Dunno about the games either but it looks fun and properly stupid. My kind of anime
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Summer 2013 Anime Thread Zero: grown men playing with dolls/who but WB Masochism
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Dunno about the games either but it looks fun and properly stupid. My kind of anime
At this point, I really don't think we can blame any of the actual faults of Shingeki on the production issues. Let's be honest, it's just boring and badly directed. The scripts were completed months in advance, so it's not like they suddenly had to write them. The staff just aren't that good, and Araki was always a shitty choice as a director. Now we're seeing the actual results. Let's not make excuses.
At this point, I really don't think we can blame any of the actual faults of Shingeki on the production issues. Let's be honest, it's just boring and badly directed. The scripts were completed months in advance, so it's not like they suddenly had to write them. The staff just aren't that good, and Araki was always a shitty choice as a director. Now we're seeing the actual results. Let's not make excuses.
Yeah, that is where I am at. I would really blame the writers and the director for this shambles.
At this point, I really don't think we can blame any of the actual faults of Shingeki on the production issues. Let's be honest, it's just boring and badly directed. The scripts were completed months in advance, so it's not like they suddenly had to write them. The staff just aren't that good, and Araki was always a shitty choice as a director. Now we're seeing the actual results. Let's not make excuses.
The script problems are inexplicable, but I imagine a lack of time can result in poorer-than-typical direction as well.
KuwabaraTheMan
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At this point, I really don't think we can blame any of the actual faults of Shingeki on the production issues. Let's be honest, it's just boring and badly directed. The scripts were completed months in advance, so it's not like they suddenly had to write them. The staff just aren't that good, and Araki was always a shitty choice as a director. Now we're seeing the actual results. Let's not make excuses.
Well, it's a clusterfuck and a lot of people deserve blame. Araki was a bad choice, and the production issues have been really bad. Even if they had all the time in the world and every episode looked gorgeous, it wouldn't change the fact that Araki is completely destroying the pacing of series for no clear purpose. When we combine those issues together, we get a really underwhelming show (especially with Sawano's shitty music constantly blaring).
Ｈｅｙ，　ｉｔ　ｗｏｒｋｓ　ｆｏｒ　ＳＨＡＦＴ．
Not really. "Man power x time = result" is only true up to a certain point. Eventually you get diminishing returns on your manpower especially since the art director and other people turn into bottlenecks because they have to check stuff and put it all together.
By all reports, it seems like the AoT production is throwing money at the problem by hiring more and more manpower but their time is shot and they need to take shortcuts to stay on schedule.
Ultimadrago
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Girls und Panzer OVA 6
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Don't you dare drag SHAFT into this. You hear me!
The biggest problems with the direction aren't simply a matter of "this could have been done by a better animator if there was more time on the schedule" though, the problems are that it's just boring. Seems more like a fundamental problem with the people making it lacking creative skill to make the best of the situation.
I've earned the right to drag SHAFT into anything I damn well want, and you know it~
What is the definition of that?
KirbYuuYuu
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Misquoting and awesome girls.[/QUOTE]
Gawdammit you beat my edit. Its hard to post on a phone.
Thanks man, appreciated.
Managed to make my friend promise me to start watching it tomorrow. Hopefully he ends up liking it.
Cool. At worst, if he doesn't like it, he'll have fallen asleep and hence be unable to attack you.
KirbYuuYuu
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Ah Phone posting. You're fine don't worry.
Ultimadrago
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Super Sentai, Kamen Rider and ilk.
Cool. At worst, if he doesn't like it, he'll have fallen asleep and hence be unable to attack you.
lol
I hate that it takes 12 episodes for the cultural festival to start
the movie arc was pretty cool too, and that's early. I don't think if someone didn't like it then would change his/her opinion later.
Lavalamp1138
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Hell yeah! What part of kininarimasu don't people understand?
I agree. I do think it starts off a bit slow, but I really enjoyed the whole thing.
I joined AnimeGAF partway through Hyouka airing, so I might not remember correctly, but I remember Duckroll rewatching the first half sometime after the cultural arc and remarking that they were more interesting now that he was invested in the characters, lol.
Getting worse implies that something changed. It got worse in the sense that the same amount of bad again and again is worse than the same amount of bad just one time.
Hyouka arc > movie arc.
I liked Hyouka from the beginning
I was on that hype train from Day 0!The movie arc was pretty great but the complaints against Hyouka were that it lacked dynamism and just stuff happening in general. I feel the cultural festival totally blows all of those complaints out of the water and it would be sad if people bailed out on the show before it.
I liked Hyouka from the beginning
The movie arc was pretty great but the complaints against Hyouka were that it lacked dynamism and just stuff happening in general. I feel the cultural festival totally blows all of those complaints out of the water and it would be sad if people bailed out on the show before it.
I liked Hyouka from the first episode too, but the main draw for me was the excellent audiovisual presentation ("the atmosphere").
Also I never expected the mystery angle to have any weight whatsoever and approached the show as a slice of life, that might have helped.
Ultimadrago
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I don't see why that can't be added!
Though you may have to ask his approval on the "Misquoting" part...
Yep.
I agree with you on this. I approached Hyouka as a SOL with a mundane everyday mystery conceit as a backdrop. This isn't Detective Conan or Golgo 13. I'm not sure what some people were looking for.
The first kininarimasu scene with the music and the hair and everything was more than enough to set the stage for me.
gashikunFLCL
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Ojamajo Doremi - 12
So his shirt is
Majo Rika
, so all the sales
So his shirt is
worth 20 magic spheres. Didn't
said their money had no value in the witch world
until now for, 5, 10, 200, 250, 280 yens are worth nothing?
Lavalamp1138
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Naw, bro. Movie arc had dat introspection and dat twist.
KirbYuuYuu
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No asking, just straight up commenting time.
The Hyouka arc had stronger individual episodes for me, and some themes from there later come back with full force in the endgame.
The movie arc is excellent too, I wouldn't think the show's a masterpiece if it weren't!
Ultimadrago
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Well, the "awesome girls" portion of the statement balances it out more than enough. As SeraphisCain's rep, I secure this comment under his name!
Future Diary is supposed to be a horror-movie type situation though, with an ordinary kid thrust into terrifying circumstances.
The protagonist isn't a hero with responsibility; he just wishes he could get the hell out of there. I also rather liked this situation where a male protagonist is highly dependent on a much stronger and frightening woman he has zero control over.
And of course it's fairly standard as far as him growing up some over the course of it.
KirbYuuYuu
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Huzzah!
Y'ain't seen weird till the curry episode.
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