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Summer Anime 2016 |OT| Makes Me Happy When Skies Are Grey
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names2hard4you
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I'm honestly not feeling this supposedly amazing despair-inducing incident at all. I was expecting Junko to use the animator's ability to brainwash people prior to the incident or something, but what I got instead was a killing game out of nowhere and Junko obviously pinning Izuru as the culprit, which felt almost mundane for a series such as DR.
Honestly, I was expecting more over-the-top craziness from Junko's plans rather than just having the right tools handed to her by sheer luck time and time again, and using her eeeeevil mastermind skills alongside that to get her desired outcome. Mukuro's "Nee-san is now using her unique super-analytic skills" line was so bad it was bad, while simultaneously doing useless exposition that didn't even matter in that scene...
We haven't gotten to the part where Enoshima spreads her despair to the rest of the world, but it honestly feels like the show's running out of steam and isn't actually doing much besides checking boxes. So we learned that Izuru
hadn't actually done that much during Junko's death trial
I don't know what others' personal opinions are, but to me it feels like the show decided to use the most stupid and boring content possible to fill in the blanks that the games had left for us...
Savage.
Dedication Through Light
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Battery Episode 7
Go is so moody at times that punch for example, why.
Shun is who we always needed, such a refreshing cast member as well as Shugo from Yokote as well. I liked the game end of the episode, the teasing, and Go's efforts of trying to catch. I also liked how they stood and looked to one another, wonder what that means for their Battery.
Go is so moody at times that punch for example, why.
Naruto Shippuden 473
And there it isI thought I would just be laughing at how bad that asspull was but no. the episode of course had to be even more atrocious then they usually are, I've no idea how you can make a decision to place a 3 minute trite part 1 flashback at the very climax of the fight or just end the ep in that particular place with no pay off to the fight and not commit seppuku at the spot. Won't somebody please think of all those handsome, smart, hard working, family loving people aka Naruto fans ? Save us Yamashita/Norio/Kobayashi.
And there it isI thought I would just be laughing at how bad that asspull was but no. the episode of course had to be even more atrocious then they usually are, I've no idea how you can make a decision to place a 3 minute trite part 1 flashback at the very climax of the fight or just end the ep in that particular place with no pay off to the fight and not commit seppuku at the spot. Won't somebody please think of all those handsome, smart, hard working, family loving people aka Naruto fans ? Save us Yamashita/Norio/Kobayashi.
When they Cry #7
For Hope Academy, this was the most important day in its history. But for Rika, it was Tuesday.
Yeah, this will be on the news for the next 10 days, until the next shooting somewhere else in the world.
Man, this apocalypse things is never going to work for me. I mean, unless we are assume Japan=The entire world.
Also, I'm very confused by the timeline. Where are Naegi and co.? Is the apocalypse one year away still? How can Junko get away with everything without being discovered?
Also... MIND HACK? Are they trying to combine all the worst twists out of here in a single anime?
... is anyone pretending to be multiple people?
For Hope Academy, this was the most important day in its history. But for Rika, it was Tuesday.
Yeah, this will be on the news for the next 10 days, until the next shooting somewhere else in the world.
Man, this apocalypse things is never going to work for me. I mean, unless we are assume Japan=The entire world.
Also, I'm very confused by the timeline. Where are Naegi and co.? Is the apocalypse one year away still? How can Junko get away with everything without being discovered?
Also... MIND HACK? Are they trying to combine all the worst twists out of here in a single anime?
... is anyone pretending to be multiple people?
Thanks for Hopeman fanservice tho'!
MikeHattsu
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GoldCrusader
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Puzzle and Dragon X 6 Mapple Tree DUB
A nice episode with the cliche MC gains new power, gets a little over-confident and gets saved by the main rival.
+Those Soul Armor transformation scenes are amazing
+The MC is gaining in experience nicely
+the dynamic between all the characters is really nice
+Of course Tamazo is awesome
-A little lame that they don't seem to fight with their armors and that they only seem to give some kind of Leader skill.
-I though that the DROP impact was supposed to be huge and of super mega proportion and yet
Cheer boys 4 DUB
I really love how this show progress with each characters. While adding new ones, they use these new characters to develop the existing one. Haru slowly but surely getting over is fear of heights. Haru's and Kazu's relationship keeps getting better.
Tales of Zestiria 3 DUB
Watching it each episode twice makes me really appreciate how the anime put up to the front the best element of a Tales game, the amazing characters. Ufotable is doing such an amazing job. The DUB is also amazing, it brings the show one step higher for me.
Also it there anything more badass and cool then Sorey this season? obviously no.
A nice episode with the cliche MC gains new power, gets a little over-confident and gets saved by the main rival.
+Those Soul Armor transformation scenes are amazing
+The MC is gaining in experience nicely
+the dynamic between all the characters is really nice
+Of course Tamazo is awesome
-A little lame that they don't seem to fight with their armors and that they only seem to give some kind of Leader skill.
-I though that the DROP impact was supposed to be huge and of super mega proportion and yet
Lance seemed to have no problem dealing with the monster?
Cheer boys 4 DUB
I really love how this show progress with each characters. While adding new ones, they use these new characters to develop the existing one. Haru slowly but surely getting over is fear of heights. Haru's and Kazu's relationship keeps getting better.
Tales of Zestiria 3 DUB
Watching it each episode twice makes me really appreciate how the anime put up to the front the best element of a Tales game, the amazing characters. Ufotable is doing such an amazing job. The DUB is also amazing, it brings the show one step higher for me.
Also it there anything more badass and cool then Sorey this season? obviously no.
MetroidPrimeRib
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Did you read DR Zero? It makes it more clear. The DR2 class is the DR1 classes senpais, they dont have anything to do with each other right now. Kyoko should start to move soon.
Joe Molotov
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Not wide enough.
Cornbread78
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Am I going to be the only one watching anime again tonight?
Joe Molotov
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Urusei Yatsura watch party
Turin Turambar
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Can someone explain me this meme?
Hey I watched Naruto today. That's anima asf.
I remember hating the guy and then that ep came. ;_;
Kaiba ep.7
Vanilla went all out to try and get Chroniko (yeah, he still doesn't know it's a him in a her body) even though hehim. Loved the way they added the musical track in the background to really make it a really good scene. Really good episode..gave up both his and his mother's lives to save
I remember hating the guy and then that ep came. ;_;
Cornbread78
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Yeah, he was annoying as hell through the past several episodes, and then he goes and does this and you can't do anything but feel bad for the dude. It doesn't help that Warp is having an identity crises at the same time because of the body swaps........
GoldCrusader
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Maaann Matt is one cool kid!
Helps that the song is good too.
Helps that the song is good too.
It's an animated image saved in the Graphics Interchange Format filetype used to express the user's reaction to the situation. In this case, it is one of amusement, so, they have chosen an image of two men laughing to reflect this.
Turin Turambar
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It's more... who is the guy on the right.
Chris Evans, aka Captain America - he's been spliced in to a Spiderman clip of some kind it looks like.
(sorry if I'm killing the joke by explaining it, but I Googled what this was as it confused me...)
Fate/Zero 1
Okay, it's not like I didn't understand anything, but I'm surprised on the amount of different factions, different family names and different characters who were introduced. Also, for half the show they kept mentioning the Holy Grail War but thankfully that Waver guy explained it later. Generally an overwhelming amount of information, though I'm sure it will get better when I'll get used to the characters. Also, before I started watching this, I only knew of Rin, Saber and Archer. One of them is a child, the other two are spirits, that was unexpected, I thought they'd be the main characters.
Anyway, it seems we're missing some summoners for now, but I think I'll be rooting for old Kaneki and his quest to save little Sakura from the worms. Though I liked Waver's overconfidence too. I find it fascinating that the show seems to embrace a grey area and there aren't any villains or good guys, it's different families working for their own reasons. Though I suppose that Tohsaka and Kirei will probably be antagonists because they're allied and they're "The Church" and there's no way that the guy that summoned Saber is bad, I guess he's the main character.
Anyway, certainly a very intriguing start and the episode seemed to finish really fast, despite its length. I'm hooked.
Okay, it's not like I didn't understand anything, but I'm surprised on the amount of different factions, different family names and different characters who were introduced. Also, for half the show they kept mentioning the Holy Grail War but thankfully that Waver guy explained it later. Generally an overwhelming amount of information, though I'm sure it will get better when I'll get used to the characters. Also, before I started watching this, I only knew of Rin, Saber and Archer. One of them is a child, the other two are spirits, that was unexpected, I thought they'd be the main characters.
Anyway, it seems we're missing some summoners for now, but I think I'll be rooting for old Kaneki and his quest to save little Sakura from the worms. Though I liked Waver's overconfidence too. I find it fascinating that the show seems to embrace a grey area and there aren't any villains or good guys, it's different families working for their own reasons. Though I suppose that Tohsaka and Kirei will probably be antagonists because they're allied and they're "The Church" and there's no way that the guy that summoned Saber is bad, I guess he's the main character.
Anyway, certainly a very intriguing start and the episode seemed to finish really fast, despite its length. I'm hooked.
Now that I goggled it, it's apparently fairly heavy drama from Avengers promotion interview that I was completely unaware of. Just my luck.
The only correct choice.
That they're spirits doesn't mean they don't have important roles.
Fate/Zero is a prequel to Fate/Stay Night. Rin, Saber, and Archer are main characters in that. This Archer is different to the one in F/SN; 'Archer' is his class rather than his name. F/SN had some plot twists about their true identities, hence why the characters call them by class rather than name, but F/Z is fairly straightforward (though it does spoil the Saber twist in F/SN).
As it's a prequel, F/Z kinda infodumps the setup a bit as all the characters are already in the know - it's introduced more slowly in F/SN from Shirou's point of view.
Turin Turambar
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I have seen him photoshopped in several gifs in the OT side, but I still didn't know the origin. I'm bad with faces so no, I didn't recognize him with the beard
.Everyone has said to skip Fate/Stay night, so I guess I'll never find out what I'll be missing. I think Fate/Zero did a decent job with its extensive infodump though, so I don't really mind.
names2hard4you
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No sir! Now when Danganronpa Despair aired today. I got Mr. Robot's latest episode out of the way during lunch time at work.
Dedication Through Light
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Maaann Matt is one cool kid!
Helps that the song is good too.
Best group name.
F/SN is generally regarded as worse because the characters aren't great (mostly annoying high school kids rather than F/Z's adults). I enjoyed the 2014 version of Unlimited Blade Works, although that was mostly for the pretty fights.
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GoldCrusader
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So you are finally watching Haikyu?
It's very japanese and edgy lol.
Cornbread78
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Nice, time to start something on your PTW list as well.
Nah, everyone should watch Little Busters.
John Blade
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Man, I need to find another anime with more beautiful moments like this one that melt your heart....
It's been forever since I've seen a good one...
Here is one and you know how powerful this scene is.
https://youtu.be/NSGK3LR7oyo?t=20m48s
We don't really know what Junko has planned for Mitarai yet, so I'd say we should wait and see what happens on that front.
The best part of the episode was when the last student council member had both a handgun and a chainsaw, and when confronted by Izuru, chose to attack him with the chainsaw instead of shooting him with the gun. Even if you're panicking, that's a terrible decision!
The best part of the episode was when the last student council member had both a handgun and a chainsaw, and when confronted by Izuru, chose to attack him with the chainsaw instead of shooting him with the gun. Even if you're panicking, that's a terrible decision!
Butteries #7
Boyfriends fight! Well, more like Gou just punched Takumi. I bet Takumi punches like a girl anyway.
LOL you silly granpa. Where do you think we are?
Also Is Amazon intentionally fucking the script or is this dude totally legit like this?
The match was... meh. The QUALITY and bad animations are really noticeable. It's a shame 'cause Shimura design are top notch as usual.
The development in Takumi/Gou relationship is quite interesting, it seems Gou's has legit problem at receiving.
Boyfriends fight! Well, more like Gou just punched Takumi. I bet Takumi punches like a girl anyway.
LOL you silly granpa. Where do you think we are?
Also Is Amazon intentionally fucking the script or is this dude totally legit like this?
The match was... meh. The QUALITY and bad animations are really noticeable. It's a shame 'cause Shimura design are top notch as usual.
The development in Takumi/Gou relationship is quite interesting, it seems Gou's has legit problem at receiving.
Cornbread78
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Yeah, that was a good one as well! Just need more of those. It's been awhile since I've watched something with a great scene like those.
John Blade
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Yea...still is my favorite romance anime show in my collection. Even more than Clannad even though that show is also good for other purpose. Need to write an impression of it when I have a chance.
Cornbread78
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Looking forwatd to tgat, we never did get your final impressions, lol.
Did it rank high on your list?
Dedication Through Light
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Im litrally the only one watching the only night anime (Saiki Kusuo), and also Daisuki animes (Gundam Wing, finish tomorrow), and Gundam Seed Destiny! Shinn!
I'm going to catch up tonight with some shows while casually watching some Preseason games!
;P
Yeah, whenever I recommend Fate/Zero, I usually say "the first episode is 40min long and 35min of it won't make any sense whatsoever, then you'll start to retroactively make sense of it in the last 5min".
FZ doesn't really start after the second episode if you're new to Fate. Still, it's highly recommended to start (and maybe stop, lol) with Zero since FSN spoils it. Zero spoils FSN as well, but it's better to be spoiled in the latter than in Zero.
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cj_iwakura
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The UBW show is pretty great, and brings Zero's story full circle.
I'd say her eyes lighting up as soon as Mitarai mentioned all the tricks he could leverage to get his desired reaction out of his audience made things fairly obvious, though.
While another user was put off by the crazy violence in this episode, I felt like it was downright dumb. The student council only showed up now to get themselves killed, and it was stupid that they didn't even try to escape after Junko and Mukuro obviously left them alone to chill out at the security room, with Izuru being little more than an observer.
I was kind of expecting Chiaki's role as the class rep meant she was actually working at the student council or something, which would've at least helped made the event more than just Junko killing some red shirt students nobody cared about to kick-start her master plan.
Cornbread78
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More like time to continue something on his "On Hold" list!
That works as well...
Watch more Alderamin of the Sky.
Some day I'll watch Meijin Bone, lol.
Sounds like a solid plan.
Lol, I know you're watching and posting.
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