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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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Articalys said:
This panel on sakuga, while far from exhaustive, helps a little: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Pm8AYpOJMw&feature=related.
Crash Station
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898 said:
What do you like? Something for everyone this season.
Dedication Through Light
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Wow I almost lost the other thread, on lurker status. My backlog from this season is growing...and Reborn anime is quite cool though just at ep 3.
Unknown Soldier
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Steroyd said:
"Woefully fuck awesome" might be the best description ever of HnA. That shit is so real that Reggie wonders what the hell is up.
Oh, I think this season I'm over 200 posts, that's pretty shameful. I remember once being in the top 5 durinng the Summer of K-ON!!, that's the best I ever did in terms of the Wall of Shame.
Infinite Justice
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was doing some work and watching E3 so i just realized the last thread got locked.
And i made top 20? smh
And i made top 20? smh
SciencePilot
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Thanks for keeping "ZAWA" in the title at the end. It makes the thread easy to spot.
Unknown Soldier
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Izayoi said:
We agree on a lot of things but you couldn't be more wrong here.
Izayoi said:
I'm sure you meant 'bald-faced', but nobody said anything about good or bad when talking about HnA, only that it's fuck awesome.
Crash Station
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Lotte's Toys 9
Japan once again proving you can add melodrama to anything. Because we all know the line "I wonder if this is how the princess feels, having everyone tell her she needs to suck off guys." deserves super sad music accompanying it.
Japan once again proving you can add melodrama to anything. Because we all know the line "I wonder if this is how the princess feels, having everyone tell her she needs to suck off guys." deserves super sad music accompanying it.
Unknown Soldier
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The World God Only Knows II - 1:
Well, here we go again. Another season, another set of real girls that Keima has to capture like his 2D waifus. You know, if you consider the many captures he's made in his dating sims, you can really think of Keima as the anime character with the biggest harem in anime history! Uh, that's about it really. Onwards!
Well, here we go again. Another season, another set of real girls that Keima has to capture like his 2D waifus. You know, if you consider the many captures he's made in his dating sims, you can really think of Keima as the anime character with the biggest harem in anime history! Uh, that's about it really. Onwards!
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Posting a lot.Trojita said:
I think I have something like 3,000 something in the manga threads alone.
DrForester
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Hitokage said:
When did you become such an optimist?
Unknown Soldier
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Izayoi said:
[Keima]Let me tell you something useful. It's a good idea to focus entirely on the task at hand, and block out all interference! In other words, why were you working on a final exam while posting on GAF?!?![/Keima]
TWGOKII - 2:
As usual, Keima takes charge of a bunch of shit and gets it done. If this guy were interested in real girls instead of virtual ones, he would have bedded half the town by now. Which is the joke, obviously. Oh look, a new demon! Yay!
Cipherr said:
Many of the shows are streamed for free on either crunchyroll.com or Hulu. Which ones are are listed in the OP.
I would say the two best shows that are being streamed are Tiger and Bunny and Hanasaku Iroha, but there are plenty of decent shows. Just look at the OP and try what interests you.
Unknown Soldier
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I know we're already 3/4 of the way through it's second (and presumably final ;_ season, but shouldn't Keima upgrade to the PFVita soon?
And yeah, I do like the 2nd OP more than the first. Both are very good, though.
season, but shouldn't Keima upgrade to the PFVita soon?And yeah, I do like the 2nd OP more than the first. Both are very good, though.
Crash Station
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Dog Days 10
Things got bad, then they got good, then they got bad again. Episode was non-stop action and tension just the way I like. Still gotta address that prophecy since nothing shown up so far has even resembled it.
Things got bad, then they got good, then they got bad again. Episode was non-stop action and tension just the way I like. Still gotta address that prophecy since nothing shown up so far has even resembled it.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Wow, you guys are insane. I can't believe you hit part two...
Anyhoo, tl;dl blog post time of shows I watched in no particular order:
AnoHana 8 - A few manly tears were shed at the overly manipulative ending. They kept pushing the reveal for, well, 7 weeks in order to reach that point and I think it paid off. It's interesting because on The Killing, they used a similar tactic of delay and misdirection and I found that rather underwhelming. Maybe I believed in the hallucination theory more than I should have and maybe they did a good job of actually making that a believable option. noitaminA is saved anyway!
HanaIro 10 - Another Genki Girl action show with yet another weird parallel to Aria in terms of the dream world thingie. Homage or just random coincidence? Who knows. I'm just tired of the constant pushing of the shipping wars when it's pretty clear that KoHana is the canon pairing and that ToHana is fangirl/boy fantasy misdirection! I mean, they've gone out of their way to avoid misunderstanding angst, so I don't understand why they keep trying to push this love square.
Derpa 10 - A nice little pseudo recap/clip show. Meme is the best character this season, if only because gap moe is God moe. Clearly Aunt-cest is the best option for our main character.
A-Channel and Softenni - mostly zzzzz. I still find the horny/pervert girl trope used in Softenni amusing, although I'm aware that here it's mostly panderbait and not some kind of feminist statement.
Nichijou - Hakase and Yoko are still charming characters! AnimeGAF is wrong! :lol
TWGOK - Teacher conquest. Finally... where are the animes where dude hooks up with a teacher? Although, they went with a new teacher character for some reason. Also, it looks like the episode from two weeks ago or whenever was probably the highlight of the series.
Gamu 8 - I guess this is what Jexhius felt when watching KnT? Except that this show really has nothing interesting to say on any level. Is it about rigidity? Privilege? Class? Not really. Instead, it's just people talking for 10 hours spouting babble about kings and honor and other bullshit while pretending to be in Medieval England. If the show was supposed to sell the books, for me, it was a complete failure. Ah well, as the saying goes: nothing venture, nothing win.
K-On!!!: New Orleans 7 - I'll be the first to admit it's not The Wire, but this animu is probably the winner of the HBO block. The characters are so rich and the music is great. A bonus, maybe, is that there's also less preaching/proselytizing.
ANNCast with William Flanagan - So, how do you listen to a show when you kind of hate the hosts? Wait for an interesting guest I suppose. Highlights: Freelance translators are making no money now and manga publishers want to utilize the low-cost solutions found in simulcast anime subs.
Also, the hosts tried to troll weaboos who like honorifics... only to have it turn around on them when Flanagan said he didn't mind including honorifics and speech ticks, since it's the weaboos who will buy this shit anyway.
America's Greatest Otaku 8 - And speaking of manga and failure, I decided to watch the last episode of this series because they did a Japan segment. A lot of the same old shit (Butler Cafe, Maid Cafe with moe moe kyun, etc), but the Harajuku segment was kind of interesting. Gothloli Punk as a fashion movement still seems odd to me because it doesn't feel like it represents anything other than pure aesthetic... which is really just a form of masturbation. But at least the clothes look nice.
Yay, I've caught up!
Anyhoo, tl;dl blog post time of shows I watched in no particular order:
AnoHana 8 - A few manly tears were shed at the overly manipulative ending. They kept pushing the reveal for, well, 7 weeks in order to reach that point and I think it paid off. It's interesting because on The Killing, they used a similar tactic of delay and misdirection and I found that rather underwhelming. Maybe I believed in the hallucination theory more than I should have and maybe they did a good job of actually making that a believable option. noitaminA is saved anyway!
HanaIro 10 - Another Genki Girl action show with yet another weird parallel to Aria in terms of the dream world thingie. Homage or just random coincidence? Who knows. I'm just tired of the constant pushing of the shipping wars when it's pretty clear that KoHana is the canon pairing and that ToHana is fangirl/boy fantasy misdirection! I mean, they've gone out of their way to avoid misunderstanding angst, so I don't understand why they keep trying to push this love square.
Derpa 10 - A nice little pseudo recap/clip show. Meme is the best character this season, if only because gap moe is God moe. Clearly Aunt-cest is the best option for our main character.
A-Channel and Softenni - mostly zzzzz. I still find the horny/pervert girl trope used in Softenni amusing, although I'm aware that here it's mostly panderbait and not some kind of feminist statement.
Nichijou - Hakase and Yoko are still charming characters! AnimeGAF is wrong! :lol
TWGOK - Teacher conquest. Finally... where are the animes where dude hooks up with a teacher? Although, they went with a new teacher character for some reason. Also, it looks like the episode from two weeks ago or whenever was probably the highlight of the series.
Gamu 8 - I guess this is what Jexhius felt when watching KnT? Except that this show really has nothing interesting to say on any level. Is it about rigidity? Privilege? Class? Not really. Instead, it's just people talking for 10 hours spouting babble about kings and honor and other bullshit while pretending to be in Medieval England. If the show was supposed to sell the books, for me, it was a complete failure. Ah well, as the saying goes: nothing venture, nothing win.
K-On!!!: New Orleans 7 - I'll be the first to admit it's not The Wire, but this animu is probably the winner of the HBO block. The characters are so rich and the music is great. A bonus, maybe, is that there's also less preaching/proselytizing.
ANNCast with William Flanagan - So, how do you listen to a show when you kind of hate the hosts? Wait for an interesting guest I suppose. Highlights: Freelance translators are making no money now and manga publishers want to utilize the low-cost solutions found in simulcast anime subs.
Also, the hosts tried to troll weaboos who like honorifics... only to have it turn around on them when Flanagan said he didn't mind including honorifics and speech ticks, since it's the weaboos who will buy this shit anyway.
America's Greatest Otaku 8 - And speaking of manga and failure, I decided to watch the last episode of this series because they did a Japan segment. A lot of the same old shit (Butler Cafe, Maid Cafe with moe moe kyun, etc), but the Harajuku segment was kind of interesting. Gothloli Punk as a fashion movement still seems odd to me because it doesn't feel like it represents anything other than pure aesthetic... which is really just a form of masturbation. But at least the clothes look nice.
Yay, I've caught up!
Unknown Soldier
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Lain said:
With the sole exception of duckroll, I thought we concluded exactly the opposite.
Hellsing321
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How did I make this thing?Hitokage said:
I thought I was laying pretty low lately.The rumors of BONES' Fall noitaminA show grow stronger by the day. Here's what's rumored so far:
- Fall noitaminA
- Directed by Seiji Mizushima, written by Shou Aikawa, animated by BONES.
- Based on Ango Sakaguchi's "Ango Detective Stories" short stories collection.
- The original was a Meiji-era period detective story setting, but rumors say the BONES adaptation moves the setting to a futuristic setting ala Gankutsuou.
- http://www.un-go.com/ is registered by Toho, and has been rumored to be the show's official site.
- Fall noitaminA
- Directed by Seiji Mizushima, written by Shou Aikawa, animated by BONES.
- Based on Ango Sakaguchi's "Ango Detective Stories" short stories collection.
- The original was a Meiji-era period detective story setting, but rumors say the BONES adaptation moves the setting to a futuristic setting ala Gankutsuou.
- http://www.un-go.com/ is registered by Toho, and has been rumored to be the show's official site.
Unknown Soldier
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