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Spring Anime 2012 | Welcome Home, Space Cowboy

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Haly

One day I realized that sadness is just another word for not enough coffee.
Not anymore, I was banned and I did not lose mine.

PROGRESS.
 

Haly

One day I realized that sadness is just another word for not enough coffee.
I volunteer firehawk12 to get banned for 1 hour in order to test this subscription thing.
 

madp

The Light of El Cantare
I don't browse OT either. I find a lot of threads make me mad. It's one thing to disagree with people on games and other works of fiction, but it's a bit trickier when it happens to be values.

I browse OT regularly but I'm not nearly argumentative enough to take part in controversial discussions. I avoid girl-age, politics, religion, pets, depressing news, and pretty much any other toxic discussion that has a high chance of getting me worked up. I'm probably doing the anime thread a disservice by acknowledging and praising that it has an atmosphere of community, but the higher level of respect here is part of the reason why 99% of my posts are in this thread and I discuss few (if any) of my other hobbies elsewhere on the boards. I still strongly believe that AnimeGAF should stay in the OT, though.

I volunteer firehawk12 to get banned for 1 hour in order to test this subscription thing.

When I was accidentally perma'd a while back, all of my subscriptions were still there when I was unbanned.
 

Thoraxes

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Yeah that pretty much sums it up succinctly enough.

I don't think Minori was really bipolar, it seems like her whole deal was that she ignores problems she feels she can't deal with even at the expense of others. Consider that she liked Ryuuji from the very start and didn't make a move because of Taiga, and yet when (in)directly prompted from Ryuuji's advance twice, she gave a wishy washy non-committal reply each time (the second being worse of course because of the circumstances) and furthermore tried to pretend nothing ever happened which of course made things worse. It wasn't until the chocolate scene when she figured out what was actually going on when she said 'to hell with it' and took direct action to finally resolve the situation with no more games, including confessing that she liked Ryuuji all along and explaining why she did what she did. That was the climax of her character arc.

Geez, writing all that just makes Ano Natsu seem very plain and by-the-numbers by comparison. Not saying that's a bad thing, just that for some of the minor problems I had with the show, Toradora is surprisingly smartly written thinking about it.

I ship Minorin x Ami.
 
Working s2 ep 8

The Yamade dude is pretty hilarious, he needs to stop by Wagnaria or whatever more often.

Penguindrum ep 8
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Shouma's faces are really funny all throughout.
Ringo took it to the extreme with Project M, my eyes, so glad Shouma stopped her, though the ending was too much to handle, getting hit by a car, if he is injured or dies, I cant even imagine what I will do. Rather compelling anime still even if several pieces are still not in place, ie, the other Project M'rs havent interacted beyond Kanba. Penguindrum and what it does hasnt been revealed. Plan for why the lady's want the penguindrum, and what is even Yuri's motive is, honestly cant really just be a singer/actor, imo

Nichijou 21

Skit at the start, when she is hit on the head was awesome, one of my favorite moments.

Phantom: Requiem for the Phantom 3/4

Good development for the duo, I really like them working as a team as well as actual getting a relationship or so. Kind of nice. Still curious of what the overall plot is and for the anime to actually "take off."
 

madp

The Light of El Cantare
Its the church of getting excited watching little girls change clothes and put on makeup.

(the gifs prove this)

Excited, yes. Boners, no. It's a fun series. It's like you've never heard of moe or something! :p

You're mistaken, anyway. The hair is the main draw.

YIAtP.gif
 

trejo

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Aquarion EVOL 12-13

Of all the possible candidates he chooses to bring
invisiloli
? This dude was obviously letting other body parts do the thinking.

Also, Kagura is starting to get really annoying. I hope they start defining him into some sort of character soon because right now he's anything but.
 
Fate/Zero 1:

I know you guys hate ufotable, but I was pretty happy to see Fate/Zero open with the plain credits title card that I was used to seeing before each Kara no Kyoukai film. They don't seem to be capable of animating in anything resembling a truly HD resolution but they proved with KnK that given the resources they need they are plenty competent as an anime studio despite animating characters in SD and only the backgrounds in HD.

So, this episode serves mainly to explain in frequently confusing detail the setting of the Fate universe while introducing a bunch of characters while I tried in vain to remember who the hell anybody was. I suppose I'll figure out who everyone is once they've shouted each other's names at each other for a few episodes. Since I haven't bothered to watch Fate/Stay Night, the exposition was actually pretty useful for me. I seem to recall most of you found the first episode terribly boring because of all the exposition that you knew already. I'm a newcomer to this corner of the Nasuverse, so even though they went through all that shit really quickly I still sort of got the general idea of what is going on.

Also, giant creepy magical grubs crawling all over a little girl's naked body. Hrm.
Poor Sakura.
 

Branduil

Member
That line and "Forward at minimum speed." from a previous episode pretty much summed up everything I felt about that show before I dropped it.

I really couldn't recommend this unless you're a very specific type of sci-fi fan. It's fine for me because I enjoy this kind of technobabble, but I can't really call it a great show.
 

cajunator

Banned
Precure Smile 04

ITS MARCH!
Well Its almost technically April, but its March in Precureland.
Her name even has the word green in it!
She's cool and athletic and really rather
hnnng
.
Still in the Precure introductory arc so once again they make it blatantly obvious who the next girl is gonna be.
Anyway, so
asshole red demon guy
turns a
soccer goalpost into a monster. Red demon
says their henshin is boring because HE FUCKING SUCKS and then But then CURE MARCH IN YOUR FACE. Her henshin is third best, behind Sunny's but of course Cure Peace's is still the most heart stoppingly cute one so that is of course my favorite.
So anyway long story short, she kicks some ass like a certain other green outfitted magical girl I can think of and that pretty much ends another squee filled aventure.

Bodacious Space Pirates 4



Glad to see that aristocrats arranging marriages is still a healthy tradition in the future.



That sure would be nice.

Well guess what happens in episode 5?
 

Dresden

Member
I don't know why, but every time I look at Ultimadrago's posts all I can think of is CHAN MIO and I end up grinning for no reason at all.
 
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