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Summer Anime 2017 |OT| More streaming services than shows to watch
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PdotMichael
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They sure skipped a lot of stuff today.
But they still pulled out some good jokes and visuals.
But they still pulled out some good jokes and visuals.
Crimson_Echidna
Banned
Missed this the first time I watched the episode, but I like how in Aho-Girl people are treating A-Kun's nickname like it's actually his first name:
AquaWateria
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One Punch Man
Kekkai sensen
Barakamon
Mob Psycho
Code Breaker
I mean there are plenty of shows without fanservice.
Admiral Woofington
Member
Magic Circle Guru Guru 4
Definitely feels like they're skipping around a lot of material, which probably means they're aiming to adapt the full show into the 20+ episodes I guess considering the confirnation above by Pdot.
Regardless, I don't FEEL like I'm missing something particularly important quite yet and the comedy as a whole is so fast paced that the skipping/fastforwarding through material doesn't feel particularly unnatural. I might have to check out the OG after this modern one ends to compare.
Definitely feels like they're skipping around a lot of material, which probably means they're aiming to adapt the full show into the 20+ episodes I guess considering the confirnation above by Pdot.
Regardless, I don't FEEL like I'm missing something particularly important quite yet and the comedy as a whole is so fast paced that the skipping/fastforwarding through material doesn't feel particularly unnatural. I might have to check out the OG after this modern one ends to compare.
Cornbread78
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Barakamon
Angel Beats
Steins;Gate (lil older)
91 Days
3-gatsu no lion
Yona of the Dawn
Poco's Udon World
Sweetness & Lightning
SNAFU
Death Parade
Silver Spoon (lil older)
Monthly Girls, Nozaki-kun
Handa-kun
Eccentric Family
New Game
Kiznaiver
Log Horizon
A Lull in the Sea
Ore Monogatari
Orange
Plastic Memories
Re;Zero
Rokka
Your Lie in April
Twin Star Exorcists
Dedication Through Light
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I hope your TV watching included Quantico, Zoo, and Limitless.
Guilty Crown 8-12
This felt like a conclusive climax; yet, this is only half way through the show. I can honestly not fathom what's to come besides Shu donning Gai's coat. But if I recall correctly, there is still one Void Genome unaccounted for. I'm impressed that the story is committing to all these deaths. However, I can't ignore the possibility that a Void that resurrects the dead or turns back time is yet to come.
Setting aside the mysteriousUmbrella GHQ, how did Mana's unstable mental condition go by unchecked? Why wasn't she being treated for her infection? Finally, the implication derived from the fact that
is that this is a convoluted, roundabout way of featuring immoral relations between siblings. This show is trying to say something about human nature, but I can't hear it over these distasteful twists and revelations.
The show continues to revel in the ugly side of human nature. I can't tell what's worseShu's impotence or his amnesia. The bait and switch confession was fun. What the show is trying to do with the character Daryl is confusing. Yahiro's place in the story is also confusing.
A rock plays a 4 note lullaby and the people of the city crystallize as the result. After calling Inori a monster, Shu seeks comfort in Hare; however, she reject him for his own sake. How much more self-serving can this show become? Pay no attention to the priest prowling about at night. Daryl slaughtered everyone in the control tower because no one showed up to his birthday party. Shu's explanation for helping the terrorists is that "They believe in me." And that's convincing enough to race to the epicenter of a biological hazard. Confirming that Inori can sing more skillfully than an rock, Shu and company are finally set into motion. Because minors can't drive, the little robot, Fyu-Neru, will instead. The understanding between Shu and Yahiro makes no sense.
All this catastrophe just sothe priest Keido could copulate with Inori/Mana? I'm getting Elfen Lied flashbacks here. And of course Mana was nuts and perverted. They actually staged a marriage ceremony. Shu triggered Lost Christmas by calling his sister a monster, so he should have learned by now not to do that. Gai and Shu get to hold hands again, but why can't I hold all these betrayals? Somehow the moment that Shu and Gai finally parted was actually tender. And he gets to keep Gai's coat. It must be valuable since it's Cancer crystal-proof. Penetrated from behind by Shu, Gai died as he lived: without explanation. Is he really gone? Without explaining why he alone could see Voids?
All this catastrophe just so
This felt like a conclusive climax; yet, this is only half way through the show. I can honestly not fathom what's to come besides Shu donning Gai's coat. But if I recall correctly, there is still one Void Genome unaccounted for. I'm impressed that the story is committing to all these deaths. However, I can't ignore the possibility that a Void that resurrects the dead or turns back time is yet to come.
Setting aside the mysterious
Inori is Mana's clone
Dedication Through Light
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7O3X Episode 5
Gettysburg in anime, never imagine the day would come, also obligatory bible question in quiz shows continues even here in anime. I wonder if we will get some hardcore science questions eventually.
Mikuriya was hilarious but I wish he did participate.
Gettysburg in anime, never imagine the day would come, also obligatory bible question in quiz shows continues even here in anime. I wonder if we will get some hardcore science questions eventually.
Mikuriya was hilarious but I wish he did participate.
funimation just announced a new roku app.
Roku Refreshed
We listened to our fans, and we revamped the FunimationNow Roku app to greatly improve your viewing experience! Our completely redesigned (and free!) app has a ton to offer, including:
oddly enough they ask me to restart my free trial but I have a yearly sub *shrugs*
hopefully the video glitch is gone.
Roku Refreshed
We listened to our fans, and we revamped the FunimationNow Roku app to greatly improve your viewing experience! Our completely redesigned (and free!) app has a ton to offer, including:
oddly enough they ask me to restart my free trial but I have a yearly sub *shrugs*
hopefully the video glitch is gone.
AquaWateria
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So I finished watching Alderamin in the Sky and it was some good shit. The depiction of war was great and the battle of wits between the two commanders was great. Itka is such a great protagonist. I honestly love protagonists that are talented in terms of intelligent. Plus he likes
lol.
But fuck there's no season 2
..... Sometimes I really do regret watching unfinished anime adaptations. It was so enjoyable yet I can't see anymore.
milfs
But fuck there's no season 2
..... Sometimes I really do regret watching unfinished anime adaptations. It was so enjoyable yet I can't see anymore.Crimson_Echidna
Banned
I see that's from the big overhual they did back in June. For the most part it's been a massive improvement. The weird screen pixelation thing does still occur, but it's rare now. There's also been occassions where the app will randomly sign you out, and you have to log back in.
My biggest complaint though would probably be the subtitles. You can customize them now, but due to the way the Roku is designed, you're required to use the Roku's closed captions and the text is too "thin" IMHO.
Crunchyroll would be next I expect.
nintendoman58
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Why would Crunchyroll be next?
Cornbread78
Member
I think Hasanna has posted several times stating that there is an ownership link/chain with AT&T there, so it's highly unlikely..
PshycoNinja
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Cornbread78
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Admiral Woofington
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mother of god.
This Smartphone Isekai show. This is amazing. There's no way in hell this shit isn't self aware. Come the fuck on. The guy could literally take a diarrhea dump on the ground and it would turn into a new spell that creates universe and summons Jesus himself.
Absolutely NOTHING he has done has been a challenge. He walked into the universe and everything he does he's immediately the best at, he can do everything and he makes all women in a 20 mile radius fucking moist.
Please. Nothing is this bad. This has gone past morbid curiosity to morbid fucking addiction. I need to see how far this fucking rabbit hole goes.
If Onii-sama is God, then Smartphone-kun might be Jesus.
This Smartphone Isekai show. This is amazing. There's no way in hell this shit isn't self aware. Come the fuck on. The guy could literally take a diarrhea dump on the ground and it would turn into a new spell that creates universe and summons Jesus himself.
Absolutely NOTHING he has done has been a challenge. He walked into the universe and everything he does he's immediately the best at, he can do everything and he makes all women in a 20 mile radius fucking moist.
Please. Nothing is this bad. This has gone past morbid curiosity to morbid fucking addiction. I need to see how far this fucking rabbit hole goes.
If Onii-sama is God, then Smartphone-kun might be Jesus.
PshycoNinja
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Cornbread78
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Admiral Woofington
Member
This makes Sword Art Online look like Malcolm X.
I appreciate your new avatar, the old one always gave me nightmares.
Onii-sama already outstu'd him by a long shot, anyway. If anything, at least Kazuto gets to rise through the ranks of any world he's in through ridiculous plot contrivances and divining by staring at girls' asses, while the first two episodes I saw of Mahouka were more like onii-sama was always ahead of everyone and everything, only he was too lazy to admit it.
I just can't find characters that don't even try to be fun, so Sakamoto bored me in under an episode.
Meanwhile, I at least enjoyed the games part of NGNL mostly because the Stu/Sue duo were entertaining enough while going about winning (but alas, fanservice), and I guess I'd nominate Light Yagami for a fun Stu, even though he probably doesn't count because he ultimately ends up failing.
PshycoNinja
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AquaWateria
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Bug eyes are truly something.......
Hellwarden
Member
These two suck.
Give me my student council president.
I like how he doesn't give a fuck.
Crimson_Echidna
Banned
These two suck.
Give me my student council president.
I like how he doesn't give a fuck.
How can you hate this reaction face though?
Admiral Woofington
Member
Red Ash Magicada
I'm the guy who bought a Nintendo 3DS solely on the promise/announcement of Megaman Legends 3 being developed for it. I wanted other games though, but this was going to be the ringer for the device for myself. Every update of the game being made was amazing, I was essentially foaming from the mouth at one point. Then Capcom gonna Capcom and cancelled it, blamed the event on the fans, then wiped their ass with the prototype and threw it all in the trash. In comes Red Ash, a game being made by Comcept (a studio that has enough people who worked on Megaman Legends) and before I knew it I had already pledged. Yes, I know about MN9 and how much of a disappointment it was alongside its extremely rocky development, but I was looking at it through the eyes of a fanboy and a fanboy alone. It didn't help they released an extremely rough alpha concept demo that turned off plenty of people from supporting the game, but somehow it got close enough to its goal to where (if I recall correctly it's been a while) a third party kicked in and funded the title.
Alongside Red Ash the video game, came Red Ash the short film kickstarter by Studio 4C. I was hyped enough to support this as well, particularly because as a whole I've really liked previous works by Studio 4C (will defend Golden Age Arc films till the day I die). The idea seemed solid enough, a short film (loosely?) based off the property being made by Comcept. I didn't expect this to be the one of the two with the most updates, yet here we are with my digital copy of the short film while I can't recall the last update from the video game (big surprise lmao).
First thing is first let's get one thing out of the way. The decision to turn Call from a leading black lady to a white blonde lady feels wrong. I would like to think the decision was made because they wanted to closely resemble the cast of the original title. See
Megaman Legends characters (Rock, Roll, Teisell)
and then the cast of Red Ash Magicicada (in their anime form, game characters look slightly different)
I'm hoping they were only trying to replicate Roll more closely and it wasn't just somebody deciding that a white blonde lead is a better choice. But I'd be lying to myself if I thought it wasn't the latter by a higher up in the company. And right as this issue is floating in my head, here comes the film with a concept of the 'Pure Race' which is like a bit tone deaf seeing this decision (I can't see this being malicious though).
My complaints on this choice out of the way, this was thoroughly enjoyable. As far as animation goes, it feels a bit more impressive than Studio 4C's other recent work I watched (Berserk films). I don't know if I didn't pay enough attention or ignored it, but the movement didn't seem as choppy as the Berserk films in its attempt to emulate regular animation. Maybe I was looking at it from a perspective of it emulation MML, but it looked spot on if the games were made in modern times.
The palette choice/art style was superb, the colors made it look like a painting of sorts. Maybe not water paints, but oil painting? Regardless, I loved it.
The plot wasn't anything to write home about, it felt as they probably meant it to feel: a portion of a bigger story/ a pilot. The show is about a group of people who are bounty hunters of sorts who aim to make it rich for their own goals. It felt like a condensed Cowboy Bebop episode alongside some sprinkles of Mad Max. The episode ends with a blatant 'to be continued' so I can only assume they hope to pitch this to studios to see if anybody funds enough for a tv show or feature film to be made from it. I wouldn't mind it, but then again I'm going to (hopefully) eventually get the game so if this just ends up as a short film I wouldn't cry too much about it, but it'd be a shame to not see more.
There were a bit of changes from the initial pitch to the final product. Particularly in characters. Designs changed a bit for the anime original characters, and one of them straight up just didn't appear which seems like they couldn't even find him a proper role. This isn't a big deal, but the decision to take away Beck's gun and opt to give him a weird super power is strange. I do not recall anywhere on the game's campaign that described this, am I not remembering correctly? I can only assume they opted to make it different enough where one won't overlap interest with the other, but at that point why not just create an original idea?
I think the short is worth a watch if you haven't already done so. It's 20ish minutes. I'd likely give it a 7/10, but I want to see more and enjoyed my time with it, so that's something I guess lol.
I'm the guy who bought a Nintendo 3DS solely on the promise/announcement of Megaman Legends 3 being developed for it. I wanted other games though, but this was going to be the ringer for the device for myself. Every update of the game being made was amazing, I was essentially foaming from the mouth at one point. Then Capcom gonna Capcom and cancelled it, blamed the event on the fans, then wiped their ass with the prototype and threw it all in the trash. In comes Red Ash, a game being made by Comcept (a studio that has enough people who worked on Megaman Legends) and before I knew it I had already pledged. Yes, I know about MN9 and how much of a disappointment it was alongside its extremely rocky development, but I was looking at it through the eyes of a fanboy and a fanboy alone. It didn't help they released an extremely rough alpha concept demo that turned off plenty of people from supporting the game, but somehow it got close enough to its goal to where (if I recall correctly it's been a while) a third party kicked in and funded the title.
Alongside Red Ash the video game, came Red Ash the short film kickstarter by Studio 4C. I was hyped enough to support this as well, particularly because as a whole I've really liked previous works by Studio 4C (will defend Golden Age Arc films till the day I die). The idea seemed solid enough, a short film (loosely?) based off the property being made by Comcept. I didn't expect this to be the one of the two with the most updates, yet here we are with my digital copy of the short film while I can't recall the last update from the video game (big surprise lmao).
First thing is first let's get one thing out of the way. The decision to turn Call from a leading black lady to a white blonde lady feels wrong. I would like to think the decision was made because they wanted to closely resemble the cast of the original title. See
Megaman Legends characters (Rock, Roll, Teisell)
and then the cast of Red Ash Magicicada (in their anime form, game characters look slightly different)
I'm hoping they were only trying to replicate Roll more closely and it wasn't just somebody deciding that a white blonde lead is a better choice. But I'd be lying to myself if I thought it wasn't the latter by a higher up in the company. And right as this issue is floating in my head, here comes the film with a concept of the 'Pure Race' which is like a bit tone deaf seeing this decision (I can't see this being malicious though).
My complaints on this choice out of the way, this was thoroughly enjoyable. As far as animation goes, it feels a bit more impressive than Studio 4C's other recent work I watched (Berserk films). I don't know if I didn't pay enough attention or ignored it, but the movement didn't seem as choppy as the Berserk films in its attempt to emulate regular animation. Maybe I was looking at it from a perspective of it emulation MML, but it looked spot on if the games were made in modern times.
The palette choice/art style was superb, the colors made it look like a painting of sorts. Maybe not water paints, but oil painting? Regardless, I loved it.
The plot wasn't anything to write home about, it felt as they probably meant it to feel: a portion of a bigger story/ a pilot. The show is about a group of people who are bounty hunters of sorts who aim to make it rich for their own goals. It felt like a condensed Cowboy Bebop episode alongside some sprinkles of Mad Max. The episode ends with a blatant 'to be continued' so I can only assume they hope to pitch this to studios to see if anybody funds enough for a tv show or feature film to be made from it. I wouldn't mind it, but then again I'm going to (hopefully) eventually get the game so if this just ends up as a short film I wouldn't cry too much about it, but it'd be a shame to not see more.
There were a bit of changes from the initial pitch to the final product. Particularly in characters. Designs changed a bit for the anime original characters, and one of them straight up just didn't appear which seems like they couldn't even find him a proper role. This isn't a big deal, but the decision to take away Beck's gun and opt to give him a weird super power is strange. I do not recall anywhere on the game's campaign that described this, am I not remembering correctly? I can only assume they opted to make it different enough where one won't overlap interest with the other, but at that point why not just create an original idea?
I think the short is worth a watch if you haven't already done so. It's 20ish minutes. I'd likely give it a 7/10, but I want to see more and enjoyed my time with it, so that's something I guess lol.
How the hell haven't I heard anything about this since the kickstarter? I have seen no place report that this is out.
hosannainexcelsis
Member
It was part of the government-funded Anime Tamago 2017 project, which released back in March. It looks like the movie and rewards were just sent out to Kickstarter backers.
Admiral Woofington
Member
^ bingo. Took a bit since it released there I guess. A downside is that the subtitles were embedded onto the video so I can't turn them off and take different screenshots, it's very dialogue heavy.
KirbYuuYuu
Member
From one bad influence to another
Crimson_Echidna
Banned
Netflix just dropped trailers for Kakegurui and Fate/Apocrypha. Kakegurui won't officially be available on their service until sometime next year. Fate is getting the LWA treatment where it will be released in halfs, with the first half coming out in November for NA & Canada, and December for the rest of the world.
PdotMichael
Banned
In a few years we will all remember the golden age of anime streaming services, when pretty much all shows were simulcasted on one or two platforms.
Wait why is it (even more) delayed for the rest of the world? The fuck?
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