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Summer 2014 Anime |OT| this thread has been outsourced to Toei Phils
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If they mentioned it, I missed it. I'm just assuming that it'll be like how Ufotable usually adapts stuff these days, where they have a team of writers working on scripts with collaboration with the director. Then again, I also assumed that there wouldn't be a fixed route, and that Kajiura would be returning. Assuming is dangerous!
Basileus777
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She dies in every route.
go write on your chest about it
go write on your chest about it
I think I need to get some ice.
SliceSabre
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You just want to see his chest again.go write on your chest about it
Depends on if they go with Good End or True End. If I am remembering things correctly.
PshycoNinja
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Toradora 16 (DUB)
This episode was done justice by the English voice cast. Thank you based NIS!
That one scene at the end with Ami and Minori is still confusing and as cryptic as it was in the original. Felt like that could've been handled/written better. It's my single negative point in the entire show (besides the ending). Still, excellent work NIS!!
This episode was done justice by the English voice cast. Thank you based NIS!
That one scene at the end with Ami and Minori is still confusing and as cryptic as it was in the original. Felt like that could've been handled/written better. It's my single negative point in the entire show (besides the ending). Still, excellent work NIS!!
Basileus777
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firehawk12
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Nitorin is a terrible character, and Reki Kawahara shows us why.
Critics and fans alike were simply bamboozled by hack author Takako Shimura's abrasively pedantic Wandering Son. 100 chapters of meandering, aimless storytelling culminating in an adaptation that was so bad that anime fans in Japan completely ignored it and American fans were completely allergic to it. In fact, it's telling that masterpieces such as Attack on Titan have been licensed and became smash hits while a terrible, terrible show like Wandering Son remains stuck in a ghetto of licensing limbo. Even more telling is the fact that Crunchyroll thinks so little of Wandering Son that they didn't bother even to release the director's cut episodes of episode 10 and 11, choosing the abridge the series in order to save their bandwidth on much more compelling shows such as the clearly superior Sword At Online.
Crunchyroll clearly made the right decision, since Sword Art Online S2 4 is proof positive that Kawahara is the master of writing insightful LGBT stories, while Shimura is clearly past her prime.
We already have a strong female protagonist with an interesting backstory in Sinon, and now we have a great trans character in Kirito:
Kawahara has combined Judith Butler's theories on gender performativity with a genuine sympathy of the trans experience that Shimura could never quite reach. One might criticize Kawahara for sensationalizing gender by making the character appear female, but this is clearly a perfect use of allegory to illustrate the fluidity of gender and also offer insight into the complicated issue of gender and sexuality. Indeed, I would put Kawahara up with great masters such as Philip K. Dick and Ursula Le Guin, as he is clearly a master of both the function and form of science fiction.
Indeed, this is a masterfully complicated episode, as it explores the myriad of abuses and sexual assaults that women face every day:
But we also see Kirito seamlessly slip into his new feminine identity:
Trapped in a loveless "marriage" heterosexual marriage with Asuna, it's clear that perhaps Kirito has always been closeted and wanted to transition. Although she is clearly afraid to do so in her real life, in the world of GGO, she is able to become who she truly wants to be. Suddenly Sword Art Online becomes as much about the angst of repressed gender identity as it is a treatise on feminism, following on the tradition of campy films such as Hedwig and the Angry Inch and more serious faire such as Transamerica. Here, in this virtual world free from the judgemental eyes of a cis-centric, heteronormative Japan, Kirito is able to transgress into a world that is post-gender and post-sexuality.
Indeed, it is fitting that the episode ends with a clear homage to the feminist, gender-queered film Thelma and Louise:
We know that acclaimed director Ridley Scott chose to express feminist, Sapphic freedom through destructive nihilism, as both Thelma and Louise choose to commit suicide rather than face the false justice offered by men, members of which attempted to rape and rob them.
Kirito's cliffjumping, with Sinon embracing her tightly, is a moment of affirmation: not only of their newfound friendship, but also of Kirito's new identity. It's an amazing inversion of the dark, conclusive ending that Scott executed, using the moment of riding off the cliff as a positive image. After the stunning failure that was Prometheus, perhaps Ridley Scott should ask Kawahara to write the sequel! Certainly there is a clear synergy between the two artists that binds them together.
It also bears mentioning that by giving Kirito a lightsaber, Kawahara has managed to do what George Lucas and JJ Abrams were unable to do - feature a strong female protagonist as a kind of "Jedi Master". This is the 21st century and Kawahara definitively shows that he is a modern man with an understanding of the modern world.
If the first episode showed the strength of Kawahara as a man who examines the post-human world of the cybernetic virtual cyborg, blowing away luminaries such as William Gibson and Neal Stephenson, then we really understand that Kawahara is more than just a one trick pony that understands the true possibilities of science fiction as a genre.
Someone sent it to me. I liked the PV.
SliceSabre
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God damnit firehawk.
Still look like its split cour with omnibus with that Sakura shot in promotion poster.
firehawk 10/10 would read again.
I don't even have to watch Sociology Art Online, I just have to read your impressions of it.
I don't even have to watch Sociology Art Online, I just have to read your impressions of it.
I can't even link to where I put your name. >:Igo write on your chest about it
Nah. That's magic circuit transfer. Completely different things. For one, it actually takes away the magic prowess of the Master, unlike mana transfer, which is basically just transfer of mana or prana.
An hour, haha, an hour!
I played 12 hours until something happened that didn't bore me to death and I didn't even finish Fate.
Higgins113
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Soon you will... Very soon.. Muahahahahaha!
yes, but i'm awful with VNs even though i have a few i wanna get though one day
PshycoNinja
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Looks awesome and looks like a good follow up to Fate/Zero. Don't know what all the fuss is about.
What'cha doing? Fate is 6 hour top, and I read that with auto read.
I dunno. Usually I am a fast reader, but I remember reading this 12 hours without coming to the end of the first route. It was an awful experience.
And auto read is just wrong, how do you occupy your hands in the meantime?
InsaneZero
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Oh hey, they just announced Heaven's Feel.
Higgins113
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WTF WTF OH GOD HEAVENS FEEL
REJOICE REJOICE
REJOICE REJOICE
What? I turned the stream off when they were leaving the stage.
it was "one more thing" moment and it was amazing.
https://twitter.com/Fate_SN_Anime/status/493343739054546945
Fate/Stay Night TV is Unlimited Blade Works. Heaven's Feel is a movie. Ufotable is animating both.
Fate/Stay Night TV is Unlimited Blade Works. Heaven's Feel is a movie. Ufotable is animating both.
Higgins113
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BASED UFOTABLE FOUND A WAY
SliceSabre
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It has second best Rider.
Is there anything you don't hate?
things that are actually good
thread standards have declined
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