Unknown Soldier
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What if you started learning to play the guitar because you watched K-ON? Does that count?
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Summer 2012 Anime |OT2| Of Suspended Anime Due To Olympics
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What if you started learning to play the guitar because you watched K-ON? Does that count?
Femmeworth
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Does :chet now stand for sexual harassment too?
It most certainly does.
I need to start learning guitar again BUT LAZY. I can already play piano (poorly) so maybe that should be my next instrument?
To be honest, I would say that Urobuchi writing an anime is kinda a crapshot usually. He was involved in a few turds in the past after all. But what makes me a lot more hopeful moving forward is that since Madoka he definitely picked up a much stronger following among anime fans, and their expectation of his works seem to have gone up a lot. After Madoka and Fate/Zero, I think he has a certain "brand" which he personally feels the need to upkeep now. Hopefully that means that his upcoming works also reflect this, and he works with more capable production teams instead of the more questionable ones from further back in his history.
Chet Rippo
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I wasn't really being all that serious.
hosannainexcelsis
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Urobuchi has certainly moved up from Bee Train and Gonzo.
Now THAT is a staff list I can get behind!!
Unknown Soldier
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Yuru Yuri ♪♪ 4:
This episode consisted of 4 separate short stories. It turned out that all four of them were equally hilarious. There was a severe lack of China-hime until near the end but she made the most of her screen time. The best gags came right at the end, where Akarin hid offscreen behind Kyouko to avoid getting splashed by the passing car, and then after the ED, the PV was narrated by Rise! That's right, MATSUMOTO RISE SPEAKS! That shit was freaky as all hell, and awesome too.
This episode consisted of 4 separate short stories. It turned out that all four of them were equally hilarious. There was a severe lack of China-hime until near the end but she made the most of her screen time. The best gags came right at the end, where Akarin hid offscreen behind Kyouko to avoid getting splashed by the passing car, and then after the ED, the PV was narrated by Rise! That's right, MATSUMOTO RISE SPEAKS! That shit was freaky as all hell, and awesome too.
Femmeworth
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How long before he works with KyoAni? I hope it happens so pizzaroll is forced to like a Urobuchi production.
His scenarios involve too much stuff actually happening for KyoAni to be interested.
Unknown Soldier
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Please don't say "You are lazy"
Datte hontou wa crazy
It would be fun to have someone to learn with! Though I think trying to do this over the Internet would be kind of tough to pull off. Oh well.
Haha, I had a similar line of thinking when Kishi Seiji was announced as the director for Angel Beats after Seto no Hanayome and the good reception for Tentai Senshi Sunred, except I was a lot more blindly optimistic. Well, it isn't completely the same thing, but that's kinda what came to mind reading this.
hosannainexcelsis
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Pizzaroll likes Fate/Zero.
I can't really commit to anything because I'm too drained after work to accomplish anything productive. Half the time I don't even have it in me to play games.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
I guess it's the guy from Index that punches.
How can she be the main character if they spend so much time in Ichiko's head though?
Ahhh right, I totally forgot that it was that.
In which case it seems odd to talk about disembarking from hype trains when you only get on the line well after everyone else has already taken their ride.
Sherlock Holmes? The Great Gatsby?
SatoJun get~
Still in stock? May as well pick them up.
i liked season one as a relaxing break from normal animu insanity.
Femmeworth
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If you ride a train, you are not obligated to get off at the destination. At least the first time it arrives.
KyoAni will (further) sell out eventually. It's a matter of when, not if.His scenarios involve too much stuff actually happening for KyoAni to be interested.
Oh, well I'll be.
Everything I say is right. But neither was I though, so it's all good.
Hanada Jukki as the series composer for Chuunibyou marks the beginning of the end.
His scenarios involve too much stuff actually happening for KyoAni to be interested.
Good. I like my anime how I like my Star Trek. Boring.
A-1 Pictures shares the cover for the recording script of Magi Ep1:
https://twitter.com/a1pictures/status/238893935534166016/photo/1
https://twitter.com/a1pictures/status/238893935534166016/photo/1
That character design really is adorable.
just when I thought that we could be friends
hosannainexcelsis
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Now that is just too adorable.
Crash Station
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She's the reason for the conflict, and like I said, her occupation is in the title. She was also the first character on screen. She plays just as big of a role in all of this as Ichiko does even if her character development will be mostly static until the final 2 or 3 episodes.
A Black Falcon
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What, that their next anime apparently stars a girl with a medical eyepatch isn't a sign that they've sold out already?
Why would you use that word to begin with... (It's sexist...)Binbougami 7-8
So, I don't know if it's wrong for me to dislike Ichiko because I'm afraid that I'm being sexist (it's probably the first time where I'm not comfortable using "bitch" to even joke about how I feel about her, as I would with characters from Ace wo Nerae or Oniisama e...).
No, I don't think it's sexist at all to dislike Ichiko. I mean, how is she a likable character in any way? She's awful, incredibly selfish, and the basic concept of the series seems to be about how she's wrong but stubborn, and will never accept reality. So no, I don't know that you're actually supposed to like her; if you are, it certainly doesn't work for me either. But I don't think you are. She's not a good person. The show hammers this home over and over and over... it's quite clear she's an unbelievably selfish, not very likeable person who hurts the people around her and only barely cares.
I should probably try watching this show.Utakoi 8
Speaking of sexism, this was another one of those stories about a woman entering the court in order to break out of her limited life as a woman in old-timey Japan.
While the first one had the woman make the choice to join the court and be more than just a doormat, this one had the woman want to be sheltered, forcing the man to "sacrifice himself" in order to open her up to a bigger world suited to her intelligence and capabilities.
As I said the first time around, I do understand that women were treated like shit back then (hell, they still are now), so the types of narratives about women advancing in society are all going to be problematic and they're all going to play the same... but I really don't know how I should feel about a story where it's the guy who makes the noble sacrifice. It's almost as if the show is telling us that we should be proud of him for "doing the right thing" as opposed to celebrating the fact that this woman was able to find success at court via her own abilities.
God, who knew that two shows from this season would fuck me up so bad when it came to the representation of women. Anime.
You are a naughty mischievous little cat.
Femmeworth
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He/she is writing Robotics;Notes too...
For someone who hates everything you sure do know a lot about staff assignments.
Jim E. Rossler
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Even though you like Chinatsu, I'm willing to look past that and play guitar with ya maybe.
What level are you at?
I kinda meant in regards to hiring freelancers to work on their projects instead of doing everything in-house. But I just looked up some of KyoAni's other series composers and Machida Touko, who also doesn't really work exclusively at KyoAni, was the series composer for Lucky Star, so never mind!
hosannainexcelsis
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How can it be "the beginning of the end" when Hanada already wrote scripts for both seasons of K-ON! and did series composition for Nichijou?
Crash Station
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We got one last promo for Episode of Nami, a remake of the Arlong arc in One Piece. It's a long one too. Animation seems rough in a few spots, but seeing this with the modern art style will still be godly.
Because I didn't notice them.
To be honest, I didn't think the scripts for K-On were a big deal, but I completely missed Nichijou. My bad.
Crash Station
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Toriko 70?
Filler. Nothing to see here.
Filler. Nothing to see here.
hosannainexcelsis
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Certainly looks better than the early episodes I'm watching right now.
If they ace the execution, maybe the single biggest anime event of the year for me.
Didn't realize they'd be animating select scenes from the Buggy and Kuro (and presumably Baratie) arcs too. Hopefully those are just to illustrate Nami's early interactions with the crew and are fairly brief.
Femmeworth
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Know your enemy.
dakkumauji
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Adorable. Looking forward to it now.
I'm willing to be that you're secretly the biggest fan of the medium in this thread.
Bigger than Cajun.
kiunchbb
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I finally finished Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, I finished the original FMA and had no interest in brotherhood because I thought it is just a remake with new ending after first 5 episodes.
It ended up being a completely different shows after 7 episodes, I wouldn't say that brotherhood is a lot better than FMA, but it certainly interesting to see what the original creator had in mind. You got to give credit to whoever made up the last 2/3 of FMA without any source material.
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I also managed to convince my co-worker and his cousins in highschool to watch Madoka passed 3 episode, it was a challenge to make them watch the show without spoiling it. I guess they finally had enough of me bugging, my co-worker loves it, the high school cousins of his stopped after 3 episodes. They had to finish the story in manga because the anime combine with the music is too depressing for them to handle.
K-On is next, it will be harder than Madoka, but I believe they will be hook after 1 episode!
Along with Planete, Hikaru no Go, and Denpa Teki na Kanojo, may be then they will finally stop telling me to catch up on watching naruto and bleach.
It ended up being a completely different shows after 7 episodes, I wouldn't say that brotherhood is a lot better than FMA, but it certainly interesting to see what the original creator had in mind. You got to give credit to whoever made up the last 2/3 of FMA without any source material.
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I also managed to convince my co-worker and his cousins in highschool to watch Madoka passed 3 episode, it was a challenge to make them watch the show without spoiling it. I guess they finally had enough of me bugging, my co-worker loves it, the high school cousins of his stopped after 3 episodes. They had to finish the story in manga because the anime combine with the music is too depressing for them to handle.
K-On is next, it will be harder than Madoka, but I believe they will be hook after 1 episode!
Along with Planete, Hikaru no Go, and Denpa Teki na Kanojo, may be then they will finally stop telling me to catch up on watching naruto and bleach.
Crash Station
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Yeah, I doubt they'll spend much time on the other arcs shown. Will probably just be short flashbacks. With 2 hours, they don't really need to pad it out at all.
Unknown Soldier
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Why can't I stop listening to this song? I actually think OP2 is better than OP1 even though both are fantastic. The two OPs of this show pretty much perfectly express what it's about and the songs themselves install permanently in your brain's boot sector and cannot be eradicated. Not that you would want to eradicate something as awesome and catchy as this!
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