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Summer 2013 Anime |10th Dimensional OT| the first ignoble truth: all of life is anime
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dakkumauji
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Genshiken Nidaime 05
hatoxmadarame 4ever
hatoxmadarame 4ever
Stuff like color design and post-processing are probably what I'm worried about the most with KnK. I personally thought that the CM for KnK was kinda ugly, and the key visual doesn't really make me any more hopeful. Hopefully he'll keep the flash and saturation down.
Hellsing321
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My daughter said "Dady, you should have drawn an interesting manga like Attack on titans."
Tsutomu Nihei is a Mangaka who wrote Blame and Kights of Sidonia for those who don't know. Poor guy.
Crash Station
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I actually do remember having an "oh come on!" reaction with how Keichi acted. Anyone could see that the whole "perfect crime" BS was going to turn out poorly. That and the first one in the second season that was kind of filler are the only ones I didn't like.
Seraphis Cain
bad gameplay lol
Watamote 5
Not as wajah as the last episode, but still good. Dem Pocky Wolverine claws. :lol Also
Not as wajah as the last episode, but still good. Dem Pocky Wolverine claws. :lol Also
when Tomoko decided she wanted to be a cabaret girl, I thought "FUCK, NOVID WAS RIGHT". :lol Thankfully she reconsidered, heh.
Jex
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So anime shows are like fake books?
Seraphis Cain
bad gameplay lol
Wouldn't it be the third ED? There's the normal ED, the ED used after the Yuu episode, and then this one.
Seraphis Cain
bad gameplay lol
Also, the scene in the coffee shop totally reminded me of Nichijou ep. 16.
D-d-d-d-doppio?!
D-d-d-d-doppio?!
rhizomatic
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Oh shit, it's out?
I'm sorry, Attack on Titan, but I'm gonna have to resume catching up with you later. Watamote is calling.
I'm sorry, Attack on Titan, but I'm gonna have to resume catching up with you later. Watamote is calling.
Yea, he's obviously a very capable animator but that doesn't always translate into a good director.
dakkumauji
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Hayate no Gotoku! 39
All in all that was a pretty exciting final episode.
I liked the style of animation they used for all dat action they going on. Very fluid and pretty fresh to see. It was a funny episode and a great way to end the season. Onto to season four!
All in all that was a pretty exciting final episode.
I liked the style of animation they used for all dat action they going on. Very fluid and pretty fresh to see. It was a funny episode and a great way to end the season. Onto to season four!
Barring the 00 Gundams, though, Setsuna will have the chance to fight how many Gundams in this game? Like, Epyon? Still, I guess advantage over the hordes of mp innovators is worth building him up. I'd been planning on it anyway, since the 00 is kinda cool. I WON'T use Lockon 2 because he doesn't fucking exist.
I keep forgetting that Fauxron was included in the list of people who just wouldn't stay fucking dead in that show.
There are less obvious to hate on sites, I guess.
I'm pretty sure this was the episode where SynergySP brought in a bunch of Gainax staff to work on the episode. It really showed.
Edit: Oh, it was Imaishi? I see. I didn't know who anyone was when I watched HnG, so all I knew was that "Gainax worked on this episode of HnG", lol.
Not simply a Gurren-Lagann parody, Imaishi actually did the key animation for the parody scenes in this episode.
Watashi ga Motenai no wa Dou Kangaetemo Omaera ga Warui!/Watamote Episode 5: This show grows ever more tedious by the episode and it really is just a giant foot stepping on Tokomo for ever and ever. Also, a good take away from this is never get life lessons from anime, it never ends well.
You have not yet experienced Novid's inexplicable hatred of Cuncryroll I see, I envy that.
dakkumauji
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Oh that's pretty cool. Definitely worthy of a final episode for this series.
I think its more that, as someone whose hatred is often described as inexplicable by others here, I'm more capable of just shrugging it off. We all have things we hate for no good reason and are willing to rant to strangers about. Some are perhaps just more willing than others.
Most people don't equate things like crunchyroll with the end of the civilised world as we know it either.
KirbYuuYuu
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Tetris Pillows fuck yeah!. I do sleep in the form of an L, so I like this.
I want my L shaped Precure pillow
dakkumauji
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I'm more amused at the suggested positions for you to be with her.
Crash Station
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Centorea is the only centaur in my heart.
Hahahahaha! Pose #3 is great.
Fair enough, haha.
Mega Man Sins 23
St. Matthew 4:8-9 said:
DAMN. Where do I start? So X as it happens is the douchiest savior y'ever did see. So douchey, in fact, that after Zero finishes pummeling Omega and shepherding Leviathan, he goes straight up to X, tells her he'd kill her again, more or less spits on her offering to rule together,
Thematically, there were some pretty poignant points in this episode. First among these was Casshern's "Life only has a meaning because their is death." He tells Luna that he himself is distraught that he cannot appreciate life because he does not have to struggle, to suffer, to fear, or to feel the sting of death. Luna has been beating the drum of "death is repulsive" for several episodes, and so Casshern, the only other being who will live forever, telling her to her face that he disagrees, and that the deaths of all he has met on his journey hold more meaning than his own existence as the people he met had all struggled and lived and died for reasons, counter to his own rather aimless wandering is rather powerfully made.
The next big thing is that death is beautiful. You would, of course, initially be wary of anything espousing such a philosophy, but in this context, it works.
The scenes of Dio and Leda dying together are at once very romantic, showing that neither cared more about their personal ambitions than they did the other, and very beautiful, as the two lie close together in one last embrace before succumbing to the ruin.
All of this, of course, ties perfectly in to what else we've seen. The petty, villainous, and cruel robots throughout the series have been opposed to efforts to truly live life, because death is imminent. The building of the bell, and the painting of the city were things thought meaningless because of death. Casshern states that it is the opposite, that death itself gives context to those things, because everyone who did them knew their death was coming, and endeavored to make the most of the time they yet had.
Meanwhile, we have a nice tie in to Matthew 4 up above, in which we see that Luna is perhaps more of a false Christ than an actual Christ symbol, as she tries to bait Casshern with the promise of a Kingdom, providing he build it with her. In this sense, Luna's promises of false hope throughout the show tie in nicely to Matthew 24, where we see:
St. Matthew 24:23-24 said:
Which parallels nicely the wanderings of the people in the desert, looking for Luna, only to find her and find something entirely different from the hope that had held them together their entire journey. The much foretold Luna is in fact horrid, cruel, spiteful, and the "healing" she grants twists people. This is opposed to the ever-more-Christ-like Casshern, who has been the man of sorrows described by Isaiah in all save it be his pretty face.
Moving on from verse and back to the show itself, another large point made is that the
original Luna bore the death of the world inside herself, and that killing her reversed that flow, filling Luna with the world's life, but also sapping it of it. And that when Luna granted you death, your death, like the one in this episode, was a beautiful release from the toils and labors of life, as opposed to now, where the life she grants you is a twisted one in which you are not who you were.
KirbYuuYuu
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2deep4me
rhizomatic
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That last one is hilarious.
I can just imagine someone lying there in that position, on their centauress dakimakura, in a smoking jacket and sipping Courvoisier.
Oh btw, Kirbyguy I'm gonna watch Casshern Sins 24 like, now, so yeah, finish the show at your discresh.
KirbYuuYuu
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Already finished it earlier today since I only had like 2 left anyway. Seems like the right idea with the pressure of analysis.
That and I had plans today that didn't come to fruition.
Cashews are fruits, though.
KirbYuuYuu
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They grow on trees and have about the same effect on the inside of your mouth that a Choke Cherry does.
KirbYuuYuu
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Well I saw that they grew on trees but didn't think it was important enough to consider, that and I really don't want to know how things work inside a mouth.
Choke Cherry? Sounds like a ball gag filled with fruity flavor.
3. = me
They're a fruit what grows in these parts.
Eaten alone, they dry the mouth and are extremely bitter. Made into jelly, though, and subsequently sweetened, they're not half bad.
KirbYuuYuu
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....So it WASN'T a typo?
....WELL! I just keep learning tonight don't I. Interesting.
DISCLAIMER: I don't know squat about fruit.
KirbYuuYuu
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I do know about Squash though.
Squash is like that guy you don't want to know but comes up to you at the Garden Party anyway and is like "HEY BRA REMEMBER ME? WERE YOU GROWIN' RADISHES HERE? NOT ANYMORE I HAD SEEDS HERE LIKE SIX YEARS AGO SO NOW SQUASH IS GROWIN' HERE BRA."
KirbYuuYuu
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Squashed dreams, he'd totally be That Vegetable.
At least he's more active than the Potato.
At least he's more active than the Potato.
Theonik
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Her spirit lives on in our hearts.
Why did they fold her butt.
This avatar is so fitting.
Now give me a lamia pillow. Centaurs are lame.
FelixOrion
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Good man
Mega Man Sins 24
9 minutes in: FUCK WHY CAN'T I STOP THESE TEARS.
12 minutes in: God DAMMIT WHY.
Well. That's. That's heavy.
Where to begin?
Seriously, though, what was that black rock Ohji gave Casshern 4 episodes ago?
9 minutes in: FUCK WHY CAN'T I STOP THESE TEARS.
12 minutes in: God DAMMIT WHY.
Well. That's. That's heavy.
Where to begin?
So damn sad that Ohji and Lyuze died. I mean holy shit I knew it was a depressing show to begin with, but holy shit you killed the kindly old man and the lover in the last episode and you made it beautiful and sharp damn damn damn. And I mean it was beautiful. Ringo talking to Ohji after he had died had me in tears and I'd rather not admit to my emotional state as Casshern cradled the dying Lyuze in his arms. DAMN.
I mean people tell you that Anno was depressed when Eva was made but I don't know many shows that end with the majority of the cast dying and the message being that this is a good thing. It makes sense, that death is necessary for people to understand joy and sorrow, and to give value to lives, but holy fuck did they ever manage to punctuate this point in the biggest way they could.
Moving right along, the show ends with Casshern "dying" for your sins, basically. Or his sins. Or the world's. Whatever. Casshern is Jesus, that's the point. Anyway, Briking Boss makes a huge deal about hoping he's atoned for his sins in this episod,e except he hasn't, and he doesn't seem particularly penitent, either, blaming the world's shit state on Luna and Casshern, even though Casshern would never have gone to murder Luna if not, you know, for him. So the whole thing is his fault and he doesn't acknowledge this but hopes he's atoned for it any way? Fat chance.
Meanwhile, Casshern, furious as fuck decides he's going to scare the shit out of Luna. And Luna, who, so disgusted by death as she is, is quite terrified when Casshern shows up, kicks her entire army's face in, and basically leans in and goes "BOO." The point is that he's made her feel fear of death but given her back her life so she can continue healing people and, rather than whining about it as she once had, can appreciate the healing that she's giving. Casshern does not authorize her to give out eternal life, though, and he himself is going to basically decide who lives and dies.
Ringo grows up to be a lady, and she and Friender chill forever.
I mean people tell you that Anno was depressed when Eva was made but I don't know many shows that end with the majority of the cast dying and the message being that this is a good thing. It makes sense, that death is necessary for people to understand joy and sorrow, and to give value to lives, but holy fuck did they ever manage to punctuate this point in the biggest way they could.
Moving right along, the show ends with Casshern "dying" for your sins, basically. Or his sins. Or the world's. Whatever. Casshern is Jesus, that's the point. Anyway, Briking Boss makes a huge deal about hoping he's atoned for his sins in this episod,e except he hasn't, and he doesn't seem particularly penitent, either, blaming the world's shit state on Luna and Casshern, even though Casshern would never have gone to murder Luna if not, you know, for him. So the whole thing is his fault and he doesn't acknowledge this but hopes he's atoned for it any way? Fat chance.
Meanwhile, Casshern, furious as fuck decides he's going to scare the shit out of Luna. And Luna, who, so disgusted by death as she is, is quite terrified when Casshern shows up, kicks her entire army's face in, and basically leans in and goes "BOO." The point is that he's made her feel fear of death but given her back her life so she can continue healing people and, rather than whining about it as she once had, can appreciate the healing that she's giving. Casshern does not authorize her to give out eternal life, though, and he himself is going to basically decide who lives and dies.
Ringo grows up to be a lady, and she and Friender chill forever.
Seriously, though, what was that black rock Ohji gave Casshern 4 episodes ago?
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