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Spring Anime 2013 |OT -7| My Giant CG Pony Can't Possibly Read This Much Baudelaire
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I'd settle for Web 1.0. Although I suppose he might be aiming at that mid-90s geocities nostalgia.
Out of business.
Toaru Kagaku no Railgun - 01
*brings out notepad*
- Cool female lead? Check.
- Interesting support characters? Check.
- Yuri? Double check, with multiple lesbians and OTPs inbound. And from the looks of it, main lead Mikoto will have Madoka tier swag where all the ladies will want her. MARU!
- Lewd scenes? Check.
- Males? None, as of now the garden is secure.
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That was an awesome first episode and hope to god it keeps up like this. With how much this episode delivered between awesome fight scenes and yuri pandering, I'm at a loss as to why I didn't see this show when it was airing. Knowing that I have 23 eps to go, on top of the new season that will be starting soon has me hyped as hell. Let's do this!
#SWAG
*brings out notepad*
- Cool female lead? Check.
- Interesting support characters? Check.
- Yuri? Double check, with multiple lesbians and OTPs inbound. And from the looks of it, main lead Mikoto will have Madoka tier swag where all the ladies will want her. MARU!
- Lewd scenes? Check.
- Males? None, as of now the garden is secure.
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That was an awesome first episode and hope to god it keeps up like this. With how much this episode delivered between awesome fight scenes and yuri pandering, I'm at a loss as to why I didn't see this show when it was airing. Knowing that I have 23 eps to go, on top of the new season that will be starting soon has me hyped as hell. Let's do this!
I think its more like dont mess with what aint broken.
Rightstuf is such a slick well designed site that it has made people kind of spoiled.
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[Space Brothers] 49
This arc has been amazing. All the cool things I like about Space Bros plus motherfucking rattlesnakes. Sweet!
They could make the show a twenty-minute clip reel of Serika being all genki and crap and I would still tune in every week.
This arc has been amazing. All the cool things I like about Space Bros plus motherfucking rattlesnakes. Sweet!
I've never been a fan of using the word "delusion" for this, because "delusion" means actually believing in some false thing, whereas chuu2byou doesn't mean kids who literally believe in these fantasies, merely that they think all this "badass" juvenile stuff is cool, and in extreme cases assume everyone around them thinks it's cool, too, so you get the spontaneous LARPing thing. I guess you can call the latter part of thinking other people will appreciate it a delusion, but it's not like they actually think they have powers or something.
Or at least, that's how it's supposed to be. Rikka from the anime turned out to be different from the normal meaning of chuu2byou.
Canis lupus
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You mean the heads of the lil girls right? They look so kawai
Anyway I just started season 2, liking it much more than the first season. Perhaps unlike season 1 it provides explanation to what is happening.
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The best waifu to come out in recent times is the one that's not lolipanderbait. Who knew?
ZachDeKoromaru
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As a Miyukichi and Serika lover, yes. Yes times a million.
Okay. Thanks for the reply Kagami.
dakkumauji
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Kaitou Reinya 07
The red string of fate doesn't lie.
The red string of fate doesn't lie.
Basileus777
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How connected is Railgun to Index? Does it work completely standalone? Touma's awfulness prevented me from stomaching more than a few episodes of Index.
Same universe, different characters. Focuses on Railgun and her lesbian friends.
Railgun more or less does its own thing with occasional cameos from Index.
I dropped the first season of Index halfway through and never looked back, but still enjoyed Railgun without any trouble.
darkside31337
Tomodachi wa Mahou
Yep.
Railgun is great. It's cute girls doing cute things with some neat fights and a true garden of yuri.
Just beware there is a certain man who threatens to tear down the garden
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How lesbian are we talking about here? 10 being Adolescence Apocalypse and 1 being any Precure.
ZachDeKoromaru
Banned
Kuroko is about as SDBurton you can get. No implied homosexuality, Kuroko is pure concentrated lesbian.
kuroko = 10, Misaka = 0, those 2 other girls are about 1 and 1, so (10+1+1+0)/4 = 3
The yuri content of railgun is a 3.
SAO awful.
I know what Chuu2byou is but it is impossible to directly translate into English word. "Adolescent Delusion" is not entirely accurate, but gives some idea about what it actually means without going into long details about what it actually is.
I prefer Korean subtitles instead of English subtitles because of the reason above.
This show has a cute art style that reminds me of Warioware a little bit.
Oh my. I think you will LOVE Railgun. There is a man, but don't worry too much about him.
A Black Falcon
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Railgun is connected to Index, Touma does appear in Railgun, and yes, as in Index Misaka is in tsundere love with Touma, and does not return Kuroko's affections in the slightest.
The episode (of Railgun) where Touma saves Misaka and she tries to attack him but of course it doesn't work and we see that really she's just tsun for him was when I knew that no, this show would not be worth continuing with.
I mean, I hadn't been thinking it was much above mediocre up to that point, but with that... forget it. I did watch a few more episodes, but dropped it once it got serious (the arc where one of the friends gets some bad friends etc.). I wouldn't have lasted much longer even without that, though. Touma may not appear most of the time, but even just a few appearances of that idiot was more than I'd have ever wanted.
As I said above, no, it doesn't keep up with that. Misaka is a definite heterosexual and likes a brain-dead harem-lead idiot who does appear in a few episodes, and rescues her of course. Sure, the rest of the time the show is sometimes decent... but overall, I did not like Railgun very much. It is better than Index, certainly, but that doesn't make it good...
That is true, no anime, film, or even book would work well at all if it was paced like a videogame, where most of the time was spent with the character beating up random baddies...
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I see no pattern here. SDBurton should come with a final judgment. For science.
Will be able to give you a score tomorrow after I get a number of episodes completed.
A Black Falcon
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Yeah, as far as yuri-value goes, that might be about right... though given how Misaka responds to Kuroko, her score could even be negative, I'd say.
ZachDeKoromaru
Banned
What about Last Order?
dakkumauji
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GJ-bu 12
That was a pretty good last episode. Actually focused for once with all the stories actually related to something instead of being all over the place. I really liked the character development and the graduation ceremony was pretty nice as well.
This was definitely a show that started out terribly and dull and actually managed to become entertaining mid-way through instead of the reverse. The addition of characters helped, the upgrade in the jokes and probably the establishment of the existing characters all helped. And to think I was wanting to drop this around episode 3.
That was a pretty good last episode. Actually focused for once with all the stories actually related to something instead of being all over the place. I really liked the character development and the graduation ceremony was pretty nice as well.
This was definitely a show that started out terribly and dull and actually managed to become entertaining mid-way through instead of the reverse. The addition of characters helped, the upgrade in the jokes and probably the establishment of the existing characters all helped. And to think I was wanting to drop this around episode 3.
The streams are crossing.
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/new...ny/friendship-is-magic-has-manga-in-the-works
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/new...ny/friendship-is-magic-has-manga-in-the-works
GTO 34
TOMOKO FOR BEST GIRL. This was some crazy surreal episode here. First, Tomoko seems to have been intimidated into posing for illicit photographs of a minor. Then, Onizuka's so-called friend, Sai Jima gets him caught up in a gold heist. Then the Yakuza are involved and there are attempted escapes from Japan and multiple levels of Yakuza reality and pranks and in the end, nobody knows what is happs anymore.
TOMOKO FOR BEST GIRL. This was some crazy surreal episode here. First, Tomoko seems to have been intimidated into posing for illicit photographs of a minor. Then, Onizuka's so-called friend, Sai Jima gets him caught up in a gold heist. Then the Yakuza are involved and there are attempted escapes from Japan and multiple levels of Yakuza reality and pranks and in the end, nobody knows what is happs anymore.
ZachDeKoromaru
Banned
Maybe
he'll like Frog-sensei since he only watches over the garden like a good man should
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[Futari wa Precure] 08
). The focus was so that even the Monster of the Week shenanigans felt like an afterthought, getting done with in a shorter time than usual --but, unlike a similar episode in Smile Precure!, the writers here used the event as an excuse to further signal just how alike are both Cures in their differences.
Suffice it to say that this was the first genuinely great episode of Futari wa Precure and that I would recommend it even to people not familiar or interested in the franchise. A quick look at ANN tells me that director here was Takuya Igarashi, better known for working on such shows as Ojamajo Doremi, Star Driver, and Ouran High School Host Club, but who I've also seen plenty of in Goldfish Warning! and Sailor Moon. In fact, and I admit this may just be me fanwanking, but some of the bits of photography in here felt very Ikuharaesque, down to excellent use of far shots to establish mood and the aforementioned sequences with utilising seemingly unrelated elements of the scenery to comment on the narrative, a trait he no doubt picked when working with the man.
Staff whoring is fun!
I'm happily surprised. While it still had moments of comedy, this episode of Futari wa was more interested in examining Honoka's and Nagisa's budding friendship, resulting in a more subdued experience. This was thanks to a direction style unlike anything else I've seen in the show so far, making great use of lighting and in general some very clever jokes (I loved the bit with
Nagisa's brother's mood changing depending on the manga he was reading, perfectly encapsulating the fickleness of teenage fights and the simplicity of the reconciliation
Suffice it to say that this was the first genuinely great episode of Futari wa Precure and that I would recommend it even to people not familiar or interested in the franchise. A quick look at ANN tells me that director here was Takuya Igarashi, better known for working on such shows as Ojamajo Doremi, Star Driver, and Ouran High School Host Club, but who I've also seen plenty of in Goldfish Warning! and Sailor Moon. In fact, and I admit this may just be me fanwanking, but some of the bits of photography in here felt very Ikuharaesque, down to excellent use of far shots to establish mood and the aforementioned sequences with utilising seemingly unrelated elements of the scenery to comment on the narrative, a trait he no doubt picked when working with the man.
Staff whoring is fun!
Chet Rippo
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I wouldn't find myself adorable at all.
:ChetBurton? That sounds pretty :dtl
Not that I hate it, but lines must be drawn.
But what if a girl only likes her own boobs? No :SDBurton there.
Yeah, this is one of the few legitimately great episodes in the show. You'll hit a couple of others later in the season with clearly superior direction, but this one might be the best. There's only one more for which the argument could be made, and you'll know it when you see it.
Seraphis Cain
bad gameplay lol
Every time I watch Acchi Kocchi I feel like I'm OD'ing on cute.
Damn you, cajun.
Damn you, cajun.
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It felt like when you are watching Digimon Adventure for the first time and then BAM!, Mamoru Hosoda out of nowhere. So good.
A Black Falcon
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Whether or not it's the point of the show, it's definitely mood whiplash. Nadesico's one of the best examples of that I've seen in anime, and it goes way too far with it to make any sense. It's trying to be everything at once, and like usual, that doesn't work.
You're not really subverting tropes when you're using them half of the time with all seriousness, and then other times laughing at them. That's just, well, as I said, mood-whiplash material, not anything so great.
And seriously, just because it sometimes makes fun of the characters doesn't make up for the fact that most of them are so generic in the first place...
(Once again, I thought the part of Nadesico I watched was okay. But it's definitely not great, and it would be better with better characters and if they could decide what the show actually wanted to be, instead of trying to make it everything.)
Ugh, go away KyoAni, and come back when you're making something good again...
Ah. I haven't watched any of that one, but I do know it's set in the future and has motorcycles. I'd like to get the Wii 5D's themed futuristic racing game sometime, I like that genre...
She's so great that she
likes a guy who murdered 10,000+ of her sister-clones.
Well, he can't say he wasn't warned.
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