Train sequence is so good as there's this palpable sense of helplessness.
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Spring Anime 2016 |OT| Get a Season So Complicated
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Train sequence is so good as there's this palpable sense of helplessness.
Admiral Woofington
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Cornbread78
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Yeah, this one caught my eye as well, so I'm going to give it a shot.
Neither.
Start SNAFU and Little Busters NOW!
it's a slower burn, and the first quarter isn't great, but the rest of it more than makes up for it. Very enjoyable show about garbage men
hosannainexcelsis
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Gundam Build Fighters 7
It'd be neat if there were more episodes like this, where the characters get to exist and even fight outside the tournament structure.
It'd be neat if there were more episodes like this, where the characters get to exist and even fight outside the tournament structure.
AquaWateria
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Steins Gate 1
Is their a reason for Okabe's chunni mode?
Is their a reason for Okabe's chunni mode?
Basileus777
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Yes.
I ended up dropping The Tatami Galaxy in case anyone was wondering, didn't like it at all, so much so that what was supposed to get me back into watching anime again ended up putting me off further which is why I'm gonna pick carefully this time. I might revisit The Tatami Galaxy later down the road, but that's back on the back-burner for now.
Neoleo2143
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Absolutely. It's a slow burn but it'll get to the explosion eventually.
ColossalLazy
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Danball Senki 29
GATTAI!!!!!!!
GATTAI!!!!!!!
Spoiled Milk
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I was hooked from like episode 1. Same people who did Ping Pong. How could you?
Basileus777
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Ping Pong is a lot better than Tatami Galaxy to be fair.
How far did you get.
I think I pointed this out once, but I disliked the first half a lot and then I loved the second half.
Edit: I got through the first half of black bullet. Still not hating it. Still quite enjoyable. Gonna continue it tomorrow
Episode 3 was the last I watched, I was actually positive on the episode but the thought of watching more mentally exhausted me.
hosannainexcelsis
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Gundam Build Fighters 8
Imagine getting to do your doctoral dissertation on Gunpla.
Imagine getting to do your doctoral dissertation on Gunpla.
I felt the exact same way (actually maybe even more negatively) after episode 3.
Maybe in the future you can try more, maybe not
hosannainexcelsis
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I'd rate them roughly equal. Tatami Galaxy has the disadvantage of having a repetitive structure, while Ping Pong has the disadvantage of having way worse animation due to its compressed production schedule. But they're both great shows with strong storytelling.
Personally I like The Tatami Galaxy just a bit more, but both are excellent shows. I feel that Ping-Pong may be a little more accessible than Tatami Galaxy; I notice a lot of people are put off by the initial rapid-fire dialogue in Tatami Galaxy along with the repetition. I guess it's one of those shows that either 'clicks' for people or doesn't, since the repetition is an integral part of Tatami Galaxy's storytelling.
Basileus777
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Tatami Galaxy is a show that would have been much better as a 6 episode OVA series or a film while Ping Pong never drags the same way or feels as sledgehammersque with its messaging.
I've heard Joker Game has finally gotten somewhat interesting, but five episodes in it was really meh due to how there was no continuity that tied all the spy stories together except that they were all Japanese spies who were all trained in the same agency.
Bungo felt like a way worse Blood Blockade four episodes in, so I ended up dropping it as well.
The new shows I'm actually liking this season are Re:Zero and Kiznaiver, and maybe Flying Witch if you're into SoL-style shows. Now that I've dropped Hundred, Anny-Happy, Bungo and Twin Star Exorcists I'll probably be picking Kuromukuro up and go back to Barakamon and maybe some other show that manages to catch my attention.
I kind of whince whenever a random word in another language gets thrown about just to make things sound exotic, and the plot does sound pretty generic even though that could be attributed to what appears to be the work of google translate. A guy with a grudge against the mafia who joins them for revenge isn't anything new, but then again execution's everything so it could end up being good despite the generic premise (which, on the other hand, isn't nearly as generic as battle academy harems).
hosannainexcelsis
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I can see why people would dislike the repeated structure of Tatami, but it felt like it varied things up enough that each episode remained interesting, aside from episodes 6-8 which were just a little too similar for comfort. Episode 10 in particular was a really interesting and unique episode.
Your hope is in vain.
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this reaction is pure schaudenfreude
Well, looks like I chose the wrong title to be my 'popcorn' anime watch! I might need a palette cleanser after this one.
Maybe I'll just bump Mellowlink up and watch that. That seems like fun.
AquaWateria
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Have you seen Flying Witch?
It's a show for ultimate relaxing and cleansing.
Go and watch Barakamon. It's worth every second of your time.
Such a good series.
I have! It's one of my favorites of the season, actually. It's very relaxing, and all the characters are very likable. Definitely one of the shows I look forward to every week.
My ping pong senses went off. Ping pong was way more enjoyable to watch for me. Wenge was such a good character.
Tanaka kun is pretty relaxing to watch. Stumbled upon it and no ragrets.
nintendoman58
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Pfft. Well now you're just acting transcendent!
hosannainexcelsis
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Gundam Build Fighters 9
Caroline is a way better episodic antagonist than Kirara was. Of course, a drill hair ojou-sama will always be superior to a shallow idol.
Caroline is a way better episodic antagonist than Kirara was. Of course, a drill hair ojou-sama will always be superior to a shallow idol.
The mafia being the Vampiro family, you know. I'm not too fond of random gairaigo, and feel like it sticks out like a sore thumb rather than making things sound cooler most of the time. That family name doesn't sound like a legit Italian last name, unless they're going for the Vampiro family actually being vampires because of how Japan's pretty big about names being meaningful and all that.
The MC also better conceal his identity really good by the way, because if anyone in the mafia catches on to his real identity (last name, most likely) that will lower his life expectancy to a couple episodes at most unless he gets his hands on some power-up or bodyguard of some kind.
I wasn't familiar with the chuunibyou trope when I first watched Steins;Gate, and for a while I genuinely thought the show was trying to portray someone with paranoid schizophrenia.
hosannainexcelsis
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...... I really can't tell if you're intentionally trolling or not.
AquaWateria
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I blame Chuunibyou by KyoAni...
No, not intentionally. There's nothing more to it than that I honestly don't like Vampiro as the name for whatever. Mafia families tend to use their boss' last name, so it came off to me as being very random and weird choice of a last name.
hosannainexcelsis
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The irony of using an obscure loan word to complain about the use of loan words seems too on-the-nose to be unintentional, but if you say so!
I need to watch Ping Pong soon...
It's just I can't read it without my Spanish-sense kicking in (since vampiro's written the same way in both Italian and Spanish). It does sound better than the Vampire family or the 吸血鬼 family yeah, but Spanish being my mother tongue means it's little more than a generic noun to me and that greatly diminishes both its appeal and novelty factor.
This is a hilarious overreaction to a mistranslation (or troll translation?). Lol. The mafia family in 91 Days is the Vanetti Family.
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Tokyo Godfathers handles other languages pretty well.
This is a hilarious overreaction to a mistranslation (or troll translation?). Lol. The mafia family in 91 Days is the Vanetti Family.
dying lol
Hellwarden
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I do think Ping Pong is better than Tatami Galaxy, but it's the difference between the best steak I've had in years and another steak that's still really good.
The Illiterati
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The popularity of this show is unbelievable to me. Sorry for co-opting your first time watch, hope you enjoy it!
Can I just use this brief moment in time to state what is probably a really unpopular opinion: I hate Steins Gate. I hate the character
Mayuri
Of all the strange things people like in anime, my mind boggles that anyone can stand this character, and since she's not minor the entire thing is just garbage.
Every time she says OKARIN and looks at the screen with her derpy face I wanted to kill myself. I can't stand a grown person acting like she has the mental ability of a five year old. It wouldn't be so bad if I didn't know that probably half of this shows fans probably think she's adorable.
I spoke three languages including English(each of them considerably dissimilar in terms of grammar and vocabulary) before Japanese(currently at an intermediate level) but there were *many* things in regard to languages in general and translation that I didn't even notice until I started learning the fourth language. Most of my interpretation and comprehension of languages was passive.
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