Well it's certainly doing well as an adaptation, which is more than what I can say about Attack on Schedules.
All about family and Ichiko's unhonest self that she'll grow out of soon. GAGS EVERYWHERE, and they shall not go away, because it's part of the show/mango.
I can kind of handle things when I'm watching a movie, I guess, but I don't ever feel any emotional attachment to dogs, because I know that they're just secretly plotting ways to rip my limbs off and bite me to death.
Okay, now something larger is beginning to happen. Chitanda's uncle told her something about the Classics Club when she was a kid that made her cry, and now she forgot, and her uncle is missing, presumably dead, and now she wants to know. This setup seems kinda difficult to work with, as so many questions have to be answered: what did he tell her, why did she cry, why did she repress it, etc.? But whatever, I'll give them a chance.
I dunno how Oreki was able to figure out what was going on with that guy. But I wonder why that guy made such a stink about them coming in. He could have just said "Oh hold on, I'll get them for you." from the beginning. He knew where they were. I guess cause he kept his cigarettes and shit in there he thought they'd smell? Yeah, I'll use that as my explanation,
Well the anthologies contained some clue about her uncle, how "it's better to be forgotten", and "it will become a classic". They seem to directly contradict each other; perhaps I'm misremembering what the anthology said. But the first one that her uncle wrote in was missing. Twist.
I can kind of handle things when I'm watching a movie, I guess, but I don't ever feel any emotional attachment to dogs, because I know that they're just secretly plotting ways to rip my limbs off and bite me to death.
I can kind of handle things when I'm watching a movie, I guess, but I don't ever feel any emotional attachment to dogs, because I know that they're just secretly plotting ways to rip my limbs off and bite me to death.
The "everyone becomes a ninja" episode, with all the entertaining charm I've come to expect. The "genius ninja" trio who just wanted someone to notice them was hilarious.
In the latest surprisingly good moment of animation, there was a really nice water animation cut this episode. The coloring and detail in the shape of the splashes was well done here. The elasticity of water - its ability to spin out into any kind of fluid shape - makes it an ideal subject for a playful animator. When I think of great water animation, Tsuritama is the only thing that comes to mind, but I'm sure there are plenty of other examples. There's probably something in Ponyo, but I don't remember that film very well.
Edit: Doing some research it looks like Masao Ookubo was probably the one who handled this cut. He's credited as storyboarder and key animator on this episode, and looking at a MAD of his work, he seems to specialize in effects animation. He does some great work.
I love that the show is willing to mock its core concepts like this. The "deco" is supposed to be what the show is selling to kids, yet the moral this episode teaches is that it's useless junk which only weighs you down in any practical situation. Hopefully the little girls watching took that to heart!
I'm about done with Darker Than Black (and Nyarko will be done in another 2 weeks or so), so I'm wondering: can AnimeGAF give me a recommendation? I don't mind long series, but for I'd much prefer something that's closer to one cours.
An incredibly ruthless :cuilan that makes the Phantom Troupe look like upstanding citizens (or at least before we saw the special chapters telling us exactly what they did to the Kurta).
I'm about done with Darker Than Black (and Nyarko will be done in another 2 weeks or so), so I'm wondering: can AnimeGAF give me a recommendation? I don't mind long series, but for I'd much prefer something that's closer to one cours.
I'm about done with Darker Than Black (and Nyarko will be done in another 2 weeks or so), so I'm wondering: can AnimeGAF give me a recommendation? I don't mind long series, but for I'd much prefer something that's closer to one cours.
Yeah this is boring. I don't really care about seeing what all I remember from whenever I saw it the first time. It is just mediocre quality pretty much all around with no emotional weight or drama. Dropped.
I'm about done with Darker Than Black (and Nyarko will be done in another 2 weeks or so), so I'm wondering: can AnimeGAF give me a recommendation? I don't mind long series, but for I'd much prefer something that's closer to one cours.
The best is the in-show admission that Usagi bullshits through all of her speeches. That kind of attitude towards the premise is really what makes the anime as good as it is.
Devil is a Part timer, also known as Hataraku Maou Sama, is about the preposterous situation of the dark lord and his servant ending up in modern day civilation and having to adjust to it by getting part time work and having to make ends meet. Its hilarious and really fun. The hero in pursuit of them and other people also end up being transported to the modern age and having to deal with this new world in their own ways.
to be Ange's rebound after "Joe" was sent off to do border patrol outside the kingdom.
One of these days we'll get a Precure with the same situation and the
Cure getting NTR'd will turn evil and become a major villain throughout the remainder of the show's run. During which she'll kill off the guy who was responsible for her betrayal.
There was also some top-tier :wonzo going in this episode.
Good show. Not Hyouka good, but still damn good. First season is a more expensive Azumanga Daioh with less jokes. But with the second season there is a subtle shift away from the yonkoma gag humor to a proper slice-of-life format, in that everything is no longer teleologically oriented towards the gag in each scene. The humor is still there, but it evolves naturally from the girls' circumstances. There's less artificial set-up for one-off jokes and more straight up chilling. I think K-On depicts how someone fondly reminiscing about the past would see things, with no struggles or negative experiences standing out. The expiration date that the second season places on the nostalgia in the form of their graduation adds a good deal of emotional weight as well. Marathoning this was like a nostalgia bender.
People harp on the fact that the music component of the show is constantly in the periphery but, while true, I thought that the few times the show fixates on the music were exceptionally well done. I liked when the characters were aimlessly playing their instruments without a particular song in mind. It conveyed the exploratory dimension of music well imo, better than most anime at least. KyoAni good qual animation (esp. in capturing the nuances of body language) plus god tier incidental music equals a good show. It's a good show.
Casshern Sins
Eva of Shounen. Though the character designs are shounen-y (thick black lines, high contrast shading, hatching during fight scenes etc.), the backgrounds are beautiful dystopian landscapes with wonderfully ambiguous architecture. The debris effects in particular deserve commendation. Though there is a fight scene in nearly every episode, they have moral significance, instead of being kinetic/action porn. And though the episodic stories are largely unrelated to one another, they have a cumulative effect on the main character's psyche, unlike most action shows where episodic stories are just an excuse for filler. Each episode takes basic motifs like Love, Art, or Revenge and builds mini-dramas out of them. Casshern is a tabula rasa and every episode adds another facet to his being.
It's also THE religious anime. Anything involving artificial intelligence will necessarily confront the mind/body dichotomy, but this show goes about it in an interesting way. The medieval/catholic worldview that the destruction of the body precedes the liberation of the soul, that the soul's immortality can be represented through contrast in the violent devastation of the physical form is represented in terms of robots. Casshern is saddled with an eternal guilt despite not knowing what he's done, a robot equivalent to the Fall. There's a lot of focus on beauty, beauty in the Greco-Roman sense as a correlate to moral worth, but the show seems to reject it as per it's broadly pauline conviction (see Leda). However, since pauline christianity is essentially platonism (essentially), the show can still be enjoyed for it's salient message about asceticism (which thankfully never wanders into some kind of contemptus mundi, given that
the original Luna gave out death and thus gave life meaning. The new Luna giving out eternal life renders life meaningless, and this spiritual meaninglessness is literalized through the Ruin. It never devolves into chasing the afterlife).
Also, it has loads of great religious iconography: the madonna, the blood and sacrament, the virgin birth, martyrdom, robots being a creation of man similar to man being a creation of god, and so on. Though the basic visual language doesn't change much, it complements the script beautifully. Annoying with the repetitive soundtrack and varying quality in the episodic arcs, but overall very good stuff. It's also a good show.
So that was the ending I sort of expected, every bit of dumb action fun that was present through the rest of the show. And even a chance at season 2, which there damn well better be.
I began watching this show for Clockface, which I now affectionately call by her actual name because Kurumi is a goddess, but I stayed for the absolute absurd harem gaining situations and the girls being attractive and/or heart attack-inducingly adorable. This is the probably the best example of a stupid show with action and a harem of girls who are badass motherfuckers, or however you would call something similar to Infinite Stratos.
So that was the ending I sort of expected, every bit of dumb action fun that was present through the rest of the show. And even a chance at season 2, which there damn well better be.
I began watching this show for Clockface, which I now affectionately call by her actual name because Kurumi is a goddess, but I stayed for the absolute absurd harem gaining situations and the girls being attractive and/or heart attack-inducingly adorable. This is the probably the best example of a stupid show with action and a harem of girls who are badass motherfuckers, or however you would call something similar to Infinite Stratos.
So that was the ending I sort of expected, every bit of dumb action fun that was present through the rest of the show. And even a chance at season 2, which there damn well better be.
I began watching this show for Clockface, which I now affectionately call by her actual name because Kurumi is a goddess, but I stayed for the absolute absurd harem gaining situations and the girls being attractive and/or heart attack-inducingly adorable. This is the probably the best example of a stupid show with action and a harem of girls who are badass motherfuckers, or however you would call something similar to Infinite Stratos.
