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Summer 2012 Anime |OT| Goddesses, canines, and killer MMOs!
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firehawk12
Subete no aware
The K-ountdown begins!!
RurouniZel
Asks questions so Ezalc doesn't have to
The suspense is breaking my K-oncentration.
Femmeworth
Banned
Guess I better start watching season two then.
I really K-an't stand these puns.
A Black Falcon
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I think they use the ones they do in anime because it emphasizes the damaged/useless element more... you know, looks more medical, etc. Though you do see other kinds once in a while, and in effect they're the same thing, those 'medical' ones are the most common type.
The least common type, for anime girls, is a full-blown fake eye. One reason is that eyepatches are actually often covering a functioning eye as often as not (you know, covering the superpowered eye for whatever stupid reason, or rather, for the "looks damaged" reason I stated above), of course. The other reason would be that fake eyes look a whole lot less damaged... I mean, the viewer might even forget one of the eyes isn't real! See: Erza in Fairy Tail, who has a fake eye. How often do you even remember one of her eyes was lost, apart from the part where you see her in a flashback with an eyepatch?
No, the helmets in .hack do not kill people. They put people into comas, and they may get stuck in the game world. I don't remember anyone actually dying, however. I don't think they do. In addition, they're stuck in the world even without the helmet on, so it is NOT like Sword Art Online; it's a more mystical explanation, I guess.
Like, Tsukasa in Sign is stuck in the game, but in reality is in a coma in a hospital, and is not wearing one of those headsets.
As for why they're put into comas, the people doing it vary from series to series, but it's generally nefarious types in the company that makes the game.
Also, Sign's slow pace is great... the story, characters, music, etc. are all fantastic, I couldn't care less if the pacing is slow and it has very little action. It's one of my favorite animes from its era. Sword Art Online? Yeah, I think it's fairly obvious that it's nowhere remotely near that level.
biosnake20
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What are you guys K-ontemplating about?
Please tell me you're talking about Toradora and not some garbage like Shana.
Utakoi 2
Well I'm glad this episode was only spent on a single poem and it was even connected to the previous one. Now I'm curious if the other poets were also related somehow so maybe we will get more stories connected to each other.
Well I'm glad this episode was only spent on a single poem and it was even connected to the previous one. Now I'm curious if the other poets were also related somehow so maybe we will get more stories connected to each other.
Such a tsundere emperor we got in this episode. He should be lucky to get an awesome wife like Yasuko
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
I ink you guys are trying too deep.
You don't have the first ink-ling of how deep this really goes.
Femmeworth
Banned
She's probably talking about Sky Girls.
It's like you people are trying to convince me not to watch it.
PGSM - 27
Pretty much my reaction towards
Luna's new ability.
Don't be afraid. Kugilolis are all bark no bite after all.
Femmeworth
Banned
That looks :cajun (rest in peace) as fuck.
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
I heard Utena might be decent, but I bet that's hipster talk.
A little snow fairy sugar is what musicians have after a gig isn't it?
Well I already knew of the body swapping which isn't exactly a fresh idea to begin with and when you combine that with a school setting which isn't fresh either I was expecting episode one to show me the USP that would convince me to watch which is the usual job of the first episode.
A Black Falcon
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USP? What do you mean by that?
But anyway, no, while the concept has existed, bodyswapping as a central concept isn't too common in anime, in fact... I can't think of any with a similar focus. And yes, I certainly would consider it plenty good as a concept, myself! Just based on ep. 1, it's one of my favorite shows of the season for sure.
Theonik
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Must have been severely lacking on the basset hound department.
Chet Rippo
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the promised day approacheth
days remaining - 8
K-ount me in!
firehawk12
Subete no aware
GTO 2012
So after watching it, it seems like they are redoing the anime/manga stories, but just playing with the order a bit since... well, it's a remake of an adaptation of an adaptation, so it's on them not to do the same thing (even though they are) again.
The first episode covers what amounts to the first arc of the anime, although the order is switched in that
I don't remember the original having so many Gintama-isms... but hey, maybe that's where they all come from:
I'm definitely going to finish this up and I'm probably bumping the anime back to the top of my backlog. It's something I should have finished... well, 15 years ago and now I have a reason to go back to it.
Oh, and I wonder if this was in the can for a long time because this was just an unintentionally funny product placement moment:
So after watching it, it seems like they are redoing the anime/manga stories, but just playing with the order a bit since... well, it's a remake of an adaptation of an adaptation, so it's on them not to do the same thing (even though they are) again.
The first episode covers what amounts to the first arc of the anime, although the order is switched in that
the anime starts with him as a student teacher, while this version of GTO ends with him being recruited to be a student teacher. But, the same broken home/fake seduction story line is there.
I don't remember the original having so many Gintama-isms... but hey, maybe that's where they all come from:
I'm definitely going to finish this up and I'm probably bumping the anime back to the top of my backlog. It's something I should have finished... well, 15 years ago and now I have a reason to go back to it.
Oh, and I wonder if this was in the can for a long time because this was just an unintentionally funny product placement moment:
Femmeworth
Banned
Sounds really cheap on the animation side, must be a SHAFT production.
You're just fishing for respondses.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
I mean, they're going to find someone attractive anyway, so it's no real surprise:
http://wiki.d-addicts.com/Takimoto_Miori
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Come on, this is Japan. What did you expect? lol
RurouniZel
Asks questions so Ezalc doesn't have to
Jex
Member
Yes I do, but not right now.
No matter how much you try to lure us into posting, these puns will never catch on.
Mother of God.
Jex
Member
Everyone has standards (apart from Izayoi).
Well personally Kokoro didn't grab me. I'll abide by the three episode rule and see whether it picks up. Can't really explain it, the episode just didn't feel compelling.
Tari Tari 1 & 2
Now this show I enjoyed surprisingly. I jokingly shrugged it off as another K-On, but 1. They actually do perform 2. it's a choir which I can relate to.
Jex
Member
You folks do realise that certain people from off-topic were culled because of their overuse of puns, right? It's no laughing matter.
Theonik
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Sorry, couldn't K-ONtroll myself.
You can squall about it all you want, but everyone succumbs to pier pressure eventually.
Body swapping? Time to give this a shot!
firehawk12
Subete no aware
She's almost 40... so in Japan, she might as well be dead.
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