KirbYuuYuu
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Let's not get too carried away now...
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Summer 2013 Anime Thread Zero: grown men playing with dolls/who but WB Masochism
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Let's not get too carried away now...
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
Haha, I just mean I feel like there are too many lines and like, I dunno, it looks like they have ripples where the body normally shouldn't?
Been so long since I had any, though, can't really be sure.
FelixOrion
Poet Centuriate
at least there are feet
KirbYuuYuu
Member
Well we need more Ripple Users dude in order to Stand a chance.
We've gone back in time.
Theonik
Member
Get with the times
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
This post is so yesterday.
Jex
Member
This is a pretty awesome ED, well done KyoAni.
KuwabaraTheMan
Banned
Detective Conan 240:
Being Takagi is suffering. He shouldn't have gone along with Yumi's hair brained scheme, and now he's caught up in a weird case, too. At least he gets to spend some extra time with Satou, though. Their interactions are always great. Beginning of the episode was also great with Kazuha and Kogorou reacting to Ran's call. Kogorou is very unsubtle in everything he does. The whole newspaper bit was amazing.
Being Takagi is suffering. He shouldn't have gone along with Yumi's hair brained scheme, and now he's caught up in a weird case, too. At least he gets to spend some extra time with Satou, though. Their interactions are always great. Beginning of the episode was also great with Kazuha and Kogorou reacting to Ran's call. Kogorou is very unsubtle in everything he does. The whole newspaper bit was amazing.
Owlowiscious
Member
Cowboy Bebop what is this 1998?
please don't kill me
I FIGURED IT OUT
Mmm, aprons.
Show this to your lady friends. When they go crazy for it, they no longer can be upset for the K-Ons and DoReMis you watch
Psycho_Mantis
Banned
Psycho_Mantis
Banned
Mmm, aprons.
Here I thought I could take this show seriously. SMH. KyoAni pandering it seems. Nothing to see here.
peaceiscloser
Member
Feels like I'm watching one of those commercials at the beginning of Metal Gear Solid 4.
War. War has changed.
Awful Falafel
Banned
Defence mechanism after that horrible Kill La Kill PV.
This is horrible!
OMG I NEED TO SEE IT!
Never change animegaf.
Jex
Member
Who could have imagined that an anime would ever pander to it's audience!
Joe Molotov
Member
It's only pandering when it's not pandering to me!
Razgriz-Specter
Member
Man I have made so many avatars I don't know what to go with anymore.
KirbYuuYuu
Member
Ojamajo Doremi 27
It begins with new eyecatches and perverted old men, and filming woes with Hazuki's old man, all saved from despair
It begins with new eyecatches and perverted old men, and filming woes with Hazuki's old man, all saved from despair
and the lack of a cursed item. Curses old man worm thing. Doremi is self aware to the point that she thinks Cursed items are the reason why she has no luck. Oh Doremi, nothing is gonna stop you from being thrown under a bus.
And I hope you definitely had that good day people here wished for, Hattori! I couldn't make it in time. :-(
I know, I know... a few people here mentioned it as some kind of poor consolation for us. I was just following the lead of Regulus Tera comment about Germany's team.
Also, congratulations! España was steamrolled, rightfully so with that unstoppable passion Brasil did indeed put on display (both players and spectators).
Yep, although actually director Hiroyuki Imaishi has before described the span from episode 23 up until the end of the series as a 4th narrative arc (http://animestyle.jp/2013/05/31/5136/), in all this well 'staged' and Mr. Nakashima's penned "hero's journey".
Regarding Gurren-Lagann in general, I just wanted to just say that I'm glad CSakuraS keeps giving us so much good information about this series for all these years since it was aired, be it in her old LiveJournal (http://csakuras.livejournal.com/‎), or now tumblr (http://csakuras.tumblr.com/) or twitter (https://twitter.com/CSakuraS) or wherever... much appreciated!
That statement depends on where you live in, but there's always the online shops with international shipping available to make up for that:
Dennou Coil Complete Box Set - Siren Visual
http://www.sirenvisual.com.au/Product/449.php
I'd actually prefer the DYNIT s.r.l., option; if you live in Europe and know a bit of Italian you might want to consider it:
Denno Coil - The Complete Series (Eps 01-26) (4 Dvd) - Anime
http://www.shop.dynit.it/anime/denno-coil-the-complete-series-eps-01-26-4-dvd.html
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
I knew that livejournal was familiar. I used to read her all the time back in the day.
There's always the (less-than-desirable) iOS option, too.
Keika Lee has come back recently to, by popular petition, talk a little more about her time of internship at Kyoto Animation:
cupkeika: KyoAni & me - "What was their animation production process?"
http://cupkeika.blogspot.com/2013/07/kyoani-me-what-was-their-animation.html
cupkeika: KyoAni & me - "What was their animation production process?" cont'd...
http://cupkeika.blogspot.com/2013/07/kyoani-me-what-was-their-animation_2.html
「C83新刊ガルパン戦車解説本」/「EXCEL」のイラスト [pixiv]
http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=31789312
作画おもたせ - YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KosvFchz4w
cupkeika: KyoAni & me - "What was their animation production process?"
http://cupkeika.blogspot.com/2013/07/kyoani-me-what-was-their-animation.html
cupkeika: KyoAni & me - "What was their animation production process?" cont'd...
http://cupkeika.blogspot.com/2013/07/kyoani-me-what-was-their-animation_2.html
Yeah, it is. To everyone wanting to know the source of that illustration; it was made by EXCEL, member of 'dōjin' circle Gewalt (from which I still hope to see more translated works, moreover after the notoriety their merchandising for that recent self-publishing event obtained):
「C83新刊ガルパン戦車解説本」/「EXCEL」のイラスト [pixiv]
http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=31789312
And what do you obtain when mixing excellent running animation with excellent background animation? Something like this:
作画おもたせ - YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KosvFchz4w
I just wanted an excuse to post in full one of Norio Matsumoto's solo works, this one on You're Under Arrest episode 39... he should "invade" the production of more series, what a legend.
Fire Emblem Awakening has that angle covered, though.
Good times, good times! It wouldn't be the same for the foreign fans without all her contributions.
Oh, yeah... I forgot about that one. How is the video quality? Anyone knows?
I don't see it that difficult for a series with this short episode run-time. And it also depends on what kind of production run the companies involved had planned... look at a recent example in Medaka Box, they wanted a promotion that had devised (as first rumors pointed out) two 'cours' as differentiated parts, plan which continued even after the sales of the first "season" were low and it didn't had much repercussion overall on the graphical novel sales as well.
Agreed! It think it is a lot of good quality content, and really worth the price.
In my opinion, a streamlined and vivid design that fits the sympathetic grunt Beastmen perfectly (like in a strange demon masquerade that humans should be afraid of but actually makes them more curious), but that also in their charismatic and recognizable appearance (which totally mirrors the sentiments of the pilot) they change and end up representing the passion and growth of the later humans that use them. I definitely think those are fantastic characters, because at least they sure show a differentiated personality and that is, I think, a key trait on a 'mecha' design.
wonzo, you aren't contractually obliged to suffer this much, you know? :-(
1986 here! Sadly, a year that many remember for the Chernobyl disaster thing (although atmospheric contamination problems derived from it didn't actually reach Spain, everyone was panicking over what was happening and, most of all, what could happen everywhere in the future).
But all this talk about invoking Kamina's spirit and the fantastic year for Japanese animation that was 2007, but no one made a mention of Mr. Nakashima's other breakthrough of the year, the adaptation of Oh! Edo Rocket, that had its own Kamina impersonator!
I still remember some that said they dropped Tengen Toppa Gurren-Lagann after episode 8 who were gushing over those cameos...
What can be so horrible about 30 seconds from a TV commercial with so little actual footage on it?Defence mechanism after that horrible Kill La Kill PV.
hosannainexcelsis
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It's hard to fault Hiroko Utsumi for catering to her own interests with her work.
Defence mechanism after that horrible Kill La Kill PV.
There was no PV, it was a TV CM. Different things.
Lavalamp1138
Member
Kino's Journey 8
I really enjoyed this episode.
I really enjoyed this episode.
It was a change in perspective by centering the narrative around Nimya rather than Kino, and the bird in flight was able in inspire yet another person. The country exemplified isolationism and the homogenization of culture, treating Nimya's desired craft and contributions with disdain. What's interesting is that they treat foreign things like that, yet they celebrate travelers like Kino when they enter the country. They seem to be only interested in sharing their own culture rather than learn Kino's, which furthers this notion. But in all of this, Nimya continues to pursue her dream. And that's what made this episode so special, because it touched on the resilience of the human spirit. It also addressed themes like companionship and understanding. Nimya's fiance, her future life-partner, makes no attempt to understand her or even support her, whereas a total stranger like Kino ends up inspiring and assisting her. Nimya makes it clear that Kino and Hermes were integral to the success of her flight. I guess it's clear that, with the right mentality, anyone is capable of helping another human being and making something incredible, almost resembling "magic."
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
This wouldn't happen if you hadn't hyped it to the stratosphere!
I hope you like 380p anime.
You're just unstable in your Imaishi hype.
PorcellainThrill
Member
Hell yes.
I'm sorry ;_;
The last episode just pushed her into oblivion. If they stopped the show at 11 because of that hospital scene she would've been much higher.
R_thanatos
Member
Zettai Bouei Leviathan - 12
Let's see : drama , plots , sudden revelations , dream manipulation , a big cliffanger and syrop hungry .
This means ... that this was a decent episode.
AFTER 12 episodes the aquafall defense force is nearly complete , but things happens ..
Leviathan let her brother dictate her priorities , so much that i'm thinking that she is manipulated. And bahamut, while confident find the truth about her familly.
This information is quite important because it would explain why our main bad guys are taking so much steps in order to show the girls the right path to take.
Anyway i can pretty much guess how the last episode will unfold , and unless a giant twist at the end , i'm gonna enjoy it.
Let's see : drama , plots , sudden revelations , dream manipulation , a big cliffanger and syrop hungry .
This means ... that this was a decent episode.
Yeaaah let's have breakfast at the rich girl home !
AFTER 12 episodes the aquafall defense force is nearly complete , but things happens ..
Leviathan let her brother dictate her priorities , so much that i'm thinking that she is manipulated. And bahamut, while confident find the truth about her familly.
This information is quite important because it would explain why our main bad guys are taking so much steps in order to show the girls the right path to take.
It's highly probable All 3 girls have the same background, now
Anyway i can pretty much guess how the last episode will unfold , and unless a giant twist at the end , i'm gonna enjoy it.
Gintoki313
Banned
Samurai Champloo - Episode 8+9
Episode 7 I loved the beatboxing background music samurai, and also the backstory for Jin. While it wasn't a complete backstory it at least gave a little bit of Jin's past.
Episode 8 was amazing Mugen has got to be my favorite character in this show so far. He started tripping once the grass burned, I just love how random this show can be at times.
Tried to make a gif about it, but I think the video version is better.
Episode 7 I loved the beatboxing background music samurai, and also the backstory for Jin. While it wasn't a complete backstory it at least gave a little bit of Jin's past.
Episode 8 was amazing Mugen has got to be my favorite character in this show so far. He started tripping once the grass burned, I just love how random this show can be at times.
Tried to make a gif about it, but I think the video version is better.
Free! 01
Pointless backstory is halfheartedly established, but the story itself lacks any backbone. Giant chunks of information more pertinent to the current day are absent, making the continuous flashbacks to a time further back, far removed, and irrelevant all that much more confusing. Most every scene feels as though it were created in isolation, often relying on some sort of lousy hook to or titillate or play into the expectation for fanservice.
At its core Free! is little more than exploitative trash, but nothing here is even very fun. In spite of their perplexingly chiseled bodies the cast of Free! isn't strong enough to carry the production. Each and every character seem to have a knack for being obnoxious, and with each being so incredibly one dimensional I found myself being constantly pestered by their single characteristic over and over again.
From the very outset Free! feels tawdry. Brandishing a garish color scheme and an invasive soundtrack from the word "go" the series immediately goes to work on being grating. Character proportions are bad on their own, but when they are at odds with the backgrounds time and time again the production feels rushed.
World's smallest cat.
Pointless backstory is halfheartedly established, but the story itself lacks any backbone. Giant chunks of information more pertinent to the current day are absent, making the continuous flashbacks to a time further back, far removed, and irrelevant all that much more confusing. Most every scene feels as though it were created in isolation, often relying on some sort of lousy hook to or titillate or play into the expectation for fanservice.
At its core Free! is little more than exploitative trash, but nothing here is even very fun. In spite of their perplexingly chiseled bodies the cast of Free! isn't strong enough to carry the production. Each and every character seem to have a knack for being obnoxious, and with each being so incredibly one dimensional I found myself being constantly pestered by their single characteristic over and over again.
Free! 1
Yeah, regardless of the characters all being the wrong gender, this is definitely a KyoAni show. It's fun to watch, the characters are entertaining and have good chemistry, the animation (while not top KyoAni standard by any means) is good. I think I'll be sticking with this one.
Haru seems to be basically Oreki, except his skill is swimming instead of deduction and his weakness is water instead of Chitanda. He wears his swimming trunks everywhere and strips down to them at a moment's notice, so, uh...insert UPPER BODY here.
Makoto is the cool big-bro type who's not-so-secretly a big softy (he's terrified of ghosts). He's laid-back and friendly and seems like a pleasant enough character.
Nagisa is the young-looking, full-of-far-too-much-energy one. In the flashback intro, he seemed about as masculine as Hirasawa Yui. Shota-tastic much? He also goes
in this episode, because oh isn't that so wacky. By wacky what I mean is vaguely disturbing. Please don't do that again. I like characters who are full of energy though, so he doesn't annoy me. Much.
And finally we have Rin, who is the Designated Rival, and thus has to be too-cool-for-school, disdainful towards everyone and everything, and single-mindedly focused on his ambitions. He's pretty good at the whole badass thing, because he has goddamn shark's teeth. Seriously. He could tear your skin to shreds in one bite, I swear. I wouldn't put it past him either.
Oh, there's also a female character in this show, who is called Gou. Get it? It's a masculine name, to contrast with the male characters' feminine names? Oh isn't that so wacky. She claims that people call her Kou, which she prefers, which means that nobody will call her that ever.
Score: UPPER BODY/10
EDIT: Wow, two wildly contrasting reviews right next to each other. Isn't that something.
Yeah, regardless of the characters all being the wrong gender, this is definitely a KyoAni show. It's fun to watch, the characters are entertaining and have good chemistry, the animation (while not top KyoAni standard by any means) is good. I think I'll be sticking with this one.
Haru seems to be basically Oreki, except his skill is swimming instead of deduction and his weakness is water instead of Chitanda. He wears his swimming trunks everywhere and strips down to them at a moment's notice, so, uh...insert UPPER BODY here.
Makoto is the cool big-bro type who's not-so-secretly a big softy (he's terrified of ghosts). He's laid-back and friendly and seems like a pleasant enough character.
Nagisa is the young-looking, full-of-far-too-much-energy one. In the flashback intro, he seemed about as masculine as Hirasawa Yui. Shota-tastic much? He also goes
skinny-dipping
And finally we have Rin, who is the Designated Rival, and thus has to be too-cool-for-school, disdainful towards everyone and everything, and single-mindedly focused on his ambitions. He's pretty good at the whole badass thing, because he has goddamn shark's teeth. Seriously. He could tear your skin to shreds in one bite, I swear. I wouldn't put it past him either.
Oh, there's also a female character in this show, who is called Gou. Get it? It's a masculine name, to contrast with the male characters' feminine names? Oh isn't that so wacky. She claims that people call her Kou, which she prefers, which means that nobody will call her that ever.
Score: UPPER BODY/10
EDIT: Wow, two wildly contrasting reviews right next to each other. Isn't that something.
It is of no surprise to me.
Here in continental Europe there are so many Soviet T-34 variants thrown around that they are the sure option for such kind of modifications for props.
But, but, that app is also for iPad (old one)... why?
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Free
lol
Anime of the season, clearly!
You know,
But seriously, like Kimi to Boku, I just don't know how to react to watching guys in anime in a slice of life setting. It's like, you have expect them all to be moe uguu girls, especially because of some of the thing they do, but of course they go through great paints to show you that these are guys with wonderful abs. The Kyoani look doesn't help as well, but I'm sure that dissonance will be gone after a few more episodes.
Also, that dubstep. lol :wubwbuwub
lol
Anime of the season, clearly!
You know,
Chihayafuru also started with a flashback and we know how that turned out!
But seriously, like Kimi to Boku, I just don't know how to react to watching guys in anime in a slice of life setting. It's like, you have expect them all to be moe uguu girls, especially because of some of the thing they do, but of course they go through great paints to show you that these are guys with wonderful abs. The Kyoani look doesn't help as well, but I'm sure that dissonance will be gone after a few more episodes.
Also, that dubstep. lol :wubwbuwub
Ahah. Glad I'm not the only one who was thinking of Chihayafuru comparisons. I almost described Rin as "the Arata" before thinking better of it.
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