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Hito will be missed, that's for sure
I feel like the worst is yet to come
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Summer 2014 Anime |OT2| Or, where Jexhius finally watches more Doremi for Hito.
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I feel like the worst is yet to come
Dennou Coil 16
Totally called it. Nice to see we're actually getting some answers.
Camera guy remains shady.
Totally called it. Nice to see we're actually getting some answers.
So 4423 is Isako's brother, whose soul was trapped on the other side during the incident four years ago (Dennou Coil?) just like Kanna. And Isako is doing... something to bring him back.
Camera guy remains shady.
The Illiterati
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Steins;Gate question:
I started watching this because it's pretty well spoken of and because I enjoy intelligent sci fi thrillers...so far it just seems to be a comedy which I don't find funny or interesting in the slightest.(watched 4 eps)
Should I keep watching? Is the main focus on how "wacky" Okabe is or does it actually become a thriller at some point?
I started watching this because it's pretty well spoken of and because I enjoy intelligent sci fi thrillers...so far it just seems to be a comedy which I don't find funny or interesting in the slightest.(watched 4 eps)
Should I keep watching? Is the main focus on how "wacky" Okabe is or does it actually become a thriller at some point?
ZachDeKoromaru
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Hito was one of very few who understood my love for all things mofuwa, even if my very different tastes and dumb choices resulted in some clashing between. Can't properly put into words how devastated I am and how much I miss him.
It definitely becomes quite something different. What you see now seems kind of irrelevant but some of the details are VERY important. Ill say that much.
He and I didnt see eye to eye on anime choices. Like at all. But he knew his shit. And he was so gung ho for Ojamajo doremi I shall watch some of it in his honor but not right now. I just saw an avatar he gave somebody in NFL thread and I lost it.
It starts off pretty slow but it picks up and never lets go. Still one of my favorite anime/VNs.
I don't remotely feel clannad is a romantic comedy....
more of a romantic feel machine
(bad joke aside I really don't remember smiling or laughing at clannad a single time (due to any comedy on screen)... the comedy stuff in the beginning was just terrible and made me originally drop the show. it wasn't until it was dubbed and I decided to watch it as a show to go to sleep to and managed to get through the meh beginning that I finally hit enjoyable stuff)as for my favorite romantic comedy....
likely skip beat
with nodame, lovely complex, fruits basket, Paradise Kiss, Maison Ikkoku, Toradora!, maybe maid sama (I found it surprisingly enjoyable but not enough to top this list) somewhere near skip beat.
and some outliers that I don't feel are quite romantic comedies.
Bakuman (while there is romance all around I just don't feel it's a romance show), Nana (to many feels to really call it a comedy it just has comedic moments), School rumble (this show may need a freaken chart to follow the romances, and it's definitely a comedy.... but I can't call it a romantic comedy... but a comedy focused on romance) GTO (again lots of romance parts but not actually a romance, amazing comedy though), Honey and clover (not enough comedy for me to feel it's a romcom), I My Me! Strawberry Eggs (the show's focus isn't about romance so I don't really feel it's a romcom), Oh! Edo Rocket (I so want to include it but again, not enough focus on the romance to count), kimi ni todoke (not quite enough comedy for me to consider it a romcom)
I'm sure there are others, but that's a number of my favorites that come to mind.
why did you lose your tags? which one did Hito give you? Only tag I can remember is your Dirk being a better human than Kobe.
Crash Station
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PM an admin. That's what I did. Though I don't think Stump will see it for a while if his current tag is anything to go by, but I'm pretty sure the other two capable of giving out tags don't like me very much.
astrogamer
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Persona 4 Golden 5
The band episode I see with a duet between Rise and Marie
The band episode I see with a duet between Rise and Marie
and we are already endgame content next episode
So just got done watching Shinkai's 'masterpiece' and I have to say that I'm left underwhelmed on a few levels. I know I still haven't seen Children Who Chase Lost Voices but I can't stand another story similar to this. I've seen four separate works and they all seem like permutations of the same initial concept. All of his stories stem around a lack of communication and the separation between two parties and god damn does this shit get old after awhile. Now, as for the 'movie'(it's really three separate episodes), I had some issues with it by itself.
The last time I heard monologues this overwrought was in Max Payne, and at least there, the monologues were actually humorous. Here I have to hear shit like how every second was an eternity and shit about cherry trees. It's painfully boring stuff especially in the first segment. I understand most of the symbolism in the dialogue, which ruins many of the scenes, but it's just way too heavyhanded. The dialogue just drones on and on, which totally messed up the
the kissing scene in segment one
The 2nd segment was better in the dialogue front and actually managed to keep me entertained despite my growing frustration with the male lead. I think it was the brown tomboy that kept my interest. I do understand that the major theme in the segments is the lack of communication on the part of individuals and how due to them never expressing their feelings, they tend to lose out, but I feel the 2nd segment was too detached from the 1st and 3rd. The 'movie' sort of loses its focus and the theme of distance is lost in the mix. The lead male also being a simp didn't help matters either.
There were times in the 3rd segment when I literally thought, "Good lord, just put a rope around your neck and end it". This just felt way too unnatural and really hurt the realism the of the film. The guy becomes an
alcoholic, more than a decade later, over some girl he loved when he was 13
The storyboarding through out the work really felt meandering and was more background porn than actually focused on creating well directed scenes. I do think there are some really good scenes, from a direction standpoint, in here but it's overcrowded by these random background shots. There were multiple times where I was asking myself why this shot was done as they had already established the setting. So many cuts feel pointless and seemingly don't really add anything to the work other than trying to impress viewers with the background art. Character art still looks wonky and Shinkai really should be more careful about that in the future as the character art in his productions clash so heavily with his wonderful background art and destroy the photo-realism.
I found this too realistic at points to be entertaining and too dramatic at other times to be realistic. So what I'm left with is a work that gave me an overwhelming meh. While I can see why a number of people like the 'movie', this really did nothing for me.
NaDannMaGoGo
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Well shit, I wake up any someone already tells me my favorite anime is shit. Damn you GAF.
which anime is that?
NaDannMaGoGo
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5cm/s
I completely agree, thus why Voices of a Distant Star is my favorite of his works that I have seen (I have see that one, 5cm, and place promised) as it's the shortest lol. I have 5cm as a 6 on MAL because it was so freaken boring after watching place promised and voices. (I didn't watch all 3 at once, there was like a year gap between place and voices before 5cm)
i do agree though... 5cm is pretty.
>.>;
I like that people have different tastes ^^;
Same. My favorite Shinkai is still Voices.
NaDannMaGoGo
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Yeh, well have heard a lot of people not liking this or most of Shinkai's movies anyways. They do just work for me however. edit: Or well, not even all, but 5cm/s certainly did.
But man, I seriously just woke up 10mins ago after having a fucked up nightmare that went on and on...and then this! Today I die D:
it likely helps that it was the first one I saw. really with his works I feel it's likely which ever one you see first will be your favorite since they do feel so similar.
I know some people who are quite passionate about his movies... heck I remember when 5cm was being teased and one of my fellow anime club members proceeded to talk about how awesome the movie would be based on the 1 min clip that was released talking about what was going on in that trailer for well over 30 min @_@ (heck I think he talked about cherry blossoms and how pretty they were for 20 of them ><
to be fair I am not a big fan of movies in general. I enjoy some, but in general I need to have more than 90 min with characters to start caring about them (and prefer to have more time with them, thus why I watch a lot of TV series instead). I guess I am a bit of a cold person at heart... I will read a sob story online and in general the most it will get from me is "sucks to be them" if I don't have time to get attached to characters I rarely end up creating any meaningful feelings towards them (thus why when I do watch movies I tend to watch comedies/kids movies) That's not to say it doesn't happen from time to time. I really like the main character from the girl who leapt through time... but in general I won't really feel anything when it comes to a drama movie.
Maybe that is true. My love of Garden of Words (my fave anime film from last year) led directly to me trying others and I still prefer Garden by far.
I liked them all, though Place Promised was the weakest for me.
I think you may be right.
I got it.
NaDannMaGoGo
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I think I watched 5cm/s even before Attack on Titan got me back into anime again. And I could just immediately empathize with the characters and the situation they're in. It's a very low-key story with a relatively simple issue our characters are dealing with and I really like that. Of course if you think that Takaki is a simp for not just 'going for it' or anything and you aren't liking this 'mono no aware' kind of narration then you'll simply not like this.
For me it's perfection though and if anything my opinion on it has improved, not gotten worse.
For me it's perfection though and if anything my opinion on it has improved, not gotten worse.
Baroquemantic
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5cm/s was straight up terrible. I remember seeing trailers for it and being excited, and when I finally watched it, all I could say was, "Really?" and "That's it?". Movie kinda pissed me off. Looked pretty, though.
He's a simp for not getting over it after a decade.
I had just come back from a movie all excited to share my reactions and then I started reading RIP Hito. I thought it was a joke at first cause NFLGaf does that when somebody is banned or at risk of it. But it wasnt a joke this time.
see I don't recall caring at all what the characters were going through in 5cm... they just didn't do anything for me.
again it's likely because I am a bit of a colder person. I don't in general care what is happening to strangers, I don't like interacting with strangers, thus I rarely empathize with strangers. Give me some time and I can get some legit empathy going on, but before that I will just fake it (and fake it well >.>
Pretty much the only person in the world that if they left from my life would seriously mess with me is my wife. My parents, my best friend, my coworkers I would be sad if they passed on, but if they did I could still likely go to work tomorrow and fake a smile to the customers (I would be depressed on the inside, but I am quite good at my fake work persona and rarely drop it unless I am worried about my wife)
To be fair about seven years ago I used to be a lot better about caring about strangers, but then I was introduced to a friend's friend, and I instantly liked him. We hung out a few times, were becoming friends.... and then he passed from a heart condition at age 25. That one really messed with me for a while and since then being separated from people/losing someone hasn't effected me the same way, and also why one of the only truly strong bonds I have is with my wife since most people eventually depart from your life, one way or another.
anyways sorry for being a bit of a downer ^^;
Watamote 5-6
yeah.... still don't like the main character. I've never been a fan of beat down humor (where bad stuff keeps happening to someone) especially when the character is at fault for most of it. Her delusions aren't adorable, they are just sad, and quite frankly she needs to be committed and forced to face reality to have any hope of ever being a functional member of society.... I'll be honest though, I didn't watch them very well... I was reading manga while listening and only catching bits... just can't care when she is on screen, and there isn't much time when she isn't on screen. Even when I was paying attention though I wasn't amused for a second... at no point I have felt that there was an ounce of funny going on.... I was hoping to find some new liking for the show watching it in english, but alas like Animal Yokocho it will likely just have to stay as a show that I like the opening to but can't stand the actual show.
NaDannMaGoGo
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Him not being able to get over Akari is pretty much the darn point of the movie. It's a legitimate flaw of his and in the end its strongly indicated that he finally lets go (looks back one last time but then moves on, forming a slight smile). Meanwhile Akari did manage to do go on much earlier, not falling into depression.
Owlowiscious
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I loved 5cm/s
part 2 'twist' and part 3 song got me
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
But all male leads must have game to be good.
I had noticed he had been gone for a little while but I assumed he just needed a break from the boards, like most of us do at times. This didn't even cross my mind at all. It's devastating.
Crash Station
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Just noticed Hito was directly below me on the wall of shame for the previous thread
I'm aware it's the point of the movie, doesn't make it any less aggravating or interesting to watch. I also feel that it's dramatized to a point where it hurts the other themes in the movie.
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