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Summer 2014 Anime |OT2| Or, where Jexhius finally watches more Doremi for Hito.
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KirbYuuYuu
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I keep getting mixed up with this thread and the SAO Hollow Fragment thread
PdotMichael
Banned
Sure, Crunchyroll takes its sweet time with Hanamonogatari. At least I can listen to the OP until the subs are out.
Principate
Saint Titanfall
Why he's directly copying his future self who has 20 years worth of experience of course he power up faster than fate who went through is normal training. Anyway I liked Shirou in UBW pretty much because he permeates symbolism, UBW is a symbolic representation of his ideal and ideology in general. The ability to put shape to your mind (tracing) and make said ideal a reality (UBW). Much like Shirou's struggles in he's only able to produce fleeting temporary, because the reality of the world crushes it much like the world physically prevents any reality marbles from being created. Then you have the symbolism with the sword and Shirou's character, he doesn't judge people and he doesn't take into account the morality of the people he was forced to kill (as archer mocking tells Saber), a tool like a sword conveniently used conveniently throw away. Then there's the symbolism with the Japanese archery, his poem and many others.
That's why I find it difficult to understand somebody that says he's a straight up bad character. He's flawed but he has more depth and thought into him than pretty much any character in Fate by far and many characters in general. You can write essays on the dude. The more you think about it the more you realise what the author was trying to get across. For example read the literal translation of Archers UBW and compare and contrast with
Shirou's
InsaneZero
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Well, symbolism in itself doesn't for a good character, but I really find Shirou to be an interesting character nonetheless. More importantly, I realize that Woofington has implicitly admitted that he heavily dislikes Kotomine in FSN, so his entire opinion is automatically invalidated.
Hell yes!
Femmeworth
Banned
Angelic Layer Ep. 25
Oh god, this went down worse than I had expected. The drama spiked, it conveniently rained, I laughed, there was a lot of needless talking, and Misaki's passivity hit a new low.
Oh god, this went down worse than I had expected. The drama spiked, it conveniently rained, I laughed, there was a lot of needless talking, and Misaki's passivity hit a new low.
I just love that instead of giving them more time to get reacquainted with each other everyone thought it was a good idea to continue the match. They hadn't spoken in seven fucking years. Sure they had the talk at the coffee shop but come on. The contrivances were barely covered up.
Turin Turambar
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Aldnoah Zero 7
Unsurprisingly that was weak as hell.
Unsurprisingly that was weak as hell.
-Surprise super secret dock found in the middle of nowhere, and the missile-arm just happened the bad luck to open it for them!
-Here it's the Aldnoah Zero, I imagine.
-Not only that, they found a "flying ship", so animu~! It happens to be a direct upgrade from their tactical carrier to a scifi battleship. A proper mobile homebase like other animus.
-Martians still dumb as fuck. If the fists were invulnerable where they didn't move... why would she open the "hand"?? She needn't to! She only has to use them as the beginning, closed fists like rocks that hit stuff, instead of trying to "catch" them with the hand.
-A confusion with Slaine and both showing a stubborn attitude instead of proper explaining of what happened creates some conflict in them. Which seems kind of artificial drama to me, because the past episodes hammered us down how super smart Inaho is, but here he happens to not have patience or social acumen.
-Here it's the Aldnoah Zero, I imagine.
-Not only that, they found a "flying ship", so animu~! It happens to be a direct upgrade from their tactical carrier to a scifi battleship. A proper mobile homebase like other animus.
-Martians still dumb as fuck. If the fists were invulnerable where they didn't move... why would she open the "hand"?? She needn't to! She only has to use them as the beginning, closed fists like rocks that hit stuff, instead of trying to "catch" them with the hand.
-A confusion with Slaine and both showing a stubborn attitude instead of proper explaining of what happened creates some conflict in them. Which seems kind of artificial drama to me, because the past episodes hammered us down how super smart Inaho is, but here he happens to not have patience or social acumen.
I just finished the first series(?) on CR a few minutes ago randomly. I enjoyed it an awful lot for something I just stumbled upon. Is this just more of the same? I'll definitely catch up.Ai-Mai-Mi - Mousou Catastrophie 6
mad as fuck more people itt arent watching this but at the same time
Femmeworth
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Angelic Layer Ep. 26
This was absurd and nothing was earned. The animation wasn't even that good.
This was absurd and nothing was earned. The animation wasn't even that good.
yeah pretty much
Femmeworth
Banned
wonzo, you need to do a top ten short episode series list. Since you're the connoisseur of them around here.
Ai Mai Mi has a bizarrely appealing look from the screens I have seen here and there. It's one of those short shows I always have in my mind but never watch, like Nandaka Velonica or Marie & Gali. I should start getting to it, if Pupipo is any indication they should be a breeze to marathon.
hmmn, that'd be kinda hard as
a) i kinda fiorget which is and which isnt a short series
b) havent been paying much attention to them the few past seasons
c) have some i still wanna first
d) recency bias etc
but yeah ok i'll give it a shot
1) pupipo
2) inferno cop
3) yama no susume s1
4) nandaka velonica
5) ai mai mi
6) teekyuu
7) turning girls
8) puchimas
9) marie & gali (havent actually watched this but good people™ i can trust hold it pretty highly so might as well)
10) chi's cat thing (ditto)
11) ribbon-chan/wooser/haitai nanafa aka the pretty decent and worth a watch but not really list worthy tier
Yay!
yea those two were good as were azazel-san and tonari no seki-kun but the latter is a two cour thing so im not sure if it really counts as a short…
oh and there was that one about the pocket sized old man that noone finished subbing due to the messed up episode order
fireball charming owned even if it was cg and i vaguely remember high score filling a weird teekyuu/ai mai mi niche but it was flash as fuck so dont hold me to that
oh shit there was that uchurei one with the alien ghost thing
also cant forget the one with the shibainu that goes to high school and i guess detroit metal city counts if you include ~12 min things which mean i need to include a whole heap of other things
and robot girls z if shortlived ova's matter too
in which case you'd have to add giant robo and a bunch a hipster shit ive forgotten the name of
and
and
shit. the list is already destroyed
Femmeworth
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Thanks, I'll look into these. I had 5 minute episode shows in mind but 12 minutes is fine, really anything with a substantially shorter runtime.yea those two were good as were azazel-san and tonari no seki-kun but the latter is a two cour thing so im not sure if it really counts as a short…
oh and there was that one about the pocket sized old man that noone finished subbing due to the messed up episode order
fireball charming owned even if it was cg and i vaguely remember high score filling a weird teekyuu/ai mai mi niche but it was flash as fuck so dont hold me to that
oh shit there was that uchurei one with the alien ghost thing
also cant forget the one with the shibainu that goes to high school and i guess detroit metal city counts if you include ~12 min things which mean i need to include a whole heap of other things
and robot girls z if shortlived ova's matter too
in which case you'd have to add giant robo and a bunch a hipster shit ive forgotten the name of
and
and
shit. the list is already destroyed
SAO isn't a series with a foot forward for action first, and when it does feature action scenes they're usually poop. You are setting yourself up to be disappointed by placing expectations on a series tailored to some weird personal interest. You might as well be those people going into Space Dandy early on that complained there was no overarching narrative.
You guys are so obsessed with the harem image that you've created for Kirito that you can't even get away from it. More stuff happened inside of this episode than the previous two, which were basically just a virtual poop stain of unexciting action scenes that carried no weight and did nothing to establish character to any of the numerous faceless enemies.
but, like femmeworth said arguing about the merits of this completely mediocre show isn't really worth it. so you'll kind of just have to excuse me for cutting this to be sort of short and lazy and hope that it pays off in me bothering to spend the time writing about dennou coil instead. kirito is becoming the vietnam vet that he was always meant to be, withdrawing from his social circle. these are people that he relied on at some point in time that he doesn't feel like he can go to anymore. sinon is finding motivation in her rivalry with kirito, but creeper boy buddy is making weird moves on her at an uncomfortable time because jealousy and whatever. these are probably the most important things to happen in the show since it started.
if you want to make fun of the show post asuna's dead pan stare, or the ridiculous imagery of death that comes in the hospital with scenes of bodies being moved around on gurnees, and flashes to white lillies that are seemingly nowhere in an actual scene. or the god damn balloon.
jc. like, there is so much dumb stuff in this show to target if you actually want to.
R_thanatos
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Convince ? no need . 95% of the watchers are watching the show to nitpick it.
The nitpick is so bad i've decided to watch the show at some other time because i' can't stand all that hyperbole ( the hyperbole is as bad as S1 )
Oh it's worse IMO,
Don't get me wrong Sao S1 wasn't nearly close to be a great anime..but the only différence despite the nitpicking is that at least people are aware that they can't write the same thing every week in order for it to become truth one day.
For once I agree with dimb.
I criticize shows for being badly drawn/written/directed, but then I'll drop them. You guys are like: "This episode was so bad it made me physically and mentally ill. It'll get better eventually, right?" It's getting to the point of borderline masochism. :lol
I criticize shows for being badly drawn/written/directed, but then I'll drop them. You guys are like: "This episode was so bad it made me physically and mentally ill. It'll get better eventually, right?" It's getting to the point of borderline masochism. :lol
I don't know about that last bit. They'd prefer shows not to 'get better'.
Indeed, the only shows I haven't done this with are the ones that get aired on Toonami since groupwatch and all that.
Seriously... they don't even have a page for it yet.
Maintenance
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Ok, just watched one anime from the list that the people here gave me. The first one:
Inferno Cop
I....don't know what to say, really. The almost static sprites, the real life backgrounds, the shorter episodes, the nonsensical plot, the voices, the sound and visual effects. However, in the end I liked it, it had a "so bad it is good" charm to it. The
were some of my favorite parts.
Inferno Cop
I....don't know what to say, really. The almost static sprites, the real life backgrounds, the shorter episodes, the nonsensical plot, the voices, the sound and visual effects. However, in the end I liked it, it had a "so bad it is good" charm to it. The
judgement, the Hellfire Boy and the bouncing bullet
FBI, FBI!
That's not a Kamen Rider reference! I was hoping that any theoretical third season would be titled Nyarko V3.
I see the Kirito and Sinon thing as more of a very weird therapy session than any sort of romantic/harem business.
Psycho_Mantis
Banned
I can't decide between Nozaki and Barakamon either. Giving the sight edge to Barakamon for that first episode.
AquaWateria
Member
I mean she appeared in 2 scenes from episode 6 like here if you look closely.
And at the last scene. Though I don't know about episode 7 since I haven't seen it yet. She's probably taking a break .
nintendoman58
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Oh man, reading through ToonamiGAF's impressions of TTGL is amazing.
So many new watchers of my favourite anime of all time.
So good.
So many new watchers of my favourite anime of all time.
So good.
Jex
Member
What reasons I have for watching the series are entirely of my own choosing and I'm not too fussed whether or not they align what the show itself thinks it it. You seem to be implying that I am, for want of a better term, 'watching it wrong'.
I certainly won't pretend to watch the show for it's character or narrative because the writing is garbage.
No Haikyuu! in this week? boo.
The shot that I recognize the most is when Sugu hugging Kirito from the back, okay if we not gonna complaining bout the act, but why she bending in such a weird way while doing it lol. I only can laugh awkwardly seeing that.
The shot that I recognize the most is when Sugu hugging Kirito from the back, okay if we not gonna complaining bout the act, but why she bending in such a weird way while doing it lol. I only can laugh awkwardly seeing that.
it took me an hour to watch the episode
I had to take breaks. I don't know why I watch this show....
Kuu in a chinese dress, hghnngh
darkside31337
Tomodachi wa Mahou
Dragoshi1
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That happens to me all the time with Crunchyroll on PS3, PS4, and Roku.
It only seems to happen as soon as the episode is put up, but it returns to normal after an hour or two.
darkside31337
Tomodachi wa Mahou
I see. Yeah I've never tried to watch an episode as soon as it goes up other than on PC because for some reason it takes a couple hours for it to show up on PS4 after it does on PC.
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