Joe Molotov
Member
FREE DTL...sounds like a dream come true!
-
Hey, guest user. Hope you're enjoying NeoGAF! Have you considered registering for an account? Come join us and add your take to the daily discourse.
Summer 2013 Anime |10th Dimensional OT| the first ignoble truth: all of life is anime
- Thread starter madp
- Start date
- Status
gonna have to agree on this one
Dedication Through Light
Member
Awesome cover art. Times like these I wish they had gone with a company to do eng subs for the dvds and bds...Hope later volumes have them paired up (team shot for final one even + Rin)
Cardcaptor Sakura 41
The more I see of Mizuki, the more I'm starting to feel that the woman is just stone cold evil. Just telling Shaoran, "It's almost time"...freaky. Freaky to the point where I really wonder if a good character would do such a thing. I don't want it to be true, and if I had to put money on it, I wouldn't put it on her being evil. She's seemed so good-hearted this whole time. Plus, her relationship with Toya is kinda throwing a wrench into the whole "she's evil" thing, as I think Toya would directly confront her if he knew this was the case, since his sister is involved in this whole thing. Speaking of which, he almost confronted her about everything, but pulled back at the last second. He's going to play a big role going forward.
The more I see of Mizuki, the more I'm starting to feel that the woman is just stone cold evil. Just telling Shaoran, "It's almost time"...freaky. Freaky to the point where I really wonder if a good character would do such a thing. I don't want it to be true, and if I had to put money on it, I wouldn't put it on her being evil. She's seemed so good-hearted this whole time. Plus, her relationship with Toya is kinda throwing a wrench into the whole "she's evil" thing, as I think Toya would directly confront her if he knew this was the case, since his sister is involved in this whole thing. Speaking of which, he almost confronted her about everything, but pulled back at the last second. He's going to play a big role going forward.
nintendoman58
Member
Late, I know. But why the hell not?
Brilliant tier
Fairy Tail - The best fantasy adventure anime. Almost all the time, something interesting is happening in this show. When something not interesting is happening, it's usually something hilarious. That and it's OST is the best anime OST of all time in my book. A personal all time favourite of mine.
Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann - A show where the characters just don't give a damn and punch the hell out of everything standing in their way. This show has everything I could ever ask for in an anime, it just goes all out and doesn't stop.
Black Jack - The Batman of medical dramas. This show stars a surgeon who lives atop a cliff who can cure any disease with an operation. This show is somehow able to blend in suspense, slice-of-life drama, adventure, and even supernatural elements all at once.
Great tier
Code Geass - Long story short, main character gets a superpower and starts screwing with a conquering nation. If there's one thing I love, it's that sense of knowing that the main character is always up to something for you to laugh at when you see how his plan works out. A lot like Death Note, which won't appear on this list since I've read the manga.
Puella Magi Madoka Magica - I don't think I need to say anything here other than go watch this show. It's one of the show's downsides. You can't explain the show's plot to anyone otherwise A: They'll get turned off, or B: They'll get spoiled. Watch this show right now if you haven't and just keep going. That's all I can say.
Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet - A show where a war-torn space robot pilot learns how to adapt to a peaceful society. I have waited a long time to see a show where people from vastly different civilizations meet and share their culture styles with each other, and this show delivered on that. That and it has the best AI anime character of all time.
Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's - This is what happens when you take an fairly standard and average mahou shoujo and put a lot of heart into it. This season took everything from the first one and cranked it up to the max. There is suddenly a lot more at risk, and there's a bigger sense of mystery than the first season had.
Clannad - After Story - When the characters get out of high school, that's when this show really shines. It's the evolution of a young man's life as his romance with his girlfriend gradually develops into adulthood. Touching, beautiful, and heart-wrenching at times.
Good tier
K-ON! (unfinished) - Well, with how many episodes I've seen, I can see where its popularity comes from. I'm not going to say it doesn't deserve its popularity because it's not in any way bad. It's like an art museum! It's got some nice pictures yeah, but it's not exactly the most exciting place in the world.
Dog Days - (unfinished) - I've yet to watch the last episode of the first season, but for what it is, It's a cute little series. It would have been better if there was an actual good sense of dark risk for the battles. But its got its fair share of nice characters, and there's nothing I can really say about this show that's truly awful. It's also adorable, so there's that.
Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha - It starts of VERY slow and boring, but gradually starts to pick up the pace. Then the show turns into Star Trek meets Kingdom Hearts.
Bad tier
Clannad (Season 1) - As much as I hate to say this, the first season of Clannad was really dull. Aside from a fairly stellar first part with Fuko, everything else after that was just boring.
Uhh.... tier
School Days
Brilliant tier
Fairy Tail - The best fantasy adventure anime. Almost all the time, something interesting is happening in this show. When something not interesting is happening, it's usually something hilarious. That and it's OST is the best anime OST of all time in my book. A personal all time favourite of mine.
Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann - A show where the characters just don't give a damn and punch the hell out of everything standing in their way. This show has everything I could ever ask for in an anime, it just goes all out and doesn't stop.
Black Jack - The Batman of medical dramas. This show stars a surgeon who lives atop a cliff who can cure any disease with an operation. This show is somehow able to blend in suspense, slice-of-life drama, adventure, and even supernatural elements all at once.
Great tier
Code Geass - Long story short, main character gets a superpower and starts screwing with a conquering nation. If there's one thing I love, it's that sense of knowing that the main character is always up to something for you to laugh at when you see how his plan works out. A lot like Death Note, which won't appear on this list since I've read the manga.
Puella Magi Madoka Magica - I don't think I need to say anything here other than go watch this show. It's one of the show's downsides. You can't explain the show's plot to anyone otherwise A: They'll get turned off, or B: They'll get spoiled. Watch this show right now if you haven't and just keep going. That's all I can say.
Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet - A show where a war-torn space robot pilot learns how to adapt to a peaceful society. I have waited a long time to see a show where people from vastly different civilizations meet and share their culture styles with each other, and this show delivered on that. That and it has the best AI anime character of all time.
Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's - This is what happens when you take an fairly standard and average mahou shoujo and put a lot of heart into it. This season took everything from the first one and cranked it up to the max. There is suddenly a lot more at risk, and there's a bigger sense of mystery than the first season had.
Clannad - After Story - When the characters get out of high school, that's when this show really shines. It's the evolution of a young man's life as his romance with his girlfriend gradually develops into adulthood. Touching, beautiful, and heart-wrenching at times.
Good tier
K-ON! (unfinished) - Well, with how many episodes I've seen, I can see where its popularity comes from. I'm not going to say it doesn't deserve its popularity because it's not in any way bad. It's like an art museum! It's got some nice pictures yeah, but it's not exactly the most exciting place in the world.
Dog Days - (unfinished) - I've yet to watch the last episode of the first season, but for what it is, It's a cute little series. It would have been better if there was an actual good sense of dark risk for the battles. But its got its fair share of nice characters, and there's nothing I can really say about this show that's truly awful. It's also adorable, so there's that.
Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha - It starts of VERY slow and boring, but gradually starts to pick up the pace. Then the show turns into Star Trek meets Kingdom Hearts.
Bad tier
Clannad (Season 1) - As much as I hate to say this, the first season of Clannad was really dull. Aside from a fairly stellar first part with Fuko, everything else after that was just boring.
Uhh.... tier
School Days
It concluded the whole character arc of Roger finally accepting Dorothy. Eberything else seemed like fluff that didn't really need expanding on but it was nice that we did get some in s2 .
Mo~tto! Ojamajo Doremi 16
Imagine the life lesson these girls would get if they went through all that work only to be dumped on all the same. Probably truer to life, too.
Mo~tto! Ojamajo Doremi 17
Finally, a Pop episode!
:kayos
Mo~tto! Ojamajo Doremi 18
English is hard.
Mo~tto! Ojamajo Doremi 19
Surprisingly hilarious episode.
Doremi working with the Guu trolling playbook here.
Imagine the life lesson these girls would get if they went through all that work only to be dumped on all the same. Probably truer to life, too.
Mo~tto! Ojamajo Doremi 17
Finally, a Pop episode!
:kayos
Mo~tto! Ojamajo Doremi 18
English is hard.
Mo~tto! Ojamajo Doremi 19
Surprisingly hilarious episode.
Doremi working with the Guu trolling playbook here.
Yeah, even its ended with cliffhanger its VERY satisfying. And then S2 happened...
PdotMichael
Banned
Get your shit together, KyoAni.
-Minsc-
Member
I intended to add Genshiken 2 anime to complement the original series in my collection but for one reason or another I always held on to my money. Since I prefer to watch a series through legitimate means I've never never carried on past the first twelve episodes. Now with Genshiken Nidaime, on the spur of the moment, I caved and watched the OVA's, G2, and read some of the manga to fill in the gap. Well, I guess at heart I'm just as big a nerd as every one else. 
OVA's/Genshiken 2/Pre-Nidaime manga/Nidaime
I haven't watched Genshiken however it was easy to get back in to. Being set in college I rather enjoy the slightly more matured (as matured as socially awkward otaku can be ) way the various relationships between characters are handled. Friendships are deepened, love is sparked, and there's no waiting 200 for a "will they/won't they?". This certainly isn't high school.
In this section of the series we are introduced more to the perspective of the female otaku. This means yaoi and BL. I keep an open mind. Ogiue's fantasies were certainly vivid. Then again, in general, women always seem to be way more descriptive.
It's a shame portions of the manga between Genshiken 2 and Nidaime were not animated. I rather enjoyed the chapters pairing
together.
Like life, Genshiken moves forward. Members graduate and are seen less, new faces are introduced. So far the male otaku perspective seems to be taking the backseat in Nidaime. I can't complain though, the past members had their time and are moving on just as would happen in any school setting. Given the large female cast I won't relate to the new characters as I did with the initial crew. Still, it gives me a perspective from an angle I normally wouldn't get and it looks as if the series will be enjoyable.
OVA's/Genshiken 2/Pre-Nidaime manga/Nidaime
I haven't watched Genshiken however it was easy to get back in to. Being set in college I rather enjoy the slightly more matured (as matured as socially awkward otaku can be
) way the various relationships between characters are handled. Friendships are deepened, love is sparked, and there's no waiting 200 for a "will they/won't they?". This certainly isn't high school.In this section of the series we are introduced more to the perspective of the female otaku. This means yaoi and BL. I keep an open mind. Ogiue's fantasies were certainly vivid. Then again, in general, women always seem to be way more descriptive.
It's a shame portions of the manga between Genshiken 2 and Nidaime were not animated. I rather enjoyed the chapters pairing
Sasahara and Ogiue
Sasahara sure knows how to set the mood, lol. His response to reading Ogiue's Sasahara X Madarame doujinshi, "When I look at it, it gets hard." That's one way to put the girl you love off guard.
Like life, Genshiken moves forward. Members graduate and are seen less, new faces are introduced. So far the male otaku perspective seems to be taking the backseat in Nidaime. I can't complain though, the past members had their time and are moving on just as would happen in any school setting. Given the large female cast I won't relate to the new characters as I did with the initial crew. Still, it gives me a perspective from an angle I normally wouldn't get and it looks as if the series will be enjoyable.
I dont really see much difference between both faces. If its changed much, its subtle.
JustRiffled
Banned
I can't even categorize Anime this way
To me it just filters like a person watching a lot of TV
But I guess my 2 faves would be Welcome to the NHK and GTO.
MotionBlue
Member
Dropped Rozen Maiden, will need to watch the previous entries to appreciate anything that is happening.
Monogatari 1-3
I missed these shows, Monogatari has been awesome so far. I do miss Arararararararargi's perverted jokes, but it's interesting to see the characters interact with each other.
Love Lab 03
Weakest episode so far, too much drama. I want more humour like in previous episodes.
Monogatari 1-3
I missed these shows, Monogatari has been awesome so far. I do miss Arararararararargi's perverted jokes, but it's interesting to see the characters interact with each other.
Love Lab 03
Weakest episode so far, too much drama. I want more humour like in previous episodes.
It's certainly something.
the manga looks to be more expressive than the anime counterpart, but you're right it's only subtly different
Japanese Kevin Durant.
I saw your original post, and would suggest "difficult to get hold of" as the appropriate euphemism xp
The Free! endcard was super interesting as always:
ohmygod this cannot be for reals XD
Theonik
Member
It's not like VHS is dead. That's how I watched Body Swap recently after all.
No other release for those OVAs which is a shame.
[Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon SuperS] 160
Minako best Sailor Senshi.
I'm fabulous.
(What does this logo even mean??)
I'll probably repost this later "today", but here is the latest episode of the podcast I am on featuring the sexily sensual svelte voice of zeroshiki.
http://thatothersquadcast.podomatic.com/entry/2013-07-23T20_01_14-07_00
Want to hear me ask zeroshiki important questions such as: "Why do Japanese people buy programs at the movies?" and "How do you even buy movie tickets in Japan?" and "What is it like watching anime at 26:40?".
Oh right! Also, a chat that builds on zeroshiki's post about Kaze Tachinu, even if he is unwilling to spoil the end of the movie for me.
Please to enjoy!
We get to hear zeroshiki, interesting. I've gotten way behind on these. I was listening to the first few like I mentioned but got away from them. I was actually thinking of looking at them again and wondering how far along you guys were. I intentionally skipped one or two of them though because in the little written preview it was mentioned you guys were going to be focusing more on Evangelion 3.0 and I haven't seen the Rebuild movies so I didn't want to get spoiled on it.
I listened to the first little bit of this episode. I like how you guys just start mid conversation all the time, haha. Pretty early in this episode you guys talk about the news of the passing of Ryan Davis from Giantbomb. I only really looked at the site maybe a few times very rarely so I'm not even sure if I had even heard of Ryan before this and can't really comment about what happened there.
Just after with the conversation about Japanese theaters though some people might find it interesting how they maybe compare or contrast to how their countries theaters operate. Haha, it's kind of funny how you guys spend about ten minutes talking about the theater before Kurt asks "so, how was the movie?",haha.
"People comment that I sometimes butcher the pronunciation of the Japanese titles so I'll just get zeroshiki to say the name of the movie for me this episode." Haha
Yeah, this is why I kind of got away from them a bit, haha. They're kind of long to me and I often can't really do something with it on in the background. I'm either too focused on what I'm doing and miss it or get too focused on the podcast and can't do what I'm trying to focus on.
dakkumauji
Member
Canon levels rising.
Honestly, they would do good to include moments like that in the show. You know, to allow the characters to breathe outside of their roles and "plot" constraints. In that sense Free! is similar to K-On!, with both shows having to cover a set amount of time/events and sacrificing the characters to do so. I don't think we're ever going to get Free!! though.
Dedication Through Light
Member
firehawk12
Subete no aware
It's a wild Nafe!
And yeah, I don't expect anyone to listen to the whole thing. lol Somehow we managed to talk about summer anime for the second half of the podcast and I don't really remember what came up other than 26 "oclock" anime and zeroshiki being late for work. lol
----
Hanayaka Nari Waga Ichizoku Kinetograph OVA 2
So the first OVA happened ages ago, and this was the weird shoujo about a girl becoming the maid to a bunch of hottie brothers. Also, random politics that no one gives a shit about.
TL alert.
What I find interesting/weird is how in shoujos there is sometimes the pseudo-lesbian
SDBurton) best friend who is particularly close to the protagonist but for some inexplicable reason is both unattractive to the other guys in the show and has no interest in those guys either.It's interesting how this basically links up to the asexual best friend that you see in harems all the time. It's like a character the main character can confide in, but never actually have to risk any sort of betrayal.
---
Brothers Conflict
DTL alert!
Perfect girl is still perfect and ready to embrace her harem, so there's really nothing to say.
But this is just weird, since it's seemingly two references mashed together combined with the fact that she's playing on a 360. I guess since she's also supposed to be a hardcore gamer, she would be the one Japanese girl to have a 360.
dakkumauji
Member
Well last episode, she revealed she was a huge fan of Biohazard which one of the (not) brothers is part of the game company or whatever.
I guess that's basically going to be her character trait since she doesn't have anything else worth of note.
As much as I like Minako, always been an Ami fan, so deciding between them is hard for me. The rest get ranked below not for being bad, but for not being as superlative.
*googles* RPG? Catgirls? how bad is this? :<
JustRiffled
Banned
Panzer of the Dead??
Seeeegaaaa
It's a kid's show
Imagine if we had this in America. Would be worse than ponies right now
Seeeegaaaa
It's a kid's show
Imagine if we had this in America. Would be worse than ponies right now
Haha, only seen two eps so far, and it's kind of at the crossroads between shit and entirely watchable if not derivative. Outside the Aya Hisakawa voiced Miiya Miiya, of course.
Dragon Ball, which the show takes from, has a sizable population of anthro characters too. They're all just banned from being in the spotlight.
I think my opinion changes on re-watches. Keep in mind, I haven't even watched the final season (ever) so I'm wondering if that tips the scales. From what I remember of the first few seasons, I enjoyed episodes centered around these 2 a lot.
Minako gets the bump because her attacks were pretty awesome.
Stars is pretty much the Usagi and Minako show, and it manages to be awesome for it.
Might need to give this a try.
I think I just need to watch/re-watch seasons 3 onwards properly. My memory is spotty for S and SuperS and I never caught any episodes in R after
all of the 4 sisters are healed
Fruits Basket!
Um, if you went with the dub before, you might as well start from the beginning.
Entirely worth it, though. It's not like drudging through something like One Piece where you go through huge patches of barren land only to find the occasional oasis.
BONES final gasp for air before they drowned on the wave of moe.
Theonik
Member
PdotMichael
Banned
I blame Duckroll, you should do the same.
Wat.
Ami is the worst, such an otaku bait character!
Joe Molotov
Member
Drowning in a wave of moe sounds like a great way to go.
Theonik
Member
This sounds like a perfectly sound line of reasoning.
Duckroll hype revengeance?
It actually does but looking at BONES it's probably not.
- Status