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Summer Anime 2016 |OT| Makes Me Happy When Skies Are Grey
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Sibersk Esto
Banned
Well at least the visuals will be similar
UltraGunner
Banned
Kabaneri finale
While by no means perfect, Kabaneri told it's story neatly and succinctly given it's 1 cour limitation. The characters were both sympathetic and believable in their actions and goals. The story never lingered too long on a single story thread that would go nowhere. It knew how to keep its tone in line by giving the angst scenes the proper gravity they needed.
Basically what I'm saying is what I said after episode one: Kabaneri is AoT but good.
While by no means perfect, Kabaneri told it's story neatly and succinctly given it's 1 cour limitation. The characters were both sympathetic and believable in their actions and goals. The story never lingered too long on a single story thread that would go nowhere. It knew how to keep its tone in line by giving the angst scenes the proper gravity they needed.
Basically what I'm saying is what I said after episode one: Kabaneri is AoT but good.
GoldCrusader
Member
^That first pic is pretty good actually! But I really like the dynamic between these two.
Cornbread78
Member
The canon relationship is finally exposed. We now know why he dissed Alycia and Rose..
UltraGunner
Banned
How the FUCK do you go about dubbing Gintama?
Pay Canadians to do it.
Intentional.
It was all up on the Comico app at one point already.
John Blade
Member
DONE....man, the final battle scene is just painful to watch. So much bullshit from Hajime Muroto coming from his mouth to the point you want to kill him (which should have done when MC Kei have the chance). The final ending of this show is just weird. Did he die with the last survivor as he wasn't got kill? Why Grantz disappear when Kei was at the train track when the train basically go at him? Is it the end of the game and no survivor left? So many questions of this odd ending which in a way ruin the show quite a bit.
I would say this, season 2 kinda kill any hope of me liking the show. The 1st battle in season 2 make me depress when almost everyone is kill while 2nd battle make me want to end watching this show all together. It doesn't help the last battle rule have change in a way it doesn't make sense anymore.
I like the idea of Grantz story and I have a feeling the manga version is much more better for the most part till it get very weird and fuck up at the end from what I heard (heard the creator run out of idea and just literally take random idea and slap in on the wall to see it stick). The 1st season have enough stuff to get me interested and in a way if it stop there, it might get some more people to go look into the manga. Unfortunately, they is season 2 and if people did watch it, I have a feeling a lot of them will hate the show to the point they might not want to even consider to go read the manga as it's bad. Now, I can see why people hate the show and hope they never release a blu-ray of this TV series at all. For the new movie coming up, I might pass it now from this bad TV show. It does look interesting from the screenshot.
At the end, don't watch Season 2. Stick with the 1st season only and if you still interested, go read the manga.
I would say this, season 2 kinda kill any hope of me liking the show. The 1st battle in season 2 make me depress when almost everyone is kill while 2nd battle make me want to end watching this show all together. It doesn't help the last battle rule have change in a way it doesn't make sense anymore.
I like the idea of Grantz story and I have a feeling the manga version is much more better for the most part till it get very weird and fuck up at the end from what I heard (heard the creator run out of idea and just literally take random idea and slap in on the wall to see it stick). The 1st season have enough stuff to get me interested and in a way if it stop there, it might get some more people to go look into the manga. Unfortunately, they is season 2 and if people did watch it, I have a feeling a lot of them will hate the show to the point they might not want to even consider to go read the manga as it's bad. Now, I can see why people hate the show and hope they never release a blu-ray of this TV series at all. For the new movie coming up, I might pass it now from this bad TV show. It does look interesting from the screenshot.
At the end, don't watch Season 2. Stick with the 1st season only and if you still interested, go read the manga.
Dedication Through Light
Member
ReLIFE Episode 11 A Trip to the Past
Made me so angry, why is JPN business life usually portrayed like this. I hope IRL it isnt like this as Im about to job search and stuff.
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Favorite moment, also the ED song is really good.
Made me so angry, why is JPN business life usually portrayed like this. I hope IRL it isnt like this as Im about to job search and stuff.
how the boss even made her sound like some fallen warrior and using her to push his own agenda even knowing how they treated her, ugh, thats just awful
Favorite moment, also the ED song is really good.
names2hard4you
Member
ReLIFE 02-04
So here I am watching this. The show is actually quite good. Nothing amazing for sure but it can be pretty funny at times. It's nice seeing the main character sorta reforming himself.
So here I am watching this. The show is actually quite good. Nothing amazing for sure but it can be pretty funny at times. It's nice seeing the main character sorta reforming himself.
Shit that was announce or re-iterated that a release was happening today so far that i'm 100% buying:
Owarimonogatari Vol. 1 and 2 BD
Gundam Reconguista in G BD
Char's Counterattack BD
Yamada-kun and the 7 Witches BD
Myriad Colors Phantom World BD
Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress BD
Martian Successor Nadesico BD
Revolutionary Girl Utena BD
Galaxy Angel BD
Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory BD
Gundam 0083: Afterglow of Zeon BD
Gundam F91 BD
Jojo Part 1 BD
Jojo Stardust Crusaders BD
Jojo Diamond is Unbreakable BD
Ripppppp
PS: where is Battle Tendency
Owarimonogatari Vol. 1 and 2 BD
Gundam Reconguista in G BD
Char's Counterattack BD
Yamada-kun and the 7 Witches BD
Myriad Colors Phantom World BD
Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress BD
Martian Successor Nadesico BD
Revolutionary Girl Utena BD
Galaxy Angel BD
Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory BD
Gundam 0083: Afterglow of Zeon BD
Gundam F91 BD
Jojo Part 1 BD
Jojo Stardust Crusaders BD
Jojo Diamond is Unbreakable BD
Ripppppp
PS: where is Battle Tendency
Dedication Through Light
Member
Did you not see the dubbed movie?
Cornbread78
Member
I sent a tweet to ask for my friends, lol.
I want that Yamada-kun set. Well, I'd like a S2 or extended OVA as well, lol.
John Blade
Member
Those classic gundam show....I am trying to save some money here man...don't make me get broke by December for the RightStuff Christmas sale....
No Part 2 or is that included in Part 1 since they share a season?
have no clue. The slide that got posted on twitter just says Part 1.
I guess the Warner release considered parts 1 and 2 to be season 1.
Or rather it's generally considered that 1 and 2 are a first season.
Though they used the wording "part" so IDK.
UltraGunner
Banned
I didn't, but unless they're doing a full gag dub I don't know how they're going about it
hosannainexcelsis
Member
Shirobako 4
The dialogue has a lot of neat little touches that helps make the characters feel fleshed out and human, such as the feud over the office AC. Normally it's difficult to handle a large cast such as Shirobako's without making most of the cast one-note gimmicks (see Girls und Panzer), but in Shirobako just about everyone feels real. Even tiny side characters who only show up for a couple lines of dialogue in one scene, such as Zuka's boss at the bar she works at, feel like real people. It's impressive.
The dialogue has a lot of neat little touches that helps make the characters feel fleshed out and human, such as the feud over the office AC. Normally it's difficult to handle a large cast such as Shirobako's without making most of the cast one-note gimmicks (see Girls und Panzer), but in Shirobako just about everyone feels real. Even tiny side characters who only show up for a couple lines of dialogue in one scene, such as Zuka's boss at the bar she works at, feel like real people. It's impressive.
nintendoman58
Member
Crunchyroll getting into home video and dubbing? Wow.
I'll be fine.
I really hope that the show is good just so I don't see you crumble
I'll be fine.
Before I get to summer...
Asterisk S2 02-13
The fights were nice, specially Kirin's. Her movement is great. Story was an absolute shite though, as expected. They never explained proper terminology, even it's fairly simple to guess. I'm all for the "show, don't tell" approach, but this show doesn't show and doesn't tell, it just casually, randomly drops those terms.
We're probably getting another cour of this, at the very least. Too many unresolved plots that went waaaay past the point "go buy the LN if you liked this". And stupid me will probably watch it too.
Flying Witch 03-06
The crunchyroll posts where they compare the city to the real life inspiration are fantastic, and that's only one part of the dedication that is going into this adaptation. Direction is overall great, they nail the tone of a countryside city with the music and voice tones. It's never boring, never a full-on comedy, but never overly serious either. I can't bring myself to binge watch this, though. I'll probably be coming back to it during summer season and hopefully finish it mid-way through.
Baby Steps 01-11
Started this yesterday when I decided I wasn't going to watch Flying Witch up to the end so quickly and, welp, I'm 11 episodes in and I probably could've watched more. I'll likely be done with S1 by the end of the week.
I was looking for another sports anime, got some recommendations on this and decided to check it. I don't really care for tennis, but I'm enjoying it so far. It's not nearly as good as Haikyuu... or even Kuroko (despite the latter being way more fantastical than grounded as opposed to Baby Steps), but it's fun and very easy to binge watch. I just finished episode 11 and I couldn't believe 20 mins have passed by.
My only gripe with it is that they overly explain everything. I don't know all the rules in a tennis match and I don't think I ever watched one of them from beginning to end, but even I know how the scoring system works... and they already explained it THREE times in the first 10 episodes. Seriously...
And finally...
ReLife 01
I probably won't marathon this exclusively because of Baby Steps, but if episode 1 is anything to go by, this won't last very long in my "watching" tab on MAL. I'll probably watch a couple more episodes tonight after I'm (finally) done with Kabaneri. The "old guy in his younger self body" twist was already done earlier this year with Erased, but I still found it refreshing here and the comedy was nice. Hopefully some good romance comes out of this. Though I can already see the dramatic implications.
Asterisk S2 02-13
The fights were nice, specially Kirin's. Her movement is great. Story was an absolute shite though, as expected. They never explained proper terminology, even it's fairly simple to guess. I'm all for the "show, don't tell" approach, but this show doesn't show and doesn't tell, it just casually, randomly drops those terms.
We're probably getting another cour of this, at the very least. Too many unresolved plots that went waaaay past the point "go buy the LN if you liked this". And stupid me will probably watch it too.
Flying Witch 03-06
The crunchyroll posts where they compare the city to the real life inspiration are fantastic, and that's only one part of the dedication that is going into this adaptation. Direction is overall great, they nail the tone of a countryside city with the music and voice tones. It's never boring, never a full-on comedy, but never overly serious either. I can't bring myself to binge watch this, though. I'll probably be coming back to it during summer season and hopefully finish it mid-way through.
Baby Steps 01-11
Started this yesterday when I decided I wasn't going to watch Flying Witch up to the end so quickly and, welp, I'm 11 episodes in and I probably could've watched more. I'll likely be done with S1 by the end of the week.
I was looking for another sports anime, got some recommendations on this and decided to check it. I don't really care for tennis, but I'm enjoying it so far. It's not nearly as good as Haikyuu... or even Kuroko (despite the latter being way more fantastical than grounded as opposed to Baby Steps), but it's fun and very easy to binge watch. I just finished episode 11 and I couldn't believe 20 mins have passed by.
My only gripe with it is that they overly explain everything. I don't know all the rules in a tennis match and I don't think I ever watched one of them from beginning to end, but even I know how the scoring system works... and they already explained it THREE times in the first 10 episodes. Seriously...
And finally...
ReLife 01
I probably won't marathon this exclusively because of Baby Steps, but if episode 1 is anything to go by, this won't last very long in my "watching" tab on MAL. I'll probably watch a couple more episodes tonight after I'm (finally) done with Kabaneri. The "old guy in his younger self body" twist was already done earlier this year with Erased, but I still found it refreshing here and the comedy was nice. Hopefully some good romance comes out of this. Though I can already see the dramatic implications.
phoenix296
Member
Amazing OP. Sunshine will save this season.
it will likely depend on sales. given the info we saw about canadian dubbing it can likely be safe to assume that they will at least release the first 51 episodes dubbed, but any more than that likely isn't safe to say.
CR is doing DVD and Bluray releases now
I don't think that any other announcement will top this for me! I didn't expect it, but it makes sense after how they tested the waters with Discotek. I'll definitely pick up that BD of Free!
Dedication Through Light
Member
ReLife 13 (END)
WEll guess its a go read the manga thing for the next term
I love all the minor moments in this and the day to day plots for high school life of seniors. Like romance for the studious pretty boy, or drama over volleyball. Though I think most of Kairiu's plots were pretty uninteresting.
I kind of want more, though I love how each episode made me want to watch the next one. Good anime. 9/10.
WEll guess its a go read the manga thing for the next term
glad we got the Test Subject 001 Identity. I never would have pick Hishiro as it as she was always just so clueless and focused on well trying to improve how she was the previous year like make friends.I wonder what is her story and what not, we got Yoake's point of view for it but still nothing about what happened after he stepped back a bit and let her take the reins.
I love all the minor moments in this and the day to day plots for high school life of seniors. Like romance for the studious pretty boy, or drama over volleyball. Though I think most of Kairiu's plots were pretty uninteresting.
I kind of want more, though I love how each episode made me want to watch the next one. Good anime. 9/10.
Hellwarden
Member
One Punch Man is coming to Toonami.
Replacing Champloo.
Replacing Champloo.
NCR Redslayer
NeoGAF's Vegeta
Well once you've watch gantz, you shpuld watch the superior terraformers.
gashikunFLCL
Member
Nice OP BGBW.
Thanks to ReLife I discovered the name of a music I heard when I watched Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi when I was younger, Kore ga Watashi no Ikiru Michi.
I like that the endings have different "old" musics.
Thanks to ReLife I discovered the name of a music I heard when I watched Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi when I was younger, Kore ga Watashi no Ikiru Michi.
I like that the endings have different "old" musics.
John Blade
Member
*Google the title* What the hell......I think I pass for now as Grantz give me a bitter taste of anime and need some random stuff to remove it right now. Sigh...need to look at some comedy stuff right now.
zswordsman
Member
Any chance CR will release pt 1 of the monogatari movie on disc? My only chance to watch it :'v
ShinRPGamer
Member
So a couple of things.
1. Nice OP BGBW
2. Catching up to today's news now. Big stuff coming from Crunchyroll in particular. Going to do physical releases now. I wonder what they'll do for those in Canada?
1. Nice OP BGBW
2. Catching up to today's news now. Big stuff coming from Crunchyroll in particular. Going to do physical releases now. I wonder what they'll do for those in Canada?
hosannainexcelsis
Member
Samurai Flamenco 8
The action focus from this episode was kind of boring; even with the extra polish on the BD, it's not like the action scenes are especially interesting to watch in themselves. What I did like about the episode was the steady progression into complacence bordering on apathy from the characters. Having the government committee meeting regularly punctuate the episode after each monster encounter was a good choice; the parallelism made it easy to sense the shift. (I liked the prime minister nodding each time except for the last, when he has a startled expression showing his attention was elsewhere.) The monster's plans getting more and more pathetic - from killing cops to making people gossip to... buying up all the apples - was also amusing.
Still not my preferred path, and the staff really should have ensured a stronger production if they were going to make action more pivotal like this, but there's still potential for this to do interesting things with the direction it's chosen.
The action focus from this episode was kind of boring; even with the extra polish on the BD, it's not like the action scenes are especially interesting to watch in themselves. What I did like about the episode was the steady progression into complacence bordering on apathy from the characters. Having the government committee meeting regularly punctuate the episode after each monster encounter was a good choice; the parallelism made it easy to sense the shift. (I liked the prime minister nodding each time except for the last, when he has a startled expression showing his attention was elsewhere.) The monster's plans getting more and more pathetic - from killing cops to making people gossip to... buying up all the apples - was also amusing.
Still not my preferred path, and the staff really should have ensured a stronger production if they were going to make action more pivotal like this, but there's still potential for this to do interesting things with the direction it's chosen.
NCR Redslayer
NeoGAF's Vegeta
Can i suggest you nichijou?
John Blade
Member
Watch that show already and like it. Might consider watching Miami Guns as it's in my backlog or start watching Clannad.
Monogatari is with Aniplex of America. They distribute through Rightstuf.
Trojita
Rapid Response Threadmaker
Did you watch Nichibros?
Lucky Star, Nichibros, Oshiete Galko-chan
Speaking of which, I kind of want to watch Hidamari Sketch. Maybe after I complete im@s.
ReLife ep 1
I'm sure when this show was announced alot of people wrote it off because it was some guy going back to high school through impossible means which always occur in their mind it was gonna be some dumb harem, ecchi, cliche nonsense which unfortunately alot of shows is guilty for that aspect but not this one.
It's gonna be interesting to see how this guy gonna redo his life and how this affects everybody around him.
I'm sure when this show was announced alot of people wrote it off because it was some guy going back to high school through impossible means which always occur in their mind it was gonna be some dumb harem, ecchi, cliche nonsense which unfortunately alot of shows is guilty for that aspect but not this one.
It's gonna be interesting to see how this guy gonna redo his life and how this affects everybody around him.
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