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Spring Anime 2012 II | Welcome Home Eureka
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Watch out. Google is watching
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Yuri gotta yuri!
Nope, the OP and ED changed that episode. Felt kind of premature, and I'll miss Guu no Ne or whatever the first ED is called.
Yeah, I remember reading the early portions of Phantom Lord and thinking "oh shit, this is it, FT's Arlong Park!" and then........the rest of the arc happened.
dakkumauji
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Silly enough, the anime is really bad at keeping at least the OP in tune with the current arc. Or enough where I remember it was still in the middle of one arc and the OP changed and started showcasing stuff from the next arc.
Yeah, there's entirely too much foreshadowing in the OPs for them to be changing this quickly. The majority of the 2nd OP was a lazy combination of stills and footage from episodes that had already aired, but out of what was newly-animated there was a ton of
Gajeel
those giant iron rods sticking out of the FT guild building
Dedication Through Light
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The OP is terrible with spoilers, even I already knew the source, I still like to be surprised. For the anime, I wish they would just give way more attention to their OP's. If they would only take a look at Naruto Shippuden ones or even Bleach ones to get an idea for how it should be done, and sound, for other shounen battle ones then I would be pleased.
Crash Station
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The OPs are weird as hell. They change mid-arc and spoils the next one. The 3rd OP spoils a certain character who was previously a villain joining Fairy Tail before even appearing as a villain.
Ultimadrago
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Black Lagoon: The Second Barrage 3 (Ep.15)
MightbeNSFW, maybe one of these kids ain't so bad! (Naw, concept is still annoying)
Hyperlinks w/ Spoilers and Bloody so might be NSFW
Femmeworth was right. It got betta!
Black Lagoon, Black Lagoon. This setup and execution was a solid. I grinned a Grinchy grin for this. It was satisfying to see that
The singing scene following was pretty stupid. I thought the kid was singing to a recording at first. Anyways, the professionalism between Balalaika and Dutch in regards to helping the little girl escape is just a treat.
They've been in the business for such a long time that they know mannerisms of business and the uselessness of temporary grudges when it comes down to instances of interception in views and work. In other words, Balalaika has just sent for the Lagoon boat to be sleeping with the fishes and Dutch understands her position perfectly without losing his cool. Business is business.
Rock on the other hand, let's his emotions get the best of him when hearing the kid's story. Blaming the world for being so cruel to this child. Benny, for the first time ever, shows his mentality that has grown in the world of gangsters and blood. He tells Rock in simple terms that lives are lived, not all have a happy ending, that's that.
Rock still has a lot to learn. Bring on the next episode, this one paid off in a good way!
The duo is at is again.
MightbeNSFW, maybe one of these kids ain't so bad! (Naw, concept is still annoying)
Hyperlinks w/ Spoilers and Bloody so might be NSFW
Femmeworth was right. It got betta!
The woman doesn't play...except when she does, then someone's dead.
Black Lagoon, Black Lagoon. This setup and execution was a solid. I grinned a Grinchy grin for this. It was satisfying to see that
brat get what was coming.
The singing scene following was pretty stupid. I thought the kid was singing to a recording at first. Anyways, the professionalism between Balalaika and Dutch in regards to helping the little girl escape is just a treat.
They've been in the business for such a long time that they know mannerisms of business and the uselessness of temporary grudges when it comes down to instances of interception in views and work. In other words, Balalaika has just sent for the Lagoon boat to be sleeping with the fishes and Dutch understands her position perfectly without losing his cool. Business is business.
Rock on the other hand, let's his emotions get the best of him when hearing the kid's story. Blaming the world for being so cruel to this child. Benny, for the first time ever, shows his mentality that has grown in the world of gangsters and blood. He tells Rock in simple terms that lives are lived, not all have a happy ending, that's that.
Rock still has a lot to learn. Bring on the next episode, this one paid off in a good way!
I actually laughed when they introduced what seemed like a blatant shikamaru (naruto) clone, right down to the haircut and shadow moves
That's a pretty good way of describing it, and Production IG did a pretty great job of it (and whilst I like Welcome to the Space Show, they certainly did it better than A1 Pictures).
It's really kind of depressing to see further evidence that there's just no audience for original theatrical anime content, regardless of quality, these days.
Bamboo Blade 3
This woman's dedication to her man is admirable to say the least.
"I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over a very long relationship. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my boyfriend go now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you."
This woman's dedication to her man is admirable to say the least.
Between this and all of the shit in Toei shows, I just have to assume that Japanese viewers must like being spoiled. What other explanation could there possibly be?
Oh yeah, the guy from the Lullaby arc. I googled Shikamaru and the resemblance is fairly uncanny.
But there is. It just has to be from Studio Ghibli.
Yeah, but I assumed that exception would be taken as a given.
It's going to be curious to see how the new Hosoda movie does.
Zetman 04
Well that fight turned into a modern day Monster Girl Quest pretty fast. It's obvious that more could be done with the source material, but this just isn't really doing a lot for me. Maybe characters would connect better if things were less rushed, but as it is everyone seems very isolated from each other.
Well that fight turned into a modern day Monster Girl Quest pretty fast. It's obvious that more could be done with the source material, but this just isn't really doing a lot for me. Maybe characters would connect better if things were less rushed, but as it is everyone seems very isolated from each other.
Yeah, so far so good. Would you say that there's a point where the quality just jumps exponentially or is this one of those good-as-a-whole shows?
Jex
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I can't really think of an impressively directed episode in the White Fox shows that I have watched. I can think of a number of average episodes, a few terrible ones, but nothing that good. They seem to lack the talent.
Katanagatari Episode 4?
Jex
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I like that episode and you're right, it's above average.
Why would you do that to yourself?
Femmeworth
Banned
The furry apocalypse is really coming.
hosannainexcelsis
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People complain about otaku killing anime, but it's not like the mainstream audiences are helping much when you have cases like this.
Even when their recent output has been comparatively subpar... sigh.
Jex
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The fact that they done that with numerous BD releases seems to be a tacit way of saying 'the level of animation and detail we put in certain scenes are so bad that they must be completely trashed'. Of course, corrections for home release are common in anime, but SHAFT like to the got that extra step.
Ultimadrago
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The furry apocalypse is really coming.
You didn't notice the props I gave you on my Black Lagoon review, nakama. ;S
Jex
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Not even Ghibli can make everything successful. I mean, My Neighbors the Yamadas and all that.
The problem is you have to wade through the first 3 eps to get to it or else it loses meaning. Luckily, you're able to skip everything that comes after.
Their new strategy is to stick Hayao Miyazaki's name on everything. HEY GUYS HE WROTE THE SCRIPT!
There's always purpose in arguing.
I don't have a problem with any of the performance scenes so far.
Anyway I rewatched the two performance scenes and other than the piano hands, most of it is clearly hand-drawn. Probably rotoscoped/references, but that's a very old traditional technique in of itself.
Jex
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Toy trains have more weight and momentum.
Wait, Katanagatari is bad? I was planning on watching it one of these days this summer and I thought it was well received.
Its not bad. I'd even say it was "good". Its just that Episode 4 is head and shoulders above all the other episodes in quality that it sticks out like a sore thumb.
Jex
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Google owns everyone now and is making the world a safer, fluffier place. Just wait till they save anime.
You'd think some journalists would be kind enough to write some articles how about google is changing the whole intent. Or, perhaps they already have and I've just missed it.
Gotta lift them weights. I figure there's probably stuff that happened but it would be too time consuming for them to stray at all from the narrow path each character has been set down.
Jex
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Well, that about wraps it up for anime films. Unless you're Hosoda or Miyazaki.
Femmeworth
Banned
Eureka Seven Ep. 4
Good god, this episode had some really bad off-model faces. D: This was a good episode conceptually, but the execution was rather poor.
Good god, this episode had some really bad off-model faces. D: This was a good episode conceptually, but the execution was rather poor.
Crash Station
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They skipped his most important development arc!
Jex
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Never compromise!
Ultimadrago
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That first faec, yikes.
hosannainexcelsis
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When it comes to how pianists have traditionally been portrayed in anime, yes, please compromise.
Would you say it's worth checking out what they skipped if I'm not really all that interested in the characters or story?
What I really mean is that I read
orgies are involved
Jex
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That's a fairly apt summary of Code Geass.
chickdigger802
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Toriko 19
Terry <3
I guess wolves are omnivore in this world?
Terry <3
I guess wolves are omnivore in this world?
Crash Station
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VERY involved.
Anyway, I can't really base how interested you'd be in it off of your opinions on the anime. Even the first episode changed a billion things. The basic setting is the same, but the events and character relationships are very different. I couldn't even list them all off the top of my head.
I personally love the manga and the character development, something that barely exists in the anime version. I actually cared about them which lead to a great deal of tension in some very bizarre yet alluring situations. The arc that was cut is my favorite one and it was really the point where I considered the series amazing. Obviously YMMV, but I think I'd recommend it to most fans of action series.
And for a few more words of encouragement, it doesn't take very long to read. There were quite a few chapters I was able to knock out in 2 minutes. Of course some are dialogue-heavy, making a quick read impossible, but most go by very quickly. It's a very consumable manga.
Jex
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I don't really know if it's a fact at all, considering most of everything Gundam is bad. I don't really see an advantage that one particular continuity has over the other.
Hellsing321
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Some men just want to watch themselves burn.
Jex
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Fake anime for 3D hipsters.
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