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Spring Anime 2012 | Welcome Home, Space Cowboy
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I don't always read your posts ABF, but something about this one caught my eye.Mysterious Girlfriend X 1 - I haven't read this manga, and based on this anime's description I did not have high hopes to say the least.
However, I gave it a try, in part because of the good reviews it'd gotten here, and... yeah, it was actually good. Weird, but good. It was entertaining, the MC and girl were weird but likeable... (seriously, he tasted her drool? That makes him weird.) it was good. The plot doesn't make much sense of course, but that's the whole idea. This episode was strange, but good.
Oh, the art's pretty simple; it works, but it's not exactly the most detailed stuff. It's good enough I guess. Overall, this could be decently good for a ridiculous, fanservicey anime. At least it has a somewhat unique concept, it's not just entirely by the book generic. And yeah, it was entertaining in part because of that.
Tasogare Otome x Amnesia 1 - After all of the poor reviews I was somewhat worried for this, because I like the manga, but it did end up being good. The art is indeed not as good as the manga's, sadly; the manga backgrounds are particularly high quality, but here they're not above average. It's too bad, and does hurt the series some.
Apart from that, though, the episode was good. This episode introduces us to the four main characters; most of them don't have much introduction yet, apart from Yuuko the ghost of course, but as I've read the manga I had no problem. I would think that someone who hasn't would be okay too, though; it says enough to get the basics, like that Yuuko is a ghost, the guy can see ghosts, and that the other girl can't see ghosts, and the other characters (the other living girl, most notably) will be introduced more later.
So, this episode starts in the clubroom, then goes to investigate an incident with a mysterious dumbwaiter, and then finishes with a search on a nearby hillside for a gravestone supposedly of Yuuko's. It's all solid stuff, and amusing. The series hasn't really gotten to much of the serious side of the plot yet, but it is a series that mixes serious and comic elements, so that's okay; it'll get to the serious side eventually, for sure.
Oh, and the beginning, where first you see it as the "can't see ghosts" girl would see it, and then with Yuuko in view, was pretty funny. Her antics as she tried, and failed, to get her to be noticed was amusing stuff.
So yeah, overall, Tasogare was good. It's not great, and could have been better for sure, but it was okay to good, at least.
Then I realized you used "good" 12 times.
Dear go
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
That's a doubleplusgood recommendation to make.
A Black Falcon
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I would certainly expect there to be a whole lot less wasted time, yes.
Now they are, but most of the first episode was set before Saki began, that was my point... and if it goes as far as the manga has gotten, it'll get past the end of the Saki anime too.
You just have to accept that the girls are simultaneously girls, and the guns those girls are holding, and not think about it too much. That's just how it is in Upotte...
What about the Fate/Kaleid series characters? I assume you haven't read that manga? (It had an anime announcement, right?)
Tasogare starts out that way, and never entirely loses the comedy element, but expect more drama elements to be added in over time.
Without the great art of the manga it won't be quite as interesting, but still, I at least do think it's a good anime too.
Angel Beats > Kanon 2002 > Kanon 2006 > Air > Clannad, for me. Haven't watched Clannad AS.
Of course those things are different, yes.Well, in that case, every text about getting old or having some terminal disease would be completely nihilistic... but we know that's not the case.
(I still think we somewhat disagree about something related to what I was saying, though... just maybe not on the point I said? I don't know anymore...)
Bakatest as a franchise is sometimes good, and sometimes bad. The good parts can be pretty funny, but the bad parts can be quite tryingly dull... still, worth watching overall. At least, S1 certainly is; the last OVA and S2 aren't as good as the first season, sadly. Way too much not very good drama!
You just need to get used to it.
Yeah, Ayu's great.
Don't skip episodes of Noir, it's a great show...
that's more like it!
He does troll her back sometimes for sure, yeah. I think sometimes he goes a little far, but still, it's usually funny,
like when he says 'uguu' back to her and she complains about it... :lol
I think in my case it also helps that I saw that version first, and before 2006 released, so that was what I first think of when I think of the series... but yeah.
Agreed about Bakatest, but C3 was awful, don't watch.
Hey, it's not the whole episode twice. It's a segment of the episode that runs twice, but different -- and much funnier, thanks to Yuuko being visible -- the second time. I thought it worked pretty well as a mechanism to introducing her to the audience.
Definitely expect more drama in the future, yes.
Sort of. Today, there's a separate country of Macedonia, but there's also a Greek province called Macedonia. In classical Greek times, the Greeks would not really have considered the Macedonians to be Greek -- those inferior northern barbarians, you know, they were no match for the real Greeks... but the Macedonians sort of considered themselves to be Greek, and then conquered Greece later on, so yeah... at that point they sort of merged. But overall, they've always been closely related but slightly different.Macedonia was a part of Greece, is it not?
... Well huh, it gets even weirder. That's good, given that weird is the primary thing the series has to make it interesting...
But STDs don't exist in anime and manga, 99.99% of the time, so no.
What, not that I seem to have liked Tasogare more than most people here?
I never write with a thesarus, I don't like them... but you're right, I should try to vary word choice more than I do there.
Ouch.
animeGAF is brutal sometimes.
Haly is right though, we have the thesaurus for a reason.
I personally use 'just' way too often for my liking so I'm hardly one to speak either.
I personally use 'just' way too often for my liking so I'm hardly one to speak either.
Un-Go 01:
I'm walking right into duckroll's trap but at least I'm fully aware that I'm doing so. I finally get to witness the unholy union of BONES and newtaminA, and it's pretty much everything I would expect from a washed-up studio doing a show for a desperate and misguided animation block.
The one thing that really stood out at me was the incredibly abhorrent character design. Long faces and spiky chins abound. The protagonist is Seto Kaiba, and his partner is a purple palette swap of Wonderweiss (that super-strong autistic Arrancar kid) from Bleach that sports panda jammies and worryingly-yellow sclera. Inga apparently suffers from a serious liver disease. Oh, and
. Yeah...
The first episode served little purpose other than to reinforce the fact that incorporating fantasy elements into detective stories is almost impossible. Kaiba what's-his-face is hailed as some kind of great detective even though his method seems to be doing a little junior police cadet-level investigation and then resorting straight to
when things get the slightest bit difficult. It makes stuff like Kamisama no Memochou and Gosick look like they were written by Dashiell Hammett.
The murder mystery seemed solely designed to force the important point of exposition that
, which felt backwards and generally awkward as they could have easily established this at the beginning and then could have used the murder as further commentary upon
. If I can muster the willpower to watch more, I certainly hope that the writing isn't as clumsy in future episodes.
Me too, Inga. Me too.
I'm walking right into duckroll's trap but at least I'm fully aware that I'm doing so. I finally get to witness the unholy union of BONES and newtaminA, and it's pretty much everything I would expect from a washed-up studio doing a show for a desperate and misguided animation block.
The one thing that really stood out at me was the incredibly abhorrent character design. Long faces and spiky chins abound. The protagonist is Seto Kaiba, and his partner is a purple palette swap of Wonderweiss (that super-strong autistic Arrancar kid) from Bleach that sports panda jammies and worryingly-yellow sclera. Inga apparently suffers from a serious liver disease. Oh, and
said kid can transform into a flirtatious panda-faced titty monster that can geass people into telling the truth
The first episode served little purpose other than to reinforce the fact that incorporating fantasy elements into detective stories is almost impossible. Kaiba what's-his-face is hailed as some kind of great detective even though his method seems to be doing a little junior police cadet-level investigation and then resorting straight to
using Inga to get the suspect to cough up the truth
The murder mystery seemed solely designed to force the important point of exposition that
Japan is war-ravaged for whatever reason
the political realities and pitfalls of a destroyed Japan
hosannainexcelsis
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There's too much anime out there that isn't garbage to waste your time with what is.
I eagerly await seeing what good bookisms* ABF can come up with.
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trying to play off the concept of a said bookism, so hopefully I've altered the term correctly
A Black Falcon
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As I said in my reply to that, I don't use a thesaurus, ever... I feel like I should be able to think of a word myself, and not just look one up, you know?
at least it's better than eiken
Ultimadrago
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Welcome back, Uchip.
Also, if you're truly looking for worst this season, you haven't seen Sengoku Collection yet.
With the length of his posts I can't fault the guy for that.
When I grow up I wish to make large detailed posts just like ABF.
Hellsing321
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Basileus777
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I have my doubts, but am in no hurry to break that boundary
You're a lucky person.
chickdigger802
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I'm regretting making a Fate girl list, no matter how much I like the franchise.
I'm sorry but mind expressing why you hold Angel Beats in such a high regard?
Indeed. Yet another comedy ruined by forcefully injected drama. Not that it was particularly good before the drama, by virtue of its recycled jokes over and over again.
I normally never skip any episodes of anime as I wouldn't be rating the final product as the director and staff wanted me to.
Welcome back! and
This
Crash Station
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I disagree (though the higher quality manga may have made me biased).
Femmeworth
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I watched Blood: The Last Vampire, frostbyte. It was okay, Blood-C had better fight sequences. I wasn't expecting it to be that short, but that's probably for the best since the visuals were giving me a headache. I wish they hadn't gone with mostly English voice acting, since it was very stilted.
Jex
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Nadia - 01
It's nice to see the very first cartoon love.
And the first episode was a perfect mix of character introduction and action.
Everyone loves the original Asuka.
Yeah. blah blah blah. where's the moe? show me the moe end of days.
So, there was some confusion about that Ro-Kyu-Bu alarm clock a while back. But what if you wanted an alarm clock that was a bit more... manly?
Japan covers ALL its bases. Clearly this was part of their plan all along.
I don't typically think of songs as spoilers. but in this case maybe I have.
This song is so amazing, it doesn't matter.
So many gif's already... I guess i'll do one of the ending
Glorious show indeed.
I for one welcome our Ahoge overlords.
We all succumb in the end. You may as well accept inevitability.
that's just fantasy. This is real life.
Cthulhu chuuuuu~~~~
T minus 10 seconds before Cajunator explodes after seeing this.
When the end comes we will all be devoured by moe. some of us will succumb at the beach to the pastel blue variety, but those of us in the city will have a different fate.
*explodes
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Moe Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn uguu~
I don't know shit about it. I like this version better anyway.
Watch MOE TREASURE INSTEAD.
As am I. This season is really testing my durability. Japan is NOT fucking around anymore.
Being animegaf is suffering.
...
I've said this recently, but with different meaning related to the high cost of animu happiness.
Don't leave...
Oh you had to post more gifs didn't yo-aughhhhhh
*flops over dead
The Grim Heaper
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Mawaru Penguindrum 4
Going to probably get flak for this, but... Yuri > Ringo! It was a fairly straightforward and swell episode until the end. What the hell is going on there? Oh, yeah, duh... Destiny!
Going to probably get flak for this, but... Yuri > Ringo! It was a fairly straightforward and swell episode until the end. What the hell is going on there? Oh, yeah, duh... Destiny!
Let me take the time to use this post to illustrate an important point.
The person responsible for the show being described above me is also writing Eureka Seven AO.
Resourceful wordsmiths become their own thesaurus anyway. Can't think of a good replacement word? Make one up!
Maybe they used up all their bad ideas and reached a new age of enlightenment writing AO.
Femmeworth
Banned
He isn't the doing the series composition. It's sad to see that he worked on Nadesico, though.
I felt Blood:TLV had less but more powerfully directed fights in general. It makes more of an impact than the generic Monster of the Week Blood-C fights, no matter how large in scale they were. Blood-C's fights come off as over-the-top with gratuitous use of gore, pandering to fans of violence. Blood:TLV's limited encounters draw out the suspense efficiently and uses blood as shock value only when necessary.
It indeed is short. No arguments there and that's why I think further installments to flesh out the world portrayed in the original with the same team would have potentially produced brilliant results. Blood+ and Blood-C are disappointing alternate universe spinoffs at best.
What gave you a headache about the visuals? I thought they were pretty impressive for that time and a prime example of sakuga.
Why is that sad? Nadesico was excellent.
I think you should be more worried that the person doing the series composition has either never worked in the industry before, or for one reason or another refuses to use his actual name on the project.
Mysterious Girlfriend X 01
In spite of the premise I somehow wasn't expecting this to be such unabashed and classy smut. Attention to detail is astounding. Just small little details like desks being filled with books and curtains and individual pages blowing in the wind can really help establish a scene as being more lackadaisical. You get this very meticulously crafted setting that helps alleviate some of the absurdity of the ideas presented, and the unusual art style helps to sell the show as being different and "mysterious".
In spite of the premise I somehow wasn't expecting this to be such unabashed and classy smut. Attention to detail is astounding. Just small little details like desks being filled with books and curtains and individual pages blowing in the wind can really help establish a scene as being more lackadaisical. You get this very meticulously crafted setting that helps alleviate some of the absurdity of the ideas presented, and the unusual art style helps to sell the show as being different and "mysterious".
Femmeworth
Banned
I'm not saying that Nadesico wasn't good. Un-Go looks and sounds like tripe.
Blood-C was over-the-top, but that one fight, in particular, during the last episode was very satisfying. Blood+ was by far more of an extension of the film than Blood-C.
I think it was the blur filter that was used at times.
hosannainexcelsis
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Shou Aikawa worked on some really good shows - original FMA, Oh Edo Rocket - but lately he's shown himself to have gone insane.
Insanity is a necessity of invention.
Hellsing321
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Nyarko-san 1
The only way to escape it is to be eaten first!
ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
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The only way to escape it is to be eaten first!
ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
Also, Twelve Kingdoms. He's got quite a resume. Are we all talking about the same guy?
no no.
This is clearly as I have said before.
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Moe Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn uguu~
Shou Aikawa seems to be good at adapting existing works into scripts, and not so good at coming up with good original ideas which aren't terrible.
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
The nineties were veritably a recondite epoch.
chickdigger802
Banned
So.... gonna start Fate Stay Night VN... anything I needa look out for?
Ultimadrago
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Haha I just started it last night too.
Finished up the prologue earlier and it seems pretty fun so far.
I think I'd much rather play this than to go through the DEEN anime and after catching up on Fate/Zero I've been having a big interest in the Type Moon universe.
I think you should be more worried that the person doing the series composition has either never worked in the industry before, or for one reason or another refuses to use his actual name on the project.
Its Okadabotv2 or the ghost of Mitsuo Iso. Take your pick.
umm...good luck?
Not really sure what else to say except you're in for a ride.
Wise man.
Basileus777
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A flowchart can save you time, otherwise there's not much to look out for, the VN forces you to go through the routes in a set order.
Did you go through all the endings/bad ends
for the Taiga's dojo sticker thing
I gave up half way...
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