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Spring 2011 Anime Thread of ZAWA ZAWA, Money, emo Cyclops, and fun^10xint^40=Ir2
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Still up for me.
Joe Molotov
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InfiniteNine said:
Still working for me.
Finally finished last season. Have 18 shows queued up this time around.
[C] first episode was pretty fucking cool. Can't wait to see more. Shows I'm watching:
[C]
A Channel
Deadman
Denpa
Dog Days
Dororon
Exorcist
Hana
Hanasaku
Hidan
Hyouge
Lotte
Nichijou
Ore-tachi
Sengoku
Softenni
Steins
T&B
Anything I'm missing?
[C] first episode was pretty fucking cool. Can't wait to see more. Shows I'm watching:
[C]
A Channel
Deadman
Denpa
Dog Days
Dororon
Exorcist
Hana
Hanasaku
Hidan
Hyouge
Lotte
Nichijou
Ore-tachi
Sengoku
Softenni
Steins
T&B
Anything I'm missing?
InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
I wouldn't post that.
DarknessTear
Banned
Nerd gathering is increasing.
Hellsing321
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Uchip said:"irc.enterthegame.com: Terminated"
Thats what I'm getting too.
What's the good stuff? I'm going to give all of those shows at least four episodes (I always do), but I'm curious what everyone considers the good shows to be this season. I just picked a handful that I was interested in or heard things about and then chose the rest based off of recommendations.Aigis said:
I ended up finishing ten shows last season, so I'm curious to see how this season fares.
KuwabaraTheMan
Banned
Ano Hana 3:
Solid episode. This episode had a lot more progression than the previous episode, and it seemed a lot more consistent as well. I also really enjoyed Menma this episode. I felt like she was a lot more funny and endearing the way she was written here.
Solid episode. This episode had a lot more progression than the previous episode, and it seemed a lot more consistent as well. I also really enjoyed Menma this episode. I felt like she was a lot more funny and endearing the way she was written here.
Unknown One
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Give Deadman Wonderland a shot. The manga is pretty damn good, hopefully it doesn't stray to far from the manga in this anime adaption.
hosannainexcelsis
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Izayoi said:
Here's what I consider the cream of the crop:
Ano Hana
Hanasaku Iroha
Denpa Onna
Nichijou
Tiger and Bunny
Also worth watching:
Dororon Enma-kun
Kaiji S2
Sket Dance
Of what I've seen so far, I'd say Denpa is good, Battle Girls is bad but amusing, Hanasaku is good, Ore-tachi is bad, Lotte is OK, A-Channel sorta relaxed/boring but not completely bad, Dog Days sorta bad, Nichijou I'm not completely sure if it's good or bad. I still have to start on the others but never find the right mindset to.Izayoi said:
RoboGeorgeForeman
Banned
I haven't made it too far in, but is Boogiepop Phantom really worth watching? I finished about an episode and a half, and was kind of bored (btw, I'm not really into mindfuck anime).
Crash Station
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30 people in IRC now. I think this was a success.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Yeah, I think the age of picture spam is over. :lolEinbroch said:
hosannainexcelsis
Member
RoboGeorgeForeman said:
I thought it was worth watching and came together quite nicely in the end. But I have a fondness for non-linear multi-perspective storytelling.
InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
Einbroch said:
A Black Falcon
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Dog Days 04 - More fighting, lots more of it. This series apparently is mostly about fight scenes. Some new characters are introduced, too, an adult samurai ninja or something (she's a dog-girl ninja who says stuff like "de gozaru" all the time), and a ninja girl who works under her. They fight against the troops in the castle, along with the main hero and the two girls already traveling with him (the tsundere warrior girl, and the young sage girl who apparently is also good at artillery). This time the two main opponents are male. Neither fight ends in this episode, this is continuing into ep. 3. A more shonen battle harem show indeed. It was alright for what it is, but that's all. The JRPG elements of the story are amusing, though. 
Lotte's Toy 02 - Yeah, as I thought I would, I quickly am losing interest. Doubt I'll continue for long. For what it is though it's decent. The main character is nice. Did the manga keep it in suspense for so long that that girl's actually his daughter and not his sister, though? Maybe, but I imagine it'll be revealed soon. Ep. 1 was all new stuff, but ep. 2 was much closer to the manga.
Galaxy Angel 03-07 - Amusing series... but really, does a show with 12 minute episodes need full length OP and ED parts? That takes up a lot of time in a series with already short episodes. Oh well, it's entertaining and some of these plots were weirdly funny.
Ep. 3 - And that is why you don't give missiles self-aware artificial intelligence, they refuse to do their duty. Good stuff, that was entertaining.
Ep. 4 (I think, the one about the rich construction company owner being targetted) - Somewhat unsatisfying ending, they
? It was a kind of silly way to end it though, and a little bit surprising, so it worked. Still a little odd though. The twist in this episode was well done, I didn't predict it I must admit.
The episode about returning that old guy's elementary school ID card (5 or 6 I think) - That was a good episode. The story this time was a little more serious than the other episodes so far. Milfeuelle (spelling it wrong I know), the main character, provides plenty of "I'm an idiot" humor, but the main plot is kind of sweet actually, once it's revealed at the end (I won't spoil it). Nice twist, if a bit strange again (in a completely different way from the last episode).
Overall, this series is nothing special, but it's amusing enough that it does make me want to probably watch some more. Amusing sci-fi comedy.
I don't mean to say that that makes it better in any way, though. It doesn't. It's extremely, extremely generic. It just has a somewhat different feeling from, say, IS or Samurai Girls; it's got a bit more shonen battle anime in it than them, I guess. Now, maybe that'll stop soon and it'll go to some 100% generic harem antics episodes, I expect it at some point, but so far that's how it is.
Oh, and the art's more generic looking than, say, IS or Samurai Girls. Those two at least had some interesting visual design to help keep them interesting. Not much of that here, just animal-people and JRPG-ish references.
Seriously though, sure I guess I will, but it doesn't have nostalgia value for me because I only watched it for the first time a few years ago, not back at the time, and with a series like that I'll bet that watching it in the context of the time matters...
Lotte's Toy 02 - Yeah, as I thought I would, I quickly am losing interest. Doubt I'll continue for long. For what it is though it's decent. The main character is nice. Did the manga keep it in suspense for so long that that girl's actually his daughter and not his sister, though? Maybe, but I imagine it'll be revealed soon. Ep. 1 was all new stuff, but ep. 2 was much closer to the manga.
Galaxy Angel 03-07 - Amusing series... but really, does a show with 12 minute episodes need full length OP and ED parts? That takes up a lot of time in a series with already short episodes. Oh well, it's entertaining and some of these plots were weirdly funny.
Ep. 3 - And that is why you don't give missiles self-aware artificial intelligence, they refuse to do their duty. Good stuff, that was entertaining.
Ep. 4 (I think, the one about the rich construction company owner being targetted) - Somewhat unsatisfying ending, they
all run away without it telling us which was the one that failed
The episode about returning that old guy's elementary school ID card (5 or 6 I think) - That was a good episode. The story this time was a little more serious than the other episodes so far. Milfeuelle (spelling it wrong I know), the main character, provides plenty of "I'm an idiot" humor, but the main plot is kind of sweet actually, once it's revealed at the end (I won't spoil it). Nice twist, if a bit strange again (in a completely different way from the last episode).
Overall, this series is nothing special, but it's amusing enough that it does make me want to probably watch some more. Amusing sci-fi comedy.
I guess someone has to like serial killing psychos, but that doesn't mean they're right...Hitokage said:
Hitokage said:
Pretty much, yeah.Hitokage said:
What? Because he's insane and there was something like it in the manga, somehow that justifies them actually putting that in the anime? It is "just" ten or so minutes of a madman ranting about how he loves war and killing, but it's also one of the more embarrassingly bad things I've seen in anime.Infinite Justice said:Note the last "it" in my post was referring to his insanity and that speech was just a vehicle.
@bold: should of just said this in your first post about it
I don't think even today's neonazis are in favor of pointless war just for the sake of war, though. If it were possible for them war for the sake of killing black people or Jews or something maybe, but just for the sake of chaos and slaughter? That's generic supervillain stuff, nothing to do really with nazis.
That's for sure.Plus Hellsing is all about being over the top imo and won't be winning any awards for its story telling.
Yeah, that it's a pretty badly written series.
Of course he's crazy, but beyond that my response was as described earlier.
Yeah, indeed true.Jexhius said:
Sure, that's probably a good idea. Dog Days is somewhat different from IS, it's got less harem antics and a lot more fighting. IS had lots of harem antics and occasional fighting, but Dog Days really is focused on the fighting, at least through the first four episodes. It kind of feels like an attempt at a harem show crossed with a (comedy) JRPG, I think. So it's got Chocobo analogs, wandering monsters, battles where no one dies, set piece fights in specific arenas, etc. There are bits of harem stuff too of course -- the main character is male, while all of the other major characters on the dog side (that he's on) are female; a bath scene; the tsundere girl he's around the most (the fighter girl with the blue theme color, Eclair I think) hits him when he's stupid, etc -- but there are lots of long fight scenes in Dog Days, more than some of these shows.mAcOdIn said:
I don't mean to say that that makes it better in any way, though. It doesn't. It's extremely, extremely generic. It just has a somewhat different feeling from, say, IS or Samurai Girls; it's got a bit more shonen battle anime in it than them, I guess. Now, maybe that'll stop soon and it'll go to some 100% generic harem antics episodes, I expect it at some point, but so far that's how it is.
Oh, and the art's more generic looking than, say, IS or Samurai Girls. Those two at least had some interesting visual design to help keep them interesting. Not much of that here, just animal-people and JRPG-ish references.
I'm sure if someone made a list of anime series popular in Japan, you'd find SOMETHING on it you consider good.
Wait, I have to re-watch it too? I didn't sign up for that!
Seriously though, sure I guess I will, but it doesn't have nostalgia value for me because I only watched it for the first time a few years ago, not back at the time, and with a series like that I'll bet that watching it in the context of the time matters...
It looks like they're kind of going with parts of both.
Two good movies!
I think it is great, really good atmosphere, weird moments, interesting characters, but if you don't like mindfuck anime, then do not bother.RoboGeorgeForeman said:
How do you guys mantain sanity in a IRC channel with 30 anime gaffers? Doesn't the chat scroll by so fast reading becomes impossible?!cosmicblizzard said:
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Why keep watching it at all? :lolA Black Falcon said:
A Black Falcon
Member
Good question...because even though in general I don't find them interesting enough to stick with, sometimes I do find stupid action stuff entertaining I guess? I don't have the patience with it to follow the endless shonen series like Naruto or Bleach (though I do read the Fairy Tail manga, I gave up on the anime after like 30-40 episodes), but at least this will actually end after a little while.firehawk12 said:
Yeah, no good reasons really.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Hah, I suppose it's low commitment shounen after all.A Black Falcon said:
You tryin' to sell me on Dog Days?A Black Falcon said:
If that person wasn't from Japan, sure.A Black Falcon said:
Well you act like my memory's shit, what about your memory?A Black Falcon said:Wait, I have to re-watch it too? I didn't sign up for that!
Seriously though, sure I guess I will, but it doesn't have nostalgia value for me because I only watched it for the first time a few years ago, not back at the time, and with a series like that I'll bet that watching it in the context of the time matters...
Seems so.A Black Falcon said:
Yay!A Black Falcon said:
Infinite Justice
Member
Yea it was justified imo since that was the point where you said the character is that crazy and it also played into how over the top the whole series is. (plus they want to adapt the manga more accurately
). Wasn't really comparing actual ones though (since honestly no one would act like that), just this particular group in the world of Hellsing. I really think you should watch the rest though since there is even more crazy stuff than some silly war speech lol
Yeah, that it's a pretty badly written series.
Honestly i don't really care as much about that as long as i'm entertained so
.Its always interesting seeing how those things can affect other people though (like your post of not liking Black lagoon because the main group are mostly evil).
Black Republican
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so whats peoples opinions on the best anime so far this season?
Crash Station
Member
Trapeze 2
Better than the first episode. Still kind of boring, but I'm more interested to continue now. Boner dude sure told those office bitches.
Better than the first episode. Still kind of boring, but I'm more interested to continue now. Boner dude sure told those office bitches.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
AnoHanaBlack Republican said:
Hanasaku Iroha
etc.
InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
Because you're busying!Hitokage said:
hosannainexcelsis
Member
cosmicblizzard said:
It just gets better and better!
hosannainexcelsis
Member
Black Republican said:
Ano Hana gets my vote.
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