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Summer 2012 Anime |OT| Goddesses, canines, and killer MMOs!
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Crash Station
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Whoa
Chet Rippo
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Ok, now I'm interested.
RurouniZel
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If any of my fellow AnimeGAF nakama want to watch me paint an animu painting (er... part of one it's not finished) I recorded my recent livestream if you wanna see me work. http://www.ustream.tv/channel/rurounizel
Chet Rippo
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It was fun watching you work!
RurouniZel
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Glad you liked it! ^_^ I'm gonna need to put a LOT more work into that background... I should have drawn it first rather than just painting it as I go... >>;
We gotta collaborate and create drawings of cuteness sometime bro.
RurouniZel
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Chet Rippo
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Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
Space Brothers 11
Totally belying the atmosphere of the episode. I am impressed at how this cartoon has been able to handle the mood transitions without feeling forced. Also loving the insights from Serika's point of view --really, everyone is just as crazy as him, and I love them all for that.
I am so totally making them my new OTP.
RurouniZel
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All too easy?
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Do you draw with a Calligraphy Pen?
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Hoshi o Ou Kodomo
Yeah, this was Shinkai being definitively :firehawk.
I mean, the script just hits you over the head with the moral it's trying to teach you over and over again:
What's funny is that even the two sites of resistance -
Moriaki and Shin
And, I dunno, while I think the film works as a simple morality tale for children... the fact that there's clearly only one right answer to the outcome of the movie means that everyone is a plot device, existing as game pieces to be moved around by the script as necessary. If you're not immediately captivated by the actual plot or the world that the characters are exploring, it becomes very much a perfunctory journey with only the barest of human emotions. That is, I still liked the journey and the sense of wonder and adventure in the film, but it was hard not to ignore the churning mechanisms in the background forcing the story to move ahead, one loud clunk after another.
I also found it funny that for all the people who basically
found Argatha, they all turned out to be evil dictators who basically lost their empires/wars. You'd think that would be enough of a lesson NOT to go find this magical place but whatever.
There's also a lot of wonder Shinkai-scenery-porn for you to look at if you're so inclined:
And so on.
Finally, watching two movies back to back with their own plot problems, I'm not quite sure what I find more problematic. The awkward and unnecessary twist in From Up on Poppy Hill or a plot that only works to deliver a specific message. It's scary, but if Hoshi o Ou Kodomo was a bit more didactic, it might possibly verge on Laws of Eternity territory.
Perhaps the other thing I that's in the back of my mind is whether I can watch a movie like The Neverending Story now. Given that I only remember the... dog dragon thingie, I have to imagine that it is as clunky as Hoshi o Ou Kodomo in terms of just providing a vehicle to tell a simple moral tale and to show as many fantastical images and creatures as possible. But maybe it's okay to just look at pleasing images for a couple of hours, even if it means sitting through a two hour lecture on how to live your life?
Chet Rippo
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Just noticing the similarities between both of your avatars.
Ultimadrago
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Quite. Their purpose is more than simply "extra bodies" in the narrative.
KO Traveling Hobo
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Sweet, I love it. I'm trying more and more to get more anime techniques into my work. Honestly, it's more difficult than it looks - especially if you've had any sort of western art training.
Ultimadrago
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That was my reaction too when I read that.
Femmeworth
Banned
That's, uh, oddly specific.
RurouniZel
Asks questions so Ezalc doesn't have to
It is tough. I went to art school here in the states and they tried to beat anime out of me. I was resilient... for better or worse...
We're both New Orleans Saints fans too :O
I just drew cute things and it happened to come out like anime.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
There are so many :firehawk lines in this movie that it's kind of amazing. Even the Tamayura OVAs weren't this :firehawk-specific in terms of its dialog.
Femmeworth
Banned
So close, so very close.
KO Traveling Hobo
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Sword Art Online 2
That was pretty damn cool. I wish Kawahara could have come up with a better reason for Kirito to become
since that whole anti-beta tester thing felt really forced.
I have to give him credit for making Asuna such a beast, though. It probably shouldn't be impressive that his lead females aren't utterly helpless and powerless, but it is.
That was pretty damn cool. I wish Kawahara could have come up with a better reason for Kirito to become
Lelouche/Batman
I have to give him credit for making Asuna such a beast, though. It probably shouldn't be impressive that his lead females aren't utterly helpless and powerless, but it is.
I wanna seefellow coffee and art nakama!
Ill pm you when I get off work.
Send me a pm to remind me.
Chronological order makes more sense than
going into a two-year timeskip right after the prologue
loss.
Chet Rippo
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In art classes, I just do what they want me to do, and just continue drawing whatever I want on the side. Though sometimes I get to have my cake and eat it too.
That's to bad.
Chet Rippo
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pm? Why, are you exchanging porn?
I went to art school in the states, and I just learned how do classical drawing and such. Later at home I applied what I learned to my own drawings. I like to think I can change styles or create a mix between styles when necessary, or just when goofing around. I always thought the best anime art had a good style, but a basis in necessary shit, like perspective and anatomy. Just take what you need but apply your style to it. That's how I try and approach it anyways.
I've spammed my own link/art in here at least a handful of times. No one seemed to mind! Not greatly, anyways..
Chet Rippo
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It's a community thread, there's no such thing as off topic.
Ultimadrago
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I don't mind, in fact, I welcome more of your art.
This world could use more great silly Jigen sketches!
Well, whenever I'm not busy trying to learn how to 3D model, I'll draw some more for you XP
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
Smooth Brothers 12
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
Serika is so cute. Why is it that all the anime girls whose names end up in "erika" are so awesome?
Suave, but you should probably let the doctor take care of that reverse boner, if you know what I'm saying.
Blood-C 12
I just
what
why
A part of me knew all this was coming, but I didn't actually think it would happen.
I saw all the signs, but there's a difference between knowing and understanding.
Now I want to see the movie.
Could you imagine if Mine Fujiko were more like this show?
I don't know if all of it was good, but looking back, I'm glad I experienced this.
I just
what
why
A part of me knew all this was coming, but I didn't actually think it would happen.
It's all an elaborate prank? Some asshole got an entire town built and lured thousands of people there to prove a point? They built a stereotypical anime plot to keep Saya docile, and used heavy-handed exposition to reinforce her artificial personality?
Though I swear I had no idea about those rabbits.
Now I want to see the movie.
Could you imagine if Mine Fujiko were more like this show?
I really liked the climactic battle in the dojo. The fight felt really forceful and fast-paced.
I don't know if all of it was good, but looking back, I'm glad I experienced this.
HxH 2011 39
Hmm, it seems they changed the intro to the Nen one again. It seems rather fitting given the subject manner of this episode. It looks like we'll be waiting another ep or two for the inevitable shitty recap.
witness the power of nen acorns
Hmm, it seems they changed the intro to the Nen one again. It seems rather fitting given the subject manner of this episode. It looks like we'll be waiting another ep or two for the inevitable shitty recap.
Omedetou!
It sure was interesting.
e: now you, too, can be hyped for the movie like the rest of us.
Ultimadrago
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Red Hawk: Weapon Of Death
Hilariously awful writing (especially for the villains), classicly bad English dub and power-ups galore in an otherwise lame adventure that revolves around "free flying."
Hilariously awful writing (especially for the villains), classicly bad English dub and power-ups galore in an otherwise lame adventure that revolves around "free flying."
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