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Spring Anime 2012 III | AITAKATTA YES!
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Seeing your posts about first experiences with Japanese animation I remembered the boom that made diverse audiences (not only younger ones) united on the appreciation of that 'japanimation' on this country. Well, I saw things like Heidi, Girl of the Alps on TVE around 1987 (not their first emission of it in 1975 that made the series famous here), but that was completely different to the awakening of the conscious fandom provoked by the TV emission of AKIRA in 1991.
Keep in mind that this aired on a encrypted and pay television channel called Canal+ España (that shared at the time most of its schedule with Canal+ France, although adapted), and even then this kind of revelation spawned for the first time well established communities, willing to search for similar works while sharing video recordings of this and other movies on VHS or Betamax trying to incite new fans towards the cause. Fun and exciting times ahead after discovering something new for us.
Keep in mind that this aired on a encrypted and pay television channel called Canal+ España (that shared at the time most of its schedule with Canal+ France, although adapted), and even then this kind of revelation spawned for the first time well established communities, willing to search for similar works while sharing video recordings of this and other movies on VHS or Betamax trying to incite new fans towards the cause. Fun and exciting times ahead after discovering something new for us.
Hey! What if you end up liking more the pink jacket? Poor thing wants you to consider it...
K-ON 6!
It's taken me this long to realise that they attend an all-girls school, yep. And here we are at the zenith, the big live performance and it's pretty much over before it really begins, one song? ONE SONG! Sawako is beginning to creep me out now, what with the nurse and maid costumes amongst the outfits she had prepared for the gang, she has questionable motives.
It was a nice stylistic touch to portray the actual song via a music video, but it felt like they stole the moment away from the viewer somewhat. I mean, weve seen them practising and gradually improving, and you dont even get to see them play! I was surprised their performance went off without a hitch though; I was fully expecting something to go horribly wrong to keep that whole thing going a little longer. But in fairness, I guess there was this:
Silly Mio. I'd wager that set sail on a thousand pieces of fan-art. I will be sad when Yuis broken voice returns to normal in the next episode.
K-ON 7!
Well this all seems like a perfectly nice christmas par...oh my god! Sawako is a crazy-person! What a difference a couple of episodes make, she has suddenly transformed from a slightly offbeat adult influence to being a full on spinster. And on the subject of adults, I'm starting to find the lack of Yui's parents a little bit disconcerting; they don't really exist, do they? Who abandons their children on Christmas? A screenshot does not do justice as to just how sinister this scene feels without the offbeat singing that accompanies it.
This episode was so full of sentiment; I thought I'd have to use a spoon to get through it all. Maybe it was guilty of being saccharine with the Yui and Ui scenes, but it was still a nice couple of moments regardless. The compilation of Yui was funny mainly because thats the same trap I often fall into; I hate the wasteland of boredom that exists between Christmas and New Years.
K-ON 8!
Worst.Recruitment.Drive.Ever.
Events are hurtling forward with this series, its when you realize that months have passed since the beginning of the series that it becomes apparent just how lazy/bad the light-music club is. Its a little odd that they cant at least inflate their club numbers at least a little bit by now, and judging by the other clubs that were being promoted, like tea-drinking (which they do anyway), the light music club sounds damn amazing in comparison. But they do manage at least to drum up a little interest, and then swiftly destroy that by appearing like this:
Maybe Mio should have fallen over again...
Well my complaint about their last concert seems to have been heeded here because we got a proper performance at last.
Best.Song.Titles.Ever.
I've read so many divisive things about the inclusion of Azusa that I'm not quite sure what to expect from her introduction. She seems okay so far, not that there is much to go off, basically a Mio-lite then, sans the ridiculous shyness.
What the hell, did Ui not join? Way to letdown the family...
It's taken me this long to realise that they attend an all-girls school, yep. And here we are at the zenith, the big live performance and it's pretty much over before it really begins, one song? ONE SONG! Sawako is beginning to creep me out now, what with the nurse and maid costumes amongst the outfits she had prepared for the gang, she has questionable motives.
It was a nice stylistic touch to portray the actual song via a music video, but it felt like they stole the moment away from the viewer somewhat. I mean, weve seen them practising and gradually improving, and you dont even get to see them play! I was surprised their performance went off without a hitch though; I was fully expecting something to go horribly wrong to keep that whole thing going a little longer. But in fairness, I guess there was this:
Silly Mio. I'd wager that set sail on a thousand pieces of fan-art. I will be sad when Yuis broken voice returns to normal in the next episode.
K-ON 7!
Well this all seems like a perfectly nice christmas par...oh my god! Sawako is a crazy-person! What a difference a couple of episodes make, she has suddenly transformed from a slightly offbeat adult influence to being a full on spinster. And on the subject of adults, I'm starting to find the lack of Yui's parents a little bit disconcerting; they don't really exist, do they? Who abandons their children on Christmas? A screenshot does not do justice as to just how sinister this scene feels without the offbeat singing that accompanies it.
This episode was so full of sentiment; I thought I'd have to use a spoon to get through it all. Maybe it was guilty of being saccharine with the Yui and Ui scenes, but it was still a nice couple of moments regardless. The compilation of Yui was funny mainly because thats the same trap I often fall into; I hate the wasteland of boredom that exists between Christmas and New Years.
K-ON 8!
Worst.Recruitment.Drive.Ever.
Events are hurtling forward with this series, its when you realize that months have passed since the beginning of the series that it becomes apparent just how lazy/bad the light-music club is. Its a little odd that they cant at least inflate their club numbers at least a little bit by now, and judging by the other clubs that were being promoted, like tea-drinking (which they do anyway), the light music club sounds damn amazing in comparison. But they do manage at least to drum up a little interest, and then swiftly destroy that by appearing like this:
Maybe Mio should have fallen over again...
Well my complaint about their last concert seems to have been heeded here because we got a proper performance at last.
Best.Song.Titles.Ever.
I've read so many divisive things about the inclusion of Azusa that I'm not quite sure what to expect from her introduction. She seems okay so far, not that there is much to go off, basically a Mio-lite then, sans the ridiculous shyness.
What the hell, did Ui not join? Way to letdown the family...
New promo video for TARI TARI, with a preview of the OP song as well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmTKphUxHi8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmTKphUxHi8
I'm really glad to see you enjoying this!
The story I've heard for why they didn't animate the first concert seen, was that Kyoani was sick and tired of animating people playing musical instruments after doing the concert in Haruhi. (just another reason why Haruhi sucks.)
You think there was only a 1000 pieces of fanart from that scene? Muahahahaha...
The reason why Azunyan garners some dislike is that she really is just Mio MK. II, just with cat ears. She does get better in the second season, though.
As for the song titles, "My love is a stapler" apparently has a bit more meaning in Japanese, due to some naming conventions(?). Something like Hotchkiss being a big brand there, and so you can see the "kiss" part might mean more.
Anyway, at least someone here is watching good anime, keep up the good work.
nope
I'm really glad to see you enjoying this!
The story I've heard for why they didn't animate the first concert seen, was that Kyoani was sick and tired of animating people playing musical instruments after doing the concert in Haruhi. (just another reason why Haruhi sucks.)
You think there was only a 1000 pieces of fanart from that scene? Muahahahaha...
The reason why Azunyan garners some dislike is that she really is just Mio MK. II, just with cat ears. She does get better in the second season, though.
As for the song titles, "My love is a stapler" apparently has a bit more meaning in Japanese, due to some naming conventions(?). Something like Hotchkiss being a big brand there, and so you can see the "kiss" part might mean more.
Anyway, at least someone here is watching good anime, keep up the good work.
You... like K-On?
I don't know what to believe anymore
PdotMichael
Banned
PdotMichael
Banned
but look how happy she is.
I'm disappointed in you, cajun.
Looks a thousand times better than the usual haruhi stuff.
I've always been open about my like of K-on!
Nichijou is ok, haven't seen FMP, haven't seen whatever that bomba show they made a few years ago was, haven't seen a bunch of their stuff, really, it's just Haruhi that I despise.
Even better!
Dedication Through Light
Member
Already did, lol.
Kingdom ep 1/2?
First the visuals. The visuals were interesting. Most of the time the anime looked like those typical in engine type cutscenes for most rpgs of JPN. Which for some scenes worked well for action and what not (when there were not twenty identical bland ugly looking character models in line).
The worst scenes are whenever they are trying to pan around the characters in a field like above. Similarly it also looks pretty bad when they try to focus on environmental features, like grass blades look like they are from last gen games. I liked the visuals for fighting, and for some flat discussion in 2D scenes.
Pretty powerful start storywise. Hyou > Shin club. Powerful main characters with impressive skills. Only thing I don't like is thetheme but Im guessing they are switching from that with the revelation there.revenge
Will keep watching if it remainsemotionally intense, intellectually compelling with that political plot, and interesting visually
Kingdom 1
But now I've discovered something that has shaken me to the very core of my being. This is something that shouldn't exist and yet... why? What have we done to deserve this?
The only I thing I didnt like about the animation was just the panning shots with the akward grass, however for closeup fighting at least two on two or whatever its pretty cool, and the character look great in motion. And that 2D shot you had was awesome.
I hate browsing this thread on my old ass phone. There is always one or two pictures that bypasses my settings and crashes the browser
hooray for more boring card games
hooray for more boring card games
And there I was thinking that it was a K-ON! homage to begin with!
I can only imagine, but I appreciate how they subverted it.
Yeah, that seems pretty apparent. But in fairness, I seem to remember I was mocking Mugi for the first couple of episodes, and now she has grown on me, even with the little screen-time she gets.
I don't understand that segregation, it isn't like K-ON! fans were going to take over this thread or something... some concrete moments of conversation about it are always inevitable when that work is related to others we talk about in here.
Theonik
Member
K-On! GIF spam silliness and discussion of the show in the context of this thread and the anime industry at large are two different things!
I know. I said I don't mind it.
Yeah, it's the duckroll-free thread.
Theonik
Member
wwwwwwwwwww
(Am I doing this right?
chickdigger802
Banned
kids on slope 9
yay... stuff is not so dire again. Something about this pic urks me though.
yay... stuff is not so dire again. Something about this pic urks me though.
What happened to the cat? It was like 10x bigger in the previous scene
Ultimadrago
Member
Sengoku Collection 10
Well, some fighting and underboob instantly made it not one of the more boring episodes. That's not to say it was worthwhile either.
Also,
Triforce Maid Attack
Well, some fighting and underboob instantly made it not one of the more boring episodes. That's not to say it was worthwhile either.
Also,
lolfriendshipNTR.
The artwork in that show is really all over the place.
Well it doesn't look as bad as I thought it would.
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
ANIME IS NOT DEAD AFTER ALL
Ultimadrago
Member
Yes (except for the "being in IRC" part!)
Woah, that's awesome, and no kickstarter was required!
Theonik
Member
Ultimadrago
Member
Pointing your finger at a five-year old. You should be ashamed!
With a mouse-looking avatar, it's not the same...
24 hours to go, my faithful friends, before we set sail for The Sea at the World's Edge!
Hi-res screens without watermark here: http://moca-news.net/article/20120608/201206082233a/01/
Hi-res screens without watermark here: http://moca-news.net/article/20120608/201206082233a/01/
One of those screens is going to give Branduil a brain seizure.
dakkumauji
Member
Slice of life everywhere. It doesn't look that bad, but even after reading the plot, I'm not that compelled to watch it.
Go_Ly_Dow
Member
OH MY GOD
I HAVE NO IDEA HOW THIS GOT THE GO AHEAD, BUT I'M NOT COMPLAINING.
the pv looks nice and vibrant, although i'm expecting someone to point out how the show is a cg mess via screens at a late date!
Go_Ly_Dow
Member
24 hours to go, my faithful friends, before we set sail for The Sea at the World's Edge!
Hi-res screens without watermark here: http://moca-news.net/article/20120608/201206082233a/01/
One of those screens is going to give Branduil a brain seizure.
loving the translated description once again
Sankarea 10
I found this episode to be very engrossing because I find Rea's father to be the most entertaining character of the show. I think it made me realize just how uninteresting all the other characters have been by comparison. I think I felt a hardened tinge of disappointment as
I found this episode to be very engrossing because I find Rea's father to be the most entertaining character of the show. I think it made me realize just how uninteresting all the other characters have been by comparison. I think I felt a hardened tinge of disappointment as
the show transitioned back to Rea in the final minutes.
Glorious.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
WHAT THE FUCK. lol
First, this must have been some kind of weird split cour deal, because the first season Fractaled like a mofo.
Second, I can't wait to see some delicious, delicious
tears
Good, good.
hosannainexcelsis
Member
Chihayafuru has sold better than the first season of Emma: A Victorian Romance, and that got a second season two years later. There's no telling what will happen.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
The other explanation is that this is a prestige project. Which makes me think that it'll be a 13 episode series, simply because they can't possibly lose money on another two-cour project that no one will buy because of three and four episode karuta playing arcs.
Apparently the manga got a big boost from the anime, so it may be worth it to the publishers/sponsors to do another animated advertisement for it.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
I suppose we all knew that anime is glorified marketing for the real property anyway.Apparently the manga got a big boost from the anime, so it may be worth it to the publishers/sponsors to do another animated advertisement for it.
Which begs the question, is it really cheaper to make an anime as opposed to a 10 episode live action show with pretty idorus?
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