MetroidPrimeRib
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#1 on that list of races with the most magical power, besides Tet.
Pretty sure there are more then one and that they were in charge before Tet took over
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#1 on that list of races with the most magical power, besides Tet.
Pretty sure there are more then one and that they were in charge before Tet took over
Freezasaurus
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Deus is the latin word for "God". My assumption is that
Old Deus was the ultimate being in that dimension before Tet wrested control via a game
why can't this be real
So now he has both genders after him with her turning into a yandere because he stole her reverse harem? Fund it.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
What if She-rito decides that he likes all the male attention?!
that'd give a whole new meaning to SAO Progressive!
firehawk12
Subete no aware
What if Death Gun is really Sinon's jealous second personality hunting down all the men who have disappointed her by sleeping with She-rito?
It turns out the GGO storyline is an allegory for the AIDS crisis in the 80s?
She-rito has to rescue Man-suna from losing his purity.
I hope your GGO arc writeup is about this.
Then we have a massive plothole... Unless Sinon can see the future and she is wiping them out now subconsciously as Death Gun
AnathemicOne
Banned
Is yuri still the purest form of love with she-Kirito and Shinon?
Aldnoah Zero 1
As we all know, Aldnoah Zero is an anime that is being made by Ufotable and directed by Ei Aoki, the studio and director responsible for the animated television series Fate/Zero. The writer for Fate/Zero was Gen Urobuchi. He is also the writer for Aldnoah Zero. This is the reason that a lot of AnimeGAF(the term we affectionately use for ourselves) was excited for this show. Because we liked Fate/Zero. We liked it a lot. The composer for the series is Hiroyuki Sawano. He did the music for Attack on Titan and Kill la Kill. These are popular anime shows. People were not as excited about this. That's because they think his music is not very good.
I have just been informed that Ufotabla did not make Aldnoah Zero. It was bad that I had wrong information in my post. It was made by A-1 Pictures.
Aldnoah Zero is a show set in an alternate future where 2001: A Space Odyssey happened. Except with giant robots. Giant robots, also known as mecha, are a popular genre in Japan. Giant robots used to be animated by hand, but now they are done with CGI. We call this duckroll's anime future, referring to an AnimeGAF in-joke about anime turning into CGI. We call it that because duckroll is known for defending the use of CGI in anime. By the way, CGI stands for computer generated imagery. People with robots blew up the moon 15 years ago, because of reasons.
Aldnoah Zero's first episode has a lot in common with the first episode of Fate/Zero. This is because both episodes have a lot of scenes of people talking about obvious information they would already know. This is a well-known writing technique called "As You Know." There is an extensive page on the website TVTropes explaining this. If it's overused it can be a very annoying form of exposition, because it requires characters to speak in unnatural ways, and it's boring. It is commonly thought better to explain things visually than with lots and lots of words. At least Aldnoah Zero's first episode is only half as long as Fate/Zero's.
In the last few minutes of the episode there are lots of explosions and people dying. This is good because it distracts us from the fact that nothing happened in the first three fourths of the episode. It would not even matter if the explosions are good because we are eager for anything to happen at that point. But they are pretty good explosions.
The important themes of Aldnoah Zero are racism and war. We know this because one characters beats up a boy, just because the boy is a different race. Racists are jerks. Why did he beat up that boy.
The racists also decide to blow up the Earth, because some people
Wow, that's a bit extreme, isn't it. Racists are jerks.
In conclusion, Aldnoah Zero episode 1 is an episode of anime where people talk about a lot of things. They talk about these things because it's a fictional world where we, the viewer of the anime, don't know what is going on. But it doesn't really seem like they would be talking about these things, realistically. It would be like someone from AnimeGAF explaining very basic things about anime that everybody in this thread already knows. That would be silly.
Was already rolling my eyes when that terribad Sawano song started playing over, and then this happened and my eyes rolled out of my skull.people being incinerated
As we all know, Aldnoah Zero is an anime that is being made by Ufotable and directed by Ei Aoki, the studio and director responsible for the animated television series Fate/Zero. The writer for Fate/Zero was Gen Urobuchi. He is also the writer for Aldnoah Zero. This is the reason that a lot of AnimeGAF(the term we affectionately use for ourselves) was excited for this show. Because we liked Fate/Zero. We liked it a lot. The composer for the series is Hiroyuki Sawano. He did the music for Attack on Titan and Kill la Kill. These are popular anime shows. People were not as excited about this. That's because they think his music is not very good.
I have just been informed that Ufotabla did not make Aldnoah Zero. It was bad that I had wrong information in my post. It was made by A-1 Pictures.
Aldnoah Zero is a show set in an alternate future where 2001: A Space Odyssey happened. Except with giant robots. Giant robots, also known as mecha, are a popular genre in Japan. Giant robots used to be animated by hand, but now they are done with CGI. We call this duckroll's anime future, referring to an AnimeGAF in-joke about anime turning into CGI. We call it that because duckroll is known for defending the use of CGI in anime. By the way, CGI stands for computer generated imagery. People with robots blew up the moon 15 years ago, because of reasons.
Aldnoah Zero's first episode has a lot in common with the first episode of Fate/Zero. This is because both episodes have a lot of scenes of people talking about obvious information they would already know. This is a well-known writing technique called "As You Know." There is an extensive page on the website TVTropes explaining this. If it's overused it can be a very annoying form of exposition, because it requires characters to speak in unnatural ways, and it's boring. It is commonly thought better to explain things visually than with lots and lots of words. At least Aldnoah Zero's first episode is only half as long as Fate/Zero's.
In the last few minutes of the episode there are lots of explosions and people dying. This is good because it distracts us from the fact that nothing happened in the first three fourths of the episode. It would not even matter if the explosions are good because we are eager for anything to happen at that point. But they are pretty good explosions.
The important themes of Aldnoah Zero are racism and war. We know this because one characters beats up a boy, just because the boy is a different race. Racists are jerks. Why did he beat up that boy.
The racists also decide to blow up the Earth, because some people
blew up their princess.
In conclusion, Aldnoah Zero episode 1 is an episode of anime where people talk about a lot of things. They talk about these things because it's a fictional world where we, the viewer of the anime, don't know what is going on. But it doesn't really seem like they would be talking about these things, realistically. It would be like someone from AnimeGAF explaining very basic things about anime that everybody in this thread already knows. That would be silly.
Does that throw the rest of it in question? Are racists not jerks now??
It's pretty questionable now. I think we have to ponder if they're even racists at all given this new development...
Ranma 1/2 32
This is fucking bullshit if Shampoo suddenly falls for Mousse now after about a dozen times of him getting his pathetic ass kicked for her. And really shitty of Akane to try and have Ranma fix the match so Mousse wins and gets to marry Shampoo. No matter how bad you feel for him, Shampoo didn't love him and trying to trick her into spending the rest of her life with the doofus is a major clown move.
But if she's just keeping him as a duck in her house for her to taunt with food, then fine. Yeah it's fucked up, but it's funny. Cause it's Shampoo and Mousse is such a doofus.
This is fucking bullshit if Shampoo suddenly falls for Mousse now after about a dozen times of him getting his pathetic ass kicked for her. And really shitty of Akane to try and have Ranma fix the match so Mousse wins and gets to marry Shampoo. No matter how bad you feel for him, Shampoo didn't love him and trying to trick her into spending the rest of her life with the doofus is a major clown move.
But if she's just keeping him as a duck in her house for her to taunt with food, then fine. Yeah it's fucked up, but it's funny. Cause it's Shampoo and Mousse is such a doofus.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
But the twist is someone is licking She-rito's tears and smelling his body!
GGO: The life of a twink in a NYC bathhouse.
Hey, she could have known the two guys who were murdered!
It's post-yuri, since She-rito is post gender!
Basileus777
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I don't mind them showing the entire game, but it took 9 minutes before a pitch was thrown! Yeah, I wasn't fond of the pacing here either.
And that's why she killed them. If she couldn't have them, no one could.
PshycoNinja
Member
Good to hear. It's okay if you have nothing to add to that. The whole episode is meant to bring resolution to the Kotomi Arc.
AmethystEnd
Member
Mockingbird sent over a progress sketch that the artist made:
Looking good and it appears to be on schedule!
Oh my fucking god that is going to be glorious. Ecstatic about how that's turned out. Can't wait to have it on my wall.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Si = Scythe = Death. Follow the money!
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Persona 4 Golden is only interesting inasmuch as they seem to be treating the anime as a "New Game Plus" redo of the original story. But unless you just want to see all the stuff from Golden in animated form (or I suppose you've never played Golden), then I don't know what there is here for anyone. You're watching the anime equivalent of someone fast forwarding through all the scenes in a Let's Play.
MetroidPrimeRib
Banned
Space Dandy 15
Another YMMV episode. Thought it was decent with good visuals and a good ending, the usual for the mediocre Dandy episodes.
Great OST. Next episode looks insane, which are the episodes of this show I really like.
It did have a Yamato reference though.
Another YMMV episode. Thought it was decent with good visuals and a good ending, the usual for the mediocre Dandy episodes.
Great OST. Next episode looks insane, which are the episodes of this show I really like.
It did have a Yamato reference though.
Space Dandy - 15
That was fucking rad.
And the just the art and animation were top-notch. And next episode looks to be bananas to the max.
It felt like it just flew by.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Space_Dandy_episodes has all the info.
Next week is Yuasa! (looks like writing and directing for it too!)
That was fucking rad.
More surfing!
It felt like it just flew by.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Space_Dandy_episodes has all the info.
Next week is Yuasa! (looks like writing and directing for it too!)
MetroidPrimeRib
Banned
AmethystEnd
Member
One of my friends I showed the sketch to pointed out that Aika doesn't have her gloves while Alice still does, which doesn't make sense considering Alice becomes a Prima first.
I don't really mind that much, but I thought I'd throw it out there in case there is any sort of dialog between Mockingbird and the artist.
It was an acceptable ending. Obviously theres much more that can be told but at least it has been confirmed.that theres more coming
That show seems to have a LOT of hidden meaning.
Episode 1 of Terror in Resonance was really good. This was a special surprise because I didn't even realize that Watanabe had a show this season until just recently when people started talking about it (I must be out of the loop). I thought Kids on the Slope was just okay. Well produced and directed of course, but a bit lacking when it came to style. It seemed to sort of slumber along. My wife however, loved it. I speculate that this is because the show featured romantic conflict and beautiful bishounen male hotties (redundant I know). But this is really important for women (note: I do not actually speak for women so don't flame me).
That brings me to my next point... During one of the hentai panels from last week's convention the host revealed some fascinating information on the differences between male oriented comics and female ones. In the example he gave, two pages were shown on screen depicting very similar encounters between the two genders. These pages had almost identical panel layouts. In the ero-manga targeted toward men, the scene depicted an embrace, followed by several panels showcasing close ups (as you'd expect) of the female's crotches and butts and stuff. In the ero-manga targeted toward women, the scene showed the same embrace, but instead, it was followed by several close ups of the male's beautiful, shimmering face. A sudden epiphany... when these gratuitous and lingering facial shots happen in anime that shit is like porn to them! They're even lewder than we thought! And they've been hiding it RIGHT IN FRONT OF OUR FACES!
That brings me to my next point... During one of the hentai panels from last week's convention the host revealed some fascinating information on the differences between male oriented comics and female ones. In the example he gave, two pages were shown on screen depicting very similar encounters between the two genders. These pages had almost identical panel layouts. In the ero-manga targeted toward men, the scene depicted an embrace, followed by several panels showcasing close ups (as you'd expect) of the female's crotches and butts and stuff. In the ero-manga targeted toward women, the scene showed the same embrace, but instead, it was followed by several close ups of the male's beautiful, shimmering face. A sudden epiphany... when these gratuitous and lingering facial shots happen in anime that shit is like porn to them! They're even lewder than we thought! And they've been hiding it RIGHT IN FRONT OF OUR FACES!
Admiral Woofington
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Just rewatched Berserk Golden Age Arc trilogy of films. His review
"holy shit this is awesome. Everything looks like Attack on Titan"
I then went on to explain how this is an inspiration for many dark fantasy games and series so it wouldn't surprise me if yes indeed this is an inspiration. The castle/town Griffith grew up in looks exactly like the AoT town, 3d bell and all. He now eagerly awaits the rest of the movies. I don't have the heart to tell him that they probably won't ever come. The curse of Berserk.
"holy shit this is awesome. Everything looks like Attack on Titan"
I then went on to explain how this is an inspiration for many dark fantasy games and series so it wouldn't surprise me if yes indeed this is an inspiration. The castle/town Griffith grew up in looks exactly like the AoT town, 3d bell and all. He now eagerly awaits the rest of the movies. I don't have the heart to tell him that they probably won't ever come. The curse of Berserk.
Deputy Dangle
Member
I was wondering if that PV was a sign of another Eunyoung Choi episode or the Yuasa episode. Awesome!
chickdigger802
Banned
mahouka 15
seems like the author/publisher requires batman to be batman quota, so here he is.
clearly he's gonna lose head to head though!
why even bother watching anyhmore?
seems like the author/publisher requires batman to be batman quota, so here he is.
clearly he's gonna lose head to head though!
why even bother watching anyhmore?
You really cant. ESPECIALLY not that ED. Incredibly catchy.
So excited for next week's episode now!
astrogamer
Member
Mahouka 15
So Erika is a brocon too. Batman-nii-sama of course chooses the stealthier approach and obliterates the competition. But the real conflict seems to be who will overanalyze who. Suzaku, or Batman-nii-sama. Regardless, Batman-nii-sama will probably almost lose but still win in the end.
So Erika is a brocon too. Batman-nii-sama of course chooses the stealthier approach and obliterates the competition. But the real conflict seems to be who will overanalyze who. Suzaku, or Batman-nii-sama. Regardless, Batman-nii-sama will probably almost lose but still win in the end.
It was an acceptable ending. Obviously theres much more that can be told but at least it has been confirmed.that theres more coming
Well yeah there was enough of a hook with Vivi's issues, the lingering main quest, and Fredrica's offer.
AmethystEnd
Member
All the Girls und Panzer talk today made me decide to marathon it. I'll be starting it in about an hour. I'd previously written it off because of the ridiculous premise, but hey, I watched C3-bu and I enjoyed Sabagebu episode 1, so I figure I may as well.
Freezasaurus
Member
If you enjoyed C3, you'll love the shit out of GuP.
Psychological Intellect
Banned
AmethystEnd
Member
I hated the "drama" in C3. I enjoyed when it was just fun. Am I going to need to prepare for ridiculous melodrama in GuP?
Freezasaurus
Member
Not really, I mean, there was a bit of sibling drama at one point, but it comes later and it's related to tanks! It doesn't drag on or anything. This was the very first thing I watched back when I first subscribed to crunchyroll, and I thought it was a lot of fun.
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