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Spring 2011 Anime Thread PART TWO return of sex hair, ghosts, and ZAWA
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Clearly his best course of action is to wait until his "friend" is in a few weeks of basic and then mail him the Strike Witches DVD/Bluray back with a nice letter thanking him for letting him borrow it. I'm sure the Drill Sergeant/Instructor will get a kick out of opening that package in front of everyone.Hitokage said:
Unknown Soldier
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Dance In My Blood said:
Ohana is not amused by your lack of vision.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Eh... probably not, if you went out of your way to drop them.Dance In My Blood said:
InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
Yeah I think the US release got downgraded.tiff said:
It was supposed to be a DVD/Blu Ray combo pack originally but something happened and it got downgraded, yeah. I'm reading that the Blu Rays are coming later, but it's just from forums posts so I can't really check for myself.InfiniteNine said:
If only I had Netflix.Dance In My Blood said:
Strike Witches is the kind of show I'd rather have on my shelf anyway.
InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
As do I!Extollere said:
InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
Extollere said:Brofist!
(you have my wife to thank for those)
(Why you have such an awesome wife? )<)
A Black Falcon
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Softenni 10 - Worst episode of the series yet? The first part of this series is centered around a tasteless joke, and then the next part is moronic and insulting. Great. Too bad, this show had been pretty funny for a while.
For some details, the first part introduces a new girl who joins the team. She can see ghosts. Two years ago, her sister died on the way to a soft tennis match when she was hit by a car; her sister here was watching at the time. Um, that's by far the most serious thing mentioned in this show so far. That's not the bad part, though... that came next, when she said, apparently seriously, that at the time she thought that the tennis ball her sister was carrying would protect her from the oncoming truck, only to realize a moment later that it was too small, so her sister was killed.
WHAT? Who in the world thought that that was an appropriate joke to make... that's just wrong.
So, then they get her to join the team. Oh, the search for new members (they want a 6th so they can have three doubles pairs) was kind of amusing, they wear quite gaudy costumes and then run around chasing down everyone they can think of. The scene got old by the end of it, though. This just isn't a good episode. The characters then learn that the new girl's sister's ghost hasn't passed on and instead is in this girl's body, and occasionally possesses it. Her sister is very good at soft tennis and is very competitive, making her quite unlike the shy girl she normally is; when possessed her hair and teeth turn spiky. Yeah, kind of stupid but maybe amusing.
Then, the team learns that they have to pass their tests or they can't participate in matches, right after we are reminded that two of them are idiots who hate studying -- our MC got a 15 on her most recent test for instance, and one of the other girls gives a speech about how she only goes to school for the clubs and hates classes and studying. Um, great priorities there. But because they have to pass, the team decides to hold a study session... at the coach's apartment. Um, yeah.
Once there, the idiocy kicks into full gear again as, as soon as they see that the place is a mess, the girls all decide to clean it up for him. Most of the rest of the episode is taken up with this stupid and lame scene. As if people would actually do that? Yeah right. And it's not very funny either.
Then, they finally get around to studying. Yeah, trying to cram all of it the night before... good luck there. This is the best part of the episode, but it's still not above average. Somehow the two in trouble manage to pass... the powers of fiction helped them perhaps?
So yeah, overall, probably the worst episode of the series yet.
Except for episode 18's ending, Gosick is mostly good.
Of course, the end of that episode was really, REALLY messed up, but still, apart from that it's mostly good...
For some details, the first part introduces a new girl who joins the team. She can see ghosts. Two years ago, her sister died on the way to a soft tennis match when she was hit by a car; her sister here was watching at the time. Um, that's by far the most serious thing mentioned in this show so far. That's not the bad part, though... that came next, when she said, apparently seriously, that at the time she thought that the tennis ball her sister was carrying would protect her from the oncoming truck, only to realize a moment later that it was too small, so her sister was killed.
WHAT? Who in the world thought that that was an appropriate joke to make... that's just wrong.
So, then they get her to join the team. Oh, the search for new members (they want a 6th so they can have three doubles pairs) was kind of amusing, they wear quite gaudy costumes and then run around chasing down everyone they can think of. The scene got old by the end of it, though. This just isn't a good episode. The characters then learn that the new girl's sister's ghost hasn't passed on and instead is in this girl's body, and occasionally possesses it. Her sister is very good at soft tennis and is very competitive, making her quite unlike the shy girl she normally is; when possessed her hair and teeth turn spiky. Yeah, kind of stupid but maybe amusing.
Then, the team learns that they have to pass their tests or they can't participate in matches, right after we are reminded that two of them are idiots who hate studying -- our MC got a 15 on her most recent test for instance, and one of the other girls gives a speech about how she only goes to school for the clubs and hates classes and studying. Um, great priorities there. But because they have to pass, the team decides to hold a study session... at the coach's apartment. Um, yeah.
Once there, the idiocy kicks into full gear again as, as soon as they see that the place is a mess, the girls all decide to clean it up for him. Most of the rest of the episode is taken up with this stupid and lame scene. As if people would actually do that? Yeah right. And it's not very funny either.
Then, they finally get around to studying. Yeah, trying to cram all of it the night before... good luck there. This is the best part of the episode, but it's still not above average. Somehow the two in trouble manage to pass... the powers of fiction helped them perhaps?
So yeah, overall, probably the worst episode of the series yet.
trejo said:
Except for episode 18's ending, Gosick is mostly good.
Of course, the end of that episode was really, REALLY messed up, but still, apart from that it's mostly good...
Crash Station
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One Outs 1
This is Kaiji with baseball. Will watch more.
This is Kaiji with baseball. Will watch more.
firehawk12
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They're very much the same now, so... I mean, it's not like they're going to get "good" by the time you catch up anyway.Dance In My Blood said:
Jex
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Dude. C'mon now. This isn't like Kimi Ni Todoke, where people can have differing opinions, you're now suggesting people stop watching actually good shows! Objectively.firehawk12 said:
Especially when Ano Hana just had one of it's worst episodes and Hanasaku Iroha had one of it's best.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
If you're bored with a show, why would you keep watching if it hasn't done anything new/exciting/interesting/different unless you hate yourself?Jexhius said:
I shouldn't talk because I finished Lost and Infinite Stratos, but I hate myself.
Also, even with the few days to cool down, I still think last week's episode of HanaIro was just horrible writing that exposed the very thin threads tying this very average slice of life/jdrama angst romance together. Once you see the man behind the curtain (or see how beef is made, I suppose), the magic is gone.
No, they're both trainwrecks. AnoHana is just more forgivable because it aimed to be a trainwreck the moment it started.Branduil said:
firehawk12 said:If you're bored with a show, why would you keep watching if it hasn't done anything new/exciting/interesting/different unless you hate yourself?
I shouldn't talk because I finished Lost and Infinite Stratos, but I hate myself.
Also, even with the few days to cool down, I still think last week's episode of HanaIro was just horrible writing that exposed the very thin threads tying this very average slice of life/jdrama angst romance together. Once you see the man behind the curtain (or see how beef is made, I suppose), the magic is gone.
No, they're both trainwrecks. AnoHana is just more forgivable because it aimed to be a trainwreck the moment it started.
Eh? I don't get how HanaIro is supposedly horribly contrived plot when its better than 99% of anime out there.
Jex
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You're suggesting that Hansaku Iroha is a trainwreck because it had drama in an episode. I don't know if it's possible to usefully engage with such position when I find it difficult to grasp on a fundamental level.firehawk12 said:No, they're both trainwrecks. AnoHana is just more forgivable because it aimed to be a trainwreck the moment it started.
That's saying that it's better than a lot of shit, which isn't the same as saying it's legitimately good, which is a claim I'd like to make.zeroshiki said:
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Eh, I've broken it down a few days ago. It's a writer trying to breakdown a character that was perfectly fine with being put in bondage only a few weeks/months ago. So either it's poorly written because it wasn't thought about early on (ie, Lost) or it's poorly written because the writers didn't communicate with each other/the series bible is a piece of shit. Whatever the reason, it's tonally inconsistent and bordered on the ridiculous since it literally stopped short of Ohana being grabbed by a couple of creepy raper dudes.Jexhius said:
Branduil said:
A Black Falcon
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Yeah, agreed... the story's not amazing, but it's mostly good enough, and the action and animation (and, yes, the detail of the art design) are pretty good. And yeah, Iria is a good character. The series does have a few issues, but overall I think it's fun and entertaining, and is a decent series.Jexhius said:
Hah, yeah...Jexhius said:
I assume that they supposedly think she's a sucker because she's clearly not from around there and visitors who don't seem to really know where they're going are potential targets...But yes, I'd definitely think that the fact that she was carrying (and knew how to use) a sizable gun should have given them a lot more pause, for sure. It isn't entirely believable. Oh well.
Yeah, if they were trying to keep that secret, they sure didn't do a good job of it... it was made pretty clear.
You have that backwards, HanaIro is the one that was a trainwreck from the start. That is not at all true for AnoHana.firehawk12 said:No, they're both trainwrecks. AnoHana is just more forgivable because it aimed to be a trainwreck the moment it started.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Like I said, I had no expectations about AnoHana. Once the supernatural is involved, I assume bullshit will happen. At best, I could only hope for the mono no aware ending, which is how I felt when it first started and how I feel now.Jexhius said:
Meanwhile, I was spinning wheels justifying the genki girl bullshit that Ohana pulled for 10 episodes. I feel almost as embarrassed as when I compared Madoka to The Shield last season.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Episode 3. I was overly excited. :lolUchip said:
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Isn't that the very definition of being disappointed? If you think the show is perfect, more power to you.Branduil said:
Is someone on the IRC channel making a bet with you to see how many bad arguments and straw men you can construct in one night?firehawk12 said:
The complaints about HanaIro are very much kin to the arguments of manga purists when an anime adaption changes things, only HanaIro is an original anime, so it's even crazier.
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