firehawk12
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Utakoi continues to amaze.
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Summer 2012 Anime |OT2| Of Suspended Anime Due To Olympics
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Utakoi continues to amaze.
I love that art style with the outlines.
Jex
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Hmm, I don't think I'd go quite that far. For me a 'complete clusterfuck' would be a completely unwathchable episode either because it's extremely boring or terribly composed or edited badly.
Despite the episodes terrible art it still manages to just about hold it together in terms of direction. That's not to say that it doesn't have a lot of problems, because it does, but it's not completely worthless of every conceivable metric.
Hey, cut the guy some slack. He was saving all his effort for Sengoku Collection.
firehawk12
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I like that they don't give a fuck about anachronisms at all. lol
I suppose this is like the Japanese version of that Heath Ledger Chaucer movie. lol
Unknown Soldier
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Mawaru-Penguindrum 11:
Threads are coalescing once again. This must be what the anidb.net tag "coincidentally everyone is somehow related" was referring to. The resolution of Ringo and Keiju's story arc leads into the next story arc, the one were Ringo becomes Shouma's tsundere lover. They seem to fit each other perfectly. Ringo is abusive and violent and blames Shouma for everything, and Shouma is a total doormat who blames himself for everything. I predict some seriously hot hate-sex coming right up. It's funny to think that if Ringo weren't such an occult-magic-stalker-psycho-bitch she would actually make a pretty decent waifu, what with being able to cook and also being kind of cute. Oh well.
Threads are coalescing once again. This must be what the anidb.net tag "coincidentally everyone is somehow related" was referring to. The resolution of Ringo and Keiju's story arc leads into the next story arc, the one were Ringo becomes Shouma's tsundere lover. They seem to fit each other perfectly. Ringo is abusive and violent and blames Shouma for everything, and Shouma is a total doormat who blames himself for everything. I predict some seriously hot hate-sex coming right up. It's funny to think that if Ringo weren't such an occult-magic-stalker-psycho-bitch she would actually make a pretty decent waifu, what with being able to cook and also being kind of cute. Oh well.
Ringo is very very cute, but she's also batshit fucking crazy.
Please tell me her face is Photoshopped
Oh no. KILL IT WITH THE INFERNOS OF HELL.
NO it isn't. The whole show is the super derpface hour.
Except Ieyasu. Watch the Ieyasu episode because she's totally adorable.
Avoid the rest.
Art.
Jex
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I was originally attracted because I wanted to take part in the gaming discussion because I was getting sick of certain gaming blogs.
A little while later I found the 'Everyone Vote For Their Favourite Anime' thread and used it as a guide to help me get into anime for the first time. Once I'd tackled a number of titles in that threads 'top twenty' I really wanted to write some impressions of what I'd seen so that I could encourage others to experience those titles for themselves.
I briefly considered, and actually executed, a scheme to simply create a new thread for every anime I had watched and place "LTTP" in the title. As you might imagine these threads had limited success and extremely low post counts.
It was around that time that I noticed that GAF had a seasonal anime thread, see here. http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=383521&highlight=anime+spring+2010
Of course, at that point seasonal anime threads would only reach a few thousand posts at max. For example, that thread only reached 1000 posts. I wasn't sure if talking about older anime was acceptable in a seasonal anime thread, because I imagined that such discussion would technically be 'off-topic' but I did it anyway.
dakkumauji
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So we hit full circle and starting posting Kanetsugu Naoe again.
I can't believe that we've reached the point where "I'm watching this series because it's Brains Base" has so radically evolved in meaning.
That 2009 picture reminded me about Kaito Reinya. A show I would have strongly considered for the hnnngh but it seemed to be about the exact same thing as Saint Tail, which is done a million times better (and which was one of my holy grails of Cute that I now finally own)
It's sad, but at least we'll have Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun.
hosannainexcelsis
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And the rest, as they say, is history.
What's amazing is not the evolution itself but the quickness of it.
And several people attribute the explosion in AnimeGAF activity to your arrival. Are you proud, or do you feel like you've created a monster?
Maybe, I guess.
Welcome to the club.
True.
Penguindrum to Sengoku Collection is a fall off of a ninety-degree cliff with razor-sharp spikes and poisonous snakes at the bottom.
Wow, looking back, that was a pretty damn horrendous line-up.
Oh god I remember that thread. Amazing.
I'm glad Jex pulled a Sulla and retired to let Cajun take the seat. Always a classy way to go.
Meanwhile Cajun is going to eat some poisoned figs soon.
poisoned figs? Is that a reference to something?
Unknown Soldier
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Huh. A comment on anidb.net led me to:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarin_gas_attack_on_the_Tokyo_subway
This explains why the scene at the end of episode 11 occurs on a subway train plastered with the number 95, a motif which recurs throughout the series. It's also I guess why riding the subway is such a prominent and recurring event in all the episodes so far. It's kind of interesting to realize that the sarin gas attacks were still to this day the worst incident of domestic terrorism to occur on Japanese soil since World War II.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarin_gas_attack_on_the_Tokyo_subway
This explains why the scene at the end of episode 11 occurs on a subway train plastered with the number 95, a motif which recurs throughout the series. It's also I guess why riding the subway is such a prominent and recurring event in all the episodes so far. It's kind of interesting to realize that the sarin gas attacks were still to this day the worst incident of domestic terrorism to occur on Japanese soil since World War II.
Apparently, the only show from that season that I followed while it was airing and managed to finish was Durarara!.
That's even worse than the Summer '09 season that several people here refer to as the supposed worst season ever.
I watched Chu Bra :/
Unknown Soldier
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The summer of 2010 was when I first started posting too. I don't think I've made it into the Top 5 on the Wall of Shame after that first summer.
hosannainexcelsis
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I don't know; pretty much all Brains Base shows in 2011 had notable production issues, and Keiji Gotoh has done poor work for them going back to Gigantic Formula.
Is he responsible for the faces in that show? Because.......man, those faces.......
Eureka Seven 1-10
Sometimes I wonder to myself why these episodes exist. It isn't until after I watch them they introduce the characters and create a proper exposition for the members of Gekkostate. Still sort of meh but this first season isn't a bad starter for a show that ends in greatness.
Sometimes I wonder to myself why these episodes exist. It isn't until after I watch them they introduce the characters and create a proper exposition for the members of Gekkostate. Still sort of meh but this first season isn't a bad starter for a show that ends in greatness.
LOGH 16 "The New Tide"
The name of this episode pretty much perfectly sums it up.
I can't wait to see what happens next!
easily the wisest choice to make
The name of this episode pretty much perfectly sums it up.
I didn't expect the Kaiser to die like that but it'll certainly act as a great catalyst to some serious backhanded political shit going down. It's nice to see Reinhard get even closer to the throne and Yang and co's promotion was pretty awesome too, especially with Julian starting! The scene at the end with Reinhard and a free Annerose was pretty touching.
The stuff with Phezzan and the "Earth Cult" sounds really dumb though and damn this show for Truniht's increasing rise to power!!!!
Chet Rippo
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hosannainexcelsis
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This is the person to blame for the poor designs in Sengoku Collection. (Incidentally, another person is credited for the much better sub-character design.)
Indeed.
We've all scraped the bottom of the barrel at one time or another.
I was actually referring to the faces in Gigantic Formula, although that's still very informative.
Because suffering.
Not as I recall but okay!
hosannainexcelsis
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Whoops; I misread your post. At any rate, Gotoh clearly cannot draw to save his life and his shitty art skills seem to infect all the shows he directs.
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