Well..Angel Beats is a lot like Haibane Renmei
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Well..Angel Beats is a lot like Haibane Renmei
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striferser
Huge Nickleback Fan
Oh you!
i like both of them, but Haibane Renmei is definitely great tier anime, while Angel beats is just okay tier
MetroidPrimeRib
Banned
It's like Pokemon, I guess. They're natural.
I-is this a secret language?
Dedication Through Light
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But your anime opinions never anger me, so I dont think you would be right for the job.
I'm summoning the Elder Gods because the time is Ripe for their Return as the World has clearly descended into Madness.
You should write for ANN.
cutie
It's certainly true that the focus has shifted as the strength of the opponents has ramped up, but I don't personally feel like the newer more esoteric Nen abilities really contradict the fundamentals that were initially established. It's just that the key mechanic of strengthening your abilities by placing limitations on them has been brought front and centre.
That's where the weirdest abilities like the dart guy and Potclean come from - the fact that if you want to make truly OP abilities, you have to make them incredibly specialised and restrict them by binding yourself to follow very specific rules. The most skilled Nen users seem to come up with innovative restrictions that allow them to either bring their existing strengths to the battlefield, or just overwhelm the enemy through sheer unpredictability.
It's true that this shift in focus makes characters like Hisoka, whose abilities really are limited to using the most basic features of Nen in creative ways, stand out from the crowd a little...but I suppose making simple tricks appear fantastic is in fitting with his "magician" theme, and his abilities make up for what they lack in OP-ness with sheer versatility. And it's not like there aren't other high-level characters who focus on using the basics effectively without any complex restrictions, such as Morau.
Ice Lightning
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I would not know what the warehouse looks like besides the various pictures sometimes posted on their social media webpages. I thought I read somewhere that they had some manga/anime viewing room(s). There has to be something more than just the section holding all that merchandise, seeing as they do license and release anime in-house too.
Dedication Through Light
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Ice Lightning
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Yes I have,
along with having the disappointment of no Sailor Moon Blu-rays
I would just to see the rage it would generate here. :lol
They are probably like Amazon-lite in terms of how they operate. Similar kind of setup. Probably got a bunch of viewing rooms and other fun things. I doubt its a boring place to work. Probably not as glamorous as some would hope though.
What is this I dont even
Ice Lightning
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Whatever.
victreeb3l
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Black Bullet 1-4
Dang, this show is pretty good. Its like a loli lovers heaven but I'm surprised at how violent it is. Theres some interesting mystery elements to this as well.
Kinda like Attack on Titan with little girls. Episode 4 felt like a season finale or something, haha.
Dang, this show is pretty good. Its like a loli lovers heaven but I'm surprised at how violent it is. Theres some interesting mystery elements to this as well.
Kinda like Attack on Titan with little girls. Episode 4 felt like a season finale or something, haha.
Poor Enju 
Hmmm. Its definitely a pretty plain looking place.
youre turning into an anime girl like the rest of us! you can only delay the inevitable!
It looked good at points and then ranged from serviceable to eye sore. While it's production was lackluster, I don't think it was the biggest of it's problems.
Everything in the Psycho-Pass narrative points to sophomoric Sci-Fi dystopia the main villain being the standout in which he's barely that.
Soul Eater Not! 04
The garden won't be destroyed that easily. Mostly Tsugumi doing some soul searching. In the context of Soul Eater it still feels kinda odd, but the art style and the pacing goes a way towards making it work. Most of the time in the main series was out in the field, so when done this way, DWMA feels like an actual school. Not every moment is spent battling evil. Also, Meme continues to be lewd. Plus, the return of a brown girl in the form of Mira, without her bandages this time, and another cameo from Soul and Maka, plus a connection to Black Star's clan. It's on the edges of the world, but the world hasn't ceased to exist.
The garden won't be destroyed that easily. Mostly Tsugumi doing some soul searching. In the context of Soul Eater it still feels kinda odd, but the art style and the pacing goes a way towards making it work. Most of the time in the main series was out in the field, so when done this way, DWMA feels like an actual school. Not every moment is spent battling evil. Also, Meme continues to be lewd. Plus, the return of a brown girl in the form of Mira, without her bandages this time, and another cameo from Soul and Maka, plus a connection to Black Star's clan. It's on the edges of the world, but the world hasn't ceased to exist.
Ice Lightning
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We Iowans like to keep things simple.
M3: Sono Kuroki Hagane 2
Mmmmmmm, still not sure if I'm feeling this one. I won't drop it yet because it certainly has an interesting atmosphere, some potentially interesting mysteries and I'm starting to warm up to the characters a little - in other words, this was definitely a step up from the first episode - but it's not exactly grabbing me at this point.
That may have been the creepiest I've seen a giant robot act since Eva, though.
Mmmmmmm, still not sure if I'm feeling this one. I won't drop it yet because it certainly has an interesting atmosphere, some potentially interesting mysteries and I'm starting to warm up to the characters a little - in other words, this was definitely a step up from the first episode - but it's not exactly grabbing me at this point.
That may have been the creepiest I've seen a giant robot act since Eva, though.
Enjoy it there?
What about me? ;_;
For some reason I stumbled across a page about the origin of the names for Angel Beats's characters. I don't know what the hell this anime is about but the characters are named after some of my favorite Japanese rock artists, wtf?
And the episode have names of Japanese songs I love, too.
WHAT?
http://www29.atwiki.jp/angelbeats/pages/108.html
And the episode have names of Japanese songs I love, too.
WHAT?
http://www29.atwiki.jp/angelbeats/pages/108.html
KuwabaraTheMan
Banned
Their minds are going to EXPLODE once the remixed edition gets released.
I cannot read any of it but its a neat find.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
I see another ANN review has hit the thread. lol
Jex
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They aren't always that amusing but when they "hit it", they really knock it out of the park.
Dedication Through Light
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Mahouka ep 5 pv
Juumonji speaking role finally. Though still always have to think he looks way too tall and old for a high schooler.
Juumonji speaking role finally. Though still always have to think he looks way too tall and old for a high schooler.
Joe Molotov
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Best anime since the Renaissance.
Turin Turambar
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I understand what you mean, but I wonder if you understand what I meant.
The problem of sexual fanservice is not the sex, but the fact that it is fanservice. The problem that can be explained if we go to an extreme example: A fanservice anime don't even try to tell a story, the story is an excuse to put some titillation on screen an "please" the fans that want tits and asses. The same core issue is then in other "types" of fanservice, form super-Mary sue in action series, to super self-insert pink life in a shojo to moe-fanservice.
Every single aspect of a show is some kind of "service" to a fan of it.
strangedopamine
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Engage Piranha Plants: Kiss Dum - Episode 6
Another brilliant episode of Kiss Dum with Shu tackling the village's Piranha Plant problem and getting some old NESs and Dolphins from Nintendo's abandoned military facility.
Shu now has three lovely ladies telling him he's useless now. All of them having roughly the same voice. They all do like blowing up and guiding CG bullets though.
Also everyone dies, again.
Music is still awful, the CG is still stilted and the mouth flaps are still timed horribly. Business as usual.
Another brilliant episode of Kiss Dum with Shu tackling the village's Piranha Plant problem and getting some old NESs and Dolphins from Nintendo's abandoned military facility.
Shu now has three lovely ladies telling him he's useless now. All of them having roughly the same voice. They all do like blowing up and guiding CG bullets though.
Also everyone dies, again.
Music is still awful, the CG is still stilted and the mouth flaps are still timed horribly. Business as usual.
This is why York Shin will always be king.
MetroidPrimeRib
Banned
Maaaaaybe Daaark Contineeent will be reaaallly goood
Knights of Sidonia - Episode 2-3
Finally caught up with this. Not really sure what to think. I feel the premise is pretty interesting, but I don't really care about the characters at all. It's basically another Attack on Titan style story but with less of the shounen screaming, exchanged for an unhealthy dose of syfy stuff instead. There's also a really serious issue with the framerate in the way certain scenes are done. The actual CG work is fairly good at times, but the attempt to make it look more like "anime" with low framerates seriously hurts some of the faster moving scenes, or the ones where there is meant to be quick but subtle camera pans. I'll probably keep watching for now, but I really wish it were more engaging than it is now. Oh well.
Finally caught up with this. Not really sure what to think. I feel the premise is pretty interesting, but I don't really care about the characters at all. It's basically another Attack on Titan style story but with less of the shounen screaming, exchanged for an unhealthy dose of syfy stuff instead. There's also a really serious issue with the framerate in the way certain scenes are done. The actual CG work is fairly good at times, but the attempt to make it look more like "anime" with low framerates seriously hurts some of the faster moving scenes, or the ones where there is meant to be quick but subtle camera pans. I'll probably keep watching for now, but I really wish it were more engaging than it is now. Oh well.
How can you say such things about the world's greatest idol.
Hunter x Hunter 127
Aaaaaand things finally move forward on the Gon front. Excellent. Dis gon' be good. (Er, no pun intended.)
AnathemicOne
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Back from being unbanned, whoooo. Nice to see me make the wall of shame (
) again, and this OT's front page sucks just saying.
Anyways, that's out of the way time to pour out my congregated reactions/review of anime during the past 2 weeks:
Mahouka 03-04
Okay, yeah yeah, I said I was most likely going to drop it at episode 3, which I certainly did consider. However, at this point everything is nonsensical and the main lead is OP as hell I might as well watch the trainwreck in some twisted sense of humor. Doesn't void the potential of me dropping this show in the future though.
Sooo yeah... the MC is OP. His sister wets herself each time she catches sight of him, and.... he's OP. At first the explanations for how the universe worked was sort of interesting but now it's all nonsensical. For example the ending of episode 4 of the government trying to infiltrate the school with the club whose using a proxy club but then the government might be ruled by crazy people.... like fuck. You couldn't spread this out more evenly over the 3 previous episodes of exposition? Anyone that can stomach these 4 episodes has no right to criticize Fate/Zero's 1-episode exposition.
One Week Friends 03-04
Best anime so far for me in Spring 2014 (which isn't hard as the other is Mahouka, but whatevs). So far its using each episode to tell its own contained story which I'm perfectly fine with so far. Particularly I was both surprised and content with how the drama previewed at episode 3 was exposed and then wrapped up in episode 4.
People seem to be split on how they want the show to go in sticking with this slice-of-life episodic series or evolving into a drama with arcs spanning multiple episodes. Then of course is a potential romance (is this show marked as a romance?). Personally I have no preference as long as the latter is done well in the confines of character motivations and whatnot (no fucking Golden Time's Linda hugging invisible Ghost Banris like a lunatic).
Not really...
Anyways, that's out of the way time to pour out my congregated reactions/review of anime during the past 2 weeks:
Mahouka 03-04
Okay, yeah yeah, I said I was most likely going to drop it at episode 3, which I certainly did consider. However, at this point everything is nonsensical and the main lead is OP as hell I might as well watch the trainwreck in some twisted sense of humor. Doesn't void the potential of me dropping this show in the future though.
Sooo yeah... the MC is OP. His sister wets herself each time she catches sight of him, and.... he's OP. At first the explanations for how the universe worked was sort of interesting but now it's all nonsensical. For example the ending of episode 4 of the government trying to infiltrate the school with the club whose using a proxy club but then the government might be ruled by crazy people.... like fuck. You couldn't spread this out more evenly over the 3 previous episodes of exposition? Anyone that can stomach these 4 episodes has no right to criticize Fate/Zero's 1-episode exposition.
One Week Friends 03-04
Best anime so far for me in Spring 2014 (which isn't hard as the other is Mahouka, but whatevs). So far its using each episode to tell its own contained story which I'm perfectly fine with so far. Particularly I was both surprised and content with how the drama previewed at episode 3 was exposed and then wrapped up in episode 4.
People seem to be split on how they want the show to go in sticking with this slice-of-life episodic series or evolving into a drama with arcs spanning multiple episodes. Then of course is a potential romance (is this show marked as a romance?). Personally I have no preference as long as the latter is done well in the confines of character motivations and whatnot (no fucking Golden Time's Linda hugging invisible Ghost Banris like a lunatic).
Turin Turambar
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There is a bit of less budget, true, but I still wouldn't say "Really poor quality animation", except two or three very specific moments where I thought "wtf was that", the quality is average or above average, and that's good for a long running series.
Also, in the episodes you are seeing now they are skimping in the animation but it's compensated with the higher budget in key episodes near the climax. Typical "limited animation"-sakuga system that you well know.
I agree that there is some padding. It's in this arc where they are starting to get close to the manga current end and you can see how the almost brisk pace has changed to something a bit more slower and deliberate. Sometimes it actually makes sense, other times you can notice how the camera lingers in the scenes, how the narrator has more lines, how there are flashbacks as you say...
Still, it's in the tolerable range.
I don't agree with the third point, it's just that in this specific Arc Togashi delves deeper in the intricacies of the abilities, the line of thoughts of the opponents, the subtleties and implications that affect them, etc. It's a different style, but not worse. I warn you, it will be even more pronounced later.
In fact, it's even lamp shaded.
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