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Oh ok.
Ignorance is bliss, etc etc.
Ultimadrago
Member
Once news hits, he could say he didn't catch that drift (even though he responded).
chickdigger802
Banned
Liar Game isn't really like the Fate franchise. Like, at all >_>
Hayate no Gotoku 17
Zawa
man, love all the crazy jobs Hayate had in the past.
And santa is still a troll.
Ok, I guess I can agree with this. Tokiomi wouldn't care once he found out about the methods of the Matou family. He'd say it's in pursuit of greater magical power and all that is good, etc. I don't know about knowing about the
super secret underground bug hole
Ok, Sola-Ui's a bit crazy I guess. She does have some basis for her insanity, moreso than others.
I'm sure each of the Big Three magical families in Fuyuki have certain magical defences and fields. I'm sure the position of their houses/castles would also be in some specific leyline for maximum magical defence. They would know of some secrets but not all. I don't think Tokiomi would have found about the
secret bug basement
KuwabaraTheMan
Banned
I think he has a very idealized view of the world. Tokiomi and Kariya both have very different idealized views of the world and people which inform their views (and this is what makes that confrontation so interesting to me).
I think he can probably infer that the Matou family might not exactly be all roses and kittens, but I don't think that would lead him to immediately jumping to all sorts of craziness. He's an idealist when it comes to mages and that world, and he's looking at everything through that tint.
Wheeljack539
Member
It also could be he sees Kariya's condition as karma for turning towards his family's methods now. The idea of turning one's back on their duty as magi is rather reprehensible in any magi's eyes.
I'd go for deranged white knight but I get your point. You're right, even when Berserker lost control
and attacked Saber ep 5ish
I can agree with you on Tokiomi not having a grasp on reality. Something to note is that all mages from the Clock Tower are kind of like that already.
hosannainexcelsis
Member
Jormungand 1
I must confess that I've never seen a White Fox show before, but now that I have I can see why they have such a poor reputation. This is a concept that is all about stylish action and there is no sense of style to be found. Static pans, bland camera work, bad CG vehicles, no good animation, mediocre character designs (I especially dislike Koko's): the visuals do not impress.
The direction is pretty lousy as well: the action has no energy and the pacing is disjointed. We're given a large cast of characters and a setting of international political intrigue, but we're not given a good idea of who most of these people are, what is going on, or why we should care about any of it. I'm still not clear on who the various players are supposed to be, and the load of unexplained weapons terminology thrown around made my eyes glaze over.
The music is terrible, soul-crushingly bad. It's all repetitive junk whose attempts at excitement with its "untz untz untz" beat just come off as dull. The music direction is at fault as well, as a single track gets played for far too long without attempting to reflect the changes in mood occurring in the story.
In fairness, there was one element that I liked: Koko's eccentric antics can be rather amusing. Unfortunately "Her name is Koko She is loco I said Oh No" in the next episode preview made me retroactively despise everything about her.
I'll watch Black Lagoon instead.
I must confess that I've never seen a White Fox show before, but now that I have I can see why they have such a poor reputation. This is a concept that is all about stylish action and there is no sense of style to be found. Static pans, bland camera work, bad CG vehicles, no good animation, mediocre character designs (I especially dislike Koko's): the visuals do not impress.
The direction is pretty lousy as well: the action has no energy and the pacing is disjointed. We're given a large cast of characters and a setting of international political intrigue, but we're not given a good idea of who most of these people are, what is going on, or why we should care about any of it. I'm still not clear on who the various players are supposed to be, and the load of unexplained weapons terminology thrown around made my eyes glaze over.
The music is terrible, soul-crushingly bad. It's all repetitive junk whose attempts at excitement with its "untz untz untz" beat just come off as dull. The music direction is at fault as well, as a single track gets played for far too long without attempting to reflect the changes in mood occurring in the story.
In fairness, there was one element that I liked: Koko's eccentric antics can be rather amusing. Unfortunately "Her name is Koko She is loco I said Oh No" in the next episode preview made me retroactively despise everything about her.
I'll watch Black Lagoon instead.
Ultimadrago
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QisTopTier
XisBannedTier
chickdigger802
Banned
Tora Dora 2
Ok this is kinda... decent?
And why the fuck is that parrot so creepy?
Ok this is kinda... decent?
And why the fuck is that parrot so creepy?
G Gundam 35
Chibodee vs Domon and it delivered fully. Musical direction of the episode seemed more inspired than usual too as the track selection was ace.
Gundam 00 S2 11
Man, I can't see this having any sort of satisfying conclusion. I usually enjoy space battles no matter how dumb but this was pushing it even for me.
smh
Oreimo 3
I should hate his show but I just can't.
Shiba Inuko-san 2
Sort of a letdown. I wish it was more like Poyopoyo where there's a couple jokes thrown in rather than one and done.
Koutetsuhshin Jeeg 4
I don't think I'd touched on the OP of this show yet.
It's a track called STORMBRINGER by JAM Project and has that same bombast and oomph that Kanjite Knight in Shin Mazniger Z had that gets one absolutely psyched for the episode.
Episode itself was hilarious when not surreal.
Mysterious Girlfriend X 1
Big O? Akira has good taste. It's amazing how a bizarre premise can become a great show in the right hands. This was fantastic.
Heartcatch Precure 7
I probably shouldn't watch both this and Saint Seiya Omega at the same time as I wondered which Saint the student council president was going to be. That said, the pres was probably the most sympathetic victim so far.
Sailor Moon S 95
Return of Naru! Also between this and the R movie, Ami sure does like speculating about the personal lives of others.
Can't tell if stylistic choice or animation error.
Even when its just dialogue and still images layered over a background, Saturn and Uranus are so elegant.
Chibodee vs Domon and it delivered fully. Musical direction of the episode seemed more inspired than usual too as the track selection was ace.
Gundam 00 S2 11
Man, I can't see this having any sort of satisfying conclusion. I usually enjoy space battles no matter how dumb but this was pushing it even for me.
The Celestial Being base was discovered using quantum brainwaves, the 0 Raiser looks to be hax, it evidently has the ability to disembody everyone so they're sitting in an awkward naked position, but that's not even the worst. The enemy mobile suits cloaked themselves... with actual cloaks.
smh
Oreimo 3
I should hate his show but I just can't.
Shiba Inuko-san 2
Sort of a letdown. I wish it was more like Poyopoyo where there's a couple jokes thrown in rather than one and done.
Koutetsuhshin Jeeg 4
I don't think I'd touched on the OP of this show yet.
It's a track called STORMBRINGER by JAM Project and has that same bombast and oomph that Kanjite Knight in Shin Mazniger Z had that gets one absolutely psyched for the episode.
Episode itself was hilarious when not surreal.
Mysterious Girlfriend X 1
Big O? Akira has good taste. It's amazing how a bizarre premise can become a great show in the right hands. This was fantastic.
Heartcatch Precure 7
I probably shouldn't watch both this and Saint Seiya Omega at the same time as I wondered which Saint the student council president was going to be. That said, the pres was probably the most sympathetic victim so far.
Sailor Moon S 95
Return of Naru! Also between this and the R movie, Ami sure does like speculating about the personal lives of others.
Can't tell if stylistic choice or animation error.
Even when its just dialogue and still images layered over a background, Saturn and Uranus are so elegant.
Jex
Member
Further proof that anime corrupts men's hearts and steals their souls!
Femmeworth
Banned
You should see a doctor about that.
The Jormungand female character designs are some of the worst I've ever seen. Thought it might just be Koko, but the eye bandage girl looked terrible as well. Which is odd, because the males looked pretty standard.
Other than that and the ear bleed inducing opening theme, I thought it was alright. The character personalities are the only real highlight.
Other than that and the ear bleed inducing opening theme, I thought it was alright. The character personalities are the only real highlight.
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
It was surprisingly inoffensive about the subject matter considering how fetishistic anime tends to be regarding family dynamics. I don't see the problem with the show beyond some bad writing regarding Kirino's overachiever status (
I WANT MY ANIMU TOO
Basileus777
Member
I don't know, there aren't many opening themes that can make me laugh, so I've got to give it credit.
Looks like you bit the bullet for me!
Yeah, I think the overselling of the fetish angle by others and getting something a little more straightforward was nice. Also it reminds me of this thread sometimes:
Femmeworth
Banned
chickdigger802
Banned
Rurouni Kenshin New Kyoto Arc Part 1
Wow... this was surprisingly terrible. I didn't realize the new OVA/movie series would just be a condensed remake of the kyoto arc. It doesn't help that the animation isn't smooth at all! Studio Deen!!!!! !@#!@#!#!@
The facial expressions were also kinda meh, and it lacked the... 'magic' of the show =/
Disappoint.
Wow... this was surprisingly terrible. I didn't realize the new OVA/movie series would just be a condensed remake of the kyoto arc. It doesn't help that the animation isn't smooth at all! Studio Deen!!!!! !@#!@#!#!@
The facial expressions were also kinda meh, and it lacked the... 'magic' of the show =/
Disappoint.
Just embrace it. The show is wonderful. Sorry, Femmeworth.
It's a really good show. Definitely one of my favorites.
Amagami SS 12 Sae's Arc END
Thank god that's over. Her voice... ugh.
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
Super serious. Mind you I don't know if the light novels go into a much more terrifying shithole.
I thought this too and I'm one of the biggest RK fans around
Everything just felt so sterile. Its like they thought, hey people liked Tsuiokuhen, lets try to apply that to the Kyoto Arc and then failing miserably.Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
I think I may be the only person in the world that didn't dislike the Shin Kyoto Hen OVA. And I have the entire Rurouni Kenshin manga collection somewhere at home.
I told you the wait paid off.
chickdigger802
Banned
I thought this too and I'm one of the biggest RK fans around
We also live in a post sword of the stranger world. this stuff is embarrassing. I've seen better choreographed fights in Bleach >.>"
to
They didn't even give the swordhunter his awesome bendy sword. Must have been too expensive to animate.
KuwabaraTheMan
Banned
Damning stuff. I haven't seen this new OVA, but is it really that awful? I mean, Bleach choreography is a low hurdle to get over.
Jex
Member
Yeah, if a character takes a cab to get from location A to location B you might as well make it CG, because it isn't important.
Except to me.
Femmeworth
Banned
(ノ °益°)ノ ︵ (\ .o.)\
Jex
Member
Sometimes you can just look at the key art, staff information and read the synopsis!
darkside31337
Tomodachi wa Mahou
Mai Ritoru Poni: Yuujou wa Mahou 11
Honestly normally episodes dedicated to winter do literally nothing for me anymore. I haven't seen snow in person in just a little under a decade now. The entire concept seems so foreign to me.
But MLP is different, enough to warm my icy heart and enjoy the wonders of winter once again (from afar). The Winter Wrap Up song itself to start the episode is simply amazing. It's just 3 minutes of catchy fun. I really enjoy the musical segments in this show and this episode gave plenty of it.
Twilight spends the entire episode fretting about how useless she is without magic which did make me sad. But she finally bucked up and figured out that all everypony is useless and needed somebody to whip them in shape. She will totally be the mayor of Ponyville, neigh, the Princess of all of Equestria one day because she's totally awesome.
Honestly normally episodes dedicated to winter do literally nothing for me anymore. I haven't seen snow in person in just a little under a decade now. The entire concept seems so foreign to me.
But MLP is different, enough to warm my icy heart and enjoy the wonders of winter once again (from afar). The Winter Wrap Up song itself to start the episode is simply amazing. It's just 3 minutes of catchy fun. I really enjoy the musical segments in this show and this episode gave plenty of it.
Twilight spends the entire episode fretting about how useless she is without magic which did make me sad. But she finally bucked up and figured out that all everypony is useless and needed somebody to whip them in shape. She will totally be the mayor of Ponyville, neigh, the Princess of all of Equestria one day because she's totally awesome.
Jex
Member
Most people don't pay that much attention so subtle animation like that, so why bother?
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
Winter Wrap Up is an overrated song.
Oh man the streamlined character designs are so bad. I wouldn't have even been able to tell who Misao was if she hadn't been wearing her trademark ninja costume.
The 90s are never coming back, are they?
Jex
Member
It certainly took those Tangled animators a long time.
chickdigger802
Banned
it will make you Darth Vader yell "DEEN!!!!!".
It's... embarrassingly bad.
And bleach has quite a bit of sakuga moments for a 200+ eps show (probably the most imo).
ironically the fillers tend to look better because they don't have to follow kubo's horrendously drawn fight scenes.
Oh man the streamlined character designs are so bad. I wouldn't have even been able to tell who Misao was if she hadn't been wearing her trademark ninja costume.
The 90s are never coming back, are they?
nope. And no comedy moments and random sex scene
. You know what I really miss? The high pitch 90's sword swinging/clashing sound effect you hear in anime and movies.
darkside31337
Tomodachi wa Mahou
Oh really? Looks like more good things are in store for me then as I really enjoyed the first 5 minutes or so to this episode
hosannainexcelsis
Member
Oh man the streamlined character designs are so bad. I wouldn't have even been able to tell who Misao was if she hadn't been wearing her trademark ninja costume.
The 90s are never coming back, are they?
I'd like cel animation back too, but you can't turn back the clock.
Jex
Member
It's not even constrained to Japan though, Western animation like the Illusionist has CG mechanical objects. Drawings trains and cars in stuff is apparently too much hard work,
No. It's definitely not the best song in MLP, that honor goes to "Smile, Smile, Smile", but it's still a great song.
Jex
Member
If people have to keep citing the same examples then there may be some problems!
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
I wish all the Desertrian fights had followed this formula instead.
Speaking strictly of Season 1 songs, Art of the Dress is not only catchier, but fun in how it takes a jab at the modelling industry.
I was actually commenting on how I missed 90s character designs rather than any sort of statement on the cel vs. digital argument, but it's
all the same.I'll never stop missing cel animation, either
Jex
Member
Clearly we need another wartime generation to grow up drawing planes, tanks, jeeps and other stuff rather than little girls!
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