MetroidPrimeRib
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I already did that Op, wouldn't recommend it
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Summer Anime 2016 |OT| Makes Me Happy When Skies Are Grey
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I already did that Op, wouldn't recommend it
MetroidPrimeRib
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please dont
It's fantastic.
GoldCrusader
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If you really want to try Nisekoi try the manga, it's quite good.
Its okay. Better than what a lot of people who are gonna reply will say. Shaft definitely went too heavy on glamour shots but its not a bad show.
You can do a lot worse with your time.
I should also note that season 2 is worse than season 1, so keep that in mind if you decide to watch.
Having read the manga, I think the anime is better. It trims the fat and makes it less tedious. Serious, the manga has really long stretches of skippable fluff that is quite boring.
hosannainexcelsis
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It's not graceful, but I wouldn't say it particularly harms the film. The plot of Girls und Panzer has pretty much always been throwaway, an excuse to justify the tank battles, so in that sense it serves its function well enough. The attempts at emotional drama in the TV series were kind of clumsy as well.
I don't have the complete enthusiasm for the film that many do, but I think it accomplishes pretty much exactly what you would expect and hope for from a Girls und Panzer film.
I'm not exactly sure what you consider sophisticated, but I would encourage you to check out Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu and Battery the Animation from recent anime, as they involve more subtle, low-key character drama that is should be more to your tastes. While both having way less animation talent available than Mob Psycho, they also fall more into the category of refined beauty that you are looking for. Mob Psycho 100 has a very experimental, rough visual style, akin to Yuasa's rougher work. (The art director for Mob Psycho 100 was also art director for Kemonozume, for instance.) Kameda himself was heavily influenced by Imaishi, and you can see some of that in the show's basic approach to drawing, though individual animators do vary that up in each episode.
zswordsman
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Season 1 is great! Season 2 felt a bit rushed, they rushed over one super important arc which could have made it a better season.
New Game 06
Aoba changing was really well animated and it was quite a sight to beholdprobably one of the more stand out moments of the episode.
Anything done in a public restroom should not be animated that well. Fact.
Felt really skeezy to me
GoldCrusader
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I'll believe you on that since the only thing I know about the anime is that it as filler in it or something so that's why I was suggesting the manga. I did look up some clip and found it very pretty looking though.
Also the manga is finished and the anime is not.
If that's your expectation going into it then go for it!
Better yet, tell us what you missed and we can tell you what can work as time wasters and what you can be serious with
If that's your expectation going into it then go for it!
Better yet, tell us what you missed and we can tell you what can work as time wasters and what you can be serious with
Some of the stuff that's caught my eye so far:
Nisekoi
Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki Kun (Which I asked about earlier because I started watching it when it came out and liked it but stopped and couldn't remember the title)
Barakamon
Silver Spoon
Hyouka
Daily Lives of High School Boys
Rage of Bahamut: Genesis
My Love Story
Noragami
Good Luck Girl
GoldCrusader
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Anime trending knows the best ships
I love how much focus Alisha's getting in Zestiria X. It's like the producers actually want to expand on her character, given she needs to experience many more episodes of suffering. HAHAHAHA
Surprisingly enjoying Sorey's character even though I was nonchalant about him in game. He's a lot more fun when I don't have to be responsible for stupid actions.
Surprisingly enjoying Sorey's character even though I was nonchalant about him in game. He's a lot more fun when I don't have to be responsible for stupid actions.
GoldCrusader
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As long as it's below #4
Can't speak about Good luck girl or rage of bahamut but:
Barakamon, Hyouka, Noragami, and nozaki-kun are must-watches
Daily lives of highschool boys, my love story, and silver spoon definitely deserve a watch as they are really quite good
Nisekoi is okay. A fine time waster. Its Shaft though, so if you're not used to their visual style it may seem weird at first.
You have a good eye.
Re;Zero 2-3
"Bowel Hunter" sounds like the name of a bad metal band.
These guys spend a lot of time rambling during critical moments. And it isn't particularly witty or entertaining banter either.
I'm kinda losing patience waiting to understand what's actually going on here. The show could start by having Subaru explain his situation to the others.
"Bowel Hunter" sounds like the name of a bad metal band.
These guys spend a lot of time rambling during critical moments. And it isn't particularly witty or entertaining banter either.
I'm kinda losing patience waiting to understand what's actually going on here. The show could start by having Subaru explain his situation to the others.
Oh my god Aijin Demi Human is the best anime I've seen. Fuck, it's the best television I've watched since breaking bad.
It's tight. Not a single moment of downtime or boredom. And visually, the thing is in your FACE. This is a show from a studio running on all cylinders. And I went in skeptical!
Anyone else love this series? Season 2 can't come soon enough.
It's tight. Not a single moment of downtime or boredom. And visually, the thing is in your FACE. This is a show from a studio running on all cylinders. And I went in skeptical!
Anyone else love this series? Season 2 can't come soon enough.
StoneHeart
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Noragami, Yay or nah
GoldCrusader
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I loved it too! the characters are great and Sato makes such a good *villain*.
I also loved how Kei? was such a selfish protagonist. It made him much more unique.
Season 2 is in fall but I am waiting for the dub, so I'm waiting for 1 more season.
Yay, it's great!
Agreed on all fronts. Kei being a singular asshole is delicious. Anti social to the max, which is interesting to watch in a "hero"
And the man in the hat....in the running for best villain ever. For however many hours it took to watch, I was gripped the whole way through.
And oh shit how could I forget the hip jaded aijin expert. Those cigarettes....the man loves his brand
MetroidPrimeRib
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names2hard4you
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Listen to this man.
Oh, one more question. Don't like SAO, Log Horizon's pretty meh, liked the first season more than the second, don't like No Game No Life, don't like Overlord, I loved the .hack games although I never saw the anime, I do like KonoSuba.
Are any of those other "transported to a new world where my awesome online gaming skillz means I'm a bad ass here" anime any good? KonoSuba's humor really worked for me.
Are any of those other "transported to a new world where my awesome online gaming skillz means I'm a bad ass here" anime any good? KonoSuba's humor really worked for me.
NaDannMaGoGo
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You might want to check out Re:Zero. I hate it but it's incredibly popular and you might see and decide for yourself.
All will be daijoubu once Hajime learns how to git gudHinata x Nanami
SliceSabre
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Nisekoi is the worst manga I have had the misfortune of reading and I hope the anime never gets another season.
Must be new to manga.
Hunter x Hunter 2-6
Great so far, really liking the exam arc. All the main characters are interesting and fun to watch. Though i was kinda shocked by all the deaths, the exam was a massacre with people constantly dying. With kids MC i though this would be like most other shonen, and people would faint or deaths would be rare for dramatically purpose, not people dying left and right, and it was just a exam, not even a battle. Haha
Great so far, really liking the exam arc. All the main characters are interesting and fun to watch. Though i was kinda shocked by all the deaths, the exam was a massacre with people constantly dying. With kids MC i though this would be like most other shonen, and people would faint or deaths would be rare for dramatically purpose, not people dying left and right, and it was just a exam, not even a battle. Haha
Dedication Through Light
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AccelWorld, though they arent trapped in the game
Girls Und Panzer Der Film-
Nope didn't like this at all. First off, to the people hyping this up as the Mad Max: Fury Road of tanks, why y'all lie to me? There's a good 35 minutes in the middle where there's no tank battles going on and it's just downtime/set-up. The main problem of the film though is that it doesn't really justify its existence. What I mean by that is the main 'crux' of the film is dependent on something that was resolved in the TV series. The school being shut down in the TV show wasn't even solid writing there as it forced a scenario where the school has to win all their battles otherwise the show essentially ends. This is a similar problem seen in shows such as Star Driver where the very nature of the setup pretty much determines the outcome. It doesn't really allow for the possibility of defeat nor growth in the face of failure. Just to clarify, failing in an exhibition match is different than failing in a tournament setting with actual stakes involved. Look at Haikyuu for example in which the characters grow after their loss in season one. That's partially besides the point in the movie itself, although that underlying issue is still there to some extent. The real predicament is that it's treading the same water that the TV season did and is doubling down on this point. It's not solving a new problem in the film but rehashing the same conflict. That's bad enough but I might be willing to let it slide if it was handled in a graceful manner. Instead the movie just puts its hands in the air and says 'whatever'.
Join us next year when the school is threatened to be shut down due to budget cuts. They didn't say how long they would keep the school open for. Muhahahaha
Holy shit, he should have nonchalantly shrugged his shoulders and put his hands up for the finishing touch. The movie puts little effort into justifying this step back when all it would have taken, or at least helped, was some reworked dialogue/scenes about how somebody at the Ministry seriously tried and still failed. Instead the girls come across as getting conned by a bureaucratic asshole who apparently has no remorse about displacing families or shutting down schools. He just comes off as cartoonishly evil as he seemed awfully invested in making sure Ooarai was shut down.
As a result, the middle 35 minutes felt artificial to me as the drama itself was artificially created. In addition, they accelerated the time table of the school closing for the sole purpose of trying to elicit even more emotional moments. None of that felt earned but rather came across as just a waste of time because you know they're going to have a tank duel to settle because how else? This in conjunction with how deliberately rigged the actual match was, rubbed me the wrong way. It reminded me of the bullshit in Gundam Build Fighters in that the writers didn't know how to competently ratchet up the tension so they go the fixing route. I'm also not exactly sure how fighting the University All Star team was supposed to prove Oorai beating Black Forest was a fluke. If Oorai lost, as they should have, so what? This is like a national championship highschool basketball team facing off against a Division 1 team. How does that high school team losing against that NCAA team prove that their championship was a fraud? The way to resolve it would have been another duel against Black Forest.
That's not my only problem with the writing though. My other issue is that Miho doesn't have a character arc unlike the TV series. I thought this movie was going to go the route of Miho learning to take other commanders' styles into consideration when formulating tactics but in the finale she just sorta lets them do what they want. They were hinting at the former when she mentioned she learned about mentality from her loss at the beginning but the movie didn't really do anything with it. I suppose that's fine in that it lets the commanders come up with their own tactics but it also reduces her importance and she doesn't have any sort of actual development. In fact the core group is almost completely pushed to the side so I guess this film was for fans of the side characters.
If I was Italian I would be pissed.
I was also disappointed in the second half because I was expecting more actual strategy in the battle rather than ferris wheels rolling everywhere. I thought the opening battle in that regards was much better as it seemed they didn't go batshit with the physics. The best moments in the movie are when the commanders are using actual strategies such as having the T-28 lead the alleyway charge due to the heavy armor. The CGI in the battles was fine at times however you could notice the framerate was off/slowed down in a few segments that made it disorienting. In fact there were a number of sequences which made me a little dizzy, some of them due to the first person perspective. The character animations were better than the TV series as minor movements have a lot of animation to them. The 2D explosions/debris were nice as well.
HOW DO PEOPLE NOT DIE PLAYING THIS???
Another thing I didn't like was the lack of characterization on the part of the college team. They come across as faceless mooks, more than I would have preferred. Now not all the problems I've talked about are attributable to the writing but rather directorial decisions and thus Mizushima. I understand why people like the movie and franchise, primarily because of the girls, but it didn't evoke any real emotion out of me because not only is it going over the same stuff as the TV series but it also lacks the character development climax aspects. Not to mention the tank battles lose a lot of their luster when you have Wacky Races hijinks going on in them.
. What the hell?She didn't win
Scenery was nice though.
Twin Tails
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It is the greatest anime.
Close.
If I wanted your opinion, I'd ask in the GB thread, bruh.
GoldCrusader
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OMG I'm playing SO5 right now and I was super bothered by Victor's VA since I could not find who it was. Buuuut it clicked, it's Shizuo's VA from Durarara.
MetroidPrimeRib
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Nisekoi ending was supposed to mean no one ever talked about it again
hosannainexcelsis
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Hajime no Ippo 9
OK, that's the worst sort of cliffhanger. "Your opponent's name is..." - ominous drumroll - fade to black. Seriously? Ippo's debut match opponent better be someone whose name we've heard already.
This show is paradise for a smear lover such as myself.
OK, that's the worst sort of cliffhanger. "Your opponent's name is..." - ominous drumroll - fade to black. Seriously? Ippo's debut match opponent better be someone whose name we've heard already.
Joe Molotov
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hosannainexcelsis
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GoldCrusader
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Tales of Zestiria the X 1 dubbed
So after checking I'm positive that even if they said that Mikleo's VA was different, he sounds exactly the same, but I am not complaining since that's really what I wanted. Sorey and Mikleo made Zestiria for me and having both VAs back makes the anime even better.
The dynamic between Sorey and Mikleo is also so good, I really love those two.
So after checking I'm positive that even if they said that Mikleo's VA was different, he sounds exactly the same, but I am not complaining since that's really what I wanted. Sorey and Mikleo made Zestiria for me and having both VAs back makes the anime even better.
The dynamic between Sorey and Mikleo is also so good, I really love those two.
What the hell are you talking about, WHAT MANGA?
We don't talk about the filth that is the second part of the Usagi Drop manga
I know that by watching this I've been spoiled about several things without even realizing it, but I wasn't invested enough into DR to actually feel that bad about it. I'll eventually play DR2 sometime, and then I'll breeze past a shocking realization due to knowing things ahead of time, but that probably won't be that much of an issue.
Actually, my only complaint about the anime is how much it appears to bank on die-hard fans, since to me (with only DR1 knowledge) it's just a below average show both in its action/mystery future side and slice of life/mystery despair side. Fans are probably enjoying seeing the cast and their motives explored further, but it doesn't really look like that much of a good fit for twin shows broadcast on TV because of how hostile it is to people with less than full knowledge of what happened in the two/three games that the anime expands upon.
I think the anime is retroactively ruined for me...Such a sweet show...
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