firehawk12
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It's ironic, because the girl is usually more powerful than the guy in some way, but is still subservient to him because she's in love with him or fated to protect him!
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hosannainexcelsis
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You know what? I quit!
You quit, or you're fired?
Jex
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It does look good, er, artistically. I imagine it will still be fairly stupid in practice, but that's probably just my innate bias against this kind of story. I find the concept inherently dumb.
It's funny that you mention this as soon as I finish an ep of Sket Dance, which does abuse this without remorse.
KO Traveling Hobo
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That's where the irony comes in.
It'll be especially weird since Bosch uses his deeper voice for the kid and his higher pitched voice for the adult. I can't think of any good alternatives, though.Can't have a magical girlfriend without the magic, but even magic loses to plot weapon or plot armor.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
There's a magical girlfriend in Sket Dance?
Her magic is usually inferior to whatever the man has anyway. Even if he's just a normal peasant, he has access to something that makes him better. Sora no Otoshimono comes to mind, where dude can save girls by just being nice to them.
Jex
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I don't think there's any 'maybe' about it. It surely appeals to the otaku who, god knows, wouldn't be able to go up to and talk to a female themselves. Luckily, stalker-chan takes away that nasty first step.
Fate Zero is such a pretty looking show.
The first fight between
looked fantastic.
This looks adorable!
The first fight between
Saber and Lancer
Jinrui wa Suitai Shimashita . . . too bad about the whole being directed by seiji kishi thing though.
This looks adorable!
There's nothing inherently wrong with the trapped-in-a-fake-dimension genre, it's just usually done poorly.
Different mask, same face.
Looks good.
You know what? I quit!
Is this the part where you transform into communityroll?
That's when the wish fulfillment is the most blatant and insipid. All girls are wallowing in lonely misery so any spineless guy with no personality can build a harem by just not slapping them.
One of the nice things about Spice and Wolf is that the series does subvert expectations to some degree by providing each side of the relationship with opportunities to help the other. And it helps that Lawrence is an actual character. Of course the series does still play the magical girl trope straight in certain ways.
Jex
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Something less repetitive, I hope.
dakkumauji
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My brother wanted to see Summer Wars, so I rewatched parts of it.
It was my first time watching it dubbed and I like how they dubbed it. The dubbed voices were good, no one sounded squeaky or terrible. Probably one of the few anime where I would be ok with it dubbed or subbed.
Still thought it looked just as pretty as the first time of course.
It was my first time watching it dubbed and I like how they dubbed it. The dubbed voices were good, no one sounded squeaky or terrible. Probably one of the few anime where I would be ok with it dubbed or subbed.
Still thought it looked just as pretty as the first time of course.
Jex
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I don't know if that premise would stretch over a whole series though. Also, is it just going to be a fantasy show with that particular premise, or will it be more about the world of videogames in general like in eXistenz?
Clearly, it remains to be seen.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
And it's worse when they're tsundere, because then the women give off the illusion of having a backbone while wallowing in self-pity.
I dunno man, I don't think there was enough karuta in Chihayafuru.
Hrrrrrrrrrrrm.
Jex
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The amount of money it takes to make an anime series is more than you could pull off through a kickstarter, I imagine,
Unknown Soldier
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You ain't seen shit yet. You might as well grab some snacks and get ready to marathon it at this point.
Fate/Zero 12:
This episode contained 100% people talking about things, and yet it had more going on than most shows I've seen the past few seasons.
Gilgamesh and Kirei have the most interesting conversations. Gilgamesh actually does a pretty good job of wholly repudiating the greatest philsophical flaws of the devoutly religious during his chat with Kirei, much to Kirei's discomfort. And then shit's about to get real since
it's pretty obvious that Gilgamesh is tired of being Tohsaka Tokiami's Servant and would like a change of scenery.
I think the real problem is how it exposes the thinking of its audience, which is based on these two faulty premises:
1. I'm a nice guy
2. But girls don't notice it for some irrational reason. If they did, they would fall in love with me.
Jex
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Well, if you tie it with British soap-operas, the crime rate is pretty high regardless of whether you're in an urban or rural environment.
3. But why leave my room to talk to people when I can play a videogame where meeting new people gives me stats and abilities
Jex
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It's called expressive facial animation!
I kind of half watched the show the first time around so its like im seein for the first time lol.
I forgot how much i liked Rider.
Dude is so fucking boss.
Hellsing321
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Is that what the kids are calling it nowadays?
Jex
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Sometimes (often) things get fairly weird in here.
Nothing is too weird. Nothing is too magical.
I'm sure no one in this thread has these problems.
Jex
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Tiger and Bunny levels of cash?
More than 10 dollars. I think.
Whoa, don't blame the game for something it doesn't even try to do. P4 is a different type of story than P3, and the game is much better than the anime. Saying that, the anime didn't turn out that bad, I really don't know what they could have done to make it better. It's different enough from the game, so it's not boring for the people who've played the game already, they played around with some stuff and it turned out pretty well.
But seriously, the game is a masterpiece, much better than P3.
Oh, and you do realize that the story is not over? The true ending is coming in an OVA, and it'll be much more up your alley, I think.
I'm not sure if this is something I should say in AnimeGAF, but the dub for P4 was amazing, I prefer the English voices, especially Teddie's.
Unknown Soldier
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At least 20 dollars judging from the amount of animation work in the show. In 13 episodes this show had more animation than all the other shows of the Fall season combined.
Fate/Zero 13:
Yeah, I'm kinda glad I only need to wait a week for the next episode to air. I would have been pissed if I had to wait months after that cliffhanger ending. Come on ufotable, did you really think people needed a cliffhanger like that to want to watch the second season of this show? Do you have so little faith in your audience that you couldn't just trust they would come back for more of something like this show?
Both Caster and Ryunosuke, and Rider and Waver, had some pretty awesome conversations this episode. Amazingly enough, Ryunosuke had probably the best and most rational explanation for the eternal question of why a loving and omnipotent God would allow his creations to suffer the way they do. For a serial-killing psychopath, he certainly understands the nature of existence more than most people ever could imagine.
I'm guessing this is intentional irony since the psychotic Ryunosuke's and the Church-indoctrinated Kirei's philosophies could not be more in opposition, and Ryunosuke's actually the more lucid of the two. The Europeans and the Japanese are strangely united in the sense that culturally there is intense distrust of their religious institutions, borne out of the long history of Catholicism's abuses in medieval Europe, and the ruthless use of Shintoism in Japan to drive the people to war in the 20th century. The contrasting of Kirei's and Ryunosuke's philosophies with what kind of people they are is a pretty blatant condemnation of the institutions of religion on Urobuchi's part.
And now I'm going to self-flagellate a little by going from ufotable's F/Z to check out a few episodes of DEEN's Fate/Stay Night. I'm expecting animation quality is going to decline just a bit. :|
ehh, i'm not really feeling this.
i think you're confusing ufotable with shaft here!
it's at least two boxes of ramen, maybe three
KO Traveling Hobo
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Nothing wrong with a little convenience!
Those already exist.
Femmeworth
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Don't those already exist?
Where!?
Any shoujo where the boyfriend always know the perfect thing to say to her.
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Rurouni Kenshin: Shin Kyoto Hen Part 1
Pros:
- It's more Kenshin.
- Misao is fucking moé, man.
- The choreography is awesome.
- They used music from the original show.
- This material has been covered before.
- You cannot just expect to cram who knows how many volumes of the manga in forty-five minutes and expect it to work.
- Where's my fucking Jinchuu arc?
- People complaining about the cloth designs in Saint Seiya Omega should look at all the popped-collar trenchcoats in Kenshin; Nobuhiro Watsuki's fashion sense was very anachronistic. The nineties?
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