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Summer 2012 Anime |OT2| Of Suspended Anime Due To Olympics
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Is this show awesome or what?
KO Traveling Hobo
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Well their little plan failed. I'm still fully on board!
I really like how sparse the dialog is.
Chet Rippo
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I need to finish it up myself. Maybe in August!
KO Traveling Hobo
Member
Do eet.
Hellsing321
Member
Finally, fuck Netflix and its disc-by-disc method! I want more but now I'm stuck until Wednesday.
Well if you don't want to wait you can watch the whole series subbed or dubbed on Hulu.
cj_iwakura
Member
Nope. ABe shows should stay 13 episodes for a reason.
And what do you think was censored? If it was the arm chop, you never saw that in the original either.
darkside am cry
It's a journey.
You gotta watch the whole thing for everything to make sense for this show (and yes, it does take a long time). Like, they really get good mileage out of the entire allotment of episodes, and nothing felt too rushed to me. Sit back, get some alcohol ready for the end, and enjoy
Aside from like that intro scene, there isn't much in the way of censorship. There's no real other situations like that intro scene, aside from a couple things that they use different camera angles to portray. Don't worry though, you'll understand what this oddly confusing comment means when you finish too.
And I didn't mean like, this is how they censored it, it was more like, this is the choice they made for this scene as far as their direction went, especially with the darkness (and not a censored vs. uncensored version). The show it a bit odd in those regards, but it should make sense the more you go on.
Recorder and Randsell SP2 END
HOLY SHIT IT'S A BARTENDER PREQUEL
HOLY SHIT IT'S A BARTENDER PREQUEL
look on the bright side, funi finally announced the release of the Lain BD Boxset!!!! (props to Articalys)
good
firehawk12
Subete no aware
How did he even get into a bar in the first place?
cj_iwakura
Member
I want to believe.
Razgriz-Specter
Member
Lol, they got ya. When you said you were going to
take a break after that. I wanted to just tell you to 'keep watching' but that would have spoiled it.
Finished Rebuild of Evangelion 1.0
Was pretty meh, too similar to the regular series for me. Liked 2.0 much more.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
But of course!
chickdigger802
Banned
With anime dead and me being a bit tired of nanoha, what shall I watch today?
Current backlog of started stuff of recent.
- sailor moon
- rkb
- utena
- toriko
- saki side a
Current backlog of started stuff of recent.
- sailor moon
- rkb
- utena
- toriko
- saki side a
As it should be.
Team meat motherfuckers.
R_thanatos
Member
You should have heard ERIKA voice solo in Ep6 .
Her voice as she plundge batller into eternal punishment ...now that was some work ...
I didn't know you were into guys.
dakkumauji
Member
Hipster choice.
KO Traveling Hobo
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Well, I fucked up my laptop's monitor so I'd need to watch it on TV anyway.
Fake edit: wait, they have Hulu on 360, don't they? Fuck. This Netflix endeavor is not panning out very well.
The shower.
Yeah, I'm in no hurry for answers. It's doing just fine as is.It's a journey.
You gotta watch the whole thing for everything to make sense for this show (and yes, it does take a long time). Like, they really get good mileage out of the entire allotment of episodes, and nothing felt too rushed to me. Sit back, get some alcohol ready for the end, and enjoy
Ah, my bad. Totally misunderstood you. I am ambivalent towards this revelation.
I hope nothing bad happens to Cyborg Freddie Mercury. I think he's my favorite character so far, aside from the doctor who I like for very different reasons.
Chet Rippo
Member
Penguin Musume Heart 16
Moral of the story, don't fuck around with time travel.
Kujira, you done fucked up.
Why do girls look so cute when they cry?
The Lain BD's,
His neighbours and idiot but not as stupid as the owner of the bar, fortunately the female police officers from earlier intervened!
What Shin-chan movie's this from again?Japan, brah.
gotta go with #teamrika but yukimura's a very close second
That's what the show wants you to think.
KO Traveling Hobo
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I vote for you to watch Utena, since I could not.
Anybody would! I dont blame her.
You should procure the required amount of screens and watch them all simultaneously. Y'know, for efficiency's sake.
Adult Empire Strikes Back.
How much Sailor Moon have you watched?
Razgriz-Specter
Member
Is the Zone of the Enders anime worth watching?
InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
NO!
Razgriz-Specter
Member
lol that was fast.
It's a touching story of a husbando dealing with the reality of how his waifu is a giant robot. I liked it!
Hellsing321
Member
This answer was not a strong enough condemnation of the ZOE anime.
Here is a better answer: FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Unknown Soldier
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MMO Life Lessons Online 4:
This episode makes me want to go play Tera and purposely put on low level gear and walk around in a low level area pretending to grind mobs until someone tries to gank me. That would be good for a laugh if some random low level ganker tried to kill me. I wonder if it would take me 2 hits or 3 to kill him. Probably just one hit if I landed a crit, and I probably would because of how level scaling works in Tera. Level scaling in Tera is at least as hilariously exaggerated as what you see in this episode, somewhere in the range of 3-5 levels difference between you and someone else, they literally hit you for 1 damage and you crit them for 2,000.
Kirito basically explains the biggest problem with all MMOs succinctly in this episode. Being powerful in an MMO has nothing to do with skill or talent. It's simply how much time you are willing to spend mindlessly grinding on mobs. Power in MMOs has nothing to do with really being powerful. To some extent all RPGs basically have the same mechanic with a few exception. The more time you spend leveling up, the stronger you get. However MMOs have this issue to a magnified degree and in general it makes PvP in MMOs basically a gear check. Sadly, at endgame Tera falls into this trap too which is probably the biggest disappointment about that game.
So far through the first 4 episodes, there has been a great deal of exposition about MMO mechanics. Obviously SAO has it's own particular set of fictitious mechanics, though anyone who has ever played an MMO will recognize almost all of them except for Switch. I don't know if the author of SAO actually realizes that a Switch mechanic would essentially eliminate the need for the long-standing and frequently criticized Holy Trinity party and class mechanic of Tank, Healer, DPS in real MMOs.
I wish SAO was real, minus the dying in real life part, because I would love to play an MMO where everyone did everything to some extent. This is what is being promised and not at all what is actually in Guild Wars 2. Plus the combat in GW2 is the same tab-target, lock-on, auto-attack bullshit that plagues all MMOs not named Tera and Blade & Soul. (Games like Dragon's Nest, Vindictus, Phantasy Star Online, and Diablo aren't MMOs in the sense of a large open world. Instead everything is instanced.)
GitS and Innocence are surprisingly different films though. It's like Oshii saw what people criticized about the first film and took the second film entirely too far in the opposite direction of the first.
This episode makes me want to go play Tera and purposely put on low level gear and walk around in a low level area pretending to grind mobs until someone tries to gank me. That would be good for a laugh if some random low level ganker tried to kill me. I wonder if it would take me 2 hits or 3 to kill him. Probably just one hit if I landed a crit, and I probably would because of how level scaling works in Tera. Level scaling in Tera is at least as hilariously exaggerated as what you see in this episode, somewhere in the range of 3-5 levels difference between you and someone else, they literally hit you for 1 damage and you crit them for 2,000.
Kirito basically explains the biggest problem with all MMOs succinctly in this episode. Being powerful in an MMO has nothing to do with skill or talent. It's simply how much time you are willing to spend mindlessly grinding on mobs. Power in MMOs has nothing to do with really being powerful. To some extent all RPGs basically have the same mechanic with a few exception. The more time you spend leveling up, the stronger you get. However MMOs have this issue to a magnified degree and in general it makes PvP in MMOs basically a gear check. Sadly, at endgame Tera falls into this trap too which is probably the biggest disappointment about that game.
So far through the first 4 episodes, there has been a great deal of exposition about MMO mechanics. Obviously SAO has it's own particular set of fictitious mechanics, though anyone who has ever played an MMO will recognize almost all of them except for Switch. I don't know if the author of SAO actually realizes that a Switch mechanic would essentially eliminate the need for the long-standing and frequently criticized Holy Trinity party and class mechanic of Tank, Healer, DPS in real MMOs.
I wish SAO was real, minus the dying in real life part, because I would love to play an MMO where everyone did everything to some extent. This is what is being promised and not at all what is actually in Guild Wars 2. Plus the combat in GW2 is the same tab-target, lock-on, auto-attack bullshit that plagues all MMOs not named Tera and Blade & Soul. (Games like Dragon's Nest, Vindictus, Phantasy Star Online, and Diablo aren't MMOs in the sense of a large open world. Instead everything is instanced.)
GitS and Innocence are surprisingly different films though. It's like Oshii saw what people criticized about the first film and took the second film entirely too far in the opposite direction of the first.
Razgriz-Specter
Member
Oh man
dakkumauji
Member
Gintama 19
Great, the everyone gets eaten by a giant sea monster ending.
Another fun episode. Always like Teach Us!! Ginpachi-sensei segments and that was a fun method of hitchhiking.
Great, the everyone gets eaten by a giant sea monster ending.
Another fun episode. Always like Teach Us!! Ginpachi-sensei segments and that was a fun method of hitchhiking.
chickdigger802
Banned
around eps 20ish or so.
Still, for all of ZOEs faults you gotta at least respect the balls it took to make the main protagonist an aging world-weary man who is accompanied in his adventures by his son and daughter, who are both adults themselves. It made you think that maybe life doesn't end at sixteen after all!
Also, the ED song was pretty sweet.
Also, the ED song was pretty sweet.
Thanks!
You're getting to the good parts!
Crash Station
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Toriko is the only good thing on that list.
Ring on the World rocks. Personally I really liked how the anime handled Idolo and then Dolores, i. I own all of the ADV DVDs! I even have the ZoE1 JP LE with the Idolo R2 DVD!
Crash Station
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I would post Keima playing like 30 games simultaneously if I could find the gif.
Unknown Soldier
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What I was saying was that liking the first doesn't immediately imply you will like the second.
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