firehawk12
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I assume that's for teen girls who have to babysit their imoutos. Nostalgia bombs and all that.
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I imagine I'm LTTP, but these look kind of nice:
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Summer 2012 Anime |OT| Goddesses, canines, and killer MMOs!
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I imagine I'm LTTP, but these look kind of nice:
Remember that year when I got my parents to spend hundreds of dollars on plastic shit for that Pretty Cure show only to play with everything for a few weeks and throw it all away when I got bored with it? Natsukashiiii~
They can sell old, discontinued toys to otaku on Yahoo Auctions.
Crash Station
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Because it shifted to an art style I hate?
firehawk12
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Jex
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I think you need to put down your copy of The Marriage Plot.
A Black Falcon
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4chan rumor is that it might be a webcast, for the last three episodes, but there's no date on it yet.
Yeah, the first season got up to chapter 50-something, the end of the regional team tournament. Then it added an arc for the regional individual tournament that isn't in the manga, before ending. It also expanded on things like the training camps versus the manga, too. Now, over 2 1/2 years after the first season ended, the manga series is only at chapter 99. Yes, it's slow. Lots of skipped releases, lots of "only one chapter this month" (Saki is supposed to be every other week, but often only runs once a month), and the chapters are only 8-16 pages, too (unlike the Achiga-hen manga, which is monthly, but has 35-70 page chapters and does not skip releases, so in just a year it got 12 eps worth of material... that artist --it's drawn by the Bamboo Blade artist, though thankfully written by Ritz... saying "thankfully" because of how atrociously horrible Bamboo Blade's manga's final arc, and ending, were, but anyway, that's a different subject.) isn't quite as good as Ritz, but clearly draws faster.
Anyway, Saki, the manga, is currently behind Achiga-hen's current place -- as I've said before, the most recent chapter, 99, just finished Kiyosumi's B-side quarterfinals. That match took 31 chapters to complete. So yeah, basically there's only a small number of chapters between the end of Saki S1 and the beginning of the quarterfinal, but then it goes on for a long time before just ending. So, anyway, is there enough material for another season of Saki? Not for a 2-cour season, no. There probably would be enough for a one-cour season that just does through the quarterfinal, though... though how long that match would take could vary, depending on how they pace it. I mean, it is a lot of chapters (31, plus like 10-15 for the preliminaries, opening round, etc.), but some of them are pretty short, so maybe you could do all that in one cour... though with this show more is generally better, as you can see with Achiga-hen -- that four-episode Teru/Toki/Kuro/other girl match was great in large part because of how much time it got, after all.
See above.
firehawk12
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#hatere-read
Crash Station
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Fairy Tail 139
What the fuck is going on in this show? This continues to be the weirdest filler I have ever seen and it's still topping itself. This is like One Piece Movie 6 levels of WTF toneshifts.
I also would have had no idea what they were talking about during the Kinana flashback if I didn't already know about her from the FT wikia. Fuckin Mashima choosing not to flesh out an interesting character.
What the fuck is going on in this show? This continues to be the weirdest filler I have ever seen and it's still topping itself. This is like One Piece Movie 6 levels of WTF toneshifts.
I also would have had no idea what they were talking about during the Kinana flashback if I didn't already know about her from the FT wikia. Fuckin Mashima choosing not to flesh out an interesting character.
oh god
the thought of otaku buying used costumes
"worn by kawaii japanese girl, unwashed"
Coming soon to a vending machine near you.
Another 1-12:
Man, I've seen some shit, but I don't think I've ever seen a hanging scene that graphic in an anime before. Even I had trouble watching all of that, and anyone who is familiar with me from IRC knows that says a lot. Some pretty gruesome deaths aside (was surprised how un-censored some were), it actually had a conclusion, which seems to be a rarity nowadays - especially with adaptions. That aside, none of the girls really stood out to me, unfortunately. Mei was the best one, simply because she wasn't fucking bonkers like the rest, but even then I only think she stood out because the rest of the cast was so zealous. It's rare that yandere is done well, and this show is definitely an example of how not to do it. Oh well.
Man, I've seen some shit, but I don't think I've ever seen a hanging scene that graphic in an anime before. Even I had trouble watching all of that, and anyone who is familiar with me from IRC knows that says a lot. Some pretty gruesome deaths aside (was surprised how un-censored some were), it actually had a conclusion, which seems to be a rarity nowadays - especially with adaptions. That aside, none of the girls really stood out to me, unfortunately. Mei was the best one, simply because she wasn't fucking bonkers like the rest, but even then I only think she stood out because the rest of the cast was so zealous. It's rare that yandere is done well, and this show is definitely an example of how not to do it. Oh well.
Crash Station
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Most of the show, I'm just thinking "wow, this has no qualms about graphically killing off teenagers", but then I realized American slasher films do the same thing, lol
Regulus Tera
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Heartcatch Seiya Sins 12
Also included: A long hamfisted explanation about how and why the Saints' Cloths work differently than thirty years ago. They could have saved on the babble by just saying "we want to sell new toys".
OMGWTFBBQFTW!!1!!!!1!!1!11
AND THEN RYUHO DID THE RISING DRAGON THING ZOMG
Also included: A long hamfisted explanation about how and why the Saints' Cloths work differently than thirty years ago. They could have saved on the babble by just saying "we want to sell new toys".
I wonder if they actually advertise that; I was just thinking of all the vintage collectors that buy old Kamen Rider henshin trinkets also being interested in the Precure equivalents...
The only toys they've announced so far are some keychain mini-dolls and otaku-aimed figures, though.
Regulus Tera
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I actually only own two figures: the Panty and Stocking Nendroids. Shit is too expensive for me. Gotta save money for those animator doujinshi auctions during Comiket season.
Umbrella > hanging. Then again, I've owned a couple of those umbrellas before.
Regulus Tera
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That was a Sushio illustration, man! For the sake of art!
firehawk12
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You're forgetting the Japanese girl part though. Value +100%.
Jex
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oh god
the thought of otaku buying used costumes
You're acting like that isn't a thing already. How naive you are.
Regulus Tera
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Mmmmm...
Jex
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Look, that was never actually proven.
It started feeling like I was watching Final Destination: Otaku Edition by the end there, especially with some of the more ridiculous deaths
like the NEET killed by the backhoe, lol?
Jex
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It's the cleverest move I've seen from a company in awhile. Now you really have to buy the BD!
Oh, wait, pardon me, SHAFT invented this for Bakemonogatari, although I assume someone has had stream-only episodes before...or have they?
Can anyone else in this thread think of any examples where a company released episodes via webstreaming only (as companion to their broadcast show)?
You mean the manga.
Now they just need a special doujin manga chapter that you can only get with the novels.
firehawk12
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Even Star Trek couldn't do Kirk + Picard properly!
Jex
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Nope, he hasn't.
Regulus Tera
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Saint Seiya Omega 13
The fact that they still feel the need to spend half the episode on recapping what happened twelve weeks ago shouldn't irk me. :/ But it does. Overall a weaker episode than the past three despite some revelations about Eden's past (
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All the Bronze Saints get cool constellations like Pegasus and Dragons while a lot of the Silver Saints are stuck with shit like... Flies. :/
The fact that they still feel the need to spend half the episode on recapping what happened twelve weeks ago shouldn't irk me. :/ But it does. Overall a weaker episode than the past three despite some revelations about Eden's past (
the Ikki-like character has a shady background and may be working against the main cast? NO WAI
Doctor Who > Star Trek
firehawk12
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Oh what the fuck man. What the fuck.
(I've only seen three episodes of Eccleston Who).
Unknown Soldier
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The curse apparently likes to troll people too, like the guy at the end
who escaped the backdraft from the room filled with fire, and then a column randomly falls on him as he runs away.
Another turned out pretty terrible at the end, that whole last episode was shockingly stupid from start to finish. Mei is still the finest example of eyepatch moe ever conceived though.
Unknown Soldier
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I'm pretty pumped for the scene where Gary realizes that
the hottest chick in the whole game who is also a top player has had a crush on him for 2 years now and also she can cook.
Regulus Tera
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Heartcatch Seiya Sins 14
Thought they were gonna pull another Camus vs Hyouga here, but thankfully that wasn't the case.
I'm finally caught up with this! Now I can go to bed.
Right now I'm just glad I didn't drop the show. It definitely improved from the dull beginning and the Umakoshi sakuga is finally delivering in spades. I would not fault anyone if they don't pick it up again, however.
Thought they were gonna pull another Camus vs Hyouga here, but thankfully that wasn't the case.
Kid Yuna is adorable~
I'm finally caught up with this! Now I can go to bed.
Nah they won't be covering that, this episode should be the Aria in the Starless Night, which covers floor-one shenenigans and how Gary Stu and Mary Sue met.
Jex
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I think he must have me on ignore for some reason
It's okay, I also know firehawk's real name. I had access to all his secrets.
Unknown Soldier
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Oh, they are going to put everything back into chronological order?
Yeah. Although I have no idea how they're going to cover all of the Reindeer stuff in one episode for ep3. Everything is going to be rushed as fuck.
Eureka 7 AO 13
This show is in the zone now, riding the peak of the wave of insanity, barely avoiding being dashed against the surf. There are definitely enough plot hooks introduced now where I think they might be able to maintain it.
I want Truth to die, but I'm pretty sure he won't.
I'm not putting anything past this show anymore.
This episode also confirms something that always seemed weird to me about the premise; that Secrets have been appearing for centuries and causing nuke-sized Scub Bursts wherever the coral randomly appears, which humanity was helpless to prevent until a decade prior to the show. That seems like it'd put a damper on civilization, wouldn't it?
I have no idea why Bones thought they had to develop the plot in this direction, but I'll keep following it as long as it keeps being entertaining.
This show is in the zone now, riding the peak of the wave of insanity, barely avoiding being dashed against the surf. There are definitely enough plot hooks introduced now where I think they might be able to maintain it.
I want Truth to die, but I'm pretty sure he won't.
This is speculation, but from that trailed-off comment by Eureka about half-Coralian kids and trapar concentration and unspecified danger, I'm afraid of some insane time-loop shenanigans that make him Eureka's son.
This episode also confirms something that always seemed weird to me about the premise; that Secrets have been appearing for centuries and causing nuke-sized Scub Bursts wherever the coral randomly appears, which humanity was helpless to prevent until a decade prior to the show. That seems like it'd put a damper on civilization, wouldn't it?
I have no idea why Bones thought they had to develop the plot in this direction, but I'll keep following it as long as it keeps being entertaining.
firehawk12
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The SAO guy is extra pathetic.
I'm personally going to wait for it to finish so I can marathon it in one go, but your reports are restoring my hope this might be good.
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