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Apparently it's worse because of censorship.
Me too! Well, if you substitute Evangelion for Fujiko and Kids on the Slope, so not at all the same!
The only thing that stops me approaching a show like Evangelion is the reverence it gets, I just can't watch it with a clear perspective.
I will definitely be catching up on stuff soon, especially now that the Euro's is finally at an end.
Opening on 208 screens nationwide eh?
1.0 = 80+
2.0 = 120+
3.0 = 200+
I wonder if there'll be a huge increase in box office takings too...
Definitely wasn't expecting it to be that soon.
The Heaven Arena arc was really good tho.
Reminds me of a certain image of Carl Sagan, one that some user of this forums had as an avatar.I can't stop laughing at that picture of Hermes' face in the sun.
That nostalgia craze seemed to hit really hard the staff:
在宅アニメ評論家 夏のあらし！ #07 OP差分検証＆EDジャケットサイコロまとめ
http://teleani.blog62.fc2.com/blog-entry-440.html
夏のあらし！ OP元ネタレコードジャケット比較完全版
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ek_jSeL8XHM
SHAFT knew their strength resides on the first episode before completely deflating as they advance on a series, took advantage of that to tackle that later funny mini-story from the graphic novel as an 'in medias res' introduction, and then linked it to a similar final episode. That was pretty nice of them!
And all this advertising you have done makes me think... Dresden, were you one of those who were bribed by KING RECORDS?
Taku "soundtrack-maker" Iwasaki stylin' everyone thanks to his sheer talent...
At least you didn't say tsu ri ta ma!
And EVA-EXTRA returns! Juicy information regularly available until the premiere date.
Any mention of a simultaneous international release?
R_thanatos
Member
it's better in all other areas ( aside from censorship ) , it has
-better pacing
-better visual effects
Man, don't be cruel with me. With international I was referring to this I mentioned before:http://i.imgur.com/4weJ3.gif
http://i.imgur.com/ZIdtd.gif
http://i.imgur.com/m9VKI.gif
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I'm sure FUNi will release it by 2014!
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Jex
Member
Well considering how successful the movies have been so far that makes perfect sense.
Apparently at a talk event for Natsuyuki Rendezvous, Yuichi Nakamura said that these is 11 episodes long. Sounds like noitaminA is going back to the 11 ep format this season in that case, and Moyashimon Returns should be 11 episodes too. Too bad.
According to some chartz I just made, at this rate if the pattern continues, in 11 cours noitaminA shows will be zero episodes long. It's over guys
Some really shameless bait-and-switch!
Art.
Upotte!! - 01
What in the world am I watching?
Cute guns doing cute things.
Gun porn.
I dunno, I seriously don't think anyone should expect 3.0 outside of Japan this year anywhere. They're probably going to be working on the movie all the way until the last moment (if it doesn't get delayed). Plus, with how busy the holiday season is going to be in terms of Hollywood films, I don't think it's a good idea to open it anywhere else at the time either. Eva is huge in Japan, but everywhere else, it's just a huge anime.
R_thanatos
Member
Upotte!! - 01
What in the world am I watching?
Much harder ton get all the jokes if you know nothing about guns ..thankfully human invented wikipedia so i was able to get everything in need
Jex
Member
Upotte!! - 01
What in the world am I watching?
Why are you so behind the times?
I see... thanks for your answer!
chickdigger802
Banned
Kuroko's Balls 12
good stuff.
anime.
Really curious how far they gonna get this season. But w/e, best girl gets in the spotlight next week.
good stuff.
anime.
Really curious how far they gonna get this season. But w/e, best girl gets in the spotlight next week.
chickdigger802
Banned
Space Pirates FIN
Was a surprisingly fun and intense fight. Love how important electronic warfare is in this universe. it is quite plausible too.
Also:
motherfucking space pirate ninja action, motherfucker.
Extremely solid season imo. Hit all the right notes for me. Strategic space/naval combat, cute girls, yuri, lolis, SoL, cute, space.
Wish the faces weren't derp so often, and the loli princesses could use a bit more... character, besides existing just to be loli princesses.
9/10
Was a surprisingly fun and intense fight. Love how important electronic warfare is in this universe. it is quite plausible too.
Also:
motherfucking space pirate ninja action, motherfucker.
Extremely solid season imo. Hit all the right notes for me. Strategic space/naval combat, cute girls, yuri, lolis, SoL, cute, space.
Wish the faces weren't derp so often, and the loli princesses could use a bit more... character, besides existing just to be loli princesses.
9/10
chickdigger802
Banned
Accel World 12
That was... pathetic.
Like... yeah.
That was... pathetic.
Like... yeah.
Randomly decided to give this and Rinne no Lagrange a shot.
Jiisuri is best gun/girl.
Upottte!! - 02
Jiisuri is so shameless!
Obviously not the image I wanted to use... but.. y'know..
La storia Della Arcana Famiglia
I don't know what to think of this anime. I'm a sucker for shonen tournament action, but it's also a... Reverse harem? Maybe I could forgive it if it was crazy action all the time, but the action present wasn't all that good. Even then, the next episode is about
. I swear I've seen this before.
I think I'll bail out now. Total Eclipse looks to be the only other interesting show this season (on crunchyroll at least)
I don't know what to think of this anime. I'm a sucker for shonen tournament action, but it's also a... Reverse harem? Maybe I could forgive it if it was crazy action all the time, but the action present wasn't all that good. Even then, the next episode is about
saving a cat?! What does this have to do with anything?
I think I'll bail out now. Total Eclipse looks to be the only other interesting show this season (on crunchyroll at least)
Dedication Through Light
Member
Area no Kishi 25
Unbelievable
I would have rearranged a certain event in the episode though rather drammatic and intense. They could have honestly just ended it here
.
Beach Soccer was awesome as usual.
Unbelievable
Even with Suguru mode Kakeru they lost, what type of anime is this? That was just plain awful. I mean they had everything going for them and even the super dramatic Kakeruo falls on the field to the hospital scene (which I thought he was having a heart attack or something), and they still lost!? I did not sign up for this, wow.
I would have rearranged a certain event in the episode though rather drammatic and intense. They could have honestly just ended it here
though I guess 25 more episodes for the Winter Championship, they better win this time!
Beach Soccer was awesome as usual.
PdotMichael
Banned
I finished Canaan. The first half of the show was very enjoyable before it turned into something something.
A true P.A. Works anime.
I think I will watch a Shaft anime now. Arakawa, Soredemo or something else.
A true P.A. Works anime.
I think I will watch a Shaft anime now. Arakawa, Soredemo or something else.
Even Ando-sama couldn't save Canaan from being Type-Moon'd, Okada'd, and PA-Works'd.
Jex
Member
Guns, girls, they are all the same.
Space Pirates FIN
Was a surprisingly fun and intense fight. Love how important electronic warfare is in this universe. it is quite plausible too.
Also:
motherfucking space pirate ninja action, motherfucker.
Extremely solid season imo. Hit all the right notes for me. Strategic space/naval combat, cute girls, yuri, lolis, SoL, cute, space.
Wish the faces weren't derp so often, and the loli princesses could use a bit more... character, besides existing just to be loli princesses.
9/10
I watched the first six (?) episodes and thought it was a snore fest with a historically excellent intro. Cyber hacking, giggling, more cyber hacking...the best part of those episodes was the bar scene where black haired girl gets serious about her parfait.
Gonna check out Tsuritama now, but I must admit none of the summer shows look promising to me. :-\
Ultimadrago
Member
Nichijou last 3 or 4 episodes -- I'd watched this through to ep. 22 or 23 or so, back when it aired, but didn't quite finish it, mostly because I was really liking it and didn't really want it to end yet. Well, I finally made myself finish it, and yes, it was well worth it. Sure, there wasn't really an ending, but there never was any character development anyway, so it wouldn't really fit. I think the series was great just as it was. These episodes were packed full of funny skits as always; Nichijou is certainly the best pure comedy anime series of recent years.
Also, poor cat... either way, under either master, he suffers. I guess he chooses the path of least resistance and goes back with Nano and the Professor. And really, despite what he says, they probably are the less bad of the two choices... his past existence as the science teacher's pet looked quite unpleasant. She just didn't know what she was doing, even if she cared. Sure, the Professor and Nano don't either, but at least the Professor gave him that scarf that allows him to talk... that's kind of handy.
Also, one of the last Go-Soccer skits, where the guywas pretty funny stuff. I mean, we knew he was rich, but he has one of THOSE? :lolsays how he came early on his Blackbird super-fast spy jet
I love my Nichijou brethren.
Also on Sakamoto
yeah, Nano and Professor is his best bet. Nakamura is a being that needs..."space" from other living beings. She's definitely not suitable to be a pet owner! She's far too determined on self-fulfilling goals to properly maintain an animal...than again Hakase might be too (but she has Nano!)
Dragoon En Regalia
Member
Even though the documentary looks rather cheap, the fact that they're doing one at all is refreshing. Otsuka and Miyazaki have had far more influence on the anime industry than Sugii alone. But Sugii's still one of the most notable Mushi Pro alumni, and he's made some great stuff.
Jex
Member
I can't remember a time when this hasn't been the case.
Ultimadrago
Member
Nichijou last 3 or 4 episodes
Also, poor cat... either way, under either master, he suffers. I guess he chooses the path of least resistance and goes back with Nano and the Professor. And really, despite what he says, they probably are the less bad of the two choices... his past existence as the science teacher's pet looked quite unpleasant. She just didn't know what she was doing, even if she cared. Sure, the Professor and Nano don't either, but at least the Professor gave him that scarf that allows him to talk... that's kind of handy.
Interestingly, she appears in episode 3 briefly which is well before she is introduced. This would be of course her returning home to find Sakamoto gone. This is also the spot Sakamoto was before he was taken in so she just missed him.
Ultimadrago
Member
Is this a maintenance joke?
Even with Dragona MIA I'm hesitant to continue this line of humor.
I read that as Dragoon, and it made me think of Fujiko, and I got all angry again. Still trying to forget that garbage show.
PdotMichael
Banned
what is a "Dragona MIA"?
They both go bang bang bang?
Dragona was a mod. MIA means Missing in Action. She had a reputation for banning people for anything that could be considered sexist.
Dragona was a mod who wouldn't stand for sexist jokes.
She would have loved this thread.
Arcana Famiglia 1
A decent first episode. The Arcana power system is very interesting and from what little powers we have seen, it looks like it's not special attack spam garbage like Saint Seiya so maybe this will have cool fights. Oh I did laugh at how some of the characters just randomly throw explanations for no reason.
Boys ranking time
Luca
Jolly
Dante
Pace
Debito
Nova
Liberta
The mom is way hotter than Felicita, they should be fighting for her instead
A decent first episode. The Arcana power system is very interesting and from what little powers we have seen, it looks like it's not special attack spam garbage like Saint Seiya so maybe this will have cool fights. Oh I did laugh at how some of the characters just randomly throw explanations for no reason.
Boys ranking time
Luca
Jolly
Dante
Pace
Debito
Nova
Liberta
Jex
Member
Tsruitama Finale
As most of you are already aware, Kenji Nakamuras latest work, Tsuritama finished on a high-note earlier this week. I had hoped that the ending would be as satisfying as everything that had come before but I wasnt certain that it would deliver considering how frequently stories seem to fall apart at the last hurdle. Thankfully that did not happen here.
(I chose this image because how often, really, do you get to see a duck fall on its ass? In actuality I could have picked any of a range of Tapoica-themed screenshots from this episode because the animators clearly enjoyed drawing her doing funny things. This just happens to be one of the few that other people havent used already.)
There was always a danger that this show could end very badly. I mean, its a show about fishing, how can it have a dramatic climax? How do you execute that in a way that isnt completely ridiculous? The series actually approaches these problems in a number of ways, but largely it all boiled down to heroes having to deal with a serious thread under a very tight time limit. This, in itself was a clever move because one of the most common associations that fishing has in popular culture is that its slow and dull so putting our heroes in a situation where they had to act quickly galvanized them to action. This worked about as well youd imagine and they did well to continually throw obstacles in the path of our heroes (damaged lures, literal obstacles, harsh weather etc).
In terms of the inherent ridiculousness of fishing up an alien the show actually talked that issue head on. By which I mean to say, in the universe of Tsuritama theres an alien investigation unit called Duck and they all wear Turbans and comically oversized duck uniforms. The show embraced the silliness of its core concept but it was never tonally confused. When it wanted to be light hearted and comical, it was. When it needed to be tense and dramatic, it was. If the show hadnt got such a good handle on portraying the right mood all the dramatic tension in the finale would have been lost.
Still, having a big set-piece finale doesnt mean anything if you dont care about the characters involved. As anyone who has watched the series up till now will know, character development has been one of the most remarkable aspects of the series. It really feels like Yuki has changed and grew over the course of the series so its fitting that the climax of his character arc occurs at the climax to the show itself. This stops the finale from being mindless action and it gives the scenes a great amount of weight and heart.
This is demonstrated directly through the way that the camera frames Yuki. I mean, just look at these shots:
His presence stands out in every shot, all eyes are on him and he dominates the frame, usually by being right in the middle. His determination and belief are really on display and here. In that finale image see Yuki shot from a low-angle, just to demonstrate his power over the scene as a whole.
Just in case you dont buy this line of reasoning, lets see how Yuki used to look:
As you can see, hes really hugging the edge of the frame in a number of these shots, trying not to get noticed or stand out. Hes also being captured in long-shot, distancing himself from the audience as well as his fellow classmates. His isolation and social anxiety is clearly on display. Of course, the expressions that he wears and the way that he holds himself has changed as well, you dont see him slouching or slumping his shoulders. They really did a good job portraying his transformation.
For an eleven episode series Tsuritama did a remarkably good job in establishing not only a core central cast but a number of quirky and loveable side-characters who helped flesh out the world. Even characters that barely had any screen time, like the local Duck commander, got their own mini-character arcs. This finale remembered everyone and served them all very well in terms of showing us what happened to them afterwards. Its not a particularly hard thing for the creators to do but the fact that they devoted time to it in the last episode demonstrates that these side-characters werent simply addendums to main cast, they all had lives and dreams and pursuits unrelated to our main heroes. These little touches really help to sell the show and its world.
Animation wise, the episode didnt veer too heavily into extremely stylised character movement beyond the movement of the ocean waves. However, the short bursts that were on display did an excellent job in conveying speed and movement.
If I had to make any complaints, and this is really nitpicky stuff, I am not a big fan of the painting over photos approach to background work. Its less noticeable than in Trapeze but I still dont like it. Also, some of those waves looked very odd and unconvincing but I really dont care because how satisfying the episode was in general.
So, in summary: a great final episode to a great show. I can happily recommend this series to just about any curious anime viewer as one of the best shows of 2012.
As most of you are already aware, Kenji Nakamuras latest work, Tsuritama finished on a high-note earlier this week. I had hoped that the ending would be as satisfying as everything that had come before but I wasnt certain that it would deliver considering how frequently stories seem to fall apart at the last hurdle. Thankfully that did not happen here.
(I chose this image because how often, really, do you get to see a duck fall on its ass? In actuality I could have picked any of a range of Tapoica-themed screenshots from this episode because the animators clearly enjoyed drawing her doing funny things. This just happens to be one of the few that other people havent used already.)
There was always a danger that this show could end very badly. I mean, its a show about fishing, how can it have a dramatic climax? How do you execute that in a way that isnt completely ridiculous? The series actually approaches these problems in a number of ways, but largely it all boiled down to heroes having to deal with a serious thread under a very tight time limit. This, in itself was a clever move because one of the most common associations that fishing has in popular culture is that its slow and dull so putting our heroes in a situation where they had to act quickly galvanized them to action. This worked about as well youd imagine and they did well to continually throw obstacles in the path of our heroes (damaged lures, literal obstacles, harsh weather etc).
In terms of the inherent ridiculousness of fishing up an alien the show actually talked that issue head on. By which I mean to say, in the universe of Tsuritama theres an alien investigation unit called Duck and they all wear Turbans and comically oversized duck uniforms. The show embraced the silliness of its core concept but it was never tonally confused. When it wanted to be light hearted and comical, it was. When it needed to be tense and dramatic, it was. If the show hadnt got such a good handle on portraying the right mood all the dramatic tension in the finale would have been lost.
Still, having a big set-piece finale doesnt mean anything if you dont care about the characters involved. As anyone who has watched the series up till now will know, character development has been one of the most remarkable aspects of the series. It really feels like Yuki has changed and grew over the course of the series so its fitting that the climax of his character arc occurs at the climax to the show itself. This stops the finale from being mindless action and it gives the scenes a great amount of weight and heart.
This is demonstrated directly through the way that the camera frames Yuki. I mean, just look at these shots:
His presence stands out in every shot, all eyes are on him and he dominates the frame, usually by being right in the middle. His determination and belief are really on display and here. In that finale image see Yuki shot from a low-angle, just to demonstrate his power over the scene as a whole.
Just in case you dont buy this line of reasoning, lets see how Yuki used to look:
As you can see, hes really hugging the edge of the frame in a number of these shots, trying not to get noticed or stand out. Hes also being captured in long-shot, distancing himself from the audience as well as his fellow classmates. His isolation and social anxiety is clearly on display. Of course, the expressions that he wears and the way that he holds himself has changed as well, you dont see him slouching or slumping his shoulders. They really did a good job portraying his transformation.
For an eleven episode series Tsuritama did a remarkably good job in establishing not only a core central cast but a number of quirky and loveable side-characters who helped flesh out the world. Even characters that barely had any screen time, like the local Duck commander, got their own mini-character arcs. This finale remembered everyone and served them all very well in terms of showing us what happened to them afterwards. Its not a particularly hard thing for the creators to do but the fact that they devoted time to it in the last episode demonstrates that these side-characters werent simply addendums to main cast, they all had lives and dreams and pursuits unrelated to our main heroes. These little touches really help to sell the show and its world.
Animation wise, the episode didnt veer too heavily into extremely stylised character movement beyond the movement of the ocean waves. However, the short bursts that were on display did an excellent job in conveying speed and movement.
If I had to make any complaints, and this is really nitpicky stuff, I am not a big fan of the painting over photos approach to background work. Its less noticeable than in Trapeze but I still dont like it. Also, some of those waves looked very odd and unconvincing but I really dont care because how satisfying the episode was in general.
So, in summary: a great final episode to a great show. I can happily recommend this series to just about any curious anime viewer as one of the best shows of 2012.
Oreimo 12
Unsung hero in this show is the mother eager to embarrass family members. 3-D Custom Imouto sounds a fairly innocuous game title.
I'll finish the true route later but I'll give some brief thoughts on the tv series proper. I started this thinking it was going to be pretty bad given reactions I've seen here and there. Curiosity got the better of me but I was treated to a hilarious surprise. I really liked enjoyed the cast and their antics no matter how out there they ended up. I can fully empathize with folk that didn't like it due to having crazy little sisters of their own so I've little doubt I'd be of a similar opinion if I did, but seeing as I didn't, this shit was great. Bring on season 2!
In closing, Kirino > Kuroneko.
Unsung hero in this show is the mother eager to embarrass family members. 3-D Custom Imouto sounds a fairly innocuous game title.
I'll finish the true route later but I'll give some brief thoughts on the tv series proper. I started this thinking it was going to be pretty bad given reactions I've seen here and there. Curiosity got the better of me but I was treated to a hilarious surprise. I really liked enjoyed the cast and their antics no matter how out there they ended up. I can fully empathize with folk that didn't like it due to having crazy little sisters of their own so I've little doubt I'd be of a similar opinion if I did, but seeing as I didn't, this shit was great. Bring on season 2!
In closing, Kirino > Kuroneko.
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