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Summer 2013 Anime Thread Zero: grown men playing with dolls/who but WB Masochism

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LTTP but someone hook me up with shades.

okay fine I couldn't sleep with this on my mind
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Theonik

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Twice the fucking.

Plus I don't want to scare her immediately. Let me build up to it at least.
I didn't even know what it was about when I made my comment. On that thought it might be for the best if you saved it for later.

I shudder to think what Yami to Boshi is.
It's an anime about Quile. Hi! Did I mention her name was Quile? She's Quile. She does Quile things. Don't forget her name is Quile.
 

Thoraxes

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Date a Live - 12 FIN

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Let's get this ball rolling. If you told me these were my rankings a few weeks back I would've laughed at you.

Kotori
> Mana > Yoshinon >/= Reine >
Kurumi
>
Tohka
>
Shittygami

Imoutos at the top woop-woop!

BRING ON SEASON 2 FUCK YES
 

CorvoSol

Member
G Gundam Rewatch 48

So many cameos in this episode. The original Gundam, the Crossbone, the Wing, and if I'm not mistaken, something that looked suspiciously like the Tallgeese I.
 

Theonik

Member
I just looked up the second one.

Holy shit, this was something I had bookmarked for some time because it had elements of :SDburton in it, but I lost it with a shit ton of other bookmarks in the process.
You should look a couple of threads back for the simulwatch me a jgminto did.
 

cnet128

Banned
Someone here was born before 88, I know it. Also, 88 here, did they even make anime back then? No. No they did not.

You were born in '88? Hey, so was I!

what date?

YuruYuri: 11

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This show is now about little girls.

Best scene is best scene.
even if I will forever associate it with JojoYuri

Non-phonetic romanizations are gross anyway.

sonnna kotoha arimasennyo! konnna ro-mazimo miryokuni ahureteimasu!

Revolutionary Girl Utena 39 and Series Thoughts

And it is at this juncture that I must say: there is such a thing as too much symbolism, and RGU suffers because of it. It's highly distracting, and leaves the feeling that rather than being focused and thematic, the work is instead simply scrambling to stuff as many symbols into an episode as it can. A good example of the complaint I am making would be the Student Council scenes. Each and every time they are there, the Student Council is surrounded by a cacophony of symbols and seemingly inane things which are apparently fraught with some significance. The baseball game going on around them, the riding a bike in place, the train that passes by without ever being seen, the balloons flying around etc. It's too many symbols with meanings too obscure to the plot to matter, yet there they are, jumping and swirling and floating and dancing and distracting the viewer from what is actually going on. On occasion such distraction may be necessary, but I cannot at this moment accept that that much is relevant, meet, or vital to this show. Its positively maddening at times, and feels more like a Junior High English Teacher's Wet Dream than a play with important symbols for the careful viewer. Your plot should not be the Waldo in a sea of symbolic sunbathers.

I don't know what, if anything, they were supposed to symbolise, but I always found the random things going on in the background (or indeed the foreground, ahaha) during the Student Council meetings to be hilarious and charming in their bizarreness. They probably weren't remotely vital to the show in terms of relevance/meaning, but they helped a ton to give it its quirky appeal. Ditto for similar bizarrenesses such as the Nanami episodes (though those had more clear symbolic/character relevance as well, so bonus points I guess).

One final negative point would be the use of stock footage. The show does its fair share of trying to make that cooler, but in all, I cannot say I was wholly appreciative of just how much of the show was comprised of stock footage. Supposing this show was made on some sort of budget, though, I can understand it, and it wasn't as horrible as the words "stock footage" lead one to expect.

I can't consider stock footage a negative coming from Ikuhara. I just can't. Not after Zettai Unmei Mokushiroku, and especially not after car fabulousness.
also Rock Over Japan

Anime taught me that Japanese life as an adult = Work -> Alcohol -> Sleep*

*The sleep part is optional.

Nisekoi anime is being done by Shaft. Source.

My interest in this anime just rose significantly. It's a weird choice, but I can't really complain, since I enjoy Nisekoi and I love Shaft and Shinbo. I look forward to seeing Onodera headtilts.

Now then, I am dragging my sister into the world of anime because I am a horrible person for sharing my hobby with my sister, on top of being a terrible waste of a human being, so I gave her a choice of what I can give her right now and she picked

Her own choice
Jojo's Bizarre Adventure (This shocked me)
Squid Girl

A bit of convincing
Precure (She chose Fresh Precure and Splash Star on her own choice though)
Little Witch Academia (because it's just 1 episode)

Forced
Heartcatch
Azumanga Daioh (she was scared of entering Highschool)

Now then, I'm actually considering throwing in Madoka Magica as well in the near future just to increase my terribleness right now. Any future choices for a 14 year old?

You have done well. And your sister sounds pretty awesome. Now you just have to get her to post impressions here and your work will be complete.

Drop Madoka show her K-ON.

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Thoraxes

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May your drill always pierce the heavens.

Actually, is it possible to bend it back slightly, so that they're looking a bit more up with the angled perspective (kinda like you did with dresden's)? Was wondering if you could cover the left eye. If not, that's cool too. I just love that you got the gradient in there lol
 
I would also agree with K-On! bein easier to grasp for her. On top of it being relevant to her high school anxiety going on.

In any case, Madoka wasn't something I was throwing at her immediately, and it wasn't part of the initial batch. I just thought about it after I was done setting things up for her.

For the most part, she has never heard of it, which was the best case for this, but quite possibly the worst thing I've done because she knows it exists now.
 

cnet128

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In any case, Madoka wasn't something I was throwing at her immediately, and it wasn't part of the initial batch. I just thought about it after I was done setting things up for her.

Introducing someone to wholesome magical girl goodness with Precure and then throwing Madoka at them is, like, the greatest thing imaginable. You can't just let an opportunity like that slip by. She'll totally thank you for it.
 
Introducing someone to wholesome magical girl goodness with Precure and then throwing Madoka at them is, like, the greatest thing imaginable. You can't just let an opportunity like that slip by. She'll totally thank you for it.

Oh believe me, that's my plan now.
 
May your drill always pierce the heavens.

Actually, is it possible to bend it back slightly, so that they're looking a bit more up with the angled perspective (kinda like you did with dresden's)? Was wondering if you could cover the left eye. If not, that's cool too. I just love that you got the gradient in there lol

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Is that a little better?

The things I do for GAF.
 

Theonik

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Introducing someone to wholesome magical girl goodness with Precure and then throwing Madoka at them is, like, the greatest thing imaginable. You can't just let an opportunity like that slip by. She'll totally thank you for it.
Gotta let her get acclimated to the PreCureness.

Oh believe me, that's my plan now.
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I would also agree with K-On! bein easier to grasp for her. On top of it being relevant to her high school anxiety going on.
Yes that's the main reason I suggested it.
 

CorvoSol

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You were born in '88? Hey, so was I!

what date?

I don't know what, if anything, they were supposed to symbolise, but I always found the random things going on in the background (or indeed the foreground, ahaha) during the Student Council meetings to be hilarious and charming in their bizarreness. They probably weren't remotely vital to the show in terms of relevance/meaning, but they helped a ton to give it its quirky appeal. Ditto for similar bizarrenesses such as the Nanami episodes (though those had more clear symbolic/character relevance as well, so bonus points I guess).

I can't consider stock footage a negative coming from Ikuhara. I just can't. Not after Zettai Unmei Mokushiroku, and especially not after car fabulousness.
also Rock Over Japan

I'm a September baby.

And while I appreciated the quirks sometimes, other times it got kind of annoying. And the stock footage wasn't a huge gripe, just something I wasn't super excited on. On the one hand it worked, making certain things stick in my mind better, on the other, there was this scene toward the end where the camera panned toward Utena and Anthy like six times with the only difference between shots being a red swirly rose and I was just like "UGH WHATEVER."

And that car was something else.

G Gundam Rewatch 49

See you next time. Gundam Fight 14.
Most painful words.

Also, Domon's finisher might not be the most over the top in mecha, but it is probably the coolest.
 

cajunator

Banned
Proper pancakes or not even made in a frying pan so why they even called pancake jesus christ on a pogostick what are you doing to the english language America pancakes?

Well...if we called them potcakes.....


He was already AWESOMEBEAR, now hes AAAAAAAWWWWEEEEEEESSSOOMMMMEEEEBEAR

Yeah, I'll agree with Theonik on this one.

Madoka's like in my top anime of all time, but K-On's just so much more palatable.

I kinda agree on this one.

Introducing someone to wholesome magical girl goodness with Precure and then throwing Madoka at them is, like, the greatest thing imaginable. You can't just let an opportunity like that slip by. She'll totally thank you for it.

Then again you have a good point too. Madoka is better to marathon.
 

BGBW

Maturity, bitches.
I really need to get round to updating my Hummingbird…

I haven't seen that much anime so I really have no excuse for being so lazy about it.
 

wonzo

Banned
putting kamina-shades on everything is such a tired out and lame internet bandwagon

Azazel-san Z 11-13 END

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a fate worse than death

I've been pretty hard on this season (and for good reason) but I will say the 2nd half was a much stronger half than the first one was. Especially these three episodes which were up there with just how good the first season and the OVA's were. There was some really good cuts of animation in these (especially ep 13, holy shit) and it was also pretty damn funny.

Hopefully the third season turns out much better.
 

BGBW

Maturity, bitches.
putting kamina-shades on everything is such a tired out and lame internet bandwagon
Lucky you, with those words you've guaranteed a pair on your avatar.

Yeah, Azazel-san Z took a dive at the beginning but managed to make up for it in the end. I feel they should have made some of the two parters one episode long. Sometimes you felt like you were told a joke only be told you have to wait a week for the punchline by which time you really don't care about it anymore.
 
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