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Toonami |NovDec15| It's Man God's world, we're just posting in it
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StarSketch
Banned
Oh, I read that article. I think the point was that both were about societies with hyper stringent monitoring on the populace's thoughts/actions, but that's where the similarity ends. One's played for humor, the other isn't.
Hellwarden
Member
MetroidPrimeRib
Banned
"hey i just realized that these two series share a thematic element that is extremely common Im gonna write an article about it"
"ok is there anything else to link them together"
"Uhhhhhhhhhhhh"
And then he wrote it anyway
"ok is there anything else to link them together"
"Uhhhhhhhhhhhh"
And then he wrote it anyway
Hellwarden
Member
The people who think SAO isn't a intelligent series just can't appreciate all the deep themes it keeps just under the surface.
Yet another shot I could write an extensive paper on. I could go into so many different topics.
....Can I write for ANN?
Yet another shot I could write an extensive paper on. I could go into so many different topics.
....Can I write for ANN?
StarSketch
Banned
Not sure if this is a 'plot' joke...
Hellwarden
Member
Goddammit, I forgot about that.
That entire episode where the camera just slides along Sinon's body while they're discussing how to survive...
I'm just going to systematically take this review apart here, if no one minds. Reviewing the review or some such.
Here is the original review to read alongside of this. http://kotaku.com/sword-art-online-...ZSnKcw.5&utm_referrer=https://www.google.com/
Here, the reviewer talks about how the fact that the show creates timeskips is good. However, your average person hated this, as the pacing was suddenly trash and this wasn't for the best. He managed to take a thing we all hate and say it was a good part of the show. He says this lets you look at the psychological implications of being in a VRMMO, but I would argue no more than as if you had been in one for two days, as the first Log Horizon light novel so clearly shows. People don't PK because they've been there two years. Next, he says it makes them wonder if the real world even exists, which I think he made up for dramatic effect. Lastly, he ends this point with an incomplete thought, I think it was either a question he ended with a period or half a thought, I am unsure.
Next up, we have
Which has a great quote
"So do you, as a hardcore gamer, draft the whole lot and make them fight? Do you just leave them—including the children—to fend for themselves?"
It continues on. However, we have no agency in the show. It's a TV show. We are not Kirito, nor is it interactive. We do not watch the newest action thriller and pause it in the middle and look at the audience and ask them what they want to do - that would make no sense, as does this statement. It even says all these questions are addressed and more! There is so much wrong with this....no...these things are not addressed. They aren't even pivotal parts of the story, and as such, aren't worth mentioning in any review.
Oh boy
The author says that because people don't have much knowledge of the world around them, the world is perfect for genre crossing adventures, such as mysteries, love stories, criminal suspense, etc.
However, the fact they don't know much of the world around them doesn't really cause that, that would have happened anyways. He also continues to spin the fact the story keeps jumping all over the place as a good thing- which it clearly isn't.
Predictable? Sure. Tragic? Eh, at...times? The show isn't actually that crazy on the tragic deaths, Kirito's entire harem lives. In the case of the first 12 episodes, on the basis of how many lived, it was no tragedy.
Overall, I would rate this as a very poor and illogical review, and if I had to give it a rating
Rakkety Tam
Neo Member
I will admit that one of the messages I got from Black Lagoon, other than "Guns are cool", "Child pornography is terrible", and "Bacardi makes you cool" is "Smoking is cool". So I guess these anti-smoking ads are in the right place?
I think it's a backstory joke.
Imperial Bishop
Banned
Hellwarden
Member
I want Tom to get an evil Rival.
Like a Vergil.
Like a Vergil.
Smoking is cool is a time tested theme of TOONAMI:
Cowboy Bebop especially has some dope ass looking smoking.
Sanji is a dork most of the time but even he makes smoking look cool. Because smoking almost always looks cool. That's the most insidious part about it.
I wanted to forget about that.
Indeed. Kirito The Noble Beater, Our Lord and Savior has Divination via booty analyzing.
sure sure
Hellwarden
Member
SAO doesn't even do booty fanservice well.
The Yamato series knows how to deliver.
The Yamato series knows how to deliver.
I actually tactically maneuvered the conversation, just to post this gif.
I felt the thread need some quality lewdness.
I felt the thread need some quality lewdness.
Hellwarden
Member
It's so, so disappointing that no one has licensed it.
It deserves to be on Toonami so much, it's not even funny.
CrazyDiamond
Member
Yamato is not a show for toonami though, if I remember the pacing at all, Toonami would be asleep.
I'm dead serious though, fat asses>>>>>>>>>
Bring back Moltar
Steve, he will run the non adult swim anime toonami block that will now air before toonami. they will duel for air time.
We all win.
I was licensed by Voyager Entertainment. They just decided not to dub it. And release the series across six discs in 2014/2015. And the release is on indefinite hiatus after releasing only 4 discs.
So............yeah.........
BassForever
Member
As Xseed would say "if its not worth dubbing its probably not worth releasing"
& yet Funimation dubbed *insert show here known for being lesser quality*
........also isn't there a few Xseed games they didn't provide a dub for?
switch to a SAO one
Stick with DBZ.
SAO is dead though RIP
Oh, right, when I went to work today, I discovered there was a poster for Ghost in the Shell: The New Movie being displayed! I wonder if my complaint of "nobody freakin' knew about Attack on Titan because there was nothing telling me in the theater itself they were showing it, even on the screen showing the movies & times" was heard. Trying to remember if I told my friend who also works there, the general manager who I get along with, or both.
Either way, I'm kind of glad they put it up. Considering we're a college town, I'm hoping movies like GitS or DBZ (assuming we actually get the next one) will do alright, mainly by word of mouth considering someone might see it, go "OH HEY, I remember watching that when I was younger!" & then telling their friends.
I'll have to ask what they plan on doing with the poster once the film finishes its run. Maybe they'll let me keep it or buy it.
Either way, I'm kind of glad they put it up. Considering we're a college town, I'm hoping movies like GitS or DBZ (assuming we actually get the next one) will do alright, mainly by word of mouth considering someone might see it, go "OH HEY, I remember watching that when I was younger!" & then telling their friends.
I'll have to ask what they plan on doing with the poster once the film finishes its run. Maybe they'll let me keep it or buy it.
BassForever
Member
The Mamoru Oshii movie? That one was pretty awesome :x
CrazyDiamond
Member
It was ridiculously exposition heavy.
Senran Kagura. All 4 they brought over & the 5th they're currently localizing.Ones that didn't have voice work in the Japanese game
......& Funimation actually decided to dub the anime of it for some reason.
Also, what about Corpse Party?
Rakkety Tam
Neo Member
SAO doesn't even do booty fanservice well.
The Yamato series knows how to deliver.
The guy's eyes in this gif are just fantastic. And yeah, every so often I remember that Funimation actually gets a lot of the more "lewd" shows that are around, and since they're Funimation, dubs a decent amount of them. Not really my thing, but they do lots of good work as well. Too bad their store is so terrible though. I want to buy things from them but it's such a headache to navigate that interface.
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