Well you can't make a family without the nads.
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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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Well you can't make a family without the nads.
Drama in your life or drama portrayed by real people?
Angel Beats is the only anime on that list favorited by a 13-17 year old majority.
Yeah, that sounds about right to me. I might have eaten that shit up if I were still 13.
Jex
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One should rarely base one's viewing decisions based on lists!
yes family drama. Or even friend drama. I want no part of it.
Jex
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Wow, he literally CTRL+C, CTRL+V'd all his staff, they clearly had no lingering affection for Deadhouse. Still, that makes me pretty excited for what they can do considering what I've seen of their earlier works.
KO Traveling Hobo
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But they have bar graphs. You can't argue with bar graphs.
Jex
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It's just some NewType stuff, in other words it's fanservice (in a story sense) that ties back into the main UC storyline. I actually find it a bit disgusting how clumsily they try and tie a show about a very small unit into the 'greater UC storyline' because that's completely antithetical to scope of the whole show! NewTypes are the complete opposite of the 'average solider'.
Heck, Tomino only invented NewTypes half-way through the creation of the original series, so why does (nearly) every single work have to feature them?
Regulus Tera
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Does P.A. Works only have one character designer or something?
Because they are the future!
Jex
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The same could be said of Studio Ghibli.
Oh that's ok then. Because you'd be missing out on a lot of good television if you only watch anime drama.
Jex
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I vehemently disagree with this line of argument. It artificially restricts characters into some kind of box labelled 'relatable' which inherently hampers the kind of stories that can be told. If every character has to be 'relatable', as in, likeable (which I believe is what your argument is implying) to a general audience, then storytelling as a whole would be gravely impoverished.
I am interested in works with authentically human characters, some of which will be completely unlikeable.
honestly I dont watch a lot of TV outside of a few Discovery/TLC/History ones. And football of course. The handegg variety. I havent seen many TV drama series nor do I care to.
Moral Panic
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Have you watched The Wire or Game of Thrones? Those are very good TV series.
Regulus Tera
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3D shit in my animu thread.
Fall thread needs to get here fast.
Fall thread needs to get here fast.
amishpriest99
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Ah, war orphans. Another of my favorite Gundam tropes.
Why don't you pass the time by suggesting titles that will never be used.
Autumn 2012 Anime |OT| Home of the Pedo Defence Force
Autumn 2012 Anime |OT| As recommended by Jeremy Parish
Who's even making the next thread?
Dedication Through Light
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Those Arcobaleno, Id get.
Also the top image is awesome.
I'm not going to ascertain that it is all because of this (maybe only in part it is true), but I'm willing to assume much of the respect Mr. Anno has for that show stems from his relationship with close pal and GAiNAXer Kazuhiro Takamura, that makes a very personal work on that project.
Yeah. I've always had the impression that they bite off more than what they can chew, but this is approaching unheard levels of commitment and workload. They sure will leverage part of that and focus on the definitive releases as a result, although also delaying things isn't a very apt solution of continuity.
It could be an important factor, but I don't find that being relatable is as crucial as you make it to be. Characters we can't understand keep being interesting because are different of what we see or we are accustomed to, a being mysterious or inexplicable awakens our feelings, makes us expect something. For example, a villain doesn't has to be "relatable" to inspire intrigue on the audience, right? It can be misunderstood or act on a way we don't like and we can still feel that the villain is fulfilling an important part in the story.
In Chitanda's case, the traditional role she has to attain, that determines (and traps) her, and the curiosity for the external world she shows. The way she copes with that and her ambivalent sentiments towards her tight community as a whole and her bustling student life... doesn't that makes her "interesting", and makes you CURIOUS of her situation because of it? And she wants to keep alive something precious for her; the dying values (in the modern society) of the time-honored farmer's life in which she has grown... doesn't her willingness to protect that something makes her relatable as well? She has goals, dreams and strong ties, like every human being has or wants... foreigner audience included.
Guys, she is already among PSYCHO-PASS' cast of protagonists, you don't need anything more!
Nope. None of those.
Watched some of Treme because its about New Orleans but thats about it as far as serialized TV.
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Fall 2012 Anime |OT| The cajunator and kayos two-man show (we are just here to clean the mess)
As a personal anecdote, I just
On the other hand, Boardwalk Empire is one of my favorite on-going HBO shows, and I'm eagerly anticipating the premiere of season 3 in two weeks here. Most of the characters are rather unrelatable for me, because they live very different lives, have very different moral compasses, and generally inhabit an era I cannot say to have any personal experience in. I can understand, but I don't really relate. Yet their lives are interesting, their decisions are engaging, even when I disagree with most of the actions being made, and I dislike many of the things the characters stand for.
The lesson here I guess is that I don't need my entertainment to stoke my ego or reassure me of my personal beliefs. I find that often things which pander to that actually bore or disgust me, because there is no active conversation to be had. I am more interested if a character study piece is something I can disagree with, but still understand. It's okay to hate a character, as long as hating the character does not affect my actual appreciation of the show as a whole. In fact, it might even enhance my enjoyment of it.
Canis lupus
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I feel old now.
DTL, my shounen emperor, I post these pics just for you. <3
They all have crazy eyes. Classy, hahahah.
Razgriz-Specter
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I can pretty much understand everything on the list besides Gurren Lagann
Which I will never understand.
Regulus Tera
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Welp. At least you didn't call him Anno-sama.
NeonZ
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Keep in mind that the original movie trilogy was bigger than the original tv show, and in the movie trilogy, and material related to Gundam produced afterwards, the Newtype concept was in the center of everything since the start. It was the focus of Zeon's justification for their superiority, even if not their true motivation, and in the center of Gundam's obvious generational theme.
We always need more always.
I don't know what you're on about. Akane is ALWAYS cute. Just look at her.
I cant wait to see what shes like in Psycho Pass.
I will probably talk about her with "<3 <3 <3" like I usually do about some characters.
I always include the "Mr." (or "Sr." in Spanish) along the family name when I don't put the complete one.
Anyway... what do you prefer, Mr. Regulus or Mr. Tera?
Regulus Tera
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I like to call Anno That Hack/Japan's George Lucas/GAINAX's Gift and Blight for the World.
Call me Reg-chan.
RurouniZel
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I bought Games of Thrones on BluRay out of curiosity, but I've yet to open it. ;_;
You know, you just perfectly described why I have a lot of trouble with the "down-to-earth character drama" shows that people seem to fall over constantly. I remember saying one time I didn't like Friday Night Lights and some people were genuinely shocked over that.
My only criteria when it comes to characters is that they be interesting and not annoying. It's not like there are many characters in fiction I can relate to anyway, and I find that characters that are designed to be realistic/relatable to be really boring.
Not that I don't think an interesting character wouldn't benefit by partaking in the story in a way that one can identify with. It's kind of a tough balancing act to achieve.
PdotMichael
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Well, Shaft's release list is pretty empty since summer 2011.
Hidamari Sketch x SP - two episodes
Katte ni Kaizō - two episodes
Denpa Onna - special episode
Sayonara Zetsobou Sensei - special episode
the Kid Icarus shorts
some stuff for the Madoka PSP game
and Nisemonogatari - 11 episodes
I could even think they had never more time for all these new projects than now.
Different people, different tastes... I mean, people really like watching girls doing nothing on the screen... there's a taste to everything after all.
More head tilt... after Madoka I like them a lot more, but I still hate these head tilts.
Regulus Tera
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You should try to clear out some of your backlog before you even consider getting more shit, dude.
amishpriest99
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BROTHERI like both K-ON and Gurren Lagann
I like both K-ON and Gurren Lagann
I like Lucky Star and Gurren Lagann.
WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS SHIT?!
whats the point of characters that you cant relate to?
isnt that what makes characters endearing?
I like both K-ON and Gurren Lagann
We already knew you like bad shows.
I haven't seen all of Gurren Lagann yet, I just needed to get my requisite potshot in.
Good morning, Princess Silica!
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