Delta Assault
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Honestly, the designs are so jumbled and incoherent that I couldn't even tell that they were just holding hands.
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Spring Anime 2015 |OT| The Disappearance of YEAARRT!
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Honestly, the designs are so jumbled and incoherent that I couldn't even tell that they were just holding hands.
iRAWRasaurus
Banned
I enjoy golden time, since it was a college setting.
still think the ghost was stupid
NaDannMaGoGo
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Yeh. But really, everything about this show is abhorrent. Similarly to SAO I can at best applaud some of the background art and that's where all praise stops.
Holy shit the art style and CGI...I blows my fucking mind that you'd actually go the CGI route and manage to make everyone look samey nontheless. Then there's the atrocious framerate and generally shoddy animation. Like, fuck me, why did they even go with CGI when it doesn't seem to benefit them in any way looking at the result? Maybe it reduced overall production cost dramatically but I kinda doubt it.
I'll not even dive into the characters and plot. I'm not surprised S2 focuses even more into these bizarre alien-harem antics.
e: I think this show actually creeps me out to a degree.
Femmeworth
Banned
I don't think it is so much about cost per se but the reliability and predictability of it. Also under the (possibly false) impression that it is more humane (less stressful and tedious) than traditional animation.
Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Pachislot PV https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atijfPuqICA
Delta Assault
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I thought it was funny how the Queen/Leader of Sidonia wore a mask, when all the CGI people's faces look just as stiff and emotionless without it.
Well watching Koko being cute was fun. The other parts of the show...
I actually found the anime better thanks to all the fleshing out Yuasa did with the story. Made things feel far more thematically and emotionally complete than the manga did. (doesnt have matsumoto's godlike paneling and art tho)
The stuff everyone refers to is.... part of "that", yes.
I can understand (really i can) why people don't like stuff that happens in the second half and I did find the ending to be a tad too weak. Could have used an episode or 2 more to fix it up.
Overall i actually liked Golden Time though I can't guarantee you will like the second half. Just watch and don't let some people discourage you
oh... I actually just marathoned Hyouka.
The one thing that I will say is that I loved both the character interactions and use of different shot types. After catching up to a lot of stuff airing now, Hyouka was very much a breath of fresh air in terms of art and scene direction.
Kyoani did a lot better job on this than Amagi's Brilliant Park, though i enjoyed both. They also ended it a lot better than Amagi as well, but i still didn't feel 100% satisfied by it.
Still, I want to see more of the stuff that made Hyouka what it was in more anime.
also: Satoshi is an idiot and an ass.
I feel like giving R.O.D. another watch. It's been so long...
Edit:Oh my god I missed the BD Box. FFfffffffff.
Yeah.. well.. everyone looking identical is more because of the mangaka's lack of ability. He knows this.
He was once tasked to draw a portrait of the two seiyuu, Suzaki Aya and Sakura Ayane. Problem is that the two of them had similar hairstyles. So he.. uh .. had to differentiate them some other way.
But Hoshijiro is cute! You'll get used to the CG soon. S2 improves on it imo. I'm just watching this to see how many times they can rely on Tanikaze to save the day nowadays...
Edit:Oh my god I missed the BD Box. FFfffffffff.
Yeah.. well.. everyone looking identical is more because of the mangaka's lack of ability. He knows this.
He was once tasked to draw a portrait of the two seiyuu, Suzaki Aya and Sakura Ayane. Problem is that the two of them had similar hairstyles. So he.. uh .. had to differentiate them some other way.
But Hoshijiro is cute! You'll get used to the CG soon. S2 improves on it imo. I'm just watching this to see how many times they can rely on Tanikaze to save the day nowadays...
From the few episodes I watched they seem fine so far. No honorifics or any of those annoying tendencies. If you're asking about the color, they're yellow. They also are able to be turned off.
PdotMichael
Banned
There's also something else I want to point out about Sidonia:
See, this is just... this looks and feels dumb to me. I don't like this sorta thing.
This seems just like a gimmick that people in an anime studio came up with to make something that's special-y and unique and gimmicky. It doesn't seem like something that engineers in a military research and development process would actually come up with. There's no reason why you'd want to hook up with four of your buddies in some super complicated configuration and then fire your boosters. Why go to that trouble? And who's in charge exactly when they're all grouped up? I end up rolling my eyes when I see something like this.
Eh...uh... I guess you aren't capable of watching any mecha anime because human shaped robots are like the dumbest things in the list of dumb things. This is what you could even call useful.
GANGSTA PV 1.5 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSrDLzd4viA
Cornbread78
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I really have to stop replying to posts with spoilers in them, ugghh. That at sucks, now I know what you mean Cajun... Not too fond of that being used because of Kanon and Air, etc.. Oh well, let's see how it goes anyhow.
Yeah it was a cheap annoying gimmick and it just muddles up everything.
Cornbread78
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Lol, my own damn fault, I should know better. I've done it countless times swiping down on my phone screen as well.
Bets on this being the "quality drop" anime of next season.
Theonik
Member
SliceSabre
Banned
Yes
This makes me more salty that Prism Nana isnt anime.
DEATH;164670294 said:
One of the bright spots for sure.
Chaos Dragon new PV https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFhx4WJr2cg
striferser
Huge Nickleback Fan
Huh, they change Urobutcher character into a girl? Oh well
Doesn't seem to get the warmest reception, but I'm going to give it a watch one day for sure, really interested in it as its one of Oshii's earlier works, after Urusei Yatsura and all of that stuff which I also need to check out one day, although I'm just interested in Beautiful Dreamer in that case. Don't know if it's very Oshii-like, but it'll be interesting to see from a historical point of view, being one of the first OVA's and all that.
What the fuck is with Crunchy's piece of shit player? Jesus christ. I'm paying for this laggy, stuttery piece of crap? It doesn't even pause and buffer, it just STUTTERS. GOD-AWFUL. Like, it wants to be able to pick up smoothly whereever you skip to, but because of that it goes smooth for 5 seconds then starts stuttering like crazy until the buffer catches up. Who designed this?!? Jesus christ.
Love Lab 5
Aww, they skimped out on actually speaking English.
Riko did a thing!
omg maki lol
oh and then they skipped over the training arc :<
and then defeat. bad end!
uh oh new characters
Love Lab 5
Aww, they skimped out on actually speaking English.
Riko did a thing!
omg maki lol
oh and then they skipped over the training arc :<
and then defeat. bad end!
uh oh new characters
Cornbread78
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I've found it helps if you go to the time stamp that you want, then pause it for a couple seconds while it catches up. It should run fine after that...
AIR
Almost done, I can't deal with this first thing in the morning....
names2hard4you
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Holy shit. This is gonna be so good.
Cornbread78
Member
Air ep. 8-END:
(BTW, this gif needs a "This is AnimeGAF" caption written on it for future use)
Damn, You know it’s coming through most of the show, but in the end, there is no way of stopping it. As I said before, the music is great, especially the track that plays through the ending. It's well timed, has a great melody and it really helps grab the moment; which is what these shows are all about (Clannad, Kanon, Air).
There were some loopholes in the ending though, at least it seems like there was to me... They played a cut in ep. 8-10
I must have missed some text in there or missed a screen of something to throw me so off there. However, none of that changed the fact that this anime, was yet another, tear jerker at the end. Obviously, it's not as powerful as Clannad or Your Lie in April because there was a little bit of confusion there on what is occurring, however, they do an amazing job with it.. It’s just not fair making me feel this way the rest of the day now. Well, time to go get pissed at Golden Life now…
(BTW, this gif needs a "This is AnimeGAF" caption written on it for future use)
Damn, You know it’s coming through most of the show, but in the end, there is no way of stopping it. As I said before, the music is great, especially the track that plays through the ending. It's well timed, has a great melody and it really helps grab the moment; which is what these shows are all about (Clannad, Kanon, Air).
There were some loopholes in the ending though, at least it seems like there was to me... They played a cut in ep. 8-10
that showed what has happened to the bloodlines in prior history and explained how it would be passed down through time, however, that didn’t occur with the current timeline with the characters involved, then it shows the little boy and girl at the end that know everything that is going on as a another flashback? Kinda confusing. Also, Yukito came back, even in the current timeline, as well as his reincarnation through the crow from a previous timeline, but just vanishes? They said he would die, but how/why did he just vanish?
CheapJuice
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Angel Beats Hell's Kitchen new promo http://a.pomf.se/btbpxy.mp4
Aikatsu! Akari Generation 134
Right when the main cast finishes preparing their units does a new character appear - but that's next week. This was all about Madoka and Akari forming Skips and Madoka coming to realize what Akari's life is like, and how to get along with her. The two make a good match, far more Love Laika than Asterisk. I'm curious what big end of season event is being built up to here, since this season has a greater focus on units than ones before it.
Right when the main cast finishes preparing their units does a new character appear - but that's next week. This was all about Madoka and Akari forming Skips and Madoka coming to realize what Akari's life is like, and how to get along with her. The two make a good match, far more Love Laika than Asterisk. I'm curious what big end of season event is being built up to here, since this season has a greater focus on units than ones before it.
Kekkai Sensen Full Ending is out! Great song.
It is pretty good.
MikeHattsu
Member
Hm?
Yukito is the descendant of Ryuya and Uraha. And Misuzu is Kanna reincarnated.
Anyway... It's one of the weaker shows that would have been better as 2 cour. And the one where the movie is actually more straight-forward and better.
Oh, and did you spot the cameo in episode 2?
Oh sweet!Kekkai Sensen Full Ending is out! Great song.
ultimatemegax
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Crunchy has a varied number of news staff, one of which has Japanese as their first language and their articles are edited by Eng staff. Another grabs news from twitter posters like myself and copies/pastes their translations while giving them credit in most cases. There's not the hypocrisy that ANN has, so it tends to be slightly better. It's more dependent on the writer than ANN is for news. They also have a fair amount of clickbait ("see which shows Japanese otaku...."), but they're also more likely to run stuff that isn't always negative for other aspects of Japanese culture.
Sadly it's still better to follow people on twitter for news updates regarding speed. News itself isn't profitable, so you have to have articles that misrepresent things to get clicks/revenue.
Death Parade amazon tokuten illustration
Well ANN can be quite bad: https://twitter.com/yoshi_xtsu/status/601307438948618240 in terms of translation as well, also they've been expanding clickbait to match CR.
Well ANN can be quite bad: https://twitter.com/yoshi_xtsu/status/601307438948618240 in terms of translation as well, also they've been expanding clickbait to match CR.
AquaWateria
Member
This is looking so great, my most hyped anime of Summer.
I bet it won't considering there's Prison School, Jitsu wa Watashi, or Monster Musume.😏 I mean the studio already got the character designs for Jitsu wrong.
names2hard4you
Member
Someone asked earlier and I thought you'd be the perfect person to ask since you seem to know about the manga for this, is the format episodic like BBB, or continuous? I ask because I could see both formats working for this.
AquaWateria
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From the little I've read it's about crazy oddjobers that have some great backstory, they pretty much take offers, have fun, and fight. Though there are definitely it's serious moments as well. It's not episodic but more continuous. From looking at the trailer Studio Manglobe definitely got the atmosphere down.
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