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Spring Anime 2012 II | Welcome Home Eureka
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Well, hopefully 7 isn't as ugly as the last one.
Even if Naruto SD is over, they won't come back to Bleach yet.
They'll probably wait until the manga is over and then take it through the InuYasha route.
Ultimadrago
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I dunno and it's unfitting as hell for the regular pace of the show.
(Though I am actually partial to the OP.)
A Black Falcon
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Hey, the "piles on the floor" organization method is perfectly legitimate!
Indeed.It's such a tragedy.
Yeah, the Fairy Tail anime in general goes through the material at a pretty fast pace.
Our elderly are addicted to rape? This is a sad world that we live in.
I'm fine whatever they decide to do. I just want to know for sure!
A Black Falcon
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Episode 1 was kind of awful, but it DOES get better for a while after that. Eps 2-18 are up and down, but overall were okay, occasionally good. Ep. 19 runs straight through a moral event horizon without any thought, though, which I had a BIG problem with, and then the final arc just was completely stupid historically broken nonsense... but the first two thirds were decent enough for me to not regret watching them.
Most certainly don't watch it over SnW, though. No way.
Ultimadrago
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There is one "mystery" I quite liked in Gosick.
It's not the perfect one (actually flawed in ways), but I enjoyed how it was laid out. I await to see how survivor takes it.
I take it this is a good mystery anime?
I wouldn't mind seeing a good one.
(and no, I don't want to watch any more Conan)
Hellsing321
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Sora no Woto is not a mystery anime. Its K-On in the military.
Ultimadrago
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R_thanatos
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Except that gosick is not meant to folllow the history we know the a ction is in a state of europe that doesn't exist .. so yeah they can throw whatever you want since they don't follow the regular history ...
For this premise played for comedy effect, you should watch Better Off Ted's "Racial Sensitivity" episode (track it down on Netflix...)
I think this is supposed to be charming, or something? I remember being quite excited about Gosick before it aired because of a guy named Andrew Cunningham, who translated the novels and used to rave about all sorts of different Japanese books (before I discovered that the vast majority of light novels are absolute dreck). Oh, how disappointing Gosick turned out to be.
What we really need, obviously, are more series like Agatha Christie's Great Detectives Poirot and Marple - and obviously Oliver, the crime solving duck:
Chet Rippo
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Progressive anime.
PdotMichael
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In some years we will put Soro no Woto on the same list with Platoon, Das Boot , A Bridge Too Far and all the other anti-war movies.
chickdigger802
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It's not.
sounds like the anime version of black muscles
A Black Falcon
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Don't listen to that, SnW has absolutely nothing to do with K-On apart from having a somewhat similar art style (because it's from the studio behind some also similar prior work, not because they were ripping off K-On like some people claimed) and also having four girls as the main characters.
The actual show, though, is entirely different. Sora no Woto is a hybrid show, part moe comedy, part serious post-apocalyptic drama. It has a strong, continuing plot, plot progression, and some VERY dark elements at times as well. The characters are all great, and the story even better... oh, and that art... the background art's outstanding, really fantastic stuff.
It isn't a mystery show though, that is true. Well, there is a mystery that's central to the series' plot, but it's not in the mystery genre, I'll admit that. It's part cute, part Shinkai-style drama. But beyond that, it is one of my favorite anime TV series not by ABe.
That's a bad excuse. Just because it's set in a fictional country doesn't mean that simply making up your own history, in a series supposedly set in a real historical period, makes any sense. I mean, there's taking history and adding fictional elements, and then there's making stuff up that goes entirely against anything that could possibly have happened during that time, and Gosick does the latter.
Sorry, but no, having a war like that in the 1930s just does not make sense. And the whole series's "there's a war coming" stuff is so obviously a World War II reference... until the author invents a completely stupid random war within the country itself as an explanation for what they're talking about. Even if that was planned all along, it's so, so stupid!
And then that ending... WHAT? :lol
Um... so they have a happy ending now, war over! But wait, it's still the 1920s or 30s, with World War II coming up fast... seriously, that was so stupid.
The series has plenty of other bits of historically questionable stuff of course (Victorique's very Victorian outfits are fairly out of date compared to the times, for instance), but that last arc was the worst by far. Well, the worst along with that blatantly late 20th century Japanese high school that they all attend that's essentially been randomly transported to early 20th century "Italy", that is. :lol
I liked some of the mysteries, and that arc was one of the better ones probably for the most part, but that element WAS pretty silly, and also was important to the plot, so yeah, you are right that it has that in it. I mean, you could come up with an excuse for it perhaps, but it's pretty sketchy.
I didn't think twice about that. I heard it all the time in high school.
Ultimadrago
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That was the mystery I was talking about. Lol!
Hey, I said it was flawed, didn't I?
I think you got that phrase backwards.
Fate/Zero 18
Kiritsugu starting his badassery from an early age it seems.
Also I guessis required reading to understand the show now?Tsukihime
How so?
What kind of subtitle is that?
Theonik
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How do you explain Ninjas then? They dress in black all the time. Surely it must work!
MotionBlue
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Tasogare Otome x Amnesia 05
Ghost moe delivers.
Ghost moe delivers.
I'm curious how this show could possibly end. I assume Yuuko and Teichi will eventually be seperated, unless he dies. I'm hoping a "happy" ending is possible.
dakkumauji
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Naruto SD 06
Oh you dirty Kakashi.
A decent episode. I was at the very least amused by the sports event activities and I really did like the scavenger hunt for the ridiculous items they had to find. The whole let's recap literally the whole episode you just saw was silly though.
Oh you dirty Kakashi.
A decent episode. I was at the very least amused by the sports event activities and I really did like the scavenger hunt for the ridiculous items they had to find. The whole let's recap literally the whole episode you just saw was silly though.
Horizon 1-13
Felt more like the first episode of a show than an actual full series but dammit I liked it. Maybe it's just because I love SRPGs and stuff but having a massive cast really appealed to me. Blind Girl/Guy with bucket on head OTP. like the smug asshole hero too, he's got a bit of irresponsible captain tylor about him
Felt more like the first episode of a show than an actual full series but dammit I liked it. Maybe it's just because I love SRPGs and stuff but having a massive cast really appealed to me. Blind Girl/Guy with bucket on head OTP. like the smug asshole hero too, he's got a bit of irresponsible captain tylor about him
A (late) friendly reminder about ISLM day 2 voting. Today's special doubles matches are:
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Get to it.
And please, for the love of god, don't post the massive voting chart pictures inline this time. At least link to them if you must.
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Get to it.
And please, for the love of god, don't post the massive voting chart pictures inline this time. At least link to them if you must.
Do black ninjas attain superpowers?
A (late) friendly reminder about ISLM day 2 voting. Today's special doubles matches are:
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Get to it.
And please, for the love of god, don't post the massive voting chart pictures inline this time. At least link to them if you must.
Better yet, don't vote at all.
Why do they force my hand? I don't want to vote on Inori, but damn.
Oh, and poor Yui + Ui duo.
Dedication Through Light
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Tes, well we are getting a season two so thats good.
OreImo 8
So this is the infamous episode 8 so many people hate.
I liked the beginning, and because of that I coasted OK through the rest of it, but I can see where they're coming from.
So this is the infamous episode 8 so many people hate.
I liked the beginning, and because of that I coasted OK through the rest of it, but I can see where they're coming from.
The problem is, what makes OreImo so much fun is the characters interacting with each other. We get a little of that at the beginning, and Kirino's monologue was amusing, but after that the rest of the episode is full of interaction between individual main characters and the boring animation staff people, rather than the main characters talking to each other. Maybe they could have made it more interesting if they'd reduced the time spent with the anime staff and increased scenes of the main cast talking with each other to decide what to do.
Chet Rippo
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Gotta post 'em all!
dakkumauji
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More random voting go!
Episode 10 is like the only good episode in Madoka
There is only one God, and he sure as hell isn't some moeblob.
Theonik
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Stealth +3
Clearly you have learned nothing from the mountain.
Episode 10 is like the only good episode in Madoka
Oh, well - Theonik, I gave animegaf the good ol' sophomore effort, but I'm out!
How many times do we have to explain that Gainax is dead?
RurouniZel
Asks questions so Ezalc doesn't have to
A (late) friendly reminder about ISLM day 2 voting. Today's special doubles matches are:
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Get to it.
And please, for the love of god, don't post the massive voting chart pictures inline this time. At least link to them if you must.
How do I just link them? I just see a bunch of gibberish fields that would be even more annoying to post, and there's no direct link to my votes that I can see.
dakkumauji
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Uta no Prince-sama Maji Love 1000% 06
Well at least boy of the week is different in what he must overcome from yellow eyed female protag. But, besides that a pretty average episode. I guess there's probably one idol left to woo over and then something else to take up the rest of the episodes. So more singing and dancing?
Pshaw, over that silly little thing? You need to develop thicker skin if you wanna hang out here.
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