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Spring 2014 Anime |OT2| about as likely as a second season of Hyouka
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For people not watching Ping Pong, remedy this now.
FUNi put up the first 10 episodes on their YouTube channel.
No excuses. Go.
FUNi put up the first 10 episodes on their YouTube channel.
No excuses. Go.
Except for the fact funumation are infamous racists and don't make anything available outside of their office.
That's really good news - thanks for the update. As you say, it'll be interesting to see whether private funding means we end up with more commercialised offerings. Presumably nothing like Arve Rezzle (which basically seemed to be "make the best of a botched job that was never supposed to be part of Anime Mirai anyway), but maybe moving away from the more avant garde stuff.
I see you're building your hitlist as we speak.
I just saw a professor on NHK claim the reason that Japan has mascot culture (and probably tangentally idol culture) is because of its predisposition towards polytheism. Leaving aside why the Italians, Scandalnavians etc. didn't end up with mascots everywhere, it's a pretty cool premise for... something. All the old gods traded in to fit the modern era or something.
Some kind of expansion to American Gods, I guess.
Some kind of expansion to American Gods, I guess.
Jex
Member
They said something about not being able to get the script to work. RIP.
Turin Turambar
Member
Lol, how is that meaningful if they both live in the same house?!! Their starting point already has a closer relationship status than that!
MikeHattsu
Member
Scandalous.
darkside31337
Tomodachi wa Mahou
So hey World Cup and shit. Decided I'd watch a football anime! Still bummed there isnt a new one to coincide with this WC but whatever.
Well at least I thought was. The Knight in the Area, the fuck man? That was some full out shit right there. Or was 3 episodes in.
Then shit got weird... This really has been less of a football anime so far and more of a tragedy with a kid dealing with multiple personality disorder after an incident.
4 episodes in and I'm enjoying it. Not much footy so far though.
Well at least I thought was. The Knight in the Area, the fuck man? That was some full out shit right there. Or was 3 episodes in.
Then shit got weird... This really has been less of a football anime so far and more of a tragedy with a kid dealing with multiple personality disorder after an incident.
4 episodes in and I'm enjoying it. Not much footy so far though.
Predicted but still sad. Damnit
Oh well, on the bright side it means more resources for Fincher's take on Utopia.
PdotMichael
Banned
I would rather rewatch some Captain Tsubasa OVAs and specials than watching Knight in the Area.
Shin Captain Tsubasa is pretty good at giving World Cup vibes without all the fillers of the original series.
R_thanatos
Member
I have several reason why i import in UK
First i'm french , so it's not that bad if you factor in the prices
Second i dislike most of the french releases because the level of translation while better this day is still not up to my terms. I also refuse some english release from time to time for teh same reasons.
Third some series are UNAVAILABLE in french in blu-ray ( only dvd )
Fourth , the prices ( again ) it's often still cheaper for me when you factor in that i don't have a region free blu-ray and that i can't import from japan since i'm in another region.
So well i feel fine
DAT Garterbelt.
Watch some Giant Killing, best football series around. Wish Vertical would pick up the books so i could own it in English.
More like cute girls pretending to do cute things while trying to stop themselves having a mental breakdown. From what i've read of the manga the show should be pretty grim.
gashikunFLCL
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Watch Giant Killing, in The Knight in the Area they play dumb football the only good point of it is Seven.
darkside31337
Tomodachi wa Mahou
Watched it already. Enjoyed it!
Yeah. Seven is so moe but MC is gonna have some rough shit when
shes only interested in him when hes his brother
Too much effort. Knight is on CR so whynot.
Turin Turambar
Member
The Wind Rises
Is it good? Yeah, it is. I think I liked it more than the last 2 Ghibli movies I've seen, From Up on Poppy Hill and The Secret World of Arrietty.
Why? Well, let's think what the film is. It's a 2 hours biopic of someone more or less normal, not a film about heroes or drama or surprises or mysteries or an epic story. And the 2 hours passed flying in a moment, that's the mark that it's truly good. It's almost perfectly paced and directed, I would say that's its main virtue.
It gets to be entertaining and interesting movie about a aeronautical engineer, and it does thanks to all the passion about the main character's dreams that the movie transmit to the viewer. It's a film done with lots of passion about someone's passion.
Of course it's all idealized to represent Miyazaki's own visions of dreams, reality sure was more prosaic. In a way it's less a true biography of the designer Jiro Horikoshi and more an inspiration so Miyazaki could build his own part historical part fictional movie.
It also helps it's a fucking beautiful movie, visually speaking. Background, foreground, mechanical animation, characters, animation in general, it's pure big budget Ghibli visual fest. A must watch for animation fans.
The conflict between the ideal dream and the beauty of planes and just the beauty of someone pursuing his dreams and the reality of war and machines used in it, and the sadness at the end ("not even one came back") is present in the film, but it doesn't dominate it, it's more a subdued theme that pops from time to time.
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PD : about the voice acted sounds. In a way, it serves to reinforce the reality: that the machines in Miyazaki films are idealized, romanticized version of the real thing, not real machines. Real machines are noisy, loud, cold, annoying. In the film the engines booping and roaring and tossing up sounds fake but they seem more like a real living being (precisely, because they are done by humans!), they seem to breathe and a have heart that beats, they have a warm rhythm in them, not a whiny superfast rhythm like in real life. We can suppose Miyazaki searched that in a film where machines are so important. My theory is once they decided for it, the rest of real sound effects surely clashed with the fake ones in a jarring way, so some additional sound effects like pieces of a plane crashing on the ground or the earthquake also were done with voices.
Is it good? Yeah, it is. I think I liked it more than the last 2 Ghibli movies I've seen, From Up on Poppy Hill and The Secret World of Arrietty.
Why? Well, let's think what the film is. It's a 2 hours biopic of someone more or less normal, not a film about heroes or drama or surprises or mysteries or an epic story. And the 2 hours passed flying in a moment, that's the mark that it's truly good. It's almost perfectly paced and directed, I would say that's its main virtue.
It gets to be entertaining and interesting movie about a aeronautical engineer, and it does thanks to all the passion about the main character's dreams that the movie transmit to the viewer. It's a film done with lots of passion about someone's passion.
Of course it's all idealized to represent Miyazaki's own visions of dreams, reality sure was more prosaic. In a way it's less a true biography of the designer Jiro Horikoshi and more an inspiration so Miyazaki could build his own part historical part fictional movie.
It also helps it's a fucking beautiful movie, visually speaking. Background, foreground, mechanical animation, characters, animation in general, it's pure big budget Ghibli visual fest. A must watch for animation fans.
The conflict between the ideal dream and the beauty of planes and just the beauty of someone pursuing his dreams and the reality of war and machines used in it, and the sadness at the end ("not even one came back") is present in the film, but it doesn't dominate it, it's more a subdued theme that pops from time to time.
The romance is nice and sad and it gives you feels, but in a way it feels a concession to make the film commercial, giving the elements of love and tearful drama for making the story more universal. He just had fall in love with a girl with tuberculosis, sigh. But as nice and sad it's, I feel it clashes a bit with the rest of the movie, as it's a personal story, and the movie is mostly a larger than life story about dreams and passion and inherent inner conflict in humankind for the love of war devices even for people that don't love war.
But as nice and sad it's, I feel it clashes a bit with the rest of the movie, as it's a personal story, and the movie is mostly a larger than life story about dreams and passion and inherent inner conflict in humankind for the love of war devices even for people that don't love war.edit:
PD : about the voice acted sounds. In a way, it serves to reinforce the reality: that the machines in Miyazaki films are idealized, romanticized version of the real thing, not real machines. Real machines are noisy, loud, cold, annoying. In the film the engines booping and roaring and tossing up sounds fake but they seem more like a real living being (precisely, because they are done by humans!), they seem to breathe and a have heart that beats, they have a warm rhythm in them, not a whiny superfast rhythm like in real life. We can suppose Miyazaki searched that in a film where machines are so important. My theory is once they decided for it, the rest of real sound effects surely clashed with the fake ones in a jarring way, so some additional sound effects like pieces of a plane crashing on the ground or the earthquake also were done with voices.
astrogamer
Member
Escha and Logy 10
Now they all work together to build an airship to the unexplored ruins. They really make it dramatic when Escha synthesizes something
Now they all work together to build an airship to the unexplored ruins. They really make it dramatic when Escha synthesizes something
Kawaisou ended in what I think is the most lame and tame ending possible, even for an adaptation that can't end.
I mean, I know that romcom protags aren't allowed to kiss in 99% of anime, but to end with? Really? lolexchanging email addresses
I have a really, really bad feeling about One Week Friends at this point.
Edit: Also, random book snobbery.
totally agree.
At least we're getting something.
MikeHattsu
Member
Another watchbet with phoenix296 and this time it's:
Madoka Magica 01
Strange new transfer student, strange animal and strange places. So, pretty strange overall.
Madoka Magica 01
Strange new transfer student, strange animal and strange places. So, pretty strange overall.
MikeHattsu
Member
Only magical girl stuff I've seen is Sailor Moon. But, yeah, I've had this in the backlog for a while.
nintendoman58
Member
You have no idea how much I want this.
Is it too much to ask for an anime where you see a happy-go-lucky couple just going around and being happy?
Slice of Life shows don't have to always focus on cute girls doing cute things you know!
You know that adorable little relationship between Sei and China in Gundam Build Fighters? Why can't I see something like that as the focus of an entire anime?!?
ADADADAHDADHADHAH-WHAT?!?!?
You never saw Madoka Magica? That's a pretty big shocker. What, did you never see TTGL too? I'd make a watchbet with you if you didn't.
Joe Molotov
Member
RIP American Gods TV
Damn, that's too bad. I loved the book.
darkside31337
Tomodachi wa Mahou
Yeah. I wonder what everyones most prolific anime is that they've never watched.
I guess for me its Hunter x Hunter. I wish I could go back to the days where I haven't watched 10,000 episodes of anime (rip)
MikeHattsu
Member
I only started watching anime series last year, so I got infinite backlog. And, no, I've not seen TTGL. An eventual watchbet will have to wait until later. Other stuff I want to watch first.
I was going to bring this topic up someday and suggest a month we each prioritize one of the shows we'd missed out on. escaflowne would be a big one for me
nintendoman58
Member
Ah, that's good. I still got my watchbet with Woofington to finish.
phoenix296
Member
So it begins! Hehehehe...
Finished Ping Pong, it was worth just for the ending, I got goosebumps when that song started. Fantastic and very satisfactory ending.
I am not as in love with the series as a whole, but mostly for personal reasons that are not worth commenting and have little or zero value (like, loved the animation but the visual style never grew on me, yeah, it´s was original and shocking but not really my thing). I'm really glad to see the evolution of the characters because I really disliked/had zero interest on them at the beginning.
I have started watching Giant Killer (thanks Hagi) looks really interesting.
I am not as in love with the series as a whole, but mostly for personal reasons that are not worth commenting and have little or zero value (like, loved the animation but the visual style never grew on me, yeah, it´s was original and shocking but not really my thing). I'm really glad to see the evolution of the characters because I really disliked/had zero interest on them at the beginning.
I have started watching Giant Killer (thanks Hagi) looks really interesting.
I'm afraid that this situation could dilute the original values of the program. JAniCA in general, and this program in particular, were created in contrast to how the insular machinery of the Japanese animation industry was scaring young talent away from it, or forcing them to learn haphazardly as things go on without stopping one bit (and lacking the extra-dedicated supervision of those that have to willingly do it for animemirai works, where it is obliged)... and now this PROJECT A is going to end up in the hands of those same ones always interested on surviving through the fastest profitable way?
Not to say that JAniCA hasn't experienced its fair share of criticisms, even from other counterpart collectives like ANIDO (through some veiled methods sometimes; http://donica.blog136.fc2.com/).
I don't know a thing on how they will tackle this new era, of course, and I'm not jumping to conclusions just now because this is only a sudden impression it gave me, many things could happen from now on... the problem, in my opinion, is that the actors involved on this change-of-hands are those who have helped to perpetuate the stigmas that the animators have been suffering, and that actual associations of animators have been trying to fight against.
jackie jormp-jomp
Banned
Someone's a Daigo Fan
Admiral Woofington
Member
Next blu-ray set Woofington is buying:
Berserk movie trilogy. Because let's be honest the rest of the movies won't ever be released at this point hahahahahaha... I made myself sad.
Berserk movie trilogy. Because let's be honest the rest of the movies won't ever be released at this point hahahahahaha... I made myself sad.
or even made.
MikeHattsu
Member
Madoka Magica 02
There's always time for tea.
Lots of explaining what's going on, and more fights against clip-artmonsters witches in another labyrinth. And what would happen if one doesn't refill that Soul Gem, eh?
There's always time for tea.
Lots of explaining what's going on, and more fights against clip-art
So that Kane can use Raging Storm from Geese and Raging Demon from Akuma. He must be god tier.
Black Bullet 5-6
Incompetent bodyguards, reluctant loli assassins and a full on harem. Urgh
That was me a week ago. You're in for quite a ride.
Speaking of Madoka, I was reading some review of it and realized my (spoilers for episode 10)
Incompetent bodyguards, reluctant loli assassins and a full on harem. Urgh
That was me a week ago. You're in for quite a ride.
Speaking of Madoka, I was reading some review of it and realized my (spoilers for episode 10)
"never watch anime openings" rule bit me in the arse this time, I completely missed the significance of OP at the end of that ep. Just automatically turned it off not even thinking about it. That was some sublime trolling.
ZachDeKoromaru
Banned
Short-haired no pan is so obvious best girl that it's not even funny.
Admiral Woofington
Member
Oh senpai you do notice my comments.
if you're not enjoying the stupid writing or the action, you might want to stop as it only gets worst (for me in a good way) from here on out. It's like the perfect example of why so many japanese people write light novels. I don't think these could pass for real novels.
Then again, Twilight. And vampire baseball.
KirbYuuYuu
Member
something tells me we're going to have to remedy this to have more in your stocking
Basileus777
Member
Dragonar Academy 12
Wow, they actually went with the True CNET Ending.
Wow, they actually went with the True CNET Ending.
MikeHattsu
Member
Madoka Magica 03
Guess shit just got real. And that change in EDs. Haha.
Sayaka seems to have something obvious to wish for at least...
Guess shit just got real. And that change in EDs. Haha.
Sayaka seems to have something obvious to wish for at least...
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