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Summer 2010 Anime Thread of I MAED A ANIMU W1TH Z0MB1ES 1N IT!!!1
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so basically its crap all around?Kagami said:
Just because it involves an Otaku who talks about Ero-games nad viVideo games in genral. You could call it my guilty pleasure.Branduil said:
I am still rooted in my philosophy of ''kill Moe with fire''
Yeah, I knew Shiki is going to be mildly good as it is from the doods who made Ghost Hunt which was fantastic. I am actully surprised no one is talking about it as it is one of th few Anime who looks decent this season.BluWacky said:
I Can't watch that as the first one is licensed in here in Europe (shocked to be licensed to be frank!) and I am waiting to buy that. But yeah, it looks MANLY enough to be great.Dresden said:
even thuogh me and many Anime fans have different definition of MANLINESS
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Subete no aware
Relix said:
Uguuuuuu?
Also, best show of the season is clearly Occult Academy.
http://www.kyotoanimation.co.jp/data/shop_images/goods/k-on/cushion_yui_mio.htmlVox-Pop said:
The title says it's a "jumbo cushion." It's not a dakimakura, so it's not embarrassing!
I forgot about Loups=Garous. A reminder to whoever else was interested.
If it counts, Broken Blade gets my nomination, but my joy from it largely stems from how well I think the manga-to-anime adaptation transition was done. Plus, I really love how the character and mech designs came out in the 2nd OVA.faridmon said:
SpacePirate Ridley
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Unknown Soldier said:
I love what madhouse did with this one. Right girl, right choice, fuck rei! If I was in Komuro's position I would have done the same thing (not titty grabbing though :lol ). But im thinking this is only to create sexual tension between Rei-Komuro-Saeko, and somewhere in the story Komuro will ditch Saeko, or she will die, going with the idiotic choice at the end.
The thing that she said at the end, after killing all those zombies resulted me strange and somehow, even if im one of the people who dont mind all this fanservice, stupid.
As you said it was exactly the same as the manga, and I didnt remember that stupid, in my opinion, quote. So I went thorugh my manga volumes to see if I just didnt remembered.
Well, the scene was the same, but instead of saying the innapropiate and out of character
im wet, or worse as the one im watching has south amercian subs, it says "estoy mojada" wich is the literal translation of im wet but it sounds even dumber
"this is... EXCITING!", "esto es... EXCITANTE!", 'excitante' is a much subtell word here for saying, well, that she is wet.
Im talking about the official spanish from Spain transalation of the manga, that you can buy here right now, and because the publisher that does here the translation is pretty, pretty good, Im more in the vain that this quote could have been translated in mutiple forms, and the anime subbers tried the most literal one. I know the subbers try to do the work as fast as they can, but I like much better the official work done for the manga translation, and not only because of this, there are much more quotes that are better done in the manga.
But yeah, apart form that, I really liked this episode. Thought it was going to be difficult to explain somethings becuase they were altering the timeline
(the water vehicle, and the real sword)
<3 indeed.Lyonaz said:
JKTrix said:
You know, thanks to this explanation I understand the titty grab. I always thought it was only fanservice but I always asked me, why grab the tit when he could have grabbed her torso.
slaughterking
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That's a really nice and modest thing to ask yourself.SpacePirate Ridley said:
SpacePirate Ridley
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slaughterking said:
Just found the tit thing a little bit impetuous :lol
slaughterking
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I don't know. I thought grabbing the boob and screaming at her was the obvious thing to do to unravel her inscrutable self doubts. :lol
faridmon said:
It's wierd watching Shiki because just when you think shits about to go down, it's the end of the episode, and then the start of the new episode starts days/hours earlier or focuses on another perspective. It's definately one of those building up animes you're better off marathoning the whole thing when the season is over.
Damn, this Utauyo!! Miracle remix is actually pretty decent.
slaughterking said:
That scene was ridiculous IMO. I really suggest (to everyone) reading the manga in tandem cos the anime is too over the top at times. I just don't understand why the manga fanservice wasn't enough for them. The anime is almost a parody at this point.
I still like it though
SpacePirate Ridley
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Cloudy said:That scene was ridiculous IMO. I really suggest (to everyone) reading the manga in tandem cos the anime is too over the top at times. I just don't understand why the manga fanservice wasn't enough for them. The anime is almost a parody at this point.
I still like it though
And they, like only add a little second here an there, because its REALLY similar to the manga, but only that extra seconds of footage they add is over the top action scenes, something i really like, the action scenes are really, over the top, greatness.
The over the top fanservice scenes are more due to the animation, a fanservice shot that in the manga is only a panel or two, and doesnt seem so over the top, like for example the Saeko tit grab, seems much more over the top that in the manga, only becuase the SAME scene is animated and doesnt impact that much in still shots, but they are really the same.
Another total different thing is the boob matrix footage, now thats over the top :lol
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So 24 normal episodes for Season two and 2 extra episodes will air after season two ends. 26 episodes in all, not 28. :'( It's weird they decided to stop on episode 24. I wonder if they have a plan in store? Or maybe it has something to do with the K-On! manga ending this September.
I surprised that haven't announced a K-On! movie yet. It's made money.
slaughterking
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Oh no, I don't like those "tacked on" episodes after the true final episode. It's weird when a show concludes but goes on and eventually ends with one or two "unrelated" stand-alone episodes. I don't like that.
slaughterking said:Oh no, I don't like those "tacked on" episodes after the true final episode. It's weird when a show concludes but goes on and eventually ends with one or two "unrelated" stand-alone episodes. I don't like that.
But it doesn't "go on" after it ends. As a TV series, it concludes the run. The extra episodes do not have to take place after the final episode, since they're bonus episodes for fans included with the DVDs. Think of them as bonus tracks on a limited release of a music album, or extra shorts included with a movie on DVD (like Pixar's shorts).
The girls are seniors and most plan to go to the same college so I'm sure they end the current story line this season. I'm not really sure how the Japanese school system works, but I take it they are in their fall semester. So they will be Graduating very soon. The show has definitely changed from dealing with trying to serious band to the girls just having fun. I don't remember if season 3 had been announced or not since it leaves the girls in different places in their lives. Yui, Ritsu, Mio are going (trying) to a Women's college, Mugi is going to another college, and Azusa is still in high school. In addition, the K-On! manga is going to end this September so a Season 3 would have to be created without a source material. I want them to continue the story line instead of just releasing OVA style episodes if that's the plan, however, last seasons extra episode is probably my favorite of the series. We will see.
Just marathoned Giant killing (the Ep. I misted) Man what an awsome Anime. I am sad that not many people aren't watching it but for me its the Anime of the year, very tense and shows a great charcter all around.
can't wait for next Ep.
Now, on to Marathon mitsudomoe...
can't wait for next Ep.
will they come back from 2 - nil down? I haven't seen much of Tsubaki or Sera, hopefully they will be the ones that score the goals
Now, on to Marathon mitsudomoe...
rainking187
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Vox-Pop said:
Actually the girls all decided to try for the Women's University Mugi was going to, so everyone but Azusa will be in the same college.
Ok, that makes more sense. I thought Mugi was going to some nursing college or something because she didn't submit her application. But Azusa is one year behind them so she would have to tagalong with them which might be awkward. The way the series seems to be going is that the band is just a friendship thing. Or maybe they could kick Azusa out....sorry soldier.rainking187 said:
Has anyone seen the shoujo series Oniisama e (Brother, Dear Brother)?
I haven't seen much shoujo. Actually, it's an extremely short list: Utena, which I liked, but felt had problems, and Paradise Kiss, which I watched for the beautiful Nobuteru Yuuki designs, and stayed for the story. Well, I loved Oniisama e (Brother, Dear Brother) so much that I marathon-ed all 39 episodes in three days last week -- totally engrossed and mesmerized the entire time -- then I spent another day and a half feeling decimated and inconsolably depressed for having parted.
For those who wish to know, Oniisama e (Brother, Dear Brother) is another of the many accomplished Osamu Dezaki / Akio Sugino collaborations -- this one aired in 1991 or thereabouts -- based on a shoujo manga by Riyoko Ikeda; and it's absolutely masterful.
The show is set in an elite all girls high school and follows the tender and pure, 14 year old, Misoono Nanako, as she battles rivals for (and of) an ultra prestigious sorority, gains friendship, falls in love, and unravels the mystery behind an exceedingly weird sibling relationship. So yeah, there's ample helpings of teen angst, soap opera, histrionics, and melodrama, not to mention two bishounen ..um.. women that all the female characters (98% of the cast) go "STEKIII" over. Despite all of that, Dezaki manages to transform the hysterical on-the-face-of-it subject matter into captivating drama through a unfailingly serious tone and his usual penchant for melodrama. It helps that the artwork is exceedingly gorgeous, too, perfectly captured in Dezaki's trademark directorial quirk, the flash in the pan, moments captured in time stills (quite at ease here I might add; i.e. they've never seemed more appropriate) and boundless supply of double, triple and even quadruple camera takes!
I can't imagine another director for this show. It would have been a disaster and preposterously silly (maybe, some will still think so), instead, quite the opposite, amazingly gripping! By the end of the show I had gone beyond empathy for the characters on-screen to being nearly possessed by their emotions myself. Yes, I cried during not one, not two, but three episodes! I strongly suspect, as a 28 year-old, heterosexual, male, this was as close as I'll ever get to feeling like a 14 year old girl :lol
More people should see Oniisama e (Brother, Dear Brother), because despite being kinda..erm..very weird, it's really Dezaki at his best and pretty much a masterpiece. Also, I have no idea how the writers turned three volumes of 70s shoujo manga into a 39 episode series quite so spectacularly. Dezaki stated in an interview for Animerica magazine that Riyoko Ikeda after seeing his work on Oniisama e told him that he knew about women better than most women (read here: http://aceonerae.dreamers.com/english/ace_ar01.htm).
I've been looking, without success, for Ace o Nerae fansubs. Do they exist? What's better TV series or Movie? Can't find Ashita no Joe fansubs either, for that matter.
If you feel i should turn in my man card and start reading Jane Austen novels, let me know.
I haven't seen much shoujo. Actually, it's an extremely short list: Utena, which I liked, but felt had problems, and Paradise Kiss, which I watched for the beautiful Nobuteru Yuuki designs, and stayed for the story. Well, I loved Oniisama e (Brother, Dear Brother) so much that I marathon-ed all 39 episodes in three days last week -- totally engrossed and mesmerized the entire time -- then I spent another day and a half feeling decimated and inconsolably depressed for having parted.
For those who wish to know, Oniisama e (Brother, Dear Brother) is another of the many accomplished Osamu Dezaki / Akio Sugino collaborations -- this one aired in 1991 or thereabouts -- based on a shoujo manga by Riyoko Ikeda; and it's absolutely masterful.
The show is set in an elite all girls high school and follows the tender and pure, 14 year old, Misoono Nanako, as she battles rivals for (and of) an ultra prestigious sorority, gains friendship, falls in love, and unravels the mystery behind an exceedingly weird sibling relationship. So yeah, there's ample helpings of teen angst, soap opera, histrionics, and melodrama, not to mention two bishounen ..um.. women that all the female characters (98% of the cast) go "STEKIII" over. Despite all of that, Dezaki manages to transform the hysterical on-the-face-of-it subject matter into captivating drama through a unfailingly serious tone and his usual penchant for melodrama. It helps that the artwork is exceedingly gorgeous, too, perfectly captured in Dezaki's trademark directorial quirk, the flash in the pan, moments captured in time stills (quite at ease here I might add; i.e. they've never seemed more appropriate) and boundless supply of double, triple and even quadruple camera takes!
I can't imagine another director for this show. It would have been a disaster and preposterously silly (maybe, some will still think so), instead, quite the opposite, amazingly gripping! By the end of the show I had gone beyond empathy for the characters on-screen to being nearly possessed by their emotions myself. Yes, I cried during not one, not two, but three episodes! I strongly suspect, as a 28 year-old, heterosexual, male, this was as close as I'll ever get to feeling like a 14 year old girl :lol
More people should see Oniisama e (Brother, Dear Brother), because despite being kinda..erm..very weird, it's really Dezaki at his best and pretty much a masterpiece. Also, I have no idea how the writers turned three volumes of 70s shoujo manga into a 39 episode series quite so spectacularly. Dezaki stated in an interview for Animerica magazine that Riyoko Ikeda after seeing his work on Oniisama e told him that he knew about women better than most women (read here: http://aceonerae.dreamers.com/english/ace_ar01.htm).
I've been looking, without success, for Ace o Nerae fansubs. Do they exist? What's better TV series or Movie? Can't find Ashita no Joe fansubs either, for that matter.
If you feel i should turn in my man card and start reading Jane Austen novels, let me know.
Crash Station
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Jerk 2.0 said:
Doesn't seem bad actually. A bit annoying that Deadman Wonderland got pushed back but whatever. I'll still be checking out at least 8 shows or something.
K-ON!(!) is genuinely good in the sense that the staff is rather talented and it really shows in the elaborate scene composition and the very fun and surprisingly loose naturalistic animation. You sure could say it is essentially "content-less", but I don't think that make it any less enjoyable or well-made.
I'm currently watching, and enjoying, this show. This is way too big of a coincidence. :lol
AfroLuffy said:
I'm currently watching, and enjoying, this show. This is way too big of a coincidence. :lol
RurouniZel
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Just finished watching K-On!! 22. Not as good animation as some of the previous episodes, but the end made me smile with glee (even though it was 100% predictable). Just what I needed after 3 hours overtime today!
Oneesama, is it the Anime where its about a girl that writes to her brother about everything that happens to her and every one look like they have anorixia or Anemia (or both for that matter). and ehere the girl comes from good offspring and became a friend with a bad girl who is rich and bichy. and there is an older Women who faints all the time and the main girl fall in love her and it become apparant lateer that she takes drugs, to make her look anorexic?
if that is the one, then i hated it, because i was like 10 years old and hated all those shojo crap that they started showing on TV at that time.
By the way, about the Fall season, can anyone confirm if Kaji S2 will be shown this season? PLEASE
if that is the one, then i hated it, because i was like 10 years old and hated all those shojo crap that they started showing on TV at that time.
By the way, about the Fall season, can anyone confirm if Kaji S2 will be shown this season? PLEASE
Branduil said:
The animation isn't the only thing good about K-ON!(!); the cinematography is excellent, the naturalistic lighting is way above the typical overly shiny KyoAni fluff, and the direction and scene composition are fun and very detailed. I personally think something as thoughtfully executed deserves to called "good", but that's just me.
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