Admiral Woofington
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I forgot that came out this year.
Must've blocked it out after how disappointing it got.
Must've blocked it out after how disappointing it got.
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Summer Anime 2016 |OT| Makes Me Happy When Skies Are Grey
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hosannainexcelsis
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Kuromukuro 11
Dang, that was a great episode. Okamura really delivered on the tension throughout the attack sequence. The swordfight between Fusnarie and Kennosuke was particularly engaging. The series isn't entirely consistent visually, but for the most part Okamura and company have been able to keep P.A. Works' animators putting out good work. Lots of great facial expressions this episode as well.
Dang, that was a great episode. Okamura really delivered on the tension throughout the attack sequence. The swordfight between Fusnarie and Kennosuke was particularly engaging. The series isn't entirely consistent visually, but for the most part Okamura and company have been able to keep P.A. Works' animators putting out good work. Lots of great facial expressions this episode as well.
I liked Erased well enough. (Though that's not to say it didn't have issues)
I'm more disappointed in people's over-focus on episode 5 (Edit: By over-focus, I mean that I also didn't like that episode, but it seemed to me that people never got over their impression of that episode and just sort of expected the show to be bad after that point, which I feel tainted the overall impressions people would have had. I maintain that if that episode didn't exists or was different people wouldn't be as negative as they have been
) and the anime community getting in a fit over the fact that the main 2 characters didn't end up together. It's like many people expected a "save the princess; get the princess" situation, but when that didn't happen they cried out "NETORARE!" And then many of them just stopped looking at the show as it was. Erased had quite a few pacing issues and some issues with how it handled revealing things and how each episodes ended, but I feel like I was way more disappointed with the anime community than I was with the show while watching it.
I still consider Erased good; flawed, but good.
(Basically I'd give the show a 7-8/10 and the community a 3/10)
I'm more disappointed in people's over-focus on episode 5 (Edit: By over-focus, I mean that I also didn't like that episode, but it seemed to me that people never got over their impression of that episode and just sort of expected the show to be bad after that point, which I feel tainted the overall impressions people would have had. I maintain that if that episode didn't exists or was different people wouldn't be as negative as they have been
) and the anime community getting in a fit over the fact that the main 2 characters didn't end up together. It's like many people expected a "save the princess; get the princess" situation, but when that didn't happen they cried out "NETORARE!" And then many of them just stopped looking at the show as it was. Erased had quite a few pacing issues and some issues with how it handled revealing things and how each episodes ended, but I feel like I was way more disappointed with the anime community than I was with the show while watching it. I still consider Erased good; flawed, but good.
(Basically I'd give the show a 7-8/10 and the community a 3/10)
I've been liking it infinitely more than Erased, mostly because the latter was all kinds of underwhelming story and character-wise after the first couple episodes (which were amazing for me). Giving us an exposition dump on the antagonist felt like a really half-assed effort to flesh the character out, and it kind of made for a pretty underwhelming finale.
I also agree that the outrage after the MC didn't end up with the main girl felt really misguided, as it made sense that things ended up the way they had IMO.
finally "filler" is dethroned
Admiral Woofington
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hasn't deconstruction always been in the top 5?
hosannainexcelsis
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In all honestly, was there anything this year that even had filler in the true sense?
hosannainexcelsis
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Naruto is still airing.
Cornbread78
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Very happy with it!
I'm still waiting for all the bitching about cliffhangers to end... It's alright for some directors/shows to do it, but if it's Erased....
Basileus777
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What is the true sense?
Please don't say original material in an adaptation.
OK, I'll give you that. I meant outside of long runners.
My bad for not clarifying.
To be fair, every episode in Erased had a cliffhanger and some of them were legit bad (Though some of them were legitimately gripping!). If they got rid of those bad ones, people might not(read: "they'd find something else to") complain about it as much. Though you aren't wrong either, some other shows I've watched have been just as frequent with cliffhangers. Maybe because Erased is positioned more as a thriller that it gets more heat for it :S
Episode 9 of School-Live!
Cornbread78
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Someone said there has been some filler material mixed into Twin Star Exorcists.
I haven't noticed it since I have no reference from the source material to compare it to..
Basileus777
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It's had a bunch of anime original material and some stuff moved forward from when it happened in the manga. Whether or not that qualifies as filler is another question though.
Admiral Woofington
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Isn't filler where they run out of material from the source so to not stop production they continue with anime original content that has no effect on the characters or word?
Basileus777
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Well, that's what some anime fans call it. But filler is a real thing in writing and it's not original material added in an adaptation. Though those shounen arcs often do qualify as filler anyway.
GoldCrusader
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At this point I think twin star is more taking the original elements of the manga and reorganizing it in a new way. I would not qualifie this as filler since at this point it's almost an original story.
Naruto and one piece are fillers since they make content to delay the main story adaptation.
So is Fullmetal Alchemist the deadliest sin?
Or a lot of recent Kyoani stuff (I'm seriously shocked by the stuff they change ._. )
This sounds interesting tbh.
Rebel Leader
THE POWER OF BUTTERSCOTCH BOTTOMS
All anime contain the 7 deadly sins
1. It's in motion
2. it has color
3. it has voice actors
4. it has music
5. It has a intro theme
6. it has an ending theme
7. it has credits
None of these are in a manga
Basileus777
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In concept perhaps, but a lot of that reorganizing mostly results in a slower pace that doesn't do the series much favor.
MetroidPrimeRib
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One Piece 750 (Good Lord)
I'm here to tell you that the villain Luffy fights after Doflamingo and struggles with in this filler arc is named...
Bill. Just Bill.
You're missing Filler, Budget and Pacing.
I'm here to tell you that the villain Luffy fights after Doflamingo and struggles with in this filler arc is named...
Bill. Just Bill.
You're missing Filler, Budget and Pacing.
Still, it'll be interesting to hear how it plays out once it comes to an end.
Admiral Woofington
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When will one of the streaming services add Yamato.
nintendoman58
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Kuromukuro - 1
The story is cool and all, but these robot designs are such a turn-off.
The story is cool and all, but these robot designs are such a turn-off.
Cornbread78
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Who knows, I've seen a lot of praise for some of the reorganization of character introductions and minor story events. Without having read it myself, I can't tell the difference myself though.
Gonna be awhile. The show still has 36 episodes left, lol.
Hellwarden
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I bet Casca is going to be green or something by the end of Berserk.
Also One Piece, although a true filler arc just started and ended today
Granted, Toei also ruined Usopp's greatest moment by inserting a bunch of stuff that wasn't there. They stretched something that only took 2 pages (him pulling and releasing his shot) to last an entire episode so they could end it on Luffy arriving in front of Doflamingo.
There were multiple cutaways from Usopp pulling back the slingshot, panning across people in the country, to a daydream sequence of what would happen if he failed, to more stretching, to finally fucking doing it. There's some stuff they added that were good extra scenes (Like Bartolomeo pissing on Doflamingo's goons as he flies over them, that's totally in character for him) but holy fuck they ruined Usopp's best moment so hard. Ending of Dressrosa was lackluster too for this same reason because they turned something that wasn't really a struggle into a struggle
Yeah, I skipped the filler arcs when I was catching up, but this is terrible.
Dedication Through Light
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Probably when they add Hyouka.
Am I the only one that finds the premise creepy as fuck? Essentially letting 30 year old men roam around high schools without other people noticing?
ReLife?
I don't think it's anything worse than something like Erased, Freaky Friday, or 17 Again. I mean the concept could be handled poorly but making a character younger and sending them back to school feels common enough.
phoenix296
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Admiral Woofington
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macross delta needs more scenes of her and the main dude flying together as she sings and he makes his robot dance like an idiot
KazenY2J
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Same.
First half was way better though.
names2hard4you
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Cornbread say something are you okay?
Is this show this season's garbage truck on fire? I couldn't get past the first 15mins of the premiere.
MetroidPrimeRib
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look i also want to forget Berserk exists but lets be real here okay
Cornbread78
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The show has been okay so far and the comedy has been surprisingly good. However, the pacing is all over the place, they revert back into "VN mode" in the middle of episodes, and there is no clear direction as to where they are going with the show. They have given small pieces of several concepts, however, they have not put anything tangable together yet so we understand what is going on.
I'm really hoping they can fix ot with the next few episodes at least...
Correct..
Battery 1 - I'd normally run a mile from a sportsball anime, but it being a noitamina I figured it might be different. Was ok, liked the look of it and the setting. MC is a dick who I'd be avoiding irl, but the rest of the cast I like. Now lets see what the baseball/non baseball balance is like.
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