Dedication Through Light
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I think I like them at least more than England thus far, those baseballs. Really only one person in England I like (Bacon).
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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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I think I like them at least more than England thus far, those baseballs. Really only one person in England I like (Bacon).
A lot the characters do stick to a familiar formula, so you'd be right to assume that. If you enjoy the show's initial humour, then I think you'll still be entertained. They do continue to find inventive and funny ways to present what would otherwise be familiar scenarios, though.
However, if you're not really enjoying it all that much now, I don't think your opinion is ever going to be swayed to the contrary.
Chet Rippo
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But who wears a swimsuit with an apron? Together they just take away the best parts of both.
Jex
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I tend to find the kind of people who wont respond to or read to comments from someone on the basis of their avatar are not the kind of people that I enjoying engaging in discourse with over the internet.
It's a free country.
KO Traveling Hobo
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But posters without avatars are less likely to be noticed!
You are going to love the next episode then.
Jex
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Well, pretty much every major series has wrapped up for this season and we've basically exhausted all the material regarding upcoming shows. This is usually the point in a thread's lifecycle where everyone talks about older shows that they're currently watching but that doesn't seem to happening particularly frequently at the moment. I guess lots of people are also going back to school or whatever at this time.
Hierarchy of gaf posters:
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Joe Molotov
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I don't think you've seen the artistic stylings China-chan yet. (Unless of course you've read this thread at all, in which case you've seen them A LOT.)
Also, there's a lot more hair-based humor to come!
Jex
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I feel like, if pizzaroll was here he'd comment about the colours looking off or something.
Sadly, I lack the power to summon him to this thread.
KO Traveling Hobo
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I dunno, I'm pretty sure MLP is still below anime.
RurouniZel
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The woman stood next to the chair at the fore of my rotting desk, motioned to it and asked in a voice belonging to an aristocrat "May I?"
I came to two realizations at that moment. The first was that whatever it was that was troubling her, it would involve me biting off more than I can chew. A woman of her stature doesn't visit the rusting office of a no-name private eye like me for paltry problems like a missing cat or a stolen purse. Her request would be a dangerous one, and she could only trust a perfect stranger that the people who surrounded her daily wouldn't have a snowball's chance in hell of knowing. A scandal, blackmail, perhaps some dirty money that was in dire need of bleaching. But I would be investigating at least one powerful figure and one false move would land me a one way ticket to the barred apartment complex faster than you could say Jack Robinson.
The second realization, was that I was about to be stupid enough to hear out her request. And that despite my better judgement, was already picking out new stone-colored wallpaper for my new apartment and preparing my security deposit for the warden.
Ultimadrago
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Jan's Alice
Oh, I didn't mean to those points. I'm referencing to when Alice
gets thrown into the closet/dungeon. After she escapes, there'a a quick shot to a mouse trap with a dead mouse. I believe it shared the same hat the rowing one did.
Code Geass Akito the Exiled Ep1 arrives on the JP Playstation Store tomorrow: http://www.jp.playstation.com/psn/store/magazine/120919/01/index.html
600yen for SD rental, 800yen for HD rental.
600yen for SD rental, 800yen for HD rental.
Jex
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As for the Star Wars animation itself, it's a fairly impressive piece for sure and I quite enjoy his ridiculously over-stylized look. However:
a) He seems to be more concerned with having lots and lots of detailed things on screen than having good movement. We don't see much character animation it that short but it's fairly unconvincing.
b) While the piece has a number of cool shots and sequences in it as a whole it's lacks any kind of directorial cohesion or smoothness. I understand that it's a work in progress, but still I don't see anything that would suggest to me that it's going to find that cohesion any time soon. It's just a bunch of cool sequences that are kind of attached to each other.
a) He seems to be more concerned with having lots and lots of detailed things on screen than having good movement. We don't see much character animation it that short but it's fairly unconvincing.
b) While the piece has a number of cool shots and sequences in it as a whole it's lacks any kind of directorial cohesion or smoothness. I understand that it's a work in progress, but still I don't see anything that would suggest to me that it's going to find that cohesion any time soon. It's just a bunch of cool sequences that are kind of attached to each other.
True enough. He's just not a very good character animator, especially with his obsession with excessive shading, which is why I was pretty down on his Dr. Who work. And his direction is muddled at best. But I like this piece, because I don't think it's about either of those things; it's about showcasing his talent as a mechanical animator and a proof of concept for his rotoscoped CGI idea.
Even with the weird coloring, I'd sure rather watch this than the ugly, bland and unimaginative CGI crap in shows like Bodacious Space Pirates. Of course, it also helps when you piggyback off of the brilliant and iconic Ralph McQuarrie designs from the original Star Wars trilogy.
I like a few of England's characters such as F. Walsingham, Walter Raleigh doesn't talk much but seems like an interesting fighter with his gravity sword and Christopher Hatton was kind of funny. Asama's "Happy Death!" towards him last episode made me laugh.
Elizabeth was pretty good in the verbal debate sections too.
I guess I was meaning I prefer swimsuits to not wearing anything at all without an apron for both.
That makes sense. I guess with no new episodes of SOA and kayos still banned isn't helping either.
That visual layering type thing is kind of interesting where you see the ship, then it zooms into seeing the pilot and then you see the person under the suit.
Ah, right, that part. I recall that now that you mention it, unfortunately I can't remember if it was the same or not but it very well could have been.
Hyouka 22 Finale
KyoAni - oh my god!
Too tired tired for a full write up, but that was just utterly fantastic. Amazing end to such a fine crafted show.
I'm already having withdrawal symptoms.... I want more!!!!! ;_;
I still have my own write up to do. Also, while I still haven't seen the film yet, does the last shot give anyone else a 5cm per second kind of vibe?
10 bucks and you don't even get to keep it, is this real life?
How much is a movie ticket?
Moral Panic
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Hyouka 22 Finale
KyoAni - oh my god!
Wow that's beautiful. If only the show wasn't so amazingly boring.
darkside31337
Tomodachi wa Mahou
So its like going to the movies?
Is episode 1 as long as a full-length movie? Does it have a movie budget?
It was released in cinemas, and still is!
Dedication Through Light
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I guess that depends on how fast part two comes, though their prices for complete sets are so pricey one might as well just buy them as they release on sale prices (still waiting for the complete set for Xam'd to come down, no way its worth $89.99 from AMZN!)
It's 53 minutes long, and actually costs less than a movie ticket in Tokyo (1,800 yen for an adult to see a random film at Toho Cinemas Roppongi Hills, apparently!).
Was looking through the staff list and wasn't that impressed but then I saw Brains Base and now I must see at least one episode. The key visual looks pretty nice.
Does he animate at like 3 frames per second or something?
Hard to animate much faster when you have to compulsively add five layers of shading to everything.
I'd forgotten how bad the animation in that looks. Even the iffy character animation in his new Star Wars clip looks substantially better.
That's truly flawless.
Not bad. Not bad at all. I'm not sure if "apartment complex" was a term used back then, though.
Why did he use Japanese soundbites when the TARDIS translates everything into English?
I suppose I shouldn't criticise too much since he did it all himself, but that shading style is pretty ugly.
It's a very safe comedy. Too safe at times but it stay entertaining if you jive with the humor. Well, except Chitose. Her stupid joke gets waaaaaay too much time in season 1.
And yeah, everyone steals the Chiyo-chan joke nowadays in some fashion.
Chet Rippo
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Lung cancer moe.
Dedication Through Light
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Toriko 71 (funiHulu numbering)
Pretty dumb episode, overpriced apples that looked too ugly to even eat. But more Terry, ftw!
Pretty dumb episode, overpriced apples that looked too ugly to even eat. But more Terry, ftw!
Mobile Suit Gundam 08th MS Team 11
Physics doesn't work like that.
This is the first time I've noticed the mole-man standing in the background.
First Jojo anime screens:
New poster:
Can't say it looks promising when you advertise a show with an image featuring speed lines and presumably no real animation.
This time they've gone too far.
They're not selling any tickets until one week before the premiere.
Thank you for the info but where did you read that? I haven't seen anything on the website or whatnot about that. A couple of the other places started selling.
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
Ginga e Kickoff! 18
Sumptuous delicious football. Pretty tenseless but at least it seems we are gonna have some real matches soon.
Sadly, Nodame never quite reaches the heights of the first season ever again.
and then I see the animation and I'm like good lord why isn't he working on a doujinshi instead
Sumptuous delicious football. Pretty tenseless but at least it seems we are gonna have some real matches soon.
If by funny you mean dumb.
Sadly, Nodame never quite reaches the heights of the first season ever again.
It's the Clark Kent/Louis Lane paradox. Their relationship becomes dull the moment they get together.
dresden is so cool cause he goes against the machine
I hate it when people bring this up because it will never be a real thing.
and then I see the animation and I'm like good lord why isn't he working on a doujinshi instead
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