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Summer 2010 Anime Thread of I MAED A ANIMU W1TH Z0MB1ES 1N IT!!!1
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firehawk12
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Pachael said:
We don't really talk about random parts of our lives and have Hayley Fridays though. For the most part, it's all on topic.
I think this thread has been rather insane since there are several threads running within this one. I mean, I had to talk about Endless Eight again and I can't even remember how that came up.
(Although no one who frequents this thread cares about Mai Mai Miracle apparently!)
Back on topic - Seitokai 9 had another strange "meta" ending, with the "staff" apologizing for making a meta ending... so that it was self-aware on two levels. I'm not sure if it was clever or just pandering to people who like things that are clever.
Crash Station
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firehawk12 said:
The manga thread is like that too. We were talking about some guro series for a while and then I wrote a shounen pillow fighting oneshot.
Though I imagine this is worse since it's supposed to be restricted to one season while that can be about anything.
Crash Station
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Hitokage said:
Never said I had a problem with it. I'm happy talking about whatever anime is on my mind.
Crash Station
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Jintor said:
The guro or the pillow fighting? Both were good. Infinitenine drew some concept art of the latter.
Tranced Shadow
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Starting watching Big Windup again.
Good God, was this made for fujoshi? :lol :lol :lol
I'm enjoying it though, even if Mihashi makes Shinji Ikari look like Kenshiro!
Good God, was this made for fujoshi? :lol :lol :lol
I'm enjoying it though, even if Mihashi makes Shinji Ikari look like Kenshiro!
Unknown Soldier
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Tranced Shadow said:
The part that is scary to me is that I can actually visualize the progression of manliness from Kenshiro to Shinji and then shudder at what this 'Mihoshi' must be like. :lol
Tranced Shadow
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Unknown Soldier said:
Oh, he's adorable. Poor guy shrinks away every time someone directs attention at him. The dub's really good at showing how meek he is!
Jex
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Indeed. The thing about Berserk is that is has very...classical character development. Strangely enough there aren't a large amount of shows that actually do that, apart from endless variations of whiny kid->badass hero.Salazar said:
The main characters will start out in one way and slowly move towards else, but it sure feels like it takes forever, even though the show isn't particularly long.
firehawk12
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Tranced Shadow said:
The easy/trite explanation would be that it's written by a woman!
Also, glad to hear that the Manga thread is just as nonsensical. :lol
Jex
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:lolDresden said:
Also, spoilers in the comments. And the side videos. Such is the internet.
Big O II 2 : Huh, that's the first time I've seen this show handle a fight badly. For a start, that mecha design looked like something out of Final Fantasy.
But far more problematic was it's agility, ease of movement and speed. Fights in this show are slow, ponderous and deliberate. They aren't zipping around like Gundams.
Also, I'm reminded once again how damn impressive the art style of season one was, especially as one tiny little bit off from that and the effect is lost.
I still really liked the episode though.
Unknown Soldier said:
E7 is in ACE3, and ACE3 is probably the easiest to get into if you can play Japanese PS2 games. ACE R (PS3) leaves a bad first impression, but I'm really digging that one now too. E7 does have its own games that you can buy properly in English, but ACE's controls for its E7 characters are way better than they are in E7's own game.
I'd pass on the idea of playing ACE for the story though, unless you're good at Japanese.
Tranced Shadow
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I finished Big Windup. It was a pretty decent series, but I think the games went on for far too long. One took up pretty much the entire second half of the series.
The games were pretty tense at times, but I preferred to see the characters practice and develop.
Is the second series as "match-heavy"? I dunno if I want to watch it, seeing as though we're getting no dub
The games were pretty tense at times, but I preferred to see the characters practice and develop.
Is the second series as "match-heavy"? I dunno if I want to watch it, seeing as though we're getting no dub
The 2nd series focuses on a tournament and is only 13 episode, so I think the game-to-episode ratio is quite a bit higher.
I think my favourite thing about the 2nd season were the mothers of the players. They made me "d'aww" many times.
I just watched all of Sengoku Basara #7 and felt like I missed a lot of stuff from episode 6. Like, episode 6 ends with one guy about to start fighting, and the start of episode 7 has another guy telling his master that that guy died. Wth. So I Went back to episode 6 and noticed that there was like 4 minutes of important stuff after the end credits that I didn't watch the first time. Oh well.
Episode 7 has Miyamoto Musashi and a new ending animation.
I think my favourite thing about the 2nd season were the mothers of the players. They made me "d'aww" many times.
I just watched all of Sengoku Basara #7 and felt like I missed a lot of stuff from episode 6. Like, episode 6 ends with one guy about to start fighting, and the start of episode 7 has another guy telling his master that that guy died. Wth. So I Went back to episode 6 and noticed that there was like 4 minutes of important stuff after the end credits that I didn't watch the first time. Oh well.
Episode 7 has Miyamoto Musashi and a new ending animation.
slaughterking
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That was one effective boob grab if I've ever seen one.
firehawk12
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Tranced Shadow said:I finished Big Windup. It was a pretty decent series, but I think the games went on for far too long. One took up pretty much the entire second half of the series.
The games were pretty tense at times, but I preferred to see the characters practice and develop.
Is the second series as "match-heavy"? I dunno if I want to watch it, seeing as though we're getting no dub
The author is a baseball nerd (she played softball and is a sports psychologist) so it's no surprise that there's a heavy focus on the games. Unfortunately the second series ends before all the training camp/recovery stuff happens, so there's not that much character development.
The second series also has two games though, so it's not as "slow" as the first series.
Occult Academy seems to be going at a pace of 2 episodes per arc, so I wonder if the series will end up being a 24 episode/2 cour dealie. I wouldn't mind it though, since I'm not sure if I have anything to watch in the Fall.
Broken Blade OVA 2
The small changes from the manga were nice. *manga*
Overall, I wasn't really impressed with anything, but none of it was terrible either. I guess my only disappointments were the actual fights yet the mech designs were as incredible as I thought they would be if drawn nicely. Still, the OVA treatment in general makes watching so pleasant to the eyes. Maybe my expectations are too low (probably), but the 4th OVA release date and its cover makes me wonder how they'll conclude the OVA.
The small changes from the manga were nice. *manga*
I'm glad they skipped Rygart's mopping around the castle entirely along with the stupid provocation. Even if he is a fairly typical lead, I thought it detracted from his character.
Rahxephon 12 - Episode 11. (the episode where ayato goes into the dream world) was good shit. Still not so sure what to think of this series. It's interesting, but not exactly exciting.
(for me).
I'm already seeing the evangelion comparisons. This one scene where ayako was carrying quon, felt like it was ripped straight from evangelion.:lol
(for me).
I'm already seeing the evangelion comparisons. This one scene where ayako was carrying quon, felt like it was ripped straight from evangelion.:lol
duckroll said:So, I rewatched all of Paranoia Agent recently. I'm not sure if I should post my thoughts here (where I can talk about each ep without spoiler tags) or if I should bump the Kon tribute thread (which is kinda dead... like him). Thoughts?
I think we've had cross-posts from one specific type of anime thread into the general anime thread before, though I'm not sure if you would want to encourage that kind of behaviour. The Kon thread deserves it, but this one is more active. It could just get lost here.
firehawk12
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duckroll said:
That's the Sega PSP game announced a while ago, I guess?
Unknown Soldier
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firehawk12 said:
Yeah, it's been in the works for awhile now. Most people agree that it's basically the Hatsune Miku game adapted with the HTT girls instead of Miku. Nobody knows if it's going to be good or not. I certainly wouldn't gamble my $120 on finding out.
Bebpo said:
I would buy a K-ON version of Rock Band and rock the SHIT out of K-ON/HTT songs. If it supported the Pro Guitar mode which was added to RB3 I could even play Gitaa's parts using my own Gitaa!
HSotD 9:
That statement can be interpreted in multiple ways, Saeko-san. But you knew that, didn't you?
For those familiar with the manga, you know 'The Sword and DEAD' is a later chapter in the manga which actually occurs after they leave Saya's parents' estate and before they reach
George A. Romero's Mall of the Dead
Also, Takashi has nice strong man hands which are suitable for firm assertive authoritative boob-grabbing. See the animated GIF above for further information. The most awesome part of this chapter in the manga, where Saeko kills a bunch of zombies and gets turned on and screams that's
SHE'S WET!!
DrForester
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duckroll said:
Some type of K-On / Idolmaster hybrid....?
Bebpo said:
fixed
Trojita
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So I'm looking into the type of turtle that the K-on girls got from that one supermarket, the fly river turtle (also known as the pig nosed turtle). The species is listed as CITESII with a ban on exportation from their countries of origin. It's next to impossible to get the turtles to mate in captivity. Pretty much the turtle was acquired illegally by the girls. :lol
Unknown Soldier
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Branduil said:
I thought we figured out the dark subtext like 40 pages ago when we realized that cake is a metaphor for drugs and tea is a metaphor for alcohol.
watervengeance
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That show I hate ep 9 - So, can someone tell me what that boob grab was all about?
watervengeance said:
The way I understood it was that since Saeko was initially 'turned on' to violence by being sexually assaulted in the past, Takashi was reminding her of that when she was wussing out. He was telling her it's okay for her to be a violent psychopath.
She needed to be for them to survive, anyway.
Also, fanservice. Duh.
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