My little sister? can't possibly be this cute!
Uh, a lopsided episode. The antics with the loli weren't bad, nothing new really. Random references here and there, but it was a lot less than normal I would say. The metal slime beatdown was fun-ish, and the chase scene was a chance to show off the other ignored characters of the show.
Didn't like Mahiro suddenly hitting puberty nor the overly dramatic cliffhanger. Why even bother with a hint of a conclusion. This show should just be tossing out references left and right not throwing drama into the mix.
As Articalys posted in the manga thread, recent mangaf sweetheart Magiwill be getting an anime. Should be awesome. Hope a studio that can handle long-running shows gets it.
As Articalys posted in the manga thread, recent mangaf sweetheart Magiwill be getting an anime. Should be awesome. Hope a studio that can handle long-running shows gets it.
Time to look up Magi and see if it'll interest me. Everything seems to be boring after one watches Boogie Nights for the first time, I might add. I'm going through that stage of the day again!
As Articalys posted in the manga thread, recent mangaf sweetheart Magiwill be getting an anime. Should be awesome. Hope a studio that can handle long-running shows gets it.
S Heck, even the shadows had some meaning to the plot. It's a film-wank's dream show, because every frame packs some kind of visual metaphor waiting to be read.
It feels like it's been forever since I watched the show, but I really don't remember anything about it in terms of how it looks other than the postcard moments. Maybe at that point, I just wasn't struck by any of the art.
Time to look up Magi and see if it'll interest me. Everything seems to be boring after one watches Boogie Nights for the first time, I might add. I'm going through that stage of the day again!
I'm not so sure it's for you, but that's mostly because I'm not fully aware of your tastes beyond Lupin and other random old stuff you've watched. It's an adventure battle shounen based on 1001 Arabian Nights, so if that sounds appealing, go for it.
Well we have no idea if it will be long running or not. I just want it to be because I like full adaptations. With my luck, it will be a 2 cour show (which would probably make everyone else happy).
Huh. Well: I don't know if I like magical girls and/or shounen quite yet (just haven't tried anything recently), so I wonder how this production might compare to, say, One Piece?
Oh. Well that's sometimes the impression you give off, from my POV at least. Dezaki incorporated his style into cel animation, which is what I was referring to. This sounds plain different.
That makes more sense. I've never heard of it either. And, frankly, it sounds like it'd be considered a footnote even on Anipages, so there's that too.
As Articalys posted in the manga thread, recent mangaf sweetheart Magiwill be getting an anime. Should be awesome. Hope a studio that can handle long-running shows gets it.
I noticed something this episode. The way gattaing works in this makes it ideal as a JRPG. Then the 3 party member limit is actually justified. Hell, Amata chose a random ass party for the final boss here.
Oniisama e... seems to benefit from Akio Sugino's unique character designs, too. One of the great Dezaki collaborators. Very distinct character designs all-in-all. It's interesting to see how these designs developed, compared to the rather-faithful head shapes and figures that Ashita no Joe retained from the manga (though the manga had a lot more distortion overall).
Aren't all shots supposed to have meaning and convey ideas and emotions? I mean, that's kind of the point!
I don't know about that. Oniisama e... has so much obvious visual stylisation that at times you could argue that it's overwrought.
Honestly, all those things kind of pale in comparison to the wackiness in Dusk Maiden though. I mean, Dusk Maiden is almost being made to be taught in an intro to film class with how obvious it gets. But sure, point taken. lol
Honestly, all those things kind of pale in comparison to the wackiness in Dusk Maiden though. I mean, Dusk Maiden is almost being made to be taught in an intro to film class with how obvious it gets. But sure, point taken. lol
Well, that's just the difference between stylish direction and stylish direction that's beats you over the head with it's obviousness, as a Shinbo-hater would say.
Well, stop me if you've heard this before, but I am pretty sure it's down to the writing of the characters.
I know, I know, it's crazy. People don't watch anime for those kinds of reasons! But I really do think that's what makes the series so successful. I know that people like to argue that it's the fanservice or the SHAFT-isms or the lolis but we've already seen how all those factors don't necessarily make a show successful. If you took away those characteristics and the way those characters talk and that self-indulgent dialogue from the series it wouldn't be popular at all.
I was actually being somewhat facetious in my "real reason" for Bakemonogatari's popularity, but I can see now that it would be impossible to tell that.
Several talky, SHAFTism-laden shows have come and gone without being particularly successful. I'd like to take a moment to mention Arakawa Under the Bridge, which has several stylistic similarities with Bakemonogatari but was a dismal seller. It had very SHAFT visual direction, cute girls, and an eccentric romance between two characters whose personalities vaguely resemble Koyomi and Hitagi, but they, like all the characters in Arakawa, were one-dimensional delivery vehicles for comedy whose personalities all hinged around a single quirk or conceit.
Bakemonogatari certainly doesn't receive enough credit for how well-written its two main characters are and, I would say even more importantly, deserves credit for the fact that it dares to be an anime romance that exhibits actual chemistry and believable attraction between characters. It's one of very few anime wherein I can actually understand why one of the characters loves another.
inb4 "the characters suck, you just have shit taste"
What was done with Koyomi's character in Nisemonogatari really was an extraordinarily horrible disservice and retroactively made his love for Hitagi less remarkable.
Hey, remember when I said last week that this might be a Nonoha character development episode? Lol no, all she did is realize that she's the stock shounen series supporting female character whose only special skill is memorization and whose main role is to be moral support for everyone else.
Goddammit.
Next week is a Jikugawa episode, so hopefully that will be interesting.
Well, that's just the difference between stylish direction and stylish direction that's beats you over the head with it's obviousness, as a Shinbo-hater would say.
Well, I did say it might be an art thing. A lot of the shots become purposefully surreal, so the director can use shots that are impossible in "reality" but look extremely stylish for the sake of showing - in the case of this episode - a character dealing with her emotional baggage.
Probably the closest that a show that tries to maintain some semblance of reality in its representation can get to that is a drug trip... because apparently taking any kind of drug makes the world melt around you.
What do you like dislike from Group TAC? I've heard great things about them before, and Night on the Galactic Railroad is a fruitful lesson in conservative direction.
What do you like dislike from Group TAC? I've heard great things about them before, and Night on the Galactic Railroad is a fruitful lesson in conservative direction.
And the real problem is that I wish I could simultaneously rate those films as 10 and 1, so they should really be on my favorite and least-favorite studio list at the same time.
And the real problem is that I wish I could simultaneously rate those films as 10 and 1, so they should really be on my favorite and least-favorite studio list at the same time.
It looks like Shinpi no Hou, Happy Science's next film, is going to be produced by Nikkatsu Video. According to MAL, the only other anime that this studio is known to have produced was Uchiyama Aki, an OVA from 1985. The upcoming film promises to be a strange experience indeed.
The IGN scale, after all, is the most accurate set of criteria needed to create definitive analyses.
Hah. And lol at Nikkatsu Video. The Nikkatsu I know shitted on Seijun Suzuki and got destroyed by the Japanese counter-culture back around the turn of the '70s.
Not having watched this in a couple days, I actually have no idea how far along Endless Eight I am anymore. But, uh, more of the same of course. I have noticed that there were changes in outfits and locations where things were happening so I guess KyoAni did change it up instead of repeating the sequence ad-nauseum.
Not having watched this in a couple days, I actually have no idea how far along Endless Eight I am anymore. But, uh, more of the same of course. I have noticed that there were changes in outfits and locations where things were happening so I guess KyoAni did change it up instead of repeating the sequence ad-nauseum.
According to the MALgraph, my least favorite genre is Harem, which couldn't be further from the truth, but I suppose it's just indicative of how many bad harem shows I've seen and scored so low.
