AquaWateria
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Trust me no one's praising it. It may have some similarities to Attack on Titan but it's execution is pretty terrible. Might as well not waste your time unless you really want to watch a mediocre show.
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Spring Anime 2015 |OT| The Disappearance of YEAARRT!
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Trust me no one's praising it. It may have some similarities to Attack on Titan but it's execution is pretty terrible. Might as well not waste your time unless you really want to watch a mediocre show.
Dedication Through Light
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Nothing happened? The manga is selling well because of the anime. Its a great adaptation, also sawano x yosh is a great musical duo.
aqua pls ;_;
Its a great show. The animation is great, the story is starting to pick up too. Its certainly no Attack on Titan cause that show just oozed a different kind of personality from other shows, also it had a lot of action that was well thought out in some places so it worked well overall for your average anime viewer and people outside of the anime vortex. Watch Seraph of the End, I think you might like it. It also has a nice pace, not too fast and not too slow, a nice in between.
Jex
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[Tomorrow's Joe] 18 - 42
It's been a long time since I posted an update on this series and that's largely because, just like sports shows today, there's still a lot of what we'd call 'down time' between major fights. As such I've tended towards marathoning chunks of episodes at a time without passing comment on them.
What makes Joe different to other sports shows, however, is the titular character himself. In your normal sports show, like Hajime no Ippo, your protagonist spends most of their spare time training. In Tomorrow's Joe, Joe spends most of his spare time...goofing off and getting in trouble. While less of an asshole than he was before his bout in prison, Joe is still a wild street kid at hear and that gets him into trouble quite often. However, this impetuous streak is what makes him far more interesting than a character, like, say Ippo, who basically just a generic good guy.
Of course, the show also has it's own distinct visual appeal, is something I have highlighted previously. Unsurprisingly, the show look at it's best when Dezaki himself storyboards an episode. Consider, for example, episode 37:
Unlike other directors, Dezaki actually uses the visuals to tell a distinct story. Considering how workmanlike the rest of the production is you really notice when a director employs actual technique such as: unusual angles, use of reflections, shadows, even basic elements of shot blocking.
I think the most interesting thing about this particular post-prison arc, from a story standpoint, has to be the character of Wolf. Wolf is a boxer that Joe must best in the ring before he can proceed to fight other, important challengers. While he starts out as just an obstacle on the path to Rikishi the show does a great job of building him up to be a legitimate threat and even goes an extra step in turning him into a real bastard. Consider this scene, where Wolf's response to children spying on his secret boxing training is to beat the children unconscious:
Now that, ladies and gentleman, is a bad guy. None of this 'sporting warrior who Joe must respect' nonsense. Wolf is a thug who needs the shit beaten out of him.
It's been a long time since I posted an update on this series and that's largely because, just like sports shows today, there's still a lot of what we'd call 'down time' between major fights. As such I've tended towards marathoning chunks of episodes at a time without passing comment on them.
What makes Joe different to other sports shows, however, is the titular character himself. In your normal sports show, like Hajime no Ippo, your protagonist spends most of their spare time training. In Tomorrow's Joe, Joe spends most of his spare time...goofing off and getting in trouble. While less of an asshole than he was before his bout in prison, Joe is still a wild street kid at hear and that gets him into trouble quite often. However, this impetuous streak is what makes him far more interesting than a character, like, say Ippo, who basically just a generic good guy.
Of course, the show also has it's own distinct visual appeal, is something I have highlighted previously. Unsurprisingly, the show look at it's best when Dezaki himself storyboards an episode. Consider, for example, episode 37:
Unlike other directors, Dezaki actually uses the visuals to tell a distinct story. Considering how workmanlike the rest of the production is you really notice when a director employs actual technique such as: unusual angles, use of reflections, shadows, even basic elements of shot blocking.
I think the most interesting thing about this particular post-prison arc, from a story standpoint, has to be the character of Wolf. Wolf is a boxer that Joe must best in the ring before he can proceed to fight other, important challengers. While he starts out as just an obstacle on the path to Rikishi the show does a great job of building him up to be a legitimate threat and even goes an extra step in turning him into a real bastard. Consider this scene, where Wolf's response to children spying on his secret boxing training is to beat the children unconscious:
Now that, ladies and gentleman, is a bad guy. None of this 'sporting warrior who Joe must respect' nonsense. Wolf is a thug who needs the shit beaten out of him.
I see - the majority of the impressions I've seen in here seemed to be pretty apathetic about it, but I guess I got the wrong idea. Probably not gonna pick it up though, I've already got more than enough to watch right now.
Yeah, at first I was really disappointed with the show since the intro seemed promising with action (even though it wasn't filled with it and the battle sequences are really lacking) but the story is actually a pretty decent run of the mill shonen.
This is so common now I wonder why anybody is actually bothered by it.
hhhhhnnnnnnnnggg
Blood Blockade Battlefront 7
So Klaus is not only the best human Demon Chess player in the world, he's also probably the strongest human hand-to-hand brawler in the world? Geez, guy.
I see how they're setting things up for some kind of endgame, but this was a pretty boring episode for the most part. There was never really any kind of tension, and the directing was unusually unremarkable given the standard the series has set.
So Klaus is not only the best human Demon Chess player in the world, he's also probably the strongest human hand-to-hand brawler in the world? Geez, guy.
I see how they're setting things up for some kind of endgame, but this was a pretty boring episode for the most part. There was never really any kind of tension, and the directing was unusually unremarkable given the standard the series has set.
So she was asking for it? :^)
Poor lil' shinkawa and his misunderstood rapey-ness~
Would you say he was adorably misunderstood and misled? :^)
MetroidPrimeRib
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Show by Rock 07
Rom is the best.
Rom is the best.
cj_iwakura
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Those can't be CR subs, can they? They tend to shy away from vulgarities in their subs, I thought.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
I'm not sure which DTL take is more insane: Shinikawa's rapey-ness was a misunderstanding or Shinji Matou's rapey-ness just being him bringing some levity to the proceedings.
Twin Tails
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Cornbread78
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Chobits ep. 7-8
The weird just keeps coming with poor Chi. How can she
She is very cute, but Hideki needs to focus on the super cute Yumi. However, very cute moment at the end of ep.8.
The weird just keeps coming with poor Chi. How can she
shut down every computer around town after being touched in the crotch by the peep show guy. Then the voice in her head? WTF?
R_thanatos
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I was referencing the fact that there was 2 girls in the shower , but hey ...
NOt great , but really , the show is not "that" terrible. it's watchable, enjoyable by many ..in fact there is nothing wrong with the show or his characters..
Nothing got undone, homura added more rules to the ones madoka wrote that's all
Thanks for the clarification.
Dedication Through Light
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Neither. I think Shinkawa was a great character that Kawahara unfortunately drove to doing an activity that ought to be considered noncanon, forgotten, and not used to gauge Shinkawa as a character. The fault is not with Shinkawa but with the writer. If the writer had given Shinkawa and Sinon a clarified communication dialogue tree at the fifth or sixth episode then the story could have avoided such a topic.
Who could resist shinji's unique brand of humor? :^)
Dedication Through Light
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Yamada And The Seven Witches Episode 6
I forgot they all had a boys sleepover, too bad the charm spell wasnt active among all three.
This was pretty funny take of the chapter.
I forgot they all had a boys sleepover, too bad the charm spell wasnt active among all three.
This was pretty funny take of the chapter.
names2hard4you
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Arslan 07
Damn I like where this is going, but I find this show to be a bit too slow. I wish they would get to the gist of things much quicker.
Grisaia 05
So the girls have left the school in search of Yuuji. Very ineterested in seeing where the story goes from here.
Damn I like where this is going, but I find this show to be a bit too slow. I wish they would get to the gist of things much quicker.
Grisaia 05
So the girls have left the school in search of Yuuji. Very ineterested in seeing where the story goes from here.
WTF at his sister being the AI. Is this supposed to be a ploy to screw with his head, or is this forreal?! All things pointed at her being alive somewhere.
Dedication Through Light
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Arslan 7
Wow Kenn and Yuki Kaji doing so good as their respective characters. I wonder if Silver Mask will turn out to be a good guy someday.
Elam is my favorite fighter of the series.
Wow Kenn and Yuki Kaji doing so good as their respective characters. I wonder if Silver Mask will turn out to be a good guy someday.
Elam is my favorite fighter of the series.
AquaWateria
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Arslan Senki 7
I can't wait till Farangis and Gieve join Arslan's group. The pace is pretty slow but that's necessary considering it's a coming of age story. So we need the story to have a great amount of development. The good thing is that it's 2cours which will give the necessary amount of character development while expanding the story. It's nice seeing how different of a leader Arslan is compared to the king and how he's much kind hearted. Anyways it seems Kharlan is burning down Villages without any sense of remorse in order to find Arslan.
There was a decent amount of action that was enjoyable and the episode itself was good too.
Truly a sight to behold.
I can't wait till Farangis and Gieve join Arslan's group. The pace is pretty slow but that's necessary considering it's a coming of age story. So we need the story to have a great amount of development. The good thing is that it's 2cours which will give the necessary amount of character development while expanding the story. It's nice seeing how different of a leader Arslan is compared to the king and how he's much kind hearted. Anyways it seems Kharlan is burning down Villages without any sense of remorse in order to find Arslan.
There was a decent amount of action that was enjoyable and the episode itself was good too.
Twin Tails
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Simoun 19
And another one fing
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And another one fing
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KirbYuuYuu
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Watch Aikatsu
TheGreatDirector
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Damn, so there won't be a definitive animate end? I really hope there isn't a cliffhanger or tragic ending to this. :l
names2hard4you
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Euphonium 1
Decided to give it a shot. I enjoyed it, gonna keep going! After I finish tonight's research for my summer course lol.
Decided to give it a shot. I enjoyed it, gonna keep going! After I finish tonight's research for my summer course lol.
Valkerionseven
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Cardfight Vanguard: 01-24
YuGiOh 5D's 01-07
Only half paid attention to it since they never actually explain the rules of this damn game in the show... Guess they were going for the opposite of watch the show then get the cards. Thinking about grabbing some cards as part of my new hobby but this show did not sell me on it at all. Took 15 episodes before they sorta talked about the rules and even then I still have no clue how its actually working or how people are winning. Not to mention the million and a half obvious liberties taken with the dub. The cards look awesome irl though.
YuGiOh 5D's 01-07
Once again, no fucking clue what's going on or how these new monsters work but its an oddly watchable show so far. way more than Vanguard.
victreeb3l
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I definitely think Hikigaya is going to reach out for help but I dont think he will completely make a 180 from who he is, at least not anytime soon. Maybe it wont be a sappy confession (hopefully not) but he must express his feelings to Yui and Yukino and let them know how much they mean to him. Rather, Yukino and Hikigaya need to spit it out as Yui has been pretty damn vocal about how important they and the club is to her. This is why I like her so much. She has no problem just keeping it real and being honest.
His face when Yukino told him not to come anymore was hilarious. I guess he never expected to hear that. "If you were to break down, that'd be all there was to it". That line is confusing. That'd be all to what? I feel like that was a weird translation by Crunchyroll.
AquaWateria
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5D's is arguably the best series out of the whole Yu-Gi-Oh franchise.
Dedication Through Light
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What? the dub explains vanguard pretty well with how slow paced it starts in the first season.
Cornbread78
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But you guys told me how horrible that show was last week, you should be embarrassed with yourself, lol...
^^^^
Edit: The post above was made in a joking manor and was done for fun (the "lol" was there, LOL)
Now everyone hold hands, watch some SAO and Cross Ange with smiles ahoy!
It's okay, people in AnimeGAF doing this to themselves is to be expected.
That is an odd translation. Wouldn't really know what they were trying to say lol and I do agree, being honest with each other near the end of the season will seal it nicely for another season.
That'll happen in like 2-3 years ;_;
Hopefully they use 6.5. It was a nice feelgood Christmas story. Its been interesting reading some of it lately, seeing some of the neglected characters get a fair bit more to do.
UltraGunner
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Kill La Kill 15
RIP in Peace Riff Raff
Also nice on Trigger to finally use their animation budget
Sword Art Online II 06
So now it's revealed why Kirito has an effeminate body: So the guys can be added to his harem as well. Fucking swell.
RIP in Peace Riff Raff
Also nice on Trigger to finally use their animation budget
Sword Art Online II 06
So now it's revealed why Kirito has an effeminate body: So the guys can be added to his harem as well. Fucking swell.
Tsukikage Ran 01-03
Looks like this show was a contemporary of Miami Guns, but its tone and intent are radically different outside of a female duo who goes on adventures. The show feels like it could be a TV drama, though it was created as an anime first. Ran is a fun heroine - she likes sake, napping and saving people. But a large part of what makes her work is her interactions with Meow - wannabe hero Chinese martial artist. I thought they'd be traveling companions, but so far it's more like they happen to be meeting each other at the same places.
The sake episode revealed the vulnerable side of Ran, and the baby episode was pretty fun, for a baby episode. It's extremely episodic, as expected for a wandering samurai show - and speaking of that, Bob's Burgers' first non-consecutive finale episode "Hawk & Chick" was really sweet - but that's not a detriment against it. The fighting animation for Ran dealing with enemies is also pretty fluid, and the OP and ED are typical of samurai works. After the tragedy of Ga-Rei, it's a nice and easy watch.
Looks like this show was a contemporary of Miami Guns, but its tone and intent are radically different outside of a female duo who goes on adventures. The show feels like it could be a TV drama, though it was created as an anime first. Ran is a fun heroine - she likes sake, napping and saving people. But a large part of what makes her work is her interactions with Meow - wannabe hero Chinese martial artist. I thought they'd be traveling companions, but so far it's more like they happen to be meeting each other at the same places.
The sake episode revealed the vulnerable side of Ran, and the baby episode was pretty fun, for a baby episode. It's extremely episodic, as expected for a wandering samurai show - and speaking of that, Bob's Burgers' first non-consecutive finale episode "Hawk & Chick" was really sweet - but that's not a detriment against it. The fighting animation for Ran dealing with enemies is also pretty fluid, and the OP and ED are typical of samurai works. After the tragedy of Ga-Rei, it's a nice and easy watch.
Tell me more about this monolithic hivemind, please
You actually listen to what the people in here tell you to watch?
You should just watch whatever you want to watch.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Well, the first series adapted basically everything that was available and this adapted everything that was published after the first one came out. It does take a couple of years in between series, but assuming it sells well, they'll probably just keep doing it the way they did the first two until the author ends the series.
pmuch.
UltraGunner
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Arslan Senki 06
I don't know if it was my tv or the episode itself, but I just haf a hard time making out what was happening with how dark everything was
I don't know if it was my tv or the episode itself, but I just haf a hard time making out what was happening with how dark everything was
Cornbread78
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Lol, no, drop your sword; I didn't say "animegaf"..
I was referring to the guys that said it was horrible the other night when I wrote "Love Live" instead of "Love Lab" all are free to watch whatever the hell they want to..
Obviously, the joking nature of the post appears unnoticed, my apologies everone...
Fruit of Grisaia S2 ep.5
Damn, Shit just got real. I don't like the way they bridged the episodes though. I went from that scene
where he was supposed to shoot Oslo to him being accused of shooting up the consolation and conspiring with Oslo.
school dismissal happening sucks, I thought they got the financing to support the school for years after the events from S1
are setting out on a suicide mission to find Yuuji
Aman promise not to go after Yuuji if he was to go away for awhile, or morn if he died? He for shadowed everything right there
Admiral Woofington
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Mad Max Fury Road saves shitty season of anime.
Anime wasn't a mistake after all.
Anime wasn't a mistake after all.
SliceSabre
Banned
Anime is serious business I hope you have learned your lesson not to make light of it!
Passive Assassin
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Giant Robo 1
Holy shit. This is awesome. The dub is awesome.
Holy shit. This is awesome. The dub is awesome.
Cornbread78
Member
Yes, long live Love Live! I shall add it to my MAL now and watch both seasons on Crunchyroll to further my enlightenment.
AquaWateria
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What's there to save, the season is pretty good especially compared to last season.
Kekkai Sensen, Arslan Senki, and Gintama saving this season for me.
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