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Summer Anime 2016 |OT| Makes Me Happy When Skies Are Grey
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Cornbread78
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How much more are you going to watch today? Oh goodness.. I might have to watch along with you once you hit that episode…
Yes, this scene was hilarious
Oh goodness, I'm getting all @#$%@%@% @# @%@ over here. I'm just going to listen to the OST for a bit...
Yes, this scene was hilarious
Oh goodness, I'm getting all @#$%@%@% @# @%@ over here. I'm just going to listen to the OST for a bit...
names2hard4you
Member
Gotta embrace it. Keep folks triggered and on their feet.
Dedication Through Light
Member
Scar-red Rider Xechs Episode 4
Oh yes a beach episode and it was fun. Yusuke being afraid of the fish was a great part as well as the relay. Hiro for best performance.
names2hard4you
Member
Those 3 guys on that second screenshot of yours DTL look like they are malnourished.
Psycho_Mantis
Banned
The only show of those that I would say blew up is OPM.
This how I feel. It deviates but also relies on many LN tropes.
John Blade
Member
How much more are you going to watch today? Oh goodness.. I might have to watch along with you once you hit that episode…
Yes, this scene was hilarious
Oh goodness, I'm getting all @#$%@%@% @# @%@ over here. I'm just going to listen to the OST for a bit...
I am watching quickly as I didn't watch much for few days during the weekend and want to get the entire series down by the end of this month (this also include the movie and ova). Also, it's slow day here on my side so....why not try to finish something I need to get done now when they is downtime. Still....I am watching this show very too quick here. I might slow down now as I am not mid point of Ep 14 right now.
Cornbread78
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I think your underestimating MHA a little bit here. It was a huge hit with the more "casual" anime viewer here and there will probably be a lot of angry AnimeGAF community members angry when it gets so much praise in the AOTY voting. JoJo will probably be at #1 and I wouldn't be surprised if Berzerk found it's way up there considering how strong of a community following that show has, lol.
Good deal, you're over halfway done already, and, well, yeah, just keep watching at your own pace.
New Game: 4
Office shenanigans and pay day. And that Umiko character finally showed up for like a few seconds lol.
Mob Psycho 100: 3
This was a really good episode, those scenes near the end looked great and overall I really enjoyed delving into Mob's character more.
Amaama to Inazuma: 4
This was a pretty good episode too. Didn't spend much time with Kotori's friend but she seems cool, obviously seems like she'll be appearing more. Tsumugi's expressions throughout the episode were funny lol. I don't think peppers were something that was put in front me as a kid, actually I've only started eating them recently. When I was a kid it was carrots I had an issue with, just would not eat them, no matter how much I liked Bugs Bunny I stayed reluctant to eating carrots lol. Also Tsumugi was slick with getting rid of those peppers in the end.
Office shenanigans and pay day. And that Umiko character finally showed up for like a few seconds lol.
Mob Psycho 100: 3
This was a really good episode, those scenes near the end looked great and overall I really enjoyed delving into Mob's character more.
Amaama to Inazuma: 4
This was a pretty good episode too. Didn't spend much time with Kotori's friend but she seems cool, obviously seems like she'll be appearing more. Tsumugi's expressions throughout the episode were funny lol. I don't think peppers were something that was put in front me as a kid, actually I've only started eating them recently. When I was a kid it was carrots I had an issue with, just would not eat them, no matter how much I liked Bugs Bunny I stayed reluctant to eating carrots lol. Also Tsumugi was slick with getting rid of those peppers in the end.
DeadRockstar
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Wow rude. Pls no thin-shaming.
Theonik
Member
Think of the bishounens.
They look like healthy fit people that are in shape ?
GoldCrusader
Member
Only the guy on the left actually look malnourished or too-thin. The others are fine.
Psycho_Mantis
Banned
I don't think I am. Its simply not garnered the interest anywhere near the BIg 3 Shounen anime or mainstream anime like Attack on Titan and from my view OPM was able to penetrate into that segment impressively quickly (although has died down since its not running anymore).
Maybe, but my point was more there was a lot of discussion about those shows before they even aired because of how good the source material was for each of them and people were excited to see them animated, and I was surprised there was hardly anything on Re:ZERO before it aired considering how messed up and shocking some of the stuff that happens in it is. Maybe the LNs for it aren't that popular I guess? I mean even stuff like Orange (not familiar with the source material so maybe it's really popular, I don't know) ReLife, Twin Star and so on were talked about before they aired but I genuinely can't remember seeing anything about Re:ZERO. We're now at a point where there are billboards going up hyping a single episode, and posters on various sites are losing their shit over what's going to happen in the next few episodes etc, just think it's surprising compared to how muted
Well from the perspective of someone who isn't watching it yet, the show looks trash. Like straight up garbage. Pandering designs, vanilla LN protag, premise we've all heard a million times before. It's not suprising at all people wrote it off.
It honestly seems to be the biggest suprise of the season, if not the year.
A couple things I liked more in 2003 version than Brotherhood...
I loved how the homonculous had a personal connection to the main players.
It made their confrontations have that much more weight to it.
I'm a fan of the more cinematic tone/look (bigger budget?) of the 03 series, than the manga sketch-look brotherhood had.
Don't get me wrong, Brotherhood had it's cool and epic moments especially with the new material, but I was let down when Brotherhoods version took a hit quality wise when compared to the previous version
FMA03 compared to FMAB
This was such an epic encounter that had a lot of weight in the 03 version, but in Brotherhood, it just felt like a random battle.
But overall I enjoyed Brotherhood slightly more because of the overall story and how they wrapped it up in the end.
Yeah that Greed fight is absolutely fantastic but in Brotherhood is was such a minor skirmish it didn't register as a homonculous fight which is such a crying shame as this was the fight that made me a Greed fan in the first place
though Greed does get himself into an awesome battle when he goes to attack Bradley at his house (Especially the animation of throwing him across the table) actually it's unfair how many awesome fights Bradley gets himself involved in considering how utterly disappointing his final bout was in the original I'd have to rewatch 03 at some point because I'm not sure how much better it is looks wise, I did rewatch the scene from the original where Hohenheim
breaks into Dante's hideout and it didn't seem as cool as I remembered it being.
I would say one minor nitpick I forgot to mention about Brotherhood is that the
Promised Day lasts for 13 episodes!
GoldCrusader
Member
If I remember correctly my psycho pass movie came with a code. I don't think the tv series do tho.
Edit: i correct myself, after checking it did not come with a code in it.
I think the reason is because unlike Orange (which was similar-popular, given that the manga ended and was well regarded), ReLife, Twin Star and the like, not many people actually read/were that familiar with Re:Zero.
Anecdotal, but I know of only 2 people personally who were excited and hyping up the show pre airing elsewhere, on one site, but that was because one was following the Web Novels for a long while and knew what was going to happen, and the other was following the LN release and liked the series. Both were reading the series in Japanese.
Compared to manga that have multiple English sources and established fandoms and followings, a not that well known WN/LN wouldn't be that talked about without an English translation somewhere.
As for the billboards, that's due to the anime being a hit. It managed to successfully carry across what stood out in the novel material and make it good.
John Blade
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The introduction of the episode is funny to watch. Both don't want to be call what they're officially are.......dad....and son. I wonder if it's the same feeling when we get married.....still, fun to see the act for it.
Another good episode to see the development with Nagisa and Tomoya here. You see them now staying in the same home together for the 1st time and both of them are acting like a typical family. The scene where both of them talk about a myth and Nagisa wish is having a child from Tomoya. A very touching scene as this might come back later on.
Seeing Nagisa working as a waitress and dress like one is very interesting to watch as she did look beautiful. Kinda odd to see her dad become literally a pervert of taking a picture of his daughter only. It's weird to watch.
For Tomoya issue with seeing things change around him is something to look at. You notice this in two situations and from the look of it, he doesn't want too much change around him as he have fond memories in the past. I guess the change isn't something he want to see as he might be scared from it. Might be something I need to watch as this might affect him later on.
The ending scene where you found out Nagisa is pregnant and her father freak out about it is a big LOL for me. This is mostly when Nagisa literally explain how she got pregnant. Overall, loving the development of this new family and will see where it go now.
Another good episode to see the development with Nagisa and Tomoya here. You see them now staying in the same home together for the 1st time and both of them are acting like a typical family. The scene where both of them talk about a myth and Nagisa wish is having a child from Tomoya. A very touching scene as this might come back later on.
Seeing Nagisa working as a waitress and dress like one is very interesting to watch as she did look beautiful. Kinda odd to see her dad become literally a pervert of taking a picture of his daughter only. It's weird to watch.
For Tomoya issue with seeing things change around him is something to look at. You notice this in two situations and from the look of it, he doesn't want too much change around him as he have fond memories in the past. I guess the change isn't something he want to see as he might be scared from it. Might be something I need to watch as this might affect him later on.
The ending scene where you found out Nagisa is pregnant and her father freak out about it is a big LOL for me. This is mostly when Nagisa literally explain how she got pregnant. Overall, loving the development of this new family and will see where it go now.
Dedication Through Light
Member
Currently Ive not seen any new releases that have, maybe its a new thing thats starting.
John Blade
Member
Hey man. Been an asshole character mean you're a cool character in the late 90s. Either way, go watch the OVA and then pop the movie version. Both different a bit of how it tell the story.
Also, I am now scared of continue watching Clannad After Story. People keep saying after Ep 14, is where the big thing is going to happen. You guys is making me worry if I should continue watching or stop watching today and watch the rest tomorrow.
I know it's pretty popular and it sounds like it's well done, but I watched the first episode of Orange the day it aired, and have felt no desire to watch episode two.
Normally this kind of thing is right up my alley. But I'm just so uninterested.
Maybe I should force myself to watch the second episode, in the hopes that'll grab me.
Normally this kind of thing is right up my alley. But I'm just so uninterested.
Maybe I should force myself to watch the second episode, in the hopes that'll grab me.
Another Macross, another retelling I should watch. ;_;
DeadRockstar
Member
Reminds me that I never watched the Macross Plus movie. I heard it was the worse version and never bothered in the end.
#bishounenisbeautiful
#bishounenisbeautiful
John Blade
Member
Well for Macross Plus, they is the two version. The reason for the movie is mostly come down to adding few new scenes which you didn't see in the OVA, change certain scene to make the pacing more better, and fix the ending a bit which people have issue in the OVA. I will stop there as I don't want to ruin it for you. Did watch both and both have they up and down.
Also, I stick in the old Macross show up to Macross 7 which I don't even watch. Don't know if I should even look into it at all right now.
I don't say it's the worst but it have some flaws when they do change certain stuff. I would say the one change near the end of the movie might be worth seeing as it kinda help one of the character development a bit. Still, as a movie, you kinda have to squeeze the 4 episode under 1 movie which always mean, quite a bit of stuff will need to be remove. Still, I am okay for both for different reason.
Cornbread78
Member
You might want to spoiler some of this lol.
Oh well, best part is we get this gif:
Oh goodness..
Another one of my favorite moments is in the next episode, so much more behind it as well.. Dammit, I gotta watch it now as well.
John Blade
Member
You might want to spoiler some of this lol.
Oh well, best part is we get this gif:
Oh goodness..
Another one of my favorite moments is in the next episode, so much more behind it as well.. Dammit, I gotta watch it now as well.
I did say they is spoilers in my impression of each episode when I started it. I guess if you never watch the show yet, better don't read the episode impression and literally go to my impression of the entire show which give you a very quick idea of what I feel. I am actually watching a bit of Ep 15 at the beginning but I will stop now as I am watching at a crazy pace today (6 episodes as of now). I will watch some tomorrow and we can go from there. Man....just 9 more episodes to go now till I finish this season....
The final arc wasn't really that bad for FMA manga readers because:
1) Arakawa is actually good at wrapping up a shounen series
2) Shit was getting realer every month
3) Holy crap Wrath just solo'd a small, WW1-era army and multiple top tier alchemists
1) Arakawa is actually good at wrapping up a shounen series
2) Shit was getting realer every month
3) Holy crap Wrath just solo'd a small, WW1-era army and multiple top tier alchemists
Hows it going everyone, I haven't watched anything since I watched the first 5 episodes of Utena myself, mainly because the past week was way too hot and humid to watch anything in and Pokemon Go took over me but I think I might resume tonight with a few more episodes, hopefully at a steady clip from here on out.
DeadRockstar
Member
Hmmm. You have me interested now. Might revisit Plus and check it out.
Cornbread78
Member
Without saying too much, Ep.15 is actually a great stopping point...
I look forward to tomorrow.
MetroidPrimeRib
Banned
Breathe in. Breathe out.
Kizumonogatari Part I - The Iron Blooded
First, the obvious - this movie looks un-fucking-real. It is a visual tour de force up there with Redline, Jin-Roh and Kaguya-hime and this is only part 1. It's a combination of all the Bakemonogatari direction techniques with animation that is ridiculously on point. Not just the animation, but the sound and music as well. The character animation especially is out of this world. There's not that much dialogue. Part 1 is surprisingly visual in its delivery. Beyond the scene where Araragi and Hanekawa meet, the scenes after Araragi becomes Kiss-Shot's thrall and the discussion with Oshino Meme at the end are the only dialogue heavy parts, and if you've read the novel or even know what's going on its not very hard to discern what they're talking about. Hell, in the scene where Dramaturgie, Episode and Guillotine Cutter show up and talk you can't even hear what they are saying (because it's English I think.) So it kind of feels like the opposite of what you would expect from Monogatari. "lol powerpoint slideshow words words words" is what you'd usually get, but this has comparably little dialogue and outstanding animation.
For how short the movie is, I thought it did a real good job setting everything up while giving every scene a moment to breathe. I can see how they could fit all the fights into the next part easily now. Fat was certainly cut, especially when it comes to Araragi's inner monologues but what is important is done exceptionally well. Being able to have a comparison to the book for the first time, the major scenes are all there. You get to see Stage One Hanekawa, disgustingly friendly and outgoing. Araragi hyperventilating and freaking out because he isn't used to this kind of stuff yet. Kiss-Shot turning into a blubbering child because she's afraid of dying. The beginning of the Araragi/Shinobu soul tethering shenanigans with Shinobu as the Master. Araragi buying porno mags. The three vampire hunters and Oshino Meme all get their play. Whether the scene is 45 seconds long or 8 minutes, it always feels like it was given its due.
I'm going to watch it again with subs since it's only an hour. Actually I think I'm going to watch it again right now since it's so short. The movie never feels boring at all, but the worst part is that it ends and you go "Oh, right. Now I gotta wait to see the rest." I don't really think it feels that natural of an ending, either. It's definitely has the syndrome of split part endings where you don't feel like you got enough. It's such a killjoy that I'd probably recommend that you just wait until you can sit down and watch entire 3 hour thing. But I'm not gonna do that, and I doubt a lot of people will.
And now for screenshot spam because we can finally do this. Bakemonogatari Episode 1 vs Kizumonogatari I -
Even if the pointy eared red skinned character designs gave you pause at the start, that will quickly fade away. It's a hard movie to give a concise verdict on because it isn't over yet.
But fuck it, it was really good. You can tell the production hell didn't even make a dent in the armor of Kizumonogatari aside from the thing being split in three.
Kizumonogatari Part I - The Iron Blooded
First, the obvious - this movie looks un-fucking-real. It is a visual tour de force up there with Redline, Jin-Roh and Kaguya-hime and this is only part 1. It's a combination of all the Bakemonogatari direction techniques with animation that is ridiculously on point. Not just the animation, but the sound and music as well. The character animation especially is out of this world. There's not that much dialogue. Part 1 is surprisingly visual in its delivery. Beyond the scene where Araragi and Hanekawa meet, the scenes after Araragi becomes Kiss-Shot's thrall and the discussion with Oshino Meme at the end are the only dialogue heavy parts, and if you've read the novel or even know what's going on its not very hard to discern what they're talking about. Hell, in the scene where Dramaturgie, Episode and Guillotine Cutter show up and talk you can't even hear what they are saying (because it's English I think.) So it kind of feels like the opposite of what you would expect from Monogatari. "lol powerpoint slideshow words words words" is what you'd usually get, but this has comparably little dialogue and outstanding animation.
For how short the movie is, I thought it did a real good job setting everything up while giving every scene a moment to breathe. I can see how they could fit all the fights into the next part easily now. Fat was certainly cut, especially when it comes to Araragi's inner monologues but what is important is done exceptionally well. Being able to have a comparison to the book for the first time, the major scenes are all there. You get to see Stage One Hanekawa, disgustingly friendly and outgoing. Araragi hyperventilating and freaking out because he isn't used to this kind of stuff yet. Kiss-Shot turning into a blubbering child because she's afraid of dying. The beginning of the Araragi/Shinobu soul tethering shenanigans with Shinobu as the Master. Araragi buying porno mags. The three vampire hunters and Oshino Meme all get their play. Whether the scene is 45 seconds long or 8 minutes, it always feels like it was given its due.
I'm going to watch it again with subs since it's only an hour. Actually I think I'm going to watch it again right now since it's so short. The movie never feels boring at all, but the worst part is that it ends and you go "Oh, right. Now I gotta wait to see the rest." I don't really think it feels that natural of an ending, either. It's definitely has the syndrome of split part endings where you don't feel like you got enough. It's such a killjoy that I'd probably recommend that you just wait until you can sit down and watch entire 3 hour thing. But I'm not gonna do that, and I doubt a lot of people will.
And now for screenshot spam because we can finally do this. Bakemonogatari Episode 1 vs Kizumonogatari I -
Bake
Kizu
Bake
Kizu
Bake
Kizu
Even if the pointy eared red skinned character designs gave you pause at the start, that will quickly fade away. It's a hard movie to give a concise verdict on because it isn't over yet.
But fuck it, it was really good. You can tell the production hell didn't even make a dent in the armor of Kizumonogatari aside from the thing being split in three.
QuiteWhittle
Member
Yeah, they turned themselves in as surviving students and the FF(or maybe just Naegi's branch) didn't realize who they really were until later. But going by this anime this may have been retconned.
I've only seen Re:Zero through thread posts but it didn't seem to take the situations and tropes of its genre and apply consequences that, while not likely in reality, were exaggerated reactions based on regular morals and values as School Days did with Harem Visual Novels. Re:Zero seems like a regular LN story with a darker twist rather than trying to reflect the genre or subgenre in a satirical way, though perhaps I'm mistaken on that.
MikeHattsu
Member
And he already had Narag to deal with.
Theonik
Member
#allbishieisbeautiful
"Hey Naegi! What should we do with this guy who looks like an evil version of you?"
"Put him in the 'maybe' pile with the gangster pirate and the one who keeps yelling about darkness and taking over the world"
I couldn't see it until the end of February, so hush!
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