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[Crash Station]

In what world? Anime falls short of Bleach and even Naruto just on pacing and animation.

You're still mad Oda stole the concept of dragons from Fairy Tail, aren't you?

 

[chickdigger802]

Accel World 05

I really have no clue what's going on.

Cartman kun is easily one of the worst MC's in anime in the past few years. WTF IS HE BLABBING ON ABOUT????

Best thing of the eps

Outside of the plot wings, the fights are ok. So are the... duel avatars. Oh and...

 

[KuwabaraTheMan]

Good thing it's not long enough to make it on SOS.

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Do you guys think I'm being serious? The English opening is awful.

Some things you don't even joke about. Some of us have spent the last 12 years trying to forget that dub existed.

Yeah, One Piece is kind of terrible.

Wrong.

 

[Infinite Justice]

Rule number 1: Even if it's a 3 episode OVA or something similarly short, always read the damn synopsis.

Kodomo no Jikan - Ni Gakki

Wait...you did not know about this series? Especially when that poster came in here with his horseshit?

WAT

 

[madp]

You're still mad Oda stole the concept of dragons from Fairy Tail, aren't you?

In the first 20 episodes of Fairy Tail I've uncovered several more anime and manga that steal from it. Everyone wants a piece of Mashima's genius.

Rubber has shape!

K-on character designs are great though, I don't know why people call them shapeless blobs when they're more well defined than most moe shows.

I can only see blobs. Their faces look like flesh-colored cells with eyes and mouths floating around inside like organelles.

 

[Reknoc]

Wrong.

Right.

In the context of this thread, which is anime, One Piece isn't very good.

 

[KuwabaraTheMan]

Right.

In the context of this thread, which is anime, One Piece isn't very good.

One Piece is a great anime. The pacing goes to shit later on, but that doesn't detract from it being a very worthwhile series. The manga is better, but that doesn't make the anime bad.

 

[Envelope]

In the first 20 episodes of Fairy Tail I've uncovered several more anime and manga that steal from it. Everyone wants a piece of Mashima's genius.



I can only see blobs. Their faces look like flesh-colored cells with eyes and mouths floating around inside like organelles.

Mashima is the unsung hero of shonen.

 

[KO Traveling Hobo]

English opening was better.

Holy fucking nostalgia bomb. I loved Card Captors when I was a little kid.

...damn. That was more than ten years ago.

 

[Jex]

Rule number 1: Even if it's a 3 episode OVA or something similarly short, always read the damn synopsis.

Kodomo no Jikan - Ni Gakki

Sometimes Wikipedia is actually your friend.

 

[Dedication Through Light]

You're still mad Oda stole the concept of dragons from Fairy Tail, aren't you?

I will never forgive oda.

 

[Chet Rippo]

You love shapeless blobs but have a problem with a person made of rubber? Hmm...

The only thing in One Piece I like is Nami's ever expanding boobs.

 

[cajunator]

Card Captors is a fucking abomination. I wouldn't have a problem with it if they just translated everything and cut nothing, but it has been molded into an entirely different show from CCS>

 

[survivor]

Bodacious Space Pirates 7

Here is how you make the anime not boring: Don't ever ever leave space. Anytime they leave space, it just becomes zzzz

 

[Dresden]

I don't know how you stumble into Kodomo no Jikan (and the OVAs at that) without having heard about it.

 

[Jex]

FMA: B - Brief Observations

[Episode II]

Running through the whole of their lives in one episode doesn't really work very well, at all. I understand they wanted to get onto the 'new shit', but doing it like this doesn't really serve anyone.

[Episode III]

I don't really understand what they were trying to do by constantly shifting the tone, but it doesn't work.

 

[KO Traveling Hobo]

Card Captors is a fucking abomination. I wouldn't have a problem with it if they just translated everything and cut nothing, but it has been molded into an entirely different show from CCS>

When you're ten years old, you don't really have any fucks to give about all that.

 

[Jex]

I don't know how you stumble into Kodomo no Jikan (and the OVAs at that) without having heard about it.

It certainly sounds pretty suspicious.

 

[Ultimadrago]

I don't know how you stumble into Kodomo no Jikan (and the OVAs at that) without having heard about it.

Excuses

>_______>

 

[Brazil]

FMA: B - Brief Observations

[Episode III]

I don't really understand what they were trying to do by constantly shifting the tone, but it doesn't work.

I think they did it in that episode because everyone has already seen Cornelio's story so many times before... So they tried to keep it interesting.

It doesn't happen anymore from that point onwards, though.

 

[Ryuukan]

Rule number 1: Even if it's a 3 episode OVA or something similarly short, always read the damn synopsis.

Kodomo no Jikan - Ni Gakki

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I'm not a Japanese expert, but doesn't 'Ni Gakki' imply a second season or series?

Why do you need to make such a scene to announce that you're a pedophile?

 

[dimb]

FMA: B - Brief Observations

[Episode II]

Running through the whole of their lives in one episode doesn't really work very well, at all. I understand they wanted to get onto the 'new shit', but doing it like this doesn't really serve anyone.

[Episode III]

I don't really understand what they were trying to do by constantly shifting the tone, but it doesn't work.

Brotherhood's inferiority to the original series is painfully clear during the early episodes, unfortunately. At least when it goes off and does its own thing you don't have to draw as many comparisons.

 

[cajunator]

When you're ten years old, you don't really have any fucks to give about all that.

Well, you've got a point there.

 

[tiff]

I'm not a Japanese expert, but doesn't 'Ni Gakki' imply a second season or series?

Why do you need to make such a scene to announce that you're a pedophile?

OVA series that released after the television run, I presume.

 

[Ryuukan]

OVA series that released after the television run, I presume.

Point being that Steroyd has already been knee-deep in contraband.

 

[Steroyd]

Come on Steroyd, this is like Bryzgalov levels of self-induced failure.

I do not understand how someone could wander into this series without knowing exactly what they're getting into... so, congratulations!

Wait...you did not know about this series? Especially when that poster came in here with his horseshit?

WAT

Sometimes Wikipedia is actually your friend.

As dangerous as it sounds, sometimes I randomly see OVA's or less than 12 eps of something and just jump in, last time it was Shinigami no Ballad, first time I got burned this bad, that said the law of averages were going to get me eventually, I had a good run.

I'm not a Japanese expert, but doesn't 'Ni Gakki' imply a second season or series?

Why do you need to make such a scene to announce that you're a pedophile?

I found out later it was a 2nd year OVA of some series, thought it was a throaway OVA. >_>

 

[hosannainexcelsis]

FMA: B - Brief Observations

[Episode II]

Running through the whole of their lives in one episode doesn't really work very well, at all. I understand they wanted to get onto the 'new shit', but doing it like this doesn't really serve anyone.

[Episode III]

I don't really understand what they were trying to do by constantly shifting the tone, but it doesn't work.

The early episodes of Brotherhood are pretty bad. It's amazing how much better it becomes once it diverges from the original anime. (And then it degrades again once it reaches the ending.)

 

[Crash Station]

Fairy Tail 122

Alright, that attack montage was cool as hell.

 

[Ryuukan]

I found out later it was a 2nd year OVA of some series, thought it was a throaway OVA. >_>

Shows like this damage your perception of life.
You need more control over what you watch.

 

[Kagami]

Started watching Highschool of the Dead. The first episode was fun as fuck, great animation, and I love the opening song. Don't expect much really, but I'm guessing it'll keep me entertained for the entire run.

What was the AnimeGAF consensus on this show anyway?

It's fantastic.
Appealing character designs, great voices, fun characters, tense action and suspense, sexy women. It's obviously aimed at men and heavy on T&A service, but if you've already seen the first episode then you know what to expect from others in that regard.
One of my favorites from the past few years.
One thing to be prepared for though is that it's based on an on-going (and always on hiatus) comic, and the TV series doesn't so much end as just stop.

 

[cajunator]

if you must watch an OVA, make it something like Magic User's Club.

 

[Ryuukan]

It's fantastic.
Appealing character designs, great voices, fun characters, tense action and suspense, sexy women. It's obviously aimed at men and heavy on T&A service, but if you've already seen the first episode then you know what to expect from others in that regard.
One of my favorites from the past few years.
One thing to be prepared for though is that it's based on an on-going (and always on hiatus) comic, and the TV series doesn't so much end as just stop.

You tell em, aibo.

Spoiler

Can I call you aibo

 

[dimb]

The early episodes of Brotherhood are pretty bad. It's amazing how much better it becomes once it diverges from the original anime. (And then it degrades again once it reaches the ending.)

The earth would collapse in on itself if something Fullmental Alchemist related ended well.

 

[Kagami]

Let me rephrase my post

I wish all anime had Queen's Blade level of fanservice

I support this post.

I'm imagining an upgraded Bodacious Space Pirates.

 

[dimb]

I support this post.

I'm imagining an upgraded Bodacious Space Pirates.

Sounds actually bodacious.

 

[Risette]

The earth would collapse in on itself if something Fullmental Alchemist related ended well.

So the earth collapsed in on itself when the first series ended?

 

[Theonik]

The earth would collapse in on itself if something Fullmental Alchemist related ended well.

Question is, was Brotherhood an improvement here or a step down. I have only seen the original FMA but surely the ending can't be worse. Hell it's supposed to foll the Manga ending!
Edit:

So the earth collapsed in on itself when the first series ended?

Wait what? Good ending? FMA? What?

 

[Brazil]

Tasogare Otome x Amnesia 5

I've just noticed that they rarely show anyone but the main characters in scenes that aren't stills. The high school fair scene was so lazy it felt like the audio was ripped off a drama CD.

But they know what they're doing when it comes to "ghosts". I'm very fond of the way they play with the colors and ambients to create tension, then shatter it by showing the boring, ghost-less reality - like they just did in this episode when Okonogi and best girl Kirie are in the anatomical model room.

That was a fun Kirie-focused episode.

 

[Dresden]

Question is, was Brotherhood an improvement here or a step down. I have only seen the original FMA but surely the ending can't be worse. Hell it's supposed to foll the Manga ending!
Edit:

Wait what? Good ending? FMA? What?

It was a good ending, unless you're just completely against the idea of the

Spoiler

parallel world.

 

[Kagami]

You tell em, aibo.

Spoiler

Can I call you aibo

 

[Brazil]

Wait what? Good ending? FMA? What?

The original FMA has an amazing ending.

 

[survivor]

Manga ending was better than original so assuming Brotherhood didn't butcher it I'm gonna go with it.

 

[Hellsing321]

It was a good ending, unless you're just completely against the idea of the

Spoiler

parallel world.

Yeah the original series end was good. If you're counting Shambala as the ending then its really bad.

 

[Theonik]

It was a good ending, unless you're just completely against the idea of the

Spoiler

parallel world.

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I'm not against the parallel world as a concept but I hated how open-ended it was, no closure at all

 

[Cwarrior]

Question is, was Brotherhood an improvement here or a step down. I have only seen the original FMA but surely the ending can't be worse. Hell it's supposed to foll the Manga ending!
Edit:

Fma brotherhood ending is bad but it's one those rare times I would gladly take bad over the Incredible awful train of suffering the last one.

The reason Fma 1 ending being Incredible awful had little to do with

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parallel world.

but what lead up to it and it's execution.

 

[hosannainexcelsis]

The ending of the original FMA was better than Brotherhood's because it kept the focus squarely on the characters, and specifically on Ed and Al. The final arc of Brotherhood felt like there were way too many characters standing around doing nothing and it tried to expand the scope to a scale it couldn't sustain.

 

[Dedication Through Light]

Brotherhood's ending felt like a change of genre and became too much like something out of

Spoiler

ttgl, out of this world scale. It became too unrealistic for the story she was trying to tell

 

[firehawk12]

Brotherhood's inferiority to the original series is painfully clear during the early episodes, unfortunately. At least when it goes off and does its own thing you don't have to draw as many comparisons.

I'll never understand the hatred for Brotherhood, but I also have no interest in watching the original.

 

[dimb]

So the earth collapsed in on itself when the first series ended?

The Earth is safe. Out of nowhere plot bologna that doesn't fit in the grander story and had no real hints, clues, or lead up will never be acceptable. Unless you're also a Lost fan I guess.

I'll never understand the hatred for Brotherhood, but I also have no interest in watching the original.

I'm not expressing hatred. It does some interesting things and isn't without merit, but I simply hold the original in considerably higher regard.

 

[Jex]

I think they did it in that episode because everyone has already seen Cornelio's story so many times before... So they tried to keep it interesting.

I understand that, in principal at least, but all they do is make the show bad. Bad is different, I guess.