That makes me sad. As does the lack of more Yozakura Quartet.
I liked this OAD though.
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Summer 2014 Anime |OT2| Or, where Jexhius finally watches more Doremi for Hito.
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That makes me sad. As does the lack of more Yozakura Quartet.
I liked this OAD though.
Hmmm. True. Ive seen it so much I can tell what they are saying at any given moment lol.
Goodp oint.
Femmeworth
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Perhaps it's time to retire this. There's visual substance and then there is narrative/thematic substance. (Still heavily simplified but an improvement.)
Edit: On second thought, I don't like the phrasing of that. For one, there is overlap between the two.
Can't tell if serious.
Millennium Actress has both!
Femmeworth
Banned
I wasn't commenting on Millennium Actress. Haven't watched it in a long time so no opinion there.
Considering how Perfect Blue turned out, perhaps it best that they have held off.
Edit: It had a Blu-ray release in Japan this year apparently.
This is just blatantly false, I'm watching you
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Better than space Romans.
Also, which order are you watching it in? Like LOGH, there is a strange order. The pilot movie should be watched first, but the prequel movie should be watched last!
Nice.
Perfect Blue has always been my favorite Kon film and just a really important film for me when I started digging deeper into anime.
Hunter X Hunter 141
Seems like the arc is about to get exciting. I hope we see Killua take on Illumi, really want to see Killua fry him. The Election seems pretty exciting too, Leorio winning would be amazing. I hope the animation is better than this episode though. The car accident looked pretty stiff.
Adorable!
Toradora 21
(Also known as the Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting episode)
Man, what a great episode! I was getting kinda frustrated with how everyone the constant lying / putting on appearances... I really got a kick out of seeing the building drama just explode in everyone's faces. I particularly enjoyed how even Ami wasn't above it. Despite pretending otherwise, she was just as duplicitous and dishonest as her peers. I don't condone her desire to incite drama and pick fights, but I can honestly emphasize with what she's going through. She's jealous and bitter, and keeps herself sane by belittling her "foolish" classmates, but at the end of the day, she's really no different then the rest of them.
The anime's gone love square now.
(Also known as the Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting episode)
Man, what a great episode! I was getting kinda frustrated with how everyone the constant lying / putting on appearances... I really got a kick out of seeing the building drama just explode in everyone's faces. I particularly enjoyed how even Ami wasn't above it. Despite pretending otherwise, she was just as duplicitous and dishonest as her peers. I don't condone her desire to incite drama and pick fights, but I can honestly emphasize with what she's going through. She's jealous and bitter, and keeps herself sane by belittling her "foolish" classmates, but at the end of the day, she's really no different then the rest of them.
Taiga is in love with Ryuji now. Ew, ew, ew, EW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The anime's gone love square now.
What the fuck is this shit?
I'd say it's one of the best OPs of the season.
Who cares about visuals right
Ditto
I've also been humming the Sabagebu! ED on my way back from work. (It's so damn catchy...)
Will do when I get home.
Toradora looks like the kind of show I never want to see.
Yeah, I think it might be my favorite too, which is surprising, because I quite enjoy Barakamon and Terror in Resonance's OPs too.
NaDannMaGoGo
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Oh right, I forgot Spice and Wolf has two seasons out and people are complaining about not getting the third (and last?).
But eh, probably not gonna check it out in the foreseeable future.
Also, +1 on Nozaki-kun OP!
But eh, probably not gonna check it out in the foreseeable future.
Also, +1 on Nozaki-kun OP!
Admiral Woofington
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Nozaki-kun wins for the same reason Baccano and Cowboy Bebop win. Funk always win. And they're all the funkiest, oh INDEEEE'
I would love to watch Babylon 5, but Netflix took it down a few years ago, and they haven't placed it back up. :'-(
It's better in practice than on paper!
(That's fair, though. Not everyone's cup of tea)
Femmeworth
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Love polygons and high school melodrama are the best. /sarc
The first half is tolerable... for a LN, I guess. Funny show, nothing to offensive. After episode 11 or so it becomes
pretty much.
Jumping in here to post this Satoshi Kon video essay because of the Kon talk and more people need to see it and spread it http://vimeo.com/101675469
Have fun guys, and remember
Have fun guys, and remember
Jojo's is love Jojo's is life Jojo's is forever
Admiral Woofington
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Damn that's a nice computer screen, what resolution? I can't see the size, there's this shitty anime in front of it.
Ohh? whats this?
Damn that's a nice computer screen, what resolution? I can't see the size, there's this shitty anime in front of it.
IM SQUEALING SO LOUD. MOM IS ASKING WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH ME.
But Princess Tutu is better.
Princess tutu is a lovely lovely series and indeed I would kill ADV if they werent dead for how they packaged the DVDs but this...THIS IS WHAT MY LIFE NEEDED.
hosannainexcelsis
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Have you seen the Yama no Susume S2 OP? That's pretty easily my favorite OP of the season. Just unquenchably creative and joyous.
How does your mother feel that your waifu came via the mail?
I show her my figures and stuff. She basically accepts me and what I like. Which is polar opposite to my Dad.
Maybe its an effect of getting older, but stories that have a narrative focused on highschool romance being the most important and dramatic thing ever make me shiver. Just checking my malgraph, the last few highschool romances I legitimately enjoyed were Ano Natsu de Matteru, Mysterious Girlfriend X, and Flowers of Evil. The foremost is a notable exception, but the latter two deviate from the typical formula in a big way. I wonder what I enjoyed about Ano Natsu?
AquaWateria
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While best OP for the summer season is hard to decide. Ending easily goes to Barakamon, there's just no competition. It seriously gives me the feels.
http://youtu.be/09CLgLylM3Y
http://youtu.be/09CLgLylM3Y
Admiral Woofington
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I think 'feels' has reached 'deconstruct' levels for me.
My favorite opening and ending of the season both have to go to Terror in Resonance. Both of the songs are great, and the opening has a lot of really cool visuals. The ending's animation is a bit eerie, but I like it.
It really is! Such a catchy song.
It really is! Such a catchy song.
I hadn't! It's certainly eye-catching and well directed. And I didn't know that Encouragement of Climb now has 15 minutes episodes. I remember watching a few episodes of the first season and not being especially grabbed by it, but not totally dismissive either. As I recall, people gave the show good marks when it was first airing. Is everyone still as receptive?
Agreed. Everything about that show is enjoyable. Even miss shark face is cute in a scary way.
I'm still in love with Terror in Resonance's ED
The visuals, the music.
It's pretty much perfect. I can't wait to hear the full song.
The visuals, the music.
It's pretty much perfect. I can't wait to hear the full song.
Ikkitousen 04-06
Well, that got uncomfortable very quickly. For every moment of relatively innocent fanservice, there's an equal scene of battle to balance it out, and battle just keeps pulling ahead by the nature of the series. Ryomou's humiliation definitely feels like it was written to shock, and if it works or not will depend on how much it's brought up down the line. As the narrations at the end of each episode show, beneath everything else about the series, the story's so well known in Japan that getting the Three Kingdoms right is pretty easy to do. The characters and relationships are mostly as they should be. Though I want to root for Kannu because I loved her Koihime Musou incarnation.
Well, that got uncomfortable very quickly. For every moment of relatively innocent fanservice, there's an equal scene of battle to balance it out, and battle just keeps pulling ahead by the nature of the series. Ryomou's humiliation definitely feels like it was written to shock, and if it works or not will depend on how much it's brought up down the line. As the narrations at the end of each episode show, beneath everything else about the series, the story's so well known in Japan that getting the Three Kingdoms right is pretty easy to do. The characters and relationships are mostly as they should be. Though I want to root for Kannu because I loved her Koihime Musou incarnation.
I'll let you know once CR releases more than the first episode.
I like it! I think of Boku no Speed De from Mahoraba which is similarly bouncy. Wonder if its the same group?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxO-9BPaPLA
only good op of the season https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6NM7kPZWbk
Ojamajo Doremi 39
I knew some of the shots reminded me of something else, of course this was one of the Yamauchi episodes.
Can't be happy enough with yet another episode breaking up the usual, this time with a focus on Doremi who proves again she's the centrepiece of the comedic interactions. I'm also still amused by the character of Onpu. She's, de facto, the rival -at least for now-, yet the way she acts is completely disconnected from this fact. She doesn't seem to care, the same way she doesn't care much about what Majo Ruka says or about the kind of magic she uses. She's even friendly with the main characters. It's funny, then, that a good bunch of their interactions so far do end up delivering on the concept of Onpu fucking around with the Ojamajos. There was the way she delayed them during the level 4 exam, and now there's this episode which feels like a convenient accident.
I knew some of the shots reminded me of something else, of course this was one of the Yamauchi episodes.
This dude has such a distinct style of cutting and organizing space it's impossible to mistake him for somebody else. The episode felt way different than usual. Not necessarily better than Igarashi or Sato eps, but different. There's a lot of flourishes thrown in here and there, like seeing a scene through a window, moving the camera through a small hole in the ceiling or even that damn rotating bench LOL. It was also notably cheap. Yamauchi deals with cheapness better than most though, he used some short-cuts such as sliding stills around the frame deliberately for comedic purposes.
Left is Doremi 39, right is From the New World 5
Can't be happy enough with yet another episode breaking up the usual, this time with a focus on Doremi who proves again she's the centrepiece of the comedic interactions. I'm also still amused by the character of Onpu. She's, de facto, the rival -at least for now-, yet the way she acts is completely disconnected from this fact. She doesn't seem to care, the same way she doesn't care much about what Majo Ruka says or about the kind of magic she uses. She's even friendly with the main characters. It's funny, then, that a good bunch of their interactions so far do end up delivering on the concept of Onpu fucking around with the Ojamajos. There was the way she delayed them during the level 4 exam, and now there's this episode which feels like a convenient accident.
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