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

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Jex

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Doing the NSA's job for them, I see. GG, animegaf.
I see how it is Dresden-sama. Already viewing the occupants of this thread as a group that you are separate from and therefore greater than. Soon you'll be declaring yourself the king of the thread and banning everyone in it for the sake of world peace.
 
Mamoru Miyano, Yōko Hikasa, Takahiro Sakurai Voice Kawamori's Nobunaga The Fool

Anime creator Shoji Kawamori (Macross, Escaflowne, Aquarion) and the rest of the production team behind The Fool "multi-dimensional" project announced the voice cast and more details about the project's first work, the stage play Nobunaga the Fool. The project will host three stage productions between this December and next summer.

The play will combine original animation produced by the anime studio Satelight with live stage performances produced by Avex Live Creative. The project will have both onstage actors and a voice cast to embody characters.

Mamoru Miyano will voice Oda Nobunaga, a character loosely inspired by the real-life Japanese warlord of the same name. Oda is the legitimate heir of the country of Owari on the Eastern Planet.

Yōko Hikasa will voice Jeanne Kaguya d'Arc, a girl raised in the country of Donremi on the Western Planet.

Takahiro Sakurai will play Akechi Mitsuhide, a captain who handles strategy for the Oda clan.

The staff describes the story:

The Western Planet and the Eastern Planet.

Once upon a time, the two sides were bound by the "Dragon Pulse" spanning the heavens.

The civilization that once had prospered has now turned to a tale of dreams, as the inextinguishable flames of war tear the realm asunder. The two planets remain engulfed in endless battles.

The return of the super technology known as "sacred treasures" could revolutionize the world order, but no one knows of them but one person — a "heretical girl."

A girl from the Western Panet, Jeanne Kaguya d'Arc, saw heavenly visions of the birth of a "Star Messiah" who will save the world. She embarks on a journey to the Eastern Planet with Leonardo da Vinci, "the one who observes the world." They come across the heretic of the Eastern Planet and "the greatest fool of the day," Oda Nobunaga.

And for DTL:
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Oh, this would be so awesome if it became an actual anime. Dat voice cast!
 
Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann - 11

Wow, what an asshole this Spiral King is. He has sex, raises kids, throws em away when they become self aware, rinse and repeat. It's 1984 all over again. I can't wait to see this guy's ass get handed to him in the most grandiose way possible. At least he better get his ass handed to him that way.

Yes! Gurren Lagann is back in action! Now that
the grieving of Kamina
is over, it's time to move this show forward!

But enough of that, when the hell is Yoko going to get herself a mech? There are going to be some desks getting flipped if I don't see her inside at least one Gunman by the time this show is over.
 

RurouniZel

Asks questions so Ezalc doesn't have to
I'm convinced the Japanese government spent hundreds of billions of yen conducting highly advanced scientific research to boil the process of creating cuteness down to a science.
 

CorvoSol

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Juri episodes are much less about a girl being a bitch to her but slowly being revealed
that Juri is yuri for the girl in question and wasn't mad about her taking the guy from her but rather him taking the girl from her and the difficult position Juri is in, being unable to confess her love.

Slowly? There's nothing slow about it. They bludgeon you with it in her first episode and every time an episode focuses on Juri its the same dumb thing. "OH NO SHIORI STILL DOESN'T LOVE ME AND STILL DOES BITCHY SHIT TO HURT ME." Fuck, at least Miki isn't still trying to get his sister to play the piano.

Juri is the worst. She has less character development than fucking ANTHY.

How can you not like Allenby? She actually has a fun personality compared to either Domon and Rain. Her reactions are great and she has pretty good chemistry with Domon. She actually gives the Final Round fights more character which it needs after all the stereotyping it does.

Probably because she's a terrible character who rises to prominence in the plot without actually being important, significant, or special in any way? EVERYONE has a fucking boner for Allenby. Even Master Asia is "OH I WAS WRONG ALLENBY IS SO GREAT." MASTER. ASIA. The man can DANCE ON FUCKING LASERS. He spends all his time tearing DOMON down and Domon is King of Hearts. Yes, I know
Master Asia is putting on a show of being a jerkass
but to have him bend over and suck off Allenby in the middle of it is jarring. She doesn't fit.

Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann - 9

What's this? Villains showing actual remorse for their fallen comrades?...

Ah well they're going to be crushed by team Daigurren anyway.

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Pretty much how everyone acted in the first half of this episode. And for good reason. I mean,
the best character died,
so what can you expect?

Damn at Simon's breakdown. I knew he'd be pissed, but I never expected THAT to happen to the mech.

Who the hell is this? OH NO. Don't tell me this is
Kamina's replacement!
Wait she was in the opening so that means OH SHIT SHE IS!

This is like your SNES breaking and immediately the next day your mother buys you a Sega Genesis.

I'm glad they didn't waste any time with her backstory at least. I mean when she mentioned the only human she saw was her father, that pretty much sealed the deal for me for who she was.

I hate Nia, too.
 

iavi

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Okay, I watched the Gintama Silver Screen Special and while it was mostly a bunch of nothing I'm hyped as hell.

As for the whole "Is it really ending?!" they keep talking about
my thoughts were originally "NOPE!" but after seeing the first three minutes at the end I'm not sure anymore. It looks like Gintoki being sent to the future is actually some kind of curse he got from a Tendoshu guy he killed during the Joi war. Then again it's Gintama, where everything goes, but I don't know...

It has all the makings of a troll though. Like when Elizabeth had to leave the show. lol

I do think it'll be serious in the sense that the proceedings won't be trollish, but I do think it'll follow the usual Gintama back-to-status-quo-by-the-end formula.
 
Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann - 12

A swimsuit fanservice episode where things actually happened? What is this blasphemy?

I’m glad this focused on both Yoko and Nia, as a rivalry was bound to happen in between these two. But surprisingly it wasn’t over Simon like I thought it would be. It was over the sex appeal for all the men on the ship lol.

That’s
two generals down, two and the Spiral King to go!

Yeah....that hairstyle just doesn't fit with Nia. Really hoping it grows back. Long haired Nia was better.

They’re getting awfully close to the capital and the show isn’t even half over yet. I’m wondering how this is all going to play out.
 

Tenumi

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Kwixotik

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Finished Serial Experiments Lain today. It was excellent. Next I'm gonna watch Texhnolyze, Ghost in the Shell, or rewatch Paranoia Agent.
 
Gintama Silver Screen Special

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An half hour of an overview of the show, staff, cast, artists interviews, seeing Sugita wear the same jacket, random clips of the movies, introduction of the characters' new outfits and general hype building of the movie. Then,

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A five minute trailer to the movie. HYPEEEEEEEEEE.

I want to see the trailer
 

Regulus Tera

Romanes Eunt Domus
Slowly? There's nothing slow about it. They bludgeon you with it in her first episode and every time an episode focuses on Juri its the same dumb thing. "OH NO SHIORI STILL DOESN'T LOVE ME AND STILL DOES BITCHY SHIT TO HURT ME." Fuck, at least Miki isn't still trying to get his sister to play the piano.

Juri is the worst. She has less character development than fucking ANTHY.
You obviously haven't been paying attention.
 

CorvoSol

Member
You obviously haven't been paying attention.

Well excuse me for not being able to see when half the screen is taken up by a fucking frame and swirling rose and other pretentious, distracting bullshit.

Mickey, Touga and Nanami have all had development beyond their introductory episodes and "obviously not paying attention" has made it clear all the same. Meanwhile special snowflake Juri apparently requires magic fucking laser vision to discern more character beyond what I saw twenty episodes ago.

Fuck her character, and fuck trying to read between the lines in a show that has lines as wiggly as Chu Chu's eyes.

Juri sucks.
 
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