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Spring Anime 2012 | Welcome Home, Space Cowboy

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Yeah, we don't want humps coming out of peoples backs.

that's like wings right?

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Why can't you have both?


Wasn't there a boobs anime in the past years where the size of your bust reflects your status in society?
 

Narag

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Now and Then, Here and There 7

Complain about lack of food? Waste it in protest.

Lala Ru activating the pendant was such a fast forceful event too. Wow.
 

cajunator

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Now and Then, Here and There 7

Complain about lack of food? Waste it in protest.

Lala Ru activating the pendant was such a fast forceful event too. Wow.

Lalaru doesn't fuck around.

Honestly the show has a ton of plot holes and unexplained things, but taken as simply a story and not thinking too much about the details is the right way to go with it.
 

cajunator

Banned
Are they really that depressing? I mean does it make you want to curl up in a ball and not see the light of day again kind of depressing?

Saikano really is. Its a pretty fucked up series.
AlthougH I think it tried a bit too hard with some of the tragedy in it.
The whole premise is depressing as hell though. A guys small girlfriend gets kidnapped by the govt and transformed into a killing machine of war and as she loses her humanity she tries to keep the relationship together.
She's so cute too.
 

Steroyd

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Area no Kishi 14

I dont understand, knee ligment injuries never heal or something? and why does it have to be a secret between people knowing that his counseler is Dr. Mine? Regardless fun episode apart from them truly having Tsuijdo look like your typical antagonists...

Knee ligamant in a nutshell is the joint that joins two bones together, it's not something you can "recover" from exactly just that the ligament gets smaller and smaller each time it tries to get fixed, and Dr Mine has that professional confidentially with her patients so she legally can't talk about it outisde of the room where she has a one on one with her patients.

Wow so thats the proper name for ninja tits? I was hoping ninja Tits was the actual name :(

Manyuu Hikenchou.
 

frostbyte

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Saikano really is. Its a pretty fucked up series.
AlthougH I think it tried a bit too hard with some of the tragedy in it.
The whole premise is depressing as hell though. A guys small girlfriend gets kidnapped by the govt and transformed into a killing machine of war and as she loses her humanity she tries to keep the relationship together.
She's so cute too.

Wow, that sounds really depressing.

and she's cute too?

...I might need to watch this.
 

Narag

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Now and Then, Here and There 8

That was some convenient resolution with the plant monster. The more personal Hamdo/Abelia, Nabuca/Boo, and Lala Ru/Shu scenes were a treat though.
 

Jex

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i honestly really didn't notice most of the issues y'all are posting about when i watched NTHT.

Neither did I, but I haven't watched it in a few years. I could be in for a nasty surprise if I watched it today.
 

frostbyte

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Well Chise looks like this:

Sold. I'll put in on my neverending backlog.

On a brighter note, a friend asked me for some anime that have to do with time traveling. I can only think of Steins;gate, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time and Higurashi. Surely there are more? Please enlighten this young padawan.

And it's animated by Gonzo too!

Gonzo's not too bad, other than the fact that they're dead. They did animate Saki <3
 
Gonzo did a good job with the show. Its not an action series.
Looking at screenshots, it doesn't look like it's aged well at all.
On a brighter note, a friend asked me for some anime that have to do with time traveling. I can only think of Steins;gate, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time and Higurashi. Surely there are more? Please enlighten this young padawan.
Depending on your definition of time travel, Gunbuster counts.
 
Kore wa Zobmie Desu ka of the dead 1

I missed this show. More magical girl Ayumu fun, more supernatural hijinks, more action. I love everything about this show conceptually. I also don't really understand how this is less visually appealing than Sankarea (though I did notice one shot with the chainsaw looking as if it was on another dimensional plane than the background). They got the atmosphere down.

Can't wait to see where this one goes.
 

duckroll

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So... Little Buster staff is confirmed by Newtype...

Director: Yoshiki Yamakawa
Series Composition: Michiru Shimada
Character Design: Haurko Iizuka
Animation Production: JC Staff

Interesting...
 

Jarmel

Banned
So... Little Buster staff is confirmed by Newtype...

Director: Yoshiki Yamakawa
Series Composition: Michiru Shimada
Character Design: Haurko Iizuka
Animation Production: JC Staff

Interesting...

LOL WTF. KyoAni refused Little Busters? What the hell.
 
Every time I see Little Busters! mentioned, I think of The Pillows album. Somehow, I can't imagine that it's anywhere close to being as good as the album.
 

frostbyte

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It wasn't likely to be anything more given the source material.

There's a melodramatic twist, but it's basically a school comedy about friendship and forming a baseball team.

Sounds original.

I guess I'll still watch in hopes of it becoming another Clannad AS.
psh, who am i kidding...

and one of the girls is called Kudryavka Noumi. freaking sold!
 

Branduil

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Little Busters doesn't have much of a hook. I looked it up on wikipedia and it looks like typical harem drama.

Don't worry I'm sure one of the kawaii stereotypes gets magical cancer at some point, and we find out another one is actual the mystical embodiment of the protagonist's pet rock, and other stupid crap happens all for the purpose of making undiscerning otaku cry.
 

BluWacky

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On a brighter note, a friend asked me for some anime that have to do with time traveling. I can only think of Steins;gate, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time and Higurashi. Surely there are more? Please enlighten this young padawan.

Noein (time travel AND parallel universes that aren't synchronic with our own)
Haruhi Suzumiya (one of the characters is a time traveller and her future future self also turns up)
Zipang (modern day submarine travels back to World War II)

There are of course many more with time travel as an aspect of the plot but these three have it be at least vaguely significant.
 

wonzo

Banned
Smile Precure 4

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only japan would show such filth in a kids show!

these bad end sequences are laughably corny as shit. outside of that, akanbe and the makeup transformation sequences i'm enjoying this quite a bit.
cure peace has the best transformation sequence hands down

hell, i'm even starting to like the ed sequences. what the fuck

I honestly didn't either, but then I marathoned NTHT and then Saikano back to back. I call it the depress-a-thon.
You're not alone.

It's a pretty polarizing show, apparently.
Neither did I, but I haven't watched it in a few years. I could be in for a nasty surprise if I watched it today.
i'm kinda worried that i'll start noticing all these issues when i rewatch it :(

So... Little Buster staff is confirmed by Newtype...

Director: Yoshiki Yamakawa
Series Composition: Michiru Shimada
Character Design: Haurko Iizuka
Animation Production: JC Staff

Interesting...
any news on a possibly airdate so i can plan my key anime watching suffering accordingly?
 
Don't worry I'm sure one of the kawaii stereotypes gets magical cancer at some point, and we find out another one is actual the mystical embodiment of the protagonist's pet rock, and other stupid crap happens all for the purpose of making undiscerning otaku cry.
Something like that.

If you are curious...
Huge Little Busters spoilers
The group was in bus crash and a bunch of them died. Everything takes place in a dream world.

I like all of that except for the baseball. Baseball sucks.
The dumb baseball mini game might be the best part of the VN.
 

Kagami

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The series been selling ok... never thought it would go 3 seasons with 2 ovas.
I bought it!
The two TV series, and the OVAs, and the sadly-DVD-only OVAs that come with the Premium Visual Books, and the PSP games, and a couple of Nendoroids, and some artbooks, and comic books, and some drama CDs that I still need to listen to.


what? for a second there i thought it wasnt going the fuck no where. i mean yall could have fooled me, thinking that Oreimo was selling like hotcakes with all that hnnging and toothbrushin. turns out boobs will always sell.
Well OreImo does move about twice as many BDs as Queen's Blade in Japan.


Plenty of fanservice stuff falls on its face finding an audience.
thats true. maybe because Queens Blade has a equal amount of Oppai and DFC?
Queen's Blade has beautiful Rinshin character designs! (Ys 6 art, for you gaming-side people)

There's only one other multi-series "sexy battle" cartoon that rivals Queen's Blade in success, and that's Ikki Tousen...which also has Rinshin character designs.
So the lesson is: hire Rinshin.
 

Steroyd

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hell, i'm even starting to like the ed sequences. what the fuck

This phenomenon perplexes me to, I know deep down that it's horrible cg like many an anime before, yet I can't stop being transfixed into watching it.

I demand to know why this happens.
 

frostbyte

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Smile Precure 4

these bad end sequences are laughably corny as shit. outside of that, akanbe and the makeup transformation sequences i'm enjoying this quite a bit.
cure peace has the best transformation sequence hands down

hell, i'm even starting to like the ed sequences. what the fuck

You really do like making yourself suffer don't you.

Nothing is better than Cure Peace's transformation sequence. I could watch it all day long. [REDACTED]!

Looking at screenshots, it doesn't look like it's aged well at all.

Depending on your definition of time travel, Gunbuster counts.

Noein (time travel AND parallel universes that aren't synchronic with our own)
Haruhi Suzumiya (one of the characters is a time traveller and her future future self also turns up)
Zipang (modern day submarine travels back to World War II)

There are of course many more with time travel as an aspect of the plot but these three have it be at least vaguely significant.

Thanks guys!
 

Narag

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Now and Then, Here and There 9

Zari Bars seems like a nice place
except for the whole common reason most of them are there.
Think I'lll wrap this up in the morning.
 
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