Watch it. Obviously the show will not match the movies in terms of production quality but I've never heard anyone recommending the manga over the show. Plus you get awesome classical music and voice actors.
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I'm giving you the middle finger out of focus as a sign of my respect.
I think I know what you're saying, but that's not it.
Could very well be. I always cringe when I read episode thread and some people seem to have watched the anime on a second screen while fapping to sex slave chronicles.
Sure, but people were surprised in episode 3. And then again in episode 7. In literally the first seconds you can feel something off. Plus even the happy parts have something sinister waning above them. And QB is maybe a hit to creepy designed, its just too obvious even with the cute voice.
*Raises middle finger too"
That ending scene are so dawww.. bros before *beep* indeed.
Yeah I was annoyed about that too. Also how people were claiming the show was the darkest anime to exist.
I believe your theory is correct. My friends put off a lot of shows just because the first episode was to boring. Fate/Zero for example.
Riposte
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Well, beyond production values, I really didn't like how the first episode was structured. Really messy plot with a lot of details missing and not much time to absorb what's happening. Hope it fixes that by the time it catches up. The two movies were fantastic though.
Once the show got started, for sure. I just think a lot of that (even throughout the series) had to go with the way they set up expectations before slapping it on good. I felt like it was a lot different when it was airing (and we were all none the wiser). Nobody was really able to predict anything (outside of the general tone once it got going), and it made for a fun sense of community at the time.
A lot of it has to do with the expanded audience it attracted though, too. It reached a lot more mainstream than many expected.
I guess for some it was less questioning how soon Game of Thrones would be getting dark, and more like just assuming it was going to be some light hearted fantasy adventure when it's anything BUT that? It certainly did get brutal faster than I expected admittedly, but I knew I wasn't in for some feel good adventure, if I expected that I'd have ignored the series entirely most likely.
. . . I also knew not to expect Madoka to just go magical girl at the drop of a hat after Pshyco's posts, even when trying to skip them.
Oh yes, the speculation were great, I was actualy let down a bit by what really happened. All those weird, complicated theories with thousands of them crushed every week.
And well, Meguca.
Yeah, ehen I'm home I gonna browse through some animeforums to start shaming people.
All the (eh, kinda spoilers)
"OMG WHEN IS SHE GOING TO BECOME A MAGICAL GIRL FUCK"
True enough, but most animefans not care that much. Those plebs just watch anything without even knowing studio or director.
Sweet memories. I also liked the desperate cult that believed that
Mami is coming back any episode.
I admittedly didn't look into that beforehand, though I knew he wrote Fate/Zero and the director did some of the other Shaft shows like Nisekoi (for whatever a manga adaption's worth) and Mekaku City Actors. Now that I look deeper into what the writer's credited for Saya no Uta... yeah, that says a lot.
Turin Turambar
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Well,
it was never clear if the series would maintain a normal magical girl series until just the end, or it would happen before. Also the execution, the beginning gave a clue of something big and dark and complex, but it didn't gave a clue of how fucked is the lives of magical girls in the series.
Dedication Through Light
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Released in dec, felt low budget but was good and funny.
Chloe's replaced by the merchant that Lawrence and Holo both meet in the hostel(church?) they both stay in right after they meet. The one that offers the initial deal.
I seem to recall that the authour even made some comments about how well Chloe was handled and how he'd like to add her to the books.
Maybe it was lack of experience (Madoka was the first anime I had watched in many years), but I must confess it really surprised me. Yes, I could see some dark undertone in the portrayal of the witches, but I never expected what happened in episode 3, it really shocked me.
Horse Detective
Why the long case?
I just got into Soul Eater, and that upsets me because I don't feel cool or unique.
It's not like all of his works are like that though! the recent ones in particular
((he hasn't done anything good since madoka.
Hahaha yeah, that was the best.
The amount wasn't clear, sure but people seem to have missed the general dark tone until episode three.
*slap*It's not like all of his works are like that though! the recent ones in particular
he hasn't done anything good since madoka.
Greetings from fate/zero and psycho-pass.
Yeah, being completely oblivious seems kind of crazy. At best it was clearly going to be like Utena in that it slowly builds up and seems more and more sinister as times goes on. Instead I guess they got a little blood thirsty.
And Fate/Zero seemed to have been written almost a decade ago, so I'm not sure that really counts as "since."
Well ok still leaves Psycho-Pass. And speaking of it, just saw this on gamingside: Psycho Pass game for Xbox One
brianjones
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can anyone recommend me an anime that deals with daily life in japan?
Daily life of whom?
Working adult? Schoolkids? Rich people? Old people?
And more realistic or just as a setting?
brianjones
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any of the above is fine
slice of life i guess you would call it
slice of life i guess you would call it
Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei
Hyouka could work then. Maybe it won't give you much insight to their daily lives but still an enjoyable slice of life, second part more so. Its genre is 'mystery' but it's really slice of life.
What's your theory about anime fans?
Working!! (restaurant), Working x Working (office), Hanasaku Iroha(), Non Non Biyori (kids on the countryside) and Silver Spoon (agriculture).
Daily Lives of High School Boys clearly. I mean it's in the name.
brianjones
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thanks guys
i haven't watched anime in years but for some reason i was hit with this really translucent flashback of summers in japan and afternoon suns and eating blue popsicles
i haven't watched anime in years but for some reason i was hit with this really translucent flashback of summers in japan and afternoon suns and eating blue popsicles
You mean Servant x Service?
Overture to a New War handles the events of the first few eps better than the OVA series but it gets considerably better once it gets into the swing of things.
Ah yes, I always confuse the title, thank you!
I remember reading some, and it was booooring.
Kerrytsugu did nothing wrong!!!
Hataraki Man
thanks guys
i haven't watched anime in years but for some reason i was hit with this really translucent flashback of summers in japan and afternoon suns and eating blue popsicles
Definitely watch Hyouka then!
You could try Tamayura. I think Silver Spoon is also a good suggestion. Depends on what you're in the mood for.
Yeah. Do you want country life or city life?
What did the police constable say to his belly?
You're under a vest.
Lol I was thinking more in the direction of the types of stories or levels of drama.
Oh wait, what about Usagi Drop?
Theonik
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Another excellent one.
MikeHattsu
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Hm... Isn't only parts of the manga translated?
But I guess that doesn't matter if you can read Japanese
i'm marking this one under police brutality
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