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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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Jex
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That's not even the most impressive feat that Kenshiro's bod can accomplish. A whole skyscraper falls on him at one point and he just strolls on through.
Hellsing321
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Tari Tari 10
Wein is the best Tari Tari!
Wein is the best Tari Tari!
Chet Rippo
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man you find these after i get tired of the avatar switching thing
And I will continue to look for them.
Well, that's good. If it's not to drawn out, I can take it.
Crash Station
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Well season 2 will be ALL that, but it will still have some :Chet moments.
Another fun naming scheme is in Maison Ikkoku, where all of the principal characters are named after their corresponding room number, although for some they don't live in it or the room doesn't physically exist.
0 OtoNASHI
1 ICHInose
2 Some manga only character
3 MItaka
4 YOTSUya
5 GOdai
6 ROppongi
7 Forget, I think Kozue's family name goes here
8 YAgami
9 KUjo
a shame he forgot about the coffee
There's something incredibly appropriate about Mari pitching a product whose only relation to Evangelion is soulless superficial marketing.
YuruYuri♪♪ 10
ehh, i've seen better slaps in my time
Well, the impact is there, but the execution is so awkward and mechanical that it doesn't feel real.
dakkumauji
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Gintama 100
Yeah, I agree. That series is trash.
So a meta analysis of the show and JUMP series as a whole. Poking fun at itself so much that it has more needles than a pincushion.
Happy 3rd year of Gintama! Great new OP and ED as well. The ED is extremely cute for having everyone as kids as well.
Yeah, I agree. That series is trash.
So a meta analysis of the show and JUMP series as a whole. Poking fun at itself so much that it has more needles than a pincushion.
Happy 3rd year of Gintama! Great new OP and ED as well. The ED is extremely cute for having everyone as kids as well.
chickdigger802
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I think I'm going blind, oh wait I guess that's just the image.
Jex
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Yes...another one joins the cause.
Her head also reels the way opposite she was slapped to. It's more like she was punched in the jaw.
I tried to watch the FotNS movie with Malcom McDowell. Tried, being the operative word given that I quit half way through. Fist of the North Star Combat just looks really goofy. And this is coming from someone who is used to watching Chinese tv series where every punch draws a cloud of smoke.
The whole setup is weird. The freeze before the slap robs it of any sense of momentum or natural human motion.
she really is the perfect mascot for rebuild
I remember being all hyped for that when it was in Fangoria back in the day. I think the same issue covered the live action Crying Freeman!
Jex
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While it's tempting and inherently satisfying to draw such an inference it is worth remembering that Evangelion has been merchandised to hell and back, mainly via it's female characters, since it came out. This round off stuff that ties into Rebuild is no different.
Chet Rippo
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Well, I suppose there's that.
Rei and Asuka was in Playboy at 90's lol.
You're right on both counts, though I needed to double check for Kozue as I only remembered her family name started with NA.
2 NIkaido
7 NAnao
Manyuu Hikenchou 11
Chifusa's mother's story was harsh. I don't mind Kagefusa softening as a character as it seems apt but Ouka going from stoic warrior to boycrazy is a little much. Her face looked weird and off quite a bit too.
Chifusa's mother's story was harsh. I don't mind Kagefusa softening as a character as it seems apt but Ouka going from stoic warrior to boycrazy is a little much. Her face looked weird and off quite a bit too.
Introducing the ruined village with imagery evocative of a cemetery was kinda neat.
Lens flare is so cute.
Because they cropped off the part where they went full-Angel Beats.
Isn't this the show about boobs getting cut off?
I'm sure there are people with thicker bones than their legs.
Chet Rippo
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Medaka Box 5
This show really does feel like Penguin Mesume in a way. Well, far less crazy than that show, but whatever.
The pool contest has just started up, so it will be interesting on how Medaka will somehow convert those swimming club members to her side.
Pool episode PART 1
This show really does feel like Penguin Mesume in a way. Well, far less crazy than that show, but whatever.
The pool contest has just started up, so it will be interesting on how Medaka will somehow convert those swimming club members to her side.
talent.
http://kokoro-connect.com/news/
It seems the Kokoro Connect drama might finally be coming to a sort of an end. They posted a second apology on the official site, and basically laid out all their marketing and promotional plans for this entire "joke".
At this point I don't know if anyone would really buy anything anyone involved says, since they don't believe Ichiki's blog post yesterday that he wasn't being bullied either. But anyway, here's the official explanation:
- It was meant to be one big long stupid promotional gag, where Ichiki is first "owned" by the fake candid camera audition thing when they had the early screening event for ep1. They then introduce him as the publicity face of the show.
- After this he continues promoting the show in various social media ways, all the while being pitiful and sad that he didn't actually get a role. This was all part of the gag where his "role" is basically to be the guy who failed to get in the show.
- After the TV broadcast of the show ends, they are planning some event on Sept 30th where they will reveal how they plan on releasing the remaining episodes of the show (ep14-17 I think), and they will also formally announce that Ichiki will be joining the cast from ep14 onwards. Happy ending for everyone.
Unfortunately this entire thing went out of hand, and the misunderstanding created a lot of tension for all the people involved, etc, and they apologize to everyone for the trauma and bad feelings that came out of this poorly planned "gag". They also apologize for the over acting involved in the variety segment where Ichiki was being "electrocuted" as part of his punishment game. They're very sorry that everyone got the wrong idea, etc.
Take that as you may.
It seems the Kokoro Connect drama might finally be coming to a sort of an end. They posted a second apology on the official site, and basically laid out all their marketing and promotional plans for this entire "joke".
At this point I don't know if anyone would really buy anything anyone involved says, since they don't believe Ichiki's blog post yesterday that he wasn't being bullied either. But anyway, here's the official explanation:
- It was meant to be one big long stupid promotional gag, where Ichiki is first "owned" by the fake candid camera audition thing when they had the early screening event for ep1. They then introduce him as the publicity face of the show.
- After this he continues promoting the show in various social media ways, all the while being pitiful and sad that he didn't actually get a role. This was all part of the gag where his "role" is basically to be the guy who failed to get in the show.
- After the TV broadcast of the show ends, they are planning some event on Sept 30th where they will reveal how they plan on releasing the remaining episodes of the show (ep14-17 I think), and they will also formally announce that Ichiki will be joining the cast from ep14 onwards. Happy ending for everyone.
Unfortunately this entire thing went out of hand, and the misunderstanding created a lot of tension for all the people involved, etc, and they apologize to everyone for the trauma and bad feelings that came out of this poorly planned "gag". They also apologize for the over acting involved in the variety segment where Ichiki was being "electrocuted" as part of his punishment game. They're very sorry that everyone got the wrong idea, etc.
Take that as you may.
Manyuu Hikenchou 12 FIN
So that's that. Something of an anticlimactic open-ended ending but that's fine. This was more about the journey and not the destination. I kinda liked it in the end as it reeled in the early levels of stupid to something much more manageable and played it a little more straight while retaining some parody elements.
So that's that. Something of an anticlimactic open-ended ending but that's fine. This was more about the journey and not the destination. I kinda liked it in the end as it reeled in the early levels of stupid to something much more manageable and played it a little more straight while retaining some parody elements.
This was amusnig. The first is from episode 11, the second from episode 12. I guess they fixed it for the bluray but forgot to fix it in the last episode too? :lol
Yes, yes it is.
Did the girl on the right dislocate her arm?
Her name is Lisbest for a reason.
this is perhaps the most visually pleasant anorexia awareness ad i've seen in quite some time
There's no denying that, among anime franchises, Evangelion is likely far and away the most shameful in terms of lazily slapping images of its characters on otherwise completely unrelated products as a shallow and cynical marketing tactic, but it wasn't until the advent of Mari that there was a character whose entire purpose was to be another face to slap on products!
After sixteen years of extremely aggressive pimping, otaku may no longer value Rei and Asuka for anything other than the most superficial reasons, but the marketing machine can never undo the fact that they weren't simply hollow commercial objects in the original program. We all know that the same can't be said for the new character in the curious fanfic retelling that some rascally scamps have released installments of in Japanese theaters as if it was an official theatrical version or something.
Nice Yayoi avatar! More Yayoi is always good.
Evangelion is the most popular anime series for exactly the reason that it is the most heavily marketed. Just about everybody in the anime fandom knows that it exists. The marketing is so diverse and widespread that it can be found absolutely everywhere. Its probably one of the best marketing jobs in the entire industry.
Chet Rippo
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Don't forget the boob stealing and boob growing.
The manga is much more serious than the anime is. The anime is much more fan-service-y too, if one could believe that.
I wouldn't have imagined that.
[Maison Ikkoku]
"NIkaidô" and "NANAo".
Chet Rippo
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Chifusa doesn't even have her sidekick for the first volume.
Gyrozetter news!
http://www.tv-tokyo.co.jp/anime/gyrozetter/
http://www.famitsu.com/news/201209/04020628.html
Starts airing on TV Tokyo on Oct 2 at 6pm. It will repeat every Sunday at 10:30am. This definitely sounds like a long running series. The demographic and air time is not something they will do for a normal 2-cour show.
New key visual:
http://www.tv-tokyo.co.jp/anime/gyrozetter/
http://www.famitsu.com/news/201209/04020628.html
Starts airing on TV Tokyo on Oct 2 at 6pm. It will repeat every Sunday at 10:30am. This definitely sounds like a long running series. The demographic and air time is not something they will do for a normal 2-cour show.
New key visual:
Eyepatch Asuka
I've resisted a Yayoi avatar for 31 weeks but the latest episode did me in. She went beast mode with avatar-able expressions in the most recent episode, so I'll rock this for a few days and then switch back to something less uguu.
I'm actually curious as to how much the constant marketing onslaught for Evangelion has contributed to its enduring popularity with otaku. With the decline of the mecha genre, surely a large percentage of fans discovering it for the first time must have become interested in the series through prior exposure to Rei and Asuka as generic objects of moe. I suppose that the advertising is doing its job, then.
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