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Summer 2012 Anime |OT2| Of Suspended Anime Due To Olympics

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kayos90

Tragic victim of fan death
PorcellainThrill said:
So i marathoned SAO 1-7 (guess i am lacking impulse control, like that guy jumping the bridge in ep 3 I just spent a perfectly fine afternoon marathoning SAO, what a truly relatable character to me)
and it was stupid and funny.
I am kind of pleased.
This could have been good science-fiction if they just really went with the premise.
You know examine it a little.
(I couldn`t help but think about what kind of story I would have enjoyed more and came up with either a lord of the flies scenario in this setting (boring) or
more contrived an over the top coming of age story in which Kirito is really the son of the maker, who build this entire world to make him grow as a man and leave his loner otaku self behind (and release that years of semen built up). Of course with more and more symbollically charged stages to adulthood.

But I couldn`t not be entertained by it, as it made me laugh a lot and after all I simply watched one ep after the other.

Also I need a little more time to sort out which team I am on -as with the progression of the plot- is the really important question.
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Then you will inevitably be join my team.
 
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dimb

Bjergsen is the greatest midlane in the world
No, it's too harsh, because there is like one or two good episodes. But still...as a singular piece it is something I did not much enjoy.
 
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dakkumauji

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Jinrui 08

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Recap Endless Eight style.

It wasn't that bad. At the very least, it brought more answers instead of leaving it as an undeveloped mess. It was unique in its own way and developed Assistant-kun so I'm ok with this episode.
 
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Kazzy

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cajunator said:
This is why I avoid previews.
However, openings love to spoil the shit out of shows. A good recent example is Accel World.
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...and Tari Tari. It's the main reason I was getting irritated by Wanako's constant brooding. I had already saw the happy (awkward) running in the opening!
 
A Black Falcon

A Black Falcon

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Ten Tokyo Warriors 1-3 - This is one of the worst animes I have ever watched, ever. Seriously, it's that bad. Tokyo Warriors is horrible, horribly dubbed (and in a bad way, not a bad-but-good way; this is bad-bad, not good-bad.), confusing, doesn't make any sense, and absolutely is not worth any of your time. The plot is very poorly explained, so I don't really know what's going on except that it seems to involve Sengoku warriors spirits returning in the modern day and a demon invasion of Tokyo by demons which are taking over peoples' bodies, but apart from that, I don't get it at all. Oh, and the main characters are of course some high school kids with special powers (as if it could be anyone else?). I guess there are supposed to be ten warriors as the title suggests, but I can only think of four or five that we've seen so far. Are there more later or something, or are some of the other characters warriors too? I have no idea. Then there's drama that makes no sense (some of the characters are complaining about ... something or other, don't ask me), but it really doesn't matter if it does or not in a series this atrociously terrible. (Miko girl is best, though. She's fairly tough, knows what she's doing, and wears pants too... there are no good characters in this series, but she's probably closest.)

trejo said:
I don't think I really got into ROD TV until
Yomiko was reintroduced in the show
which was probably more than halfway through its run, if I recall correctly. I also thought it was dumb how
that one ditsy secretary girl became such a bitch in such a short span of time
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Frankly, I think the show would've greatly benefited from a shorter runtime because as it is, it takes too much time for it to start getting anywhere.
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ROD the TV... I watched most of that, back when it was on TV here.
That episode where that swimming girl got murdered was so disturbing... I don't remember anything else in the series as bad as that, why did it have to do that? :(

hosannainexcelsis said:
With Koji Masunari and Masashi Ishihama both doing shows next season, I decided to rewatch the R.O.D. OVA. I had forgotten just how goofy it is. It features a secret branch of the British Library which employs a bibliophile who fights with paper who has to save the world from clones of obscure historical figures with elaborate steampunk inventions who intend to take care of the world's overpopulation problem by launching a rocket into space so it can broadcast the resurrected Beethoven's Suicide Symphony that makes anyone who hears it kill themselves. Oh, and a U.S. President who does nothing but wet himself. Not to mention that once you sit down and think things through, there are so many holes you can poke in the logic of the narrative.
Why did the British Library wait until after assigning Nancy to a vital mission to a background check instead of checking before they hired her that she didn't have any fishiness in her past like, oh, being dead. And why did the I-Jin need the book to get the notes for Beethoven's Suicide Symphony (putting aside the absurdity of being able to reconstruct a whole piece from margin sketches) if they already had Beethoven?
So many unexplaned questions!

But who cares? This is the quintessential OVA experience: the plot is unbelievably silly and stupid but oh so fun and pretty. For despite a couple rough edges, this does look quite good, with some great, detailed art and exciting animation. Each episode climaxes with a big, creative action setpiece, from a fight over the Statue of Library between a glider and a life-size paper airplane, to a battle in an underwater ruined city off the coast of India, to the final showdown in the bad guys' mechanical flying lair including a great use of Miss Deep's power to phase through solid objects. Its hour-and-a-half is stuffed with cool ideas executed coolly, and isn't that what popcorn entertainment is all about?
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I don't think I've actually seen the OVA... so it's fun stuff? I probably should watch it.

Mad Pierrot said:
No, she wasn't sexualized, but then again I personally don't use "loli" as an inherently sexual term. It's more the combination of a set of personality traits and physical appearance to me, although perhaps I should use a different term if it's commonly understood to always imply sexuality.
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I know some people said this too, but really, loli is a sexual term. Like it or not, its primary meaning is sexual.

Dresden said:
i don't think you can escape the sexual connotations of the word, considering the word's origin and the way it's applied these days, as haphazard and overused as it may be.

sometimes a little girl is just a little girl.
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Right.

Narag said:
Ten Tokyo Warriors 1-3

Since I got back into this hobby I've oft toyed with the idea of watching enough bad anime so I could finally discern the exact moment anime died. Good news for me; now I don't have to.
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Yeah, it really was that bad.

This is it. Something so uniformly terrible that I'm forced to consider if The Great Moe Accident wasn't so much an accident but the courageous act of a few brave souls to purge this sin from our collective consciousness. If not death, then this is anime's shambling undead corpse, a grotesque collection of everything I hate given form when it would have been better off buried in the earth and forgotten. And this is only the first half.
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Huh, you might be on to something here... :)

Mad Pierrot said:
10 Tokyo Warriors 1-3:

It's encouraging to know that the badness of a dub and the stupidity of a plot can still stir negative feelings within me. This is some truly terrible shit--a pretty standard "demons in Tokyo" OVA made a decade after the genre was commercially viable. Consequently, it lacks the charm of even the most non-notable OVAs of that earlier period, instead being an ugly and soulless product of the early digital age with its washed-out look, unpleasant turn-of-the-millennium character design, and horribad CG. It's a sad last gasp for a very specific subject matter that spawned several very entertaining works, intentionally or otherwise.
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Good point about the "demons attacking Tokyo" genre's disappearance... so was this why it went away? :)
 
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RurouniZel

Asks questions so Ezalc doesn't have to
Trojita said:
Anime-GAF, I'm disappointed that you do not know the various anime terminology.

My little anime community group can't be this uncultured!
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俺のアニメガーフがこんなに迂愚わけがない！
 
Joe Molotov

Joe Molotov

Member
Hyouka 1 - 9

Pretty awesome show, but it seems like they're taking forever on this Locked Room Murder arc, unless they're going to pull out some really crazy shit in the third episode.

Sword Art Online 1 - 7

Kirito has now "slept" with three girls but he still gets less action than Evilore on a European tour, wtf breh? It's only VR, get to cybering!
 
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PdotMichael

Banned
TurkishEmperor said:
Wtf why wouldnt the sequel include senjogahara. :'(
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She doesn't play the important role like in the other arcs in Bakemonogatari. Though she has great moments at the beginning and in the middle of the show.

Chet Rippo said:
To Love-ru 2

You're in quite the pickle there Rito. It looks like you will never get your chance with Haruna. I say cut your losses and go for Lala.
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I only know Haruna from the doujins but she is best girl, so MC's adventures with the other girls are pointless.
 
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madp

The Light of El Cantare
PdotMichael said:
She doesn't play the important role like in the other arcs in Bakemonogatari. Though she has great moments at the beginning and in the middle of the show.
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Shoulda just ditched the
what's-her-face trying to exorcise Tsukihi
plotline and kept Kaiki as main antagonist the entire way through. Better villain, better arc thematically, could have easily sustained even more Hitagi characterization, would have cut down on the incest bullshit.
 
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cajunator

Banned
A Black Falcon said:
ROD the TV... I watched most of that, back when it was on TV here.
That episode where that swimming girl got murdered was so disturbing... I don't remember anything else in the series as bad as that, why did it have to do that? :(


I don't think I've actually seen the OVA... so it's fun stuff? I probably should watch it.
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ROD TV is good except yeah that exact part you just mentioned was pretty disturbing and unexpected. Aside from that the fanservice in the show is fairly minimal. That episode really stood out, and not in a good way.

As for the OVA, its INCREDIBLY FUN. You should watch it ASAP.
 
Jex

Jex

Member
Dresden said:
natsuyuki rendezvous - 07

Honestly this can get too sappy for its own good at times, but I'm a sucker for it.

[...]

Natsuyuki is still some good shit, but I'm getting to the point where I'm kinda ready for it to be over. Not that it's been stale or bogged down, but there's only so much you can reap out of the earthly attachment stuff.
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I really feel like Natsuyuki Rendezvous manages to walk the fine line of an having emotionally heavy (and often draining) story without becoming excessively sappy or depressing. Despite how inherently unhappy and painful the work can be it never feels like 'sadness porn' on the same level that something like [Sengoku Collection] - 18 does.
 
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KO Traveling Hobo

Member
Grzi said:
Watched Garzey's Wing.
I am at a loss for words.

The dub was magnificent though.
Everyone should see this.
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I've had that sitting on my desk for months now. I'm a bad person.

Joe Molotov said:
Sword Art Online 1 - 7

Kirito has now "slept" with three girls but he still gets less action than Evilore on a European tour, wtf breh? It's only VR, get to cybering!
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There's a reason for this, actually.
He hasn't figured out how to enable his dong in-game yet.
No, really.
 
Jex

Jex

Member
Dresden said:
the pacing for ROD tv is pretty bad, but I'm still really fond of it--some great action, cool setting, and I really liked the sisters, even Anita. I do wonder at how Masunari might handle the Magi adapt in light of his work on RODtv though, although it's been years so it might not matter anymore. I should watch some of his more recent work.
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duckroll said:
He doesn't really work much. His most recent works were Welcome to the Space Show and Kamichu.
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None of that bodes very well as it might suggest that he [Masunari] has a poor grasp of effective pacing.
 
A Black Falcon

A Black Falcon

Member
cajunator said:
ROD TV is good except yeah that exact part you just mentioned was pretty disturbing and unexpected. Aside from that the fanservice in the show is fairly minimal. That episode really stood out, and not in a good way.
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Yeah, that episode stood out in a really bad way. The rest of the show was pretty good, from what I remember, but that one... why? That's just wrong... :(

As for the OVA, its INCREDIBLY FUN. You should watch it ASAP.
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Sounds good!
 
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cajunator

Banned
A Black Falcon said:
Yeah, that episode stood out in a really bad way. The rest of the show was pretty good, from what I remember, but that one... why? That's just wrong... :(


Sounds good!
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Even the dub is good. In fact, I watch the ROD OVA dubbed because Yomiko's English voice by Kim Yates is incredibly hnnnnnnngh. She's absolutely adorable. She also voiced Minnie May in Gunsmith Cats and did an outstanding job.
 
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