Theonik
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I didn't say I were a real man.
I should get my ass at learning Nihongo proper this year. I keep putting it off but it won't happen at this rate.
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Summer 2013 Anime Thread Zero: grown men playing with dolls/who but WB Masochism
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But ex-GAiNAX Kazuhiro Takamura sure was very moved by his beloved Hideaki Anno being a fan of Strike Witches, to the point of Mr. Anno asking personally for the DVDs of the series, which as Mr. Takamura says he proudly displays at the Studio Khara office:
ありがたいお話。: バニシングポイント・ブログ
http://vanishingpoint.air-nifty.com/blog/2008/10/post-359f.html
There is realistic, and then there is also a realistic approach to fantastical elements and very naturalistic depictions as Pom Poko does; much of the false-documentary style and the grim society aspects (that later certain characters come to accept in very true-to-life scenes) in that movie actually clash with what of legendary and whimsical the protagonist characters have. And much of the banal aspects and interactions are still reflected here in greater detail and focus.
First Newtype scoop only confirmed a two 'cours' run. Was there any other information that mentioned this '24 episodes' figure?
Not a fan of SUNRISE Inc., perhaps?
I don't even know how Tsutomu Mizushima makes it, but I have the impression he has worked lately on too many things at the same time!
Gintoki313
Banned
Sorry, I can be very condescending sometimes. I'm just disappointed that I didn't laugh as much as I wanted to when watching this. If I come out of a comedy anime with only laughing at one scene, then I might as well not laughed at all. I like my comedies to be like Dansei Kokosei where I'm laughing constantly and the jokes are back to back.
No but it tries to be.
PdotMichael
Banned
Not the biggest fan of the first episode but I'm not sure what do you mean with generic high school tropes.
(Harvest Moon, except the SNES original, sucks by the way)
ZachDeKoromaru
Banned
Anno confirmed not so awful.
Theonik
Member
Anno is a bro that much is known
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
Does that man's depravity know no bounds?
High School slice of life tropes, they all have a farm theme to them, which makes sense but does not make them any more interesting.
PdotMichael
Banned
As expected from the inventor of the Gainax bounce.
Gintoki313
Banned
It isn't!? I really shouldn't have went in it looking for comedy then. I was mostly just looking at the manga tags for it and most of them say comedy, slice of life, shounen. If it's barely a comedy I might as well drop it right now, because I was only in it for the comedy since it's been a long time since a good slice of life comedy came out that was different.
Peaked at 64.
I was led to believe that the games were only worth playing when one of the girls had a particular hair color.
I see it more as a slice of life/coming of age series, with a few jokes every now and then. I love Silver Spoon but I can't say I'm reading it because it's funny.
darkside31337
Tomodachi wa Mahou
Link? Highlights of the cast? Something?
Glass Fleet 22
Oh, Aimer's jealous of...wait, who is she jealous of, Cleo or Michel? Does she still have the hots for Michel even though she knows she's a woman now? Who got this :SDBurton in my Glass Fleet?
Seems this is a flashback episode about Aimer. *shrugs* If you insist, but you've only got 4 episodes left after this one. It's probably not a good idea to have an episode like this now, unless you don't have anything else to fill the time.
Wait...lol is she riding a segway through that crowd of people? Haha, that's some pretty abysmal animation right there. Oh okay, it's more like a motorized skateboard. Still dumb.
"Oh no! I forgot we had until the morning!" Hold on, they forgot that the aristocrats were coming to bulldoze their fucking village? LMAO! Oh no wait, it was "I thought we had until morning!", hence the blame they put on Aimer. But...it was morning. They said they were coming in the morning, and then they showed a scene of Aimer playing Cleo's harmonica at night, and then it was daylight. Morning! Something's off here.
Oh yay the fatman!
Four episodes left. I'm still curious to see if Hector actually went ahead with that bullshit plan of his to build up his own army. Or maybe he won't show up at all. That would probably be for the best.
Seems this is a flashback episode about Aimer. *shrugs* If you insist, but you've only got 4 episodes left after this one. It's probably not a good idea to have an episode like this now, unless you don't have anything else to fill the time.
Wait...lol is she riding a segway through that crowd of people? Haha, that's some pretty abysmal animation right there. Oh okay, it's more like a motorized skateboard. Still dumb.
"Oh no! I forgot we had until the morning!" Hold on, they forgot that the aristocrats were coming to bulldoze their fucking village? LMAO! Oh no wait, it was "I thought we had until morning!", hence the blame they put on Aimer. But...it was morning. They said they were coming in the morning, and then they showed a scene of Aimer playing Cleo's harmonica at night, and then it was daylight. Morning! Something's off here.
Oh yay the fatman!
Four episodes left. I'm still curious to see if Hector actually went ahead with that bullshit plan of his to build up his own army. Or maybe he won't show up at all. That would probably be for the best.
PdotMichael
Banned
Can you name some of the tropes, so that I can get an idea what do you mean by generic high school tropes?
oops sorry
Tomokazu Sugita as Raleigh Becket (played by Charlie Hunnam)
Megumi Hayashibara as Mako Mori (Rinko Kikuchi)
Tesshô Genda as Stacker Pentecost (Idris Elba)
Tohru Furuya as Dr. Newton Geizler (Charlie Day)
Yuji Mitsuya as Dr. Hermann Gottlieb (Burn Gorman)
Shuuichi Ikeda as Herc Hansen (Max Martini)
Shigeru Chiba as Tendo Choi (Clifton Collins Jr.)
Daisuke Namikawa as Chuck Hansen (Robert Kazinsky)
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/int...cific-rim-poster-and-japan-creators-laud-film
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
I don't know any of those fuckers.
OH MAN
This amuses me for multiple reasons.
dakkumauji
Member
Finally, Funi has released their simulcast schedule and they got High School DxD New.
This seems silly they'll be a week behind in Danganronpa. ~_~
This seems silly they'll be a week behind in Danganronpa. ~_~
You don't know Sugita? You should probably just go and commit seppuku, there's no recovering from that shame.
(I don't recognise most of the others, though. Hayashibara Megumi and Namikawa Daisuke are definitely familiar, but I couldn't really put a voice to them without looking them up...)
ZachDeKoromaru
Banned
Silver Spoon 1 halfway point
I don't understand how someone couldn't have known where eggs come from.
I didn't even notice the character. Why would they do that? Cost maybe?
I think it's more a case of "never thought about it too hard before" than "didn't know".
Easy to get grossed out by something when you
just saw it come out of an animal's ass
Maybe they just record together and they couldn't match up with Kikuchi, or cost, or standard procedure for dubs? I was more amused by Mako being dubbed by Hayashibara, though, because when I first saw the trailers for PR I thought that Mako was totally a Rei Ayanami.
maybe we can get zeroshiki on the case
we'll have to press him for answers once he's back from reserving his seat for Kaze Tachinu
Psycho_Mantis
Banned
Eureka Seven Astral Ocean 7
REALLY? REALLY? I MEAN FUCKING REALLY? You had a perfectly good character design with the
and then you go and make her
FUCK YOU BONES. THIS CHANGE HAD BETTER NOT LAST MORE THAN AN EPISODE.
A white haired pretty boy with funny eyes and superhuman abilities and if he comes in contact with an alien substance underneath HQ it's game over? I already fucking hated Kaoru Nagisa and now he's shitting up Eureka Seven? FUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCK.
WHY.
AND LET'S NOT FORGET HIS ASSOCIATION WITH MUSIC! I mean I get it, White Haired Pretty Boys are a thing, but I mean really. Of all the White Haired Pretty Boys, why FUCKING KAORU NAGISA.
AND HE ALWAYS WANTED TO MEET OUR MOPEY PROTAGONIST?
FUCK THIS.
REALLY? REALLY? I MEAN FUCKING REALLY? You had a perfectly good character design with the
crazy purple shape shifter lady
a white haired pretty boy?
A white haired pretty boy with funny eyes and superhuman abilities and if he comes in contact with an alien substance underneath HQ it's game over? I already fucking hated Kaoru Nagisa and now he's shitting up Eureka Seven? FUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCK.
WHY.
AND LET'S NOT FORGET HIS ASSOCIATION WITH MUSIC! I mean I get it, White Haired Pretty Boys are a thing, but I mean really. Of all the White Haired Pretty Boys, why FUCKING KAORU NAGISA.
AND HE ALWAYS WANTED TO MEET OUR MOPEY PROTAGONIST?
FUCK THIS.
Deputy Dangle
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Silver Spoon - 1
Every attempt at a joke fell flat for me. It's a rough first episode, but I like the character designs and I'm interested enough in the setting to want to see more.
Every attempt at a joke fell flat for me. It's a rough first episode, but I like the character designs and I'm interested enough in the setting to want to see more.
Extended sales list for July 1-7
Minor updates on the Spring Temporal Sales list, though I don't think anything changed places.
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2013 07/01~07/07 BD List
-- (*32) --- *1,115 **1,115 **1 Ao no Exorcist Movie RE
-- (*34) --- **,992 ***,992 **1 Kotoura-san v4
-- (*35) *19 **,965 *19,330 **3 Love Live! v4
-- (*36) --- **,902 ***,902 **1 Ixion Saga DT v8
-- (*37) **9 **,898 **8,069 **2 Date A Live v1
-- (*40) *96 **,736 *21,830 *11 Love Live! v2
-- (*43) *13 **,670 **6,089 **2 Kakumeiki Valvrave v1
-- (*47) **8 **,606 **7,950 **2 Little Busters! v7
-- (*50) *79 **,536 *19,500 **6 Love Live! v3
-- (*51) *46 **,526 *17,698 **3 Ore no Imouto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai. v1
-- (*56) **5 **,494 *13,436 **2 Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann BD Box
-- (*58) *21 **,486 **3,908 **2 Haiyore! Nyaruko-san W v2
-- (*59) 105 **,484 *30,234 *16 Love Live! v1
-- (*60) *11 **,480 **7,355 **2 Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Come wa Machigatteiru v1
-- (*61) *28 **,462 *35,381 **3 Girls und Panzer v6
-- (*67) *14 **,405 **5,427 **2 Vividred Operation v4
-- (*72) *20 **,384 **4,007 **2 Namiuchigiwa no Muromi-san v1
-- (*73) *17 **,376 **4,392 **2 Hentai Ouji to Warawanai Neko. v1 LE
-- (*84) *59 **,329 *10,356 **3 Kidou Senshi Gundam SEED Destiny BD Box
-- (*85) *70 **,320 **6,563 **3 Berserk Ougon Jidai-hen III
-- (*86) *82 **,316 **8,129 **3 Macross Plus BD Box
-- (*88) *58 **,309 *13,649 **3 Chuunibyou Demo Koi ga Shitai! v7
-- (*90) *97 **,300 *26,519 **6 Uchuu Senkan Yamato 2199 v5
-- (*98) *15 **,263 **5,052 **2 To Aru Majutsu no Index BD BoxMinor updates on the Spring Temporal Sales list, though I don't think anything changed places.
Also, Ixion Saga DT checks in with a final per-volume average of 2,197 over eight volumes.
And now you're in the right mindset for watching AO!
Love Live and Girls und Panzer making them sales!
That's all you had to say
Silver Spoon - Episode 1
This is a pretty good adaptation. It's very faithful to the source, but it also takes advantage of animation to enhance certain scenes. It's really only apparent in the later parts of the episode though, since the direction in the beginning is honestly rather flat. I'm disappointed that the backgrounds aren't as detailed and pretty as the ones in Sword Art Online, since it has the same director. But overall as a big fan of the manga, I'm pretty pleased by the end of the episode.
Those who are not familiar with the manga should keep in mind that the story is very much about Hachiken's perspective of what to expect. Thus at the beginning, the generic feel is largely down to how he chooses to perceive it and carry it out. The manga also did a really good job of putting the reader into Hachiken's head, probably because the reality is that most people reading manga and watching anime are those who are familiar with city life, rather than rural and agricultural lifestyles. When he gets more involved and learns to be more proactive in engaging this lifestyle, that's when the story really shines.
I don't really think I ever found most of the humor in Silver Spoon that funny, and the gags in Fullmetal Alchemist didn't really do much for me either, but its how the author presents a world and writes interesting characters and exchanges which keeps me invested in her works.
This is a pretty good adaptation. It's very faithful to the source, but it also takes advantage of animation to enhance certain scenes. It's really only apparent in the later parts of the episode though, since the direction in the beginning is honestly rather flat. I'm disappointed that the backgrounds aren't as detailed and pretty as the ones in Sword Art Online, since it has the same director. But overall as a big fan of the manga, I'm pretty pleased by the end of the episode.
Those who are not familiar with the manga should keep in mind that the story is very much about Hachiken's perspective of what to expect. Thus at the beginning, the generic feel is largely down to how he chooses to perceive it and carry it out. The manga also did a really good job of putting the reader into Hachiken's head, probably because the reality is that most people reading manga and watching anime are those who are familiar with city life, rather than rural and agricultural lifestyles. When he gets more involved and learns to be more proactive in engaging this lifestyle, that's when the story really shines.
I don't really think I ever found most of the humor in Silver Spoon that funny, and the gags in Fullmetal Alchemist didn't really do much for me either, but its how the author presents a world and writes interesting characters and exchanges which keeps me invested in her works.
Also it looks like the Steins;Gate: Fuka Ryouiki no Déjà vu movie BD will have English subtitles, so it should be import friendly.
Theonik
Member
If by depravity you mean sage-like wisdom then no.
Yeah because at least Kaworu had the decency to be in as few episodes as possible at the end of the series (not that the same can be said for his awful self in Rebuild), but this guy's showed up early on.
I just cannot believe what I've seen in this episode. Take an original character and design, throw it away and swap in the most by the numbers whpb and call it a day.
I'm so angry right now.
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