Jex
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Well, those are definitely the worst offenders.
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Spring Anime 2012 III | AITAKATTA YES!
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Well, those are definitely the worst offenders.
Ultimadrago
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You missed the anime about Drucker, didn't you?!
We only got Schoolhouse Rock!
Jex
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What's happened to you, King Arthur-sama?Fate/Stay Night 20
It almost makes you wonder why you'd even bother writing anything really good that ended up tying in to that trash.
I'd be much more content living as a disposable serf for a spicy wolf girl than some fat inbred old fuck in a castle somewhere.
Jex
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I have to ask...does Saber actually cook and if so, do they use that awful 'she's a girl but she's terrible at cooking cliche' ?Fate/Stay Night 21
Guess who shows up?
Linking the image as I'd rather be safe than sorry. Those appearances are a high point for me when watching this and made for nice surprises.
Then comes the second half with, yup, you guessed it: Saber in the kitchen.Not even a lesser design can impede the King of Heroes' douchey swagger! Watching him work Shirou & Saber was fuckawesome.
Such an amazing start and finish but that middle sequence. Ugh.
how about them apples
The real reason
Lancelot
Jex
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It can't be helped.
Basileus777
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No, she gets the food obsessed over-eater despite being a small girl trait. Shirou's the obsessive cooker that wants to be a house wife.
Jex
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It's back before certain people just filled the thread up with content. It's all their fault.
I didn't believe this at first. I should have never doubted JYB.
Jex
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Is it like, symbolic at least?
Unknown Soldier
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What's funny is that Shirou wants to be Sakura's waifu, but Sakura wants to be Shirou's waifu. They can't both be the waifu in the relationship!
Symbolic of how much you hate yourself while you're watching it, maybe. It's not symbolic of
sex
sex scene
They sound like some truly despicable individuals.
Jex
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Well, considering that the two series he has under his belt are completely different I really have no idea what he's going to do next. He's displayed an ability to direct quite a range of content.
Dedication Through Light
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Panty & Stocking 7-13 (end)
Really baffling anime really. Of the 13 episodes with usual halves I can only think of two halves that actually had much of my interest while the others were boring dull or just forgettable. Panty and even Stocking all failed to develop beyond their terrible initial presentations and actually got worst over time. They were so selfish and really lacked any of the friendship type stuff that characters that I like embrace. Actually they lacked any qualities that I even wanted. Perhaps that was the reason why Brief was involved and consistently showed up, even his presence typically brightened things up and his actual sensible head and even empowering speech helped to keep things bearable to a certain extent. Really disappointed in how the writers handled him just so Panty and Stocking could get all the credit.
The ending was awful as was the plot
. The only real highlight of the anime was the music. The dub had some witty lines though really made Panty quite crude and disgusting as well as Stocking, and so much sex focus :/ Best part
2 / 10, essentially the worst thing Ive ever experienced containing every negative aspect that I hate in my anime.
Really baffling anime really. Of the 13 episodes with usual halves I can only think of two halves that actually had much of my interest while the others were boring dull or just forgettable. Panty and even Stocking all failed to develop beyond their terrible initial presentations and actually got worst over time. They were so selfish and really lacked any of the friendship type stuff that characters that I like embrace. Actually they lacked any qualities that I even wanted. Perhaps that was the reason why Brief was involved and consistently showed up, even his presence typically brightened things up and his actual sensible head and even empowering speech helped to keep things bearable to a certain extent. Really disappointed in how the writers handled him just so Panty and Stocking could get all the credit.
The ending was awful as was the plot
Random women from the sky to stomp on stuff after revirginity was lost :/
Brief when his hair went back, mindblown
2 / 10, essentially the worst thing Ive ever experienced containing every negative aspect that I hate in my anime.
Yep. I definitely fell in love with this one. I really enjoyed the character interactions throughout, and I think they really nailed the otaku culture spot on. There were, of course, the parts that were anime'd, but they didn't go overboard.
Now I guess I need to read the manga. Is it worth starting at the beginning or does the anime follow the manga pretty closely?
Now I guess I need to read the manga. Is it worth starting at the beginning or does the anime follow the manga pretty closely?
Jex
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Oh, that's a shame, I had hoped that it represented sexual intercourse. Ah well.
Razgriz-Specter
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Just got finished marathoning Dusk Maiden. loved it.
Watched 3 episodes of Mysterious Girlfriend X and im not sure how I feel about it so far.
Watched 3 episodes of Mysterious Girlfriend X and im not sure how I feel about it so far.
its symbolic in the same way the cg in AKB0048 represents just how cheap, fake and gaudy the idol industry is
Jex
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"That hair doesn't seem particularly practical. It would take hours to wash". At least, that's my first thought.
It's probably worrying that I don't think about the incredibly tacky swimsuit.
Ultimadrago
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Oh my.
I dunno, man...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mdol1dMEtMY
Falling through a long, dark hole, and then meeting a hideous dragon that bites off your arm, sucking away your life force before eating you? Seems pretty Freudian to me.
Ultimadrago
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A time that Shounen King DTL and I share similar sentiments.
Let us treasure this moment.
Crash Station
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I think we're past the point of trying to emulate a normal's reaction to stuff like this.
Jex
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Just imagine an ending in your head. It'll be better than what the movies actually deliver.
With the way things are going in the world we might soon be the normals. Bwahaha...
Jex
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I don't think it helps to refer to those outside the anime thread as 'normals'!
out of curiosity, what would you rate Fairy Tail
Jex
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These days most English dubs aren't actively bad in a Dark Cat kind of way. They're just kind of...bland.
Dedication Through Light
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Fairy Tail is easily a 10 / 10 both the manga and the anime.
Jex
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Well, from what I understand companies have found that anime with dubs sell better, or so they claim.
Jex
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That's just because I was asleep! Have I mentioned how the movie looked like it had the budget of three tv episodes yet? Because it looked like arse.
Ultimadrago
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Agreed. There's no heart or soul in most dubs.
A lot of native English speakers can't be bothered to read subtitles, or have difficulty doing so. Or they're just lazy. And so they gravitate towards English dubs. I've seen it all over the place for years and it always boggled me how people could prefer dubs over the superior Japanese version. I think that I can probably count the number of anime that have better English dubs than Japanese on one hand.
Jex
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Yeah but I really don't trust the anime community when it comes to dubs. They even claim that FLCL has a good dub, after all.
Unknown Soldier
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Well, that happens when the male lead in all of them is Johnny Yong Bosch and the female lead is one of 3 people. The solution is to learn to love subtitles.
Jex
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Welcome to the past.
Revisiting Jexhius' mention of Dark Cat, that particular work has enough heart and soul in its dub to compensate for the lack thereof in all future anime dubs. I strongly recommend watching it.
I don't really have anything to say in response to this; I just want to draw attention to it.
Not every anime that takes place in an undeveloped agrarian setting looks actively miserable!
firehawk12
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Yeah, the last couple of volumes of the manga basically continue off after
dude gets the job. It's mostly about him hooking up with Ogiue at that point
Writing > .... whatever. lol
Things were much worse before we could watch anime all day.
Jex
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Pacing > Writing. Don't put me to sleep!
If I were born twenty years earlier, I would probably have these things called a "job" and a "wife" and "children" and "fulfillment", so thank God for the internet. I would have never been able to realize my full potential without it.
Ultimadrago
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Seconded in honor of Jive Guy!
Jex
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Beyond stuff like Dark Cat there is something to be said for old dubs that are far more passionate than they are accurate. Sometimes it's better to stray a little bit from the original script. Well, some of the old dubs also had like, actors in them so that's also cheating I suppose.
Crash Station
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Pacing is part of writing.
Jex
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Well, another aspect of watching subtitles is that they always draw your eye to a place that the original director wasn't intending you to look. They always interrupt the normal viewing of a program, so in that sense a good dub is ideal.
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