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Summer Anime 2017 |OT| More streaming services than shows to watch
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NaDannMaGoGo
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YuYu Hakusho - 10
There are quite a lot of parallels to HxH's hunter exam, what with the run through the forest and whimsical strength tests, as well as Nen/spiritual energy.
There are quite a lot of parallels to HxH's hunter exam, what with the run through the forest and whimsical strength tests, as well as Nen/spiritual energy.
Turin Turambar
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Ghost in the Shell with that white person as the Major
Ugh. The harsher critics were right. This is pretty bad.
Bad dialogue, bad totally unimaginative by-the-numbers Hollywood plot, underwhelming acting, forgettable direction, faithful in the wrong places (why copy scenes from the Oshii film if you are going to do it worse, why maintain the anime haircuts on Batou and Aramaki, why maintain the biggest cast of Section 9 if they can barely appear).
It has one single good scene (the black prostitute).
Manga, anime film and tv series are markedly superior, even if the three are different between themselves.
Ugh. The harsher critics were right. This is pretty bad.
Bad dialogue, bad totally unimaginative by-the-numbers Hollywood plot, underwhelming acting, forgettable direction, faithful in the wrong places (why copy scenes from the Oshii film if you are going to do it worse, why maintain the anime haircuts on Batou and Aramaki, why maintain the biggest cast of Section 9 if they can barely appear).
It has one single good scene (the black prostitute).
Manga, anime film and tv series are markedly superior, even if the three are different between themselves.
Turin Turambar
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Made in Abyss - Ep. 1
Perhaps the surprise of the season?
I overcame my reticence to the chibi designs and the first episode looks very good. Superb backgrounds, music, good monster design, interesting concept, and of course a well portrayed sense of mystery and adventure, which I think it's what attracts people.
Of course this was only the first episode, it isn't that hard to convey a sense of mystery at the beginning as other mystery stories show, of intrigue, adventure and dangers that lie ahead, the hard part is to no fall flat on their faces when they have to deepen and eventually solve the mystery. Let's see what happens here.
Perhaps the surprise of the season?
I overcame my reticence to the chibi designs and the first episode looks very good. Superb backgrounds, music, good monster design, interesting concept, and of course a well portrayed sense of mystery and adventure, which I think it's what attracts people.
Of course this was only the first episode, it isn't that hard to convey a sense of mystery at the beginning as other mystery stories show, of intrigue, adventure and dangers that lie ahead, the hard part is to no fall flat on their faces when they have to deepen and eventually solve the mystery. Let's see what happens here.
Because some people really need to convince themself they aren't out of touch, but that anime sucks nowadays.
Turin Turambar
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In my time, we had quality shows like Naruto, One Piece and Bleach. Now it's all moe!
I'll admit its weird to me. And I don't think its simply people having got into anime then and its different now, which is what you see with say music.
Of course I only really got into anime in the last 5 years, and as an adult.
MikeHattsu
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How many years till 'anime in the 00s was the best' threads?
6 months
MikeHattsu
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*looks at his MAL data*
Time to make a thread then!
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My Hero Academia Season 2, Episode 14:
SO we begin what I have been tld is the arc that has truly made MHA into the new shonen powerhouse, which is some high expectations. At any rate, this episode is honestly packing a lot of information and detail into its world building and Deku is finally getting a proper training arc to boot.
SO we begin what I have been tld is the arc that has truly made MHA into the new shonen powerhouse, which is some high expectations. At any rate, this episode is honestly packing a lot of information and detail into its world building and Deku is finally getting a proper training arc to boot.
Turin Turambar
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*looks at his MAL data*
What happened at the end of the 90s?
MikeHattsu
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Quasar hasn't watched a show from that 1 year.
Anime was cancelled because of the Porygon Pokémon episode.
Seems to indicate 1999 and yeah...
Rurouni Kenshin: Tsuiokuhen
GTO
LoGH - Spiral Labyrinth
Crest of the Stars
Now and Then, Here and There
Digimon Adventure
Infinite Ryvius
Turn A Gundam
Adolescence of Utena
The Big 0
Terrible year
Come on Quasar!
i like this arc but i think you're setting yourself up for disappointment
SliceSabre
Banned
Made in Abyss 01
Absolutely loved this show. Glad I ignored well, the majority of people I heard talking about it. Was honestly surprised this show wasn't entirely silly, loved the atmosphere as well. This is going to be one of those I look forward to every friday.
Absolutely loved this show. Glad I ignored well, the majority of people I heard talking about it. Was honestly surprised this show wasn't entirely silly, loved the atmosphere as well. This is going to be one of those I look forward to every friday.
Yeah, I'm not sure who told you that but I'd temper my expectations.
Made In Abyss 1
Well, we have a candidate for AOTS.
Other than a few visuals I had absolutely no knowledge about it and I'm really surprised with it. It looked stunning at times, I liked the vocals on the music and the atmosphere was just like out of a JRPG. I think I like the designs a lot too. I wonder how serious the show will turn out to be, if what people mentioned here is true.
Well, we have a candidate for AOTS.
Other than a few visuals I had absolutely no knowledge about it and I'm really surprised with it. It looked stunning at times, I liked the vocals on the music and the atmosphere was just like out of a JRPG. I think I like the designs a lot too. I wonder how serious the show will turn out to be, if what people mentioned here is true.
80's are the best, anime went to shit past that!
Fresh Pretty Cure - Ep.13
Cure Pine Episode! She is cute and love animals. What's not to like?
Her develpmeont in this episode was very good.
She wants to become a veterinarian, which makes perfect sense for her character, but has to learn that it's a lot harder than it looks.
Soular's idea to fight the precure with an immortal monster was pretty good, too bad that it's weak to magic.
All the 80's stuff I watched are Legend of the Galactic Heroes related.
The past few years I'm watching and rating most of the new stuff, so 5.5 is just perfect.
The past few years I'm watching and rating most of the new stuff, so 5.5 is just perfect.
Fresh Pretty Cure - Ep.13
Cure Pine Episode! She is cute and love animals. What's not to like?
Her develpmeont in this episode was very good.
She wants to become a veterinarian, which makes perfect sense for her character, but has to learn that it's a lot harder than it looks.
Soular's idea to fight the precure with an immortal monster was pretty good, too bad that it's weak to magic.
I am not expecting it honestly. Though this does highlight a big problem I do have with the MHA fandom as they tend to make hyperbolic statements about the property on a regular basis.
Theonik
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In 1991, Japan as a whole went into complete economic meltdown whose damage is still present today.
I will note I never said it was a bad show.
just that since it has a chibi style it must be burned to death for its crimes against my eyes
MHA overall is very good. You can temper your expectations but I'd hardly call many parts of the overall series garbage.
Valdfellgar
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80s and 90s is indeed my favorite visual period for anime. At least, the stuff I feel looks the best came out of there. I'd never say it was definitively better though. There's still a lot of stuff after that and before that that's really great. I think some people just get latched onto one particular style that dominated a certain period in time and when that style is no longer dominating they lose interest.
It's definitely a good arc, one of the better ones as I recall feeling when I read the manga. I don't think MHA has had its truly, 'holy cow!" level arc in my eyes though.
The development of the series has been fine I just tire of being told everything in MHA it is the best thing ever.
Valdfellgar
Banned
I think that's a problem with every shonen fandom, heck One Piece fans were always adamant that One Piece was the single greatest Shonen ever when I'd interact with various communities. I do agree though it feels like with MHA that "hey! hey! this shonen is the best yet!" seems a tad stronger.
to be fair I only think golden was telling everyone it was the best thing ever.
the rest of us I think were mostly saying it's a good series.
I mean it still has like 500 episodes to go before it can even get in the running for the best shonen ever as while I think MHA has a much better start to the series than one piece.... keeping it from "Bleaching" itself will be a completely other story.
that is because one piece is the single greatest long running shonen
there are others I would consider better than one piece, but none that have run for 150 or more episodes.
yeah screw you gintama maybe if your first 20 episodes didn't suck so much I would keep interest and find out why people love you, but no I still can't get motivated. please crunchy start dubbing from the start already @_@
My Hero Academia S2 Episode 14
I dislike how the OP gets worse with each new one. The ED is great though. That was an okay episode and ended pretty much around where I expected. Can't wait to see Deku actually fully controlling his power.
I still think it's the best arc so far in the series so hopefully other people like it. Like any comic book hero, it's nothing without it's villains and Stain is a good one.
I dislike how the OP gets worse with each new one. The ED is great though. That was an okay episode and ended pretty much around where I expected. Can't wait to see Deku actually fully controlling his power.
I still think it's the best arc so far in the series so hopefully other people like it. Like any comic book hero, it's nothing without it's villains and Stain is a good one.
It is also battle shonen series often have that arc that defines them in terms of quality, Dark Tournament Arc, Kyoto Arc, Freeza Saga, Soul Society Arc, Chunnin Exams and so on and so forth.
Valdfellgar
Banned
that is because one piece is the single greatest long running shonen
there are others I would consider better than one piece, but none that have run for 150 or more episodes.
Well, this was before that was true and One Piece was still much younger.
hehe I like that all but one are in the first 50 episodes of a series while the freeza arc is arguably episode 150 or so (I forget how many eps were in dragon ball)
fair enough, back when one piece was around 150 episodes I think I liked naruto better. maybe even bleach.
one piece is clearly the long plan show that keeps its quality pretty consistent (female models aside) the only other series that is also pretty consistent is detective conan but that one cheats by rarely doing big story stuff and instead focuses on cases... of which you can likely get enough ideas to do merely by watching american tv shows and making the cases japanese instead of american anymore lol.
I think the problem with MHA is that it really is a standard shounen at the end of the day... And people certainly are overselling it. I don't think it's bad, it's fun and it has several great moments already, but it really doesn't deviate that much from what I consider standard, other than the fact it has superheroes instead of ninjas or whatever else. People who sing praises about it already love shounen stuff from my experience, it doesn't add anything new or noteworthy.
Valdfellgar
Banned
Not that I think it needs that stand out arc, as I think MHA has an almost uniform level of quality, but I don't believe it's had that yet. I can't yet think of an arc that's made me go "Yes, this is absolutely insanely good."
I was the same. I preferred Bleach and Naruto by far, then again I was only... 14? I think, 14 or 15 when I'd started all three with the US Shonen Jump launch. Going back I definitely think One Piece is the stronger of the three by quite a mile and I'd agree it's playing a long game where as Naruto and Bleach worked far more on an instant gratification level with less thought put into the long term.
Valdfellgar
Banned
I'd agree. So I have your back!
Until they get me.
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