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Spring 2011 Anime Thread PART TWO return of sex hair, ghosts, and ZAWA
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Articalys said:
The tone gets darker and weirder as the show progresses because Anno was, more or less, losing his mind.
There is no director's cut for episodes 25-26, at least not in the sense there is for 21-24. End of Evangelion is essentially the director's cut 25 and 26 (and the two halves of the movie actually are labeled as episode 25 and episode 26).
airmangataosenai
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I can't believe how much hate Deadman gets. It's a very competent Shonen series.
Oh, I know, it's just that the platinum collection organized the DVDs as discs 1-4 having eps 1-20, disc 5 has TV 21-26, and disc 6 has DC 21-24. Which of course makes perfect sense for anyone who owns the whole thing as a box set, but since I'm getting them through Netflix it adds an extra wrinkle for me, wanting to watch it in the order 1-20, 21-24 DC, 25-26, EoE -- completely avoiding the original TV versions of 21-24.Blader5489 said:
I really should have just bought the damn thing in the first place, it's like $40 on RightStuf, but I wasn't sure if I was going to ever repeat watch it.
firehawk12
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Gintama is the best anime this season. Without question. I just feel bad for not jumping on the bandwagon before the break.
firehawk12
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It's... hrm.cajunator said:
I'm probably the worst person to try to explain it, but it's comedy action shounen. I'm sure Naruto and Bleach and One Piece all do the same thing, but it's the combination of great action writing and great comedy writing along with awesome characters that makes Gintama for me. I'm even okay with the exposition in this show!
firehawk12
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I watched this new episode 3 times back to back because I could just sit back and enjoy it. I never do that!EmmanuelMunoz said:
airmangataosenai said:
The main character is in the wrong goddamn anime, sure I understand the weak whiny type that steps up to the plate when required, but this shows overall tone of limbs getting chopped off, pure psychotic murderers everywhere, it just exacerbates that type of character for the type of show it is.
cajunator said:
3 people running an odd jobs shop doing odd jobs, add in whacky hijinks, throw in the odd serious arc and wham you have Gintama.
cajunator said:
3 people running an odd jobs club doing odd jobs, add in whacky hijinks, throw in the odd serious arc and wham you have Sket Dance.
Hellsing321
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Welcome to the fold.icarus-daedelus said:
Jex
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Episode one was one of the worst episodes of an anime that I've ever seen, and it put myself and a number of people off. Much like Gosick episode 1, except that was far more boring and far less insulting.airmangataosenai said:
It turns out that making a good impression is important.
Crash Station
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airmangataosenai said:
The people here have trouble getting into shounen. Deadman is relatively popular in the manga thread and it's super popular amongst the manga community (ranked #17 on Mangafox with over 7.5 million unique monthly views).
Also, a lot of people didn't "get" episode 1, so they were turned off.
Crash Station
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Halycon said:
FUCK NO. You can call it stupid, but DW is at least relatively easy to understand. Air Gear makes no sense 90% of the time and Oh Great! rarely explains anything in an easy to understand manner. The massive tone shifts whenever the Gravity Children come up don't help.
Unknown Soldier
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mAcOdIn said:
How do you manage to contain this much hate inside of yourself?
firehawk12
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Seriously, it manages to encapsulate so many aspects of the show into one short scene. It's bad ass, it's irreverent, it's serious and it's funny.Neo C. said:That scene is full of awesome:
Brofist!Miri said:
firehawk12
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Yup.Dresden said:
Jex
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It's time to get caught up on that other magical girl show:
Vampire Pincess Miyu TV
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This appeared to be a very standard Miyu episode for a good chunk of it's running time, and essentially it was. Take a human, add a shinma and sit back to watch the bad things happen. Rinse and repeat.
The ending, by which I mean
was extremely weird and quintessentially Japanese in that 'huh?' sense. Maybe if I wanted to ascertain the deeper meaning behind this event I'd re-watch the episode to uncover what the show was trying to say.
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There's something uniquely disturbing about mental illness. There's obviously something inherently frightening in being brutally killed by a Shinma, but it isn't nearly as scary as losing your mind. I almost wish the episode had focused more excursively on that side of his suffering, but I guess the story had to go some place else.
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This show kind of has a thing for stuff that invades your life surreptitiously, that doesn't activate any of your usual barriers or alarms. Whether it's cats, maids, dolls or people once you've let it into to your private space it's curtains for you.
Interstingly there were several layers of manipulation at force in play this episode, and it didn't resolve itself in a manner that I saw coming.
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Well, this creepy in a manner which the show has so far avoided, some how. Miyu practices that ultimate form of freedom!
There remains an interesting question of "when the did the Shinma appear" and "how much did it influence these events". I mean,
Also, someone had a thing for this episode because the overall design work was way more complicated and detailed than how the show looked a few episodes ago.
Vampire Pincess Miyu TV
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This appeared to be a very standard Miyu episode for a good chunk of it's running time, and essentially it was. Take a human, add a shinma and sit back to watch the bad things happen. Rinse and repeat.
The ending, by which I mean
the guy turning into baby when Miyu tried to suck his blood, and Miyu subsequently pushing him out to see
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There's something uniquely disturbing about mental illness. There's obviously something inherently frightening in being brutally killed by a Shinma, but it isn't nearly as scary as losing your mind. I almost wish the episode had focused more excursively on that side of his suffering, but I guess the story had to go some place else.
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This show kind of has a thing for stuff that invades your life surreptitiously, that doesn't activate any of your usual barriers or alarms. Whether it's cats, maids, dolls or people once you've let it into to your private space it's curtains for you.
Interstingly there were several layers of manipulation at force in play this episode, and it didn't resolve itself in a manner that I saw coming.
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Well, this creepy in a manner which the show has so far avoided, some how. Miyu practices that ultimate form of freedom!
There remains an interesting question of "when the did the Shinma appear" and "how much did it influence these events". I mean,
did she always feel protective about her dad and the Shinma appeared to her when she was five, enabling her to kill her mother? Or did it come to her much later, when she started seducing her father? It seems to be a rather important difference.
Also, someone had a thing for this episode because the overall design work was way more complicated and detailed than how the show looked a few episodes ago.
Hellsing321
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Nichijou 12
The Amusement park bit got me pretty good. I know that feeling all too well.
The Amusement park bit got me pretty good. I know that feeling all too well.
Jex
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X-Men 11
They keep having to come up with ways to keep various members of the team "immobilized" while other stuff is going on, which is slightly lame. I enjoy it when all the characters are using their powers in succession, doing crazy things as a team.
The focus here seemed to be on a few (non-Storm) members using their specific powers to deal with particular threats. It was still good though.
Next week will involve...Charles trying to stop Unit-01?
They keep having to come up with ways to keep various members of the team "immobilized" while other stuff is going on, which is slightly lame. I enjoy it when all the characters are using their powers in succession, doing crazy things as a team.
The focus here seemed to be on a few (non-Storm) members using their specific powers to deal with particular threats. It was still good though.
Next week will involve...Charles trying to stop Unit-01?
firehawk12
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Yeah, it's probably why I'm happy to just go with the flow and not marathon the previous 200 episodes. It's well crafted enough that I don't need to know the specifics anyway.Pachael said:
Crash Station
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Toriko 10
So we finally have an explanation for everyone's super strength/powers as well as a "level up" system. Gourmet Cells probably should have been addressed earlier, but at least it's still early.
So we finally have an explanation for everyone's super strength/powers as well as a "level up" system. Gourmet Cells probably should have been addressed earlier, but at least it's still early.
Jexhius said:
I really don't know much about comic character powers, but even if Storm had her limbs bound, she easily could've still electrocuted the shit out of the bad dudes correct (which is why I assume is why you said non-Storm characters).
Curious to see what happens next episode as well.
I was going through my animu bookmarks and I came across this old blog post by Danny Choo. It's about his visit to Production IG studio, and there are a lot of cool pictures about their studio and how things are done.
Are there any other blog posts or videos like this one? I always found these behind the scenes type of thing to be very cool.
Are there any other blog posts or videos like this one? I always found these behind the scenes type of thing to be very cool.
firehawk12
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You can find that episode on niconico.survivor said:
There's a NHK series that someone talked about... erg, I can't remember the name, but someone else might know it. It's Japanese only though, so YMMV on that.
I think ANN did a video thing of... Shaft or something?
Watch Da Birdie
I buy cakes for myself on my birthday it's not weird lots of people do it I bet
firehawk12 said:
Also a possible plus for those tired of how the Big 3 drag on arcs...Gintama has none of that. The longest Arc was...seven episodes I believed (the Hosen Arc), so there's no Arc Fatigue.
I went back and watched the older episodes after finishing the series...have to say, the show kind of takes awhile to pick up. It gets a lot better, imo, after it sets up all the reoccurring characters and begins to embrace its time slot.
Crash Station
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trejo said:
Tell me about it. Been reading the manga in hopes of it turning out differently, but I'm not hopeful. Pretty sure the original novel ended the same way.
Jex
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GaoGaiGar 32-37
The second half of the show is certainly better than the first, but that isn't saying a lot. It's certainly nice that they broke the very rigid story formula somewhat, but the show also has more basic problems like flat characters, cheap-looking animation and some rather average direction.
One strange thing to note is that someone apparently decided that Swan, who spent most of her time in the background doing little, should become a source for awkwardly drawn fanservice. Studios that don't know jack about fanservice should stay away from it:
It just looks really stupid when you drop it out of nowhere and it stands out like a sore thumb.
The second half of the show is certainly better than the first, but that isn't saying a lot. It's certainly nice that they broke the very rigid story formula somewhat, but the show also has more basic problems like flat characters, cheap-looking animation and some rather average direction.
One strange thing to note is that someone apparently decided that Swan, who spent most of her time in the background doing little, should become a source for awkwardly drawn fanservice. Studios that don't know jack about fanservice should stay away from it:
It just looks really stupid when you drop it out of nowhere and it stands out like a sore thumb.
Crash Station
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Ao Exorcist 10
And now Rin's dream to becomehokage paladin appears along with his first victim of talk no jutsu super convincingness.
Also, for some reason, I actually loled at "I'm worried about your glasses". The way he said it preceded by him acting like a high ranking person to get beyond the police tape was just gold.
Next week beach episode!
And now Rin's dream to become
Also, for some reason, I actually loled at "I'm worried about your glasses". The way he said it preceded by him acting like a high ranking person to get beyond the police tape was just gold.
Next week beach episode!
Unknown Soldier
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Cardcaptor Sakura 16:
Sakura goes on holiday for a weekend during summer vacation to a house her father rents. This house sits next to another, larger house which is owned by an elderly gentleman. Sakura meets this nice old man, and things happen which are crucial to the story at hand so I won't spoil them. I like the episodes that focus on
the most. According to the wonderful Wikipedia, a handful of this show's episodes do not feature capturing the Clow Cards at all.
So far my 2 favorite episodes have been this one and episode 6, the one where she
I'm really coming to like this show quite a lot. The first group of episodes before and right after Shaoran's arrival were a bit rocky since the focus was mainly on the show's collection of creepy relationships, but now that it's actually settled down a bit and is focusing more on the characters themselves and how they interact with each other it's really coming into it's own.
Also, LOL at Sakura calling Tomoyo
Sakura goes on holiday for a weekend during summer vacation to a house her father rents. This house sits next to another, larger house which is owned by an elderly gentleman. Sakura meets this nice old man, and things happen which are crucial to the story at hand so I won't spoil them. I like the episodes that focus on
Sakura's mom and her relationships with the various living people in her life
This episode happens to be one of those and I liked it quite a lot.
see her mom and captures The Illusion.
I'm really coming to like this show quite a lot. The first group of episodes before and right after Shaoran's arrival were a bit rocky since the focus was mainly on the show's collection of creepy relationships, but now that it's actually settled down a bit and is focusing more on the characters themselves and how they interact with each other it's really coming into it's own.
Also, LOL at Sakura calling Tomoyo
while she is in her theater room watching one of her videos of Sakura on her big screen.
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