Here's how much of a troll they are, the new Magi PV uses every single previous animation cut from the previous teasers (all 12 of them!) and adds just ONE new animation cut of less than 0.5 seconds:
CG camels?
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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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CG camels?
Chet Rippo
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Do their mouths look like rice bowls in the manga?
darkside31337
Tomodachi wa Mahou
CG Camels aren't as cool as CG Mercedes.
PdotMichael
Banned
Chet Rippo
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At least they're trying to be accurate.
darkside31337
Tomodachi wa Mahou
So... Magi-gaf is following duckroll?
hosannainexcelsis
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Mai Mai Miracle
What an irresistibly charming and sweet film. I really enjoy historical slice-of-life narratives for the glimpse they provide into another world, and this not only provided one into 1950s rural Japan but also into feudal Japan through Shinko's imagination. The environment was realized with loving detail, and both the modern and feudal towns were rich with life. One visual touch that I really liked was the lighting; it lent extra impact to emotionally significant moments:
The cast was likable all around. The development of the friendship between the main pair, Shinko and Kiiko, was especially strong. (
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If I were to nitpick, it would be that the editing wasn't 100% smooth; when you're intermingling fantasy and reality you have to be very careful about how you do it and some of the transitions ended up feeling abrupt or clunky, while some of the scenes could have been extended a bit to let their impact sink in. However, the dual climax paralleling Kiiko imagining herself as the princess and Shinko was really sharp. I was surprised by how dark the film became there, yet it never became heavy-handed and treated its sensitive topics with a delicate touch. The fresh-faced idealism of youth has to face a world which isn't ideal and indeed can be quite ugly, but at the end of the day is nonetheless filled with hope and love.
Lastly, the end credits song is simply beautiful.
What an irresistibly charming and sweet film. I really enjoy historical slice-of-life narratives for the glimpse they provide into another world, and this not only provided one into 1950s rural Japan but also into feudal Japan through Shinko's imagination. The environment was realized with loving detail, and both the modern and feudal towns were rich with life. One visual touch that I really liked was the lighting; it lent extra impact to emotionally significant moments:
The cast was likable all around. The development of the friendship between the main pair, Shinko and Kiiko, was especially strong. (
Alcohol: always the quickest way to become friends.
If I were to nitpick, it would be that the editing wasn't 100% smooth; when you're intermingling fantasy and reality you have to be very careful about how you do it and some of the transitions ended up feeling abrupt or clunky, while some of the scenes could have been extended a bit to let their impact sink in. However, the dual climax paralleling Kiiko imagining herself as the princess and Shinko was really sharp. I was surprised by how dark the film became there, yet it never became heavy-handed and treated its sensitive topics with a delicate touch. The fresh-faced idealism of youth has to face a world which isn't ideal and indeed can be quite ugly, but at the end of the day is nonetheless filled with hope and love.
Lastly, the end credits song is simply beautiful.
Rice bowls ruined it for me. All I see is rice bowls every time I see something from the show.
hosannainexcelsis
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Chet Rippo
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Yeah, they just look like wonzo camels.
Crash Station
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Dedication Through Light
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Hakuoki Reimeiroku 10
They make it hard to 100% dislike Serizawa san
They make it hard to 100% dislike Serizawa san
Helping the girl kicked out of her home, who attempted to kill him, by offering her a place to stay, and then getting them a position to get more honor to the Shinsengumi name, etc. I did laugh when he had his sickness episode and then hit Ibuki, I love when he does that and Ibuki's response.
Ultimadrago
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This was quite a pleasant listen.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
7th: best yuri film of 2010.
I've wanted to revisit the film after watching Poppy Hill, to see how nostalgia is configured in the text. It's funny that both are looks back at "simpler times", but even then, both films feel the need to look back even further - although Mai Mai goes way back of course.
I don't remember how the whole situation at the end of MMM resolved it self though, with regards to the whole
dead dad
In fact, now that I think about, there was another anime that Geneijin showed me that was set in the 60s that had a similar plot that ended in a similarly definitive but not necessarily satisfactory conclusive note.
I still love the main theme of the movie though. It's very fun and airy.
Dedication Through Light
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Thats one epic sword! I guess hes in a larger role than Aladdin?
Crash Station
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Dedication Through Light
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Unzen got screentime, all I needed. Doesnt really give me hope that Akane or Zenkichi will do anything major
I hope Im wrong.cajunator doesn't drink.
Well he will soon.
About as unimpressive and plain as I expected.
Wait, why?
Chet Rippo
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Eh, I'll be there I guess. Not expecting much from this.
What? Is that a bad thing?
Crash Station
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Again, that's probably just episode 1, and not even most of it. If the pacing will be how I expect it to be, the first half will be an explanation of the Flask Plan and the second half will be a fight. Then it should just be fights for the rest of the season.
RyougaSaotome
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It's not on this page yet, so I figured somebody had to take one for the team.
='(
I'll say I am more hopeful for this than I would be for more Dantalian.
Oh what the fuck. Did you really need to do that?
Chet Rippo
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Yes.
hosannainexcelsis
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Well,
so Shinko and Tatsuyoshi, the son of the policeman who committed suicide, confront the yakuza in Bar California. One of the yakuza mentions that the policeman had showed him how to carve a top, which causes Tatsuyoshi to recall how he had rejected his drunken father's offer to teach him that. He goes on to break down in angry tears, mourning all that he had not gotten to do with his father that he would now never get to do. He and Shinko go running out of the bar. Afterwards, he tells her that he is leaving the next day to live with his mother's relatives in Osaka, and resolves that when he becomes an adult he'll teach his children how to carve tops. He gives her his sword and says goodbye.
I like the way this acknowledges the pain and tragedy in this world that doesn't have a simple answer, that you can't make go away by simply waving your Mai Mai. How do you respond to this tragedy? Is it by picking up your sword and giving into the destructive impulses of revenge? Is it by dwelling in the past of lost opportunities? No. It is by looking to the future, and turning the pain you've experienced into something constructive, something that benefits others. Tatsuyoshi's dad was not brought back from the dead, yet the miracle of bringing life out of death still took place inside his son. It's a miracle we can all strive to live up to in our daily lives.
I like the way this acknowledges the pain and tragedy in this world that doesn't have a simple answer, that you can't make go away by simply waving your Mai Mai. How do you respond to this tragedy? Is it by picking up your sword and giving into the destructive impulses of revenge? Is it by dwelling in the past of lost opportunities? No. It is by looking to the future, and turning the pain you've experienced into something constructive, something that benefits others. Tatsuyoshi's dad was not brought back from the dead, yet the miracle of bringing life out of death still took place inside his son. It's a miracle we can all strive to live up to in our daily lives.
When we get to 20,000 posts.
No, seriously.
Crash Station
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When we get to 20,000 posts.
Jex
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Why would you want a high resolution copy of that visual though?
Can't wait for some Maguro. Hopefully he gets a good seiyuu to match his character; whoever it is will need to be fabulous as hell.
The new OP also sounds way better than Happy Crazy Box.
At this point he'll take whatever he can get.
Jex
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No you didn't!
Wow. I... I didn't know that... Wtf? We're not going to get to 20k in time for fall season.
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