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Summer 2012 Anime |OT3| Where All the Waifus Are Made Up and the Points Don't Matter

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-Minsc-

-Minsc-

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GTO 2012 - 10

One more to go. I liked seeing these later manga arcs adapted in some form. While I'm not sure if it was a reference to a certain event in the manga, it was nice to have the brief arm wrestling scene to say "yeah, it happened".

I completely forgot about Onizuka's
aneurysm
. Sad times indeed.
 
Jex

Jex

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duckroll said:
Sengoku Collection - Episode 21

This episode is amazing and requires more attention than the previous two I watched, so I will be returning to using visual aid to explain how special this entry is. The story this time centers on Takeda Shingen. There is probably a need to remind everyone how large the gulf is between how the characters are portrayed in popular entertainment, and how they are in Sengoku Collection, so here's a comparison between Takeda Shingen from Sengoku Basara (Capcom) and Sengoku Collection (Konami):

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So, that seems on par with the rest of this ridiculous series. What makes this episode so special? It takes place on an abandoned space colony. Say what? Yes, it takes place on a space colony which has been taken over by a killer AI. It was also apparently run by Russians. This is all delivered with a straight face, as if such a thing would be normal, which I guess it is, considering this is a world which accepts the reality of historical sengoku characters (who happen to be gender swapped) appearing in present day, and society actually helps them integrate. But whatever.

It would already be amazing if the episode was simply about a one-woman sengoku legend fighting a killer AI and her army of drones. But it isn't she also gets a sidekick - a wise-cracking coffee-making robot. This might sound totally insane, but somehow it actually works. There is a good dynamic between the characters and it's pretty funny. Here's the cute guy right here:

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I really enjoyed this episode, and it shows that there are no limits to the sort of wacky nonsense they can think up to fill an episode of this totally off-the-wall series. It's a pity that not every episode was made with as much care and creativity as the stand-out episodes. If that happened to be the case this might actually have ended up being a really solid series instead of just a curiosity with some episodes worth checking out.

I'll leave you with another screen which showcases how anything can happen in this anime:

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I'm going to have to check this one out next, even if I know that I should probably be watching something else.
 
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Dedication Through Light

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Kokoro Connect 10

I liked the first arc better. Second arc was, although situations on the scale seemed intense, a bit toned down and less intense. I thought it just never reached the escalating level that the first one did. I did like how this was more focused on the friendship, and bonds, of the characters and how what they say or how they say it and their inner thoughts may affect their friends. Seeing StuCS through this tribulation worked well. This episodes moment
Yaegashi fell moment
got me...Actually had to pause there at that. Really well done for what I like in anime.

Hope the next is just as good.
 
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PoeticProse22

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Kokoro Connect 10

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Damn, what a fantastic episode; probably my favorite of the entire show. As such, this was an immensely satisfying conclusion to the second arc. The drama worked really well here, effortlessly moving from one emotion to the next, without ever faltering or losing focus.

Inaba continues to be my favorite character by far, and she was at her absolute best in this episode. Her development throughout was terrific.
Inaba's confession and the kiss she gave Taichi at the end were utterly fantastic and satisfying moments. The Inaba x Taichi pairing is easily the strongest and most convincing potential relationship, due in large part to their excellent chemistry. The dramatic conversation between Inaba and Iori was an excellent scene that effectively highlighted the considerable strength of their friendship. Miyuki Sawashiro really sold the emotions here, as she always does. Also, I felt the music accompanied these moments quite wonderfully.

Despite the more subdued, melancholy nature of this arc, I’ve been very impressed by it‘s consistently high quality, particularly displayed in how deftly it’s managed to delve into a variety of complex emotions quite well, without ever feeling too morose or unnecessarily prolonged. All in all, Kokoro Connect continues to excel with it‘s direction, writing, and character development and, as each episode passes, it solidifies itself as one of the very best shows of the year.
 
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Narag

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Manyuu Hikenchou Specials 1-4

I'd mentioned a lot of the stupid had been reeled in for the last part of the series. Turns out they were saving it up for these which were basically just porn.

Manyuu Hikenchou Picture Diary 1-4

Basically the same although I guess that's the selling point of the show in the end. Kaede's narration was amusing at least.

Gintama 16

Even Otae tried to rob Taizo of his sunglasses. I've never felt so betrayed.

One Piece 16

Not bad. Looking forward to seeing if this wraps up like I expect it will.
 
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Articalys

Member
PoeticProse22 said:
Kokoro Connect 10

Damn, what a fantastic episode; probably my favorite of the entire show. As such, this was an immensely satisfying conclusion to the second arc. The drama worked really well here, effortlessly moving from one emotion to the next, without ever faltering or losing focus.

Inaba continues to be my favorite character by far, and she was at her absolute best in this episode. Her development throughout was terrific.
Inaba's confession and the kiss she gave Taichi at the end were utterly fantastic and satisfying moments. The Inaba x Taichi pairing is easily the strongest and most convincing potential relationship, due in large part to their excellent chemistry. The dramatic conversation between Inaba and Iori was an excellent scene that effectively highlighted the considerable strength of their friendship. Miyuki Sawashiro really sold the emotions here, as she always does. Also, I felt the music accompanied these moments quite wonderfully.

Despite the more subdued, melancholy nature of this arc, I’ve been very impressed by it‘s consistently high quality, particularly displayed in how deftly it’s managed to delve into a variety of complex emotions quite well, without ever feeling too morose or unnecessarily prolonged. All in all, Kokoro Connect continues to excel with it‘s direction, writing, and character development and, as each episode passes, it solidifies itself as one of the very best shows of the year.
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Man, I wish I could write posts even half as good as yours.

Anyway, part of why I think this arc seemed better than the first one (and forgive me if people already made these points) is because
the "unleashing desires" phenomenon and everything that it causes is sort of drawn completely from the characters themselves instead of an outside force (with the exception of Heartseed provoking Himeko at the end of the last episode), so there's less of an... artificial feel to it, I suppose? I dunno. It does help that the main drama point of Himeko struggling over her feelings isn't an engineered one like Heartseed throwing Iori off the bridge.

And yeah,
Miyuki Sawashiro is a god-tier seiyuu.
 
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kayos90

Tragic victim of fan death
Articalys said:
Man, I wish I could write posts even half as good as yours.

Anyway, part of why I think this arc seemed better than the first one (and forgive me if people already made these points) is because
the "unleashing desires" phenomenon and everything that it causes is sort of drawn completely from the characters themselves instead of an outside force (with the exception of Heartseed provoking Himeko at the end of the last episode), so there's less of an... artificial feel to it, I suppose? I dunno. It does help that the main drama point of Himeko struggling over her feelings isn't an engineered one like Heartseed throwing Iori off the bridge.

And yeah,
Miyuki Sawashiro is a god-tier seiyuu.
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What happened to your Renton avatar?
 
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/XX/

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Look at that! It seems so close I can reach it:

ウォールの写真 | Facebook
http://ja-jp.facebook.com/photo.php...34023444.99530.281043505254534&type=3&theater

As part of their interesting "What is happening about Little Witch Academia" series of posts on Facebook, TRIGGER Inc., has been showing images related to the actual production of the animated short. The latest one presents us copies of the finished storyboards made to give at those involved in the creation of this project.

icarus-daedelus said:
Svankmajer's directed about a half dozen feature films at this point, being that it's all he's been doing for the past 20 years; stylistically, the proportion of stop-motion work to live-action decreases steadily in each film, with Alice having the most, but they are all make very creative and bizarre use of FX as is to be expected.

They're all unsettling (to varying degrees) grotesques (in the newer sense of that word) of which I prefer Alice and Faust most of all, perhaps because they're brilliant takes on stories familiar to me. (As opposed to, say, Little Otik, which, while creepy as all goddamn get out, is based on an East European folk tale with which I am unfamiliar, making it feel a bit more distant.)

I actually haven't seen very many of his short films (The Pit and the Pendulum, Meat Love, and Dimensions of Dialogue are the only ones coming to mind atm) so it is difficult for me to compare his style in shorts v. his style in features beyond a shared predilection for morbid humor, ambulatory meat, & such.

edit: I realize now that I didn't talk about Alice much (and that you weren't asking me...), if you'd like I can expound further but I'd have to think about it a bit since its been a while since I've seen it or really thought about any movie.
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Thanks, icarus-daedelus! I have to start looking for these works.

Jexhius said:
I feel like Brain's Base almost have more creative freedom to do exactly what they want with their 'adaptation' of Sengoku Collection than other studios have doing completely original projects. After all, if you're doing an 'original' anime you've got to write a story and characters and tie it all into a setting etc. where as Sengoku Collection is truly a 'collection' of stories. They can tell whatever stories in whatever style with whatever tone they want and they don't have to worry about linking them all together to make a coherent work.
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Yeah. The premise is so thin and only there to create the basic setting for the card game's distinction from others that they had to invent everything else, and the good thing is that they had the liberty to do it their way.

I'd like to see what they would do for a Monopoly tie-in adaptation, right? Oh, wait...
 
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jbug617

Banned
Kokoro Connect 10

I feel this is the pay off for the last 2 episodes. Just really good moments with
Inaba/Iori and Inaba/Taichi. I especially liked the part of the heated conversation with Inaba and Iori, then they get a little silly and then Heartseed decides to intervene to force Inaba to act out her desires.
I wonder how the relationships are going to change now since we have a
love triangle

Inaba's girlish moment at the end is the best.
 
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Envelope

sealed with a kiss
Grzi, I don't even have time right now to watch shows I like, why the hell would I be watching One Piece in this situation?
 
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cajunator

Banned
Sword art Online 08

Asuna cooks. Who knew?
Kirito is a loner but he decides to join up with Asuna. Asuna is already part of a guild, but they go off to fight a dungeon together and run into the next boss, who may or may not be a formidable foe to them.

wonzo said:
Here's some Hell's Angels GIFs for cosmic:

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... and that's only the first 10 minutes before it gets really good!
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Really interested in this. I love me some sakuga.
 
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7Th

Member
/XX/ said:
Look at that! It seems so close I can reach it:

ウォールの写真 | Facebook
http://ja-jp.facebook.com/photo.php...34023444.99530.281043505254534&type=3&theater

As part of their interesting "What is happening about Little Witch Academia" series of posts on Facebook, TRIGGER Inc., has been showing images related to the actual production of the animated short. The latest one presents us copies of the finished storyboards made to give at those involved in the creation of this project.
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I need a decent quality version of the key art. :(
 
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Narag

Member
Sword Art Online 10

I'm not one to typically complain about spoilers but CR made a dick move with their episode thumbnail of choice! Kirito sure loves his sandwiches too. He's becoming the Dagwood of anime in my eyes. :(

Episode was really up and down for me. Tension was non-existent at the dramatic highpoint which was a shame. It made a turnaround though as
Asuna actually did something and Kirito made a sacrifice that I thought, for a brief moment, would have long lasting consequence and help remedy the Gary Stuism. I thought the episode was going to end there too but nope, there's the awkward sexytime epilogue that I assume is where glop fits in.
Disappointment abounds.
 
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Thoraxes

Member
Sword Art Online - 10

I could hear the glops ringing from the mountains.
I wish, fucking animate this shit on the BDs because I would buy it.

The rushing of their entire relationship to marriage was just badly rushed, but in anime you can't really spend the time shit like this needs to develop. A sad side-effect of a conversion.
 
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firehawk12

Subete no aware
-Minsc- said:
GTO 2012 - 10

One more to go. I liked seeing these later manga arcs adapted in some form. While I'm not sure if it was a reference to a certain event in the manga, it was nice to have the brief arm wrestling scene to say "yeah, it happened".

I completely forgot about Onizuka's
aneurysm
. Sad times indeed.
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I'm curious, have you seen the original anime? How does the jdrama match up to that? It just seems like this "evil student" thing has gone on forever... although I'm still on 8.

Kokoro 10
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Dat
Kanna
face. lol

PoeticProse22 said:
Kokoro Connect 10

Damn, what a fantastic episode; probably my favorite of the entire show. As such, this was an immensely satisfying conclusion to the second arc. The drama worked really well here, effortlessly moving from one emotion to the next, without ever faltering or losing focus.

Inaba continues to be my favorite character by far, and she was at her absolute best in this episode. Her development throughout was terrific.
Inaba's confession and the kiss she gave Taichi at the end were utterly fantastic and satisfying moments. The Inaba x Taichi pairing is easily the strongest and most convincing potential relationship, due in large part to their excellent chemistry. The dramatic conversation between Inaba and Iori was an excellent scene that effectively highlighted the considerable strength of their friendship. Miyuki Sawashiro really sold the emotions here, as she always does. Also, I felt the music accompanied these moments quite wonderfully.

Despite the more subdued, melancholy nature of this arc, I’ve been very impressed by it‘s consistently high quality, particularly displayed in how deftly it’s managed to delve into a variety of complex emotions quite well, without ever feeling too morose or unnecessarily prolonged. All in all, Kokoro Connect continues to excel with it‘s direction, writing, and character development and, as each episode passes, it solidifies itself as one of the very best shows of the year.
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Articalys said:
Man, I wish I could write posts even half as good as yours.

Anyway, part of why I think this arc seemed better than the first one (and forgive me if people already made these points) is because
the "unleashing desires" phenomenon and everything that it causes is sort of drawn completely from the characters themselves instead of an outside force (with the exception of Heartseed provoking Himeko at the end of the last episode), so there's less of an... artificial feel to it, I suppose? I dunno. It does help that the main drama point of Himeko struggling over her feelings isn't an engineered one like Heartseed throwing Iori off the bridge.

And yeah,
Miyuki Sawashiro is a god-tier seiyuu.
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I feel like the problem with that episode was that it just became de rigueur for the show to go there after basically saving it all up via the previous arc. I think the comparisons to the latter half of AnoNatsu are inevitable, but the reason why I'm comfortable saying that it worked there and not as much here (without being a hypocrite) is because in AnoNatsu, they let Kanna breathe on her own and explain her feelings in depth to another character, so the actual confrontation between Kanna and Ichika didn't have to be backloaded with
exposition about the group dynamics like it was in the Iori/Inaba
conversation.

And, you know, part of that comes down to pretty much knowing how these angsty relationship things will play out - especially if it's safe to assume that every single character in a Japanese text is straighter than Mitt Romney at Sunday service - so that probably adds to the inevitability of the conflict. Add in the "no personal filter" trope (which, for me anyway, dates all the way back to the original Star Trek) and it's kind of hard to be surprised.

I will say, probably the only thing that would have shocked me is if one of the guys came out of the closet and that was the whole point of forcing the characters to act on their impulses. But, I know. Fake lesbians are okay, real gay men are not. lol

I will say though, I suppose I do appreciate the resolution - even if all that means is that the author gave himself another excuse to keep the series going for as long as he wants on that front.

jbug617 said:
Kokoro Connect 10

I feel this is the pay off for the last 2 episodes. Just really good moments with
Inaba/Iori and Inaba/Taichi. I especially liked the part of the heated conversation with Inaba and Iori, then they get a little silly and then Heartseed decides to intervene to force Inaba to act out her desires.
I wonder how the relationships are going to change now since we have a
love triangle

Inaba's girlish moment at the end is the best.
Click to expand...

Yeah, that's basically how I felt, except I'm not sure it's all that helpful to structure an arc this way when all you do is force the audience toward the inevitable climax. Maybe it's one of those things that works better in its original form.
 
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Dedication Through Light

Member
The 41st issue of Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine is announcing on Monday that the eighth Blu-ray Disc/DVD volume of the Kuroko's Basketball (Kuroko no Basuke) anime will include a "Tip Off" original video anime (OVA). The "22.5th episode" will cover the title character Tetsuya Kuroko's past, when he was part of the vaunted "Generation of Miracles" basketball team at Teikō Middle School.
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I hope they do more, I just want to see more of their past and this is a good start. (twenty two point five-ith?)
 
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