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[Master Milk]

So they're doing a live-action adaptation of Arakawa... and also a movie. Did anyone even watch that show?[/URL]

Is the movie live action or animated?

It wasn't a popular show, but it was funny.

 

[firehawk12]

Is the movie live action or animated?

It wasn't a popular show, but it was funny.

Both are live action.

 

[Master Milk]

Both are live action.

How disappointing.

 

[duckroll]

OMG guys! I just realized. In 24 hours, X-Men ep1 will be airing! OMGGGGGGGGG!

 

[Steroyd]

OMG guys! I just realized. In 24 hours, X-Men ep1 will be airing! OMGGGGGGGGG!

Please come back us in one piece. T_T

 

[7Th]

Dresden's favorite anime is back!

Spoiler

Except now they are ambiguously gay girls in ridiculous clothing instead of ambiguously gay guys in ridiculous clothing.

 

[Jex]

Dresden's favorite anime is back!

Spoiler

Except now they are ambiguously gay girls in ridiculous clothing instead of ambiguously gay guys in ridiculous clothing.

As if it makes that much difference!

Koi Kaze 4
Oh wow, this shit got reeeealy uncomfortable reeeeeeeeeealy fast... I even jumped a bit when he started knocking shit over. It's doing pretty well, framing the romance without condoning it.

The team seemed to work pretty hard to keep it neutral.

It's important that the show actually makes you uncomfertable, because in many shows with similar plots they don't try and do that. They just act like it's some kind of hetronormative relationship.

 

[Infinite Justice]

werent they all in a dream? its like sex scenes only not

the first one was, second was real but it wasn't actually her (was some sex android).

Still cracks me up that they got a different English VA for the girl to just do those scenes lol

 

[I Am Now]

2 eps into Nodame Cantible and I'm already in love with the show. You're the best, Sebulon3k.

 

[Jex]

As if there weren't enough space-filling LOLNANAMILOL episodes already, 24 was entirely superfluous and even recaps prior filler episodes just in case you missed 'em the first time round somehow!

I even like Nanami a lot when the writers/other characters aren't busy figuratively

Spoiler

or literally

pissing on her.

Star of the show, really.

NO! DON'T SKIP ANYTHING!

Heathens.

For this show it's a pretty important rule.

I'll admit to being vaguely curious about whether censoring really improves Kite enough to make it watchable and even artistic, since the one dude on ANN podcast goes on about it so much.

But not really curious enough to actually watch it.

Kite has some god damn amazing action sequences, but that shouldn't be enough to make someone watch it.

 

[Cwarrior]

youtube it damn blowen away by the fight scenes

now going to watch kite and Mezzo Forte after

 

[Go_Ly_Dow]

14-15 pages since I was last on is crazy, just caught up.

I've nearly finished Fumoffu, is that the only FMP worth checking out, or are the others enjoyable as well?

 

[Jex]

Oh! Edo Rocket 3

Damn if there isn't a ton of personality to be had in this show. I'm only on ep 3, but I feel like I've known some of these characters forever. Always a good sign in my book.
It did take an emotional turn though, and here I went into this expecting a straight comedy.

It’s damn fine show. Damn fine.

So they're doing a live-action adaptation of Arakawa... and also a movie. Did anyone even watch that show?

It didn’t even need a second season. Why’s it getting so much attention?

 

[hellclerk]

The team seemed to work pretty hard to keep it neutral.

It's important that the show actually makes you uncomfertable, because in many shows with similar plots they don't try and do that. They just act like it's some kind of hetronormative relationship.

Yeah, which is why I'm impressed. They stretched it out a bit in episode 5, but overall it's pretty solid and doesn't really pander.

 

[Steroyd]

14-15 pages since I was last on is crazy, just caught up.

I've nearly finished Fumoffu, is that the only FMP worth checking out, or are the others enjoyable as well?

The other FMP's are good but it's a pschitzophrenic show if you don't take to the srs business and you love the high school hijinks.

 

[Jex]

It's very campy. Asides from how absurd it is, though, it's not that good.

That said, aesthetically, there's something to appreciate about all the uncensored nipples.

Sometimes crazy stuff just isn't that interesting. It's a fine line.

Then again, at least it isn't super-dark Nagai with the child murder and the rape and the cannibalism and the getting turned on by lions.

And here I thought it'd take 90 episode for Godai to pass the test.

Molasses moves faster than Maison Ikkoku.

Well, at least more stuff happens then in KnT.

 

[Dresden]

Dresden's favorite anime is back!

Spoiler

Except now they are ambiguously gay girls in ridiculous clothing instead of ambiguously gay guys in ridiculous clothing.

Not impressed, it just isn't the same when they have boobs.

 

[Jex]

Pffft. Those Nanami comedy episodes are so unfunny and yet they try so hard. Her actual dramatic arc is good, though.

Where they trying to be funny? I guess some of the them were, looking back on it. Then again, all I can remember is the

Spoiler

egg stuff

.

 

[Go_Ly_Dow]

The other FMP's are good but it's a pschitzophrenic show if you don't take to the srs business and you love the high school hijinks.

I'll probably give them a go.

Do Sousuke and Chidori maintain their Fumoffu personalities?

 

[Steroyd]

I'll probably give them a go.

Do Sousuke and Chidori maintain their Fumoffu personalities?

Yes. Fumoffu is basically the high school parts of the main series cranked up a notch.

 

[Hellsing321]

I'll probably give them a go.

Do Sousuke and Chidori maintain their Fumoffu personalities?

Pretty much. They just have to deal with shit getting real at some point.

 

[Go_Ly_Dow]

Excellent, thats the most important thing!

 

[Jex]

Eve no Jikan - the movie

Great stuff. The characters are just so well-realized and compelling. And the added scenes really improve it. Bottom line, you can't call yourself an anime fan if you don't want to watch this.

I’ve already seen the series, so this is pretty low down on my ‘watch list’, even though I plan to get around to it sometime.

You'll get more enjoyment out of it if you're already accustomed to the characters and their respective wackiness, but Fumoffu can work as a stand-alone comedy unit.

Some say that’s all you need to watch from the franchise.

 

[Infinite Justice]

Some say that’s all you need to watch from the franchise.

Fumoffu is the only one i ever bothered to watch.

heh

 

[Jex]

Nanami's Egg, Cowbell of Happiness, The Great Curry High Trip (how could you forget exploding curry jex?!), that one episode where Touga boxes a kangaroo...jesus how did I remember those titles...all trying and failing to be funny. They're more awkward than anything. I always want to skip them personally.

It's better when they integrate offbeat humor into the srs bsns, like the student council meeting held in the midst of a baseball game being played on a roof. Or the student council meeting where Touga is throwing an outline of knives at an un-fazed Miki. Or any student council meeting, really. Those were awesome.

Hey, Nanami's Egg is serious business. Not to mention there's nothing better than impromptu Kangaroos.

I agree about the curry though.

 

[KuwabaraTheMan]

But the urge is too strong when it comes to recap episodes in general.

I watched those five straight recap episodes in Fist of the North Star. ><

I have a nasty habit of never skipping anything, even pointless recap episodes.

 

[trejo]

Some say that’s all you need to watch from the franchise.

And they would be right.

 

[trejo]

Oh and I watched the Wolf's Rain recap episodes back to back so don't you talk to me about recaps.

 

[InfiniteNine]

Some say that’s all you need to watch from the franchise.

Those people are wrong.

 

[Steroyd]

I watched those five straight recap episodes in Fist of the North Star. ><

I have a nasty habit of never skipping anything, even pointless recap episodes.

That's hardcore man, I can't stand to watch magical girl transformations, that goes on for a solid 90 seconds. I blame Sailor Moon.

 

[Jex]

I watched those five straight recap episodes in Fist of the North Star. ><

I have a nasty habit of never skipping anything, even pointless recap episodes.

Oh and I watched the Wolf's Rain recap episodes back to back so don't you talk to me about recaps.

Y'all insane. Stop being so crazy, you could be spending that time improving the world!

I mean, watching more anime.

 

[hellclerk]

Koi Kaze 6
You know, it's kind of strange, without the context of the older brother's lust, this could just as easily be construed as a normal, loving sibling relationship. I mean, really the only issue is that Onii-chan wants to stick it in her pooper. It's almost feels like the romantic love bit is a deus ex machina.

 

[Paprikka]

Specials!?

Potemayo specials. It's 6 half sized episodes, but since the original ones were already split in two it's more like 3 normal ones.

And I guess the Working! announcement was

Spoiler

VHS tapes. They also made some weird genderbent and mixed up version of the cast. Damn you April Fools!

But maybe someone else with better understanding can look.

 

[trejo]

Peter Jackson's King Kong says you're dead wrong.

But unlike Peter Jackson's King Kong we are all interesting characters with rich backstories!

 

[Dresden]

But unlike Peter Jackson's King Kong we are all interesting characters with rich backstories!

My legend began in the 12th century...

 

[trejo]

My legend began in the 12th century...

EXCALIBUUURRRR.

 

[Jex]

Koi Kaze 6
You know, it's kind of strange, without the context of the older brother's lust, this could just as easily be construed as a normal, loving sibling relationship. I mean, really the only issue is that Onii-chan wants to stick it in her pooper. It's almost feels like the romantic love bit is a deus ex machina.

Well, relationships between...wait, what am I talking about.

 

[Hellsing321]

And I guess the Working! announcement was

Spoiler

VHS tapes. They also made some weird genderbent and mixed up version of the cast. Damn you April Fools!

But maybe someone else with better understanding can look.

Really? Finally I can see Working! The way it was meant to be seen.

 

[I Am Now]

Just finished ep 7 of Nodame Cantabile and I think this might be one of my favorite animes of all time.

Edit: ty

 

[Jex]

Ojiisan No Lampoo: I quite enjoyed this, and I look forward to more works from this project.

That isn't to say that it was some kind of masterpiece, but it was extremely solid and, importantly, based around a concept you'd rarely see tackled in a current anime series.

 

[Solune]

Just finished ep 7 of NodAme Cantabile and I think this might be one of my favorite animes of all time.

Fixed =). But yah, Nodame Cantabile is great.

 

[/XX/]

True. I enjoyed Hanamaru, but the endings were definitely the best part of the shows.

The first Soul Eater ending also had more effort put into it than most

Spoiler

Shaft

shows.

Speaking of Osamu Kobayashi, French website GAiNAX.FR published some days ago an interview with him conducted during the Japan Expo Sud 2011 celebrated in Marseille, France. In that interview he talks, among other things, about that Hanamaru Y&#333;chien ending he worked on and especially about his close relationship and various projects with GAiNAX. I wanted to see more questions about other of his own works like Natsu no Sora, though. Anyway I'm definitely looking forward to his contribution in Dantalian no Shoka:

http://www.gainax.fr/index.php?opti...-2011-interview-exclusive&catid=37&Itemid=227

This is pure speculation for my part, but all of this little collaborations with his GAiNAX's friends (like Hiroyuki Imaishi or Natsu no Sora's character designer Yusuke Yoshigaki) leads me to believe that maybe Osamu Kobayashi will work full-time on a future project of his own for the studio. That is what I want!

 

[Jex]

Speaking of Osamu Kobayashi, French website GAiNAX.FR published some days ago an interview with him conducted during the Japan Expo Sud 2011 celebrated in Marseille, France. In that interview he talks, among other things, about that Hanamaru Y&#333;chien ending he worked on and especially about his close relationship and various projects with GAiNAX. I wanted to see more questions about other of his own works like Natsu no Sora, though. Anyway I'm definitely looking forward to his contribution in Dantalian no Shoka:

http://www.gainax.fr/index.php?opti...-2011-interview-exclusive&catid=37&Itemid=227

As someone who reads a number of blogs and also follows a small (put active) number of anime-related twitter feeds, I never see any of the stuff you mention until you bring it up. Where do you get all your stuff from?

 

[Nonoriri]

You are going to love the movie, then. She makes a fabulous and rather unforgettable appearance.

That's not funny!

OMG guys! I just realized. In 24 hours, X-Men ep1 will be airing! OMGGGGGGGGG!

 

[Nonoriri]

This post never happened!

 

[firehawk12]

The You Are Umasou movie was cute. It got a bit misty at the end.

 

[hellclerk]

Well, relationships between...wait, what am I talking about.

I don't know, what ARE you talking about?

 

[luka]

kimi ni todoke is the best anime this season, and japan agrees with me. discuss.

 

[firehawk12]

kimi ni todoke is the best anime this season, and japan agrees with me. discuss.

For!

I plan on watching this when I get home tonight. That, or getting drunk and watching Clannad the Movie (tm Toei Animation).

Dinosaurs > Key!

 

[Dresden]

kimi ni todoke is the best anime this season, and japan agrees with me. discuss.

Beezlebub came second. Not impressed.