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Summer Anime 2016 |OT| Makes Me Happy When Skies Are Grey
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Cornbread78
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Sweetness and Lightning ep.5
Dammit, now I want to eat donuts; Like now.. I want donuts dammit!
Dammit, now I want to eat donuts; Like now.. I want donuts dammit!
pelicansurf
Needs a Holiday on Gallifrey
Under the Dog is super weird.
Admiral Woofington
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Taboo Tattoo 5
This shit is painfully generic I'm fucking dropping it unless it somehow gets better in the future. I don't care for this Shirou ass motherfucker protagonist, this 'justice will prevail and I don't want to kill' crap is grating. Also
"Kill me"
*starts choking*
*cat with eye patch appears*
"Oh if you have a cute cat you can't be evil, regardless if you just murdered hundreds of people"
Fucking whatever. World isn't black and white. Having a cat doesn't negate all the fucked up shit you did. I don't even want to mention the fucking princess who kisses people, then the loli starts making out with her, and the princess also likes to fondle breasts because anime. I might come back to this when I hate myself later on in the season, but as of right now dropped.
This shit is painfully generic I'm fucking dropping it unless it somehow gets better in the future. I don't care for this Shirou ass motherfucker protagonist, this 'justice will prevail and I don't want to kill' crap is grating. Also
"Kill me"
*starts choking*
*cat with eye patch appears*
"Oh if you have a cute cat you can't be evil, regardless if you just murdered hundreds of people"
Fucking whatever. World isn't black and white. Having a cat doesn't negate all the fucked up shit you did. I don't even want to mention the fucking princess who kisses people, then the loli starts making out with her, and the princess also likes to fondle breasts because anime. I might come back to this when I hate myself later on in the season, but as of right now dropped.
Dedication Through Light
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wasnt expecting to see g gundam spoilers, im not even at episode 15 
names2hard4you
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For the same reason some people with high cholesterol eat fried foods and some diabetics still drink sugary drinks: it's delicious.
nintendoman58
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wasnt expecting to see g gundam spoilers, im not even at episode 15
Sorry.
I did say my post would have open spoilers at the top of it. But still, sorry.
MetroidPrimeRib
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wasnt expecting to see g gundam spoilers, im not even at episode 15
20 year old show
Hellwarden
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HxH 14
Wut?
I wanna reach through the screen, and shake these three idiots.
JABRONIS, DID YOU NOT SEE THE CLOWN!?
Wut?
I wanna reach through the screen, and shake these three idiots.
JABRONIS, DID YOU NOT SEE THE CLOWN!?
Admiral Woofington
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Mob Psycho 100 and 4 Dalmatians
Body Improvement Club are the noble badass knights of this universe, that they would go to this length over one of their members is truly great.
Also, Mob got pissed at the end. Of course the episode ends right when it gets good, what a fucking tease.
Body Improvement Club are the noble badass knights of this universe, that they would go to this length over one of their members is truly great.
Also, Mob got pissed at the end. Of course the episode ends right when it gets good, what a fucking tease.
Dedication Through Light
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Domon Cashew and his Master Asia relationship is very special to me! And his bro.
I already forgot what most of it was about.
something something towa no quon something something
names2hard4you
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Mob Psycho - 04
First Kiznaiver, now this. Is Tenga supposed to be a delinquent name in Japan?
That ending though, hnghhhhh. WHY. What a cliffhanger. Goddamnit.
First Kiznaiver, now this. Is Tenga supposed to be a delinquent name in Japan?
That ending though, hnghhhhh. WHY. What a cliffhanger. Goddamnit.
Cornbread78
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Cowboy Bebop ep.16
I think Jet is getting mixed up in more bad situations than Spike lately. Pretty decent episode with Jet background info on how he lost his arm and left the police force.
Dedication Through Light
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The Disastrous Life of Saiki K.Ep 22 Get Fired Up! PK Academy Sports Day (Part 1)
Jet Black Wing noooooo.
How does one imbued with his powers do bad at physical activity lol.,
Jet Black Wing noooooo.
How does one imbued with his powers do bad at physical activity lol.,
Have you gotten to Mushroom Samba yet?
Cornbread78
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The last 5-10 mins was almost (if not almost definately) worse than anything HxH has aired in it's utter disgustingness. Ugghh. Up until the cat part you mentioned the action scenes were actually pretty good...
Dedication Through Light
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ROUND VERNIAN VIFAM #09 As the Thunder Sounds, the Enemy Attacks - We'll Fight Alone!
Kents to save the day, at least he got them to fight back. Liked the plan here for this fight
Kents to save the day, at least he got them to fight back. Liked the plan here for this fight
even if we have to leave this base soon I think. Their safety is compromised
SliceSabre
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Macross Delta 18
Fuck Freyja Mikumo is true goddess.
Fuck Freyja Mikumo is true goddess.
And was probably a Wind Singer in her past and has forgotten her time as one and was an even more impressive one than Heinz is.
Cornbread78
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HxH is definately more graphic, however, this one just rubbed me the wrong way..
nintendoman58
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Oh joy, this thread's on that topic of discussion again.
Guys, let's talk about G Gundam instead. Remember how great its finale was?
Remember the Shining Finger theme?
Remember that THIS is what the BDs are gonna look like?
Guys, let's talk about G Gundam instead. Remember how great its finale was?
Remember the Shining Finger theme?
Remember that THIS is what the BDs are gonna look like?
Cornbread78
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Sorry, that stuff pisses me off a little. I deleted the rant to protect the peace, lol.
I need to finish G Gundam soon, since it was on my 2016 "Narag" list... Fantastic Children as well....
Yeah I gave up on keeping track of that due to work concerns killing four days a week so no worries.
hosannainexcelsis
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Sounds like a typical science fiction-ish plot.
That's what I'm actively trying to avoid atm. I just want Satoshi to have a problem and to solve it with Pikachu electrocuting someone and/or something.
Pokemon/Doctor Who cross?
No, I wouldn't say this is as bad as Doctor Who.
Cornbread78
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Not yet. My buddy keeps looking over my shoulder waiting for his favorite episodes to air. Apparently, he must be present when I watch 17, 20 and 24, lol.
Admiral Woofington
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I just want to pump money into making an Anime based off the gay kid who stars in a straight harem slice of life. Get some great writers to add some drama and expand on the concept of the original one shot. That or a Manga based off Yankee kun
Unda da Dawg-
So much of the plot points end up being a conflicting mess, that it feels like the rough draft of a script that somebody didn't read through.
. Now there's nothing wrong with that, look at Ga-Rei Zero's stuff for example. However even after this episode, I still don't have a clear idea about the world or what exactly is going on.
This is minor stuff they can explain later but it doesn't provide a clear picture of anything that is going on. Not to mention some of this shit seems purely illogical. For example
I also liked the lack of explanation as to why all the Flowers were girls. I'm sure there's a deep explanation worthy of Evangelion 3.33 in there. All of this ties back into a pilot episode (I guess) that doesn't flesh out the actual characters potentially in the show nor does it actually world build in a convincing manner. Instead it brings up echoes of Bubuki Buranki where everything is undercooked on a script level. I might even be able to roll with it if I hadn't just seen Towa no Quon which took a near identical concept and was better at it, although Towa no Quon wasn't exactly good either.
, so if there's a sequel/TV series it should improve. The visuals were ruff initially but it got better and while the ending fight sequence wasn't stellar, it was at least barking up the right tree. I don't think this was a good pilot from a storytelling point of view nor did the visuals blow me back enough to overlook the faults. The final product comes off as unpolished on most fronts and it seems like it either needed more baking time or better staff. This was the rough draft of something that could have been a lot better but it'll probably end up being another forgotten franchise in a month's time. Hopefully if they do more, they never put the show in another high school setting. Oh and tits.
Should have taken the TV deal. Oops.
Well this was a thing, I guess. Time to put Jiro Ishii on my 'Shitty Anime Writers' pile. Unlike sonicmj or duckroll, I don't think this was passable. At best this was mediocre, and it doesn't reach that best level even occasionally. There's so many script issues, even just in this thirty minute episode. Let's just warm up with this one:
Whatever, minor screwup right? Not a major deal. However then they add the male student's (I can't even be bothered to look his name up) family into the picture. Too bad it's incoherent and the final scene in the episode undercuts whatever they were trying to set up with his character.
Ok. Wait hold up.
Didn't your commander just tell you to blend in with the students and escape? So are they looking for the student or are they not looking for the student?
Why would they unlock the doors if they are also looking for the kid too?
Apparently he's special. Ah wait, nope he's not. Oh oops guess like he was, oh well he's dead anyway. Instead of capturing the kid for research as to figure out why he stayed white for so long, they just up and shoot him. Okay.
See, here is why this episode fails as a pilot/episode 0/prologue. They don't establish the world or the characters in any sort of meaningful way.
The only two characters the audience even has a chance to connect to (and it wasn't done in a decent manner anyway) are both killed off
They don't bother explaining the monster, Flowers, political structure, or really the society in any sort of meaningful way. Yes we know the monster is bad and Pandorization is bad for unspecified reasons. Oh wait the episode provides evidence to the contrary with the monster protecting his son. Congratulations Ishii, you contradicted one of the main plot points in the opening episode. Why should the audience be afraid of Hana becoming Pandorized if it seems the transformed humans show a level of intelligence? Can they not transform back?
why does the shadow government kill your family if you die? That is the stupidest shit. It's posthumously punishing people that aren't directly involved. So if you succeed in your mission but die anyway, welp guess that means curtains for your family. Even Suicide Squad isn't this bad. I can understand threatening a candidate's family to keep the girl under control when she's alive but why kill them off when the girl's dead?
Let's talk about the art direction. We all came for the visuals right? The art direction is some of the most stale, sterile, and bland stuff I've seen this year. There's only one shot in the entire episode that I was kinda impressed by the art direction. Just look at the screencaps above. There's no personality in the setting despite the entire episode revolving around the school. At least the concept footage had the city skyscape but here it's just a bunch of CGI classrooms that don't even look finished. Even an abandoned warehouse could have offered more on a visual standpoint. The city shots in the trailer had the whole contrast of pristine futuristic city at the forefront but then the grimy places lurking just around the corner. The backgrounds in the trailer helped make the city look like an interesting dystopia reminiscent of Glass in Mirror's Edge. In the actual episode however, none of that contrast exists.
^Look at this. Everything's flat as fuck and they even screwed up the camera perspective when you look out the classroom door in the second shot. There's zero depth in the first shot in the security room and so everything comes across as cheap and fake. That's not all though, notice anything missing from all the above shots? No lighting, everything is at full blast and there's no sense of direction or purpose to the lighting. Hell the empty hallway shot looks like there's shadows missing.
Now on to the main attraction (besides the action choreography) for me. That's Yusuke Kozaki's character designs. I've always been a fan of his work since No More Heroes and he was one of the highlights for me going into this project. Somehow they always fuck up his character designs when they go to actually adapt it for animation.
What happens when the characters are more off-model than they are on-model? Do the off-models become on-model?
They keep making his designs chubbier in the face and as a result it just goes screws up the whole design. It's the exact same issue as in Babaki Buranki in that I would rather just buy the concept art book (primarily for the purple haired sniper waifu, as I imagine she looks amazing in the concept art probably along the lines of Camilla). So much of the charm is lost in the adaptation process for anime, yet somehow the videogames nail it.
This is more of a minor pet peeve but these user interfaces are terrible. Maybe Takashi Aoki has spoiled me but man this is awful. The text on the tablet is just that, a bunch of text on a white screen with little thought into the OS. Then in the second shot there's a ton of unreadable text and is boring.
Anthea's screens were at least a significant step up with some screen warping, depth, and useful information in the UI. I'm not a fan of the color scheme but eh it's better than the earlier garbage.
I wasn't that impressed with the action. It definitely didn't live up the trailer. Parts near the end were decent but didn't blow me back in any way. The staging for the fights, even the Anthea segments, was pretty boring and there wasn't any cool choreography ala Canaan. It's really mediocre work for Ando. Some motorcycle combat could have definitely spiced things up and while I did like the missile barrage, it was way too short.
I appreciate the gore.
On the audio front, I thought the soundtrack was pretty decent. It's mostly traditional fare but some of the piano pieces are nice and the track during the final action scene was good. I appreciate them using English/American voice actors for the American soldiers despite the voice actors being horribly miscast in some cases. Still it's the thought that matters as virtually nobody even tries in the first place.
Dialogue Oshii would be proud of.
The sound direction was lacking at times in that impacts didn't have enough oomph but then the audience would get something cool like the hawk cry for Anthea's pod or the railgun shots. I'm not sure if the muffled shots in the hallway gun fight are due to the guns having silencers on them or just the sound direction not being sharp enough.
This is the whitest black man I've ever heard in my life.
So in short, needed more Anthea-chan. Thankfully
This is it. This is the only shot that impressed me on an art direction level.
Hana got put to sleep
Should have taken the TV deal. Oops.
Kizumonogatari (the first one)
This is everything I could have ever wanted... from the first part of the story anyway.
Dang Aniplex why did you have to get greedy and split this into three parts! This first part is so incredibly well done it makes the wait for the rest of it even more unbearable.
This is everything I could have ever wanted... from the first part of the story anyway.
Dang Aniplex why did you have to get greedy and split this into three parts! This first part is so incredibly well done it makes the wait for the rest of it even more unbearable.
Admiral Woofington
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Why do people gotta shit talk towa no quon. Just admit you couldn't feel rock emotion.
hosannainexcelsis
Member
Chihayafuru 11 (Rewatch)
Taichi is still the best.
Really fabulous character art this episode too. The designs here are perfect.
Taichi is still the best.
Really fabulous character art this episode too. The designs here are perfect.
You're lucky then as I was about to go balls deep into a rant when I finished it. I was taking screencaps and scribbling notes before I realized that it wasn't even worth the time.
Hellwarden
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You've reach the part where they had to rewrite Best Wishes, because of the 2011 tsunami.
So if it seems like episodes are missing, it's because they axed two episodes that were supposed to introduce Team Plasma.
haha yeah I just had a heads up about that on twitter and i'm pretty mad about it!
I even knew about it going in but forgot!
I would have less of a problem with the splittting if each of them was at least the bare minimum 90 minutes. I didn't even finish the food I ordered and then Part 1 was already over.
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