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[cajunator]

Hidamari Sketch 12

I think I'm done with this show.

The show really just isn't entertaining to watch at all. The only one of the main four who makes this show even remotely interesting for me is Miyako. She's out there, but compared to Yuno, who to me is just annoyingly childish, and Sae and Hiro who have pretty much zero interesting traits whatsoever, being out there is a good thing.

I planned to stay away from these types of shows for a while, and while I was studying for finals and finishing homework and such this was a decent time waster, but in the end I just can't justify watching this instead of other, better shows I'm watching.

A pity. you were close to reaching the next series which is much better overall. But leave it for another time.

 

[Theonik]

Isn't something like this difficult to pull off without the use of CG? I'm not really animation savvy but aren't they using a bunch of 2D frames to create the illusion of a 3D pan-around shot? I think it looks really cool.

It's a pretty difficult thing to do yes.
There was a compilation of such shots on the last thread/a few pages back but I can't search on my phone.

 

[Jex]

Eden of the East 04 - Real Reality, Fabricated Reality

Review
I continue to think that this show is surprisingly literate, more than I would have expected, in terms of the way it subtly uses Japanese and global culture as the basis for its politics. That's what makes me excited to watch the next episode each time. Who are the other SELACAO and what perspective do they bring to the table? Dante's Inferno was an allegory, where Dante was able to take all of what he viewed as Italy's problems and explore them through the lens of Hell and punishment for acting poorly, and I think that's the intent here, that each character will act as a way to discuss something that is wrong with Japan. The Title becomes more clear as well, at least so far, the Game is about making Japan into Eden (of the East)... although I suspect the specific word Eden will be used at some later point.

I think that we have the writer and director of the series, Kenji Kamiyama, to thank for that. It's not often that the director of the show is also the writer for the show but Kamiyama has managed to pull that off on a number of shows that he's directed, most notably Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex which is another work that concerns itself with Japanese politics and related issues. Heck, that series even has a spin-off special episode that deals exclusively with the problem of Japan's elderly so that's clearly a theme which is important to him.

 

[Regulus Tera]

[Jojo's Bizarre Adventure] (1993) 5

Fuck Dio. What a piece of shit.

That car chase sequence was godlike, although I spoiled it for myself in the a sakuga video a while ago. Satoshi Kon orz

CATS AND DOGS LIVING TOGETHER

Speaking of what's the verdict on the remasters? Worse than the originals or is this gallery just from before there was a remaster? Tempted to get the 2011 DVD remasters because who knows how long it'll take the BD to come over to the US.

No reason to not watch the remasters unless you loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooved the original broadcast's title cards.

 

[Haly]

Difficult but not impossible. Knowing I.G., I wouldn't be surprised if that shot did use CG, and they just did a good job of hiding it. The quality is too low for me to judge though.

 

[R_thanatos]

Good to know.

I need to finish Fresh someday. I'm still on Ep 6 or something.

Dokidoki & smile are on the same level if we compare their first parts.

Dokidoki has potential to be better in the second part however

 

[Stumpokapow]

Difficult but not impossible. Knowing I.G., I wouldn't be surprised if that shot did use CG, and they just did a good job of hiding it. The quality is too low for me to judge though.

If you have a Netflix subscription, it's on there, around 13-14 minutes in I guess (episode 4)? The rotation goes on way longer, two or three more spins than I capped. I had to lower the resolution a bunch to make the file size reasonable and obviously GIFfing ruins colour fidelity. But it's definitely visually the coolest shot of the show so far whether they used CG or not.

 

[hosannainexcelsis]

A pity. you were close to reaching the next series which is much better overall. But leave it for another time.

If you don't enjoy the first season of Hidamari Sketch at all, you're not going to enjoy of the succeeding seasons. They may be better executed in general, but the characters and their dynamic doesn't change in any material way.

 

[cajunator]

If you have a Netflix subscription, it's on there, around 13-14 minutes in I guess? The rotation goes on way longer, two or three more spins than I capped. I had to lower the resolution a bunch to make the file size reasonable and obviously GIFfing ruins colour fidelity. But it's definitely visually the coolest shot of the show so far whether they used CG or not.

Ill check the bluray on my TV.
That should pretty much reveal all.

 

[Rayearth]

Are those patches the ones made by Mikan as well?

Yea, I got two of each patch (Oarai, KMM, Saunders and Pravda) from Mikan.

Also, in that same picture, the book next to the GuP BDs is Commanding the Red Army's Sherman Tanks, which is a Soviet tank officer's anecdotes about using Lend-Lease Shermans on the East Front. It's a good read, and it shows that the M4 is actually not that bad a tank, when fighting alongside T-34s.

That guy and his buddies seems to take out more Tigers (

Spoiler

and one airplane

) than their luck should allow, I think. I do like the story of how

Spoiler

the crew's piss freezes around the turret ring and makes the turret stuck for a bit

.

 

[chickdigger802]

After making that post about reverse image searching for avatar origins, I thought maybe I should test it out some more to see how effective it really is and whether it could find cropped avatars' sources too.

My conclusions:



It's pretty effective.

interesting. With google images and yahoo answers, why even go to school anymore?


edit: doesn't work with my avatar. I win!

 

[cajunator]

Stump I just analyzed it pretty carefully and it appears to be a very well integrated cg model. His hand placement and phone position remains perfectly placed throughout the rotations and its far too smooth to be hand drawn. but Production IG is pretty good at this kind of thing. It works really well.

 

[cnet128]

edit: doesn't work with my avatar. I win!

Yeah, I had a go with yours, but no luck as expected.

I guess even Google can't reverse GBAification.

 

[Ultimadrago]

This is why no one new bothers and things are so stagnant. Too full of self-congratulation mixed with passive-aggressive insistence than anything different Just Isn't Right.

Oh well, maybe a red name rush can shake things up!

In Tomat's absence, another keen observer appears.

 

[Awful Falafel]

Remasters are better for the most part especially the new audio.

No reason to not watch the remasters unless you loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooved the original broadcast's title cards.

Thanks guys, good to know. Now if only they'd announce the BD release and make this decision way easier.

 

[Chet Rippo]

After making that post about reverse image searching for avatar origins, I thought maybe I should test it out some more to see how effective it really is and whether it could find cropped avatars' sources too.

My conclusions:



It's pretty effective.

Now try mine.

 

[cnet128]

Now try mine.

I know yours is custom as fuck, that's an exercise in futility =p

 

[chickdigger802]

Now try mine.

with safe search off.

 

[Chet Rippo]

I know yours is custom as fuck, that's an exercise in futility =p

But I posted the full picture somewhere, I wanna see if google can find it.

 

[Theonik]

Thanks guys, good to know. Now if only they'd announce the BD release and make this decision way easier.

The US licensor is pretty rigid about avoiding the risks of BD so we will be waiting for a while.

 

[cnet128]

But I posted the full picture somewhere, I wanna see if google can find it.

Google gets nothin'.

 

[cajunator]

But I posted the full picture somewhere, I wanna see if google can find it.

Google cant find my Ritsucat so it probably cant find your Mio.

 

[Chet Rippo]

Google gets nothin'.

Google cant find my Ritsucat so it probably cant find your Mio.

Google sucks.

 

[Jex]

[Area 88] - OVA 1

This OVA contains some of the most impress mechanical animation that I've ever seen. I can see why it was so revered by fans at the time and how it's managed to lodge itself in the memories of some veteran viewers of anime:

 

[PdotMichael]

Talking of Mr. Carius, I wonder what he might think of Mr. Miyazaki's Tigers In The Mud adaptation featuring anthropomorphic pigs. :-D

I think he likes it.

Miyazaki also traveled to Germany to visit Otto Carius in 1998.

 

[RurouniZel]

[Area 88] - OVA 1

This OVA contains some of the most impress mechanical animation that I've ever seen. I can see why it was so revered by fans at the time and how it's managed to lodge itself in the memories of some veteran viewers of anime:

That is sexy as fuck! ∑(ﾟД&#65439

 

[FelixOrion]

After making that post about reverse image searching for avatar origins, I thought maybe I should test it out some more to see how effective it really is and whether it could find cropped avatars' sources too.

My conclusions:



It's pretty effective.

Mine woule probably be hard to find

 

[Regulus Tera]

[Area 88] - OVA 1

I hope Summer sucks arse so that I can catch up on all this old anime.

 

[chickdigger802]

Google sucks.

post it on tumblr. google images always seem to get tumblr first.

 

[Jex]

That is sexy as fuck! ∑(ﾟД&#65439

I added one more because why the hell not.

 

[Ultimadrago]

Mine woule probably be hard to find

Custom handmade wood finished skull racer transferred from hard drive to flash drive to hard drive

 

[Dedication Through Light]

Crunchyroll got Recorder and Randsell Mi.

The latest in the Recorder and Randsell series starts on Monday July 1, at 7:30 am PDT, and will be available to worldwide audiences except for Japan.

 

[RurouniZel]

I added one more because why the hell not.

Love the attention to detail!

 

[Theonik]

[Area 88] - OVA 1

Starting this in the next 5 minutes.

 

[firehawk12]

One of the teachers at my school changed family names between last year and this year because he married and adopted his wife's family name.

Is it just a case of marrying into the more prestigious family?

 

[dimb]

In Tomat's absence, another keen observer appears.

Tomat is still around.

 

[Chet Rippo]

post it on tumblr. google images always seem to get tumblr first.

But I posted it on GAF!

They should find it!

 

[RurouniZel]

Tomat is still around.

I haven't seen him on AnimeGAF in a long time. :-/

 

[BGBW]

So in conclusion, for the avatars you want to find the source for (like mine) Google is useless.

 

[Ultimadrago]

Tomat is still around.

I know, but not as much as he used to be. Either that or I haven't been noticing.

 

[Joe Molotov]

So in conclusion, for the avatars you want to find the source for (like mine) Google is useless.

I did a reverse image search on NSA.gov and found it.

 

[Chronoexe]

So in conclusion, for the avatars you want to find the source for (like mine) Google is useless.

ok now i'm curious, what's happening in your avatar and who is she or he?

 

[Stumpokapow]

[Area 88] - OVA 1

This OVA contains some of the most impress mechanical animation that I've ever seen. I can see why it was so revered by fans at the time and how it's managed to lodge itself in the memories of some veteran viewers of anime:

etc.

Fighter jets as a subject matter don't interest me at all but I just wanted to reply that I very much agree that technically all the clips you just capped were cool looking, and it's hard to imagine where they could have gotten reference material for some of them so it's a testament to the artists that they turned out as well as they did.

 

[FelixOrion]

[Area 88] - OVA 1

This OVA contains some of the most impress mechanical animation that I've ever seen. I can see why it was so revered by fans at the time and how it's managed to lodge itself in the memories of some veteran viewers of anime:

Can we use these for reviews of Miyazaki's new film?

Custom handmade wood finished skull racer transferred from hard drive to flash drive to hard drive

wrong but

 

[Trojita]

Kill Me Baby Episode 3

This show is still boring.

 

[R_thanatos]

Kill Me Baby Episode 3

This show is still boring.

the flavor of the show is stay the same ..if you don't like it after ep 4 , you should stop because it ain't gonna change

 

[Jex]

Can we use these for reviews of Miyazaki's new film?

Mamoru Hosoda said it was amazing and we know that there's no love loss between him and Miyazaki considering that Miyazaki fired him, so I imagine it's going to be pretty great.

 

[Hitokage]

After making that post about reverse image searching for avatar origins, I thought maybe I should test it out some more to see how effective it really is and whether it could find cropped avatars' sources too.

My conclusions:



It's pretty effective.

Certain image websites aren't indexed by google. A few of my previous avatars don't work in a reverse search.

 

[Theonik]

Mamoru Hosoda said it was amazing and we know that there's no love loss between him and Miyazaki considering that Miyazaki fired him, so I imagine it's going to be pretty great.

I'm waiting for Oshii to watch it. He's the only man we can trust.
Edit: Also while I'm at it sub or dub for Area 88?

 

[FelixOrion]

Mamoru Hosoda said it was amazing and we know that there's no love loss between him and Miyazaki considering that Miyazaki fired him, so I imagine it's going to be pretty great.

im just saiyan they would be pretty good