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Summer Anime 2017 |OT| More streaming services than shows to watch

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Cornbread78

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Gah no way, SS Laura will sail these high seas alone.

Also you're not wrong about the anime silliness retreating quickly thanks to the strengths of the character writing but it does pop up now and again to make me groan (hi Elise).

I like Laura as well, but the canon ship writing was actually pretty good and set up some really good scenes near the end.

Now on Elise, well yeah, "not blood siblings" and all that... I try to block that out. I just really wish they gave Rean a ship option with the Princess, because I really started to love her character by the end of 2.
 
I like Laura as well, but the canon ship writing was actually pretty good and set up some really good scenes near the end.

Now on Elise, well yeah, "not blood siblings" and all that... I try to block that out. I just really wish they gave Rean a ship option with the Princess, because I really started to love her character by the end of 2.

Hmmmm duly noted :)

That will be some turnaround for the Princess a character that right now at the end of 1 seems like a "blonde drill loli" then again they managed to turn Machias around from being the must insufferable man in history so I look forward to that!
 

Cornbread78

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Hmmmm duly noted :)

That will be some turnaround for the Princess a character that right now at the end of 1 seems like a "blonde drill loli" then again they managed to turn Machias around from being the must insufferable man in history so I look forward to that!

She's a tease (you'll see) and a flirt, but she's smart and cute at the same time. Yeah, she's great.
 

/XX/

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Oh, Mr. Anno! Did you get so bored of asking people to "Touch your NISSAN" that you went to star in an advertising for a direct competitor?

Personally I'm not sure its even a very good investment. It just leads to them being in a bidding war with Netflix and Amazon for shows.
Why would they be advocated to bidding wars when Gen Fukunaga precisely highlights "Sony's direct access to the creative pipeline in Japan" as a key aspect? Look, I'm not saying Sony Corp., as a whole has demonstrated faith in the value of synergies aside from late timid attempts to dismantle the "silos" Mr. Stringer parroted about, but it is certainly a possibility to be explored in the future, and for which distribution expertise in the U.S. territories for such specialised market could become a valuable asset. Anyway, if those VOD platforms you mention are truly focusing from now on in helping co-develop to create from scratch new intellectual properties internally (instead of some semi-'ORIGINAL' shows half-step) as full-fledged production companies... what would others be bidding for exactly? To try poach the talent working on them instead? On the Japanese animation industry I think not many creators (overseers we usually label that way) have the luxury and illustrious name attached to go around pitching projects to multiple bidders in search of the highest one, on the contrary, many external producers coming from the animation production companies themselves devise concepts for original animation projects and try to assemble an staff starting from that, getting on board the studios.

Although if we are talking mainly about adaptations you would have a point about bidding for the rights to do them, but that isn't FUNimation's role so...

Just barely functional until the money from the initial investment dried off, it looks like. :p
 

Cornbread78

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Isekai Smartphone ep.4
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Yes, God has spoken the truth of this new world. This dude now has the whole world in his hands and a new harem to exploit.......


Tsurezure Children ep.5

Oh my, absolutely rekt.... Hopefully, they can fix this little "misunderstanding" tomorrow...
 

Line_HTX

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Looking at Funi's FAQ, it doesn't look like any operation will change in any capacity. Things will remain the same for the time being, I guess.
 
Aho Girl gets more stupid with every new episode, couldn't stop grinning like an idiot through the episode. Mother also confirmed that she is best character once again.
 
I guess Sentai saw ahead of time the way the winds were blowing, which is why they shacked up with Amazon lol.

Did I screw myself over by watching DEEN's UBW movie first? Should I still watch F/SN UBW 2014?

If you like Fate in general you'll enjoy the UBW series. The DEEN movie was just dumb because they tried to squeeze a shit ton of content into a 100 minute movie.
 

Cornbread78

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Aho Girl ep.5

Poor Akun, his life is full of pain and misery... One day, he will feel like a man again, lol

This show is so stupid with a frantic pace and plot, but it is all worth it by the end of each crazy episode....
 

/XX/

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Looking at Funi's FAQ, it doesn't look like any operation will change in any capacity. Things will remain the same for the time being, I guess.
Yeah, it is clear by the emphasis given that the main reason for the purchase was FUNimation's strong current catalogue. What I'm trying to confront is the implication that they could or should suddenly compete for distribution licenses of properties tightly controlled since their planning by other distributors (even part of the production committees).
 
Yeah, it is clear by the emphasis given that the reason for the purchase was FUNimation's strong current catalogue. What I'm trying to confront is the implication that they could or should suddenly compete for distribution licenses of properties tightly controlled since their planning by other distributors (even as part of production committees).

Honestly, at most, the only changes I see on Funimation's end is maybe them also trying to get dubs from other Distributors for their streaming service like they recently did for Lupin Part IV.

Other than that, I see them just continuing doing what they've been doing up to this point.
 
Aho Girl, Episode 5 - aka how deep down the stupidity rabbit hole can we go?

The fact that Sayaka of all the characters was the one to finally make A-kun break is something else.
 

Sterok

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Aho Girl 5

Okay, they completely nailed the Precure parody. Even the cheering in the theater that you're supposed to do.
 

kevyward

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Amazon Prime Canada put up Made in Abyss episode 4 yesterday.... except when you hit play it's actually Pricess Principal episode 4... and it's still not fixed... fuck fix your shit amazon
 

Cornbread78

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New Game + ep.4
The yuri hints are a little stronger this year with Yun jumping into the fray with the red face and poor Rin. She just keeps getting destroyed over and over again because her crush won't notice her, lol. Anyhow, very cute episode again.
 

Qurupeke

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Bungo Stray Dogs S1 [END]

Actually, the series kind of sucks and the characters aren't doing it for me. But I liked episode 12's antagonist and there's finally a JoJo tier ability. And I think my biggest disappointment are the abilities. There's a guy that transforms into a tiger, someone that makes lemon bombs, that guy who makes notebook size things appear, a guy that just controls a shadow... Lame. Hopefully S2 will be better.
 

Jarmel

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Bungo Stray Dogs S1 [END]

Actually, the series kind of sucks and the characters aren't doing it for me. But I liked episode 12's antagonist and there's finally a JoJo tier ability. And I think my biggest disappointment are the abilities. There's a guy that transforms into a tiger, someone that makes lemon bombs, that guy who makes notebook size things appear, a guy that just controls a shadow... Lame. Hopefully S2 will be better.
In the time you spent writing this post, you could have used it watching S2.
 

KraytarJ

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Amazon Prime Canada put up Made in Abyss episode 4 yesterday.... except when you hit play it's actually Pricess Principal episode 4... and it's still not fixed... fuck fix your shit amazon
Well I was going to watch that later… so that sucks. Also a fun side note, episode 2 of Love and Lies still doesn't have subtitles of any kind.
 
Mahoujin Guru Guru - 04

Weekly update that the face game is still on point. A bit too many poop and fart jokes in one session for me though. For some reason this is the first time I noticed the ED is by Bonjour Suzuki.
I like how it has already changed the setting. Koyama voicing the Dick dude sounded too much like he did with Tora, to the point to where I'd like to imagine Tora is haunting this universe.

I'm glad by the amount of weird stuff they put into the quick framed actions that are easy to miss unless you pause frame by frame. Like when the lady breaks the fourth wall to knock down her name sign to reveal a detailed crazy face, or the spirit getting punched and for a split second the fucking old hula guy™ was there (????)

 

Ascheroth

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Now why would anyone want to do that?

That would mean watching a show that nintendoman58 has been desperately recommending since April 2016 and has been going on and on about what an overlooked masterpiece it is!

:(
Maybe you need more buzzwords or big names that people can jump on, since they clearly don't care about being told that it is an extremely well-paced story, with fun characters and great character development, awesome action, great music, cool twists and a clear theme throughout the entire thing with a satisfying ending.

Maybe saying that the character designs are from Yuusuke Murata of One Punch Man fame who also did some animation in Majin Bone does something.
Or that the director also directed the first 278 One Piece episodes (middle of Enies Lobby), aka when the One Piece was great.
Or that the CG and action animation is done by Dimps, who made the Dragonball Xenoverse games for example.

I dunno, maybe that helps a little.
 

Suplexer

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I still have found nothing to watch in almost two years aside from MHA... Such a shame. I have watched more television in recent years than ever before but also less anime than I ever have in the same time frame.

Everything has too much inappropriate fan-service or I have zero interest in it.

If anyone wants a reason to gush over there favorite show of the last few years and pitch it to me, feel free.

Hero is great though.
 

LotusHD

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I still have found nothing to watch in almost two years aside from MHA... Such a shame. I have watched more television in recent years than ever before but also less anime than I ever have in the same time frame.

Everything has too much inappropriate fan-service or I have zero interest in it.

If anyone wants a reason to gush over there favorite show of the last few years and pitch it to me, feel free.

Hero is great though.

Try that Mob Psycho 100 show.
 

Ascheroth

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I still have found nothing to watch in almost two years aside from MHA... Such a shame. I have watched more television in recent years than ever before but also less anime than I ever have in the same time frame.

Everything has too much inappropriate fan-service or I have zero interest in it.

If anyone wants a reason to gush over there favorite show of the last few years and pitch it to me, feel free.

Hero is great though.
Majin Bone.
Pitch is a few posts above. Thank me later.
 
Mahoujin Guru Guru - 04

Weekly update that the face game is still on point. A bit too many poop and fart jokes in one session for me though. For some reason this is the first time I noticed the ED is by Bonjour Suzuki.
I like how it has already changed the setting. Koyama voicing the Dick dude sounded too much like he did with Tora, to the point to where I'd like to imagine Tora is haunting this universe.

I'm glad by the amount of weird stuff they put into the quick framed actions that are easy to miss unless you pause frame by frame. Like when the lady breaks the fourth wall to knock down her name sign to reveal a detailed crazy face, or the spirit getting punched and for a split second the fucking old hula guy™ was there (????)

Man they are cruising fucking fast through the content, this is about 14/15 episodes into the original version of the show which to be fair was a slow paced adaption. It seems that my guess that they are going to attempt to cover 8 volumes this season (half way through the manga) is going to be on point.
 

e_i

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Food Wars dub episode 1


Ummm, better turn down the volume on this one. Also,
I forgot that eating peanut butter covered squid was the same as being raped.
 
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