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

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Quasar

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The World God Only Knows - Goddesses Arc - 1:

Jesus, just how much manga material did they skip in order to start the show here? I feel completely lost, even though I watched the first two seasons of this show.

I didn't feel lost at all. Though I did see the OVAs, which certainly is critical for the Tenri/Diana stuff.
 

Blusby

Member
Dealing with Shinji's complexes every father's day is going to be a pain, though.
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Ojamajo Doremi # - 23

Mid season power-ups,
they don't give a fuck to what the Queen says, "Don't waste magic", cast magic to give Hana-chan butterfly wings
, and I liked the solution for the long cast time of witches apprentices.
Hazuki acknowledges Doremi bonds with steaks will be eternal.
Keep the
wizards
coming!
 
  • Heartcatch Precure! 01
Awesome, we start with some sakuga-- almost.

Wow, this is already starting a little more epic than Smile from the get go. hehe. Heart Perfume? STUFF TO SELL YAYA

Oh my gosh this OP is pretty good. And all this awesome battle animation in the OP is promising.

LOL that totally stock applause sound effect.
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Man I would be so annoyed with someone as pushy as Erika. Actually no, one of my roommates is just like her and I'm ultra annoyed. So SHMEH. But of course she's the secondary protagonist and I'm going to learn to love her.

ahahaha they live next to each other. girl next door situation amirite
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Erika's just in it for the :SDBurton, apparently.

And now we're getting into the mahou shoujo part with some loli :chet to boot
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The :chet is talking! AAAAAAAAAAAA OH SHEET Erika turned into a bouquet! --I mean a sphere! How do I make metroid crawl?

The first episode already has a more compelling monster-of-the-week than Akanbe. Aww yiss. Alright, transformation sequence time and the episode is about to end. :p PURICURE OPEN MAI HATO including cheap perfume! hehehe. Cure Blossom, alright.

CG Dance now! :D my favorite part of the Precure series.

My little sister is going to love this. Unless she already finished this season.
I think she actually finished Max Heart wahaha
 

CorvoSol

Member
Big Utena spoilers

I guess in a way yes, but
there really is no character in Evangelion that is as passive aggressive as Anthy. Asuka never receives the same level of abuse as Nanami does.

Well yeah, but Anthy knows how to cook, do household chores and will not raise a voice to any of your commands.
She might try and poison you, though.
 

Regulus Tera

Romanes Eunt Domus
Utena
Well yeah, but Anthy knows how to cook, do household chores and will not raise a voice to any of your commands.
She might try and poison you, though.
She will send you in a trip to India while elephants follow you, give you an item that will transform you into a bovine, or have Chu Chu pull a prank involving your menarche instead.
:p
 

CorvoSol

Member
Utena

She will send you in a trip to India while elephants follow you, give you an item that will transform you into a bovine, or have Chu Chu pull a prank involving your menarche instead.
:p

Also she will
name various livestock after you. That was probably the first clue.
 
I watched some stuff at Anime-Expo and figured I'd do some lightning round impressions. Here we go!

Kick-Heart

Got the opportunity to go to the Kick-Heart Panel. The turn out was a lot bigger than I expected! Lots of super enthusiastic fans excited to see Yuasa. The short itself was really great. It's just a ton of fun from start to finish and looks incredible. And made by only 4 animators? Crazy. Above everything else, I liked the colors of Kick-Heart. Makes me wish more anime had it's style or a style similar. I'd love to see some more from these characters outside the form of a 12-minute short, but it worked fine like this.

They also premiered the making of video alongside it. It really showed how humble the project is. During the panel, Yuasa seemed to be saying that he was at a troubling point of his career, and that this project really revitalized his career. He said he'd been contacted by a lot of people since Kick Hearts premiere which is great to hear. Now that this is over, I wait patiently for whatever he has in store next.

After diving into some of his work recently, I've been super eager to see this. And it's nice to hear it turned out well! I didn't look too much into the specifics of the kickstarter that Yuasa did for this, but I didn't expect it to just be a 12 minute short. That's a bit disappointing.
 

Regulus Tera

Romanes Eunt Domus
Hey, you need episode 2 to show how much better episodes 1 and 3 are by comparison. It demonstrates what less talented people would do with the same material.
But they are good on their own. You don't need a bad episode to justify their quality!

Essentially what I'm saying is that Toei should feel bad about it. :(
Nooooooooo. I have so much else to watch!
C'mooooooooooooooon it's only twenty minutes.
 
  • Heartcatch Precure! 01
Awesome, we start with some sakuga-- almost.

Wow, this is already starting a little more epic than Smile from the get go. hehe. Heart Perfume? STUFF TO SELL YAYA

Oh my gosh this OP is pretty good. And all this awesome battle animation in the OP is promising.

LOL that totally stock applause sound effect.
9l5HhPC.png


Man I would be so annoyed with someone as pushy as Erika. Actually no, one of my roommates is just like her and I'm ultra annoyed. So SHMEH. But of course she's the secondary protagonist and I'm going to learn to love her.

ahahaha they live next to each other. girl next door situation amirite
eA6X1c7.png


Erika's just in it for the :SDBurton, apparently.

And now we're getting into the mahou shoujo part with some loli :chet to boot
Ir3zuoS.png

The :chet is talking! AAAAAAAAAAAA OH SHEET Erika turned into a bouquet! --I mean a sphere! How do I make metroid crawl?

The first episode already has a more compelling monster-of-the-week than Akanbe. Aww yiss. Alright, transformation sequence time and the episode is about to end. :p PURICURE OPEN MAI HATO including cheap perfume! hehehe. Cure Blossom, alright.

CG Dance now! :D my favorite part of the Precure series.

My little sister is going to love this. Unless she already finished this season.
I think she actually finished Max Heart wahaha

Yaaaay Tsubomi

And yes you will definitely learn to love Erika
Or you'll get crucified
 

Jex

Member
I dig it. Has there ever been an anime that used drawn characters over real footage backgrounds, outside of Inferno Cop of course? The Servant X Service OP used this style too. Think it could look pretty cool.

Yes, on a number of occasions. Sometimes for stylistic reasons, other times I assume to save on paying someone to draw background art.
 

Soma

Member
Danganronpa

Yeah I think i'll just play the game instead.

Though I find it pretty interesting that the person who voices Monokuma is the voice actress for Doraemon from back in the 70's. I had no idea but I guess it's like her first role for something in ages.

Pretty neat!
 

Lain

Member
Day Break Illusion 1

I liked this first episode. Dark enough while keeping a somewhat "cute" appearance. The char design could have been better though.
When the cousin (or at least I think Fuyuna is Akari's cousin?)
dies and then the day repeats without her
I felt sad. It's like
she was deleted.
 
Ojamajo Doremi # - 24

Can we throw the SOS trio, Tamaki Reika and the reporter( I forgot her name) under a bus? The attitude that Kotake showed in this episode is what make me like him more than Masaru-kun.
I bet Onpu-chan don't fart, since she
can't turn into a sumo fighter because she's na idol.
 

Nudull

Banned
School Days - 02

Looking up porn mags IN THE MIDDLE OF A DATE, stringing along your girlfriend, continuously failing in your interactions with the opposite sex, and waiting by the bus stop into the night for said girl, whom you have no doubt frightened. Our hero, that Makoto. :D

Also, solving your friend's fears of sexual harassment by groping her. Smooth, Saionji. :p

...This has been interesting.
 
Beelzebub - Episodes 55-60 (END)

Since I'm able to watch my anime in 1080p for the next day I thought I'd finally finish watching the rest of the anime. Firstly I have a complaint about the ending since I read the manga. I know
it was rushed because in the real story Toujo and Oga both fought Jaberwock, and Oga had to play a game with the guy with the red tear on his face before fighting Jaberwock. They literally skipped like 80% of the finale of this arc, but I don't mind I guess since it seems like they were in a rush.

These last few episodes reminded me why I love Beelzebub so much. A different kind of shounen main character, an interesting story that can easily be expanded on, a great cast of characters, it keeps me interested, and it's comedy is really great. I even got my friends to watch the whole thing and they despise watching subs. So that's a feat in my book if people who only watch dubbed anime, and only watch a select few would step out their comfortable zone to watch it.

This anime kinda had fillers all over the place, but at least they were good fillers that made me laugh instead of the cringeworthy kind of fillers.

The last episode was a good way to end the anime I guess since it
implied what the next story is
. Also it kind of gave a great way to end it for the anime only watchers since it gave that feel that Beelze
doesn't want to leave Oga and actually looks up to him.
Also this was the first time I've seen Beelze without his pacifier in the anime.

My 3rd favorite anime right behind Gintama and One Piece and it shall remain that.

I need more Beelzebub anime. Hope more of it is made one day.
 
Ojamajo Doremi # - 25

Now they are going to be together always(
at least in spirit
).
The OP was updated but the eyecatch was left with old product placement.
 
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