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Spring Anime 2012 III | AITAKATTA YES!
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Jex
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What do you have against the 70's?#
So I whipped up a very incomplete MAL to see what I'd get and I got this...
Your scores are going in the wrong direction.
Why am I listening to these mashup things . . .
"Kami-Sama no Iu Toori" by Junji Ishiwatari & Yoshinori Sunahara + Etsuko Yakushimaru "Like I Love You" by Justin Timberlake
"Rolling in the Deep" by Adele
"nexus" by ClariS
Even if Shirou is a terrible human being.
e: just thinking about shirou is raising my blood pressure right now
"Kami-Sama no Iu Toori" by Junji Ishiwatari & Yoshinori Sunahara + Etsuko Yakushimaru "Like I Love You" by Justin Timberlake
"Rolling in the Deep" by Adele
"nexus" by ClariS
It's okay, at least you're a harem lead.
Even if Shirou is a terrible human being.
e: just thinking about shirou is raising my blood pressure right now
hosannainexcelsis
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Oniisama e 21
Not as entertaining as usual. The direction didn't seem quite up to snuff, and Mariko's excessive hatred of men made her insufferable. It was rather loosely organized, with the group wandering around to random events at the fair. Kind of anticlimatic after all the drama Nanako had to go through last episode. I did like the visual touch of the spinning pinwheels - a touch which, especially in light of recent discussion, seemed very much the sort of thing that Shinbo would pick up on.
Not as entertaining as usual. The direction didn't seem quite up to snuff, and Mariko's excessive hatred of men made her insufferable. It was rather loosely organized, with the group wandering around to random events at the fair. Kind of anticlimatic after all the drama Nanako had to go through last episode. I did like the visual touch of the spinning pinwheels - a touch which, especially in light of recent discussion, seemed very much the sort of thing that Shinbo would pick up on.
Unknown Soldier
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It's okay, at least you're a harem lead.
Even if Shirou is a terrible human being.
e: just thinking about shirou is raising my blood pressure right now
The worst part about Shirou is how awesome the girls are in his harem. He's like Ichika in that regard. Neither of them deserve it in way, shape, or form.
for as long as anime music remixes exist, this shall forever reign supreme. it does the impossible and
makes a T-Pain song not only listenable but genuinely good!
SDBurton decided to insert himself into that episode. Men are gross.
Unknown Soldier
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Fate/Zero 13 - 21 (or so?)
What's up with Archer's ever-changing jewelry size? It's big, it's small.. I don't know what's going on anymore!!
He's just checking to see if you're paying attention or not. Remember that (THIS SPOILED PART IS KIND OF A BIG SPOILER)
with the exception of Seibah
Which makes me wonder what else he can make as big or small as he wants... uuuuuu
Actually it's just animation errors but my theory is better.
Fate/Zero 13 - 21 (or so?)
What's up with Archer's ever-changing jewelry size? It's big, it's small.. I don't know what's going on anymore!!
Blame the animation directors.
When did they mention that
Saber never died? I did wonder why she never dematerialized.
It's a F/SN thing.
I wish it'd be labeled as such especially after the complaint about F/Z being spoiled.
Unknown Soldier
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(THIS SPOILED PART IS KIND OF A BIG SPOILER) isn't obvious enough for you? How much more clearly do I need to mark a spoiler, exactly?
Just label it as an F/SN spoiler next time.
I don't think Gil's necklace actually changes sizes much. It's just that his shirt and necklace are both extremely loose, and so they can be drawn in variable ways. If the necklace looks like its smaller from the front, it just means that the rest of it is hanging behind him and so the front is closer to his neck. Alternatively if more is hanging out on the front, it looks larger. His shirt is also pretty loose, so depending on how he's sitting/lying/standing sometimes there can be a wider opening on the front.
The second screen there could probably do with a bit more correction though, since it looks kinda lacking in detail.
The second screen there could probably do with a bit more correction though, since it looks kinda lacking in detail.
The necklace is definitely smaller in the second shot, you can tell by the way it's hugging his neck that it's not just all hanging off of the back.
Unknown Soldier
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Especially since his shirt is actually exactly the same size, only the necklace changed.
Disguising plot twists as cheap animation is so Black Rock Shooter.
As to be expected from a production company called Ultra Super Pictures!
Armored Trooper Votoms - 01
That was fun; a world was set up, the lead was introduced, and there was a betrayal, an interrogation, and an escape scene all in the space of one episode. Can't complain at this ratio of badassery displayed by Chirico.
Really like the retro-mechanical display of the future, as well. It's grungy but has its charms.
That was fun; a world was set up, the lead was introduced, and there was a betrayal, an interrogation, and an escape scene all in the space of one episode. Can't complain at this ratio of badassery displayed by Chirico.
Really like the retro-mechanical display of the future, as well. It's grungy but has its charms.
Chet Rippo
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Nichijou 11-18
1st ED > 2nd ED
That's all I really have to say...
2nd OP > 1st OP
wat
1st ED > 2nd ED
That's all I really have to say...
SAKURAAAIIIIIIIIIII!!
That might turn out to be the plot twist at the end! DES was founded by a disgruntled fan who got sick of that song at every concert.
What about the 3rd, 4th ,5th 6th.... EDs?
Theonik
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You also got the "Cute girls doing cute things" award in there.
Chet Rippo
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Yes, but because of the song, not anything else.
:/
I don't even care about the songs (episode 18 song is boss though), that ED is amazing.
Crash Station
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Huh? I didn't get that at all. And I'm pretty sure it was confirmed in the original that
Aquarion itself was Apollonius.
A Black Falcon
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Not exactly. This guy's ... quite distressed ... about the change, and makes quite a bit deal about it from the beginning. He's the "pervert loser" type MC. He is kind of amusing though with how open he is about it.
Not later on in the manga, they don't.
(And yes, it is too bad that there wasn't a followup anime, the manga did end.)
Sounds like a plausible theory to me!
Because buying bad stuff just to "support the industry" just encourages that they make more of the bad stuff, really...
Carnival Phantasm's pretty funny, really. You should try it.
Theonik
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I'd play an RPG in that style, probably would cost illegal sums of money to make though
Chet Rippo
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I just really like the look of the first ED.
Crash Station
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Huh, weird. Either things got retconned or I completely misinterpreted stuff in the original.
That ED is like a Where's Waldo drawing come to life. Crazy detail and planning.
Chet Rippo
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Yes it's good, but I liked the first ED better.
It's a great show, one of my favorites. Hope you'll like it, especially since your posts were one of the main reasons for me giving a chance to Sengoku Basara and then loving the hell out of it.
darkside31337
Tomodachi wa Mahou
Kore wa Zombie Desu ka ? of the Dead - 01
As a new owner of a Dyson fanless blade (which I thankfully got for free) let me tell you they are not nearly as cool as they look in this anime. They are ridiculously loud and don't look that cool at all. Once you get past the novelty of sticking your face into your fan (which is pretty cool), its really just the same shit as a regular fan. Only louder.
As for the show itself, Haruna is still the best, the rest of the girls suck except for Class Rep girl who is alright. The new Tomoe-sensei was okay too.
Poor, poor Aikawa. A fate worse than death. The panty shots in this series are something else. All in all a pretty solid episode considering how much I disliked most of the second half of the first season.
As a new owner of a Dyson fanless blade (which I thankfully got for free) let me tell you they are not nearly as cool as they look in this anime. They are ridiculously loud and don't look that cool at all. Once you get past the novelty of sticking your face into your fan (which is pretty cool), its really just the same shit as a regular fan. Only louder.
As for the show itself, Haruna is still the best, the rest of the girls suck except for Class Rep girl who is alright. The new Tomoe-sensei was okay too.
Poor, poor Aikawa. A fate worse than death. The panty shots in this series are something else. All in all a pretty solid episode considering how much I disliked most of the second half of the first season.
Yeah, I have high hopes for it. Also Senba <3
It's like you're implying that Mael/Tomonori is inferior to midget girl.
darkside31337
Tomodachi wa Mahou
Don't tell me you're one of those people. The show makes it painfully obvious that Haruna is the best girl in the series.
The Haruna fanservice in this first episode is fantasstic.
A Black Falcon
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The loli sexualization is certainly the worst thing about the franchise, but if it's as good as the manga, it will be good despite that... but it certainly is an unfortunate hurdle to have to get over. I do wish it was less fanservicey, but... it's either that, or the insane, maddening idiocy of Shirou in F/SN. Prisma Iliya is probably more tolerable...
She's not an otaku, and she's nothing at all like Kirino. She's a magical girl, with magical powers and the like.
And Rin is her magical girl mentor, when she's not busy fighting her counterpart Luvia that is...
Yeah, that's a decent description. I did a couple of medium-length review posts in some old manga threads of the manga series, for anyone who wants some spoilers; as I said above, apart from the loli fanservice, it's actually pretty good. It's cute, optimistic, and funny. Shirou rarely has significant appearances, so unlike F/SN it isn't ruined by his idiocy. Rin is awesome as always, and her constant fighting with Luvia's funny stuff too. Iliya's not crazy, too, and her parents are even alive! I hope the anime's as good. I do wonder how much will be covered, though; between the two series there are seven volumes of manga. The first series is just two volumes (13 chapters), but the second is five volumes. I wonder what they'll do.
Oh, as for Iliya and Shirou's parents,
I saw some speculation that maybe the Holy Grail War didn't happen because the two of them killed the people in the Grail organization first, or something. We don't know for sure though of course.
As usual
everybody likes Shirou. No way around it, unfortunately. At least here, though, Shirou's a minor character, so this rarely comes up for most of them. For Iliya herself, she does like Shirou, but she also wants to keep their normal family life as-is, so she has no plans to actually tell him that.
I think it's nice to see a sane version of Iliya for once.
Despite the above, due to how rarely he appears, there's much more loli-yuribait in the manga than there is anything about that guy.
Yeah, it's pretty great that they're alive. It's F/SN, Happy Life Version! Her mother's pretty awesome, too.
Pretty much. Are they not awesome?
Do you mean Daimao? Um, it's a harem action series. What, exactly, were you expecting? For the genre, Daimao's above average for sure.
I thought the ending was so horribly bad that it pretty much wrecked the episode, myself.
Japanese Teacher is the worst, and that plot through the whole ending part was even worse!There were, astoundingly, NO new anime releases last week. Still, there was a slight change on the preliminary Spring rankings:
*3,302 *2 Sengoku Collection [DVD+BD]: 2012/06/06
*3,192 *2 Kore wa Zombie Desu Ka? Of The Dead [DVD+BD]: 2012/05/25
*2,248 *2 Acchi Kocchi [DVD+BD]: 2012/06/06
This week there are six new shows going on sale:
**,*** ** Saki Achiga-hen Episode of Side-A [DVD+BD]: 2012/06/20
**,*** ** Eureka Seven AO [DVD+BD]: 2012/06/22
**,*** ** Haiyore! Nyaruko-san [DVD+BD]: 2012/06/22
**,*** ** Hiiro no Kakera [DVD+BD]: 2012/06/22
**,*** ** Yurumate3Dei: 2012/06/22
**,*** ** ZETMAN [DVD+BD]: 2012/06/22
Looking forward to their numbers in seven days.
*3,302 *2 Sengoku Collection [DVD+BD]: 2012/06/06
*3,192 *2 Kore wa Zombie Desu Ka? Of The Dead [DVD+BD]: 2012/05/25
*2,248 *2 Acchi Kocchi [DVD+BD]: 2012/06/06
This week there are six new shows going on sale:
**,*** ** Saki Achiga-hen Episode of Side-A [DVD+BD]: 2012/06/20
**,*** ** Eureka Seven AO [DVD+BD]: 2012/06/22
**,*** ** Haiyore! Nyaruko-san [DVD+BD]: 2012/06/22
**,*** ** Hiiro no Kakera [DVD+BD]: 2012/06/22
**,*** ** Yurumate3Dei: 2012/06/22
**,*** ** ZETMAN [DVD+BD]: 2012/06/22
Looking forward to their numbers in seven days.
Screw you, Tomonori is right up there with Haruna.
Unknown Soldier
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B-but, yandere love is the purest form of love!
Yeah, it's pretty great that they're alive. It's F/SN, Happy Life Version! Her mother's pretty awesome, too.
Irisviel is both hilarious and awesome in PRISMA☆ILLYA. Magical fist out of nowhere! SPLAT!
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