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Spring 2011 Anime Thread PART TWO return of sex hair, ghosts, and ZAWA
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hosannainexcelsis
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Sket Dance 10
Eh, haven't seen Kimi ni Todoke, so the parody meant nothing to me. The main plot wasn't executed very well;
Sket-dan's interactions with each other still made it worth watching though.
Eh, haven't seen Kimi ni Todoke, so the parody meant nothing to me. The main plot wasn't executed very well;
the teacher was too much of a cackling villain and came out of nowhere.
A Channel 8, 9, and 10 I really, really love Miporin. Her, Tooru, and the teachers continue being the only worthwhile characters in the show. Pancakes! I made pancakes just this morning, too. How appropriate. I fucking love Winter and the snow. Episode 10 was great. Feels wrong to be watching this when it's 80 degrees out, but oh well.
Ano Hana 9 Crossdresser dude continues being a selfish, vindictive prick. Impossible to take this show seriously anymore. If it weren't almost over already I'd drop it. The ending is now visible from twenty miles away and there is no mystery or intrigue. Amazing what a writer's block can do to a good idea.
Ao no Exorcist 8 Great episode. Hopefully the filler was just a one-off and won't be happening on a regular basis.
Astarotte no Omocha! 9 and 10 I'm still in disbelief that it took nine episodes before we saw the beach. Mist is an exhibitionist, go figure. Asuha really is the star of the show.
[C] 8 Holy shit. So Mashu
It seemed a little rushed, but otherwise a good episode.
Deadman Wonderland 7 Character development, in my shitty wangstime? Ironic that
Cliche, but ironic nonetheless. I definitely don't see this ending in time. Cliffhanger incoming.
Denpa Onna 8 and 9 Shotas really do ruin everything, don't they? Poor Cattle-san. ;_; Ugh, the first thing you see in episode 9 is that stupid face that I hate. Oh god, scooter girl. WAIT, NO. COME BACK!
Gosick 20 I'm glad they're back together again. The show just doesn't work as well with them apart.
Hanasaku Iroha 10 Nako is such a good girl. Ohana is just being stupid, though. They're just going to go all out with the NTR and reverse-NTR, huh? Some kind of dream world thing now? A mysterious fox spirit who obviously is going to play a large role later on? Not quite sure what it is, but I'm getting a little tired of all this.
Nichijou 10 EHHHHH. The whole town is full of trolls. Amazing. I can sympathize with Yukko's plight all too well. I'm the worst procrastinator on the face of the planet, especially when it comes to homework. The after-credits made it so perfect.
Tiger and Bunny 10 Please tell me this is going to be more than 12 episodes. Fucking awesome. Poor Tiger needs to retire after all of this is done, though.
Ano Hana 9 Crossdresser dude continues being a selfish, vindictive prick. Impossible to take this show seriously anymore. If it weren't almost over already I'd drop it. The ending is now visible from twenty miles away and there is no mystery or intrigue. Amazing what a writer's block can do to a good idea.
Ao no Exorcist 8 Great episode. Hopefully the filler was just a one-off and won't be happening on a regular basis.
Astarotte no Omocha! 9 and 10 I'm still in disbelief that it took nine episodes before we saw the beach. Mist is an exhibitionist, go figure. Asuha really is the star of the show.
[C] 8 Holy shit. So Mashu
was his daughter, then. All of that fanart can be looked at in a slightly different way, eh?
Deadman Wonderland 7 Character development, in my shitty wangstime? Ironic that
Ganta created the thing that is now his worst enemy.
Denpa Onna 8 and 9 Shotas really do ruin everything, don't they? Poor Cattle-san. ;_; Ugh, the first thing you see in episode 9 is that stupid face that I hate. Oh god, scooter girl. WAIT, NO. COME BACK!
Gosick 20 I'm glad they're back together again. The show just doesn't work as well with them apart.
Hanasaku Iroha 10 Nako is such a good girl. Ohana is just being stupid, though. They're just going to go all out with the NTR and reverse-NTR, huh? Some kind of dream world thing now? A mysterious fox spirit who obviously is going to play a large role later on? Not quite sure what it is, but I'm getting a little tired of all this.
Nichijou 10 EHHHHH. The whole town is full of trolls. Amazing. I can sympathize with Yukko's plight all too well. I'm the worst procrastinator on the face of the planet, especially when it comes to homework. The after-credits made it so perfect.
Tiger and Bunny 10 Please tell me this is going to be more than 12 episodes. Fucking awesome. Poor Tiger needs to retire after all of this is done, though.
Ano Hana 9
Well-written and well executed shows tend you make you believe in the world and characters they've created, letting you get swept up in the moment and ignore obvious implausibilities and logical inconsistencies for the sake of the story.
Shows like this one, on the other hand, put those implausibilities on center stage to be torn apart, mocked, and laughed at.
And right on cue, Iroha decides to jump on the crazy soap opera bus itself. Looking forward to seeing how that show falls apart.
Well-written and well executed shows tend you make you believe in the world and characters they've created, letting you get swept up in the moment and ignore obvious implausibilities and logical inconsistencies for the sake of the story.
Shows like this one, on the other hand, put those implausibilities on center stage to be torn apart, mocked, and laughed at.
And right on cue, Iroha decides to jump on the crazy soap opera bus itself. Looking forward to seeing how that show falls apart.
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I love how you people are having heart attacks over a DREAM SEQUENCE in HanaIro 10.
Nichijou 11
Well, there's 20 minutes of my life I'm never getting back.
I just realized something depressing: since hitting it big with Haruhi, KyoAni has done nothing but Key adaptations and moe slice-of-life comedies. I hope this bombs hard enough to shock them out of this trend.
Well, there's 20 minutes of my life I'm never getting back.
I just realized something depressing: since hitting it big with Haruhi, KyoAni has done nothing but Key adaptations and moe slice-of-life comedies. I hope this bombs hard enough to shock them out of this trend.
Unknown Soldier
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jman2050 said:
I already watched it like 2 pages ago! And I posted about it too! Do I take this to mean that you don't actually read the pages of the thread you missed before you post?
Izayoi said:
Really? So you actually think just from the short appearance of the girl and the fox in Ohana's dream that the whole show is going to jump the shark and bring in supernatural elements? Nevermind that the dream takes place in a Shinto shrine and the girl and the fox would naturally appear in such a place?
Unknown Soldier said:
Q: When a sexually frustrated girl locks you and her in an empty room with no fear of anyone walking in and clearly propositions you by taking off her clothes under the covers, what do you do?
A:
Escape out of the window while her head is down, of course!
Come on, you can't tell me that wasn't completely hilarious.
Unknown Soldier said:
I tend to avoid summaries of shows I haven't watched yet. So I guess I forgot!
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jman2050 said:
Meh, my favorite parts of the show are the Grade A+ action B-movie homage sequences. The harem stuff doesn't really do it for me.
The parts with Riko dressed up as Aria and then Riko and Kinji in the classroom were funnier. It might be because I like Riko more than Shirayuki overall.
Trojita
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Oh Funimation's bring over Baka to Test with a Blu-ray/DVD combo? The DVD's are wholely unneccesary and I wish the price would have been cheaper without including them, but I'll still pick it up.
I'll need to wait until a sale to pick up High School of the Dead, Xam'd, Demon King Daimou (isn't that just repeating the same word again?), both Spice and Wolf seasons, Garei Zero (Was this any good?), FLCL, Soul Eater, Evangelion 2.22, and possibly Angel Beats on Blu-ray even though I don't know if I could see myself watching it again lol.
Was Dance in the Vampire Bund any good? Was Eden of The East any good?
I'll need to wait until a sale to pick up High School of the Dead, Xam'd, Demon King Daimou (isn't that just repeating the same word again?), both Spice and Wolf seasons, Garei Zero (Was this any good?), FLCL, Soul Eater, Evangelion 2.22, and possibly Angel Beats on Blu-ray even though I don't know if I could see myself watching it again lol.
Was Dance in the Vampire Bund any good? Was Eden of The East any good?
Trojita
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Oh I forgot, I might pick up Yu Yu Hakusho Season 1 Blu-ray right away once my new tv gets delivered. I spent all that money on the seasons on DVD though ;_;
Man it would have been so much better had Hunter x Hunter been released by Funimation during the height of the anime boom, maybe we would have gotten a blu-ray release for that as well.
Man it would have been so much better had Hunter x Hunter been released by Funimation during the height of the anime boom, maybe we would have gotten a blu-ray release for that as well.
I never implied that. I'm just worried they're going to spin it into something ridiculous. Though it would be better than what the show is currently doing I guess.Unknown Soldier said:
It's going nowhere. We've known that what's-his-face is in love with Ohana for like five or six episodes now. We've known that she has no intentions of leaving the inn. The show is is not moving anywhere.Jexhius said:
hosannainexcelsis
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Izayoi said:
First off, this is a slice-of-life show. It's about the characters and their interactions, not about fast-moving drama. The beauty of episode 10 was showing how integrated into the life of Kissuiso Ohana had become and the bonds she had formed with each person there.
Second, if you do want drama, just watch Episode 11. Things sure go somewhere in that episode. Don't throw Hanasaku Iroha away just as it gets really good again because of a fox in a fever dream.
firehawk12
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HanaIro 11: Funny, I was perfectly willing to accept genki Ohana as a reasonable character. In fact, I had no problem with her just randomly ditching work in order to find Tohru... but this episode was just idiotic. If this Ko thing doesn't come to a head next week - either way - then this show jumped the shark harder than AnoHana ever did.
I suppose if the point was to show how weak and pathetic Ohana really is and the show is moving into jdrama slit-your-wrist territory, it's fine. But they might as well have ended the episode with those two guys dragging her into their car at that point.
I suppose if the point was to show how weak and pathetic Ohana really is and the show is moving into jdrama slit-your-wrist territory, it's fine. But they might as well have ended the episode with those two guys dragging her into their car at that point.
firehawk12
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My problem is that the tonal shift went one bridge too far for me. The fact that they added creepy raper douchebags at the end was the cherry on top.Articalys said:
I didn't say I wanted drama. I just want development. This show is trying to do too many things at once, I think, and each thing is suffering for it. The way the show starts you think it's going to be a drama, and a couple episodes later it's trying to pitch itself as a laid-back, happy-go-lucky SoL, and now it's trying to mix both and it just isn't working.hosannainexcelsis said:
firehawk12
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zeroshiki said:
This latest episode was silly.
Do they still make anime like the titles in this trailer from Manga Entertainment UK from the 90's?
I haven't watch anime since the late 90's.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYdVj6997MQ
I haven't watch anime since the late 90's.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYdVj6997MQ
InfiniteNine
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Pre-ordering BD now.Extollere said:
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