AmethystEnd
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I... okay. Get a third dog and name him/her Ensign Woofington.
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I... okay. Get a third dog and name him/her Ensign Woofington.
Femmeworth
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I think there was a really good opportunity for a pun here.
Yeah Crunchy on ps4 has always worked well for me. My PS4 has basically been chilling since launch waiting for Last of Us and Destiny haha. Til then PS4 is my big screen anime machine.
Thanks for letting me know! I always preferred watching shows on the television instead of my laptop/PC monitors.
The only way I watched anime on my television was via hdmi from my macbook pro, which is okay, but very clunky. Weirdly, being able to stream annie-may from a console with a controller is one of the most exciting things about getting one right now lol
Oh, Male Nichijou was a fantastic comedy. The various gags were played out well, even though it was usually about something banal. That's just it. It uses everyday occurrences to create the gags, often purely because of boredom.
Nowadays you have comedy shows dictated by after school clubs to create the gags. Light music, swimming, soft tennis, the occult, people with no friends, female otaku, solving mysteries, finding extraterrestrials, WWII-era tanks, anthropomorphized guns, you name it. "Haha, it's so weird!"
I can't wait for the whole thing to die.
Great impressions. Even as someone for whom Bebop wasn't all that it was purported to be, the finale hit me hard. Show as whole oozed with style and they did great a great job setting up the melancholic mood during the main arc. Your rewatch kind of made want to start my own, maybe with dub this this. Perhaps now with many more anime titles behind me I would be able to appreciate it more.
Show has been on my to do list since finishing Shigurui. Seems like a very similar experience. Will eventually get to it.
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Literally just finished listening to Blue right now as I read your post lol
Cowboy Bebop OST in general is probably my all-time favorite.
Yoko Kanno's Vision of Escaflowne is close behind.
Admiral Woofington
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There's a great remix of Tank by Luke Vibert if you feel like finding it. I always listen to that too.
Sakura
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I think there are still plenty of great comedies 'nowadays'. Working!!, Hataraku Maou, Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou are all pretty recent and are some of my favourite comedies.
Just ignore the other shows you don't like, that's what I do.
Admiral Woofington
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The devil is a part timer started out strong then they kept bringing in characters and it got shitty. That japanese looking assassin girl was the tipping point. I wish they would've stayed with the original 4 and just did episode after episode of the school girl doing her screaming face.
AmethystEnd
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Disliked her but also disliked Lucifer. Although he did play that Dark Souls parody if I recall right, which was funny to me.
That makes me so sad. No change to see it again the the near future?
The anime isn't bad. It has some horrible cg for big armies, which is at least somewhat understandable (while still horrible) and some cencoring, since the manga can get pretty graphic when armies clash or generals fighting each other. But that don't take that much from the enjoyment. The anime's biggest flaw comes from the manga itself. The first arc is just not very interesting, since it lacks a lot of the tactics and politics the later arcs have.
Yo, are you insulting my girl Suzuno?
Sakura
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Eh, it was a short series though so it didn't really bother me much. Yea the assassin girl was kind of lame, but there were still some great bits in there.
Some other recent comedies I really liked are Minami-ke Tadaima, Tonari no Seki-kun, and Ben-to. Especially Ben-to. So many great gags. The constant pictures of Sonic. The fact his ringtone is a dial-up modem noise lol, just a great show.
Working! was a 2010-2011 show. Not familiar with the Devil part-timer. I'm not saying I didn't enjoy my fair share of comedies in the past five years, but dang, it's been a long time since Joshiraku. And before that Male Nichijou and Nichijou (if you erase Hakase, robot maid and the talking cat from the show.)
What's a "genre soundtrack"? Don't think I've heard the term before.
That said, Simoun's OST is amazing.
Some favorites:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLyHmKEOMxQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_1escyKvsU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dO5cjevq1CQ
AmethystEnd
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Nice, a fellow Ben-to fan. I went into that anime expecting to drop it in one episode based on the ridiculous premise, and it ended up having some of the best combat scenes of that season. Would beat people up at the supermarket for more.
Sakura
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Is 2011 really not 'nowadays' any more? I mean, it was only 3 years ago. We'll probably get a 3rd season eventually.
Ben-to was great! The premise is so dumb, but the fact they take it so seriously just makes it hilarious.
Baby don't hurt me, no more.
Also: double standards. I think it's a nice step for gender equality.
It's probably not, but there is really a double standard.
Please, my half nipple is nothing against the sea of full nipples you guys swim in.
No double standards, at least from me.
In my slim experience with those type of shows this trait is the worst part of characters like Taiga/Chitoge. Thankfully they tone it down as show progresses. I did like Senjougahara but she's more into constant, dripping with sarcasm, verbal abuse rather than the physical one. (You would think that with his regenerative abilities she would lash out more.)Femmeworth
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I think he means soundtracks that are consistent in terms of style.
MikeHattsu
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YamiHat 07
A sudden star wars reference.
The little girl on the island gets left alone with the tiger and a boat and they tell her to use the boat to go traveling to the land beyond the sea. Seems a bit irresponsible... And the world is tearing apart stuff was because the book got damaged. That's... actually what I thought it was.
And then some of Hazukis backstory where she uh... touches herself while thinking about her sister. We then find out that they're not blood related so it's all ok? After that she touches herself again while lying in her sisters bed... And then she eats some of her sister's pancakes which seems to be quite bad.
A sudden star wars reference.
The little girl on the island gets left alone with the tiger and a boat and they tell her to use the boat to go traveling to the land beyond the sea. Seems a bit irresponsible... And the world is tearing apart stuff was because the book got damaged. That's... actually what I thought it was.
And then some of Hazukis backstory where she uh... touches herself while thinking about her sister. We then find out that they're not blood related so it's all ok? After that she touches herself again while lying in her sisters bed... And then she eats some of her sister's pancakes which seems to be quite bad.
It feels like such a long time ago. Inami-san...
I don't think Sejougahara is a tsundere. She just says so one time or another, but she is very open about loving Aragi and even wanting to protect him from his saving-girls urges in Nisemonogatari. She cleary lacks the tsun-part.No double standards, at least from me.
But ok, no double standards. I just thought t'was important for you that the tsundere in Noazki was male.
Brother!
Or sister. I'm not sure. Anyways, you're cool.
Admiral Woofington
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Ben-to was another anime that could've been so much more but they insisted in bringing back elements that most hated. Like that yuri girl who kept physically abusing main character because he had a penis, or the ecchi that wasn't necessary. They Should've stuck with the sweet action choreography and the humor that stemmed from the ridiculous situation like "ze wizard"
Whoa now, Hataraku is the shit, was really solid from start to finish, I was afraid it'd descend into a generic harem and I'm so glad it didn't
dammit does the blasphemy never end with you?
Save 'N Quit
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Congrats Haikyuu!!
Should get back to reading/watching that soon.
So happy with the No Game No Life numbers
Sakura
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I think I have an inexplicable dislike for characters voiced by Itou Kanae.
Admiral Woofington
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My standards for comedy aren't met with anime usually. Gintama was one of the few. Animated comedies rarely do it for me. Outside of Bob's Burgers, old Simpsons, south park, and Rick and Morty to name some of the few I consider amazing.
Sounds like The Tick. Now that's wacky!
What a complex way to look at Ben-to. Its actual problem was it brought in an unneeded storyline. If it kept things simple like the earlier episodes things would have been fine. Introducing new characters is also fine and can help keep things fresh. But the story basically dragged everything down with it.
Basileus777
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That's a wordy way to say it became haremshit after the first 6 episodes. It didn't help that the last episode ended with a whimper by skipping over the fight that had been building for several episodes.
just occurred to me, I liked gbf ost a lot and didn't even know who the composer was. looks like he's been attached to bunch of bad anime outside of gbf, like diabolik lovers wff and a couple of I don't know what. quite young too but maybe started his career relatively late though.
Admiral Woofington
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Many comedy anime shows should be just a short OVA series or a movie because their issue ends up being that they have a solid beginning but then continuously get worst. Seitokai Yakuindomo* is a show that suffered from no longer having that fresh factor. The gags weren't as funny and thr dynamic of the girls saying something perverted and the male lead responding got old after 20+ episodes of the same.
Dedication Through Light
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What is this bob's burgers always brought up, should I be trying western animation again?
AmethystEnd
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Eh, I don't know what your standards are but I've watched a couple seasons and I can take it or leave it.
Admiral Woofington
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It's a new comedy on Fox that has H Jon Benjamin as the lead. If anything brings you back to western animation it should be Archer though as it's comedy style is pseudo arrested development. Bob's Burgers is a bit more specific with its target audience. It has very well written episodes and usually a catchy song, but it's by no means laugh out loud hysterically.
Basileus777
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No, no! It says 15 694 694 1, it's just oddly formatted, it sold actually 156 million.
Yes, it deserved it. No regrets here.
Dedication Through Light
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Isnt that the chart of the total v1 sales thus far?
Its read 156 million
Yeah my mistake.. even with concentrated effort for otaku pandering, you must making something that not boring, BONES.
That is the total? I've only seen those charts once or twice before so I wasn't exactly sure. Consider my heart torn to shreds
I couldn't remember what it became. I just remember story came in and the show was ruined and thus became forgettable.
Jex
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A number of the changes literally make no sense. Updating character art/animation is fine, completely throwing in new backgrounds is just SHAFT being SHAFT. Unless the changes actually alter the meaning of the visuals, they're pointless.
Thank god. Don't consume too much cute
LOL what can I used to balance out my double dosage of cute? GuP and Idolm@ster are extreme amounts of cuteness haha.
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