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[Dragoon En Regalia]

Maybe I'm using the wrong term there but sometimes it seems like stuff is happening too quickly and for no apparent reason. What stood out to me was the entire scene where Pycal leaps from the plane to land on Lupin's car. If I remember right he's on the plane, then on the roof, then the next cut he's inside the car with a gun to Lupin's head. There was a suddenness to it I found rather offputting. It very well could be it was intentional to help enhance Pycal's ethereal qualities or it might have been a matter of animation time or budget constraints. I couldn't say as I'm giving it more thought now than I did previously however my stance on this isn't horribly rigid though and might change by the time I've worked through the show.

I know what you're talking about, and Osumi can get a little hectic at times with his directing-cum-editing. But it's sequences like those that let the viewer fill in the blanks with more intensity—he certainly treats his audience as the intelligent, genuinely-immersed viewers they probably are for a show like Lupin III. That quick-cutting and often-times non-linear storytelling is one big reason I like the Osumi episodes, as they allow Osumi to get straight to the character scenes quickly and with brevity. He doesn't have a straightforward approach because he came from a puppet theatre background, and this figures into his directing approach not just for Lupin, but for Moomin and the other early-TMS stuff he did (plus Hashire Melos! many, many years later).

Trust me: the first episode felt rushed in areas, but the Osumi stuff just gets better and more consistent overall the further you go.

 

[Articalys]

We roll onwards, as always. Round 2, Day 2:

http://imgur.com/a/3R1SV

 

[Dresden]

Unfortunately, due to budgetary concerns MAPPA was unable to produce episode six of Apollon, and a live-action skit featuring Watanabe meeting all the other Watanabes in the industry in a cosplay cafe was aired instead.

Hypothetically, I did like that scene where Kaoru is playing My Favorite Things on the piano as Sentaro barges in discordantly with the drums, if it had existed. Unfortunately that would have been followed by boys with fangs, the Beatles (killing anime like they killed music), and a rather odd end where, if I had watched it, I would have been disappointed by the events that had transpired.

 

[duckroll]

Unfortunately, due to budgetary concerns MAPPA was unable to produce episode six of Apollon, and a live-action skit featuring Watanabe meeting all the other Watanabes in the industry in a cosplay cafe was aired instead.

Hypothetically, I did like that scene where Kaoru is playing My Favorite Things on the piano as Sentaro barges in discordantly with the drums, if it had existed. Unfortunately that would have been followed by boys with fangs, the Beatles (killing anime like they killed music), and a rather odd end where, if I had watched it, I would have been disappointed by the events that had transpired.

Welcome to our world. Next up: The best episode in the series!

 

[Jex]

The difference is that someone finds those jokes funny. Either that or they've been trained to laugh on command.

Lots of sitcoms have hired 'professional laughers' from time to time to give their shows that edge.

 

[Dresden]

Welcome to our world. Next up: The best episode in the series!

Been waiting for this one ever since I saw the gifs.

 

[Jex]

Unfortunately, due to budgetary concerns MAPPA was unable to produce episode six of Apollon, and a live-action skit featuring Watanabe meeting all the other Watanabes in the industry in a cosplay cafe was aired instead.

Hypothetically, I did like that scene where Kaoru is playing My Favorite Things on the piano as Sentaro barges in discordantly with the drums, if it had existed. Unfortunately that would have been followed by boys with fangs, the Beatles (killing anime like they killed music), and a rather odd end where, if I had watched it, I would have been disappointed by the events that had transpired.

You might as well stop watching now, it doesn't improve.

(this is a lie)

 

[Chet Rippo]

We roll onwards, as always. Round 2, Day 2:

http://imgur.com/a/3R1SV

Mio~!

 

[Uchip]

Lots of sitcoms have hired 'professional laughers' from time to time to give their shows that edge.

thats what laughter really is
the sound of affirmation or an attempt towards
idiots have an innate predisposition to react to it even when its entirely fake

 

[firehawk12]

Lots of sitcoms have hired 'professional laughers' from time to time to give their shows that edge.

It's the number one rated show in the country. They could charge people to come and laugh for them if they wanted to.

 

[Femmeworth]

Casshern Sins Ep. 13

It was kind of nice to finally get some answers.

Spoiler

I'm not going to bother questioning why Casshern didn't think to stab himself with his own hands sooner.

 

[Jex]

It's the number one rated show in the country. They could charge people to come and laugh for them if they wanted to.

Sounds like there's something wrong with the country

 

[madp]

Sounds like there's something wrong with the country

We have a forum devoted to that very issue.

 

[Femmeworth]

Sounds like there's something wrong with the country

There are a lot of things wrong with this country. :\

 

[wonzo]

We roll onwards, as always. Round 2, Day 2:

http://imgur.com/a/3R1SV

shiori, yuno, haqua, holo, mugi, ui

 

[Jex]

Okay, who leaked Colony Drop's old email correspondence?

Shh, don't give the game away.

 

[Ultimadrago]

Oniisama e... 15

Well, someone's a control freak.

 

[hosannainexcelsis]

Oniisama e 11-15

Suffering is like potato chips - once you pop, you just can't stop.

 

[Jex]

Moe and Mecha: Killing anime since before the dawn of time.

Well, the 60's were the decade with the best anime so I guess that's true.

 

[Ultimadrago]

We roll onwards, as always. Round 2, Day 2:

http://imgur.com/a/3R1SV

And the sweet eating well of wisdom rolls over the competition again.

Excellent.

 

[Jex]

Young Animator Training Project? Why is Yoshinari involved? He doesn't need any training.

Looking for a way to secure that funding!

 

[madp]

Oniisama e 11-15:

MA CHERIE LA POUPEE
MA CHERIE LA POUPEE
MA CHERIE LA POUPEE

 

[Jex]

I dunno, seems very tame with the merchandise and stuff. Not enough figures, games and other stuff.

Right, it's just some wallpapers and pictures. I found it pretty tame, which just goes to go show how far down the deep end I am. It probably didn't even cost him more than he earns in a month, which is the measuring yard I like to use when I consider what insane otaku doe with their cash.

 

[hosannainexcelsis]

Right, it's just some wallpapers and pictures. I found it pretty tame, which just goes to go show how far down the deep end I am.

I just question why he wants to live in a room with so much ugly.

 

[Jex]

AX2012:

1:00pm to 2:45pm - Fate Zero Finale Screening & Q&A Featuring: Ei Aoki, Hikaru Kondo & Rikiya Koyama

I hope this means the final episode is an hour long just like the first episode! Oh boy!

I pray that length is the only feature that the finale shares with the opening episode.

I just question why he wants to live in a room with so much ugly.

I don't know either. He could at least have a better taste in character designs. It doesn't seem much to ask.

 

[Uchip]

I pray that length is the only feature that the finale shares with the opening episode.

final episode will be a lengthy debate between archer and rider on what makes a king

 

[firehawk12]

I pray that length is the only feature that the finale shares with the opening episode.

30 minutes of talking around in circles. Literally.

 

[Dresden]

Apollon - 07

Great episode with a triumphant conclusion. It's easy to forget about the inane romances or the contrived setups or how plot only seems to move forward with someone eavesdropping on someone else when all the development of the past two episodes (albeit the last one being mythical, existing only in that space where bad shows that never existed ala DtBs2 go) culminate in this indian tiger hunting fashion.

 

[Narag]

30 minutes of talking around in circles. Literally.

If it was the Servants doing that rather than the Masters, I'm all for it.

 

[Dresden]

If it was the Servants doing that rather than the Masters, I'm all for it.

I would settle for just Gilgamesh being sexy while baiting Kirei all day.

 

[Narag]

I would settle for just Gilgamesh being sexy while baiting Kirei all day.

Even better.

 

[Uchip]

if gilgamesh owned all of the worlds treasures
does that mean he found One Piece?

 

[Dresden]

Even better.

Just imagining all the unbuttoned collars as they circle each other is making me all hot and bothered.

if gilgamesh owned all of the worlds treasures
does that mean he found One Piece?

No, because one piece is nakama.

 

[Jex]

I would settle for just Gilgamesh being sexy while baiting Kirei all day.

Stop spoiling the BD extras.

 

[madp]

if gilgamesh owned all of the worlds treasures
does that mean he found One Piece?

YAH YO YAH YOOOOOOOOOOOO
GRAIL, DON'T GIVE IT UP ARCHER
GRAIL, DON'T GIVE IT UP RIDER
GRAIL, DON'T GIVE IT UP SABER
GRAIL, DON'T GIVE GIVE IT UP GIVE IT UP GIVE IT UP GIV-fuck it, I don't have the energy for this tonight.

 

[Uchip]

YAH YO YAH YOOOOOOOOOOOO
GRAIL, DON'T GIVE IT UP ARCHER
GRAIL, DON'T GIVE IT UP RIDER
GRAIL, DON'T GIVE IT UP SABER
GRAIL, DON'T GIVE GIVE IT UP GIVE IT UP GIVE IT UP GIV-fuck it, I don't have the energy for this tonight.

you're a bad person

 

[Ultimadrago]

No, because one piece is nakama.

True.
Though if I was a member of the Straw Hat crew, this revelation would piss me off.

All that pain just to learn that friends are good? 
Aw, hell naw, son.

you're a bad person

Bad for not finishing the goodness till the end!

 

[Dresden]

True.
Though if I was a member of the Straw Hat crew, this revelation would piss me off.

This being the strawhats, I'm sure they'll be all like HAHAHAHA WE NAKAMA NOW before they do all the random shit their character traits demand.

 

[Jex]

For many a month, mankind has been seeking the answer to this most bewildering of questions left by the sages from Bioware. Now, the answer has finally been revealed:

Dragon Age: Dawn of the Seeker

(ドラゴンエイジ ブラッドメイジの聖戦 Dragon Age: Blood Mage no Seisen, lit. "Dragon Age: Crusade of the Blood Mages")

From the

Spoiler

ogre splitting in half the morbidly obese elf like a kinder surprise

to the

Spoiler

dragon suicide bombing itself to defeat the big bad

, Dawn of the Seeker is one of the most hilariously awful things I've seen in a long time. The bad CG might look bad enough in still frames but when combined with the truly awful animation and motion blurring, it transcends itself into a new level of bad CG that not even the new Berserk movie could possibly hope to touch. This is something that needs to be seen to be truly appreciated, and that's not even touching on the awful writing or the humorously bad ED songs!

Why have you done this to me. Now I will have a powerful urge to track this thing down and watch it

 

[Uchip]

True.
Though if I was a member of the Straw Hat crew, this revelation would piss me off.

All that pain just to learn that friends are good?
Aw, hell naw, son.

Unlikely
he referred to it as "my" treasure
not "your", so it would make no sense for it to be nakama

 

[duckroll]

What is One Piece and the Grail are one and the same?

 

[madp]

What is One Piece and the Grail are one and the same?

Then we can only speculate as to what Gol D. Roger's wish was.

Bad for not finishing the goodness till the end!

Okay, a little more, just for you.

This is how the story goes, we find out
There's a treasure in Fuyuki City, there's no doubt
The Servant whose eye is on it, he'll sing
I'll be King of Heroes, I'm gonna be king!

 

[Uchip]

Then we can only speculate as to what Gol D. Roger's wish was.

for the great pirate era D:
this is starting to make sense

 

[sleepykyo]

Why have you done this to me. Now I will have a powerful urge to track this thing down and watch it

Kind of like everyone in this thread rushes off to watch Code Geass, School Days and Yami?
After all, it can't be that bad. Yet it always is.

 

[Haly]

To revive the third magic obviously.

 

[duckroll]

for the great pirate era D:
this is starting to make sense

Yup. He created the Grand Line. Everything that exists is a result of his wish.

 

[Uchip]

Yup. He created the Grand Line. Everything that exists is a result of his wish.

watch as luffy wishes for meat

 

[madp]

Yup. He created the Grand Line. Everything that exists is a result of his wish.

 

[Dresden]

Mihawk vs Saber, who wins?

Can Archer hit Kizaru?

 

[Ultimadrago]

Okay, a little more, just for you.

This is how the story goes, we find out
There's a treasure in Fuyuki City, there's no doubt
The Servant whose eye is on it, he'll sing
I'll be King of Heroes, I'm gonna be king!