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Spring Anime 2012 III | AITAKATTA YES!
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Ultimadrago
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It's alright. I'm still your fan, Lafiel.
hosannainexcelsis
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You can definitely do something about the ED - skip it, and have credits play over the closing scenes of the episode, or even over black with different music. Quite a few shows have done that.
Classy bitches be crazy
Dragoon En Regalia
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Zeta Gundam's OP was ruined by J-Pop. It's so much better with the orchestral theme itself, insomuch that it gave me hopes for a serious, well-developed TV series that wouldn't be filled with Tominotropes. So epic.
firehawk12
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Eh, they already did that for the finale. Either they didn't want to do it twice in a row or there was some reason why they didn't think it would matter.
Of course, it's only tone whiplash for the single episode anyway, so it doesn't really matter in the long run.
AIJOU YUJOU
Jex
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Sounds like a classic sunk-cost fallacy has trapped you into watching a show you don't really care about until it ends. It's unfortunate how often this affects people in this thread - it's okay to drop a show, even if you've already watched most of it!
Jex
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I think you and I are the only two people on GAF who share this exact opinion. No, really, I was eviscerated for mentioning that in the Gundam thread.
Sometimes you can deliberately score a music with the 'wrong' music to great effect, as the End of Evangelion demonstrates. That Rebuild fails so badly in an attempt to recreate that same atmosphere speaks volumes about how little they seem to understand what made the original good.
I hate having dropped entries on MAL!
Makoto said:
Says Makoto.
Kids on a Slope - 09
Well damn, I feel a little bit of a terrible human being when my thought process went in the way of
Yurika was going to jump infront of the train,
Ultimadrago
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Tsuritama 9
Her name is Koko, she is loco I said "Oh no"
Seriously, I may not watch Jormungand, but this reference never grows old.
Jex
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Well, if we took eavesdropping out of fiction then we'd have to throw away hundreds of years of stories! It's popularity is truly timeless.
I'm of the same opinion actually. I was disappointed when I finally heard the real thing as it felt less appropriate. But what do I know? I like the Richie Kotzen version of the 0083 theme better too.
Dragoon En Regalia
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Pretty much. It's a real shame that they couldn't even match the original, let alone make it better.
Pop music would fit 0083 to a tee. Lovey-dovey stories like that deserve something as awfully-fitting.
Jex
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But the 0083 OP is the one good thing about 0083!
It's been months and months since season one, could you guys please stop wailing on Assassin?
You are welcome to believe that Fujiko is a strong series, but it's tripping up all over itself. It is hard to tear in too much before it ends, but there are introductions to inconsistencies now that are throwing me for a loop.
What are the true effects of the "dizzy dizzy" drug? This is something that the show itself doesn't seem able to keep straight, and it receives a new purpose in this episode in which it suddenly alters the mind in a very specific way. Where was this effect on the cult in episode one?
Character personalities and motives are simply non-existent or cast off to the side frequently in service of loosely pushing forward a plot seemingly irrelevant to the bulk of the cast. Much of the reasoning revealed in the most recent episode indicates that the
flat and cold nature of every character will all be summed up in an ultimately meaningless fashion. The series is helplessly lost between being a Lupin show and working as a pet art project. The two are at odds, particularly when it comes to the episodic and over the top nature of Lupin, and the emotionless overarching plot that views its characters as little more than tools to push an agenda down the viewer's collective throats.
hosannainexcelsis
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I'm proud of my dropped list on MAL.
I thought the same thing!
Duckroll would have been so pleased. But I suppose what actually happened worked just as well.
Jex
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Did you like, run out of good anime to watch or something?
How do you even sleep at night, after writing posts like these?
Theonik
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Well you can, just use a different song for that episode's ED. I seem to recall some shows doing that. And Mawaru Penguindrum
varies its EDs towards the end of the show for each episode with lyrics matching somewhat to the events of that episode
dakkumauji
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Medaka Box 10
So much talking. Talk, talk, talk.
Where's the fighting.
So much talking. Talk, talk, talk.
Where's the fighting.
hosannainexcelsis
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Welcome to Nisio Isin!
dakkumauji
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Last three minutes doesn't make up for the other 20 minutes of talking!
Jex
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It's not often that you find a writer deliberately trying to make an 'annoying' or insufferable character one of the most important characters in the series as a whole. The only time I can ever think of it actually working out is in The Twelve Kingdoms but that's only because that series had amazing character development. I can't say the same for Haruhi.
The list of things more fatiguing than twenty minutes of Nisio monologues is pretty small.
It's usually dialogue though.
I almost began to formulate an argument that the scene feels catered toward modern otaku sensibilities by downplaying the raw brutality of the scene and emphasizing sappy manufactured
waifu-centric
I have over a hundred, which puts me in the 99th percentile of members with dropped series. Feels good.
Jex
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This happens with an extremely large number of anime with 'interesting premises', which is one the reasons I find it hard to give out 'bonus points' to a show for simply trying something new.
Ultimadrago
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Jex
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It sounds like watching the show is a genuinely painful experience for you - why do you continue?
I actually think its far more likely that the scene doesn't work because of the general incompetence on the part of the people who put it together.
hosannainexcelsis
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You need to undrop Trapeze.
Premises are easy. Following through on them is not.
Jex
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That's pretty impressive, I imagine that I have only dropped about 40 or so shows. Then again, I haven't really watched that much anime yet.
I felt Nisio's influence was completely absent in the portion of the series that I watched, so as a whore for long incoherent rambling, I'm suddenly slightly interested in this episode of Medaka Box!
Ultimadrago
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The prize?
firehawk12
Subete no aware
An animesuki account.
Jex
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Being less of an obsessive otaku, I presume?
firehawk12
Subete no aware
That's true!
Ultimadrago
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Excellent. I would ensure to bump the dead Nichijou thread weekly.
Jex
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Oh, I know. I've dropped a few hows this season already:
Sankarea
Hyouka
Upotte
so adding a few more to that list wouldn't be too painful.
I really need to sit down and write proper reviews for Emma Season 2 and Shiguri as well - I am falling too far behind.
I understand that they have more intelligent and indepth discussions of sakuga.
Ultimadrago
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I can confirm that they indeed do display more in-depth AKB0048 discussion
and duckroll tolerance!
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Not daily?
Ultimadrago
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Well, I'd have to crawl before I sprint, etc, etc.
Less green boxes under my username and all.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
I don't think I ever understood what that meant.
Kids on the Slope 9 - I think this episode would have been really good if brother jun was a actual character. The emotional impact his conclusion had was completely eh, because most of us really don't give a shit about him at this point. Aside from that, I really enjoyed the episode, some of the musical cues were pretty damn good, and it had a awesome performance at the end which is always a plus for a show like this!
Jex
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The way I am reading this seems to imply that you haven't seen The Castle of Cagliostro - is this correct?
I actually had a life when I was in college, so I had far lower tolerance for bad anime!
Yes, I wouldn't disagree with this. It's just tempting to reflexively blame "the moe" whenever an adaptation crashes and burns compared to the original.
As much as I loved Mononoke, Trapeze didn't do much for me when I originally watched it. I'd like to think that I would enjoy it if I gave it a second chance.
Most of my dropped series were dropped after only one or two episodes and came from a period in which I was much more unforgiving with first impressions. I could probably watch half of the series on my dropped list to completion with little or no difficulty today if I wished to do so.
Tsuritama - 09
Everything is coming along nicely, and it doesn't drag itself down with dramatic moments at all, despite this being a largely lighthearted and colourful show... well I say colourful, this episode was mostly during the nighttime, to reflect it's rather dark end of the world direction it's heading in.
Everything is coming along nicely, and it doesn't drag itself down with dramatic moments at all, despite this being a largely lighthearted and colourful show... well I say colourful, this episode was mostly during the nighttime, to reflect it's rather dark end of the world direction it's heading in.
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