rrvv
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Planetarian is very short kinetic novel though
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Spring Anime 2016 |OT| Get a Season So Complicated
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Planetarian is very short kinetic novel though
Maximilian Kolbe
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Well Kuromukuro episode 2 subs are out(i mean decent subs), so you can try it.
Kuromukuro - 01-02
I'm enjoying this a lot so far. I wouldn't say it's anything super special, but it has a couple of things I really like.
- Dude from past transported into modern world
- Mechs melee fighting with hand-to-hand combat and swords
- Mechs having two pilots each, with samurai-dude and main girl forming a team
Although saying 'past' is probably a bit weird, since they apparently already had mechs there and were fighting against the oni, who also appear like mechs.
There is a nice mix of lighthearted and serious moments. I especially liked how the scatterbrained nature of main girls mum was actually plot relevant in both episodes, haha.
I'm enjoying this a lot so far. I wouldn't say it's anything super special, but it has a couple of things I really like.
- Dude from past transported into modern world
- Mechs melee fighting with hand-to-hand combat and swords
- Mechs having two pilots each, with samurai-dude and main girl forming a team
Although saying 'past' is probably a bit weird, since they apparently already had mechs there and were fighting against the oni, who also appear like mechs.
There is a nice mix of lighthearted and serious moments. I especially liked how the scatterbrained nature of main girls mum was actually plot relevant in both episodes, haha.
ColossalLazy
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Bungou Stray Dogs 02
I am not really feeling it. The comedy is more miss than hit to me.
Joker Game 02
Loved the conclusion. It was interesting to see how the spy agency used the incident to its advantage, lots of backstabbing going on.
Kuromukuro 02
Loved the mech fight and the OST continues to be great. If it gives more of those sword fighting mecha battles, I will be satisfied.
Also I love how expressive Yukina is, her faces are so damn funny.
I am not really feeling it. The comedy is more miss than hit to me.
Joker Game 02
Loved the conclusion. It was interesting to see how the spy agency used the incident to its advantage, lots of backstabbing going on.
Kuromukuro 02
Loved the mech fight and the OST continues to be great. If it gives more of those sword fighting mecha battles, I will be satisfied.
Also I love how expressive Yukina is, her faces are so damn funny.
I thought it was all right.
Either close to it or one more season after this one.
The ending made me feel feelings. I almost don't want to relive that and feel those feelings again.
SliceSabre
Banned
Dark Souls III keeps getting in the way of my Cardcaptor Sakura watching. 
nintendoman58
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I really loved the premise of Gargantia. The idea of a combat-trained dude finding himself stranded with a peaceful society wondering how to fit-in is really appealing to me, and the show definetly delivers on that for the first few episodes.
Now somewhere down the line is where things start to take a deeper turn, and that's where impressions of the show started to get a little mixed back then.
Personally, I loved what the show did and thought that it made the show better regarding how its characters developed, and I'm interested to see what you take from it.
Also, don't worry about the fanservice. It's nowhere near as bad as others make it out to be.
Scrooge McDuck
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Isn't the light novel an anthology of barely-related stories? That's certainly a quaint choice to compile into one movie.
Judging from the name, it is likely to literally be the story Hoshi no Hito from that book, and probably only that story. I've not read it myself, but my understanding is that that one specifically actually ties back to the original work in a meaningful way, whereas the others don't.
Principate
Saint Titanfall
Dedication Through Light
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They already said its the final season and its covering the rest of the manga
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/new...anime-2nd-season-to-cover-manga-ending/.98897
names2hard4you
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It's funny when everyone points out the fan service in Gargantia, but I just can't remember it. Maybe it was there, but it was so long ago. I feel like I would remember something like this and complain too, specially if it was excessive. But I just don't remember.
Hellwarden
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Of course, the day of the week my favorite show comes out, and my router is acting funky
All I wanna do is watch ConRevo.
That's it. That's all I want.
All I wanna do is watch ConRevo.
That's it. That's all I want.
All that comes to mind is when the girls are prancing around in the background in the scene where Ledo has an unexpected reaction to a certain seafood.
Midriffs...and then there's the dancing scene,
Lalalandia
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Heavy Object
What a great show that somehow conspires to be deeply frustrating at the same time.
On the one hand the show keeps intimating it's going to start exploring what it means to sanitise and abstract warfare by projecting it as a sort of noble gladiatorial combat analogous to the outsized attention paid to WW1 pilots to distract from the carnage on the ground. Yet every time it comes close to doing so the story takes an abrupt left turn to get back to a more straight forward goodies v baddies narrative as in the Kamchatka arc
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This self sabotage is all over the show as well particularly with the fan service, the show actually does a good job of minimising it or making it less obtrusive in most cases but the damn title cards at the halfway mark regularly insert outright cheesecake into the middle of otherwise tense scenes. It completely undoes any tension as you go from 'damn that's a big robot' to 'wait why are they having a picnic/undressed/wut?'. I give the prize to episode 12 for this as it decided to indulge after the screenplay has
literally bemoan how society sees her as little more than a uterus for sale. In fact the failure to develop her story line any further is a real disappointment as despite providing the majority of the fan service I thought she came off quite well. Making the Princess 14 was a bad choice as it made the central romance feel well off but at least they kept it at the periphery and fairly innocent (excepting the cheesecake cards)
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Despite all that the show has it's heart in the right place and I highly recommend it my favourite gags were the idea that the Legitimate Kingdom was France (Frolaytia is just a japanophile it seems) and that the ultimate bad guy for the end of the series was
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What a great show that somehow conspires to be deeply frustrating at the same time.
On the one hand the show keeps intimating it's going to start exploring what it means to sanitise and abstract warfare by projecting it as a sort of noble gladiatorial combat analogous to the outsized attention paid to WW1 pilots to distract from the carnage on the ground. Yet every time it comes close to doing so the story takes an abrupt left turn to get back to a more straight forward goodies v baddies narrative as in the Kamchatka arc
(where a massacre committed by friendly forces is side stepped by a spare fleet of submarines that were just lying around)
This self sabotage is all over the show as well particularly with the fan service, the show actually does a good job of minimising it or making it less obtrusive in most cases but the damn title cards at the halfway mark regularly insert outright cheesecake into the middle of otherwise tense scenes. It completely undoes any tension as you go from 'damn that's a big robot' to 'wait why are they having a picnic/undressed/wut?'. I give the prize to episode 12 for this as it decided to indulge after the screenplay has
Major Frolaytia
for God's sake even at their first date over the final credits Havia is hanging around as a 3rd wheel
Despite all that the show has it's heart in the right place and I highly recommend it my favourite gags were the idea that the Legitimate Kingdom was France (Frolaytia is just a japanophile it seems) and that the ultimate bad guy for the end of the series was
the Académie Française on a language purity kick, I have visions of the bad guy as old french teacher of mine raging against the leakage of english slang into spoken french
Space Patrol Luluco #3
Lol Nova was pretty chilled when he got captured. And now we got the trio together, along with a possible love triangle. XD At the end it says to be continued next season, what?
Edit: Also what is up with the subtitles. Get rid of that green Crunchyroll. It looks like the english subs have a issue with its borders.
Lol Nova was pretty chilled when he got captured. And now we got the trio together, along with a possible love triangle. XD At the end it says to be continued next season, what?
Edit: Also what is up with the subtitles. Get rid of that green Crunchyroll. It looks like the english subs have a issue with its borders.
names2hard4you
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Goddamnit, I don't remember this. Either it was so shockingly bad that I erased it from my mind, or I just watched it naturally and didn't care. Idk which of the two are worse. Me not caring, or me not remembering.
Them: So new series of Game of Thrones is starting soon.
Moi: Oh is it? I'm probably one of the few who hasn't seen that show ha ha.
Them: Really? Nothing?
Moi: Yes.
Them: What do you watch then?
Moi:
LOL. whynotboth.gif
And before people bombard me with "We only watch good shows", do me a favour, and GET OUTTA HERE
All I wanna know is what happened to my boy Jon Snow.Dedication Through Light
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I hope funi fixes their concrete revolution, theres like no subs 17:40 in during a key scene
Dedication Through Light
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Concrete Revolution Episode 15
I wish there was more of Judas and whats he doing beyond the healing and modification stuff. I guess he will show up a few more times.
Compelling backstory with the fumers and Jiro.
Also Individual Beginnings played! Best song, hopefully we get the longer version later too.
I wish there was more of Judas and whats he doing beyond the healing and modification stuff. I guess he will show up a few more times.
Compelling backstory with the fumers and Jiro.
Also Individual Beginnings played! Best song, hopefully we get the longer version later too.
Aaronrules380
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I laughed at how Karma's big climatic answer to the final question is actually wrong
Aaronrules380
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I mean, he still did better than Asano, whose method is nowhere close to how you solve the problemYeah but it's all about heart and friendship, though!
KenjiGlove
Banned
Concrete Revolutio Episode 15
Insane episode, the Osaka World Exposition part was cool, it was brought up earlier in the show during the Mountain Horse episode so it was nice to see it come back. Interesting that Jiro's dad was also on display, I figured he was a superhuman but I wonder what his powers are. Glad that this scene also immediately resolved what happened to the Fumers.
Judas' tinkering is rather suspicous. I guess he was able to turn the singer lady into a giant human, but his experiments were also related to Jiro's "secret" according to Emi, interesting stuff.
Also those two hype scenes, so good.
Would justice again next week.
Insane episode, the Osaka World Exposition part was cool, it was brought up earlier in the show during the Mountain Horse episode so it was nice to see it come back. Interesting that Jiro's dad was also on display, I figured he was a superhuman but I wonder what his powers are. Glad that this scene also immediately resolved what happened to the Fumers.
Judas' tinkering is rather suspicous. I guess he was able to turn the singer lady into a giant human, but his experiments were also related to Jiro's "secret" according to Emi, interesting stuff.
Also those two hype scenes, so good.
Would justice again next week.
CheapJuice
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Concrete Revolutio - 15
Dayum, I love the visuals when Jiro goes bananas! I came all over that scene. Equu's transformation was cool too.
Great episode as a whole with the Fumers, Rainbow Knight and I think a first for Ultima being a hybrid? End transition was neat as well.
Dayum, I love the visuals when Jiro goes bananas! I came all over that scene. Equu's transformation was cool too.
Great episode as a whole with the Fumers, Rainbow Knight and I think a first for Ultima being a hybrid? End transition was neat as well.
hosannainexcelsis
Member
I was here when Gargantia aired; I pretty much know what I'm in for.
names2hard4you
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Lemme pull my list out and put it against general impressions on here:
Generally good impressions:
- Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress
- Flying Witch
EDIT: - My Hero Academia (not watching this one because I already read well ahead, but this one is also good according to almost everyone here)
You may also want to check out:
- Joker Game
- Bungou Stray Dogs
- Kiznaiver
- Re:Zero
So bad it's good:
- The Lost Village
The season has just started so we've only seen one or two episodes of each thing so it's really too early to say. The OP covers most of what looks interesting.
Cornbread78
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Is Amazon not airing Kabaneri? My buddy said he just watched it and I guess a bunch of people have already seen it with subs....
Wasn't it delayed because of the earthquake?
names2hard4you
Member
Earthquake in Japan, it's been mentioned before. A few posts up you'll see that they plan on releasing the episode on the 21st
It has been delayed on Amazon too alongside TV. People were watching the Chinese version.
hosannainexcelsis
Member
The TV broadcast and online streams have been delayed a week, but it was briefly available on a Chinese streaming site.
Hero Prinny
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lots of cool spring animes, they need to finish already so i can binge watch some sweet anime gudness. Until then I'll stick with watching "old" stuff (as in completed animes)
Lalalandia
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Heavy Object
Oh I forgot to ask what the hell happened to the OP in this show? From awesome high energy guitar riffs until ep 10 to increasingly limp and insipid versions of the same song?
Oh I forgot to ask what the hell happened to the OP in this show? From awesome high energy guitar riffs until ep 10 to increasingly limp and insipid versions of the same song?
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