SliceSabre
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Forgotten childhood friend beats regular childhood friend.
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Spring Anime 2016 |OT2| Justice is Over!
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Nisekoi all over again.
Cornbread78
Member
Dedication Through Light
Member
Chidori winning is a bad ending. Yuuta losing as well is a disasterous ending.
The children being apathetic permenently is the worst ending
DeadRockstar
Member
Lupin III 1-3
Question for those familiar with this show: is there a marked improvement at some point and if so can I skip to those episodes without missing much? Goemon has yet to show up and Takahata/Miyazaki aren't involved until episode 8, so I'm happy to withhold judgement for a bit, but the show isn't doing much for me so far, outside a few moments. I am, however, glad to see that Lupin has always been home to beautifully drawn cars.
Question for those familiar with this show: is there a marked improvement at some point and if so can I skip to those episodes without missing much? Goemon has yet to show up and Takahata/Miyazaki aren't involved until episode 8, so I'm happy to withhold judgement for a bit, but the show isn't doing much for me so far, outside a few moments. I am, however, glad to see that Lupin has always been home to beautifully drawn cars.
Except everything gets wrapped up in a single season rather than being stretched to hell and back by (ab)using the most contrived plot devices imaginable. Kiznaiver was decent anime original character drama, while Nisekoi is the incomplete adaptation of a still ongoing series that's yet another harem comedy with lots of mood whiplash.
As for KumaMiko, I watched the first two episodes, but the creepy undertones from EP1 were really off-putting, and the overuse of cheap comedy gags didn't help either. I haven't read far back enough to know what actually happened in the final episodes besides that they were AOs that hugely betrayed the audience's expectations, but I'm kind of glad I decided to drop it early.
I tend to like it more when shows have a clear theme, such as knowing that Mushishi will mostly be calm, that Higurashi will always end in horror, that TTGL will do awesome things for the sake of it, or even that Hundred will keep abusing shounen battle academy tropes and TLR
will use an excuse plot to have the MC unvoluntarily groping just about everyone around him (who conveniently happen to all be girls). KumaMiko was hell for me in that I didn't know if it was a gag collection, SoL (certainly didn't look like it) or a mess of implied underage bestiality, which made me nope out of it really quickly.Other shows with sudden turning points such as Eva are still alright by me, but that mostly comes down to the execution and how interesting the parts are both by themselves and when considered as part of a single entity/theme. Making jokes about bear-on-little-girl action and the girl being pinned down by a guy with nothing but her underwear on, on the other hand...
hosannainexcelsis
Member
There's a marked change of tone after Miyazaki takes over, at least. I'm not particularly fond of Part I in general though.
thanks!
striferser
Huge Nickleback Fan
To love ru is secretly the best shounen of all time
This is DTL we're talking about, so take those recs with a grain of salt.
Lost Village started out looking like it was going to be some Silent Hill-esque horror experience, but most of us ended up underwhelmed by how the plot progressed, I wasn't too keen on Cerberus, and I've heard it isn't all that good, and Kabaneri appears to be better than AoT, but I thought it was still unfinished and was going to continue later.
As for self-contained seasonal shows, you've got Kiznaiver this season (AO), and the last one had Rakugo, and adaptation that still has a continuation on the works but was really good and ended its first season with a good resolution of its plot. You could also watch Flying Witch from this season since it's SoL, and I think Gundam: IBO was also decent and got wrapped up last season AFAIK.
NaDannMaGoGo
Member
Fruit Basket - 12
Yeh I'm dropping it here. It's a mediocrely written shoujo RomCom with good direction. Character development is kinda stunted. Yuki and Kyo for instance get heavily inspired by Tooru's kindness just about every episode, yet, nothing really changes in the grand scheme of things. And the conflict between the two is complete rubbish. This 'I wanna be better than Yuki and so I literally fight him', packaged up in physical comedy and lots of screaming, is a complete drag. I didn't mind the first bunch of episodes being like that but eventually I grew tired of this.
All this Zodiac business isn't particularly compelling in the long run either. Made for some good comedy but this notion that everyone of the damn family is lonely because the curse prevents them from getting close to others gets hella repetitive. It's basically just a cheap way to force most of the drama.
"Everyone is actually a great person but struggles largely due to external reasons." - meh
Yeh I'm dropping it here. It's a mediocrely written shoujo RomCom with good direction. Character development is kinda stunted. Yuki and Kyo for instance get heavily inspired by Tooru's kindness just about every episode, yet, nothing really changes in the grand scheme of things. And the conflict between the two is complete rubbish. This 'I wanna be better than Yuki and so I literally fight him', packaged up in physical comedy and lots of screaming, is a complete drag. I didn't mind the first bunch of episodes being like that but eventually I grew tired of this.
All this Zodiac business isn't particularly compelling in the long run either. Made for some good comedy but this notion that everyone of the damn family is lonely because the curse prevents them from getting close to others gets hella repetitive. It's basically just a cheap way to force most of the drama.
"Everyone is actually a great person but struggles largely due to external reasons." - meh
DeadRockstar
Member
Thanks. I'll stick around for that with tempered expectations and see how it goes.
Maximilian Kolbe
Member
Kuromukuro 11
Subs finally here, and that's some pretty nice fighting scene.
Also it feels like
huh.
Subs finally here, and that's some pretty nice fighting scene.
Also it feels like
princess is still alive
KirbYuuYuu
Member
That has a lesbian sex scene so no.
I don't understand why people like Nisekoi. It's just going in circles endlessly.
:O
Psycho_Mantis
Banned
;__;
I feel like its either going to be very rushed or more likely have not much happening and just end with Katsuhira and Nori reconciling. They've wasted a lot of the last two episodes imo.
Nice reaction faces.
NaDannMaGoGo
Member
It's like this when you have usually 2 to 3 'main girls' which manga/animegaf have teams of.
TWGOK got Team Chihiro/Team Ayumi/Team Tenri(LOL).etc
AnoNatsu got Team Kanna/Team Ichika/Team Lemon
Heck even Idolmaster got teams
Dedication Through Light
Member
How could one dislike it when it has one of the most perfect characters ever. Look at him.
PdotMichael
Banned
That incoming football anime doesn't even look that bad.
Maybe the first football anime worth watching since Ginga e kickoff.
Maybe the first football anime worth watching since Ginga e kickoff.
hosannainexcelsis
Member
Was there any other soccer/football anime between Ginga e Kickoff and now?
PdotMichael
Banned
I don't know if that football anime where the main character got the heart of his brother aired before or after Kickoff.
hosannainexcelsis
Member
Before.
Actually, how many more seasons of padding would the anime need to get to the point where ships begin sinking?
SliceSabre
Banned
Speaking of Nisekoi I need to find a good Onodera avatar.
I need to go back to an anime avatar to make people outside of animegaf discount my opinions on things.
I need to go back to an anime avatar to make people outside of animegaf discount my opinions on things.
Unknown One
Member
Won't you be better off with a SAO avatar of Kirito then?
You should go all the way and get a magical girl Onodera one for maximum prejudice.
I remember randomly looking up a somewhat recent volume online and seeing the same old pattern where a confession was about to take place, only for Tachibana to get really sick and get carried offscreen by her assistant. The author should be fined for relying on the exact same plot device for so long...
Hellwarden
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hosannainexcelsis
Member
New Mob Psycho 100 CM showing off how amazing it looks.
I remember liking Kurenai, but have a lot of trouble remembering what it's even about at all. Been feeling like maybe I should rewatch it, but the fact that I don't remember has made me second guess whether or not it was good.
...Maybe I just won't watch it then!!!
The blurry shadow penumbras really turn me off, to be honest. Hopefully I'll get used to it, but it really doesn't fit the art style. THAT'S ONE STRIKE MOB PSYCHO 100. GET YOUR ACT TOGETHER.
Psycho_Mantis
Banned
Not a fan of the artstyle tbh
NaDannMaGoGo
Member
Definitely looking forward to this more than OPM. The art direction in the latter was so lackluster, though we got plenty great sakuga nevertheless.
John Blade
Member
This entire episode made up all the bullshit I have to get through in the last episode.You literally see MC Kai been a bad ass for the 3/4 of the entire episode taking down the alien statute with some minor help when it's needed. Man...this is what is needed or else the whole fight scene is boring.
They might be a small connection between MC Kai and Sei after the fight as she want to take him out from the look of it. Also, the MC Kai have change his personality a bit and become more of Jouichirou even to the point they is a scene where you can see both character in the same shot which scare female Kai. It does look like they is some friendship bonding between female Kai and Masaru and would like to see if it will develop into something. I bet it does in the manga but wonder if they can develop anything based on how many episode is left in this season.
Also, the fight isn't finish yet as they is now more of this alien statute poping up near the end of this episode. Bet they will be more dead people till the game is done and would see if Masaru will step up and fight the enemies this time or will his attitude will make him not kill the alien. Getting very interesting now.
They might be a small connection between MC Kai and Sei after the fight as she want to take him out from the look of it. Also, the MC Kai have change his personality a bit and become more of Jouichirou even to the point they is a scene where you can see both character in the same shot which scare female Kai. It does look like they is some friendship bonding between female Kai and Masaru and would like to see if it will develop into something. I bet it does in the manga but wonder if they can develop anything based on how many episode is left in this season.
Also, the fight isn't finish yet as they is now more of this alien statute poping up near the end of this episode. Bet they will be more dead people till the game is done and would see if Masaru will step up and fight the enemies this time or will his attitude will make him not kill the alien. Getting very interesting now.
DeadRockstar
Member
It could be worse. It could be the photoshop soft brush abomination that is Kids on the Slope.
Cornbread78
Member
Twin Star Exorcists ep.12
Pretty damn good episode again, with a good mix of comedy and action with some serious moments. They are doing a good job slowly integrating Benio's backstory into the mix as well. Oh and that new purple haired dude is a douche for sure!
Pretty damn good episode again, with a good mix of comedy and action with some serious moments. They are doing a good job slowly integrating Benio's backstory into the mix as well. Oh and that new purple haired dude is a douche for sure!
Lalalandia
Member
OK that was legit creepy as in psychological horror, like Jack Nicholas
is so clearly mentally broken after repeated ECT at the end
Wait so in the ending Natsu
outright sabotages her by praying to the gods for her to fail
Screw Kuma Miko, I have ep12 of Twin Star Exorcists to watch
It's been in the "all my waifus are now kaput" mode for like a year now actually.
It's kinda impossible to tell cause second season has been skipping a lot of chapters. S1 covered ~50 episodes in 20 episodes, S2 ended on chapter 106. IIRC things started moving at chapter ~160 or so so one would need at least another season to get to that material.
Too true. ;_;
Cornbread78
Member
The Asterisk War- END
Seriously, fu(k that ending. Pure bullshit LN ending where they carry on and introduce a bunch of new plot lines and characters, just to say “buy the LN!” Well, fu(k you and your $hitty LN. The battle was pretty cool this episode, but seriously, this is the most hideous jumble of plotlines forced together in a final episode to promote the LN that I have ever seen. Such a blow hard way to end the series. Like I said before, they should have just ended the show after ep. When then
Oh well, I knew it was coming, but it was still garbage….
/rant
Seriously, fu(k that ending. Pure bullshit LN ending where they carry on and introduce a bunch of new plot lines and characters, just to say “buy the LN!” Well, fu(k you and your $hitty LN. The battle was pretty cool this episode, but seriously, this is the most hideous jumble of plotlines forced together in a final episode to promote the LN that I have ever seen. Such a blow hard way to end the series. Like I said before, they should have just ended the show after ep. When then
Won the Festa
/rant
You should have stopped right after the tournament like I did.
Cornbread78
Member
I'm not evern that mad because that would mean I was actually emotionally invested in the show like I was SNAFU, but that was just a pure blatant "FU, buy my LN!"
uugghh