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Summer Anime 2015 |OT2| !? Love Live is not real!
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names2hard4you
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Hey Corn how's Eureka 7? I've always wanted to check it out, but 50eps is quite a bit to watch... Then there's a sequel with 20 something! The art and posters that I've seen for both look great. I don't always watch mecha shows, but this one seems to also have romance in it
NCR Redslayer
NeoGAF's Vegeta
Im kinda getting sick of this. Moe all seems the same to me nowadays that it leaves me like this:
At least I always have One punch man to look forward next season.
Are there any sites that stock digital manga like CR, but for raws?
EP4 made me uncomfortable with the sudden Miki lingerie scene since I didn't expect it at all, but then I realized where the show was going once the two eps that came right after it both contained flashbacks to that one scene, of all things.
Of course things are probably going to turn dark as hell starting next week, so if I had to recommend this show to anybody I'd probably tell them to watch EP1, then maybe 2, then skip to EP8, and finally to 10-12. EPs 3-7 and 9 had like one or two relevant scenes per episode at best, spaced with copious amounts of generic-as-hell SoL and peppered with fanservice starting with EP4. Seriously, what was the pre-production team even thinking...
The really annoying part about all of the added fanservice and filler scenes is that it would have been very easy to adapt the first 30 chapters of the manga into an anime. It would have had an amazing stopping point too.
As it stands we're nine episodes in for a twelve episode show, and we've covered 17 chapters. The really odd thing is that they took all of the "slice of life"-ish scenes that were meant to relieve a bit of tension in the later bits and moved them up, so we've seen a bunch of stuff from later on already. I still think they're going to end with the ending of chapter 30 because it's too perfect of a stopping point. So either we're cutting out some of the best scenes in the entire manga, or the last three episodes are going to be hilariously paced.
School Live runs in Manga Time Kirara Forward, which is a print publication. As far as I'm aware there are no digital publications of the manga.
As it stands we're nine episodes in for a twelve episode show, and we've covered 17 chapters. The really odd thing is that they took all of the "slice of life"-ish scenes that were meant to relieve a bit of tension in the later bits and moved them up, so we've seen a bunch of stuff from later on already. I still think they're going to end with the ending of chapter 30 because it's too perfect of a stopping point. So either we're cutting out some of the best scenes in the entire manga, or the last three episodes are going to be hilariously paced.
School Live runs in Manga Time Kirara Forward, which is a print publication. As far as I'm aware there are no digital publications of the manga.
nintendoman58
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As a fan of mecha myself, I strongly urge you to watch Eureka Seven. It's one of the best anime love stories out there, along with being one of the best mechas.
Do not watch the sequel though, as the sequel is horrible.
SliceSabre
Banned
AO is fine.
names2hard4you
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Not watching the sequel would certainly narrow down the amount of episodes that I'd have to watch. I could see 50eps taking me quite a while to get through, specially with school starting next week. But I wouldn't mind having a show to watch long term, hmmm. Who knows, if I really enjoyed it I wouldn't mind giving the sequel a try? I seem to like a lot of shows that people hate around these parts anyway.
Charapedia (10,000 readers in Japan) listed their favorite busty characters. Most of the voters were older males.
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http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2015/09/03/japanese-fans-name-their-favorite-busty-anime-girls
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http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2015/09/03/japanese-fans-name-their-favorite-busty-anime-girls
Cornbread78
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It's been pretty good so far (through 6 episodes) with lots of action, but a lot of world building as well. There is a childhood friend there for the first few episodes (obviously deep feelings as well), but then the setting changes, so she is not present. I'm sure she will come back into play later, but looking at future images, I don't see her anywhere. It is a shame they are middle school aged though, but we'll see, the new girls the boy is with, is your classic blond tsundere, and a pick haired manga/anime girl, and a few other characters, but there has been no character developement for them as of yet... We'll see once I dig deeper into it.
victreeb3l
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Watched this like 1000 times already. Still great.
Also, anyone know how to view webms on Safari? It ends up just downloading it when I click that link.
There's viz manga but I dont think they upload individual chapters. I got a subscription for Shonen Jump but its a pain in the ass to navigate.
My biggest problem is that the slice of life fanservicy stuff feels so played out. Its like a cheap trick where you get the user comfortable and then you drop this massive serious thing on them right after. This was great for episode 1 but when we're this late into the show, it just becomes tiresome. Doesnt have that effect anymore.
I think they're gonna end it on 21 and the final episode will be filler. 30 would have been perfect but they really fucked up the pacing. I will be really upset if they tried to cram and rushed through everything for the next 3 episodes.
Still frustrating since like you said, they could have really fit 30 in this season easily. It would have been so good.
nintendoman58
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OBJECTION!!
No see, if you really enjoy it, you should avoid the sequel.
The sequel is horrible because it basically tramples and spits on what makes the original great. I didn't watch it myself, but I read what down in it and none of it was in any way appealing. I don't hate a lot of shows but from what I hear that hate for that one is justified.
Back in 2013 former AnimeGAF regular CorvoSol didn't heed our warnings about the Eureka Seven sequel and he watched all of it for himself. It wasn't pretty.
Admiral Woofington
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Sölf;177471890 said:
Pretty damn good. Some in GAF aren't crazy about the documentary style narration and rare cut to actual footage/pictures. But I loved those aspects. As to the show itself it's a damn good drama that perfectly encapsulates just how much of a rotten bastard piece of shit Pablo Escobar was.
If I had one glaring issue is that the lead guy's accent is awkward at one points, but everything else was done to the tee. They even filmed in Colombia.
How can you know if something is truly awful if you didn't watch it all for yourself ? Disgusting.
Cornbread78
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Anyone notice her design is a little different in this shot? She almost looks like an actual HS student now and not a child.
nintendoman58
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Look, I enjoyed Eureka Seven. I really did.
Eureka Seven AO is a sequel. A sequel that people didn't like and said it ruins the original. I don't want to see the original ruined. I really liked the original!
And this isn't like KEY stuff where some people like it some people don't.
I've heard nobody, absolutely nobody say anything legitimately good about Eureka Seven AO.
So I'm inclined to avoid it and keep my memories of the original intact.
UberTag
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I would just recommend the manga. School Live! the anime has turned into hot garbage and even if it attempts to salvage things by incorporating more manga elements (namely Chapters 17-20) next week it's probably too little too late.
Instead of a faithful adaptation of Chapters 1-30 (which is what the manga deserved), I'm expecting one of two outcomes. They'll softball everything and the series will amount to one big tease of people familiar with the source material... or they'll go the opposite extreme and have the anime go completely off the rails into an unexpected bad end direction and justify it by saying "look at how much happy, fun slice-of-life and pointless fan service nonsense we gave you beforehand".
It's a real disappointment... this week's pandering episode especially.
My prediction, incidentally, is ... manga spoilers ho...
Outcome A... next week Taromaru will vanish and everyone will be all sad and depressed. He won't become a zombie dog, however. We'll have an encounter between Kurumi and Zombie Megu-nee and they'll tease her getting bit and infected... but she won't. Chapters 26-30 more or less play out as they did in the manga with Chopper Guy arriving having found the SOS letters and crashing into the school parking lot. Yuki saves the day by blasting her fire drill message over the school PA. The crew agrees to pack up and leave the school in the finale but... eureka... Taromaru shows up and there's a happy reunion. Perhaps the anime will really lay on the bullshit and have Kei show up for no damn reason and reunite with Miki. At which point the whole gang heads off into the sunset and lives happily ever after. Perhaps they'll visit the ocean and we'll get more fan service. The end.
This is really the only outcome that could semi-salvage things at this point. And this would be entirely dependent on a series renewal... which, at least if they had of wrapped things up at a natural break like Chapter 30... wouldn't have been immediately necessary.
victreeb3l
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Anyone notice her design is a little different in this shot? She almost looks like an actualy HS student now and not a child.
Still looking for something cuter this season.
Maybe Ren-chon.
Her face is more angular and her eyes are giant blobs so she looks older. Plus her hair and outfit are more mature too.
names2hard4you
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The characters did look a bit younger, so I guess they are what 13-14 years old?
Gotcha ahaha. Jotting this on my list then. So far I have Planetes and Eureka Seven on it. Next season seems to have less stuff for me to watch so I'm planning on watching these two along with whatever is on each week.
Cornbread78
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Wait, Hold the phone... AO is the sequel? Have I been watching the wrong one?
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Welp, there goes watching this at all, since there have been a ton of flashback and now everythign is spoiled. Fu(k my life....
Dedication Through Light
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Death Note EPisode 9
Near as Mello is still so weird and difficult to accept. I guess we'll just go with it.
L speaking through the video to Matsuda was hilarious, he really studied Matsuda or grew along with him to know his mannerisms. It was so good. Then Light still being tormented by L, lol.
Team Mikami, Light, Misa needs a lot of episodes.
Near as Mello is still so weird and difficult to accept. I guess we'll just go with it.
L speaking through the video to Matsuda was hilarious, he really studied Matsuda or grew along with him to know his mannerisms. It was so good. Then Light still being tormented by L, lol.
Team Mikami, Light, Misa needs a lot of episodes.
nintendoman58
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It's okay, you can still watch the original.
You haven't been spoiled on everything 6 episodes into AO. I think Just stop watching AO and watch the original. Please.
Admiral Woofington
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Will there ever be a time where Japanese trying to make live action adaptations of anime WON'T look silly?
KenjiGlove
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I think the hypetrain was slowing down already somewhere around episode 4, it just sorta crashed and burned after this episode.
Anyone notice her design is a little different in this shot? She almost looks like an actual HS student now and not a child.
I did notice that, yeah, and I like it. Wish she had always looked like that. Wish she would look like that moving forward. X:
School-Live 9
How did they manage to turn a zombie apocalypse with an interesting and intriguing premise into bog standard SOL schlock? This is not the series where fanservice is appropriate, and it feels like they're wasting time for no reason, then adding an obligatory creepy scene or two each episode. Thankfully it seems things will happen next episode, but there's been a lot of wasted time the last few episodes. Maybe I should try reading the manga again. I liked it when I first read it years ago, but I never got past the first few chapters for some reason. I'll probably do that when the anime finishes.
How did they manage to turn a zombie apocalypse with an interesting and intriguing premise into bog standard SOL schlock? This is not the series where fanservice is appropriate, and it feels like they're wasting time for no reason, then adding an obligatory creepy scene or two each episode. Thankfully it seems things will happen next episode, but there's been a lot of wasted time the last few episodes. Maybe I should try reading the manga again. I liked it when I first read it years ago, but I never got past the first few chapters for some reason. I'll probably do that when the anime finishes.
Cornbread78
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Dammit, now I have to figure out how to find the originals and erase my mind... dammit, dammit, dammit... I did the same thing with SAO, but I had NO idea what I was doing then, but now, I should have checked MAL...
names2hard4you
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I haven't started yet, but I guess your comments earlier of seeing stuff that made no sense in the story's context are explained lol. But think positively. You were apparently watching the shitty one and enjoyed it. So the one that people like can only be better right?
nintendoman58
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Listen to this, Cornbread.
Cornbread78
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Yup, that would probably be why... Same with all the flashbacks the MC was seeing... Well, tomorrow is another day, I guess I'll hit the rest button, and start over again...
LOL, I've been saved, praise!
hosannainexcelsis
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It's funny how the Gakkou Garashi anime is catching so much flak for its rewriting screwing up the manga story, when the head writer of the anime is the original manga author.
Basileus777
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I don't think the general interest lasted beyond the 2nd episode.
Writers can adapt their own works poorly.
Hellwarden
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Ninja Slayer 21
Wow, it's like Skeletor and a shitty Metal Gear had a baby.
"Domo Darkninja-San, at last, we meet again."
...Didn't you see him last episode?
Okay, that ending was pretty hype. It's actually a shame people dropped this I think. I'm legit having fun with this show.
Wow, it's like Skeletor and a shitty Metal Gear had a baby.
"Domo Darkninja-San, at last, we meet again."
...Didn't you see him last episode?
Okay, that ending was pretty hype. It's actually a shame people dropped this I think. I'm legit having fun with this show.
All this makes me thing that the Gakkou Gurashi meeting went as well as that one in OreImo, with the publishers suggesting more moe, more SoL and less drama. I don't hate it when adaptations change stuff from their source material as long as it's done well, but Gakkou is just skipping on the things I wanted to see from it and giving me something I never asked for. Might try to give the manga a read later, but maybe I'll wait until anime's over to pass my final judgement on it.
Also, publishers need to rake in dem dakimakura licensing fees. I mean, there're Non Non Biyori ones out there, ffs...
Which also reminds me that I almost wanted to get a Non Non JP3DS theme, but then I read that none of them actually came with music... For shame.
astrogamer
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School-live 9
Aside from the silly water gun showdown, it's become boring even for a slice of life. And too focused on sexualizing the characters. The show is kind of missing what made it enjoyable. The characters are pretty boring in a normal setting but with the tension of the apocalypse exposing their flaws, they become more interesting and relatable. Minimizing the zombie threat makes the show barebones.
The final scene makes it seem they are finally returning to the tension
Aside from the silly water gun showdown, it's become boring even for a slice of life. And too focused on sexualizing the characters. The show is kind of missing what made it enjoyable. The characters are pretty boring in a normal setting but with the tension of the apocalypse exposing their flaws, they become more interesting and relatable. Minimizing the zombie threat makes the show barebones.
The final scene makes it seem they are finally returning to the tension
UberTag
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I'm all for re-imaginings if what you're giving me as an alternative is an improvement.
There are plenty of ways to improve upon the Gakkou Gurashi! manga. It is by no means above reproach.
However, nobody with any sense said that what that material needed was more slice-of-life, more fan service, less tension, atrocious pacing and more antics with the dog.
There was a full 12 second scene of the girls walking up to the roof to clean the pool where the camera simply shifted between different shots of their boobs while they were conversing. This wasn't even subtle. There is no defense for this garbage. Otaku pandering has destroyed another anime adaptation.
Hahahaha. That sounds awful.
You're certainly right that that isn't the proper way to do a reimagining.
But I definitely find it funny when I see people complain that "Y" anime wasn't exactly like "X" manga, so it's bad by default.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
There is no sequel to Eureka 7. Please do not mention this again.
Yeah I dropped the show after ep 6. I got a bad feeling about it.
names2hard4you
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It's showing up more and more in anime, it's sad. To have to resort to that instead of having good writing, interesting pieces and characters is pretty cheap and lazy. The problem is that it seemingly works. I wonder when/if Otakus will get tired of seeing the same pandering in these shows.
Just like Psycho-Pass uh. Gotcha!
oh no. how will the world ever know the true potential of high school girls vs. a zombie apocalypse?
names2hard4you
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There's High School of the Dead for that no? And such a brilliant job that it did at it too.
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