Dedication Through Light
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Its all continous, one would be pretty confused without watching the original, especially since characters arent really reintroduced in exodus and most character arcs are already started.
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Summer Anime 2015 |OT2| !? Love Live is not real!
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Its all continous, one would be pretty confused without watching the original, especially since characters arent really reintroduced in exodus and most character arcs are already started.
For some reason I'm not surprised. I guess that's as much spotlight as the non Soma/Megumi members of Polar Star are allowed to have
VanillaCakeIsBurning
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Hisashi Hirai did do the character designs but it feels somewhat less Hirai in EXODUS if that makes any sense.
I really like Fafner, if only for the fact that tonally it feels very different from a lot of the recent mecha I've seen. It's hard to describe but you might be able to pick up on what I mean if you do decide to finish it.
nintendoman58
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Hyouka - 16
Good episode but I hope Juumonji gets revealed soon. Gotta say, I wasn't expecting him to go after the Light Music Club. Poor Mugi, Ritsu, Yui, Mio, and Azuza.
Good episode but I hope Juumonji gets revealed soon. Gotta say, I wasn't expecting him to go after the Light Music Club. Poor Mugi, Ritsu, Yui, Mio, and Azuza.
Illya Zwei blablablah - END
Boring eps to end boring and disappointing season
Too much filler and pedophiles joke, and there's no awesome fight to made all the pedo shit worthwhile to stomach.. any amount of french kiss scene won't enough for the lack of chuuni and fight, awful.
I'm not sure happy with 4th season announcement after seeing how bad this season is.
Maybe I'll run it through while waiting my Steam download.
Boring eps to end boring and disappointing season
Too much filler and pedophiles joke, and there's no awesome fight to made all the pedo shit worthwhile to stomach.. any amount of french kiss scene won't enough for the lack of chuuni and fight, awful.
I'm not sure happy with 4th season announcement after seeing how bad this season is.
What's the watching order?
Maybe I'll run it through while waiting my Steam download.
The characters are much better developed in the second arc of the manga (chapter 82 and onward, right where the anime ends), and there actually is real character growth albeit still mixed with Prison School's utter absurdity (example: there's a subplot going on for like 80 chapters now about a woman trying to become the perfect S&M queen for Andre, and it goes a long way toward fleshing out both characters and developing them). Hana's basically the best character in the whole thing. If you thought the kissing was lewd, just wait until you get to
holding hands
As for the uniform, that was covered during the show/during the first arc. Kiyoshi explained to Chiyo exactly how that happened and she accepted his explanation.
ThatChairMan
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Fafner: Dead Aggressor (original TV series), Right of Left (prequel OVA), Heaven and Earth (movie sequel), then Exodus (TV sequel).
MetroidPrimeRib
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Sadly that's true for most of GX. That opening sequence is de facto blowing your load too early.
Just watched a film called Junkers Come Here, and man what a beautiful film it is. I'll have a review up for it when I get the chance, hopefully soon, but man this is a phenomenal film. Visually its one of the best looking films I've seen, a gorgeous film with no bad bone in its entire body. This film succinctly presents everything that I look for and love in anime.
nintendoman58
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Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam - 15
Yeesh Katz, you just had to take the Gundam Mk II of all things? And saying's it's different from a Zaku too. Somebody should have quoted Ramba Ral the minute he said that.
The classic line.
Yeesh Katz, you just had to take the Gundam Mk II of all things? And saying's it's different from a Zaku too. Somebody should have quoted Ramba Ral the minute he said that.
Rafa=FedKilla
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Wait, is Ace of The Diamond Second Season over or is it just taking a week break for the fall season?
Played too much Destiny : The Taken King....
Charlottle ep 13
Hilariously stupid to the end. Being Yu is suffering, being shitted on throughout whole show. I remember now, this is like a spiritual successor to Guilty Crown where both MC gets shit on non stop except Yu have a slightly better end.
Cornbread78
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It's the only time in the whole series that you feel angry/upset/sad about anything in the show. Hated that feeling for Takeo..
BassForever
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It's got some butt ugly cg-i and some pacing issues but if you can get past those it's very enjoyable IMO
MetroidPrimeRib
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Nekomonogatari Black 02
Two questions -
Oshino said Araragi can't heal from fatal wounds, but in Bake Kanbaru caves his skull in and he lives and in Nise and Kagenui...does a fatality on him, a ton of shit. Rips out organ, destroys his chest cavity, all kinds of good stuff. So how did he live through that?
Shinobu is stronger the closer they are (which might explain why he could survive that Kagenui encounter, she was right there and powered up) but doesn't she live in his shadow? Or only when she wants to? I know for most of Bake she was sitting in the corner doing nothing. Did I miss something
Also despite this arc being called "Tsubasa Family" I guess the viewer won't actually see her family...aside from silhouettes. But that's typical of this show.
Araragi's life sucks
Two questions -
Oshino said Araragi can't heal from fatal wounds, but in Bake Kanbaru caves his skull in and he lives and in Nise and Kagenui...does a fatality on him, a ton of shit. Rips out organ, destroys his chest cavity, all kinds of good stuff. So how did he live through that?
Shinobu is stronger the closer they are (which might explain why he could survive that Kagenui encounter, she was right there and powered up) but doesn't she live in his shadow? Or only when she wants to? I know for most of Bake she was sitting in the corner doing nothing. Did I miss something
Also despite this arc being called "Tsubasa Family" I guess the viewer won't actually see her family...aside from silhouettes. But that's typical of this show.
It's great. From the same guy who did Legend of the Galactic Heroes which is one of my favorites. Arslan has a lot more anime tropes than that (at least this anime adaption does, I doubt the original novels had them) but it still has strong writing. It has butt ugly CGI at times but you can kinda forgive that. The show has huge siege battles and that's kinda impossible to animate without a movie budget.
Girls und Panzer OVA - Let's Fight Not!Italy!
I'm never going to get sick of a world where schools float around on battleships and tank commanding is the most feminine of arts. I appreciate that Fuwafuwa not only had time to sneak onto an enemy ship to spy, but also had time to edit her report and add credits and an intro sequence
Man, MC is hardcore. Stood outside her tank hatch and let them practice sniping the tank from 1500m @_@. Actually this whole battle was crazy unsafe with the amount of sticking your head out of a tank while tank shells go off, and schoolgirls being thrown out of tanks rolling crazily.
Sick tank animation.
Italia 2 gud at partying to win at Panzer (or to even catch the finals lol)
I'm never going to get sick of a world where schools float around on battleships and tank commanding is the most feminine of arts. I appreciate that Fuwafuwa not only had time to sneak onto an enemy ship to spy, but also had time to edit her report and add credits and an intro sequence
Man, MC is hardcore. Stood outside her tank hatch and let them practice sniping the tank from 1500m @_@. Actually this whole battle was crazy unsafe with the amount of sticking your head out of a tank while tank shells go off, and schoolgirls being thrown out of tanks rolling crazily.
Sick tank animation.
Italia 2 gud at partying to win at Panzer (or to even catch the finals lol)
Gatchaman Crowds Insight 12
The replayed fight scene is substantially more interesting with full context, but now it suffers from being a flashback made up of content that we just came off of. The destruction of Hajime has some of the most interesting visual imagery from this season but it's sort of just lost in something that naturally feels like familiar territory. And again, this dichotomy between the message and the events on screen emerges.
Nothing really feels like it's been brought about to a close.
I wanna root for this show but the more I reflect on the end result the less I think of it. The color and design work is cool, the music is on point, and it's certainly aspiring to be more than most other shows. Really though most of the concepts aren't presented in a sensible manner. There's all this stuff about thinking and acting for yourself but none of the events really play into that. The Gatchaman operate as a singular entity, and the climax only serves to manipulate a shift in the atmosphere that redirects the atmosphere and collective thought climate rather than doing much to disrupt or disperse it.
The replayed fight scene is substantially more interesting with full context, but now it suffers from being a flashback made up of content that we just came off of. The destruction of Hajime has some of the most interesting visual imagery from this season but it's sort of just lost in something that naturally feels like familiar territory. And again, this dichotomy between the message and the events on screen emerges.
Hajime wants to give it her all in the fight but the entire set up is that they need to beat down the Gelsadra copy as badly as possible in order to create sympathy for the real Gelsadra. She isn't really fighting back. Do these events truly solve the problem of the Kuu? They're still around, so what stops them from eating people? Is there a story beat I missed where the Crowds were enabled once more?
MetroidPrimeRib
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No I don't think you missed something because that confused me as well, it seemed like the VAPE/Rizumu/Rui plot line was resolved off screen. That was the one plot line that stuck out the most as being underdeveloped anyway.
Cornbread78
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Yeah, Shinobu
basically moved into his shadow when Oshino left
Have you watched the bath scene with her yet? It might have actually been during that moment as their "coming out" party.
MetroidPrimeRib
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Yeah I watched Nise. I don't remember that, but it would make sense so I'll accept that. I was just wondering when the shift happened from Shinobu being pretty much completely motionless to her living in his shadow. Oshino leaving would make sense.
Cornbread78
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Very codependent relationship now...
So many arcs and episodes it's hard to keep them all organized, lol. Plus it's 3 am and I'm falling asleep, lol.
DonMigs85
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Cool, I might give it a shot
MetroidPrimeRib
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It's just that there is a ton of dialogue. I find myself rewinding a scene far more often in this then with other shows.
OniBarubary
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Why am I watching Dragonar Academy.
It is 3 AM again, this Rum is pretty much gone and I'm almost positive the girl in my bed is really annoyed that I'm watching anime while she's trying to sleep.
Though I guess Dragonar Acadmey is anime in the loosest of terms.
Maybe she'd be less pissed if I put on a good anime.
Reccomendations? Wait, never mind she put a pillow over her head. I think we're good here.
It is 3 AM again, this Rum is pretty much gone and I'm almost positive the girl in my bed is really annoyed that I'm watching anime while she's trying to sleep.
Though I guess Dragonar Acadmey is anime in the loosest of terms.
Maybe she'd be less pissed if I put on a good anime.
Reccomendations? Wait, never mind she put a pillow over her head. I think we're good here.
Hellwarden
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Prison School 12
This is what happens to those, who won't go full lewd. Take your defeat, embrace your lewdness, or you'll never win in this world.
Joking aside, I do actually feel a bit sorry for Hana.
This is what happens to those, who won't go full lewd. Take your defeat, embrace your lewdness, or you'll never win in this world.
Joking aside, I do actually feel a bit sorry for Hana.
Both of those times Ararararararagi preps up by having his blood sucked away which is said to power him up and enable him to manifest him a greater part of his lost vampire powers. I guess the explanation for the first encounter with Monkey is just that the wound wasn't fatal enough.
That only happened in Bake. You do realise Neko is a prequel ?
It's like the most important plotpoint in the last arc of Bake.
striferser
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Everytime shinobu suck araragi blood, he regain some of his vampire power, hence why he can survive fatal damage from kanbaru
Shinobu start living in Araragi shadow during tsubasa cat arc.
victreeb3l
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Rewatching Beck with my lil bro and man I forgot how shitty the animation was and how fucking slow it was in the beginning.
Shits basically a slideshow when there arent any performances.
Shits basically a slideshow when there arent any performances.
Hellwarden
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By the way, Gakuto is easily the best character in Prison School.
He's the best.
He's the best.
ThatChairMan
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Fafner: Dead Aggressor - Exodus 06-10
I don't remember the Mark Sein and Nicht being so strong. Some more suffering flags popping up, as well. Knowing there's an S2 coming up, I wonder how this will end.
I don't remember the Mark Sein and Nicht being so strong. Some more suffering flags popping up, as well. Knowing there's an S2 coming up, I wonder how this will end.
best male character
Hellwarden
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Yeah, I'll concede that.
There is one problem with Prison School's humor to me.
And it's not that it's ever over the top. It's at its best when it is.
It's that Kiyoshi gets more focus, when the other characters are more interesting and funnier.
Kiyoshi is the straight man in a comedy that shouldn't have one.
without a base, insanity becomes meaningless
Sölf;180066403 said:
no idea, we'll find out in a couple of days
Hellwarden
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But the series drags towards the middle a bit because of Kiyoshi. The other characters have their more grounded moments.
Though he does make it up a bit towards the end.
I haven't seen Prison School, but how does something that over the top work without the Straight Man?
Hellwarden
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I think it can, if the other characters have some base moments of sanity.
Perhaps it's just that I think Kiyoshi is too straight faced towards the middle.
Prison School is at its best at the start and the beginning.
Hopefully, we get season 2 since that's when things really kick into high gear.
Sorry, but without a straightman all you get is random. Prison school isn't teekyuu. (i know this is hyperbole)
The reason it might seem to drag in the middle is because that is all about the first prison escape and the planning behind it. idk, i personally really enjoyed that since its when Gakuto comes out as a big bro (which straight up wouldn't have meant anything if kiyoshi wasn't the straight man to be the comparison figure.)
Y'all are forgetting Knights of Sidonia S2 was this spring!
They overdid it with the standard anime harem stuff in the middle, but the actual mech action scenes were so good, they more then made up for that.
It also gets instant bonus points, because it had a Blame! teaser.
I need a Blame! anime.
AquaWateria
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Why the fuck are A-1/Aniplex announcing another season of Nanatsu no Taizai?
If it's a sequel then it's going to be completely rushed due to the first season covering 103 chapters out of 142.
If it's a sequel then it's going to be completely rushed due to the first season covering 103 chapters out of 142.
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