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Spring Anime 2013 l OT One l All roads lead to this

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DiGiKerot

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BluWacky said:
If we could have more light novels like Twelve Kingdoms (I know you hate it, but I don't!), or Kino's Journeys - or hell, even Read or Die - that would be just swell.

I'd even take Scrapped Princess again, if I could.
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The Scrapped Princess novels, at least those which Tokyopop released in English, were terrible though. It's astonishing how much better the anime made the material.
 
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Averon

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Just to get a sense for how overpowered the MC is, here a small list of some the things he can do:


Magic eye that can understand magic and see everything around him.
Can restore anything up to 24 hours into the past. Does not work on the dead.
Can convert matter into energy.
Can disperse targeted matter into atoms and molecules at long range.
Can self-restore himself in a split second.
Can understand what magic his enemy will use just by looking at their magic sequence, which basically when they're casting magic.

There's more, but you get the idea.
 
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Hitokage

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Averon said:
Just to get a sense for how overpowered the MC is, here a small list of some the things he can do:


Magic eye that can understand magic and see everything around him.
Can restore anything up to 24 hours into the past. Does not work on the dead.
Can convert matter into energy.
Can disperse targeted matter into atoms and molecules at long range.
Can self-restore himself in a split second.
Can understand what magic his enemy will use just by looking at their magic sequence, which basically when they're casting magic.

There's more, but you get the idea.
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DTL's dream.
 
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7Th

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Someone leaked some REALLY spoiler-y scenes from VVV episode 10; if you care about getting Sunrise'd in real time, you better be careful when searching for VVV stuff.
 
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KuwabaraTheMan

Banned
Tamerlane said:
Saying this show has "good animation", while correct, is misleading. It's the excellent direction and cinematography that makes it work. Canted shots are balanced by the serene pacing, the wonderful sound design, and the fact that everything is constantly bathed in soft, warm light, like living photography, so that despite the dramatic staging it's a really chill experience. As such I wasn't bothered as much by the slower first half because the moment-to-moment direction was so superb and relaxing. Even if you take out the frequent quirky visual metaphor bits the aesthetic of this show is unmatched. KyoAni have earned their rep. I believe that even with a smaller budget the only loss would be verisimilitude and not quality.
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Very well put. I think all of those touches really work towards crafting the experience that Hyouka creates, and it does always have such a relaxing atmosphere. I also believe that one of the places which the visuals really excel is in the way the character's expressions change, and in the subtle movements of their bodies. It's not simply a matter of having 'good animation', but in the staff paying very close attention to the way that the characters move and react to things, and consequently having everyone in the show feel more alive.

While the characterization is also excellent, I feel Hyouka is far more allegorical than it lets on, in the sense that its characters represent psychological ideas more than independent agents. They push the thematic center forward: in my view, it's the nature and representation of past time through memories, histories, etc. Oreki is introduced as someone wholly living in the present, without any sentiment or distractions. His worldview is utilitarian to an absurd degree and, worse than cynical, he doesn't seem to perceive value in anything. Yet the world of the show wholly contradicts him by being intimately concerned in preserving the past and developing the present into the past. Many of the mysteries revolve around methods of recording: video, newspapers, archived literary journals and so on. The process of investigation itself can be seen as the constructing of hypothetical pasts, and so in becoming a great detective Oreki must free himself from his dispassion. This emphasis on past time extends to the club members. Satoshi and Mayaka are connected to Oreki through middle school, and Satoshi repeatedly describes himself as being a database of memory. Chitanda is the most direct challenge to Oreki's worldview, by being engaged in these investigative pasts literally all the time. Meaning is then born out of these pasts, and the show conveys it through a myriad of subtle means: with Japanese traditions becoming the setting for many of the later episodes, with Oreki's relationship to his sister (his only displayed familial connection) developing, and so on. All of these forces are meant to act on Oreki and make him reconsider his utilitarian mandate.
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Very interesting observations here. I hadn't thought about the relationship between the present and the past in such terms, but I think it's a pretty astute one. Something that I think really underscores this is the way that most of the central mysteries resolve around people's understanding of past events having been deliberately altered. The archives of past information that the characters explore are actually falsehoods, and it's up to Oreki and the others to reconstruct the past and determine what actually happened.

Branduil said:
Is it bad that I want to go find everyone who said
it's not about incest, really!
and laugh in their face?
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It's the only rational reaction to this.
 
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Defuser

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Fuck they butchered the Golden Time LN characters designs. Nooooooooo!!
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Westlo

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Defuser said:
Fuck they butchered the Golden Time LN characters designs. Nooooooooo!!
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Doesn't look anywhere near as good as the LN designs but it's always going to get simplified to adapt for motion. It's more than good enough imo, heck it's not like it's Sora no Woto, that was a tragedy.
 
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Crash Station

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Branduil said:
Is it bad that I want to go find everyone who said
it's not about incest, really!
and laugh in their face?
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To be fair,
it wasn't at the start. I'd almost think the plan at the beginning was to not go the incest route, but after a while when the dude realized how much money he was making, he was just like "fuck it, incest end for everyone! Take that, fanbase!"

I could of course be completely wrong here. It just seems like the whole point of the series was to betray expectations,
but then we come full circle and is exactly what the title suggested.
 
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Heysoos

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Hey guys, I got a couple of guest passes for CR. I always just let them expire, but I figured there might be someone interested in here.





Quote to reveal.
 
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Psycho_Mantis

Banned
cosmicblizzard said:
To be fair,
it wasn't at the start. I'd almost think the plan at the beginning was to not go the incest route, but after a while when the dude realized how much money he was making, he was just like "fuck it, incest end for everyone! Take that, fanbase!"

I could of course be completely wrong here. It just seems like the whole point of the series was to betray expectations,
but then we come full circle and is exactly what the title suggested.
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Kubo would be proud:

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RurouniZel

Asks questions so Ezalc doesn't have to
Westlo said:
*jacknodding gif*

Dat courage to
not make her adopted, true courage. Hopefully Kureneko is like babysitting their twins or something in the 10 year after novel
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They should use Kirino's model income to buy a mansion, hire Kuroneko as a maid, and then Kyousuke would end up spending more time with her than Kirino. ;P
 
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dakkumauji

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Averon said:
The next big LN to be adapted is likely Mahouka Koukou No Rettousei, which has a MC so overpowered that he makes Kirito and Jesus Yamato blush. It also has incest pandering with the brocon sister. Can't wait for the shit-storm on here and /a/ when that airs next year.
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The fact that it sounds completely blatant actually makes it sounds interesting to watch. No switch and bait like SAO.

Also, lol at the OreImo spoilers.
 
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Save 'N Quit

Banned
Averon said:
The next big LN to be adapted is likely Mahouka Koukou No Rettousei, which has a MC so overpowered that he makes Kirito and Jesus Yamato blush. It also has incest pandering with the brocon sister. Can't wait for the shit-storm on here and /a/ when that airs next year.
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Averon bro

Spoiler tag that, They're not supposed to know that he's broken as shit
 
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R_thanatos

Member
RurouniZel said:
They should use Kirino's model income to buy a mansion, hire Kuroneko as a maid, and then Kyousuke would end up spending more time with her than Kirino. ;P
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That's not zero no tsukaima.

Averon said:
Just to get a sense for how overpowered the MC is, here a small list of some the things he can do:


Magic eye that can understand magic and see everything around him.
Can restore anything up to 24 hours into the past. Does not work on the dead.
Can convert matter into energy.
Can disperse targeted matter into atoms and molecules at long range.
Can self-restore himself in a split second.
Can understand what magic his enemy will use just by looking at their magic sequence, which basically when they're casting magic.

There's more, but you get the idea.
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Seems quite broken

Defuser said:
Fuck they butchered the Golden Time LN characters designs. Nooooooooo!!
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Doesn't seem that bad.We have seen worse .
 
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Seraphis Cain

bad gameplay lol
Oh man, just saw a picture of
Kyousuke and Kirino kissing at their "wedding"
from the Oreimo LN ending.

Hahaha hoooooooly shit. This is glorious.
 
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Crash Station

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Well, I think with the way this thread has gone, anyone who didn't want to be spoiled on Oreimo already has been. You can easily guess the context of most of these reactions.

It's Usagi Drop all over again.
 
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cnet128

Banned
cosmicblizzard said:
Well, I think with the way this thread has gone, anyone who didn't want to be spoiled on Oreimo already has been. You can easily guess the context of most of these reactions.

It's Usagi Drop all over again.
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Yeah, I wanted to go in unspoiled but it's become pretty blindingly obvious at this point.

Glad I still don't know any of the details though, so keep those spoiler tags active >.>
 
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