• Hey, guest user. Hope you're enjoying NeoGAF! Have you considered registering for an account? Come join us and add your take to the daily discourse.

Spring 2011 Anime Thread of ZAWA ZAWA, Money, emo Cyclops, and fun^10xint^40=Ir2

Status
Not open for further replies.

Jex

Member
ninj4junpei said:
Howl's Moving Castle is senile Miyazaki. Ponyo is super senile Miyazaki.
Ponyo is better because it is consistently senile.
Aigis said:
Wings of Honneamise

This was really good. Good enough to feel justified in blindly spending $35 on it. It's definitely one of my favorite anime movies of all time now. Not much else to say about it.
Surely there's something more to be said about one of the finest anime movies ever!

The art, the animation, the story, "that scene" and so forth?
 

jman2050

Member
Jexhius said:
I can theoretically understand that complaint...but cliche seems to speak not only to an unoriginal story but an unoriginal story told in a boring manner. Once one considers how very difficult it would be to write a "wholly original" story then we move on to focusing on the execution of the story.

Ano Hana has very good execution.

eh, Ano Hana has competent execution but really nothing that stands out at all.
 

Lafiel

と呼ぶがよい
Nichijou 5 - I actually laughed, they were actually some funny moments in this episode! definitely a step-up from episode 3 & 4.
 

Jex

Member
firehawk12 said:
Honestly, I have no idea why I watched the first season beyond the fact that it looked like SZS...You have a lesbian, a priest, and a masochistic crossdressing boy. You'd think that'd be rife for comedic and satirical possibilities, but that seems to be the furthest thing from their minds.
It is rather a pity, isn't it? Like a premise in search of a writer.
Osaka said:
Pretty much what I felt, as well.

It definitely starts out strong. With Toriko and AnE, this season is pretty damn great for shounen.
This season is pretty great for fans of everything, apart from mecha or sci-fi, a.k.a real anime.
Halycon said:
Denpa Onna 01: Enjoying this a lot. I guess it confirms that I'm a SHAFT/Shinbo whore.
At least you're in good company.
 

Haly

One day I realized that sadness is just another word for not enough coffee.
tiff said:
If those 10 frames are good then it's cool with me at least.
It wasn't even that good, it was just a girl's torso moving back and forth without any real feeling behind it.

And they used the same loop for TWO different girls.

Outrageous, if I had a magazine rack nearby I would've flipped it over in frustration.
 

Lain

Member
Halycon said:
It wasn't even that good, it was just a girl's torso moving back and forth without any real feeling behind it.

And they used the same loop for TWO different girls.

Outrageous, if I had a magazine rack nearby I would've flipped it over in frustration.
At least it wasn't the same constantly speed up/speed down animation, prison battleship style! Although that somewhat works too.
 

Haly

One day I realized that sadness is just another word for not enough coffee.
Speeding up frame rate/cutting out frames is cheating >:|
 

Izayoi

Banned
Jexhius said:
I feel that it's fairly gentle, actually.
I was scarred for life long ago by Grave of the Fireflies, and forever will have a weak heart when it comes to anime. It doesn't take much to wrench my heart.
 

hellclerk

Everything is tsundere to me
Halycon said:
Speeding up frame rate/cutting out frames is cheating >:|
Oh please, don't act like actual porn isn't basically that anyway. Animation is expensive! And porn is poorly funded! Hell, even well funded anime end up with QUALITY ANIMATION and reuse sequences and animations all the time. Why do you think they used all these similar camera angles in K-ON!? Because they needed to save up for those high frame rotoscoped animations in the performances of course!
 

Geneijin

Member
firehawk12 said:
I'm still surprised there was no teacher arc. They even go out of their way to point out that she was single, but I guess they didn't want to go there. One crazy arc (student council girl... well, and stalker girl if you count her arc) is probably enough.
Anime furthering the stereotype older women is a no-no. Such a shame there wasn't an arc for her.

7Th said:
BLue Exorcist
No no no no no, please don't let it come to down. :lol

Dresden said:
R6CCTl.jpg


lol
qGoJM.jpg
 

firehawk12

Subete no aware
Hellsing321 said:
Hanasaku 5
I can already tell Ko is going to end up getting NTR'd by Tohru. Can't wait.
Unless they go AnoHana with it, there are not going to be any triangles. At best, you have another herp derp dawwwwww misunderstanding.

Geneijin said:
Anime furthering the stereotype older women is a no-no. Such a shame there wasn't an arc for her.
She must have been in her twenties! That's not old!

Dresden said:
Comparing dick sizes and waggling them in the communal shower is like, the broest thing to do.
Ahhhh, but do they grab each other's penises and massage them like the way girls do when they shower together? :lol

Jexhius said:
It is rather a pity, isn't it? Like a premise in search of a writer.
I have to imagine the manga is much worse... but who knows, maybe, just maybe, this is a bad adaptation.
 

Extollere

Sucks at poetry
Planetes 20 - 22

HAKIIIIMMMMMMMmmmmm!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Why this show got so many idealistic twats? Future's gonna suck, but I feel ya man.

No sympathy for Hachimaki, you're a grown man, quit acting like a bitch.
 

firehawk12

Subete no aware
Extollere said:
Planetes 20 - 22

HAKIIIIMMMMMMMmmmmm!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Why this show got so many idealistic twats? Future's gonna suck, but I feel ya man.

No sympathy for Hachimaki, you're a grown man, quit acting like a bitch.
Ahhh, now you're in the do-rama part of the show!
 
Dog Days 5

Holy shit, that fight between Gaul and Sink was AMAZING! This is supposed to be a world where you barely do any damage, yet the cat king ends up friggin
SKATEBOARDING ON THE DUDE'S FACE. Then he gets some crazy aura claws and shit goes down. Then when you think it's back to wacky kemomimi hijinks, AIR LANCE SURFING.

Man, this show is not what I expected it to be AT ALL.
 

Izayoi

Banned
Hanasaku Iroha 1, 2, 3, & 4. What's with this season and ridiculously pretty shows? I love it. I wish every season was like this one. Not much going on, but the main girls are lovable. It was a little more melancholic than I was expecting, but whatever. Will be finishing this one.
 

firehawk12

Subete no aware
Shouwa Monogatari 2 - A very quaint slice of life/family dorama show that's almost designed to be as generic and all encompassing as possible. The overbearing father being undercut by the grandmother while yelling at the son is like the quintessential Asian family experience after all!

It seems to be trying to ride a line between wanting to just show off customs and locations - basically a tourist video - and playing out the typical clash of generations conflict that is a part of all families. Maybe it's meant to remind people of their own precocious youth or some such... like when they used to wear hoop skirts and tried to pick up boys at parties.

I suppose this is also one of the advantages of anime, since I imagine it would be cost prohibitive to try to do this in live action. Of course, most people tend to use the advantages of the medium to have robot harem magical girlfriend wincest stories, so maybe it's all lost on us. :lol

Geneijin said:
Too old to be in a high school uniform.
Skirt suits > school uniforms!

Extollere said:
Can't a homie just get a lift to Jupiter without all the stress ya'll be causin me?
WHY MUST YOU SHUT YOURSELF OFF FROM ME?!
 

Branduil

Member
qcf x2 said:
Wow, I thought I'd never enjoy another shounen but both Aoi no Exorcist & C are revitalizing the genre. I'm liking both right now.

Plus having seen Madoka, ...last time I enjoyed 3 series from one year was...well, I'm not sure but it's been at least 2 or 3 years.

What's the consensus on Deadman Wonderland? It looked promising but the early (1st ep) impressions suggested it was awful. Should I check it out?

Branduil said:
Deadman Wonderland 1

An absurdist masterpiece. By cleverly subverting our expectations of a story with causal believability, the viewer is forced to examine the nonsensical nature of our own universe. After all, stories where events always proceed in a logical manner are the true unbelievable ones. We live in a crazy world, and Deadman Wonderland recognizes and exploits that truth by hyperbolizing and contextualizing our inexplicable reality. By presenting a world where things like school field trips to prison amusement parks exist, the viewer is encouraged to ponder the bread and circuses of our own, "civilized" age.

The scene where the main character "confesses" to his crime is a prime example of the anime's genius. It is truly an unbelievable scene, but when you think about, is it really that unusual? In the aftermath of a tragedy, people become desperate for a scapegoat, and the sacrificial lamb must be bled.

When Ganta plaintively cries "this can't be happening!", he truly speaks for all of us. How else can we respond to the mad terror of this world? As the female captain of the guards said, "life can be crazy sometimes. There's no escaping reality." Keen insight, Makina. Keen, piercing insight.

Indeed, just look at the pivotal event in the opening. A flying figure from nowhere, inexplicably slaughtering a class of high school students. This scene represents the incomprehensible randomness of tragedy. It is foolhardy to try to understand why things happen, or assign blame for the tangled causality of our universe.

Why is an albino girl in a bizarrely-patterned jumpsuit suddenly trying to kill Ganta? Why suddenly insert a scene with a prisoner holding someone hostage and then a revelation of the effects of candy in such an inappropriate place in the episode? The point is, it doesn't matter. Just as one cannot perceive the sound of one-hand-clapping, the actions of any given person cannot be truly understood, even yourself. We are all but puppets of the quantum fluctuations of the microverse.

.
 

tiff

Banned
Halycon said:
It wasn't even that good, it was just a girl's torso moving back and forth without any real feeling behind it.

And they used the same loop for TWO different girls.

Outrageous, if I had a magazine rack nearby I would've flipped it over in frustration.
I haven't seen it in years so I couldn't really talk about it specifically. I just meant in general.

Perhaps a rewatch is in order. For the sake of a proper critique...
 

InfiniteNine

Rolling Girl
Halycon said:
I've come to expect more from my hentai than just 10-frame animation cycles repeated over and over again!
Hentai is not for you then! Seriously you stuff hardly ever comes out and Front Innocent does a lot just by not having the drawings going to crap all the time.
 

Haly

One day I realized that sadness is just another word for not enough coffee.
InfiniteNine said:
Hentai is not for you then!
Indeed!

The drawings were good but the animation was not so great. If I wanted pretty drawings I have plenty of doujins to explore!

I see you've joined the #Winning side.
 

Extollere

Sucks at poetry
I'm a monocled hentai snob. Ask I9, besides there's simply too much hentai (manga/doujinshi) for one to not be a snob. Unless you want to fill your HDD with hundreds or thousands of GB of material you'll never have time to look at. One must be choosy when it comes to their anime boobs (trust me this makes a difference. Just compare the lovely breasts of an Inuzuma or Kenosoh Ogawa to some garbage by Goromenz).

^ In all reality, I'm splitting hairs here, but then again - what is a snob supposed to do, if not this? :p
 

firehawk12

Subete no aware
Hyouge Mono 1 - Oh my god, so moe it's unbelievable. Also, dat music is both hilarious and boss to the point where I'm both gripped by the drama and laughing at the same time.

I take it this is just loosely borrowing from history though? In the same way as that Battle Girls WhateverWhatever anime?

Either way, I'm certainly intrigued. It's as different as freaking Shouwa Monogatari and that's a good thing.

Extollere said:
I'm a monocled hentai snob. Ask I9, besides there's simply too much hentai (manga/doujinshi) for one to not be a snob. Unless you want to fill your HDD with hundreds or thousands of GB of material you'll never have time to look at. One must be choosy when it comes to their anime boobs (trust me this makes a difference. Just compare the lovely breasts of an Inuzuma or Kenosoh Ogawa to some garbage by Goromenz).

^ In all reality, I'm splitting hairs here, but then again - what is a snob supposed to do, if not this? :p
Is that more choice of fetish more than anything else?
 

firehawk12

Subete no aware
Ezalc said:
So did the summer anime list get released? Because I saw a list and there was nothing that looked good on it.
There was a short preliminary list that someone put out a while ago. Not sure if it's been updated since though.
 

Lain

Member
Extollere said:
I'm a monocled hentai snob. Ask I9, besides there's simply too much hentai (manga/doujinshi) for one to not be a snob. Unless you want to fill your HDD with hundreds or thousands of GB of material you'll never have time to look at. One must be choosy when it comes to their anime boobs (trust me this makes a difference. Just compare the lovely breasts of an Inuzuma or Kenosoh Ogawa to some garbage by Goromenz).
I'm the kind of person that likes both the style as well as the theme in his porn. So I'll take a Goromenz or a Mogudan just as well as a Kensoh Ogawa. After all, we're not talking about someone like Horikawa Gorou, which I can still appreciate, but who has a style that's just, well...
 

Cwarrior

Member
Hanasaku Iroha ep5

Episode was just ok, pretty obvious it was only a misunderstanding about him moving to rival inn and looks like my love triangle prediction are all coming true very soon, that should teach gaf to not doubt my predictions.

Really slow episode with bad pacing and very little actually happening, i can see now how they can stretch this to a 26 episode show.

Episode confirmed that friendzoned boy going to move to the town, guys a real stalker who can't move on.
 

trejo

Member
Sket Dance 3 and 4

Eh, not much to say about episode 3, it was ok. Episode 4 was a blast. They just up and tore away the fourth wall for the first segment and it was great. I hope we see more of otome filter girl.

One thing I wish they'd focus more on is Switch. The character is funny but lately he just seems to be there and do nothing more.
 

Uchip

Banned
InfiniteNine said:
Hentai is not for you then! Seriously you stuff hardly ever comes out and Front Innocent does a lot just by not having the drawings going to crap all the time.

wait
what?
 
trejo said:
Sket Dance 3 and 4

Eh, not much to say about episode 3, it was ok. Episode 4 was a blast. They just up and tore away the fourth wall for the first segment and it was great. I hope we see more of otome filter girl.

One thing I wish they'd focus more on is Switch. The character is funny but lately he just seems to be there and do nothing more.

Don't worry, otome filter girl will be back.

And just wait until Switch's backstory. That should be fun.
 

Cwarrior

Member
Izayoi said:
Hidan no Aria 1, 2, & 3. Well... it's a JCStaffxRie production, that's for sure. And uh... yeah.

Thank god when I watched toradroa it was my first time hearing Tsundere Rie, if it wasn't for that i don't think i would ever been able to finish it.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Top Bottom