but there are certainly better studios/directors.

I wonder if their version would have been as popular as the SHAFT one though, presumably not.

Yup, both SoreMachi and Arakawa bombed. I'm assume Natsu no Arashi bombed as well.

One of those deserved to live.

Bought Sword of the Stranger on Blu-ray. What am I in for?

The best thing BONES has ever made.

Wait, is all of the AnoHana stuff just speculation based on the first two episodes and short preview for the third, or is there some supplemental material I'm missing?

I've been playing the light-novel 360 game and it's pretty good. They did change the story every so slightly, in that now they’re reminiscing while playing classic Japanese Xbox titles.

 

[Articalys]

Mission accomplished.

I don't get that though, because the second half of the series is pretty much all explanation.

It is explanation, but I think I've forgotten what mysteries it was explaining in the first place. So I have a perfectly good set of answers but no idea what I was originally trying to figure out. I guess it was just "why is all this crazy shit happening to Lain?".

I've been playing the light-novel 360 game and it's pretty good. They did change the story every so slightly, in that now they’re reminiscing while playing classic Japanese Xbox titles.

Hardy har har.

Spoiler

I do wonder how AnoHana/Iroha would work as VNs though.

 

[Articalys]

Sorry for two posts in a row but this is on a totally different topic.
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So you know how Tokyopop is shuttering their N.A. publishing division? Do you live in the Los Angeles area and want to have a chance to buy some of the stuff from their offices, including some of their series that are about to go out of print? Well here's your chance.

And if you're willing to venture into Facebook you can enter this contest to a special dibs or something. I dunno, I don't live around there so I don't care.

One of the best ways of cleaning house is really simple - a HUGE GARAGE SALE! Since we announced the closing of the North American publishing operations, we have a LOT of manga, posters and other great stuff to clear out. We know the fans want it all, so we'll do a general garage sale in mid-May (stay tuned for date and time to be announced later). But before that, we want to give 10 of our most dedicated fans the opportunity to buy the most coveted goodies.

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2011-04-28/tokyopop-to-hold-garage-sale-in-los-angeles

 

[Steroyd]

Sket Dance - 04

I must applauad how they've translated Saotome Ranma Roman (every god damn time) into anime form, even more appreciative of the 1 chapter per half episode conversion because it works so well for its format.

 

[Neo C.]

HSOD - OVA

I knew something was missing from the original run, a beach episode and with that HSOD is now complete.

The OVA is disturbing.

Spoiler

Takashi's Speedo is too tight!

 

[Jex]

Oh hey a really long post. I guess ABF is talking to mac again.

::scrolls up::

Wtf Geneijin?

Geneijin has done it before and will probably do it again!

More tits, less zombies, 15 minutes. Not much else you need to know if you're familiar with the franchise.

Not much else you need to know if you're familiar with anime!

I don't understand this, the 1st episode was pretty much in line with the rest of the series.

It was fully indicative of the rest of the show, in every single area.

 

[Steroyd]

The OVA is disturbing.

Spoiler

Takashi's Speedo is too tight!

Got to have fanservice for both sexes.

It was fully indicative of the rest of the show, in every single area.

Saw the OP again thanks to the OVA... yeeeeeaaaaaaah can't see where expectations would have been raised above what it ended up being.

 

[firehawk12]

firehawk should like this:

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/int...hi-animated-for-maria-holic-alive-music-video

That said it's some real creepy shit.

e: and awful.

Wow, dat voice can't make sense of dat video. :lol

One of those deserved to live.

Boo-urns! All three were good!

 

[Extollere]

this looks great
but it would stop my collection from being safe for work D:

want.

Christ, everything's naked, it's not just Holo and the apple at the base but the crate of apples is open and the bag of wheat is open, it's so suggestive! Everyone who worked on it should be ashamed!

thisisneogafJapan.gif ?

 

[Extollere]

Planetes 16, 17

I see where this is heading...

gooood, GOOOOOOD....

 

[Jex]

thisisneogafJapan.gif ?

You're implying they have no shame? This may well be correct.

 

[Dresden]

I didn't know Amagami had vampires.

 

[Erigu]

I didn't know Amagami had vampires.

Gotta justify your title.

 

[jman2050]

I'll be honest, I was pretty surprised when Amagami ended up being lol hilarious horribad rather than simply bad horribad.

 

[Jex]

Master Keaton 22

I forgot that this show is so grown-up and mature that we can have an entire episode go by without something exploding, or anyone dying or being threatened. A anime for old people indeed.

Ugh, kinda tasteless.

Just like the show itself.

lol Shu-chan.

"Hagu, what a fine adult you've become".

To look at the world through his warped eyes...

 

[Dresden]

I didn't watch the show, but I might watch this new episode.

For research purposes.

Gotta justify your title.

Tag.

 

[Jex]

I didn't watch the show, but I might watch this new episode.

For research purposes.

That's the only reason I ever watch anime, at any rate.

 

[firehawk12]

I didn't know Amagami had vampires.

http://i.min.us/ikY5Tk.gif[IMG][/QUOTE]
Ah, it's the sister arc? :lol

 

[jman2050]

That's the only reason I ever watch anime, at any rate.

I'm going to collect every post in every anime thread you've ever posted in and sell it as a book for $50 on Amazon.

It'll sell millions.

 

[expy]

Ah, it's the sister arc? :lol

That's not Miya... or is it?

 

[firehawk12]

I'm going to collect every post in every anime thread you've ever posted in and sell it as a book for $50 on Amazon.

It'll sell millions.

If someone compiled, organized and indexed an animu thread, I'd probably pay 5 bucks for it on the Kindle store.

That's not Miya... or is it?

Bangs make her look like Miya, but I'm not sure. I don't remember the biting anyway.

 

[Erigu]

That's not Miya... or is it?

It definitely is.

 

[jman2050]

Nii Nii

 

[Haly]

I'm going to collect every post in every anime thread you've ever posted in and sell it as a book for $50 on Amazon.

It'll sell millions.

Memoirs of an Animu Blogger, starring Zhang Zi Yi as Jehxius.

 

[Jex]

I'm going to collect every post in every anime thread you've ever posted in and sell it as a book for $50 on Amazon.

It'll sell millions.

Damn, I assumed the TOS would protect me but apparently not!

I knew I should have kept all my fabulous insight to myself.

 

[Haly]

Maybe if you should ask for a "This post is copyright of Jehxius" tag?

 

[Dresden]

I don't know, not enough of Jex's posts are long enough to serve as proper chapters.

You could probably build a decent anime book around mac and ABF's posts, though. "Musings on Harem Anime."

 

[Geneijin]

Bangs make her look like Miya, but I'm not sure. I don't remember the biting anyway.

Nishishishi, it's from the new episode.

That's not Miya... or is it?

No way that's Nanasaki :lol

 

[Jex]

You could probably build a decent anime book around mac and ABF's posts, though. "Musings on Harem Anime."

That, at least, is true.

I mean, it would make as much sense as the other anime books I've read.

Which reminds, a long with the Lain talk, that I need to finish "Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams" and purchase "Otaku".

 

[Geneijin]

I'll be honest, I was pretty surprised when Amagami ended up being lol hilarious horribad rather than simply bad horribad.

Wait, you've watched the entire thing? I didn't know that.

Excellent.

 

[jman2050]

You could probably build a decent anime book around mac and ABF's posts, though. "Musings on Harem Anime."

 

[Jex]

The only anime blog posts worth remembering is stuff like this (warning, Nausicaa spoilers) http://acephalous.typepad.com/acephalous/2010/10/hayao-miyazaki-nausicaa-valley-of-the-wind-visual-rhetoric-film-theory.html

 

[Extollere]

You're implying they have no shame? This may well be correct.

Yes...maybe... I dunno. At least....I feel no shame or remorse whatsoever for oogling the naked body of goddess Holo

 

[Steroyd]

Hey guyz there's a royal wedding tomorrow didja know? didja know? ole blighty's monarchy is getting married to some commoner, were you aware, well were you?

To commemorate this national holiday of I don't give a fuck, I shall be marathoning Higurashi, found out I only had season 2 all this time, no wonder I only made it to the first ten or so minutes of the 1st episode, before I stopped watching it entirely because it was boring and uneventful, hopefully it's long enough to blot out the TV completely tomorrow.

 

[Jex]

Blue Exorcist 1

Considering how slow this season has been I thought that giving this work a shot. Luckily enough, this first episode seemed fairly generic but at least it's well made, which I can't say for a number of other works with a similar story set-up. I'll give it a couple of more episodes before I decide whether or not to drop it.

 

[TheOddOne]

Blue Exorcist 1

Considering how slow this season has been I thought that giving this work a shot. Luckily enough, this first episode seemed fairly generic but at least it's well made, which I can't say for a number of other works with a similar story set-up. I'll give it a couple of more episodes before I decide whether or not to drop it.

You should track down episode 2, its totally different in tone and setup.

 

[Branduil]

I don't know, not enough of Jex's posts are long enough to serve as proper chapters.

You could probably build a decent anime book around mac and ABF's posts, though. "Musings on Harem Anime."

That way lies insanity.

Maybe if you should ask for a "This post is copyright of Jehxius" tag?

It's pretty strange he still has no tag, despite topping the wall of shame every season.

 

[Silh]

Moshidora 3

I thought Yunosuke's girlfriend (?) would be a bitch of an obstacle. Not the first time I would be wrong about a character here though, which is good.

The ending with all the club managers on the field seemed a little out there for this series.

 

[Ezalc]

A while ago I watched Captain Harlock Endless Odyssey. It was my first time watching a Captain Harlock anything, gotta say that Harlock is a BAMF. Anybody have any recommendations concerning Captain Harlock? I saw a trailer for that CG movie for Harlock, is there any word about that? Also was Harlock being voiced by Blum?

 

[Haly]

It's pretty strange he still has no tag, despite topping the wall of shame every season.

He is too level headed for a tag.

 

[Grzi]

A while ago I watched Captain Harlock Endless Odyssey. It was my first time watching a Captain Harlock anything, gotta say that Harlock is a BAMF. Anybody have any recommendations concerning Captain Harlock? I saw a trailer for that CG movie for Harlock, is there any word about that? Also was Harlock being voiced by Blum?

Watch Arcadia Of My Youth.

 

[InfiniteNine]

He is too level headed for a tag.

Pfft, what level headed person writes more than 100 words for a panty shot?

 

[Hellsing321]

 

[flawfuls]

This gets me every time. What manga is the screen from anyway?

Medaka Box.

 

[tiff]

Pfft, what level headed person writes more than 100 words for a panty shot?

Sounds reasonable to me.

 

[Articalys]

medaka emukae image

Wow, I remember seeing that post a while ago but only now just read the whole thing. And that is totally how I feel about a lot of harem anime. It's just 100x more amusing to see it as if it's being spoken by a manga high school girl.
Unfortunately, sensible plot and savvy protagonists != ratings and sales.

 

[Hellsing321]

Medaka Box.

I'll have to check it out.

 

[TheOddOne]

Pfft, what level headed person writes more than 100 words for a panty shot?

A sane person, man. He just writes it all down, while we all think it.