I always thought either
her or Katsuhira would die.
also jfc at those harry potter spoilers ~_~
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Spring Anime 2016 |OT| Get a Season So Complicated
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I always thought either
also jfc at those harry potter spoilers ~_~
Voltron: Legendary Defender 7
Voltron showed up this ep just to push a ship out of the way. Also to lead intot he next ep where we get a second robeast.
Voltron: Legendary Defender 8
Rarely busting out Voltron is a good thing when it's coupled with only doing it for important encounters like here. Gives the whole concept a greater sense of purpose when Voltron is outclassed as a weapon of last resort rather than just slicing up fodder every ep.
Voltron showed up this ep just to push a ship out of the way. Also to lead intot he next ep where we get a second robeast.
Voltron: Legendary Defender 8
Rarely busting out Voltron is a good thing when it's coupled with only doing it for important encounters like here. Gives the whole concept a greater sense of purpose when Voltron is outclassed as a weapon of last resort rather than just slicing up fodder every ep.
Admiral Woofington
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Voltron 10
Damn what a tense episode, fantastic. If that fight wasn't a reference to star wars I don't know what is.
Damn what a tense episode, fantastic. If that fight wasn't a reference to star wars I don't know what is.
Hellwarden
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Voltron: Legendary Defender 1
Ehhhh, it's alright. Characters are fine. Visuals are fine, save for a couple moments where Allura's skin tone changes oddly. The voice acting and humor are fine.
It feels very by the numbers.
I will say Voltron transformation sequence was well done.
Ehhhh, it's alright. Characters are fine. Visuals are fine, save for a couple moments where Allura's skin tone changes oddly. The voice acting and humor are fine.
It feels very by the numbers.
I will say Voltron transformation sequence was well done.
the browner the better
Admiral Woofington
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Voltron S1: end
Fantastic series. It only got better as the episodes went on. I have my gripes with it, but it's no more than the same issues I have with most Anime sci fi. Shit like how useful and perfect every team member is and how they're like geniuses in their regard. Also how humanoid the aliens are, and how they all speak English. Minor gripes I can't hold against this show when it's just a usual suspect though.
The characters got better once they got past their childish bickering. But it's also funny how two of the characters are essentially Mako and Bolin from Korra. We have the goofy guy and the serious hunk, who constantly play off each other and have a love/hate relationship.
As Narag has been mentioning, there are more on foot scenes and fights than voltron fights which works fine by me. This isn't some power Ranger shit where every enemy is gigantic. And the action scenes on foot were pretty fantastic. I'd say episode 10 and 11 were the best by far, as the finale. Show ended with a bang.
I'd give it an 8/10. Took a bit to get off the first planet but once it did it was great.
As a final note I like how varied the team is, it's not just all white guys. I'd say it's a very easy show to binge, I did it tonight and I was satisfied. Can't wait for season 2. Also Keith is my husbando I call him.
Edit: oh and because someone will ask the show ends in a hilarious cliffhanger. Like attack on Titan meets halo levels.
Fantastic series. It only got better as the episodes went on. I have my gripes with it, but it's no more than the same issues I have with most Anime sci fi. Shit like how useful and perfect every team member is and how they're like geniuses in their regard. Also how humanoid the aliens are, and how they all speak English. Minor gripes I can't hold against this show when it's just a usual suspect though.
The characters got better once they got past their childish bickering. But it's also funny how two of the characters are essentially Mako and Bolin from Korra. We have the goofy guy and the serious hunk, who constantly play off each other and have a love/hate relationship.
As Narag has been mentioning, there are more on foot scenes and fights than voltron fights which works fine by me. This isn't some power Ranger shit where every enemy is gigantic. And the action scenes on foot were pretty fantastic. I'd say episode 10 and 11 were the best by far, as the finale. Show ended with a bang.
I'd give it an 8/10. Took a bit to get off the first planet but once it did it was great.
As a final note I like how varied the team is, it's not just all white guys. I'd say it's a very easy show to binge, I did it tonight and I was satisfied. Can't wait for season 2. Also Keith is my husbando I call him.
Edit: oh and because someone will ask the show ends in a hilarious cliffhanger. Like attack on Titan meets halo levels.
SapphiCine
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1. Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko are hardly hacks. Even if they dropped the ball with The Legend of Korra.
2. You need to do your research because Tim Hedrick, Joshua Hamilton, and May Chan all worked on The Last Airbender/The Legend of Korra. The hacks are closer than you think.
3. Only going off the first episode but the writing is pretty weak so far.
That doesn't sound fetishitic.
Admiral Woofington
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I meant that as theshow runners being gone , and yes they dropped the ball so badly on Korra in every aspect, particularly writing they were never able to to recover and just gave up by the end, retconing mythos they had established in the first series and allowing characters to gain powers just because.
And going by finishing the show just now, it was better than anything Korra save for season 3 which was the only one that stood out as good.
Edit: well to be fair the music and action in Korra was better, but I'm not watching this for the choreography and can't expect it to compete with a show based around martial arts.
hosannainexcelsis
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Fafner 17
Yeah, this show has definitely leveled up. The scene with Soshi showing Kazuki his room as well as the confrontation between Kazuki and Canon were both superb bits of character writing, in different ways. With Enomoto handling this episode, there were also some good moments of direction, especially the use of split-screen during Kazuki's conversation with Canon. I always love when a character takes over a split screen through force of personality - it usually is done humorously, but here it was successfully put to serious use.
Yeah, this show has definitely leveled up. The scene with Soshi showing Kazuki his room as well as the confrontation between Kazuki and Canon were both superb bits of character writing, in different ways. With Enomoto handling this episode, there were also some good moments of direction, especially the use of split-screen during Kazuki's conversation with Canon. I always love when a character takes over a split screen through force of personality - it usually is done humorously, but here it was successfully put to serious use.
Hellwarden
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It always warms my heart to see people shitting on Korra.
Because it's a bad show.
It's really bad, and not just as a sequel.
Because it's a bad show.
It's really bad, and not just as a sequel.
Admiral Woofington
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It's funny because when it was airing I sat down to rewatch last Airbender, which was on amazon prime, with a friend. It being from the non HD Era it wasn't as pretty to watch, and season 1 is also the weaker more childish season. But once it kicked it into high gear it was a non stop fun ride.
I enjoyed Korra as it aired but every season was just groan after groan with the writing and characters. I wasn't even asking for amazing writing, just not what we got.
Season 3 by itself might be worth watching, it'd be a nice experiment to try to have someone watch it with no context to see if they can appreciate without knowledge from the previous seasons.
Admiral Woofington
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Just watch season 3 and call it a day honestly.
Season 1 was off putting and ruined a great villain, not to mention made Korra conveniently be awesome.
Season 2 I won't even mention.
And season 4 was just disappointing. Not bad, just disappointing and a shame the show ended on such a pathetic whimper.
Season 1: Wasn't bad till the end, when yeah...
Season 2: ....... Well the first Avatar story was pretty nice and great looking at least.
Season 3: So awesome and felt like the most adventure-ish, which the series probably could had used more honestly.
Season 4: So disappointing, and felt like the pacing was on the backburner side for far too all. Kuvira could have been a great interesting villain, but they screw up her development along with quite a few other characters as a whole.:|
I wouldn't say it is outright bad, but it was quite a disappointment, and not exactly consistent in quality.
Season 2: ....... Well the first Avatar story was pretty nice and great looking at least.
Season 3: So awesome and felt like the most adventure-ish, which the series probably could had used more honestly.
Season 4: So disappointing, and felt like the pacing was on the backburner side for far too all. Kuvira could have been a great interesting villain, but they screw up her development along with quite a few other characters as a whole.:|
I wouldn't say it is outright bad, but it was quite a disappointment, and not exactly consistent in quality.
Korra's odd seasons were pretty great.
The even seasons not so much.
Season 4 was such a rush job and the ending ship felt so forced especially after Korra's conversation with Mako I couldn't buy it at all. It was as if they pushed it to appease their hardcore shipping fanbase.
So disappointing after season 3 was arguably the best animated season that year.
The even seasons not so much.
Season 4 was such a rush job and the ending ship felt so forced especially after Korra's conversation with Mako I couldn't buy it at all. It was as if they pushed it to appease their hardcore shipping fanbase.
So disappointing after season 3 was arguably the best animated season that year.
MetroidPrimeRib
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Korra S2 was so crap I dropped it and never looked back
Season 3 and 4 are legitimately better and it shows immensely. Mir's back on for the entirety instead half Pierrot and Mir and I also feel the web-only nature of it let them be a little more crazy with it. (Or maybe the web-only is a result of the nature of the stuff in it.)
I mean, there's a couple deaths on there that are pretty intense. You don't see it but someone's head explodes. Like say what you will about the ending (you either like it or hate it) but the last 2 seasons aren't bad by any means. S2 is really the only bad one.
Jex
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It's ironic that you talk about urgency in an episode where the characters move with no sense of urgency whatsoever.
The lack of urgency in an urgent situation was even turned into a gag.
hosannainexcelsis
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Tanaka-kun is Always Listless 9
The best fast food trip ever.
How does this show keep churning out hits episode after episode? It really is firing on all cylinders all the time. At this rate, this'll end up one of my favorite comedies since Soredemo Machi wa Mawatteiru.
The best fast food trip ever.
How does this show keep churning out hits episode after episode? It really is firing on all cylinders all the time. At this rate, this'll end up one of my favorite comedies since Soredemo Machi wa Mawatteiru.
Can't even blame you, season 2 was some terrible shit that came back for like two episodes with the backstory then went straight back to being shit. Season 3 was better though but the series as a whole is so disappointing compared to ATLA and Korra is just a terrible character in general.
Lost Village 11
A much better episode this week, the highlight of this show is the absurd interactions between the cast, not the uninteresting mystery of Nanako. Whenever you've got a bunch of characters in a room together, it usually turns out gold.
A much better episode this week, the highlight of this show is the absurd interactions between the cast, not the uninteresting mystery of Nanako. Whenever you've got a bunch of characters in a room together, it usually turns out gold.
It might be time for that myself. It's always a good time to revisit art.
Jex
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[The Lost Village] - 11
I'd never recommend anyone to actually watch this series because of poorly directly and plodding it is. That being said, I thought this was probably one of the better episodes of the series - which, because of the above, really isn't saying much.
I do have to say that, for a LOST-esque series, I do think it handles its characters and story in a less dishonest way than Lost.
The series is what it appears to be on the surface - a bunch of characters going to a weird location to have a therapy session to work out their inner demons. Sure there's a bunch of supernatural stuff in there as well, but it's all in service of that core theme - it's not superfluous.
Where as in Lost lots of plot/lore/weird stuff that happened was there purely to entertain the audience and keep people guessing while they kept stringing the show along for as long as humanly possible as opposed to actually being integral to the themes of the show.
Sure, The Lost Village is a far shorter series, so its far easier to have everything actually planned out ahead of time so it all links back in on itself, but it is still notable that it achieves all its goals on that level.
I'd never recommend anyone to actually watch this series because of poorly directly and plodding it is. That being said, I thought this was probably one of the better episodes of the series - which, because of the above, really isn't saying much.
I do have to say that, for a LOST-esque series, I do think it handles its characters and story in a less dishonest way than Lost.
The series is what it appears to be on the surface - a bunch of characters going to a weird location to have a therapy session to work out their inner demons. Sure there's a bunch of supernatural stuff in there as well, but it's all in service of that core theme - it's not superfluous.
Where as in Lost lots of plot/lore/weird stuff that happened was there purely to entertain the audience and keep people guessing while they kept stringing the show along for as long as humanly possible as opposed to actually being integral to the themes of the show.
Sure, The Lost Village is a far shorter series, so its far easier to have everything actually planned out ahead of time so it all links back in on itself, but it is still notable that it achieves all its goals on that level.
Jex
Member
Another victim of white man TV. RIP.
MetroidPrimeRib
Banned
you could be watching jojos
think of this while doing anything other then watching jojos
think of this while doing anything other then watching jojos
Thankfully white man makes no tv of interest to me. Or at least nothing I'd watch over anime. At least now that Flash, expanse and magicians are over.
Going to be interesting to see your opinions on Exodus (and I guess the bridging movie).
I think from a writing perspective it (Exodus) did some things better but didn't come together coherently at the end.
Tragedy porn aside, Fafner S1 did have some great story/character moments.
Fujoshi are those girls with penises right?
DeadRockstar
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I think so but I still can't answer the original question; I haven't seen shonen.
In the figurative sense, yes.
Theonik
Member
It was arguably better this time because you notice all the beats of the show the second time around. Also got 2 other people to watch it with me that also made it better.
That's deep.
striferser
Huge Nickleback Fan
Kabaneri 9
Feel bad for Mumei, she got played like a fiddle by her oni-sama.
Feel bad for Mumei, she got played like a fiddle by her oni-sama.
SliceSabre
Banned
Attack Trains on Iron de Fortress 09
Biba is a fucking savage, holy shit. Ikoma blown the fuck out!
ConRevo 23
Honestly I'm not surprised this is the decision they've come since since the humans have gone out their way to treat them like trash. Kill them Jiro, kill them all.
ALSO
NOOOOOOOOOO EARTH-CHAN AGALUGLKSGKLAGL
Biba is a fucking savage, holy shit. Ikoma blown the fuck out!
ConRevo 23
Honestly I'm not surprised this is the decision they've come since since the humans have gone out their way to treat them like trash. Kill them Jiro, kill them all.
ALSO
NOOOOOOOOOO EARTH-CHAN AGALUGLKSGKLAGL
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Huh. Re:Zero has 25 episodes? That's kind of random. I just assumed 12 based on the fact its yet another "im in fantasy world" thing.
Just one cour would have been so unsatisfying. It feels like the series is 4-5 episodes long.
Trojita
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Are you watching it? No way it would be done in 12.
And it's not a typical "im in fantasy world" show.
Dedication Through Light
Member
I wish grimgar got 25 episodes. I need even more know name music and Ranta.
and Cory in the House is the best anime
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Because it's not gonna finish anyways. It's light novel crap of course it won't.
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