AquaWateria
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I didn't see that, but then who's that guy that was in the MC's dream? I guess we'll find out as the series progresses.
It gets better and a bit more psychological with the second episode.
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I didn't see that, but then who's that guy that was in the MC's dream? I guess we'll find out as the series progresses.
It gets better and a bit more psychological with the second episode.
razgriz417
Member
Anyone in the market for a 7 meter long body pillow?
lol
http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-ne...epares-seven-meter-life-sized-miia-hug-pillow
lol
http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-ne...epares-seven-meter-life-sized-miia-hug-pillow
ok, now that is genius.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Imagine keeping that thing on your bedroom. Although at that point, you could at least play it off as irony.
KenjiGlove
Banned
Yeah, there's a lot of strange things going on. I'm interested in seeing more though, I like how they're using their powers to tackle all the different challenges. I'm stoked to see a target who has some actual combat powers.
It's kinda like Stardust Crusaders in a way, only this time they don't have to find out the secret of their stands. They're also not gaint muscular man, which is a shame.
ShinRPGamer
Member
It certainly seems to be the case right now doesn't it. At least next episode looks like it will have more plot progression.
Durarara X2 15
This episode in the meantime was a good one. Finally gave more info on Akabayashi, one of the more intriguing characters introduced in season 2.
Symphogear GX episode 3: The Beef Stroganoff song was unexpected and totally awesome.
As was Kirika's transformation sequence.
Doesn't Elfnein lack a SEX rather than a gender? she seems to identify as female, so that's a gender right there. Maybe the subbers don't know the difference, whatever. It led to that real cute moment with Miku and Hibiki.
As was Kirika's transformation sequence.
Doesn't Elfnein lack a SEX rather than a gender? she seems to identify as female, so that's a gender right there. Maybe the subbers don't know the difference, whatever. It led to that real cute moment with Miku and Hibiki.
Charlotte 3
Apart from the interesting MC , which is the only reason i'm still watching, the show isnt really that great.
Hopefully it gets bether and doesn't stay a new person with powers every week. A real story would be kinda nice, and hopefully not about those evil evil scientist.
Apart from the interesting MC , which is the only reason i'm still watching, the show isnt really that great.
Hopefully it gets bether and doesn't stay a new person with powers every week. A real story would be kinda nice, and hopefully not about those evil evil scientist.
Darkness Unleashed
Member
Charlotte ep 3
I gotta say, this is slowly getting a sort of special place in my concience, the times when the group combines their superpowers to create a plan are definitely the highlight of this show so far.
And already we also have a nice set of characters. I really dig both Yu and Tomori´s personalities, the little sister is so undeniably cute aswell.
Only one question remains
I gotta say, this is slowly getting a sort of special place in my concience, the times when the group combines their superpowers to create a plan are definitely the highlight of this show so far.
And already we also have a nice set of characters. I really dig both Yu and Tomori´s personalities, the little sister is so undeniably cute aswell.
Only one question remains
why the hell is this show called Charlotte?
R_thanatos
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Gakkou gurashi! - 02
Damn that episode... the show actually knows how to construct tense situations.
Definitely watching the rest.
Poor girl totally messed up in the head. Can't wait to see how everyone ended in this situation.
Damn that episode... the show actually knows how to construct tense situations.
Definitely watching the rest.
Poor girl totally messed up in the head. Can't wait to see how everyone ended in this situation.
Sir Blaming
Member
Umm, surprise? *party blower*
But I do hope it get better cause they skip forward from the manga.
KenjiGlove
Banned
I think it's going to stop here, only the four students and the sister appear in the intro and stuff. Maybe they'll recruit other kids to the school but they won't join the main group.
AquaWateria
Member
ultimatemegax
Member
Aniplex does this with their Saturday night Tokyo MX (and other stations) slots. Last year's Nisekoi/Monogatari was a good example and it allowed the first two episodes of Fate/Stay Night to be hour-long.
Kadokawa has done this previously with a couple instances. First was in 2010 when they had an hour on BS11 and ran a little advertisement program called Lucky Racer featuring ItoP's favorite person, Minoru Shiraishi, and Kadokawa staff go-cart racing to promote new titles/merchandise. The second was in 2012 when, due to an unlucky situation when Christmas day and New Years occurred on the same day as the episode broadcasts, they had to run the final 3 episodes of Mirai Nikki in April 2012 prior to starting the broadcast of Hyouka, which ran in those timeslots later.
Bandai Namco had to purchase the same timeslots for Cinderella Girls to run the first series again due to production delays in Cinderella (so it moved from 25 straight slots for CG into 13 CG, 13 imas, 12 CG, 12 imas).
It's not exactly common, but things can do that if the staff have the funds/availability to do it.
Having a lot of trouble finding shows to watch this season. I wrote off prison school initially because I read the manga and new it was going to be shit but oh man I'm genuinely enjoying it. Its taking itself seriously in a really dumb way, different from the manga.
Ore Monogatari and Prison School seem to be the only thing going this season though. Anything I'm missing?
Ore Monogatari and Prison School seem to be the only thing going this season though. Anything I'm missing?
Hellraider
Member
Why aren't you watching glorious Soma?
Finally caught up and saw all the anime from Friday after spending all day watching EVO. I wish GATE was more of a Stargate experience instead of pandering to anime fans but it was still fine overall. Soma continues to be great as we learn about Soma's dad more. The ED is so bad I want the old one back 
Ushio and Tora had another solid episode but I wasn't really invested in the story as it was told too quickly for such a heavy subject. Hopefully the main arc can build some momentum. DRRR continues to star characters I don't really care about but we did learn more about Anri's past which is neat. Prison School continues to be gross with lewd shit going on to the gang. I don't our MC will be alive next week unless Hana is into some kinky shit. I still think it's an ugly show in general and could be much better if it paced itself better. Back to EVO!
Ushio and Tora had another solid episode but I wasn't really invested in the story as it was told too quickly for such a heavy subject. Hopefully the main arc can build some momentum. DRRR continues to star characters I don't really care about but we did learn more about Anri's past which is neat. Prison School continues to be gross with lewd shit going on to the gang. I don't our MC will be alive next week unless Hana is into some kinky shit. I still think it's an ugly show in general and could be much better if it paced itself better. Back to EVO!PshycoNinja
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Yona of the Dawn 23-24 [END] [Watchbet]
The last episode certainly moved at a breakneck speed. This is definitely an intriguing show. I would be disheartened if this is truly the end of the anime. I hope they do more. They just got the last dragon so they need to progress past this point.
Good show, I recommend it but just be prepared for it to end pretty abruptly and leaving you with questions. I hope they make more.
The last episode certainly moved at a breakneck speed. This is definitely an intriguing show. I would be disheartened if this is truly the end of the anime. I hope they do more. They just got the last dragon so they need to progress past this point.
Good show, I recommend it but just be prepared for it to end pretty abruptly and leaving you with questions. I hope they make more.
Soma is the best thing going on this season so watch it if you haven't already.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
I remember the Mirai Nikki thing actually. But wait, Cinderella Girls was supposed to run as two straight cour? Whoops. lol
Is this Fate/Nagato thing the first time a publisher/studio did this on purpose though? I mean, I remember a few years ago when we got the experiment of having two 12 minute anime share the same slot (I think it was HenZemi and Azelzan or whatever that one was called), and obviously that failed as an experiment since no one has done it since... but this is the first time I've noticed one show getting more episodes because the other was shorter. (iirc Kodakawa seems fine with 10 episode shows, but I think this is the first time I've seen a 16 episode show).
Soma, Working
Cindurrelhurr Gals 14
Well the show is certainly separating itself from its bigger sister. Whereas in The iDOLM@STER the second half began with them having made the big time and being in major demand, here in Cinderella Girls they are making the same steady progress as before and we start the second half with a fun hijinx episode.
Oh and we're introduced to Mayu Sakuma, who, reading that Wiki entry, is the scariest thing alive.
Well the show is certainly separating itself from its bigger sister. Whereas in The iDOLM@STER the second half began with them having made the big time and being in major demand, here in Cinderella Girls they are making the same steady progress as before and we start the second half with a fun hijinx episode.
Oh and we're introduced to Mayu Sakuma, who, reading that Wiki entry, is the scariest thing alive.
a token yandere. Nice.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Wait, there are yanderes in imas now? lol
I'm not really depressed by anime itself, moreso just the conditions surrounding the industry at large both domestically and locally.Arti, if anime makes you depressed nowadays perhaps its time for a less damaging hobby to you?
I dont want you to force yourself to do something if you dont enjoy it
If anything I'm more tired of the seasonal routine of keeping track of and finding the time to watch several shows every week, split across multiple streaming services with separate paywalls and varying video/subtitle quality. That's why I went from watching 10 shows in the January season, to two in April (one of which I'm still behind on), to nothing now.
Turin Turambar
Member
Charlotte 03
The writing is pretty bad. Maybe in episode 7 or so this will improve, but for now it's being a boring, annoying series. Dropped.
In general terms, this season has been a disaster. It started with me being open minded and trying several series, and the majority goes from bad to crappy to mediocre with a pair of half-decent.
The writing is pretty bad. Maybe in episode 7 or so this will improve, but for now it's being a boring, annoying series. Dropped.
In general terms, this season has been a disaster. It started with me being open minded and trying several series, and the majority goes from bad to crappy to mediocre with a pair of half-decent.
ultimatemegax
Member
Not really. I was incorrect as Kadokawa did this previously with Haruhi 2009 and Kiddy Girl-And (Haruhi ran from the first week in April to two weeks in October while Kiddy Girl-And continued until the end of March on most of the same stations).
As I mentioned in my previous post, Aniplex scheduled Nisekoi for 20 episodes and planned to fill the other 5 slots with Hanamonogatari, but due to whipping Shaft too much, production on Hana was delayed and so Aniplex had to run 5 commentary episodes instead.
Nagato is 16 episodes due to most slots having 13 weeks for both Spring/Summer this year. Otherwise it'd be 15. It just lucked out for Kadokawa and was good planning.
ThatChairMan
Member
With the amount of idols in the Cinderella Girls mobage, there's at least one for almost single archetype.
KenjiGlove
Banned
Working!!! 03
IT'S ACTUALLY HAPPENING, SO CLOSE!!
I just love this show, almost every scene has at least one good character in it to carry it.
This episode also had a huge focus on Satou which was awesome, he's so based.
IT'S ACTUALLY HAPPENING, SO CLOSE!!
I just love this show, almost every scene has at least one good character in it to carry it.
This episode also had a huge focus on Satou which was awesome, he's so based.
Normal-chan also appeared, I hope we'll see more of her in the future.
PshycoNinja
Member
Charlotte 3
The show just keeps getting better every week. I really like this cast of characters. It now seems everything has been established and
Seems they're going for a changing ED every week which is cool. Or at the very least it's been different the last two episodes. They might settle on one in episode 4.
I look forward to seeing where they go from here now that all the characters have been established. The story has been moving along at a nice pace and the writing has been excellent. Tomori and Yu are great characters and I love their personalities whenever they do something. They're really dynamic and layered. Should continue to be fun to watch. The animation has been really great in these past few episodes so it's not short in great art.
The show just keeps getting better every week. I really like this cast of characters. It now seems everything has been established and
the main group has assembled.
Seems they're going for a changing ED every week which is cool. Or at the very least it's been different the last two episodes. They might settle on one in episode 4.
I look forward to seeing where they go from here now that all the characters have been established. The story has been moving along at a nice pace and the writing has been excellent. Tomori and Yu are great characters and I love their personalities whenever they do something. They're really dynamic and layered. Should continue to be fun to watch. The animation has been really great in these past few episodes so it's not short in great art.
Yeah, though of course there's still the need to wait for NA releases to catch up to where the anime adapted up to, but there's no real way to avoid that. On the topic of OADs, is the upcoming Kodansha AoT release the first time that's ever happened? I don't really pay a lot of attention to the manga market so I'm not sure.
By the way, relating back to the earlier assertion that most anime is basically advertising at its core, I was thinking about something. Manga and light novels seem to largely have junior/high-school age audiences (maybe branching a bit towards young adults sometimes) and are thus designed/written to appeal to that group, right? But once adapted to anime, while the intention is still to promote that original cheaper source material to whoever watches the show on TV, in a large number of cases the target product-purchasing audience for anime goods shifts to the 20s-30s otaku market. I'm probably off-base with a lot of assertions here, but I feel like there's an interesting bit of truth somewhere in the argument.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
It's too bad anime is based so heavily on disc sales... you could actually plan anime based on episode count and adjust as needed to avoid having to do filler or anything. I guess Hanamonogatari would be the perfect example, except Shaft gotta Shaft. lol
TheGreatDirector
Banned
The creator stated the first 6 episodes would be pretty slow.
I know what itsl ike to be too busy to enjoy hobbies certainly. With few exceptions, I am at least a couple of weeks behind any broadcast, if not months.
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Jex
Member
I just want to say, thank you, for actually bringing a shred of reasonable discourse to this topic. You wouldn't think it would actually be necessary to spell it out in such detail but, here we are.
Shokegeki no Soma - 1
I've heard really good things about this show on GAF, so I figured I would give it a try. I know it has a lot of fan service, which usually is a big turn off for me, but I was curious - same reason I watched Prison School's first episode, really.
Well, episode 1 was a hell of a lot of fun. Soma is cool, it was funny and the food all looked so good. As for the fan service well... the fact that its mostly reactions to the food sort of made it... ok? It made it... funny. I'm not sold on it. I generally try to avoid fan service and anything involving tentacles, but at least here I can laugh at it (Where as a show like Dog Days it just makes me shake my head and roll my eyes).
The last point is that its also a "high school" show which also really bugs me. I'm so utterly tired of that trope. The first episode only touched on it at the end but thats really what the show is about, it seems. Well, hopefully it can be like Kill la Kill in that regard and just be totally absurd.
Anyways, gonna keep going on this one. Wonder just what I've gotten myself into...
I've heard really good things about this show on GAF, so I figured I would give it a try. I know it has a lot of fan service, which usually is a big turn off for me, but I was curious - same reason I watched Prison School's first episode, really.
Well, episode 1 was a hell of a lot of fun. Soma is cool, it was funny and the food all looked so good. As for the fan service well... the fact that its mostly reactions to the food sort of made it... ok? It made it... funny. I'm not sold on it. I generally try to avoid fan service and anything involving tentacles, but at least here I can laugh at it (Where as a show like Dog Days it just makes me shake my head and roll my eyes).
The last point is that its also a "high school" show which also really bugs me. I'm so utterly tired of that trope. The first episode only touched on it at the end but thats really what the show is about, it seems. Well, hopefully it can be like Kill la Kill in that regard and just be totally absurd.
Anyways, gonna keep going on this one. Wonder just what I've gotten myself into...
ultimatemegax
Member
Manga gets slightly complicated with Bandai Entertainment running both anime/manga lines while they were around. One could argue the Code Geauss LEs were manga w/bonus anime discs and vice-versal. For traditional LEs, yes, Kodansha's AoT LE set is the first I ever recall of a print publisher releasing a video disc of an anime in the NA market.
There's a slight gap between Shounen and Seinen/Shojo and Josei where series could appeal to teens/young adults in either magazine category. Those labels aren't as strict as they used to be though. Essentially what gets animated is meant to appeal to teenagers/young adults and that's generally who buys the merch/music/video discs/etc. People can save funds to buy the discs, though with the increase in streaming services in Japan, the video disc market isn't as powerful as it was.
Certain anime are based on disc sales while others are meant for other reasons. The current Ushio and Tora likely wasn't made for video disc sales and the 2-cour/1-cour split strategy confirms that. Each series is unique, so we have to take things in consideration rather than strict rules.
KenjiGlove
Banned
They haven't really attended classes and stuff yet so it's not really like a normal school.
It's more a way to justify having a lot of kids cooking together so I wouldn't worry if I were you.
KazenY2J
Member
hosannainexcelsis
Member
The series does gradually tone down on the fanservice scenes as things progress, thankfully, and doesn't really rely on that as a major selling point. There's one more squid scene, and then things will calm down.
The high school is used as a rationale for extreme cooking battles, so depending on what you dislike about that common setting I don't think it'll bother you much.
Turin Turambar
Member
Gits Arise Alternative Architecture
As a Gits fan (and Shirow fan in general), I should be pretty happy with the fact they made a new series of OVAs / season, but it never gets to nail the execution of a good Gits story. It gets close, it does the basics, at first it looks like quality gits stories, and given the state of current anime I should be thankful of having something without moe or ecchi or otakus, but in the end it fails to reach the quality of previous works.
First, the setup feels weird, awkward. They chose to do it a prequel, but by doing it it messes up a bit with the canon, and the excuse of them being some kind of unofficial intelligence "consulting group" that is hired by the government (as Section 9 still doesn't exist) feels ridiculous, half of the stuff they make wouldn't be really allowed. Some inclusions like the Logichomas are there just because people liked Tachikomas, and therefore with such weak reasons they feel bolted on here.
Second, it feels a remake of a remake. The previous series was already a covert remake, taking some storylines, characters, themes or just famous scenes or moments from the manga and the movies. This repeats the same: here we have again the major jumping from a building and using optical camo. Here we have again the major jumping on top of a tank opening the hatchet and damaging his arm in the process. Here we have again a moment where she is in the water looking upwards to the light. Here we have again a super hacker with mysterious motives that does obscure quotes. Here we have again the major using her admin-priviliges to punch a subordinate because she didn't like a comment (she is really a bitch, if you think about it). Here we have again Batou and the Major in a boat talking and drinking. Here we have again military intelligence as the bad guys behind everything with the shadow of corruption in the government in the middle.
It feels too much a retread.
Third, it has an air of being convoluted for convolutedness sake. Mmm wait no, the plots aren't so convoluted, it's more a problem of not being properly explained. in several moments I had to rewind to follow properly the plot, and at this point I'm a veteran of this kind of sci-fi. The stories uses up two episodes each one, but sometimes they throw at you a number of names, factions, and confusing moments that a bit more of space and explanations to show what's happening a bit more clearly would be a good thing.
In one of them they mention a past war you don't know, some factions you don't know, some character's name you don't even have a face to associate with, and it piles on and on.
Fourth, it starts to break the setting's verisimilitude. How the hell would anyone upgrade to a cyberbrain if it's so risky? In the original movie it made sense because in the end the hacker was not a human, but a new AI, not something that was usual. In MMI the same, there is some intense hacking going around but it's a "battle of gods", of AI vs AI. in SAC it happens but it's more a single case.
Here? Everyone is hacked here. In one scene the bad guy controls one hundred people. They hack police, bodyguards. They hack diplomats, they control military personnel, they control military hardware. It's like anyone can hack in, control a few tanks and provoke a international incident or a massacre in a city if they want. The major is hacked three times!
It feels like the writers abused of this narrative resource. They asked themselves, "what would be could to happen here? I know, let's make this soldier to be hacked and then tries to kill this other guy!"
Fifth, the action is sometimes dumb. Including a chopper speeding down at the same pace of the Major in free fall, or a logichoma somehow knocking up a pair of missiles and them not exploding, or "spec ops soldiers" that behave more like gooks to be shot down. And if anything, dumbness is the last thing I want in Gits.
As a Gits fan (and Shirow fan in general), I should be pretty happy with the fact they made a new series of OVAs / season, but it never gets to nail the execution of a good Gits story. It gets close, it does the basics, at first it looks like quality gits stories, and given the state of current anime I should be thankful of having something without moe or ecchi or otakus, but in the end it fails to reach the quality of previous works.
First, the setup feels weird, awkward. They chose to do it a prequel, but by doing it it messes up a bit with the canon, and the excuse of them being some kind of unofficial intelligence "consulting group" that is hired by the government (as Section 9 still doesn't exist) feels ridiculous, half of the stuff they make wouldn't be really allowed. Some inclusions like the Logichomas are there just because people liked Tachikomas, and therefore with such weak reasons they feel bolted on here.
Second, it feels a remake of a remake. The previous series was already a covert remake, taking some storylines, characters, themes or just famous scenes or moments from the manga and the movies. This repeats the same: here we have again the major jumping from a building and using optical camo. Here we have again the major jumping on top of a tank opening the hatchet and damaging his arm in the process. Here we have again a moment where she is in the water looking upwards to the light. Here we have again a super hacker with mysterious motives that does obscure quotes. Here we have again the major using her admin-priviliges to punch a subordinate because she didn't like a comment (she is really a bitch, if you think about it). Here we have again Batou and the Major in a boat talking and drinking. Here we have again military intelligence as the bad guys behind everything with the shadow of corruption in the government in the middle.
It feels too much a retread.
Third, it has an air of being convoluted for convolutedness sake. Mmm wait no, the plots aren't so convoluted, it's more a problem of not being properly explained. in several moments I had to rewind to follow properly the plot, and at this point I'm a veteran of this kind of sci-fi. The stories uses up two episodes each one, but sometimes they throw at you a number of names, factions, and confusing moments that a bit more of space and explanations to show what's happening a bit more clearly would be a good thing.
In one of them they mention a past war you don't know, some factions you don't know, some character's name you don't even have a face to associate with, and it piles on and on.
Fourth, it starts to break the setting's verisimilitude. How the hell would anyone upgrade to a cyberbrain if it's so risky? In the original movie it made sense because in the end the hacker was not a human, but a new AI, not something that was usual. In MMI the same, there is some intense hacking going around but it's a "battle of gods", of AI vs AI. in SAC it happens but it's more a single case.
Here? Everyone is hacked here. In one scene the bad guy controls one hundred people. They hack police, bodyguards. They hack diplomats, they control military personnel, they control military hardware. It's like anyone can hack in, control a few tanks and provoke a international incident or a massacre in a city if they want. The major is hacked three times!
It feels like the writers abused of this narrative resource. They asked themselves, "what would be could to happen here? I know, let's make this soldier to be hacked and then tries to kill this other guy!"
Fifth, the action is sometimes dumb. Including a chopper speeding down at the same pace of the Major in free fall, or a logichoma somehow knocking up a pair of missiles and them not exploding, or "spec ops soldiers" that behave more like gooks to be shot down. And if anything, dumbness is the last thing I want in Gits.
Dedication Through Light
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PshycoNinja
Member
Charlotte is really, really great.
Rokka had a so-so second episode but episode 1 is great and it should make for a fun show.
Now you're getting to the really good stuff.
Shimoneta 03
Oh dear. He unleashed the monster. I suppose the ED kinda gave it away.
I thought for sure the stalker will be that girl they focused on for a few moments in the classroom.
This remains surprisingly decent. I jokingly predicted this will save the summer and unexpectedly, I was not wrong.
Some of the sounds they're using for censorship are hilarious.
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