Femmeworth
Banned
I'm under the impression that there is no guarantee that a grand prize winning work will be turned into an anime.
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Spring Anime 2012 II | Welcome Home Eureka
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Jex
Member
That sounds filthy.
You forgot to mention the urinals suddenly being rendered in a completely different style.
hosannainexcelsis
Member
Milky Holmes 8
This show solves the problem of how to maintain status quo by making the main characters incredibly dumb. I guess that works.
Censorship makes everything better.
This show solves the problem of how to maintain status quo by making the main characters incredibly dumb. I guess that works.
Censorship makes everything better.
I will take three good episodes over no good episodes. I don't see the pacing changing until two weeks from now for people who didn't like Sankarea 4. It seems pretty obvious that the next episode will be
a drawn out realization by the main character that hydrangeas are the solution to Rea's problem.
Nothing scared about Miyazaki's bug-fetish really. I've always been a Laputa man since childhood. Maybe you just don't know me well enough!
Jex
Member
Maybe if we just had a jam session we could work everything out.
Except in our case we'll probably be jamming things up each other's rectums instead. It would be violent, bloody, and honestly probably illegal in most countries.
You're not going to get any argument from me on Laputa being the better movie.
A yandere Jazz session?
hosannainexcelsis
Member
I get the feeling that the director set out to make something really good, worked very hard on it for a while, then looked around at the lack of talent around him and gave up. It's very unfortunate.
If nothing else, the quality of the first three episodes has at least given me one more name to pay attention to.
Jex
Member
I don't know how things work in Japan, but the doorknob is on backwards too.
chickdigger802
Banned
I found it to be the superior 'k-on' if that makes any sense
I kinda wanna play it but I'm still behind on my Katawa Shoujoing. I need to finish Rin and Lilly.
A Black Falcon did it first.
Her pure and virginal skin can only be attained by careful shaving.
I never did finish this show. I only caught random episodes here and there. It was always class.
I am a bit afraid of tackling it now because I'm sure I wouldn't stop until I finished all three seasons or whatever. I just don't have the time.
If we had animated avatars this would be my animated avatar.
Finish that GOTY!
Jex
Member
Damn, that's some really clumsy shaving.
Unsanitary-Moe.
I've never noticed how detailed the art is in that one shot. Where's my Evangelion BD's?
There should not be a door knob at all in a public washroom! You should just push to get out!
Gainax probably still figures it can squeeze out one more re-remastered (unit) director's cut on DVD before they need to upgrade to blu-rays.
Femmeworth
Banned
Around here you have to push to get in and pull to get out of public bathrooms. :\
I don't know, but I want it so bad.
Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works
Wow. I'm in awe.
I vastly underestimated the potential of this route. I thought it was going to be a fun diversion, but it was actually in many ways superior to the Fate one.
UBW is the only good route.
Dat Rin.
Dat um, well, fuck Shirou.
Dat Rin.
Think of all the people who didn't wash their hands!
Jex
Member
Duckroll and myself where discussing this topic earlier and in the end it is clearly the fault of the director if he doesn't have the organisation in place with the right staff to make episodes which are consistent with what the tone that he was going for with the show. Of course, he clearly understands how to storyboard some interesting episodes.
Femmeworth
Banned
That's why I use a paper towel to open the door.
Jex
Member
There are still many I need to crush.
biosnake20
Member
I'm watching Fate/Zero now and also want to know something. Is fate/stay worth watching? I heard it was pretty mediocre. And what about the movie? Is it a re-imagining of the fate/stay or something else?
Wait for the rest of the Fate/Zero money to roll in, and maybe the Ufotable team working on Fate/Zero will remake Fate/Stay Night next. Then it might be worth watching.
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
Legend of the Galactic Heroes 01:
Epic
though. I know I've said I'm not a fan of telling over showing before, but I'm digging the discussions between high commanders and the silly tension between the old figures of authority and the young commodores. It's a nice contrast, actually: you have a young and handsome bloke taking the empire to certain victory despite the disbelief of his war generals while the Republic/Alliance/whatever could have not fucked up had they listened to dem new fresh ideas.
The
disturbed the fuck out of me. I'm seriously afraid of getting
. It's like one of my phobias since I was a little kid.
Epic
The
death by impalement
impaled
Jex
Member
They do understand, they just have a thing called 'standards'.
I don't know about that, there's lot of contests for different things that run every year without winners.
hosannainexcelsis
Member
Oh sure, I'm not going to absolve the director of blame. He should have made more of an effort to structure the show in a way that the first three episodes had a successful payoff. But since Sankarea is his first position of major responsibility, and at DEEN of all places, I'm inclined to cut him a little slack.
ZR is the only true route.
:brofist:
ah yes saving the two best routes for last
Dusk Maiden of Amnesia Episodes 1 & 2
Yuuko making a strong candidate for best girl this season.
I can definitely see the complaints of the repetitious first episode but with the introduction of Yuuko's playful nature I really enjoyed it. There's an interesting atmosphere in this show that really walks a fine line between a dark/horror story and romantic comedy story. I'm also getting Bakemonogatari vibes here just as I did from the first episode of Sankarea as far as dialogue and character interactions go.
Definitely continuing with this show. The mysterious story with Yuuko and her personality has got me hooked.
chickdigger802
Banned
Standards aren't profitable.
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
Nobody will take Hanako's place in my heart, I promise. <3
It would be nice if they applied those standards to their own work. Particularly when it comes to the material they choose to adapt.
Well, I think we can look at it from the same perspective as Ando going to PA Works and directing Canaan. The studio is not known for good action, and the source material comes from Type-Moon's expansion of the 428 story. Ando did what he could, but the show still ended up sucking because of a poor storyline and dumb character antics. Yet, I don't think the tone of the show or the direction ever felt inconsistent. The camerawork and cuts in the Ando storyboarded episodes were superior, sure, but I think he did a decent job of putting together a team who could mimic the sort of movement and look he set up in the first few episodes.
If there is a drastic shift in the visual direction of a show just because the director stopped storyboarding episodes personally, it shows that there is a failure in communication or instruction giving/taking.
Sankarea 4
I see the director stopped storyboarding, which was pretty obvious during the episode. I'm not even bothered by the fanservice, as that was already part of the initial episodes, but the tone of the show went a completely different direction this week. Not to say the show can't be good while being lighthearted, but it wasn't done in a particularly interesting way, visually or otherwise.
I see the director stopped storyboarding, which was pretty obvious during the episode. I'm not even bothered by the fanservice, as that was already part of the initial episodes, but the tone of the show went a completely different direction this week. Not to say the show can't be good while being lighthearted, but it wasn't done in a particularly interesting way, visually or otherwise.
Jex
Member
Legend of the Galactic Heroes 01:
Thedisturbed the fuck out of me. I'm seriously afraid of gettingdeath by impalement. It's like one of my phobias since I was a little kid.impaled
You shouldn't watch the Flash Gordon movie.
Femmeworth
Banned
If they did that, they probably wouldn't be sitting on so much money.
Jex
Member
Well, it seems to have worked out pretty well for them so far, barring one recent series they've been rather successful.
For Sankarea I don't really feel like there is a dramatic shift in the visual direction. It isn't executed on as as high of a level in that area often times but it still felt the same to me visually.
To me it was more a case story gearing to a different (and fetishistic) focus that causes the tonal shift. The entire pace of the story changed too, which probably doesn't help anyone acclimate to that shift.
Sounds like a typical bad episode. Once again the badness was over-exaggerated by AnimeGAF, the kings of hyperbole!
I am (possibly prematurely) roping Hyouka into there.
chickdigger802
Banned
manga readers.
Is Sankarea 4 more in tuned with manga than the first 3?
Is Sankarea 4 more in tuned with manga than the first 3?
hosannainexcelsis
Member
Ando's career before Cannan was doing key animation on great projects like Magnetic Rose, directing episodes of great shows like RahXephon, and finally directing his very own tour-de-force action movie. Shinichi Omata's career before Sankarea was being animation producer on various random hentai and storyboarding on shows like Astarotte's Toy and Denpa Onna. There's clearly a huge disparity in experience and skill level here. That Omata was able to make the episodes of Sankarea he directly worked on as good as they were shows that he has a lot of untapped talent; the fourth episode shows that he isn't yet able to harness that talent well when supervising others. My hope is that this will be a learning experience for him, and he'll be able to do a better job on his next project.
Jex
Member
You're a terrible person.
When you put it like that, I feel so bad for even having expectations which would pressure the poor guy who finally got to direct his own TV series. I just feel sorry that his show involves a necrophile, and hence I won't be watching it to support him. :/
PdotMichael
Banned
I read till volume 2 and the manga is even more comedy and
has more fanservice
Sailor Moon 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40
Because there's not much else to do on a plane
After a 3 week break from Sailor Moon, I had already been forgetting how awesome all the faces they pull in this show are.
Also, onsen episodes? With naked Usagi? In my Sailor Moon? It's more likely than you think!
Also, I've noticed that the transformations have been getting progressively more racy each time a new Sailor shows up.
Anyway, I should have the last 6 episodes finished by the time I get home later today, and then I'll post full episode impressions for each of those episodes.
How fun~
Because there's not much else to do on a plane
After a 3 week break from Sailor Moon, I had already been forgetting how awesome all the faces they pull in this show are.
Also, onsen episodes? With naked Usagi? In my Sailor Moon? It's more likely than you think!
Also, I've noticed that the transformations have been getting progressively more racy each time a new Sailor shows up.
Anyway, I should have the last 6 episodes finished by the time I get home later today, and then I'll post full episode impressions for each of those episodes.
All the Moon Kingdom stuff is pretty cool, I think I prefer normal Usagi to Serenity, though that could be just because I'm more used to normal Usagi.
How fun~
chickdigger802
Banned
ok. Will keep watching. Got my expectations lowered enough so I won't be disappointed.
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