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Spring 2014 Anime |OT2| about as likely as a second season of Hyouka

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Didn't everyone call him Pedochimo?
Oh boy, more people should have seen his personal website at its prime... and although much of the evidence has conveniently disappeared (not crawled by the archive), there should be some of its traces in one or another Booru, or wherever. :p

He didn't even use 3D cameras for Gravity! Fraud!!!! Lol.
Come on! I'm sure you are aware that Mr. Cuarón excuse about the camera's weight as a limitation holds well its ground here. The kind of camera travellings including three-dimensional movement he deemed necessary for that film makes very difficult using prior technology digital 3D-capture cameras for it (and we should give thanks heavy film platters aren't needed for such products anymore).

Even though that latest IMAX camera is touted as a definitive improvement in terms of weight, compared to the non-listed specific amount of it given by the company there are recent milestones on cinematography material in more comparable, non-compact, modular & mountable form format cameras like the Sony F65 CineAlta for a fraction of the mass (5.0Kg-6.5Kg).
 

_hekk05

Banned
Yeah summer anime preview is out on randomc

I will definitely watch
Hanamonogatari
Sword Art Online II
Fate/kaleid liner Prisma☆Illya 2wei!

Probably watch
Himegoto
Hanayamata
Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun
Tokyo Ghoul

Give these a try
Akame ga Kill!
Persona 4 the Golden ANIMATION
Seirei Tsukai no Blade Dance -- battle scenes must be good
Jinsei -- too little info to tell now
Majimoji Rurumo -- director is new
Momo Kyun Sword -- feels like next season's blade and soul

The idol shows I'll check out at my own leisure and watch if I like them
 

TsuXna

Member
yeah it could be worse , you could have got nightmares !


Phi brain early episodes are not representatives of the whole show.
There is a big chunk of episodes where the cast is not set yet ( they don't know each other ) and the vilains aren't there either.
Once it starts after this "prologue" , it's very enjoyable.
I've watched all 3 seasons and i enjoyed them all despite my issues with some key aspects of the plot.

i have watched a lot of animes which starts like that, so shouldn't really be a big problem. If i get bored i might just shift it a little bit.
 
I'm bed in remembering names, so yea :/

Btw, anyone watched Phi Brain? can you give your opinion on that anime please?

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Phi Brain was a refreshing take on the genre this year. Somehow through its visuals, action, and music it managed to consistently top each previous episode, a mighty task considering it spanned 50 episodes and is even getting a third season just next year. The plot offered a rather refreshing and friendship themed focused take on its serious "world-saving" idea. It balanced the serious tone with good comedy, excellent cast chemistry, and just an overall cool main character and antagonists. Daimon Kaito remains one of my favorite main characters of all time. Really this anime was just pure plain fun and wholly memorable. Truly the best of 2012.


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Rin is going to be so amazing this season, why so happy every moment, and even his -tch, love.
 

TsuXna

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Phi Brain was a refreshing take on the genre this year. Somehow through its visuals, action, and music it managed to consistently top each previous episode, a mighty task considering it spanned 50 episodes and is even getting a third season just next year. The plot offered a rather refreshing and friendship themed focused take on its serious "world-saving" idea. It balanced the serious tone with good comedy, excellent cast chemistry, and just an overall cool main character and antagonists. Daimon Kaito remains one of my favorite main characters of all time. Really this anime was just pure plain fun and wholly memorable. Truly the best of 2012.



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Rin is going to be so amazing this season, why so happy every moment, and even his -tch, love.
Thanks for awesome and detailed review, gonna watch it for sure.
 

Jarmel

Banned
Fine, don't say I didn't warn you!

(Haganai LN spoilers?)

Kodoka realizes he liked Rika all along, also realizes she basically friendzoned him already, Yukimura kisses him and confesses, he agrees to go out with her. Also Sena and Yozora realize they were friends all along, potential :sdburton incoming? Incidentally, it seems this was the last volume and the next one is an epilogue?

I keep thinking maybe something is being lost in translation or this all makes sense somehow in Japanese, but the prevailing reaction everywhere I go seems to be some variant of "I don't know what the hell" so your guess is as good as mine!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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jbug617

Banned
Fine, don't say I didn't warn you!

(Haganai LN spoilers?)

Kodoka realizes he liked Rika all along, also realizes she basically friendzoned him already, Yukimura kisses him and confesses, he agrees to go out with her. Also Sena and Yozora realize they were friends all along, potential :sdburton incoming? Incidentally, it seems this was the last volume and the next one is an epilogue?

I keep thinking maybe something is being lost in translation or this all makes sense somehow in Japanese, but the prevailing reaction everywhere I go seems to be some variant of "I don't know what the hell" so your guess is as good as mine!

2nd best girl won.
Not mad at this at all.
 

Link Man

Banned
Gochiusa 11

A Christmas episode in June?

Hahaha, Syaro's poor. :|

Well, I knew that reference was coming, but nice nonetheless.

Pancakes. We miss you, Corvo! (Oh, and hi MadP!)

Have they not heard of the concept of closing time?

"We ran out of animation budget, so here's some panning shots of the characters! And random scenery porn!"

Is she gonna start making out with that turkey? And isn't it a bit small for a turkey, anyway?

This show is like eating a bag of marshmallows. It's enjoyable enough while experiencing it, but leaves me feeling empty and unsatisfied afterward.
 

Defuser

Member
It's been a long while since I watch Hyouka but I'm likely to be wrong on a few things.

Mayaka rubs me the wrong way because other than liking Satoshi, throughout the whole show she does almost nothing but criticised, doubts,insults Oreki and that was it. The school festival and Valentine's day did nothing for her development and the Valentine's arc was more of Satoshi's instead.

Oreki, Satoshi and Chintanda(?) all have something going on for them in the past/present and able to progress in some way whereas Mayaka is still stuck somewhere which is why I believe she is the weakest link in the series.
 

Jarmel

Banned
So I think this is a translation of the confession scene of Haganai's latest/last major LN:
"
Earlier, I said that I was the same as Aniki. I have always, always been feeling the same."
The same feeling as me? The same feeling as I feel for Rika, always...
"Yukimura, does it mean..."
As I tried to confirm the meaning of these words...
*THUMP*
As if to prevent me from escaping, Yukimura put both hands at the wall and pressed her lips against mine. It wasn't a cute soft kiss, if I had to describe it as something it would be a forceful, heavy kiss overflowing with manliness.
By the way, naturally it was a first kiss for someone like me who didn't know the meaning of love. My mind froze. I couldn't think of anything. I could only feel that pleasant sensation of warm soft lips. I've almost drowned in this pleasant feeling that I felt for the first time. For the whole 10 seconds my lips were violated by Yukimura. After our lips separated I was standing still absentmindedly as if drunk on sake. On the other hand Yukimura with her cheeks colored red, let out a sexy long breath, and while looking straight at me with her wet eyes...
"I love you. Please go out with me."
It was a critical hit that a single girl, the only person who wholeheartedly, without faltering pursued only the enemy's general head (love) while all other members of the club continued to change. While being entranced by this resolute, like a stroke of samurai's sword, manly, and yet full of sweet girlishness truly fitting Kusunoki Yukimura head-on confession, I...
"Ah, um, okay."

The End.

She approves.
 
Chaikamon 11
Blue Chaika is kind of lame. Without the broken speech, she kind of loses that endearing factor. Aside from that, a lot of tension built up for the season finale.
I do hope Fredrica is still alive. She's kind of like Kenny now.
 

Tenumi

Banned
Yeah summer anime preview is out on randomc

Aw, sweet! I like their previews. Great place to find all the info you need about the season.

As for the Haganai spoiler....
I like Rika the best. I'm not sad by the ending, but, well, that's unexpected somewhat. Kinda contradicts characterization a bit, at least with the anime.
 
Monster 63-67
The final stretch is here!
My suspicions about
Nina
were correct. But what does it all mean?! Who is the monster now? How badly will Tenma's
now actual criminal record come to bite him in the ass at the end of the anime when everything is over and if he's still alive?
Also, this sure does look like a town you would end a series in.
 

phaze

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Jojo's Bizarre Adventure 01


Oh no he didn't !

Funny and fast paced introduction. Watching Dio destroy destroy Jojo's settled way of life was hilarious. That poor dog though. :(


Naruto Shippuden 366

Better than his rape face from OP.


This is something I overlooked in the earlier episode. So Orochimaru absorbed Zetsu ? Shouldn't he need some elaborate ritual to achieve that ? Don't even remember this bit from manga.

Pretty great episode. Dialogue was on point and the action sequence at an end was a cherry on the top. Hashirama is boss, dude doesn't even bat an eyelid at having to face Madara and Kurama in his whole undivided glory.
 

darkside31337

Tomodachi wa Mahou
Just dropping in to say that Kawaisou is totally rad. Really enjoyable show, in my top 10 for the year.

Also those Haganai spoilers - holy fuck
Sena x Yozora
is canon? I approve of this twist. Honestly the best possible outcome.
 

fertygo

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No Game No Life - 11

Holy fuck that was great, all of them gunfight sakuga aw yiss, best episode.

Btw the complaint to that one scene in backpage is weird, they not even play it as fanservice scene.. at least not the one that most people would imagine, for gal gun episode its surprisingly tame..
 

Jex

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Chaika - Episode 11



Ooooooh yeah BONES this is more like it. Chaika delivers on everything Soul Eater Not does not. As expected from an episode storyboarded by Iwao Teraoka, the action is really well choreographed, and it's pretty damn exciting to watch. This climax is really shaping up to be an explosive end to the season. The various plot elements the show has been building up are starting to intertwine now, and while it's great to stuff coming together, it's going to be pretty painful next week knowing that the rest of the story doesn't continue until October. It's going to hurt so good. <3
You're right, Chaika is definetenly the best BONES show since Soul Eater Not.
Chaika 11
And is Frederica just going to get brutally "killed" every episode now?
You mean Kenny?
 

TsuXna

Member
3rd Episode of Phi Brain.
I'm srsly loving this, but villains kinda boring right now and they are the same tho i've seen only two.
 

Jex

Member
Hitsugi no Chaika 11

Blue Chaika get! Very colour-coding. Much helpful.

This is just such a great ride, I wish the episode didn't have to end ;_;

I do hope
Frederica isn't really dead this time, that would be an awful way to go.

Do you actually believe a show would kill of a main character in a three second scene?
 

TUSR

Banned
No Game No Life - 11

Holy fuck that was great, all of them gunfight sakuga aw yiss, best episode.

Btw the complaint to that one scene in backpage is weird, they not even play it as fanservice scene.. at least not the one that most people would imagine, for gal gun episode its surprisingly tame..

smug jibril :')
 

Jex

Member
lol 3 minutes into Black Jack and that escalated quickly. Also this looks like the art style of Astro boy and Metropolis, so probably same guy. You know that one dude who is called one of the founders of anime or something. With a fetish for small half naked boys in banana hammocks.

We don't need dogs trolling this thread!
Sword Art Online - 9

Kirito is a bland character.

Since when? Kirito's never had a character at all.
 
Since when? Kirito's never had a character at all.

Exactly. That's his entire character.

His character is that he has no character, that's how bland of a character he is. He isn't a character, he's a caricature. A caricature of what might constitute as a good character from some other better anime character that actually has a character.
 
So I think this is a translation of the confession scene of Haganai's latest/last major LN:



She approves.

That's the end of the series, or just the most recent LN? If it's the former, that's an even bigger troll ending than Oreimo and the most random harem pick in the entire genre.
 

Jex

Member
No Game No Life 3-5

I see why cajunator liked this part.

Maybe something is wrong with me, or maybe my expectations were just primed by all the shock I read early on, but I've been able to tolerate the fanservice up to this point. Even with stuff involving Shiro, I don't feel like I've seen anything yet that went too far. I guess I was bothered most by all the Steph-humiliation in episode 5, but that had more to do with how casually cruel it was than anything else.

You're just in too deep, sonic! The show went too far from the first episode.
 

Jex

Member
Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders 8

Wow, that was a fantastic episode. Horror-movie direction tactics, creative camera usage, and flashy animation made for a gripping battle, perhaps the best one yet. Everything was calculated for perfect effect, creating the feeling of Polnareff desperately fighting for his life in this claustrophobic setting. I see Yasufumi Soejima storyboarded this episode, which explains why it made prominent usage of CG in the hotel room. The enhanced production values of Stardust Crusaders really help Soejima's work pop as compared to the first season of Jojo. I mean, the weird colors and design work did help somewhat to mitigate the meager animation of the first season, but they stand out all the more with the high-quality character art and animation this season is getting.

Of course, with horror-movie direction we also get horror-movie character stupidity. From "It's the doll, silly!" to "Don't just stand around, guys, check on Polnareff!" Of course, the latter made for a hilarious moment when he came, battered and bruised, up to Joseph's hotel room and all Joseph can say is "Why are you so late?"
I think it's safe to say that the increased production values of this season have really helped the staff working on the show to elevate the source material. I honestly don't think I'd enjoy Part 3 so much if it looked as bad as Part 1.
 

Jex

Member
11.5 is a pretty bland episode. I don't think I'll ever understand what firehawk really sees in it. I can't even tell if he's trolling us all. :(

firehawk prefers the TV Evangelion ending, Haruhi's Endless Eight arc and would rather watch Sword Art Online than Utena. I think it's fair to say that he simply has a unique perspective!
 

Jarmel

Banned
I have a bit of a question regarding SAO, so apparently if you die in the game your brain doesn't get instantly fried. So then what prevents someone from ripping off the headgear immediately if there is a delay of a minute essentially?
 
I have a bit of a question regarding SAO, so apparently if you die in the game your brain doesn't get instantly fried. So then what prevents someone from ripping off the headgear immediately if there is a delay of a minute essentially?

The plot.

EMPs. I've always suggested the EMPs. But apparently the government won't use them to disable those headgears because of reasons.
 

Chariot

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I have a bit of a question regarding SAO, so apparently if you die in the game your brain doesn't get instantly fried. So then what prevents someone from ripping off the headgear immediately if there is a delay of a minute essentially?
The data actually travels through Plotholes like everything else in this show.
 
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