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Summer Anime 2015 |OT2| !? Love Live is not real!
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victreeb3l
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I think I finished Chihayafuru S2 in a weekend. I just couldn't stop watching it. So, so good.
KirbYuuYuu
Member
It's what I asked about so I guess. Never heard that tho.
Probably some community thing.
Looking forward to the episode 5 reaction.
Hellwarden
Member
Chaos Dragon 10
You know, for a series that's supposed to be a big high stakes fantasy adventure full of betrayal and death, there's a lot of scenes of people just sitting around talking.
Okay, why does everyone hate Bounded Ones if they're gonna die because of their power? It's not like they can ever become a sizable problem.
Okay, actual betrayals! Okay that's a pretty sick arm you got there girl.
You know, for a series that's supposed to be a big high stakes fantasy adventure full of betrayal and death, there's a lot of scenes of people just sitting around talking.
Okay, why does everyone hate Bounded Ones if they're gonna die because of their power? It's not like they can ever become a sizable problem.
Okay, actual betrayals! Okay that's a pretty sick arm you got there girl.
Animator Expo #30 - The Ultraman
Surprised no one posted about this yet. It's Akitoshi Yokoyama directing an Ultraman short based on the original manga material and designs, with art by Hisashi Mori, backgrounds by Studio Pablo, and a bunch of top-tier animators like Tomohiro Takase, Tatsuzo Nishita, Akihiko Yamashita, and Shuichi Kaneko. It looks pretty great, although I guess it might not have a strong impact for those who aren't fans of the franchise. It's very faithful and neat for fans though. The sound effects, music, and direction are all on point.
Surprised no one posted about this yet. It's Akitoshi Yokoyama directing an Ultraman short based on the original manga material and designs, with art by Hisashi Mori, backgrounds by Studio Pablo, and a bunch of top-tier animators like Tomohiro Takase, Tatsuzo Nishita, Akihiko Yamashita, and Shuichi Kaneko. It looks pretty great, although I guess it might not have a strong impact for those who aren't fans of the franchise. It's very faithful and neat for fans though. The sound effects, music, and direction are all on point.
Yes, yes and yes.
You know, I didn't really like Shiki very much, but it does have a pretty good ED.
Is it pretty much the polar opposite from Trigger's Gridman short in terms of style, tone, etc. for being inspired by a toku series?
Ha! Since I am in that boat since S2 ended (around 252) I am just waiting until I have several episdes and watch them in a few days!
...have to wait again since I only have 287 to watch...
Edit: Have you seen the OVA and the second movie already?
Hellwarden
Member
This needs a 3rd season.
It's just too good not to get one.
It sold around 3,000 units.
So I don't wanna say it's impossible, but...
phoenix296
Member
MGSV
So many phantoms. I don't know what to believe anymore. Best anime I've seen
this year.
So many phantoms. I don't know what to believe anymore. Best anime I've seen
played
They're making a pair of live-action movies instead. That's where the new hotness is at anyway -- Chihayafuru's getting two, Ore Monogatari's getting one, Kimiuso's getting one, Anohana's getting one as a TV special...
phoenix296
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Did you play the other games? TPP probably has the best writing of the lot. Not hard when you cut out all the heavy exposition.
(light spoilers)
The ending also manages to tie itself into MGS perfectly as well as Metal Gear and Snakes Revenge. Wasn't expecting that!
KenjiGlove
Banned
Animator Expo: The Ultraman
Am I missing some backstory of this? It seems that this short tried to fit in a lot of things in just these eight minutes, I couldn't really follow what was going on.
Correct me if I'm wrong but this seemed like a homage to some old-school anime and I guess it did a pretty good job at that, it sounded bad when people spoke but that was probably intended? For the rest people shot lazers out of their hands and threw boomerangs, seems old-school to me but I wasn't really blown away by it.
I loved the outro though, that was awesome!
Pillow Boys 8
I legit jumped out of my chair when the OP suddenly started playing after that long silence, so long for falling asleep.
Am I missing some backstory of this? It seems that this short tried to fit in a lot of things in just these eight minutes, I couldn't really follow what was going on.
Correct me if I'm wrong but this seemed like a homage to some old-school anime and I guess it did a pretty good job at that, it sounded bad when people spoke but that was probably intended? For the rest people shot lazers out of their hands and threw boomerangs, seems old-school to me but I wasn't really blown away by it.
I loved the outro though, that was awesome!
Pillow Boys 8
I legit jumped out of my chair when the OP suddenly started playing after that long silence, so long for falling asleep.
You know, even with the bits of odd fanservice the last few episodes, i still found enough to be interested and enjoy this anime.
This episode, however, just shouldn't exist. You can tell right off the bat that this super unneeded filler and should have just been a OVA of some carp.
best bet is that they didn't know how to pad out the anime because 12 episodes was too long for what was planned to be adapted. I'm probably wrong (Definitely wrong).
I assume and hope the remaining episodes do not go like this one has.
This episode, however, just shouldn't exist. You can tell right off the bat that this super unneeded filler and should have just been a OVA of some carp.
best bet is that they didn't know how to pad out the anime because 12 episodes was too long for what was planned to be adapted. I'm probably wrong (Definitely wrong).
I assume and hope the remaining episodes do not go like this one has.
It's not really like Gridman because this isn't inspired by the Ultraman TV shows so much as a homage to the Ultraman manga by the late Mamoru Uchiyama. The art is based directly on the style of the manga and aims to bring it to life so to speak, which is part of the reason why I think the direction does a lot of the stills -> animation stuff. It feels like a manga frame "coming to life" so to speak.
Nah you're not missing anything. It's an adaptation of portions of a manga arc. It's basically fanservice, but not much beyond that. The old-school feel is definitely intentional, the manga is really old and the author/artist passed away some time ago.
KenjiGlove
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Thanks this clears things up! I tried to google a bit but I got confused because there seem to be a bunch of different versions of Ultraman.
So I guess the source material of this short was the very first Ultraman manga? Because if that's the case it's a really cool homage to the manga and the original writer.
It's awesome that Animator Expo allows for these kind of shorts to be made, I love it!
Turin Turambar
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Good animation, interesting art style in parts, and yeah all the direction and sfx makes it for a flavourful old school feeling.
I was wondering if Anno was in it, given the Ultraman focus.
.SliceSabre
Banned
Go! Princess Precure 30
You know I always feel bad for the villains in these shows sometimes.
You know I always feel bad for the villains in these shows sometimes.
Glad the see the Precures didn't murder him this time.
Yeah the source material you're looking for would be the old Uchiyama ones, in particular the story arc with the Jackal aliens. There's a much newer Ultraman manga called "The Ultraman" which isn't related at all and is much more modern. That adds to the confusion I think. Lol.
Ah yeah, missed the manga comment in your earlier post; just watched it and I can see what you mean. Like I agree I can tell it's technically well done but I know pretty much nothing about the Ultra franchise besides the very basic premise so I had no clue what was going on.
Cornbread78
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MikeHattsu
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Do it!
You still haven't seen Yuno's true colours yet!
KillerMan91
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Disc sales don't really matter that much for manga adaptions. Question is how much it pushed manga sales.
Wait a minute...
I'm sorry you started on AO by accident. You're at the point just before the plot starts preparing for its terminal death spiral. It's good you caught your error now, because the show isn't bad through what you watched.
The good news is that Eureka 7 has pretty much nothing to do with what you've seen of AO so far (no Secrets, no Earth nations, no NGOs), and even after you finish the original 50~ episode series, you'll still have no idea how what you've seen of AO relates to it. So you don't have to do some weird brain purge to enjoy it.
Cornbread78
Member
I know, the yandere queen awaits. I'll probably get to it once I get through Eureka 7. I may even take breaks and watch some more of it during E7 as a diversion.
KenjiGlove
Banned
Non Non Biyori Reapeat 08 + 09
Easily the best show of this season, I don't even know what's supposed to come close to it, Shokugeki no Soma maybe but that's not really from this Summer season.
Anyhow, I loved how much screentime the "older" generation had in these two episodes, especially in the scene with baby Renge at the school. The part where Natsumi caught the big fish was also great, I just loved everything about it!
I've been waiting for this!
Easily the best show of this season, I don't even know what's supposed to come close to it, Shokugeki no Soma maybe but that's not really from this Summer season.
Anyhow, I loved how much screentime the "older" generation had in these two episodes, especially in the scene with baby Renge at the school. The part where Natsumi caught the big fish was also great, I just loved everything about it!
When Kirie-chan tripped and dropped her chocolates, that destroyed my heart. Even Umaru trying to be nice to her didn't make up for it.
She's so cute
You have a heart of gold, don't let them take it from you.
WOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOO
I don't like saying this kind of thing before I played the game at least a couple of times and had some time to think through, but still, MGS V will most likely be my favorite in the franchise. I enjoy every change they made to the formula, tapes instead of codecs, more open levels, less exposition and needless cutscenes, it's still just as Metal Gear as it always has been, it's just less obnoxious about it.
Though I wasn't the biggest fan in the world before, I really liked the series, but you'd never see me discussing it in a Metal Gear Community Thread or anything, so there's that. Maybe hardcore fans are disappointed at the lack of cutscenes.
I know, right? I was worried because we were about on episode 5 (I think) and still no sign of Kaede, but we're getting so much of them recently, it's great. And I really thought it would be some cliche kinda-funny joke in the fishing sequence, I'm glad they actually just caught a big fish and that's it. I even actually forgot about the watch, and it was quite obvious what would happen to it the moment her mother gave her the thing.
Show of the season, most likely show of the year, I love Non Non Biyori so much, one of my favorite animes ever, really.
XD Don't worry, I don't think you will know much going into E7 at this point.
Cornbread78
Member
ROFLMAO. What a way to fuck up!
Uggh, I just started watching the RIGHT one this time with Renton Eureka, Holland, etc...
It's completely different so far..
Food Wars 16
My bad, I got ahead of myself and wasn't thinking. Soma's dad said those parting words here, not in the previous episode. That specialized ramen for breakfast though... now I would love to try that to get the day started. No meat or fish in the ramen, huh...
GATE 04
Damn, it's heartbreaking to see Tuka request supplies for another person who won't be there. At least they find out that they'll be able to sell the dragon scales at a insane price since the JSDF has no use for them, lol. And by the way, while we're at it, it feels like they completed that base way too fast since they got there. Itami and company already left as the Diet summons subpeona came in, so Itami dodged a bullet temporarily. On to Italica.
My bad, I got ahead of myself and wasn't thinking. Soma's dad said those parting words here, not in the previous episode. That specialized ramen for breakfast though... now I would love to try that to get the day started. No meat or fish in the ramen, huh...
GATE 04
Damn, it's heartbreaking to see Tuka request supplies for another person who won't be there. At least they find out that they'll be able to sell the dragon scales at a insane price since the JSDF has no use for them, lol. And by the way, while we're at it, it feels like they completed that base way too fast since they got there. Itami and company already left as the Diet summons subpeona came in, so Itami dodged a bullet temporarily. On to Italica.
Yeah. s1 sold poorly like that too. And even though S1/2 are amongst my favourite anime, the manga after S2 has gone in boring directions as far as I'm concerned. I'm not even sure I'd watch an anime of it.
The first season also not selling disc but they made the S2 anyway, yeah not impossible.
Usually if a show that sells poorly in BD/DVD sales and somehow gets a sequel the reason would be either...
A) Manga/LN sales got a massive boost.
B) Live action movie in the works, a sequel helps to promote/create awareness to it e.g Kaiji, Terraformars.etc
C) Planned as 2 cour but was split up.
D) A fucking miracle it happened e.g The World God Only Knows S3, Hayate no Gotoku S3/4 aka Shonen Sunday attempts to throw in $$$ their series to see which one will stick on the wall after the collaboration with Magi.
A) Manga/LN sales got a massive boost.
B) Live action movie in the works, a sequel helps to promote/create awareness to it e.g Kaiji, Terraformars.etc
C) Planned as 2 cour but was split up.
D) A fucking miracle it happened e.g The World God Only Knows S3, Hayate no Gotoku S3/4 aka Shonen Sunday attempts to throw in $$$ their series to see which one will stick on the wall after the collaboration with Magi.
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