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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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What an awful future.
Trying to draw too much context from a Japanese online poll (or any online poll for that matter) is usually a bad idea!
The original point way back was to comment on the differences of Western anime fans/Eastern anime fans. It then kinda just spiraled from there. I still don't think Perfect Blue would make a cut if they did a list of top anime in the West.
It might not chart high in a list of top anime, but it will certainly chart much higher than most anime in a list of top films in general. Food for thought.
My Little Sister is a Figment of my Imagination!
My Little Sister Assassinated the President!
My Little Sister Defeated the Yakuza!
My Little Sister has to Perform my Brain Surgery!
My Little Sister Works for Nintendo and Told me the Next Zelda Game is Going to be the Best One Ever!
My Little Sister Assassinated the President!
My Little Sister Defeated the Yakuza!
My Little Sister has to Perform my Brain Surgery!
My Little Sister Works for Nintendo and Told me the Next Zelda Game is Going to be the Best One Ever!
Crash Station
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lol, this seems out of place.
I thought you were making that up until that second paragraph...
amishpriest99
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I assume this means you'll get to the Zeta movies at some point?
Anyhow, I thought ZZ was shaky at the start but it does get better. Based on what you said about Zeta I think you'll end up liking it.
YES!
Speaking of best girls...
Amen brother! Let us rally in support of the one true waifu, Lizbeth
Watashi is best Watashi.
My Little Sister Went Back and Edited all her Posts to Prove me Wrong!
It might not chart high in a list of top anime, but it will certainly chart much higher than most anime in a list of top films in general. Food for thought.
I think you could make that argument for Paprika, primarily due to Inception, though. It also depends if we're talking about who is making up the poll whether it's critics or average people.
PdotMichael
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She is without question the best girl this season. And the episode was also pretty good with some interesting new facts about the world and the fairies.
Film buffs, critics, and the industry at large were familiar with Perfect Blue long before Paprika or Inception or any of that sort of thing came along. There's also no such thing as "average people" when it comes to polls and lists though. When you compile something like that, you're always targeting a certain demographic, whether it is conscious or otherwise. It is impossible to just fine "average normal people" because depending on the subject matter, who is "average" totally changes.
R_thanatos
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A nice
diversion
No you see their names, their Hp bar and you can see where they are in witch fileds oh and maybe some status information.
Joe Molotov
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Maybe now I can get my LN series published!
My Little Sister Generally Ignores Me Except When She Needs Help With Computer Related Stuff
It's semi-autobiographical.
My Little Sister Generally Ignores Me Except When She Needs Help With Computer Related Stuff
It's semi-autobiographical.
I think this has potential.
I agree, but it needs a more simplified and eye-catching title. Something like: My Sister Secretly Takes Advantage of Me Being A Computer Geek
R_thanatos
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This is close to the book i published last year :
My familly generally ignores me except when they need help with computer related stuff
Are you doing a spiritual sequel of my book ?
Add three question marks behind the title, and make it about all the other girls in the novel competing to be the "little sister" the protagonist doesn't have, and you're on to a winner.
Will there be a touching chapter where you risk her ire by sabotaging her computer just so you can enjoy more quality time?
Inception was an enormous movie though and people were both comparing Inception to Paprika as well as comparing the two works together. Perfect Blue was already known to film buffs and the rest but Paprika was tied to a huge blockbuster. It depends on the point of the poll though doesn't it? Some polls primary point is to show what the top whatever,such as critics, think and others are merely to gauge general interest. I do agree that average changes depending on a person's perspective, as 1 hour a day of a hobby might be extreme to certain people. So I'll define average in this case being people who casually watch films, casually in this case being people who aren't analyzing works on specific or larger merits.
Crash Station
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Well, if we're all doing autobiographical sister books.
My Little Sister Doesn't Talk To Me......
It's about my daily life with my friends and working at my job. No family members appear.
My Little Sister Doesn't Talk To Me......
It's about my daily life with my friends and working at my job. No family members appear.
kayos90 has been asking for a photo of what the F/Z BD-Box II packaging looks like for a while now, so I finally noticed that they actually have a photo of it at the end of their commercials promoting the set:
YES! Thank you!
Surely it'll culminate with you throwing everything away to reunite with your sister, venturing the world and discovering friend & foe alike with your fists, and possibly include up to three (3) tournaments that help you inch closer to your goal.
PdotMichael
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My Little Sister Is Also My Mother
the perfect incest circle
the perfect incest circle
Ive seen some of "normalgaf" talking about Paprika in a movie thread for what its worth.
Moviegaf is pretty familiar with Kon's works. Black Swan
erfect Blue::Inceptionaprika fwiw.Sort of. I was just stating that if there was to be any film that would be on there, again talking about average people, it would be the film whose name was attached to Inception. I actually would be surprised if any of Kon's films were on there if we're talking about greatest films in general without any restriction in genre(again average viewers as critics do their own thing).
I watched Shame yesterday (good film, though I felt slightly soiled afterwards) and feel this is pretty much what it would have ended up like if it was a light novel.
PdotMichael
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Muv-Luv
It's truly the show of the season with the best QUALITY scenes.
It's truly the show of the season with the best QUALITY scenes.
I think the problem here is that you're trying to pigeon box things into a format which is is not worthwhile to the point of the discussion we're having. Like I mentioned before, there is no such thing as an "average person" in an absolute sense. There are people all over who are interested in some things more than other things.
If you go out of your way to poll people who specifically self-identify as "casual movie viewers who don't care about actually discussing a film in depth", that is not the average viewer, that is a specific demographic of casual viewers. Then there is also the question of what purpose you have for doing this in the first place. If you're interested in having an informed opinion of what the "greatest films" are, why would you poll such a demographic? That would not give you an informed answer at all since by their own admission these people don't actually know or care about film as an art form.
If we're talking about "most popular films ever" then there would be no disagreement that Kon would probably not feature on even the Top100. But a lot of directors probably wouldn't either. Directors who are extremely respected, certainly well known to anyone worth a salt when talking about film, but simply don't make populist films for the lowest common denominator masses. So in this case, we wouldn't really be talking about how "well known" a director is, but simply how commercially successful and populist pandering a director is. A completely different discussion.
The fact remains that Satoshi Kon is one of the few Japanese animation directors who have a serious penetration outside of Japan in film circles which matter. He was respected and known, and this helped his films get distribution in places where anime in general don't get much attention.
And this is why we need CG vehicles in anime.
Dedication Through Light
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Rinne no Lagrange 2 ep 10
Well I think they are well on their way to bringing us a really epic concluding arc and such. Mindblown just about this whole episode cause of not only the intense action but the developments.
Best moment was when
I thought this looked odd for some reason, or I guess it looks different than how they draw the mechs during the other scenes.
Well I think they are well on their way to bringing us a really epic concluding arc and such. Mindblown just about this whole episode cause of not only the intense action but the developments.
Everything just went worst and worst and even Dizelmine, with that, powerful destruction of Villaguilio. He better not be dead, cause I mean, I didnt want Dizelmine to turn out to be bad indeed. Moid and this demon and just the fate of the Earth, gah!
Best moment was when
Izo showed up, and then Array and and Kirius as well as Madoka's ax kick or whatever.
I thought this looked odd for some reason, or I guess it looks different than how they draw the mechs during the other scenes.
Fair enough, internet polls in general are a poor indicator of quality works precisely for this sort of reason. I think I'm getting too caught up in trying to define certain segments of the population.
Chet Rippo
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I'd watch it.
Razgriz-Specter
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So we're only counting 150+ now?
Because I just released in five posts I'm hitting three figures.
My Little Sister is Six Feet Under but She Still Wants to be my Bride!
Go_Ly_Dow
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have you ever seen a GAF thread on anime?
Dedication Through Light
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Kise ftw!
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