Two more weeks! Two more weeks! Two more weeks!
Also I got the recording for my orchestra piece yesterday
Awesome! If you don't mind and if it's available I would love to listen to it.
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Spring Anime 2013 |OT -7| My Giant CG Pony Can't Possibly Read This Much Baudelaire
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Awesome! If you don't mind and if it's available I would love to listen to it.
Chet Rippo
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I'm glad you like it. Not the kind of list I would make, but knowing you, it fits.
And K-ON! isn't the kind of show I would marathon, but that's just me. Take it nice and easy like the show.
I'll get started on this one day. I remember parts of the first season so i'll be starting from square one.
For sure!
Jex
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Tell me Narag, does anything top the emotional battle at the climax of Final episode 2?
airmangataosenai
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Watching OreImo right now, this episode is straight-up amazing so far. Kyousuke going full-on perv, Kirino tilting her head to somehow look up a game character's skirt.
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No. Next ep has a good moment and the ending is neat but it ends up being about the new people I didn't care about so zoned out.
Jex
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I'm not surprised.
Disappointed, but not surprised.
I can say without hesitation that the first two episdoes of Final are better than the entirety of the previous series, and not just because they actually have animation.
It really is the highpoint of the series though. I think being a sequel and the OVA format helps in this respect as it feels like characters are suddenly expendable.
Losing Goldymarg then Choryujin getting fucked was so hardcore. Then, just for a minute, when GaoFighGar's hands begin cracking, there's just enough doubt to make you wonder if he was going to lose. On top of that iirc, watching Gai finish off Mamoru was really strong on initial viewing as I don't think we knew it wasn't really him yet, could only suspect.
Jex
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I don't want to call your memory a liar, but outside of some really neat effects animation here and there most of the combat is really boring attack spam. If you want to prove me wrong go sit through 49 episodes of the series.
It doesn't help that quite a few battles lack tangible stakes until the second half of the show and even then I don't really care because I find it hard to care about these extremely thin characters. Perhaps if I had seen it when I was considerably younger it would have enjoyed it more.
[Robotics;Notes]
It really isn't. Dedication Through Light was just being Dedication Through Light, sorry.
I doubt there'd be any proving you wrong. I'm seeing stuff a little differently nowadays as I've exposed myself to a larger (and better) body of work. Sometimes my memory is in line with the quality of a show, sometimes not. I was wrong about Violence Jack being any good and for a while there, I didn't really care for the Fist of the North Star movie until I rewatched it recently and saw how nicely it was animated and how varied it was in its presentation. The first person scene with Jagi vs Kenshiro was so neat.
Jex
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Pretty much, yeah. The part where Gai shouts that he can't lose because has has courage is amazing and is actually the kind of classic WIN BY SHOUTING that the series sorely lacked. Also,
it really does look like Gai has just killed Mamoru. There's plenty of reasons why Mamoru could have been acting very erratically. Great stuff.
I wish I still had the source so I can make .gif
But its not fair to hoping 50 eps show have consistent high quality, although I do think GGG TV very consistent deliver nice cut here and there.
That fight was awesome for reason that you stated but its lack the sense of camaraderie in many episode of TV series that very awesome to me.. but yeah too bad Final peaked at eps 2.
But its not fair to hoping 50 eps show have consistent high quality, although I do think GGG TV very consistent deliver nice cut here and there.
That fight was awesome for reason that you stated but its lack the sense of camaraderie in many episode of TV series that very awesome to me.. but yeah too bad Final peaked at eps 2.
Canis lupus
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Hajime no Ippo: Mashiba vs. Kimura
One of my favourite fights, Kimura is not blessed with a physical gift like Miyata or Ippo, he is a normal guy. Manly tears were shed after he couldn't move anymore and just stand there looking at Mashiba...
One of my favourite fights, Kimura is not blessed with a physical gift like Miyata or Ippo, he is a normal guy. Manly tears were shed after he couldn't move anymore and just stand there looking at Mashiba...
Camaraderie and, well, characterization was sort of lost in Final if I remember right. Gai becomes this being fueled by pure courage as a flanderization of his character and everyone else is just sort of there. Peril of a large cast in a short show!
ZachDeKoromaru
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Oreimo S2 - 2
I enjoyed this episode way more than I expected I would. Every character in this episode was just absolutely fun to watch and I wish they were like this more often.
If you think Manami won't fuck you up, you're quite wrong.
I enjoyed this episode way more than I expected I would. Every character in this episode was just absolutely fun to watch and I wish they were like this more often.
KuwabaraTheMan
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Space Brothers 53:
So, next week is going to be the last of these recap episodes, right? Because three in a row is already pretty excessive, even keeping the schedule change in mind. I want to get back to new material.
So, next week is going to be the last of these recap episodes, right? Because three in a row is already pretty excessive, even keeping the schedule change in mind. I want to get back to new material.
Yeah its just lacking the heart of the TV series (Maybe this why jex not like it, there just many mech fan that trapped in little boy mindset like me, and GGG TV deliver that aspect real well. Its some hardcore old super robot/toku stuff there)
Its OVA for otaku now with all that boobs lol
Its worth watching though for sakuga, enhance alpha 3 experience and dat ending. and oh awesome final version of Yuusha oh Tanjou.
Jex
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Well, no it's not entirely fair, although some shows managed to look pretty okay throughout (Zeta Gundam springs to mind). Whether it's fair or not has nothing to do with enjoyment of the end product and if my enjoyment was hampered by it not looking good then that's a problem.
Now, it's not specifically the fights that I'm picking on, nearly all of the character animation is really bad throughout the entire show and I don't really like the designs anyway so that's two bad things coming together in an unfortunate manner. It really looks like Sunrise spent practically no money on this series for reasons that I cannot fathom. 90's Sunrise produced some pretty good looking stuff as well.
AnathemicOne
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Will anything be as great as Steins;Gate?
Missing out on that weekly dose of racism and sexism?
Makes me wonder if the other Yuusha series were low budget too. I'd imagine so given length and the target audience. For whatever reason, I'm remembering reading something like that GGG was a right place, right time sort of thing as it was approachable enough for kids (and to sell toys) but also resonated enough with older viewers that used to watch this sort of thing that it ended up more popular than the other series.
Jex
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Camaraderie and everyone pulling together to beat the bad guy is a huge part of the series but none of that really worked for me because I didn't care about any of the characters. Perhaps because I have my heart is like a stone. The child within me is long dead.
I do like Volfogg though. What a boss.
What?
Dude, you shouldn't comparing stuff to Zeta, its probably only matched/bested by E7 when its come to production value/budget.
GGG is a mech show for little kids, /m/ probably feel its need representative from that area so its on their list.
Stuff for kids just feel different than for otakus, ask precure fan.
That's uh, kind of all I take away from most of the recent Space Bros. episodes.
Jex
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Absolutely. It's not reasonable, with full knowledge of how anime is produced, to imagine that GaoGaiGar would look as good as Zeta.
However, that knowledge is irrelevant because the reasons behind a shows production don't impact my assessment of the end product which is why I'm bothered by how bad it looks (sometimes). I'd rather be watching something that looked better or at least had stronger direction e.g. something by Dezaki or Yasuhiro Imagawa.
You could argue that, by having such high standards I will just be disappointed. So be it.
But you like G Gundam right?
I don't think its so much different than GGG in prod value..
dat Imagawa touch
Dat edit lol, but I can't disagree.
Could you perhaps expand on this?
I think I know what you're referring to and how you might be getting some of those ideas but I also think you're blowing them way out of proportion and seeing things that are probably not there.
Jex
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G Gundam, like GGG, suffers from being too long in the tooth. There's very little to be gained from stretching your robots punch stuff out for 50 episodes.
However, as has already been noted, we're talking about Imagawa here. He's the god of super robot shows and he can turn a show with practically no animation like Shin Mazinger into a manly epic. Few people understand elevated emotions and passion, the real manly melodrama of MEN BATTLING like Imagawa. Importantly he works hard to ensure that you care about the characters in the series. Master Asia anyone?
Looks like Nico has streamed Valvrave ep1, which means all the 3 mecha shows this season have premiered on Nico. Japanese blogs have collected the viewer satisfaction stats at the end of each screening and... it's somewhat surprising!
Gargantia Ep1
Very Good - 83.5%
Good - 12.1%
Average - 2.6%
Kinda Bad - 0.6%
Pretty Bad - 1.2 %
95.6% of viewers thought the episode was good.
1.8% of viewers thought the episode was bad.
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Majestic Prince Ep1
Very Good - 49.6%
Good - 30.3%
Average - 11.7%
Kinda Bad - 4.7%
Pretty Bad - 3.6%
79.9% of viewers thought the episode was good.
8.3% of viewers thought the episode was bad.
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Valvrave Ep1
Very Good - 52.7%
Good - 25.9%
Average - 11.7%
Kinda Bad - 5.1%
Pretty Bad - 4.6%
78.6% of viewers thought the episode was good.
9.7% of viewers thought the episode was bad.
Gargantia Ep1
Very Good - 83.5%
Good - 12.1%
Average - 2.6%
Kinda Bad - 0.6%
Pretty Bad - 1.2 %
95.6% of viewers thought the episode was good.
1.8% of viewers thought the episode was bad.
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Majestic Prince Ep1
Very Good - 49.6%
Good - 30.3%
Average - 11.7%
Kinda Bad - 4.7%
Pretty Bad - 3.6%
79.9% of viewers thought the episode was good.
8.3% of viewers thought the episode was bad.
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Valvrave Ep1
Very Good - 52.7%
Good - 25.9%
Average - 11.7%
Kinda Bad - 5.1%
Pretty Bad - 4.6%
78.6% of viewers thought the episode was good.
9.7% of viewers thought the episode was bad.
Dedication Through Light
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Shouldnt that honour belong to Valvrave
But that doesn't seem surprising at all.
Lee Chaolan
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Jex
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I refuse to watch it at that quality.
He also seems to have strong finales in mind. Even if the series does feel a little overlong, it's typically working towards the end he's after rather than blowing its load too early like so many other shows.
That's kinda how I feel about each episode as well. Of all of the mecha shows this season, I wanted to watch Gargantia's ep 2 the most.
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