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Spring 2011 Anime Thread of ZAWA ZAWA, Money, emo Cyclops, and fun^10xint^40=Ir2
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Imagine this level of energytrejo said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dm83UPreMbE
for 23 minutes. Uneventful is the most wrong word you could use to describe the show.
This is honestly something I could only watch once a week.
Unknown Soldier
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TWGOK - Final:
Oh, awesome. The last episode is a filler episode. I guess manglobe decided they couldn't fit another arc into just 1 episode, so what we got was...this. The only redeeming thing was experiencing the amazing power of Capturing God Mode which gives Keima the ability to play 24 games at the same time! He truly is the Capturing God!
Well, the after-credits sequence where they announce season 2 was kind of nice. My virtual body is ready for more of Prido 64, Cream Cast, Y-Box 360, PF3, and also PF2! The part where he busted out the NES, SNES, Genesis, Jaguar, PC-FX (never sold outside of Japan!), and even a PS1 was also funny. And then he destroyed them all by playing them too fast, except the old tape-loaded machine which was still loading. Awesome.
This show deserves to run until it exhausts all the manga material, but I guess there's no hope of that. So sad.
Oh, awesome. The last episode is a filler episode. I guess manglobe decided they couldn't fit another arc into just 1 episode, so what we got was...this. The only redeeming thing was experiencing the amazing power of Capturing God Mode which gives Keima the ability to play 24 games at the same time! He truly is the Capturing God!
Well, the after-credits sequence where they announce season 2 was kind of nice. My virtual body is ready for more of Prido 64, Cream Cast, Y-Box 360, PF3, and also PF2! The part where he busted out the NES, SNES, Genesis, Jaguar, PC-FX (never sold outside of Japan!), and even a PS1 was also funny. And then he destroyed them all by playing them too fast, except the old tape-loaded machine which was still loading. Awesome.
This show deserves to run until it exhausts all the manga material, but I guess there's no hope of that. So sad.
Crash Station
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Ezalc said:
All I know is if Iceman shows up at all, he will instantly become my new avatar if there's a decent shot of him.
Unknown Soldier said:
Actually, it isn't.
Nana to Kaoru OVA - Oh damn, that was a pretty fair adaptation of the manga. Got to give Kaoru credit, dude goes for the goods when the opportunity presents itself. The award for most awkward show to watch still goes to the one about a high school girl becoming an eroge voice actress though.
Unknown Soldier
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cosmicblizzard said:
What, did that actually happen in the manga?
Crash Station
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Unknown Soldier said:
Yep. I honestly thought the same thing as you, but was corrected by a few people. Happened the exact same way too.
Nichijou 01
This was a whole lot of fun. The over-dramatization, the incredibly awkward pauses, it's incredibly off-kilter, yeah, but so intentionally so, it's hilarious. And the production is as to be expected from KyoAni; slick and polished, with very little to harp on, though; as much as I mean that, it does look as if somebody got a little tipsy with the DOF. It's literally fucking everywhere.
It's good to see KyoAni on something I can tolerate again.
A solid "watch" for the season.
This was a whole lot of fun. The over-dramatization, the incredibly awkward pauses, it's incredibly off-kilter, yeah, but so intentionally so, it's hilarious. And the production is as to be expected from KyoAni; slick and polished, with very little to harp on, though; as much as I mean that, it does look as if somebody got a little tipsy with the DOF. It's literally fucking everywhere.
It's good to see KyoAni on something I can tolerate again.
A solid "watch" for the season.
Unknown Soldier
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cosmicblizzard said:
Wow. Damn, that sucks. Let me guess, episodes 4 and 8 also were in the manga? manglobe should have cut the unnecessary stuff out from the anime, there wasn't any need for episodes 4, 8, or 12, they could have fit another arc in with 3 episodes!
Nichijou 1
I see the potential for something awesome here but it's being buried beneath KyoAni's moe kawaii desu~ filter so the result is basically "trying to be like Azumanga Daioh except not funny" overall.
The hotdog and fire alarm gags were amazing though. More of that and less of everything else and I'm golden. I still see enough here to give it a chance.
I see the potential for something awesome here but it's being buried beneath KyoAni's moe kawaii desu~ filter so the result is basically "trying to be like Azumanga Daioh except not funny" overall.
The hotdog and fire alarm gags were amazing though. More of that and less of everything else and I'm golden. I still see enough here to give it a chance.
Unknown Soldier
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Oh here comes the monocle brigade.
Infinite Justice
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Unknown Soldier said:
Yep, him being the capturing god and all.
The only thing they added was that song at the end iirc.
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Aigis said:
We know this, because Jex liked it. The fake monocle people are the really annoying ones though, the True Monocle is a rare trait in an age where it's just cool to hate things.
JKTrix said:
Azumanga really was the perfect mix. It was cute and moderately paced and all that but it managed to stay funny because the show actually strung together its humorous material without really stopping instead of relying on moe kawaii desu~ as filler.
It also helps that most of said humorous material were actual jokes.
Mr Nash
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Just finished watching the first episode of Nichijou, and didn't care for it. About the only interesting part of it was when what's her name almost dropped that sausage. Everything else was like it was trying too hard to be random, and forgot to pack the funny. I'm all for tangential humor, but this show hasn't impressed me so far. I'll give it another couple of weeks, but thus far it's done nothing to make a good first impression with me.
Glass Fleet 7
Michel is a girl!!!!??? It's revealed in the most ridiculous way too. Of course Cleo knew. Because he's not a complete moron.
LOL at this backstory. Literally being a girly-girl wearing a dress and wanting to play house until the moment she picks up a sword and instantly transforms into a tomboy.
Her father does not approve of her fighting with her brother's sword.
Trying to dispose of swords with a little pit fire? Seriously?
Nice hairclips, dude. Hope you got an extra pair for your horse-drawn carriage.
Vetti's going to be so disappointed when he finds out Michel is now a girl. Or not, he doesn't seem too discriminate in that area.
LOL at Sylua catching naked Michel and Jean with a knife carving up her back. This anime is so ludicrous.
As usual Cleo cuts right to the chase. "You like, wanted to do your brother, didn't you?"
Michel is a girl!!!!??? It's revealed in the most ridiculous way too. Of course Cleo knew. Because he's not a complete moron.
LOL at this backstory. Literally being a girly-girl wearing a dress and wanting to play house until the moment she picks up a sword and instantly transforms into a tomboy.
Her father does not approve of her fighting with her brother's sword.
Trying to dispose of swords with a little pit fire? Seriously?
Nice hairclips, dude. Hope you got an extra pair for your horse-drawn carriage.
Vetti's going to be so disappointed when he finds out Michel is now a girl. Or not, he doesn't seem too discriminate in that area.
LOL at Sylua catching naked Michel and Jean with a knife carving up her back. This anime is so ludicrous.
As usual Cleo cuts right to the chase. "You like, wanted to do your brother, didn't you?"
Mr Nash said:
Really, if a show needs to employ random style humor, they can NOT be restrained about it. This is the sole reason Excel Saga worked as well as it did, because it took its random gag nature and hit the ground running from the beginning all the way until the end without any letup. Trying to be all methodical about it just plain doesn't work.
Infinite Justice
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Jexhius said:
You're the top member of the Monocle brigade, you have some sway
Nichijou 1 was so much better than the OVA episode it's not even funny; it was really energetic and fast-paced with some genuinely funny moments, plus the production values are great as expected from kyoani. Surprisingly also feels slightly different from azumanga with the surreal moments, thought this would be a complete azumanga rip-off in tone and humor.
K-ON is probably objectively their best show to date (because of the direction / animation / production values blah blah), even if i enjoy fumoffu more.
Mr Nash
square pies = communism
jman2050 said:
All I know is that I barely cracked a smile watching it. I generally hold Monty Python as the high water mark of what random humor can be. I guess tangential, absurdist humor can go in a lot of directions, but thus far Nichijou just does nothing for me.
Unknown Soldier
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Jexhius said:
The real problem is some of the various monocle brigade members try so hard to shout down anybody who admits they like something the others don't. You're going to have to face reality: having admitted that you like K-ON, you will soon be betrayed and crucified by your followers. You don't get to be like Jesus though, nobody would start a religion centered around you. :3
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