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Summer 2014 Anime |OT2| Or, where Jexhius finally watches more Doremi for Hito.

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Majimoji 4
The cat transforming was fun. The discipline squad is boring and cliche as the porn mags hiding plot. The unfortunate glasses were interesting.
 
Tokyo ESP 1

Had no idea this took place in the Ga-rei Zero universe. Not sure where this fits in the timeline though. Also I don't remember much of Ga-rei but I don't remember it being the X-Men. I thought they fought demons or shit.
 
Tokyo ESP 1

Had no idea this took place in the Ga-rei Zero universe. Not sure where this fits in the timeline though. Also I don't remember much of Ga-rei but I don't remember it being the X-Men. I thought they fought demons or shit.

That's just something Xebec did to be butts. It has nothing to do with Ga-rei.
 
At this point I just want Kominato to have screentime too. He deserves it.

I am sure that he will get his time in the sun in the next episode.

Tokyo ESP 1

Had no idea this took place in the Ga-rei Zero universe. Not sure where this fits in the timeline though. Also I don't remember much of Ga-rei but I don't remember it being the X-Men. I thought they fought demons or shit.

Wait really? Now I am interested. Does it take place after Ga-Rei Zero and during where the manga picks it up or is it just in the same fictional universe and has no ties to the source material.
 

Gazoinks

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Hey, could anyone recommend me some good anime shorts or short OVA/ONAs? I just rewatched Furiko (one of the very few things that makes me tear up every time I see it. I didn't even cry for After Story!), and it struck me that I haven't really gone on a shorts binge in a long time.
 

Narag

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Hey, could anyone recommend me some good anime shorts or one episode OVA/ONAs? I just rewatched Furiko (one of the very few things that makes me tear up every time I see it. I didn't even cry for After Story!), and it struck me that I haven't really gone on a shorts binge in a long time.

Riding Bean
 

Clov

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Hey, could anyone recommend me some good anime shorts or one episode OVA/ONAs? I just rewatched Furiko (one of the very few things that makes me tear up every time I see it. I didn't even cry for After Story!), and it struck me that I haven't really gone on a shorts binge in a long time.

Anime shorts? I'm a big fan of Koji Yamamura's works, but I guess that's only if you like surrealism. If you're okay with that, watch Kick-Heart as well, it's fun.

If you want more emotional shorts, there's Rain Town and La Maison en Petit Cubes.

Sorry if I don't make sense, I'm pretty drunk right now.
 

Syrinx

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Dirty Pair 7

Goldjeff is a scumbag loser. He goes to these ridiculous lengths to separate his son from his love just because she's trans, then fires her into fucking space so that she won't return for 50 years so that his son wouldn't see her again. Then his son goes after her and he starts crying about how he just wanted his son to be happy and that he's nothing without his son. If all you want is for your son to be happy then why are you trying to take the one person who makes him happy away from him? And he thought he could make him happy by marrying him off to like eight women at the same time. Making him awkwardly have them on leashes while he did it.

Kei and Yuri have a good balance that a buddy cop show like this needs. Kei was good thinking about doing what could make Clicky (and another thing, who the fuck names their kid, "Clicky"? What does that even mean?) happy. And Yuri was mentioning how crazy the idea was cause...well...he'd be going into space for 50 years. Even if he doesn't age.
 
Hey, could anyone recommend me some good anime shorts or one episode OVA/ONAs? I just rewatched Furiko (one of the very few things that makes me tear up every time I see it. I didn't even cry for After Story!), and it struck me that I haven't really gone on a shorts binge in a long time.
The Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou OVAs are terrific and I think Carnival Phantasm is fun if you have any familiarity with the TypeMooniverse.
 

Gazoinks

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Anime shorts? I'm a big fan of Koji Yamamura's works, but I guess that's only if you like surrealism. If you're okay with that, watch Kick-Heart as well, it's fun.

If you want more emotional shorts, there's Rain Town and La Maison en Petit Cubes.

Sorry if I don't make sense, I'm pretty drunk right now.

I love surrealism, actually. One of the big reasons I like animated shorts is because they can be really surreal in a way that can't be maintained for a full series (or episode) length. Already seen Kick-Heart, Rain Town, and Le Maison etc., but I'll definitely check out Yamamura's stuff
 

Clov

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I love surrealism, actually. One of the big reasons I like animated shorts is because they can be really surreal. Already seen Kick-Heart, Rain Town, and Le Maison etc., but I'll definitely check out Yamamura's stuff

That's great! Yamamura is wonderful. He has a fantastic adaptation of Franz Kafka's "A Country Doctor", but his most recent short film, Muybridge's Strings is very well done. One of my favorite short films, period.

I really like his early stuff too. He mixes traditional animation with stop-motion in many of those. Really neat!
 

Gazoinks

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The Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou OVAs are terrific and I think Carnival Phantasm is fun if you have any familiarity with the TypeMooniverse.

I've been meaning to check out both of these for a while. Loved the YKK manga, and the OVAs seem equally good. For Carnival Phantasm, I've only seen F/Z and a few of the KnK movies. Is that enough?
 

Clov

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I've been meaning to check out both of these for a while. Loved the YKK manga, and the OVAs seem equally good. For Carnival Phantasm, I've only seen F/Z and a few of the KnK movies. Is that enough?

Carnival Phantasm is pretty funny if you just understand Fate. It had Tsukihime stuff in it too, but I was fine even though I knew nothing about Tsukihime. It's pretty much all Type-Moon in-jokes. Not much KnK stuff in it at all, though. In fact, it's basically all Fate and Tsukihime.
 
Really? Hahaha thats pretty great then considering they went above and beyond just having the characters be background cameo fodder.

Yeah, they definitely have zero role in the manga. There might have been a few background cameos, but any other connections to Ga-rei are just similar looking characters since the mangaka is the same.
 

OceanBlue

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Carnival Phantasm is pretty funny if you just understand Fate. It had Tsukihime stuff in it too, but I was fine even though I knew nothing about Tsukihime. It's pretty much all Type-Moon in-jokes. Not much KnK stuff in it at all, though. In fact, it's basically all Fate and Tsukihime.

By Fate, though, he means F/SN. There are no real F/Z jokes IIRC.
 

trejo

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Hey, could anyone recommend me some good anime shorts or one episode OVA/ONAs? I just rewatched Furiko (one of the very few things that makes me tear up every time I see it. I didn't even cry for After Story!), and it struck me that I haven't really gone on a shorts binge in a long time.

Denpa Teki na Kanojo. It's a two episode OVA featuring some neat murder mystery stories with some nice characters. It's pretty good.
 

mankoto

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Hanayamata 4


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This episode fully introduced Tami and the main character for episode. She is also Naru's friend and is someone Naru looks up to as a princess and big sister. And well, Tami in a sense sort of is a princess, or at the very least her gentle personality as well as being very rich gives that vibe.

Growing up Tami has always wanted nothing more than her father's praise and care. That mental state has carried on since then. If it didn't please her father she wouldn't do it, even if it's something she wants to do. Like when she asked if she could do yosakoi. He asked her if she wanted to do it and give up on everything she's done so far and he would be disappointed in doing so if she did. This conversation makes Tami lose sight of what she wants to do. The only reason why she's so busy is to make her father proud, but if no matter what she's doing he won't notice her, then what's the point? She wants to be happy by receiving father's love but at the same time she knows she can't do that forever. So she ask's Machi for advice on what happiness means and Machi tells her that it's different for everyone, but finding someone thst cares about you is a wonderful thing. A few sequences of events later, a still Tami is given a push in a direction thst would make Tami choosing to be happy with her friends, than to be happy pleasing her father.

Overall I'd say this episode was alright. It felt sort of Love Live-ish with how Tami is trying help Naru out as much as possible.
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I really love how Madhouse kept the original shape of her eyes and didn't have them completely behind the sunglasses. It looks completely hilarious like this.
 
I've been meaning to check out both of these for a while. Loved the YKK manga, and the OVAs seem equally good. For Carnival Phantasm, I've only seen F/Z and a few of the KnK movies. Is that enough?

No, there's almost no F/Z or KnK in it. You could watch it, but you'll miss most of the jokes/references. You watched the two Typemoon things not in Carnival Phantasm.

By Fate, though, he means F/SN. There are no real F/Z jokes IIRC.
I think there is one scene with F/Z characters.
 

Mature

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Barakamon - 4
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This certainly feels like the cathartic show of the season. Each episode is a little slice of love and fun. Yakuza dad is great.
 

Gazoinks

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Dennou Coil 10

Finally starting this one up again. I didn't go on hiatus from it because of the show (which is great), just happened due to my general break from anime over the last month or two.

Anyways, good episode as usual. Compared to most of the past episodes, which mixed lighthearted hijinks with hints of creepy mystery, this one was mostly just straight sad.
They really do a great job of making you feel Haraken's pain, and the lengths he'll go to to find out what happened to Kanna. I suspect it might be his undoing.
Additionally, we learned that
Isako is doing... whatever she's doing to somehow bring her brother back from... somewhere. Random guess, he's this 4423 guy.
I feel like we're starting to actually get into the mysteries now. I don't expect answers this early, of course, but I imagine the main plot is going to start to slowly come to surface soon. Possibly.

Muybridge's Strings

Today is sad anime day I guess!

Really interesting contemplation on the desire to stop and turn back time with two parallel stories: One of one of the fathers of film and animation: Edweard Muybridge, and one of a nameless mother in Tokyo watching her daughter grow apart from her. Really well-presented short. The gorgeous music and rough, monochromatic art-style set up a very somber, contemplative tone that was reinforced by heavy usage of some great surreal imagery (see above). Plus it was educational! :D

Really enjoyed it, I'll definitely check out some more of this guy's work tomorrow. Might actually rewatch this at some point and write up more of an analysis.

I'm going to go watch the first episode of Barakamon now! Too many sads!
 

Gazoinks

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Barakamon 1

Man, Handa's got an ahoge and crossing bang spikes. That is some anime hair right there.

This was surprisingly great. Comedy was good, had a nice naturalistic tone that wasn't too reliant on the typical REACTING REALLY LOUDLY TO THINGS, and it was very cute and sweet. Nice surprise, looking forward to catching up.

And now sleep!
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Thoraxes

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Well, I guess there's a fundamental misconception of Detective Conan that needs to be cleared up so it wont be treated as a punching bag.


Drag it out? Drag what out? The individual stories are as much the main story as the arcs that surround them. You're mistaking Detective Conan with a battle shounen. The narrative involving the Black Organization is interesting and a large part of the series, but it shouldn't be the hook. The bulk of the series are one-off whodunit mysteries and its been that way since the very beginning. And it's really shitty for you to say Aoyama is "greedy" even though there's zero evidence of that. The guy is legit into mystery and is constantly talking about being enamored by other series like it. He's clearly got a passion for it, and his series is set up in such a way that it can go as long as he wishes, so why not?

I'm assuming you don't watch the show since you're gauging progression by the number of appearances as if that's some metric by which the overarching story line can be measured. You're telling me you watched the show and you didn't get the direction it was going from the very beginning?

Let's examine the first season:
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I went ahead and crossed out all the episodes that directly involve the overarching storyline. Four. Hell, in more recent years we have whole series of episodes dedicated to BO and other main story things. If anything, it's tilted more in that direction as it's gone on.

I'm with you on this one.
 

Envelope

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Princess Nine 1

After dropping most stuff from this season I now have time to go through some stuff from the backlog and this was one of them. The first episode was good, nothing was outstanding about it aside from the soundtrack, but I did enjoy it and had a lot of energy.

The music was really good though. Maybe it's because I already about it before watching the first episode, but it really catches your attention and has very distinct feeling to it. It also for some reason reminds of JRPG soundtracks.

dat hot-blooded OP
 

Branduil

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Hey, could anyone recommend me some good anime shorts or short OVA/ONAs? I just rewatched Furiko (one of the very few things that makes me tear up every time I see it. I didn't even cry for After Story!), and it struck me that I haven't really gone on a shorts binge in a long time.

On Your Mark
Pale Cocoon
The House of Small Cubes
Dareka no Manazashi
Harmonie
Kizuna Ichigeki
Wasurenagumo
Death Billiards
Superflat Monogram
 

phaze

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Gankutsuo 11-12


Major kudos for including one of my favourite Rachmaninoff pieces. The montage during Eugenie's playing was great. Prosecutor seems like the only aristocrat with the brain in the right place and the show is much better for it.
Given all the stunts that Gankutsuo pulled already, it would weird if no one managed to add up at least a few pieces of the puzzle. Will be interesting to see how he Monte Cristo gets out of this one. Albert though sure is naive. You can't help but laugh when he's ranting about "understanding the count".

I took it for granted that it was the count voicing all those recaps but it seems now that Bertuccio is the more likely suspect.
 

Narag

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Who did the backgrounds for Katanagatari? Why haven't they won massive piles of awards?

I love my Kusanagi artbook collections too.

Apparently Pablo did work on that too although I couldn't tell you what their contribution was compared to the other studios that worked on it.
 

Dynedom

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The Devil is a Part Timer - END

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That was a really fun anime! To keep things short: The main characters were all fantastic, the narrative was funny and facetious (even the dramatic episodes were dripping with self awareness), the script was phenomenal, the OST was notable because it made mundane scenarios hilarious by playing dramatic music, and overall it was a relaxing experience.

The show's premise and Maou & Alsiel's growth makes me think of that old saying.

"It's not who you were yesterday, but who you'll be tomorrow that matters."

PS: I hope to god that Best girl Chiho won last years Best girl of the year award.

Thinks Chiho is best girl?

*brofist*
 
Kokoro Connect OVAs 17

I didn't expect that but I'm actually really let down by the OVAs, the last episode in particular.

So this time around the show even creates tension and drama by threatening a character with rape or similarly dark stuff? Kokoro Connect, you were much better than that. So Inabe, who, too, acted as a moron now and got captured by three young thugs, is in dire need of help. She uses her clubs telepathic super powers and everyone comes for help and beats up the bad guys. What an elegant solution for Iori's dilemma /sarcasm.

After they've dealt with the thugs there are a lot of tears and Iori is ... are you kidding me, she's actually back to her former self. The person she supposedly never was and what caused this entire ordeal in the first place. What?!?

Then, for more cheap drama one of the thugs actually comes back with a fricking pipe in order to beat them up, lol. Well Taichi takes the hit and then we get the perfect ending. As mentioned, Iori is happy again and everyone loves her, Taichi and her agree that they don't love the other as they're now, but genuinely did so back then (still feels like a cheap cop-out to make way for Inabe), Inabe gets together with Taichi and yeh. Both clubs keep Mr. Go and really, everything just looking great! The end.

What I did enjoy where most moments Inabe and Taichi shared, especially when Inabe's cuteness shone through.

But that's about it. In comparison to the regular season, the drama this time around feels poorly executed and forced.

Probably seems a bit weird that I feel so let down by the OVAs as there isn't necessarily a huge change of direction. The execution, though, was thoroughly disappointing me though.

Wonder if anyone actually looks at the OVAs similarly? Wouldn't be surprised if a lot of people like the episodes because "best girl wins" is of utmost importance...
 

wonzo

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I've been meaning to watch Utopia since its original broadcast - is it any good? All I know is it has lots of violence and a mysterious precognitive comic book (is that right?).
Easily up there with the likes of True Detective and Boardwalk Empire and it's by far and away the best looking TV show ever produced. Show's fuckin mental in the best way possible and yeah, you're right about the comic book angle. lol

can't wait to see what fincher does with it for hbo

e: it also has the most sympathetic mass-murdering psychopath ever

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Nordicus

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RahXephon 25-26 (end)

*sigh*

Yeah, as some of you pointed out, this is rather dull. Even when it's the finale, where Ayato for one episode fails to remain human and annihilates everyone in a massive radius to the shock of the other TERRA people, it doesn't really grab me in the way that it should. Then when Haruka is saved by Ayato's mom because she doesn't want him to be a god with emotional pain, I guess, and Ayato, after getting his own "Congratulations!" scene, has his mind back in order, he basically recreates the world to be one where this Mu nonsense ever happened. This is not one of those stories where pressing the reset button didn't feel completely lame.

Also, this seems like a show that just begs a rewatch to get the full context and explanation of everything especially with the Murians talking in riddles (or maybe I'm just dumb for still being bit confused), but I'll never humor that. I liked some of the characters and individual moments, I couldn't handle so many episodes that were on the verge of being something genuinely interesting but ended up being simply quiet and a bit pretentious.

I wonder if i would have liked a show where Futagami and all the other older male characters had a more important role.

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wonzo

Banned
Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun 4

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omg, best girl mikorin confirmed. shedding some real ass tears for tomoda right here ;-;7

Barakamon 4

Moral of the story, cats own until they've had enough attention and proceed to maul you and your hands to pieces. :(
 
Ojamajo Doremi 2-3

Looks like the trio is all here. Even though I do like them all, I still favor Doremi since I love characters like her the best as leads. Looks like this is also one of those magical girl shows that will show them trying to solove people's problems with magic which I like as will. I do curse YuuYuu for convincing me to pick up such a long series, however.
 
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