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Summer 2012 Anime |OT| Goddesses, canines, and killer MMOs!
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I think it depends on how interesting you find an implausible premise. For me, I can't get over how stupid all these omg-master-plan-players-trapped-in-virtual-MMO stories. They always come off as stupid and I've never seen one done in a way which I find satisfying and interesting.
Femmeworth
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That's absurd, there were legitimate problems with Ratatouille, but that wasn't one of them.
DD is growing, but it still has a ways to go.
Crash Station
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Irrelevant stuff like distribution method is nitpicking, especially when it isn't really accurate in the first place.
how many are there? I only know hack sign and that was pretty meh
Great FSN quote.
Because she is a psycho. She likes to torture people and, well, if they die she can't torture them any more.
Crash Station
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There's a manga called Real PG, but that's more like everyone is given powers from an MMO and then forced to kill each other as a "beta test".
Btooom does the same thing, but they aren't actually IN the game. Rather they're sent to an island and forced to kill each other with neat gadgets so the developers can research what happens.
I guess. I like that sort of premise even if I realize how stupid it is, so I'll just focus on the people in the game instead of the insane justification for why they're there.
Now, if stupid stuff happens in the game itself, that's a different story.
Ultimadrago
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She is seriously off her rocker.
Sounds like massive improvements. At least it's not a lame virtual world.
Now guess what the twist for AO is!
Is she really? Does she do anything in Hyouka or is everyone just saying that because of her eyes?
hahaha
Shining Hearts: Shiawase no Pan 06-12 (END):
Everyone warned me that it wasn't worth it, but pride goeth before being really fucking bored. These are the moments that I wonder if I should really take up a productive hobby, like knitting. Actual impressions tomorrow.
Everyone warned me that it wasn't worth it, but pride goeth before being really fucking bored. These are the moments that I wonder if I should really take up a productive hobby, like knitting. Actual impressions tomorrow.
Kind of Digimon right?
The industry is creatively bankrupt and resorts to cannibalism whenever it can?
I know this is a dramatic overstatement
And more importantly, does this make Kamisama no Memochou the best or worst recent detective show given its refusal to follow the ALL-SEEING EYE trend?
Oh but I don't dislike virtual worlds. I think that alone can make for compelling and interesting stories. What I dislike is the specific storylines where videogame players in a modern society find themselves trapped inside a virtual MMO which they are playing because of some conspiracy, and apparently no one could stop it. It's stupid.
Edit: Actually I think I realize why I dislike this story type so much. It's because eXistenZ is an awesome movie, and I loved it, and it worked because of how the story was presented and the scenario was limited and plausible. Then anime starts pulling the same shit on a larger scale and I just find it laughable.
Chet Rippo
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Hagure Yuusha no Estetica 1
Don't really understand how this show's world works, but I think it will be enjoyable regardless. The main character is a big pervert and smuggles a girl with unnaturally huge tits from another world into his own. And now he wants her to call him Onii-chan. Interesting show, we'll see how it goes.
Ladies please, contain your orgasms.
Chet Rippo approves this anime.
Crash Station
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Milky Holmes too.
Someone needs to photoshop a knife in that pic.
Crash Station
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Btooom have far more interesting premise than SAO, its actually feel like game of the death. Shame the Deadhouse's production value ain't gonna do shit against otaku money-grabbing property
Bokurano (especially the manga) was the best with this kind of premise though.
Bokurano isn't really a game though. Kokopelli just lied about it being a game.
I just finished this episode too.
The bra and panty removing slight of hand trick was lame the first time and kinda insulting the second. Also, yet another show where an attacking force is entirely composed of fucking maids, what the fuck is this and why is it a thing?
This comes off as a sequel to Demon King Daimao. It's got people checking into his destiny too just like that show.
mysterious eyes, for a mysterious genre
You've still got Getter Robo Armageddon waiting on you son!
It's a metaphor.
It's like the very first scene in the show, and it was all it took for me to realize it's crap.
Well there were like 50 different .hack shows and they were all bad.
Quantum was pretty good though.
Jex
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What? Retail is still the primary method of distribution. Jexhius, maybe you should stick to just talking about anime.
Even Japan can't keep that bullshit up for another decade.
Minidiscs only died out as a format there a few years ago.
Imagine how good it could've been if episode two didn't happen.
Jex
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The hivemind is just an ugly rumour. It doesn't control us.
Basileus777
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Even if the game requires special hardware that can't be delivered digitally?
A few words on the Sunrise panel with Ozaki Masayuki at Japan Expo Day 3, since I actually managed to attend this one. It wasn't quite as interesting as what I'd heard from the Maruyama panel, but still had some new information (unless it's redundant with what he's shown at Anime Expo):
- There was notably a Powerpoint presentation of all the 2012-2013 Sunrise shows, commented one by one by Ozaki. Most of the stuff we already knew about - I think the new info was that: 1. He estimated the amount of new animation in Tiger&Bunny - The Beginning to be around two thirds of the movie - 2. He'd written down the director for Love Live! (newcomer? I just had to take a pic or else I knew I'd forget the name).
- First question in the Q&A session was probably the most interesting one. The guy asked if Studio 8 was indeed currently procuding Horizon II, Accel World and Nerawareta Gakuen all at the same time. Ozaki was actually surprised he knew this much, confirmed that they all are under the same producer but that the production is split into three different teams in the studio. The contraints are tough but he assured that everything would be ready on time. He mentioned that there are 15 animation studios inside Sunrise - I don't remember if this is the number we've always known about, or if it's actually increased since then.
- "Why did the production on Code Geass - Boukoku no Akito end up so running late?" - he admitted it should've been ready much sooner, but they apparently couldn't decide on which character to pick as a protagonist for a long time.
- The production on the Gundam Seed movies has been stopped for a while. Lol.
- People have also asked about why Gintama was stopped, whether they'd be making more Nichibros, etc., but these were the usual "if the series get enough support" answers.
- France might apparently be getting the Tiger & Bunny movies simultaneously with Japan. Odd choice.
There was apparently a panel on Day 2 with Aniplex's Katsumata Hideo, but the Q&A session turned out to be people mostly asking about any kind of Ao no Exorcist sequel. (Obvious answer: "if the movie does well.") Again, I wasn't there myself.
Now to finally start watching these summer shows... I haven't managed to squeeze anything in my schedule since Monday besides the excellent return of Matsuo Kou. Maybe I shouldn't have started with the best thing right away!
- There was notably a Powerpoint presentation of all the 2012-2013 Sunrise shows, commented one by one by Ozaki. Most of the stuff we already knew about - I think the new info was that: 1. He estimated the amount of new animation in Tiger&Bunny - The Beginning to be around two thirds of the movie - 2. He'd written down the director for Love Live! (newcomer? I just had to take a pic or else I knew I'd forget the name).
- First question in the Q&A session was probably the most interesting one. The guy asked if Studio 8 was indeed currently procuding Horizon II, Accel World and Nerawareta Gakuen all at the same time. Ozaki was actually surprised he knew this much, confirmed that they all are under the same producer but that the production is split into three different teams in the studio. The contraints are tough but he assured that everything would be ready on time. He mentioned that there are 15 animation studios inside Sunrise - I don't remember if this is the number we've always known about, or if it's actually increased since then.
- "Why did the production on Code Geass - Boukoku no Akito end up so running late?" - he admitted it should've been ready much sooner, but they apparently couldn't decide on which character to pick as a protagonist for a long time.
- The production on the Gundam Seed movies has been stopped for a while. Lol.
- People have also asked about why Gintama was stopped, whether they'd be making more Nichibros, etc., but these were the usual "if the series get enough support" answers.
- France might apparently be getting the Tiger & Bunny movies simultaneously with Japan. Odd choice.
There was apparently a panel on Day 2 with Aniplex's Katsumata Hideo, but the Q&A session turned out to be people mostly asking about any kind of Ao no Exorcist sequel. (Obvious answer: "if the movie does well.") Again, I wasn't there myself.
Now to finally start watching these summer shows... I haven't managed to squeeze anything in my schedule since Monday besides the excellent return of Matsuo Kou. Maybe I shouldn't have started with the best thing right away!
Jex
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Uh-huh. We'll complete this conversation in 2022 and you'll see that I'm right!
Who said anything about hivemind? I'm implying that its just one poster doing all of this!
It's not really that odd when you consider that France is the largest anime/manga market in Europe.
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