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Spring Anime 2012 III | AITAKATTA YES!
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I watched all of it except the final episode, I just didn't give a shit at all that point to know how it will end. The premise was cool but it had ugly CG, uninteresting characters, and just unmemorable at the end of the day.
Chet Rippo
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Chet Rippo
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It's Pokemon, so I'm sure there are plenty of merchandise of them.
firehawk12
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Why anime.
mmmeeeeeeeeehhhhhhhhh
aren't you forgetting Fractale and Guilty Crown?
Nope. I didn't even make it as far into [C] as I did either of those.
firehawk12
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At least say it's because of Kobayashi.
me too, I just wish there was something else to the show.
firehawk12
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Who's putting this out here?
hosannainexcelsis
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Funimation.
firehawk12
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Gawd. They're going to waste money dubbing it too, I suppose.
Dragoon En Regalia
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Well: we won't know how much time would have passed between this series and, presumably, the first series until, maybe, the final episode. Who knows if its connected at all anyway!
All I know is that the first series is still better, and still more interesting to talk about in an analytical context. Keep watching that at least!
If they really wanted to release a failed series like this then I wish they would have released something classy like Tatami Galaxy instead.
Crash Station
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Sket Dance 62
Who doesn't love a good body switch arc?
I imagine this is what a certain scene in the OP alluded to, so I'm excite.
Who doesn't love a good body switch arc?
I imagine this is what a certain scene in the OP alluded to, so I'm excite.
You don't have to worry about that, they've licensed Tatami Galaxy.
hosannainexcelsis
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For streaming, but there's no word about any physical release.
Sailor Moon S 117
Ikuhara ep!
Uh wow, Professor Tomoe
was one of the better gags in the series. I think I was expecting something serious from this episode whereas I was blessed by Ikuhara with something hilarious. Best Pink Sugar Heart Attack? I'd say so.
It never occurred to me until this episode that Tomoe's face always in shadow along with the other members of the Death Busters helped put the current antagonist front and center when they were fully lit.
It's been a fine day for stumbling onto the sources of .gifs I see here and there.
Ikuhara ep!
Uh wow, Professor Tomoe
playing Twister or at least some analogue of it
It never occurred to me until this episode that Tomoe's face always in shadow along with the other members of the Death Busters helped put the current antagonist front and center when they were fully lit.
It's been a fine day for stumbling onto the sources of .gifs I see here and there.
I hope that Monica Rial is practicing shouting PERVERT!, she's going to have to say it several thousand times over the course of the show, after all.
But it's looking less likely that it will get a physical release at this point.
I hope the series gets picked up by a different company just like how NIS released House of Five Leaves even though Funimation had the streaming rights.
Ah true. Odd, as I'm sure I'm not the only one that would have liked to have seen it dubbed.
Attention all Australians: over the last month or so, Madman has been revealing the results of a "Top 20 Anime of All Time (that Madman has released)" poll they ran on their website, and only now has the full list finally been assembled:
Once again, only titles that Madman has legitimately released were eligible.
oh god why did you have to remind me of that character
firehawk12
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Pfff. Maybe this goes to show that dubbing anime probably costs nothing and is just a part of the marketing costs.
Dragoon En Regalia
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Which Astro Boy? 1980s or 1963, hardcore old-school stuff? Either way, I'm disappointed with NGE ranking so high.
hosannainexcelsis
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I doubt there's an English voice actor who could replicate Shintaro Asanuma's rapid-fire delivery. Not to mention how incredibly difficult it'd be to translate his monologues.
Dragoon En Regalia
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It'd be a tough job. A really-tough job, and it's just not going to sound like the original or anything similar, no matter how much you try. The English language isn't as articulate and flourished, for starters.
Crash Station
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Would have been a much better list of friggin Black Butler wasn't on it.
The subtitles script, with some tuning, could work for the dub script. Finding an actor might require Funi to hire someone but I've been hearing some rumors that they've hired a new guy for upcoming dubs so I don't think it's a lost cause. Edit: Not that I'm implying Tatami Galaxy will suddenly get a home release as a result or anything like that.
hosannainexcelsis
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Gintama is mostly an episodic comedy, but extended serious arcs do eventually occur. The first big one begins at episode 58, though there are a couple shorter ones before that.
Crash Station
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There is a very loose overarching plot that has had maybe 4 episodes maximum contribute to it (beyond plot thread introductions of course). Probably my biggest complaint about the series.
The first real serious arc happens around the 60s I think. But they never last very long unfortunately.
Retcon: or 58 I guess.
hosannainexcelsis
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I'm glad that Gintama doesn't focus too heavily on an overarching plot or drag out its serious arcs very long. Otherwise it'd fall prey to the terrible pacing that plagues most shounen adaptations.
Thanks. Seems like I have a bit to go. When it gets serious, I think they do it really well. I do understand that's not the focus of the series, but I kind of get worn out on an anime if nothing is actually happening to draw me in.
No, I'm not missing the point. When there are 20-30 HD images embedded into a post, it's no longer about "making a point" but just image spamming. It makes it difficult to load on certain devices, and depending on the size of the images it can be a huge memory drain. If there is an insistence on using tons of images for impressions, they shoul put more effort into using 360p thumbnails instead, with a click-through to a HD version if they want. Abusing the quote tag to make HD images appear smaller and then spamming 20 of them in a row is actually making it hard for me to use the thread. Hence I am complaining both as a mod and as a user.
If people do the same thing in any other thread I read frequently, I also complain about it and I make them stop. I've done it on Gaming and Off-Topic. Most people aren't assholes about it. But somehow the people here seem to think that this is the "right" way to post impression because they're used to anime-blog culture, which I find just as vapid as 3 word impressions.
Niiiiiice. I'm going to grow up to be a fujoshi!! ^_^
Crash Station
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There's a difference between being drawn out and being given enough time to flesh out the conflict. Gintama is frustrating because it doesn't do the latter very well, ultimately making things not matter in the long run.
I have to agree with duckroll on this. Any time someone posts a shit ton of images on a page and I load it on my cell phone it consumes a fuck ton of memory and at times can even cause the browser to crash. I'm fine with people posting images too, as I do it myself, but there's no reason to post double digit numbers of them on a forum post.
hosannainexcelsis
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Except for the overly-long Yoshiwara arc, Gintama takes exactly the amount of time it needs to make its serious arcs impactful - it sets up the situation efficiently and gets to the heart of the conflict and the importance it has to the characters under focus in a timely manner. I'd much rather these localized arcs than an overarching plot which feels like it's spinning its wheels episode after episode. Admittedly my experience with these very long battle shounen is minimal, but feeling that nothing important was happening each episode was the main thing that turned me off from watching Dragon Ball Z as a child.
Femmeworth
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Blame the market. At least it got a Blu-ray release, unlike Aoi Hana.
Upotte!! 8
Weakest episode so far. Aside from Galil and the zombie makeup stuff, it was like a series of unfunny skits preying on the teacher's ignorance of the school when he should be far more adjusted* by now. There wasn't even any of the shock humor the show excels at. One could skip this episode entirely and not miss anything.
*As adjusted as one can be in a school of anthro guns.
Weakest episode so far. Aside from Galil and the zombie makeup stuff, it was like a series of unfunny skits preying on the teacher's ignorance of the school when he should be far more adjusted* by now. There wasn't even any of the shock humor the show excels at. One could skip this episode entirely and not miss anything.
*As adjusted as one can be in a school of anthro guns.
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