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Spring Anime 2012 | Welcome Home, Space Cowboy

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I uh, guess I didn't really know what this show was about... Thought it would be slice of life + fishing, but their appears to be an
alien
involved. At any rate, I enjoy the Azumanga Daioh-esq sound track and the character design/art is pretty nice too (barring the jarring and consistent use of CG). The aforementioned
alien
's shtick is annoying, hope that gets turned down a bit.

Is introducing yourself to a class really that difficult? Anime has told me there is no greater challenge.
 
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cajunator

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Jexhius said:
If you didn't hear the dub you were doing it wrong.
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This is true.

old anime dubs are a thing to be experienced.
Since I grew up hearing them, I am pretty used to them, so it allows me to say apparent atrocities like "I like Utena's dub" and be 100% serious about it.
 
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Jex

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[Kids on the Slope - 1]

This was much better than I had hoped. I don't really get into to the discussion of 'fans of Bebop will be disappointed' because that's completely irrelevant to the conversation.

What made this episode so good? To give into a bad cliché, it's really a combination of factors which make it stand far above every other show this season.

- The set up is certainly fresher than most other anime titles, although that's really an indication of how bland most titles in the 'teenagers go to higschool' genre are.

- The episode chose to focus and develop three characters in a remarkably small handful of scenes. Remarkably, these people don't fall into the acceptable stereotypes, like the boring bland protaganists of many shows.

- Really good editing and cinematography.

- Jazz and glorious boys love.

It's remarkable how the episode felt like it was about an hour long, in the best possible way. It didn't waste a second because every scene was dedicated to actually advancing the story and the way the scenes flowed into each other was fairly seamless. They managed to get so much done in so little time.

I felt completely immersed in the experience, which is a tribute to how well crafted the show is. Nothing brought me out of it, like characters behaving in a stupid manner, awkward animation or weird shadow effects.
 
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ixix

Exists in a perpetual state of Quantum Crotch Uncertainty.
I don't really watch much anime, but I watched that Nyarlathotep show.

It's a pretty loose adaptation.
 
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firehawk12

Subete no aware
Treme Sakamichi no Apollon:

Down in the Treme, just me and my baby, we're all going crazy, dancing and having fun!

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I was hoping for some
yaoi fingersex
and I finally got it. Thanks anime!

There's really not much I have to say about the episode itself. Structurally it's a combination of the transfer student trope + genki boy trope (hey, just like Mai Mai Miracle!), but with perhaps a lot more introspection that I would have expected. And as one of the people who are indifferent to jazz (at least I don't outright hate it like a lot of other people), it's probably going to be the characters and storytelling that sells the show to me more than the actual music. Treme has contemporary American nihilism, which is more than enough to get me to watch 10 minutes of performances per week. Hopefully this show has more going for it than high school tropes and jazz sakuga.
Transfer student angst and bullying are fairly banal at this point
.

Well, unless it's actually
yaoi and the guys end up banging each other
. Then I'm all in. :p

Also, for some reason I got the impression that the show was about college-aged kids... not sure where I got that idea. But it's too bad, because high school is so boring.

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Aoi Hana, but it has a non-ending. ;_;
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It has more of an ending than 30 chapters of the actual manga!
 
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dimb

Bjergsen is the greatest midlane in the world
Jexhius said:
I felt completely immersed in the experience, which is a tribute to how well crafted the show is. Nothing brought me out of it, like characters behaving in a stupid manner, awkward animation or weird shadow effects.
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Are we already drawing lines between Lupin and Apollon?
 
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cajunator

Banned
Swagger on the Slope 1

Good shit.
Still iffy on the OP, but visually and musically its enjoyable.
Sentaro is a jazzbro and Nishimi is a nerdy classical music pianist.
This should be interesting to see how they develop as musicians and play jazz together.
Also, twintails is [redacted].
 
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-Minsc-

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Kids on the Slope - 1

Seeing as I have to get to work I'll make this quick and say "what those peoples up there said".

Also, dem long skirts. Anime is saved.
 
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KO Traveling Hobo

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ixix said:
I don't really watch much anime, but I watched that Nyarlathotep show.

It's a pretty loose adaptation.
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The more I think about it, though, the more I feel that the show's portrayal of Nyarlathotep really makes sense. I mean, that's the kind of shit that Nyarly probably does to blow off steam in between leading men to horrific destruction.
 
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jman2050

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Kids on the Slope 1

I like, I like.

Slow start but I really started to get into it as the episode went along. Must be hitting all the right notes (heh) with my inner music nerd.

That whole drum scene was mesmerizing.

Here's hoping they use this show as an opportunity for some glorious music porn. I could use some of that.
 
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Branduil

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Jexhius said:
[Kids on the Slope - 1]

It's remarkable how the episode felt like it was about an hour long, in the best possible way. It didn't waste a second because every scene was dedicated to actually advancing the story and the way the scenes flowed into each other was fairly seamless. They managed to get so much done in so little time.
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That's what it felt like, that the show did in one episode what most shows would take two episodes to do. The work by the director, the editor, and the scriptwriter to compress all that material is truly impressive and praiseworthy.
 
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Urban Scholar

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Kids on the slope 1

I'm not a fan of slice of life/drama anime to be honest. I do like how this show is a fusion of musical influence meets school angst. Also dat jazz
 
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ixix

Exists in a perpetual state of Quantum Crotch Uncertainty.
KO Traveling Hobo said:
The more I think about it, though, the more I feel that the show's portrayal of Nyarlathotep really makes sense. I mean, that's the kind of shit that Nyarly probably does to blow off steam in between leading men to horrific destruction.
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For some crazy reason I've got a sneaking suspicion that no amount of thinking about what I saw is going to result in an increase in the amount of sense it makes.
 
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madp

The Light of El Cantare
Rapala Pro Tsuritama 01:

I don't really know how to feel about this yet. The episode let me feeling a bit colder than I was expecting, and Haru is pretty punchable so I'm not exactly looking forward to seeing more of him. The individual characters on their own are fairly weak, so it looks like the show is going to live or die by the quality of their interaction once everyone is assembled.

I really liked the patchwork look of the prologue and ED and wish it had carried over to the rest of the show. Everything is nice and colorful, but maybe a bit too flat for my personal taste. It looks like I'm going to need at least one more episode in order to really have any meaningful impressions.
 
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Jex

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firehawk12 said:
Treme Sakamichi no Apollon:

Also, for some reason I got the impression that the show was about college-aged kids... not sure where I got that idea. But it's too bad, because high school is so boring.
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Like Wandering Son?
firehawk12 said:
Hopefully this show has more going for it than high school tropes and jazz sakuga.
Transfer student angst and bullying are fairly banal at this point
.
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I think screwing the whole show down to those tropes is fairly reductionist. Those things certainly inform, I don't know, the first part of the episode, but the focus shifts around onto the relationship between the characters, which is what's interesting to watch.

Moreover, the main character actually changes over the course of a single episode - his reaction to his situation and the people around him evolved over the course of the episode due to his interaction.

Even ignoring the characters, the way the show is put together makes it stand out from the majority of anime titles set in a highschool.
 
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Jex

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InfiniteNine said:
I don't really get Fumoffu's high ranking after grabbing it on BD a while. I rewatched it and I got almost nothing out of it.
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There's a lot of 'fairly middling' mecha anime like Full Metal Panic, but only a few really enjoyable comedies like Fumoffu.
 
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jman2050

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Branduil said:
That's what it felt like, that the show did in one episode what most shows would take two episodes to do. The work by the director, the editor, and the scriptwriter to compress all that material is truly impressive and praiseworthy.
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I didn't feel like there was a lot of "compression" going on. The first episode was pretty straightforward in what it was trying to be and it didn't feel like they were moving very fast. The real skill being employed here is selectively giving the audience the information they need and not much more. It's a skill that many writers/directors/whatnot would be wise to consider.

ixix said:
For some crazy reason I've got a sneaking suspicion that no amount of thinking about what I saw is going to result in an increase in the amount of sense it makes.
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That's the beauty of it!
 
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One thing that was curious to me was how little background music the first episode of Kids on the Slope had. I'm wondering if this was a deliberate decision to reflect Kaoru's current state of mind, and the series will become more musical as he opens up to those around him.
 
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