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[Go_Ly_Dow]

Sword art Online 07

OH. MY. GOD. LIZ. IS. SO. FUCKING. ADORABLE!
<3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3
BEST GIRL BEST GIRL BEST GIRL BEST GIRL BEEEEEESSSSSTTTTTTTTTT

Her hair isn't long enough for her to be considered the best. Sorry.

 

[Soma]

Her hair isn't long enough for her to be considered the best. Sorry.

Girls with short hair are usually the best though.

True fact.

also, the freckles kinda solidify that.

 

[BGBW]

Yep. Shoulder length is best length.

#TeamBestHair

 

[Theonik]

My friend is really into owls. Perhaps I should make him watch Lupin as the ultimate test.

Either that or a form of cure. Win-win either way.

 

[KO Traveling Hobo]

A neat piece of Jinrui fanart I found.

 

[Firemind]

Nope.

Sidetail is best hair.

 

[BGBW]

Nope.

Sidetail is best hair.

But sidetail can fall under the umbrella that in shoulder length.

 

[Westlo]

#TeamLongHair ftw.

Does Yozora ever get her long hair back? She looks wack as fuck right now.

 

[dimb]

I figure this is a decent place to ask: Is the Crunchyroll PS3 app out and does it function as one would expect?

 

[PdotMichael]

A hair cut discussion without Team Himecut?

/thread

 

[duckroll]

I figure this is a decent place to ask: Is the Crunchyroll PS3 app out and does it function as one would expect?

Yes it's out. The other question depends on what your expectations of Crunchyroll are. Lol.

 

[BGBW]

I figure this is a decent place to ask: Is the Crunchyroll PS3 app out and does it function as one would expect?

Do you expect HD footage from your HD machine?

 

[Kazzy]

I figure this is a decent place to ask: Is the Crunchyroll PS3 app out and does it function as one would expect?

It only outputs to 480p, which kind of defeats the point.

 

[dimb]

Do you expect HD footage from your HD machine?

Well 720p.

 

[Theonik]

Well 720p.

480p only and requires the subscription for all content. Looks absolutely awful in my opinion.
720p and 1080p are meant to be added in time.

 

[wonzo]

Moyashimon Returns 9

holy shit, what an incredible way to start off an episode! lol

Anyways, I really enjoyed this episode. It certainly helps that they fleshed out Haruka's backstory quite a bit. The ending was pretty touching too.

also, more shounen shows could learn from this episode on how to do recaps! *SPOILER ALERT*

The main positive about the ending is that we can pretend the whole series never happened.

pretty much

 

[Dedication Through Light]

http://kokoro-connect.com/news/
- 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.

They wont get the normal tv airing or whatever? Hope Crunchyroll still shows them?

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:

Finally Gyrozetter, actually looks cool the main character.
But I guess it wont never get a home release here :/

Weekly Rankings for August 27 - September 2:

Blu-ray
*2, 7,035 *7,035 Hyouka vol.3 Limited Edition
*3, 6,940 *6,940 Accel World vol.2 Limited Edition
*6, 4,416 *4,416 Aquarion Evol vol.5
*7, 3,851 50,155 Nisemonogatari vol.5 Limited Edition
10, 2,308 27,830 Persona 4 The Animation vol.10 Limited Edition
13, 1,858 *8,940 Kuroko no Basket vol.2

DVD
*3, 2,646 *,*10,882 Kuroko no Basket vol.2
*6, 1,652 *,**1,652 Accel World vol.2 Limited Edition
*9, 1,318 *,**1,318 Aquarion Evol vol.5
12, 1,182 *,*10,419 Persona 4 The Animation vol.10 Limited Edition
13, 1,112 *,**1,112 Hyouka vol.3 Limited Edition
16, *,979 *,**8,030 Nisemonogatari vol.5 Limited Edition

Single CD
*9, 16,625 16,625 Kuroko no Basket Character Song Duet Series vol.2 Tetsuya & Ryota
12, 13,282 13,282 Kuroko no Basket Character Song Duet Series vol.1 Tetsuya & Taiga

58K means its basically doing better than all my animes, :/ guess I need to see if that series is worth the hype.

The rest has to indubitoubly mean that they will pursue an Accel World s2.'

And I need the duets.

 

[wonzo]

#TeamLongHair ftw.

Does Yozora ever get her long hair back? She looks wack as fuck right now.

but yozora's short hair is the only thing going for her

 

[RurouniZel]

"being the town bicycle" is an actual phrase?
Oh lord.

It doesn't sound good.

People don't know this phrase? Everyone's had a ride on the town bicycle?

Come on guys, stop making fun of Anaru. She's just your average popular high school beauty who secretly loves nerdy things like Pokemon, manga, and shut-in losers.

Don't they all? I mean, duh, I didn't get into this gig for the artwork quality or animation or stories or hnnnnng! I'm here for the babes! ;P

 

[wonzo]

People referring to Anaru as having "handlebar hair" made me look at the phrase "being the town bicycle" in a new light.

holy shit. lmao

 

[Firemind]

This is now a thread about gorgeous hair.

10/10

can't forget the classics

double sidetail combo

 

[RyougaSaotome]

I was bothered way more by this Wolf Children review than I was expecting to be.

http://kotaku.com/5940164/the-wolf-children-ame-and-yuki-is-not-ghibli-but-its-pretty-darn-close

The Ghibli comparison is not only unnecessary but insulting to Hosoda's abilities and individual style.

Blaaaaaaaaaaah!!!! *Raises arms to the sky*

Edit: I probably shouldn't be that annoyed by this, but still. The Ghibli comparison got old real fast.

 

[RurouniZel]

This is now a thread about gorgeous hair.

10/10

Yui's hair always looks so amazing outside of the show itself, it's awesome!

 

[Kazzy]

I shouldn't be bothered by Kotaku's reductive need to write about things the way they do, but damn...

 

[Lafiel]

http://kotaku.com/5940164/the-wolf-children-ame-and-yuki-is-not-ghibli-but-its-pretty-darn-close

I haven't watched the film yet. But that review is fucking awful lulz.

 

[BluWacky]

The Ghibli comparison is not only unnecessary but insulting to Hosoda's abilities and individual style.

In long - Ghibli is a super-easy reference point in that their work is about as mainstream as anime gets, and it's undoubtedly what many people who aren't massively versed in anime would think when they hear about the film (rolling hills, fantastical things happening to ordinary people in Japan etc.). It's therefore the easiest way to write an article about the film - compare it to something the target audience is familiar with.

In short - LOL KOTAKU as if they have a clue who Mamoru Hosoda is it's a lazy article.

Unfortunately, while they're not going so far as to cover stuff like Niji-iro Hotaru or whatever, they also seem to be a prime resource for English language coverage of anime films. I was very surprised they covered The Last Dark a month or so ago, and now Wolf Children as well!

 

[duckroll]

Why are we giving hits to a bad Kotaku review of an anime movie? Also, there are kinda spoilers in the review.

 

[Mandoric]

This is now a thread about gorgeous hair.

10/10

The shading on that image is dire, it looks like they turned her upside down and dipped her in chocolate (or some other brown material, eww.)

 

[wonzo]

dat yandere drunk

 

[Jintor]

Ghibli movies are far more about 'having an adventure'. In many ways, I think Wolf Children is better than a couple of the Ghibli stable. But it's so very different I think the comparison is not that tenable.

 

[KillerMan91]

Weekly Rankings for August 27 - September 2:

Blu-ray

*3, 6,940 *6,940 Accel World vol.2 Limited Edition


DVD

*6, 1,652 *,**1,652 Accel World vol.2 Limited Edition

Yay. Second season of Kuroyukihime incoming!

 

[BGBW]

I will admit Yui is one of my favourite K-Ons because of her hair.

 

[duckroll]

Speaking of Wolf Children, week 7 numbers are in: http://www.cinematoday.jp/page/N0045693

Total gross to date: 3,768,240,750yen
Total tickets sold to date: 3,089,297

The weekend (Saturday + Sunday) takings for Wolf Children on the 7th weekend were 102.3% of the previous weekend's takings. Dat word of mouth...

 

[Dedication Through Light]

Naruto SD 23

I dont get it. Mind swap episode had its moments that made me laugh a bit.

Spoiler

Shu-Lee-Ken jutsu

. I wish they implemented Kyuubi better.

 

[RyougaSaotome]

Speaking of Wolf Children, week 7 numbers are in: http://www.cinematoday.jp/page/N0045693

Total gross to date: 3,768,240,750yen
Total tickets sold to date: 3,089,297

The weekend (Saturday + Sunday) takings for Wolf Children on the 7th weekend were 102.3% of the previous weekend's takings. Dat word of mouth...

When I went opening weekend it was paired up against a Pokemon film if I remember correctly.
The theater was packed, much to my surprise. Film has got legs.

And yeah, my biggest issue with the review outside of the pointless Ghibli association was that he seemed to have missed the point of the film entirely.
That just makes me sad. =(

 

[BGBW]

Naruto SD 23

When you're stealing Kill Me Baby-esque jokes you know you're in trouble.

 

[Firemind]

I will admit Yui is one of my favourite K-Ons because of her hair.

I have no objections.

 

[Mandoric]

I have no objections.

Eyepatch moe?

 

[duckroll]

Other recent successful anime movies that Wolf Children will probably surpass in the coming weeks:

Rebuild of Evangelion 2.0 - 4 billion yen (2009)
Up the Poopy Hill - 4.46 billion yen (2011)
One Piece Strong World - 4.8 billion yen (2010)

 

[Mandoric]

Up the Poopy Hill - 4.46 billion yen (2011)

:lol

 

[wonzo]

Up the Poopy Hill - 4.46 billion yen (2011)

gorowned

 

[RyougaSaotome]

Up the Poopy Hill - 4.46 billion yen (2011)

Dying.

I wonder what sort of numbers we'll see for 3.0.

 

[duckroll]

gorowned

Goro can't even beat his own Ghibli peers. Earthsea made 7.65 billion yen, which is a lot for such a shitty film, but a totally non-Miyazaki related project like Arrietty still pulled in 9.25 billion yen. Goro Miyazaki should just quit.

Dying.

I wonder what sort of numbers we'll see for 3.0.

It would be disappointing if it can't pull in 5 billion at least, with more marketing and a wider opening. 6 billion is possible I think.

 

[Mandoric]

Goro can't even beat his own Ghibli peers. Earthsea made 7.65 billion yen, which is a lot for such a shitty film, but a totally non-Miyazaki related project like Arrietty still pulled in 9.25 billion yen. Goro Miyazaki should just quit.

But duck, you're forgetting.
We all know Goro has four arms, so obvs he can work on two movies at once--that means we need to count their ticket sales together.

 

[Firemind]

To be fair, ghibli films with fantastical elements tend to do better than ones without. I don't think we can attribute the tepid commercial reception to the director.

 

[wonzo]

Goro can't even beat his own Ghibli peers. Earthsea made 7.65 billion yen, which is a lot for such a shitty film, but a totally non-Miyazaki related project like Arrietty still pulled in 9.25 billion yen. Goro Miyazaki should just quit.

The fact that Earthsea made 3.19 billion yen more than Poppy Hill is just...

lmao

 

[duckroll]

To be fair, ghibli films with fantastical elements tend to do better than ones without. I don't think we can attribute the tepid commercial reception to the director.

Earthsea was the most fantastical one of them all!

 

[BGBW]

What happened in Earthsea again? I remember some walls around fields, some steps in a town and some mad bloke at the end.

 

[BluWacky]

To be fair, ghibli films with fantastical elements tend to do better than ones without. I don't think we can attribute the tepid commercial reception to the director.

While I don't think Poppy Hill is a terrible film like duck does, it's exceptionally workmanlike. While the individual images look good, the story is pretty boring, and for Western tastes it goes a bit wack-a-doodle two-thirds of the way through. I can't imagine the word of mouth was massive on it.

(bear in mind, of course, that Hayao Miyazaki co-adapted the story. Deliberate sabotage!!!!!)

 

[wonzo]

Joshiraku OVA DVD bundled with LE 5th manga volume.

gimmie more o dat sweet sweet kumeta

What happened in Earthsea again? I remember some walls around fields, some steps in a town and some mad bloke at the end.

Spoiler

THE DRAGON OUTTA NOWHERE