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Summer 2012 Anime |OT| Goddesses, canines, and killer MMOs!
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Crash Station
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Hagure Yuusha 1
What's up with slick harem protagonists this season? This guy feels more like a (justifiably) cocky shounen hero.
Anyway, this is actually a really cool premise. Travelling to alternate realities is nice, but it just feels really fresh when set in a universe where it's actually accepted by the public and even gets a school for "returning heroes". Almost like an X-men with fantasy elements. Interesting stuff.
I'm kind of conflicted on something though. It feels like we're jumping right into the middle of the story. But then when you think about the academy and stuff, that's really the point. This isn't about some teenager travelling to other worlds, it's about him coming back from travelling and then fucking shit up at a school for other people that came back and learned all kinds of crazy magic and fighting skills.
But damn, main dude's first haremate is
That's probably going to be an awkward conversation if she ever finds out.
I'll definitely stick with this for as long as it's interesting.
What's up with slick harem protagonists this season? This guy feels more like a (justifiably) cocky shounen hero.
Anyway, this is actually a really cool premise. Travelling to alternate realities is nice, but it just feels really fresh when set in a universe where it's actually accepted by the public and even gets a school for "returning heroes". Almost like an X-men with fantasy elements. Interesting stuff.
I'm kind of conflicted on something though. It feels like we're jumping right into the middle of the story. But then when you think about the academy and stuff, that's really the point. This isn't about some teenager travelling to other worlds, it's about him coming back from travelling and then fucking shit up at a school for other people that came back and learned all kinds of crazy magic and fighting skills.
But damn, main dude's first haremate is
the daughter of the demon king he slayed?
I'll definitely stick with this for as long as it's interesting.
Chet Rippo
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Hagure Yuusha 1
Yum.
Sengoku Collection 11:
The historical Matsunaga Hisahide committed suicide upon his defeat by Oda Nobunaga, but first spited Oda by destroying a tea kettle that Oda desired.
Sengoku Collection Matsunaga Hisahide is a con artist who specializes in faking her own death.
It took patience to make it through this episode. Beyond the general lack of anything going, the multiple fake poker matches took the episode into anti-entertainment territory. Hisahide isn't as great a con artist as she is talented at finding the stupidest yakuza in Japan, somehow happening on a mob-run casino whose proprietors are actually willing to risk losing ownership of the establishment in a single high-stakes poker match against a patron who is a known cheater. In the real world, one would get dragged out into a dark alley and beaten mostly to death by goons for even proposing such an absurdity. The whole episode was just a series of stupid people doing stupid things.
Sengoku Collection 12:
The historical Maeda Keiji once broke an entire enemy formation with only eight horsemen.
Sengoku Collection Maeda Keiji chases down delinquents on a motorcycle and punishes them with BDSM and lectures on panties.
Seriously, two episodes in a row featuring yakuza? Shake things up a little. Apparently Brains Base was desperately trying to huff the last fumes of their own past success this episode by making one of the Sengoku girls a vaguely knockoff Celty except, y'know, with an actual head (and thank goodness, because Maeda Keiji is a meganekko.) This was an unbearably dull story about vigilantism and, uhh.........meaningful underwear.
and what the heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeell at the last couple of minutes
The historical Matsunaga Hisahide committed suicide upon his defeat by Oda Nobunaga, but first spited Oda by destroying a tea kettle that Oda desired.
Sengoku Collection Matsunaga Hisahide is a con artist who specializes in faking her own death.
Shot through the tit and you're to blame,
You give Brains Base a bad name
It took patience to make it through this episode. Beyond the general lack of anything going, the multiple fake poker matches took the episode into anti-entertainment territory. Hisahide isn't as great a con artist as she is talented at finding the stupidest yakuza in Japan, somehow happening on a mob-run casino whose proprietors are actually willing to risk losing ownership of the establishment in a single high-stakes poker match against a patron who is a known cheater. In the real world, one would get dragged out into a dark alley and beaten mostly to death by goons for even proposing such an absurdity. The whole episode was just a series of stupid people doing stupid things.
Sengoku Collection 12:
The historical Maeda Keiji once broke an entire enemy formation with only eight horsemen.
Sengoku Collection Maeda Keiji chases down delinquents on a motorcycle and punishes them with BDSM and lectures on panties.
Is this Jellohead-kun or are they just getting really uncreative with character design?
Seriously, two episodes in a row featuring yakuza? Shake things up a little. Apparently Brains Base was desperately trying to huff the last fumes of their own past success this episode by making one of the Sengoku girls a vaguely knockoff Celty except, y'know, with an actual head (and thank goodness, because Maeda Keiji is a meganekko.) This was an unbearably dull story about vigilantism and, uhh.........meaningful underwear.
and what the heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeell at the last couple of minutes
dakkumauji
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Pokemon B/W Rival Densities 19
We got Sklya.
Speaking of not fillers, suddenly we are introduced to Sklya.
She doesn't do gym battles anymore and instead does Air Battles, where she basically looks at your Pokemon and compares them with her's against a type chart which decides the victor.
Yep, sounds just as silly. So the great Dento comes in to represent actual gym leaders and stuff.
It was a good battle, no silly hax going on, other than Aqua Ring healing burn or whatever. But that does sound like it should do that.
Next up is the actual gym battle.
We got Sklya.
Speaking of not fillers, suddenly we are introduced to Sklya.
She doesn't do gym battles anymore and instead does Air Battles, where she basically looks at your Pokemon and compares them with her's against a type chart which decides the victor.
Yep, sounds just as silly. So the great Dento comes in to represent actual gym leaders and stuff.
It was a good battle, no silly hax going on, other than Aqua Ring healing burn or whatever. But that does sound like it should do that.
Next up is the actual gym battle.
Chet Rippo
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Pokemon B/W Rival Densities 19
We got Sklya.
Fuurocious!
Pokemon B/W Rival Densities 19
We got Sklya.
Wow.
She looks terrible.
Fake edit: Alright, just looked a screencap of Elesa up and she doesn't look so bad. Phew.
There was a "rumor" from the French licensing guy (the same one who mentioned A-1 Picture's 5 studios) too which said Psychopass would be very heavily CG, with a well known character designer behind it. I wonder who else from Madhouse Nishimura took along if he indeed has a new studio...
kayos90
Tragic victim of fan death
Chet Rippo
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No she is, see how he says that the next episode is the gym battle?
god what happened to pokemon god damnit.
You should've been on the Xillia thread. I lost a bet so I have to wear this crappy avatar. I'm suffering through this movie for all of your sakes! ASK ME QUESTIONS TO MAKE THIS WORTH IT! lol. jk. Anyway, I really am watching this for reference sake and I never hated this movie. It wasn't too horrible. I just didn't like the reused scenes.
dakkumauji
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Still a gym leader, but the anime generally goes away with the gimmicks with the gym.
The manga doesn't though, and that's why it's superior.
Yeah, that's totally an edited screenshot.
I thought he meant that Dent was taking Fuuro's place as gym leader just for this one battle.
Also, that screenshot is 100% shopped (pretty poorly too), but I'm sure you know that already.
Black and White's stated purpose was to bring older fans back into the fold!
dakkumauji
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Oh, I meant Dento was fighting Skyla to prove her type matchup fights were a stupid idea.
Even though, that's basically what's the game is.
Chet Rippo
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I'm ok with that.
One thing that I always liked about the anime was that type matchups weren't absolute. Fans always mock things like Pikachu being able to shock a Rhydon by using its horn as a lightning rod, but that kind of unconventional thinking was necessary to make battles interesting in the anime! I was never a fan of Pikachu just Thundershocking enemies until they KO
You have all of Pixiv to satisfy you, just let the anime stay (relatively) pure
Guys, I think Gaming side broke kayos90 completely and utterly....
I was broken by fandeath. Then by Xillia. I have no idea what's wrong with me anymore. Also, I realized how much more outgoing Eureka is in the movie. Hm... I really want to
compare the movie Eureka to the one that's in AO. Hm....
Chet Rippo
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You have all of Pixiv to satisfy you, just let the anime stay (relatively) pure
Google probably wouldn't want me to post that stuff here.
dakkumauji
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The anime is the closest thing we'll probably ever get to an action filled Pokemon battle despite all those (wrong) people wanting a change to the games.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
That's a fucking Pokemon character?!
Hey, man, nobody asked you for that in the first place!
anything you could post I already have saved anyway
I can understand some complaints about the games being stagnant, but there are people that want to kill the turn-based battles? wtf?
hosannainexcelsis
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Poyopoyo 25
Nothing like Poyopoyo to cheer me up.
Nothing like Poyopoyo to cheer me up.
dakkumauji
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wow, pokemon look a lot more human these days
Chet Rippo
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Pokemon really has come a long way. Even the humans have evolved forms now.
Okay, be straight with me, real or fake?
also, shitty tumblr tint strikes again
dakkumauji
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Nintendo probably picked up the idea from Pokemon Conquest.
And, that might be real. But, I can't even name the Pokemon or thing she is touching so I guess my Pokemon-fu is failing.
APOCALYPSE STRATOS 11-OVA END
I've seen horrors, horrors that you've seen. But you have no right to call me destructive. You have a right to laugh at me. You have a right to do that, but you have no right to judge me.
It's impossible for words to describe what is necessary to those who do not know what horror means. Horror! Horror has a face, and you must make a friend of horror. Horror and moral terror are your friends. If they are not, then they are enemies to be feared. They are truly enemies.
I remember when I was with the MegaTen resurgence. Seems a thousand cour ago. We went into an anime club to indoctrinate the weeaboos. We left the camp after we had indoctrinated the weeaboos with good taste, and this old 20-something anime fan came running after us. He was crying. He couldn't see. We went back there, and they had come and gave out a plethora of Infinite Stratos and Strike Witches DVD's. There they were in a pile. A pile of shiny discs. And I remember I … I … I cried. I wept like some mecha MC. I wanted to tear my teeth out. I didn't know what I wanted to do. And I want to remember it. I never want to forget it. I never want to forget.
And then I realized, like I was shot! Like I was shot with a key … a key faced bullet right through my forehead. And I thought: My God, the genius of that! The genius! The will to do that! Perfect, genuine, complete, innocent, moe~. And then I realized they were stronger than we, because they could stand that these were not monsters. These were otaku, trained animators — these otaku who produced with their hearts and blackened lungs, who had waifus, who had figures, who were filled with 2D love — but they had the strength, the strength to do that.
If I had ten production teams of those otaku, then our troubles here would be over very quickly. You have to have otaku who are moral and at the same time who are able to utilize their primordial instincts to make anime without feeling, without passion, without judgment. Without judgment! Because it's judgment that defeats us.
I worry that my loli might not understand what I've tried to be. And if I were to die, Nakama, I would want someone to go to my basement and tell my loli everything – everything I did, everything you saw – because there's nothing that I detest more than the stench of lies. And if you understand me, Nakama, you will do this for me.
I've seen horrors, horrors that you've seen. But you have no right to call me destructive. You have a right to laugh at me. You have a right to do that, but you have no right to judge me.
It's impossible for words to describe what is necessary to those who do not know what horror means. Horror! Horror has a face, and you must make a friend of horror. Horror and moral terror are your friends. If they are not, then they are enemies to be feared. They are truly enemies.
I remember when I was with the MegaTen resurgence. Seems a thousand cour ago. We went into an anime club to indoctrinate the weeaboos. We left the camp after we had indoctrinated the weeaboos with good taste, and this old 20-something anime fan came running after us. He was crying. He couldn't see. We went back there, and they had come and gave out a plethora of Infinite Stratos and Strike Witches DVD's. There they were in a pile. A pile of shiny discs. And I remember I … I … I cried. I wept like some mecha MC. I wanted to tear my teeth out. I didn't know what I wanted to do. And I want to remember it. I never want to forget it. I never want to forget.
And then I realized, like I was shot! Like I was shot with a key … a key faced bullet right through my forehead. And I thought: My God, the genius of that! The genius! The will to do that! Perfect, genuine, complete, innocent, moe~. And then I realized they were stronger than we, because they could stand that these were not monsters. These were otaku, trained animators — these otaku who produced with their hearts and blackened lungs, who had waifus, who had figures, who were filled with 2D love — but they had the strength, the strength to do that.
If I had ten production teams of those otaku, then our troubles here would be over very quickly. You have to have otaku who are moral and at the same time who are able to utilize their primordial instincts to make anime without feeling, without passion, without judgment. Without judgment! Because it's judgment that defeats us.
I worry that my loli might not understand what I've tried to be. And if I were to die, Nakama, I would want someone to go to my basement and tell my loli everything – everything I did, everything you saw – because there's nothing that I detest more than the stench of lies. And if you understand me, Nakama, you will do this for me.
WHO'S THAT POKEMON?
...
IT'S
SAAAAAAAWK!
edit: amazing wonzo, maybe your magnum opus.
Chet Rippo
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firehawk12
Subete no aware
So... how does her shirt work? lol
KO Traveling Hobo
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Accel World 10
Niko so moe. Not as moe as Cartman, of course, but still pretty moe.
Kuryukihime: I want to fight that person right now, chop off their limbs, and watch that person beg for mercy flat on the ground...before I ruthlessly cut that person's head off.
...yeah, there's clearly nothing wrong with this girl. Perfectly well-adjusted and mentally stable.
I haven't seen/read Bleach. Without spoiling AW, can you explain what you mean?
Niko so moe. Not as moe as Cartman, of course, but still pretty moe.
Kuryukihime: I want to fight that person right now, chop off their limbs, and watch that person beg for mercy flat on the ground...before I ruthlessly cut that person's head off.
...yeah, there's clearly nothing wrong with this girl. Perfectly well-adjusted and mentally stable.
If Kuroyukihime is sane enough to be a legion master, then Chiyu should be able to handle healbotting or whatever.
I haven't seen/read Bleach. Without spoiling AW, can you explain what you mean?
dakkumauji
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Ah, yeah. Doesn't help I haven't seen that episode yet.
It's about the nature of her in-game power. I think only people who are somewhat familiar with Bleach would get this, though:
Kurosaki-kun...
e: also kuroyuki is a perfectly stable and sane loving waifu
welp, time to find a list of episodes she's in.
Under that yellow thing it's probably just a leotard with some cutouts, hah.
Kannagi 10
Yutaka Yamamoto directed 4 episodes of Lucky Star before leaving KyoAni and founding the studio that would go on to make Kannagi with A-1 Pictures. He took time in this karaoke episode to remind us of his previous work.
Yutaka Yamamoto directed 4 episodes of Lucky Star before leaving KyoAni and founding the studio that would go on to make Kannagi with A-1 Pictures. He took time in this karaoke episode to remind us of his previous work.
Childhood friend getting the shaft 500 times in this episode pissed me off to no end.
dakkumauji
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Detective Opera Milky Holmes 01
That was a fun first episode. It had a good hook with the girls losing the powers.
The show is so colorful, which makes it pretty enjoyable. The powers stuff sounds fun and going back to the top from zero doesn't sound like a bad idea. The characters are fun, the protags and the totally casual villains. This looks fun at the very least.
Dame, dame, dame, dame, dame, dame.
That was a fun first episode. It had a good hook with the girls losing the powers.
The show is so colorful, which makes it pretty enjoyable. The powers stuff sounds fun and going back to the top from zero doesn't sound like a bad idea. The characters are fun, the protags and the totally casual villains. This looks fun at the very least.
Chet Rippo
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KO Traveling Hobo
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That's a bit ominous.
Oh, of course. Right up until she inevitably murders the rest of Cartman's harem so that no one can get in the way of their love.
Ultimadrago
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Simply wonderful.
dakkumauji
Member
Spoilers: That's basically her entrance for every episode/arc. Every episode/arc. The exact same sequence.
She's awesome.
Crash Station
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Dakara Boku wa, H ga Dekinai 1
And we got ANOTHER "alpha" harem lead. This season, man.
Looks like I was off when I put this at #7 in the OP. This is probably the best non-Binbougami show this season.
First of all, we got an unashamedly perverted lead, which as we all know is a recipe for success when it comes to harems (Urusei Yatsura, Sora no Otoshimono, etc). But this takes it one step further by actually making it the guy's power source.
We also got the best childhood friend ever only by virtue of not beating the crap out of MC for talking about and staring at her boobs. Seriously, this is NOT something that should be considered progressive.
Too bad she'll lose in the end to grim reaper chick
So yeah, I'm thinking I'll stick with this one to the end provided it doesn't fall off a cliff in the quality department. This is this season's High School DxD, but it's better in every way.
And we got ANOTHER "alpha" harem lead. This season, man.
Looks like I was off when I put this at #7 in the OP. This is probably the best non-Binbougami show this season.
17 points to anyone that can guess the context of this shot
First of all, we got an unashamedly perverted lead, which as we all know is a recipe for success when it comes to harems (Urusei Yatsura, Sora no Otoshimono, etc). But this takes it one step further by actually making it the guy's power source.
We also got the best childhood friend ever only by virtue of not beating the crap out of MC for talking about and staring at her boobs. Seriously, this is NOT something that should be considered progressive.
Too bad she'll lose in the end to grim reaper chick
lol, racism
So yeah, I'm thinking I'll stick with this one to the end provided it doesn't fall off a cliff in the quality department. This is this season's High School DxD, but it's better in every way.
So she's like that annoying rival kid from DP. Except cute, apparently.
Two things come to mind, neither of which is particularly pleasant.
hosannainexcelsis
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Yurumates 3D 13
I never thought penguins could rival cats in adorableness, but Penguindrum, Minori Scramble, and this have put up a persuasive case.
Ah, I really do enjoy these 3 minute shows when they're good.
I never thought penguins could rival cats in adorableness, but Penguindrum, Minori Scramble, and this have put up a persuasive case.
Ah, I really do enjoy these 3 minute shows when they're good.
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