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Spring 2011 Anime Thread of ZAWA ZAWA, Money, emo Cyclops, and fun^10xint^40=Ir2
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firehawk12
Subete no aware
I think Aria probably worked better because they could go all mono no aware on different things - from the change of seasons to the getting a new gondala to, yes, even graduations. I mean, K-On!! only had a few events and the first half was mostly moe moe kyun as well (including the Mio fanclub), so it isn't consistently at the level of Aria but I think when it hits the moments, it does it right. The tears at the end of their final school concert, for example!icarus-daedelus said:
And yeah, the show is aware of the social contract between itself (or its staff) and the audience members. I get the feeling that they eventually felt embarrassed for that though.
Go animu!You know, I was trying my best not to bring it up today, but there's this animu with a clip show in it which contains and is built around a moment that is crucial and indispensable to the overall arc of the series...
I imagine it has something to do with Ohana's mother being an irresponsible, awful person and Ohana's grandmother being a hot springs Nazi. Of course the latter probably caused the former, but hey.Sebulon3k said:Ain't it the truth
I can agree with this, I'd like to see some more of the backstory as to why Ohana's grandmother dislikes her daughter so much, but I think there is still enjoyment to be had if they pursued a romance plot with Ko, they do have 26 (??) episodes to work with.
AzuManga to this day fails to give me any reason to enjoy it. Yes, it's silly and cute, but that's not enough for me when it comes to slice of life, I usually prefer to have some sort of reference point to my own life to REALLY be able to enjoy a show. For example, K-ON reminds me of when I was in a rock band in high school, likewise Lucky Star is reflective of how much of a NERD I am, and Cromartie High School is a MAN'S show about MANLY MENLY MEN, and as a MAN, I enjoyed it quite thoroughly as well. Azumanga is a show about cute girls being cute and the cute and silly things that happen to them. I am neither cutesy nor a girl, so it therefore does not interest me as much. I understand the appeal, it just doesn't appeal to me.jman2050 said:
InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
I probably could have related better to K-ON! if it was about Sawako's school band since we played some fucking heavy metal!
KuwabaraTheMan
Banned
duckroll said:
No, K-On is about making people remember their experiences in high school bands. Didn't you read his post?
Ring ni Kakero 1-2 (not the one airing this season)
Haha that was a blast. The manga this is based on is like 40 years and super long so I think this is just a super condensed version of the key parts. The story starts with the climactic final round between the main character and his eternal rival and they just try to explain everything with a bunch of flashbacks. It's all classic over the top shounen boxing stuff, but the fact that try to cram it all into such a short amount of time makes it overwhelming and hilarious. I hope the rest of the arcs are this fun.
Haha that was a blast. The manga this is based on is like 40 years and super long so I think this is just a super condensed version of the key parts. The story starts with the climactic final round between the main character and his eternal rival and they just try to explain everything with a bunch of flashbacks. It's all classic over the top shounen boxing stuff, but the fact that try to cram it all into such a short amount of time makes it overwhelming and hilarious. I hope the rest of the arcs are this fun.
InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
I was in a band and it didn't do that for me at all. ): Mostly because we actually played music most of the time while shooting the shit.KuwabaraTheMan said:
"Cute girls doing cute things" is a much more accurate summary of K-on than Azumanga. K-on is about cute girls doing cute things, a high school band is just the vehicle for those cute things. Azumanga is about funny girls doing funny things, them being cute is not really played up outside of Chiyo, where it's mainly played up for comedic effect.doomed1 said:
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Just blew threw the end of Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 again for obvious reasons. That ending.
The show is printed in a boys magazine though! and it's not exactly otaku-bait either. Although I've always found the appeal of azumanga to not be gender-specific in any sense.
Yeah the insert songs are really the only thing that's not working for me right now, speaking of which was the ending at the end of the episode suppose to be the opening? because according to wikipedia the band that does the ending is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphere_(band) and that song certainly didn't sound like jazz! that said i really don't expect a anime to have a 80s jazz band doing a ending theme for a anime series, it's probably just a modern japanese group that happens to be called sphere.
Infinite Justice
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doomed1 said:
Yet you like K-ON???
Anyways i actually need to watch Level-E like i said i would
That's a matter of opinion. I use "cute" in the realm of "Generic Cuteness" so in that regard it's more of an objective term (in addition, can you REALLY say that the events surrounding the girls can't be considered 'cute'?), but I don't deny that it's a summary of K-ON either, I was just stating what K-ON's most important element was to me, and that was the high school rock band thing. They're both comedies, even if I don't find Azumanga very funny, I just happen to like the one that's about a rock band.Branduil said:
But eh...
firehawk12
Subete no aware
I'm trying to remember... there was Asuza mono no aware at the beginning, then Sawako mono no aware with the wedding, then college girl #1 Mio fan mono no aware, one school trip and one club trip, more Asuza mono no aware, then the play, the concert and graduation. So they did try to spread it out.icarus-daedelus said:For me, the second half of season 2 is too little, too late really. There's not enough attachment to the characters actually built up in the first 1.5 seasons to make the ending feel as earned as it should have been. It drew a little too much upon sentimental memories I had of graduating from high school myself, which isn't good enough. Anything can cheaply draw on common emotional experiences shared by much of the populace in order to get a reaction. Aria has to build new gondola-related feelings from the ground up, dammit, I've never even been in a gondola!
(Plus, they're all going to the same college next year, aren't they? The only one who has anything to feel sad about is Ui, and she's kind of a freak. And Azusa, but nobody cares about Azusa.)
I do agree that, for the most part, the characters are fairly empty so the stakes aren't there. Mugi is the rich, super smart girl whose only problem is that she's socially awkward... so I guess I can see why you wouldn't really care about what happens to them.
And yeah, it's a cheat that they all go to the same school... but that's the happy ending! (Only, of course, it's not the ending.
)It's actually a Sailor Moon episode inserted in the middle of the clip show?! I'm certainly interested in seeing what they could have done to make a clip show interesting anyway.
HTT 4EVER! Fuwa fuwa time!Miri said:
InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
Beck is a better anime to reminisce about old band times really. I admit I was expecting something similar when I started watching K-ON!trejo said:
It would be, if I didn't HATE how big and unrealistic it got for its britches. >:|InfiniteNine said:
Like fuck a high school punk with no redeeming qualities goes from "never touched a guitar in his life" to "FUCK YEAH ROCK STAR" over that amount of time. Silly.
Hanasaku Iroha 1: That was quite good insert song aside. It's also really pretty to look at as is usually the cast for PA Works. The characters seem pretty enjoyable from just an episode. Looking forward to finding out more about them. Ohana herself I quite like (Kanae Itou yay). She's got some energy. Poor Ko, at least he went in on the very first episode. I hope he mails her sometime soon : ( There was a piece of music in there that reminded me of Aria. I also appreciate every time Mamiko Noto gets casted as an energetic character.
Best opening episode I've seen thus far. Good start for PA Works, I hope this time they can do a good show.
Best opening episode I've seen thus far. Good start for PA Works, I hope this time they can do a good show.
InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
Who cares? It was enjoyable and did a better job depicting hanging out with your bandmates, meeting interesting people, practicing shit, etc... I mean I find it more palatable than eating cake all the time and generally not doing anything interesting.doomed1 said:
InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
Then why was it so boring in comparison?Lafiel said:
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