Hmm, I wonder if it is a good idea to undrop the show just for the DL-6 case.
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Spring Anime 2016 |OT| Get a Season So Complicated
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Hmm, I wonder if it is a good idea to undrop the show just for the DL-6 case.
There's a lot of things the movies cut out
Hellwarden
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Larry should be animated entirely in smears.
Check back next week to find out.
You know Pixar film will win instead because the panels couldn't more fuck for animation.
Big Order 1-2
What in the fucking fuck is this series??? It keep flipping off between moe crap and violence it's hard to take anything seriously.
Dedication Through Light
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Too bad the Ace Attorney episode was so dull I kept dozing off. I thought I would like it since my ship but there was no excitement to the episode.
MetroidPrimeRib
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I dunno. Zootopia is about to hit 1 billion, had really high critical acclaim and extremely long legs. Finding Dorthy could win but I kinda doubt it. There's also Moana.
If anything it should be a contender for film of the year but thats not going to happen.
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Cornbread78
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Pixar's such a shadow of its former self.
nintendoman58
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I honestly thought Inside Out was a great return to form..
Creative cool idea Pixar > Sequel Pixar.
hosannainexcelsis
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Samurai Champloo 18
The more explicitly anachronistic this show gets, the less I tend to like it. Still, I admired the energy this episode had.
The more explicitly anachronistic this show gets, the less I tend to like it. Still, I admired the energy this episode had.
AquaWateria
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Well judging by all the praise Red Turtle is getting which was by de Witt and co produced by Studio Ghibli.
That movie will definitely be robbed for best animation even if Zootopia is good.
That movie will definitely be robbed for best animation even if Zootopia is good.
That's my favorite ep because of the teacher.
hosannainexcelsis
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AquaWateria
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So I finally caught up to both Kiznaiver and Re:Zero and they have been great suprises especially the latter. The drama in the former has been competently used and not used for contrived nonsense. I'm actually suprised I care for all these characters even though they're stock full of cliches, but it's the execution that makes everything feel realistic in a sense. As for Re:Zero I really love how we see Subaru psychologically develop and how his ability is taking a toll on him. The depiction of emotions shown in the anime is well utilized. Episode 7 made me cringe not in a bad way but in a good way especially when
The amount of guts and willpower that must of taken and how you basically have to go against every instinct in your body was crazy.
Although I'm really suprised Okada is writing Kiznaiver and it doesn't have that contrived nonsense bullshit drama like every other Okada anime. This is weird.
Anyway I still need to catch up with Flying With and some other anime.
Subaru had to jump off the cliff.
Although I'm really suprised Okada is writing Kiznaiver and it doesn't have that contrived nonsense bullshit drama like every other Okada anime. This is weird.
Anyway I still need to catch up with Flying With and some other anime.
AquaWateria
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Yeah I enjoyed it a lot.
Looks really good but kinda boring.
I don't think it will end up as that kind of show. One or two might but it's not paced like an insane massacre like Blood C. It's clear that the main focus of the show will be the characters trying to accept their troubled pasts.
MetroidPrimeRib
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Could've been amazing but wasn't. Just kind of middling.
Still better than every Pixar movie after 2010, with the exception of Inside Out.
I am curious how you came to this conclusion
hosannainexcelsis
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Cornbread78
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It's time travel. You can call it whatever you like but this foundation is a Groundhog Day loop.
??? I am pretty sure the protagonist travels through time every time he dies.
MetroidPrimeRib
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Groundhogs Day looping is still time travel
Neoleo2143
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Which kind of Cringe? I don't recall much cringe, probably the bath bits with Roswald stand out. But beyond that, it's been rather tame in my opinion. I mean there's Subaru's obnoxious Chivalry but considering the direction of the show loves to smash various elements of that character it's definitely bound to be tackled in some form in the future.
I think it's okay as well. There's a trend for "self aware" anime characters to be extremely grating
(HEY FIREHAWK I KNOW HOW MUCH YOU LOVE SAEKANO)
The way Emilia responds to his awful pickup lines is very out of the ordinary for anime heroines so even if the joke is the same the punchline is new.
PshycoNinja
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Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2 5
What the...shit!?!?!? Holy hell!!! Talk about a cold-hearted way for Suzaku to go about this. The end of last season was one thing. That was just him getting even. But this? Takes a special kind of douche to do that.
What the...shit!?!?!? Holy hell!!! Talk about a cold-hearted way for Suzaku to go about this. The end of last season was one thing. That was just him getting even. But this? Takes a special kind of douche to do that.
Basileus777
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Suzaku is a collaborator with an apartheid regime, why would you expect him to be anything other than awful?
PshycoNinja
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Because he started out as a decent person...
Mockingbird
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You think as it's written now it's in a believable manner?
I don't know that I'm very fond of how Re:zero handles the passage of time. It's incredibly repetitive, and its method of rewriting the events that have happened makes many of the character bonds questionable. In what's presented as the most true timeline the main character has made very little impression on the people around him.
Worse still, I don't know that the second arc at the mansion really shows the time travel being used as a creative or interesting tool in order to overcome a specific challenge. Instead the ability to reset the main character has been primarily used to as gruesome an effect as possible. This is understandable with how the series tries to impart a great deal of weight into each death, but the process of coping with death has become so protracted that I feel as though I'm watching the same pointless magic trick being preformed over and over again. Re:Zero puts so much into its time travel gimmick, but it really doesn't feel like that much is gained from it. There is tons of guesswork asked of the viewer to know what has happened down each timeline, and it often just gets handwaved away.
Fair criticisms. I was only considering how Subaru approaches the time travel itself, but I do agree the narrative is already deep in Endless Eight territory. After 6 episodes it feels like only 3 has passed, unless the story was always going to be about Subaru dealing with the onset of insanity.
I hope no one dies up until almost the entire cast dies at once at the end of the second to last episode over something impossibly dumb.
I recently watched Source Code and while it's technically not a time travel film, it sorta is and the execution is light years better in how the film portrays the loops. The loops are thankfully short in nature and the editing doesn't bother showing all the loops.
Not to mention having a main character who isn't brain dead does wonders for a narrative.
The dialogue is still pretty turgid, just a different type of one. I mean look at that Oni fable Subaru recited.
AquaWateria
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It's more of a dimension hopping than time travel.
The latter would have a linear timeline while the former is hopping from one separate timeline to another. So basically if it were time travel the present Subaru would see the past Subaru.
I rather not get too in depth though.
Edit: I forgot to watch Jojo's latest episode. I need to watch right now.
Dude it's time travel. Are we going argue Groundhog's Day isnn't a time travel film because we don't see another incarnation of Phil?
It's apparently a real book: http://montages.blogspot.co.nz/2006/04/naita-aka-oni.html
Perhaps it's careless of the author to create Rem and Ram with the explicit intention of forcing Subaru to invoke this story but I wasn't as put off with it as I was with other parts of Erased. I won't begrudge the author a favorite childhood book; at least he's not quoting Shakespeare or Nietzsche!
hosannainexcelsis
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Arguing about the logistics of "true" time travel is a pointless endeavor because of the inherent contradictions in the idea of time travel. Let it go.
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