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Spring 2011 Anime Thread of ZAWA ZAWA, Money, emo Cyclops, and fun^10xint^40=Ir2
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Jexhius said:
If a character's dialogue is good, I would say they're good characters.
There's a plot? All I know is that they're spending waaay too much time on that stupid computer and not enough on anything else and that there are time travel shennanigans at work, somehow, for some reason or other, just because.Jexhius said:
It's all just detracting from Daru going on rants about his 2D wives, Ferys being Ferys and other, more important topics.
Infinite Justice
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Dresden said:
Is that sub for the last pic legit? if so then damn
Not quite.Uchip said:but I feel the need to add my 2cents
at least now everyone knows me and doesn't need to take it seriously
It doesn't absolve you of anything if you don't want to change your conduct when you're engaging in an argument. If you continue doing what you've been doing because you think you've stated yourself plainly now and think it's okay now to continue with what you've been accustomed to doing like derailing your own discussion (I'm referring to your laziness quote you've stated yourself exhibiting when you don't even want to start an argument in the first place) you've helped initiate when you're defending your opinion, then I say you have the wrong idea assuming you don't change habits like that. You shouldn't expect everyone to know your tendencies obviously nor think your responses will always not be taken seriously. Maybe here it might be fine since some people might recognize you, but on the gaming side for example? You do something similar here over there in a gaming thread, and they might not be as forgiving. It's why I stated in my last response you generally need to make your intentions clear and immediate because many of your responses have failed to represent your intentions ideally as you've wanted them to multiple times and aren't simply misunderstood because everyone hates you.
What gets you your bad rep is this mostly I'm assuming:
This wasn't the only time that happened. You've done that several times at least and each and every time you did, you pursue an argument and agree to initiate it. But you noticeably drift away from talking about the actual discussion with each further response you do that continues it. It's not only noticeable, it's self-evident in your first response you don't want to participate because you selectively choose to one or two points and ignore everything else that's been said. And you don't address what you've ignored either when you reply to that one point. It doesn't look like laziness then. It looks like you're uncompromising, ignorant, arrogant, and poor at arguing.Its more that Im too lazy to respond to more than one thing in a post and have no interest in arguing about the intricacies of anime perversion. Thats why I try to change the subject to a more humorous one
You don't have to agree with anyone: I'm not saying you should or have to. But if someone is questioning your stance or opinion, then substantiate it a bit and don't attack people's character when you feel offended. Attack the actual argument. You've done this as well when you slowly derail your ongoing discussion when defending your opinion and want to leave the argument (AND you don't stop the argument because you choose to continue it by not stating you want to stop or anything). Combine this with your laziness as you deem it, and it makes you look bad. Halt the argument yourself when it reaches a derogatory exercise against one another if it comes to that. Be the better person.
Your choice however you choose to interpret this.
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jman2050 said:
Jexhius said:
Just as i started to gather some actual interest in watching, oh well.
Will wait for more eps.
Don't listen to this shit jman, Team AnoHana's got your back, they can't do shit to you without going through us, provided you defect to us that is.zeroshiki said:
Also, Meatloaf is still an amazing musician,Bat out of Hell is still a great fucking album and everyone should listen to it right now.
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Jexhius said:
And perhaps it would be useful if I said none of what the characters in Bakemono talked about made any sense to me nor did I find what did make sense interesting. I also did not like the animation style shifts or the subliminal messages.
With Denpa, the characters' wackiness at odds with the more serious tone works so much better than Bakemono's disjointed storytelling and dialogue. It helps that I like legitimately crazy characters more than kuuderes that think they're tsunderes and elementary schoolers with big backpacks. I also find what they're talking about much more relatable.
But hey, just my opinion. Do I need to explain myself more?
InfiniteNine
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Well I convinced an old friend of mine to watch Madoka. It'll be fun hearing what she thinks of it as she progresses through it.
Nah, it wasn't me, just a helpful random stranger.Jexhius said:
Reading about all the speculation surrounding the show is pretty swell, though. Either people are wanking over trivial details or Nakamura is fashioning something quite stunning.
I mean, none of it will pan out probably, but I can dream.
It was nice knowing you, jman.trejo said:
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trejo said:
Technically I already defected, though I didn't formally announce my defection.
I feel free to defect back if Hanasaku Iroha picks up, though.
Branduil said:
Ryukishi's narratives are one sustained troll from beginning to end.
*Cathcing up after a 16 hours sleep*InfiniteNine said:
Good people do. Yui is the reason K-ON! is so good. Well, Yui and Ritsu. Without Yui, you wouldn't have Ritsu following up with some stupid/amusing things. It is the Yui/Ritsu duo that mostly makes the show funny, without them it wouldn't be as fun to follow (for me) as it is.
Must be posted. God, that theme.InfiniteNine said:
Also, Steroyd, don't click! And to anyone else, don't either unless you don't care about spoilers. Huge spoilers. You have been warned.
InfiniteNine
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Not my favorite version of You but that song is so awesome. The one they did for Umineko is nice too.Geneijin said:
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The same one, hahaha. I've always loved Shion's version the most.Geneijin said:
icecream-tan why have you left me here on my own? ;___;
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Going to reply to that long AnoHana (ep. 2) reply of mine, Geneijin? Maybe I should watch ep. 3 first though...
I mean seriously, generic insane evil psycho villain #230549430 ranting about how evil he is scenes are one of film's most generic things. They do not have to go on for ten minutes. If you're going to spend that much time on a plot speech, it better actually be a good plot.
(Also of course, the actual Nazis, or modern-day neonazis, weren't completely insane and didn't make policy just for the fun of causing chaos, Hitler had goals. I know that using nazis as evil is just about the most sterotypical thing ever and that's fine, the Nazis were quite evil, but they weren't about just mindlessly causing as much chaos as possible as was that Major guy's goal.)
(The harem action show of the season, by the way, is probably Dog Days. Very stupid stuff, but amusing just often enough for me to keep watching.
My favorite anime series so far this year, though, is probably .hack//Quantum... AnoHana is clearly good so far, but I want to see where it goes.)
I watched some of FFU, back then... I forget exactly how much though, but certainly not more than half before I dropped it because of how dull it was. I remember a bit about it though, such as that it had that Kaze guy's gun loading CG animation in every single episode, when he chose the special bullets that would defeat that episode's enemy. It was FFU's "animation sequence required in every episode" thing. (Also, the main characters were little kids, and the other character was an attractive woman. And the world was weird, giant mushrooms or something?). Yeah, bad show though.Solune said:
Profound? Seriously? You'd use a word like THAT to describe that speech? It would be hard for me to disagree more, it was so, so bad, from length to writing to content... it was boring, stupid, ridiculous (not in a good way), incredibly repetitive, eight or nine minutes too long (minimum), and more... just an endless scene of a stupid madman ranting. How in the world is a scene like that supposed to be a good idea? And plus of course as I also said, the actual plot is one of the most generic imaginable. It's like massive amounts of hype and exposition for a story with zero depth or complexity (evil psycho nazi wants to kill everything. There, that's all you need to know.). So bad.
I mean seriously, generic insane evil psycho villain #230549430 ranting about how evil he is scenes are one of film's most generic things. They do not have to go on for ten minutes. If you're going to spend that much time on a plot speech, it better actually be a good plot.
(Also of course, the actual Nazis, or modern-day neonazis, weren't completely insane and didn't make policy just for the fun of causing chaos, Hitler had goals. I know that using nazis as evil is just about the most sterotypical thing ever and that's fine, the Nazis were quite evil, but they weren't about just mindlessly causing as much chaos as possible as was that Major guy's goal.)
You could have done that in one tenth the amount of time.Infinite Justice said:
I think that that's one of the least likely directions the show could go in.mAcOdIn said:
(The harem action show of the season, by the way, is probably Dog Days. Very stupid stuff, but amusing just often enough for me to keep watching.
My favorite anime series so far this year, though, is probably .hack//Quantum... AnoHana is clearly good so far, but I want to see where it goes.)
I don't need to be around people quite as much as a lot of people do (I like being by myself), but still that is somewhat true, yeah...
We're misunderstanding eachother, I was talking about watching sports from the beginning pretty much, not playing, and didn't know you weren't until you mentioned it that way. I did play baseball and soccer in elementary school and junior high (and basketball for one year), but I never was too good at it so once you had to do tryouts and such, I stopped playing. Though I liked playing it as a kid though I've never found watching soccer too interesting, though of course that isn't true for baseball.
I was thinking that it's likely that there's probably something, sometime, that both was something you liked to some degree and something that was popular in Japan. It's unlikely that the answer truly is never...
Good.
Indeed.
I don't really like the Umineko one. Sorry to say. I'm more partial to the Piano and Violin instrumental instead. And I have a guilty pleasure with the trance mix. It's not amazingly great or anything, but I like how the melody works for it so well. I blame Clannad.InfiniteNine said:
I hope icecream is still a big IM fan.
Yeah, I will. Writing one really slowlyA Black Falcon said:
I haven't seen Episode 3 yet either. A bunch of other episodes I want to watch that aired today too.
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Yeah, the piano+violin one is really beautiful. The Umineko one isn't great but it has a certain charm to me. I figured they would have made some versions for the characters by now but I guess that isn't going to happen. :lol That trance one isn't too bad I'd make a few changes but it's pretty cool. People blame Clannad for everything!Geneijin said:
The pace of this thread has increased beyond my capability to properly respond to any of it or maintain a discussion, so here's a bunch of stuff that happened in the last few days.
First (very brief) trailer with actual content for the K-On! movie. Original story set during high school. First round of advance tickets already selling out. I'll laugh if it makes more than Shoushitsu.
For all five people who still care about Star Driver, Mizuno's image song Innocent Blue has been released. In both normal and Apprivoiser versions. Just waiting on Ami Koshimizu's J-pop karaoke now.
Not strictly anime (and I meant to make a Gaming thread but chickened out), Square Enix now has an iPhone game for Japanese players designed to teach you how to speak English -- through a dating sim. Even Americans can try it for $7, though I'm not sure what use it would have.
And that's about it for now. My top three this season has shifted to Denpa>AnoHana=Iroha and looks like it'll stay that way.
First (very brief) trailer with actual content for the K-On! movie. Original story set during high school. First round of advance tickets already selling out. I'll laugh if it makes more than Shoushitsu.
For all five people who still care about Star Driver, Mizuno's image song Innocent Blue has been released. In both normal and Apprivoiser versions. Just waiting on Ami Koshimizu's J-pop karaoke now.
Not strictly anime (and I meant to make a Gaming thread but chickened out), Square Enix now has an iPhone game for Japanese players designed to teach you how to speak English -- through a dating sim. Even Americans can try it for $7, though I'm not sure what use it would have.
And that's about it for now. My top three this season has shifted to Denpa>AnoHana=Iroha and looks like it'll stay that way.
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Don't do something you know is wrong just to protect someone else!Geneijin said:
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Well I'd give it a shot if it was not on an iDevice. Sadly, I do not want one and this doesn't really justify a purchase.Articalys said:
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