Nothing, it was just a bit of community slang that has mostly died out.
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Nothing, it was just a bit of community slang that has mostly died out.
I guess it's some kind of insidermeme. A quick comment that you can put in this codes. Like, you see two girls kissing, that's so :sdburton. When I first saw it i thought it were remains of smileys
KirbYuuYuu
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nintendoman58
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All these :names and you people forget about the most important one of all!
:corvo - Everything that makes people rage.
:corvo - Everything that makes people rage.
Yeah thanks for this had no idea what the hell SDBurton shtick was, and I'm scared of Cnet now.
PhillipCostigan
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Ao Haru Ride 1
holy shit this is some shoujo-ass shoujo.
I enjoyed it despite itself, however.
More watercolour scenes please.
holy shit this is some shoujo-ass shoujo.
I enjoyed it despite itself, however.
More watercolour scenes please.
Scientist Supreme!
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Well, this is helpful.
Not really, no!While the subject was brought up anyway, would this be considered :hito?
NaDannMaGoGo
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Oh boy, so my confusion was actually justified. Didn't know there was an entry course required to understand all things anime OT @_@
Thanks for the replies though! Granted, can't take much longer 'til there's something else I won't get.
BackToAnime
Read something about Clannad having its protagonist fix people and I have to chime in and, as far as the anime is concerned, this is so f**king true. That Tomoya is one hell of a Gary Stu that fixes, what appear to be almost mentally impaired, girls out of the good of his heart. It seriously ain't even funny how completely inept all the girls appear to be in that anime.
Anyways, I guess that would be a much bigger issue if I considered that show good in the first place. But except for the, in fact, somewhat excellent last third of afterstory, it's hot garbage. I wouldn't recommend anyone to go through it just for that, but hey, if you're a fighter and you get through it there's at least some reward.
But the writing in that show... and the incessant slap stick humor. You know, if I was in my early teens or so that would've potentially been an enjoyable first 'feels' show. However, soon getting to my mid twenties and having gone through Katawa Shoujo which does this kind of Shoujo thing so very, very right for once, I can't stand to watch that.
Also uguu eyes.
:dtl and :sdburton are the only two that really still get used with a bit a :cajun occasionally. :chet and :theonik (which honestly wasn't used that much to begin with) died with hometown and life.
Basileus777
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:firehawk still gets used.
PhillipCostigan
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and kayos will inevitable :kayos
But he hardly posts any more. ;__;
A number of years ago, :lol would output a smiley face in your post. So :name is meant to be an emoticon-like shortcut for something.
Evilore eventually removed :lol smileys because he felt they detracted from discussion by encouraging content-free posting.
Sometimes I have the feeling people hating Key anime simple for being Key anime.
I don't know if you never came to watch After Story because you hated the first season so much, but Tomoya is no Gary Stu. He is helping others, because he dodges his own problems. He has huge issues with his father who broke his shoulder in drunken rage and ended his baseball career
and he later abdonds his own child until he realizes that his father at least looked out for him and tried his best to work for money and be a father for him and that he just couldn't handle both well. Having to support your family under difficult cirumstances and coming to terms with the responsibles being a father is not the usual teenager topic.
Also the only really broken girl is Kotomi, every other girl is reasonable fine even without him. He got no magic to fix things with, he mostly make the girls realize the problems they deny to have and helps them out.
In contrast to Onii-chan and Kirito he also got a personality. I love the snarky, pranky personality of Key protagonists.
KirbYuuYuu
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In any case moving on from this...
chickdigger802
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we got reaction gifs now
...time for a momo kyun sword image dump!
KirbYuuYuu
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And I'm leaving
We need webm support on GAF, without browserplugins.
Admiral Woofington
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You're tsundere as hell recently lol god damn man I'm starting my own AnimeGAF harem. Madp will be my sadist hime-sama.
Rail Wars 1
I don't know why I bothered. Well, I guess the siren call of trains and character designs was too much for me to resist wasting twenty minutes.
There is some train trivia, and a nice thirty-second action scene where dudes get punched real good. Except all the character personalities are crappy archetypes, with the worst being the protagonist, whose archetype is "bland". And there's a scene where pink-haired boob girl is on a ladder and there's a breeze and the protagonist sees her panties, and then she's startled and falls off the ladder onto him, but somehow when they land he's on top of her groping her boobs with his knee pressed into her crotch.
No more.
I don't know why I bothered. Well, I guess the siren call of trains and character designs was too much for me to resist wasting twenty minutes.
There is some train trivia, and a nice thirty-second action scene where dudes get punched real good. Except all the character personalities are crappy archetypes, with the worst being the protagonist, whose archetype is "bland". And there's a scene where pink-haired boob girl is on a ladder and there's a breeze and the protagonist sees her panties, and then she's startled and falls off the ladder onto him, but somehow when they land he's on top of her groping her boobs with his knee pressed into her crotch.
No more.
Admiral Woofington
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Tear inducing and delicious
Episode one could be described as predictable. Bit too early to tell though. Give it three episodes.
I have to say, the infamous gif undersold it. It sounds even worse than I imagined.
It's unintentionally very funny, and it's well-produced enough that it carried itself. I watched the first episode and have no intention to continue.
Scientist Supreme!
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Barakamon 1
It was cute, quirky, fun but also cliche. Which I am completely fine because its characters are goddamn charming that you can't help but love it.
It was cute, quirky, fun but also cliche. Which I am completely fine because its characters are goddamn charming that you can't help but love it.
good animation doesn't hurt either
A Huge Battleship
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Now I'm really, really curious to hear Kurumi's voice in the dub. Her JP voice is a wonder of the world, and combined with her lines and role she has a presence that no other character in the series can match. Assuming you mean this for the instrumental theme, I agree it's likely the best OST track, with Mission of AST and Rhapsody - Rage (Kurumi's theme) being runner ups. Excluding the vocal songs anyway.
Standing in front of people in peril is pretty much Shido's speciality. And yes, Kurumi's skill-set is absolutely exceptional.
Well, he helped her out once and doesn't remember it, so of course she chose her career so she can follow him and be by his side. Compared to squandering her brilliance on being a train security officer when she has no particular interest in trains, a little sexual harassment is nothing.
NaDannMaGoGo
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I don't even know much about 'Key' so I certainly don't hate it for being that. I genuinely think this show is terrible in almost all regards, music and last third of Afterstory being the exception.
I don't see how Tomoya's backstory involving his father is supposed to be a valid explanation for his Gary Stu behavior.
Because he has a very complicated relationship with his father he... has a tendency to play hero for 'broken' girls he encounters? I don't see the causality of that.
The show is so incredibly melodramatic that it evokes annoyance rather than any empathy for the characters for the most part. The writing, too, just god damn it. Have the writers ever heard about subtlety?
Also it's simply incredible boring to watch some students distribute star bread for like 5 episodes.
Then there's the humor which is 95% cheap slapstick, often involving the unbearable Sunohara.
I could go on and on. If the entire show was as good as the last part of Afterstory I'd probably really like it, so there's even this easy comparison.
I'll just link to this article that explains a lot of the same issues I have with the show... and it's from someone who can actually write well and express himself better than I can.
PshycoNinja
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No, I wouldn't say it turns a corner. I just liked it from the start. I like watching Oreki do his thing and figure out some cool mysteries. The first couple episodes have him doing easy mysteries but the mysteries progressively get more complex as it goes. Watching the main cast interact with each other is fun and like you said the animation is really great to see.
But if you think it's slow and boring I don't think there is anything I can say that can change your mind. How it is in early episodes is essentially the pace it takes throughout the show. Some people say it gets more enjoyable to watch when it hits the Festival arc. I don't know if that's entirely true as I am in that arc and it is slightly more enjoyable than earlier episodes. Of course I haven't finished the arc yet.
Anyways, give it a few more episodes. If you don't like it that's fine. It's not a show for everyone.
I'm eager to know how this will develop, particularly with manhater in the mix. How can they ever resist mister plainness slash train otaku?
Those two scenes are the worst of it, and there isn't that much else. But it's still well over my threshold.
I can't even work up the enthusiasm to be sarcastically excited about this.
nintendoman58
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I agree with this completely. I was very surprised by how much I enjoyed Katawa Shoujo. The fact that the back story of its main protagonist was easy to get invested to (much more so than Clannad) really helped.
Tomoya from Clannad starts off as a grumpy, delinquent individual who's been a grumpy individual his entire life due to daddy issues. We see him act like that from square one and we're only told about his problems. And we just see him stick with it and reveal little bits about his back story as the show goes on.
But Katawa Shoujo's protagonist Hisao, starts off as your average individual about to confess his love for a girl before BOOM! Heart attack that causes him to stay stuck in the hospital for many months and then get transferred to a new school. And the viewer sees the whole thing going on the opening. Him collapsing in the snow, him being stuck in the hospital, his social life crumbling at the seams, him realizing this disease is gonna be stuck with him for the rest of his life.
It's slow paced, but it doesn't drag on. That's how good drama is done and is a much better way to set up a story.
Survival Game Club 01
Before we begin, I'm one of the few people in AnimeGAF who liked Stella C3. And though that show and this one are only superficially similar, my wish is the same. Keep the gun porn at sub-Upotte levels and focus on the characters above all else. I'm not here for the weaponry, I'm here for the girls. It can enhance them, but it should never define them. Though that said, the shows are really only superficially similar. This feels closer to D-Frag compared to Stella's psychological drama.
Kayo may be my favorite of the cast so far, and I'd make jokes about Urara Kasugano, but with the show simulcasting on Tuesdays, the time has already passed. Except for Lynn, most of the voice cast are relative newbies that I like, and the show's fourth-wall breaking sense of humor is the kind of thing I enjoy. The amazing thing is that this runs in the same magazine that once had Sailor Moon, Cardcaptor Sakura, etc. *goes to Wiki page* ...Hell Girl also ran in this manga? But my point is that once it steps onto the late night stage, it's almost indistinguishable from the other shows, even if its demographic is different.
I enjoyed it, and my expectations for the show are the same going forward. Keep it on the characters, I'll be fine.
Before we begin, I'm one of the few people in AnimeGAF who liked Stella C3. And though that show and this one are only superficially similar, my wish is the same. Keep the gun porn at sub-Upotte levels and focus on the characters above all else. I'm not here for the weaponry, I'm here for the girls. It can enhance them, but it should never define them. Though that said, the shows are really only superficially similar. This feels closer to D-Frag compared to Stella's psychological drama.
Kayo may be my favorite of the cast so far, and I'd make jokes about Urara Kasugano, but with the show simulcasting on Tuesdays, the time has already passed. Except for Lynn, most of the voice cast are relative newbies that I like, and the show's fourth-wall breaking sense of humor is the kind of thing I enjoy. The amazing thing is that this runs in the same magazine that once had Sailor Moon, Cardcaptor Sakura, etc. *goes to Wiki page* ...Hell Girl also ran in this manga? But my point is that once it steps onto the late night stage, it's almost indistinguishable from the other shows, even if its demographic is different.
I enjoyed it, and my expectations for the show are the same going forward. Keep it on the characters, I'll be fine.
I know, and I described it as such!
Chet Rippo
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It loses its luster when people try to force it.
A good article, even if I don't agree on the slapstick part.
I don't think that Tomoya is a Gary Stu. A Gary Stu would be awesome in sports, even if he was wounded. Tomoya clearly has problems with his shoulder. Or remember Yukino, when he fought the gangleader, he hold his self quite good, but it was quite clear, that he had no real chance. He had a wounded shoulder and couldn't match a gangmember when it comes to plain brawling. He was also not really the solution in this arc.
Tomoya is also medicore in school, if I remember right. A Gary Stu would either be top-notch or bad, but could be perfect at any time he wants.
And as I said. Tomoya is afraid to face his own problems, which is why he is so relucant to do anything at first and then just helps people close to him. Of course Clannad was much weaker than After Story, but I still liked it (even if the Fuuko arc was plain weird and I didn't like Kotomi at all).
And well, Clannad wasn't really subtle, yes, but I totally live with that. Anime are mostly like that (or totally cryptic or random).
See, I don't want to push Clannad onto you as best anime that every existed. I only get an allergic reaction when people call it garbage.
Speaking of Tokyo Ghoul, I didn't mind how they played up some if the stuff. What I did mind was the terrible writing. So this doctor does something highly illegal and there is no blowback on his part. I won't even get into how bullshit that organ transplant was. That scene was something straight out of Terminator Salvation. Then nobody really follows up on him. No, a physical check-up doesn't count. What the fuck. Not to mention they don't even bother to explain what they did, to the main character. Another what the fuck. Then when the main character
. Is this commentary on Japan's health care system or something?
It's such unbelievably shitty writing.
realizes he's a half Ghoul, he doesn't go to the police or hospital to have a very lengthy chat with them
It's such unbelievably shitty writing.
Most anime aren't terribly good either, but every once in a while you get a show that manages to hit its notes with just the right touch.
I thought that doctor guy was pretty ominous.
So ominous. He's probably waiting in the Attack on Titan basement.
You're alright.
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