Spring Anime 2012 III | AITAKATTA YES!

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Fate/zero 24

"You're too stupid for me to understand"
LOL

Feels like an episode that will get ten more minutes in the blu-ray.
Berserker just randomly gets stabbed, what the heck?
Forget
Lancer
and
Kariya
, being
Kiritsugu
is true suffering. In any case, given that this story is a prequel it was obvious that
Kiritsugu could never achieve his wish.

Saber vs. Gilgamesh
was extremely anticlimactic, but then I guess it could never live up to
Rider's last charge.

It was quite a good episode, but you can definitely feel the editing that was done.
 
Emma: A Victorian Romance S1 - End

This ended up being much better than I expected from Jexhius' comments. While the production values could have been better - there was a lack of really good character animation, and some of the digital composition was awkward - there was enough awareness of visual storytelling that the script didn't have to carry everything. As Emma is a woman of few words, it fell to the storyboarding and directing to subtly point out the glances, the small gestures, the facial expressions that express her feelings and those of the people around her.

Emma felt a bit like a self-insert character at times in her interactions with William. She's overly shy and self-effacing, and I get the feeling that when writing her, Kaoru Mori thought "Wouldn't it be lovely if I was romanced by a proper English gentleman who would defy class barriers to be with me?" On the other hand, her loyal relationship with Mrs. Stowner helped to flesh her out, and her backstory, while a bit extreme, justified her personality.

Introducing Hakim into the mix was a good choice - an Indian prince is not someone you often see in love stories set in 19th century England, and his foreigner perspective gave the situation a unique spin. His harem constantly following him around, that he would unleash on anyone who he wanted to influence, was quite amusing. I really liked the conversation he had with Emma when Emma visited the Jones house; the awkward pauses said more than words alone could.

Perhaps my favorite part was
Mrs. Stowner's gradual decline and death. It was a sensitive and realistic portrayal of death by old age, and having seen this process happen, it cut me to the quick.

The ending was painfully romantic, open yet satisfying in a strange way.
Nothing says romance like fruitlessly running after the train carrying the one you love.

If Season 2 is an improvement over this, I'm in for a treat!
 
FlyingTeacup said:
sorry, slightly off topic,

I've seen a gif on gaf showing a dude shooting laser beam from his groin into the space..

which anime is that?

gintama ended, i need some crazy hilarity fix.
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It's probably Zettai Karen Children, the first episode of which features something like that happening.
 
Mysterious Girlfriend X 2
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She's naked isn't she. Yep, she is.
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God that boys a whiner. He should be thankful he even has a girlfriend, since all he's done is drink her drool. Though it must be frustrating trying to figure this girl out. Each scene she comes out weirder and weirder. And that last scene made no sense. Well, it's a good show so far, if not weird.
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I don't know, therefore aliens.
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hosannainexcelsis said:
Emma: A Victorian Romance S1 - End

This ended up being much better than I expected from Jexhius' comments. While the production values could have been better - there was a lack of really good character animation, and some of the digital composition was awkward - there was enough awareness of visual storytelling that the script didn't have to carry everything. As Emma is a woman of few words, it fell to the storyboarding and directing to subtly point out the glances, the small gestures, the facial expressions that express her feelings and those of the people around her.

The ending was painfully romantic, open yet satisfying in a strange way.
Nothing says romance like fruitlessly running after the train carrying the one you love.

If Season 2 is an improvement over this, I'm in for a treat!
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Season two is pretty amazing compared to season one. While it may appear very similar at first glance it was actually created by a different animation studio which means that, you know, the characters are well animated. Considering that this show is all about characters talking to each other it's a good thing that they finally get that right.

Season two also feels like it has substantially more interesting content than season one. There's far more events and characters and relationship developments than in the original season, perhaps something like three times as many 'story developments'. It's fair to say that important events happen every single episode.
hosannainexcelsis said:
Emma felt a bit like a self-insert character at times in her interactions with William. She's overly shy and self-effacing, and I get the feeling that when writing her, Kaoru Mori thought "Wouldn't it be lovely if I was romanced by a proper English gentleman who would defy class barriers to be with me?" On the other hand, her loyal relationship with Mrs. Stowner helped to flesh her out, and her backstory, while a bit extreme, justified her personality.
I really get the feeling that this is the case.
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Fate/Zero 24

While I don't understand why Kirei & Kiritsugu were fighting in that room (might've missed something from the last ep), this episode was just glorious. The Kirei/Kiritsugu fight was damn near everything I wanted, the episode itself was very brutal, and Kiritsugu confronting the grail had me nervous with anticipation. Gilgamesh appearing in all his powerful glory? Just icing. However, that last command spell used by Kiritsugu, now that was the last thing I expected. Never once considered anyone would attempt to do that to the Grail given its apparent history and power. It's nice to be legitimately surprised here and there.


Seems like we're missing something with the Lancelot/Saber scenes though.

This is setting up for a very exciting, and, more importantly, a very satisfying conclusion to the show.
 
Jexhius said:
Season two also feels like it has substantially more interesting content than season one. There's far more events and characters and relationship developments than in the original season, perhaps something like three times as many 'story developments'. It's fair to say that important events happen every single episode.
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Reading the nice little booklet included in the Nozomi release, I see that the first season only covered the first two of seven volumes, so I'd imagine the second season was much faster paced by necessity. Not that I had a problem with the relaxed pace of Season 1.
 
Gundam Unicorn 5

Did I just watch 1 hr of high budget bullshit?

I think I did.

Everything I hate about 'the gundam tale' in 1 hr. Like a handful of people with agendas all shooting at each other. Bullshit 'save the world' nonsense. 'Flashy 00 style lights'.

fuck.

Now i'm super curious about AGE. If this bullshit is better than that... My brain...
 
hosannainexcelsis said:
Every second you spend watching something you don't enjoy could have been spent watching something you do enjoy instead.
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Maybe, but the time wasted is reasonably low that I'd be willing to sacrifice that time in hopes I might enjoy the later parts of the series. Also, being able to tear it apart later is worth the time investment. (and I'd give a movie the courtesy of watching through it regardless if I don't like it, a 4 hour series aint much different)
 
Upotte!! 9

Beach ep? Snore. At least it was only the first half. It wasn't very enjoyable with Galil being the most enjoyable part and even then she was mostly used as a background gag.

Second half? Much better. If 10 is outright urban combat, I'll be pleased.

Star of the first half
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and the stars of the second.
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All those animal ears. I'm learning something about myself.
 
Fate/Zero 24

That Kiritsugu vs Kirei fight was one of the greatest things I've ever seen.

I love how even with basic knowledge of what happens in the end the show manages to be extremely tense, especially during the Kiritsugu scenes in the grail. That Ilya scene was just heartwrenching. Also dat ending.

Next week's finale is going to be epic as hell.
 
Mouretsu Pirates 24

How does Kane do that thing with his hair, where it randomly flips up, its so hilarious.
Heart was so glad when Kane was not the spy, I was about to be so depressed if he was. Though what is his double doing?

And wont they have to do a season 2, this arc cant really conclude in the next two episodes.
 
Yu-Gi-Oh! 35-37
Forgot I watched this the other day.
God, there's so much wasted time everywhere. Duels already take too much time and stretching this out over five whole episodes makes it really oblivious they were basically killing time everywhere. Not to mention Honda and Bakura's fun time is pretty stupid and breaks the focus of the duel.
I do miss shows have super spoilerific next episode previews.
 
dakkumauji said:
Yu-Gi-Oh! 35-37
Forgot I watched this the other day.
God, there's so much wasted time everywhere. Duels already take too much time and stretching this out over five whole episodes makes it really oblivious they were basically killing time everywhere. Not to mention Honda and Bakura's fun time is pretty stupid and breaks the focus of the duel.
I do miss shows have super spoilerific next episode previews.
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Who is Honda?
 
[Fate/Zero] - 24

I assumed people were exaggerating when they said that you could tell that content was cut from this episode, but it's actually extremely noticeable. Which is a shame, because that episode itself is good but there's clearly a number of -scene missing- moments which reduced my enjoyment of the events that unfolded.
 
Jexhius said:
[Fate/Zero] - 24

I assumed people were exaggerating when they said that you could tell that content was cut from this episode, but it's actually extremely noticeable. Which is a shame, because that episode itself is good but there's clearly a number of -scene missing- moments which distracted me from my enjoyment of the events.
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It does look that way. Wont be a problem though.
 
Jexhius said:
[Fate/Zero] - 24

I assumed people were exaggerating when they said that you could tell that content was cut from this episode, but it's actually extremely noticeable. Which is a shame, because that episode itself is good but there's clearly a number of -scene missing- moments which reduced my enjoyment of the events that unfolded.
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I felt this was only a problem during
Saber vs Berserker.
The rest of the episode seemed to flow just fine by my reckoning.

I imagine the BD cut will be tons better though, which is something cause I thought this episode was fantastic as is.
 
Theonik said:
Maybe, but the time wasted is reasonably low that I'd be willing to sacrifice that time in hopes I might enjoy the later parts of the series. Also, being able to tear it apart later is worth the time investment. (and I'd give a movie the courtesy of watching through it regardless if I don't like it, a 4 hour series aint much different)
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I am just getting closer to death every minute, I don't need to spend my time on anime that I don't enjoy simply because I have already watched a part of a series.
 
Fate/Zero 22:
The calm before the storm. There were some really nice moments with Waver throughout the episode, which I thought did a great job at bringing his arc around.
He's spent most of the series trying to pretend to be someone he isn't, but he finally manages to find some acceptance for who he is.

Also,
what the fuck, Kirei? I couldn't believe he did that.
 
Fucking Berserk.

Take six months to draw up new chapters.

Then decide that, with your fans clamoring for the story to move forward, you'll do a three-chapter flashback back to Guts's time as a boy. That's another year and a half! Fuck you Miura!
 
Bakemonogatari 7

Kanbaru is much much better than snail girl plus she is way more interesting. This episode made me realize it's kinda hard to decide which aspect of the show is more fun to watch: the random nonsensical talks they keep having, or the supernatural elements.

Kanbaru's room looked so bad with all these red books laying around. Not that I expected them to put any effort into it but at least make the books have different colours.
 
Bodacious Space Pirates 24

So we've got ourselves a villain that holds some contempt over the fact the pirates of this era are mere space entertainers. Assuming the villain will be defeated and this arc will even conclude in time for the season finale, the pirates defending their right to party/entertain and maintaining the status quo, which would be lame or it could it end with them realizing how lame space entertainment is and they change their ways to become actual pirates. But seeing how this is anime, it will probably be the former.
 
Dresden said:
Fucking Berserk.

Take six months to draw up new chapters.

Then decide that, with your fans clamoring for the story to move forward, you'll do a three-chapter flashback back to Guts's time as a boy. That's another year and a half! Fuck you Miura!
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It sounds like he's trolling everyone.
 
survivor said:
Bakemonogatari 7

Kanbaru is much much better than snail girl plus she is way more interesting. This episode made me realize it's kinda hard to decide which aspect of the show is more fun to watch: the random nonsensical talks they keep having, or the supernatural elements.
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I had that same dilemma at first, but ultimately it's the random nonsensical talks that take the cake.
 
Jexhius said:
I am just getting closer to death every minute, I don't need to spend my time on anime that I don't enjoy simply because I have already watched a part of a series.
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Those poor characters, on a limbo until the end of time without any kind of conclusion to their life's story...
 
Accel World 10

Huh, so I guess Yellow Radio might be the final boss of the season instead of Chrome Disaster.

And Haru's little speech about endings is exactly why I don't play MMOs.
 
Ouran High School Host Club 1

Ludicrously ornate private school for the ultra-rich elites? Androgynous boys striking florid poses? An androgynous girl who's the cutest of them all? Roses, roses everywhere? Sure, I'm down.

Some of the comedic tricks used here were pretty neat, such as the continually progressing lightbulb gag. I particularly liked the arrow pointing to the vase throughout the first scene as Haruhi is meeting the Host Club. There's an almost Hitchcockian sense of suspense as you know that vase is going to drop; you're just waiting for that moment to strike.

I had a conversation with duckroll a while back in which he mentioned that all of Bones' works feel like the product of a male-oriented studio culture, but this feels pretty shoujo to me. There's certainly strong resemblances to Oniisama e/Utena/etc. in both content and visuals. This is not a surprise coming from Takuya Igarashi, whose pre-Bones career was spent working on Toei's shoujo shows.
 
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