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Winter 2012 Anime Thread 2.22: You Can (Not) Outpost Cajunator
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School Days is simply the second best anime ever made after Infinite Stratos.
The second rule is we are always right.
fixed.
The second rule is we are always right.
I don't think it's particularly controversial to say, as the guest on the show did, that if Yuno had been a male character acting the same way toward a female character that she does in this show (abducting them, holding them against their will, requiring them to relieve themself in humiliating but "necessary" way, etc.) that viewers probably would've been outraged. She didn't say you were a bad person for watching and enjoying this show.
Neko Mimi Mode
Member
At least that can be easily solved. With the variety of members in here helping we could certainly recommend a pretty big spectrum of works of all types. You, PdotMichael, are included in that mission, of course!
moot, is that you?
You know, this could have been the case, but I was raging too hard to really pay attention to any of the dialogue after
the escape
DrForester
Kills Photobucket
If you guys are recommending anime to troll people, the only thing you should recommend is Melody of Oblivion, which is a glorious train wreck of failed ideas, bad planning, goofy fanservice, and an ending that just says "well, screw it".
Unknown Soldier
Member
Musings on Another 06:
Okay, I just realized that it's actually pretty much obvious why Mei was chosen to be the ignored person. Her cousin died on April 26th. She took her place at the beat-up corner desk on May 1st. During those few days, the class asked her to be the ignored person. Why?
Because her cousin died. Therefore, she could not be the Other, because one of her relatives died! She would therefore be the most obvious candidate for this unpleasant job, since they were certain she wasn't the Other. Furthermore she now knows the pain of losing a family member to the calamity and would be willing to sacrifice herself so that no one else in the class would have to endure such pain, or live in constant fear of death themselves.
The story about the class member 2 years ago who couldn't take the isolation anymore and declared he existed, restarting the calamity that year, is also instructive. The class had to be certain, and Mei had to be certain, that she could handle this burden for a whole year or risk disaster for everyone. In many ways Mei is the strongest of them all for willingly accepting this role. And she's unbelievably cute. <3
Because her cousin died. Therefore, she could not be the Other, because one of her relatives died! She would therefore be the most obvious candidate for this unpleasant job, since they were certain she wasn't the Other. Furthermore she now knows the pain of losing a family member to the calamity and would be willing to sacrifice herself so that no one else in the class would have to endure such pain, or live in constant fear of death themselves.
The story about the class member 2 years ago who couldn't take the isolation anymore and declared he existed, restarting the calamity that year, is also instructive. The class had to be certain, and Mei had to be certain, that she could handle this burden for a whole year or risk disaster for everyone. In many ways Mei is the strongest of them all for willingly accepting this role. And she's unbelievably cute. <3
Daily Lives of High School BROS 6
I do not play with the title of my impressions lightly. These guys are bros incarnate. And I wasn't expecting it, but there was even just a tad of melancholy hnnng at the end there. Poor Habara... Well, who knows, maybe some bro will come to her aid.
I do not play with the title of my impressions lightly. These guys are bros incarnate. And I wasn't expecting it, but there was even just a tad of melancholy hnnng at the end there. Poor Habara... Well, who knows, maybe some bro will come to her aid.
AppleSmack
Banned
Bakemonogatari Ep. 1
Very sweet style and presentation with beautiful visuals though the animations themselves aren't all that great. Story wise it seems alright. The writing is definitely top notch. Kinda confused at the female leads actions though. For some reason she thought
Very sweet style and presentation with beautiful visuals though the animations themselves aren't all that great. Story wise it seems alright. The writing is definitely top notch. Kinda confused at the female leads actions though. For some reason she thought
it was a smarter idea to threaten the main character with death to keep her secret before attempting to even ask nicely.
Single CD
*5, 14,060 14,060 Papa no Iukoto wo Kikinasai! "Happy Girl"
11, *9,599 *9,599 Ano Natsu de Matteru "sign"
12, *9,440 44,146 Nisemonogatari "Naisho no Hanashi"
13, *8,465 *8,465 Thermae Romae "Thermae Roman"
15, *6,345 *6,345 Senki Zesshou Symphogear "Meteor Light"
18, *5,090 *5,090 Highschool DxD "Study x Study"
20, *4,291 *4,291 Amagami SS+ plus "Kokuhaku"
27, *3,200 *3,200 Gintama' "Wonderland"
34, *2,381 *5,792 Amagami SS+ plus "Check my soul"
35, *2,325 10,096 Rinne no Lagrange "Try Unite!" "Hello!"
39, *2,146 19,717 Senki Zesshou Symphogear Character Song Series vol.1
46, *1,975 71,956 Senki Zesshou Symphogear "Synchrogazer"
50, *1,770 *1,770 Tantei Opera Milky Holmes Dai 2 Maku "Lovely Girls Anthem"
51, *1,757 *1,757 Mirai Nikki (TV) "filament"
52, *1,524 *1,524 True Tears "Prism Sign"
59, *1,325 12,016 Kill Me Baby "Kill me no Baby!" & "Futari no Kimochi no Honto no Himitsu"
66, *1,154 *5,018 Shakugan no Shana III (Final) "Serment"
67, *1,149 *1,149 Inazuma Eleven Go "Hajike-Yo!!"
72, *1,091 13,930 Papa no Iukoto wo Kikinasai! "Coloring"
76, *,976 *1,753 Berserk Ougon Jidaihen I: Haou no Tamago "Aria"
Album CD
*8, 13,921 13,921 Tiger & Bunny Character Song Album "Best of Hero"
27, *3,382 *3,382 Toradora! Best Album "√Happy End"
41, *2,081 43,738 Hatsune Miku Vocalodream
46, *1,910 18,610 Inazuma Eleven Go Character Song Original Album
47, *1,894 16,216 The iDOLM@STER Animation Master vol.7
*5, 14,060 14,060 Papa no Iukoto wo Kikinasai! "Happy Girl"
11, *9,599 *9,599 Ano Natsu de Matteru "sign"
12, *9,440 44,146 Nisemonogatari "Naisho no Hanashi"
13, *8,465 *8,465 Thermae Romae "Thermae Roman"
15, *6,345 *6,345 Senki Zesshou Symphogear "Meteor Light"
18, *5,090 *5,090 Highschool DxD "Study x Study"
20, *4,291 *4,291 Amagami SS+ plus "Kokuhaku"
27, *3,200 *3,200 Gintama' "Wonderland"
34, *2,381 *5,792 Amagami SS+ plus "Check my soul"
35, *2,325 10,096 Rinne no Lagrange "Try Unite!" "Hello!"
39, *2,146 19,717 Senki Zesshou Symphogear Character Song Series vol.1
46, *1,975 71,956 Senki Zesshou Symphogear "Synchrogazer"
50, *1,770 *1,770 Tantei Opera Milky Holmes Dai 2 Maku "Lovely Girls Anthem"
51, *1,757 *1,757 Mirai Nikki (TV) "filament"
52, *1,524 *1,524 True Tears "Prism Sign"
59, *1,325 12,016 Kill Me Baby "Kill me no Baby!" & "Futari no Kimochi no Honto no Himitsu"
66, *1,154 *5,018 Shakugan no Shana III (Final) "Serment"
67, *1,149 *1,149 Inazuma Eleven Go "Hajike-Yo!!"
72, *1,091 13,930 Papa no Iukoto wo Kikinasai! "Coloring"
76, *,976 *1,753 Berserk Ougon Jidaihen I: Haou no Tamago "Aria"
Album CD
*8, 13,921 13,921 Tiger & Bunny Character Song Album "Best of Hero"
27, *3,382 *3,382 Toradora! Best Album "√Happy End"
41, *2,081 43,738 Hatsune Miku Vocalodream
46, *1,910 18,610 Inazuma Eleven Go Character Song Original Album
47, *1,894 16,216 The iDOLM@STER Animation Master vol.7
I think it's fair. Honneamise takes place in a world where Sputnik (or whatever the Honneamise equivalent is) never ignited the space race, although the details are too sparse to make any calls about this.
(Also, cylindrical forms of money exists. Wiki turns up a page for Tally Sticks. it's not too farfetched.)
I hadn't considered it like that, it makes sense, even if it's probably not intended by the writers.
Yeah I tune them out as well, it's a just a reflex from listening to one too many animu inspirational speeches.
In other news, watching Planetes.
Those fucking endless fields, man. They run and run and run and they never get to the other side!
Nichibros - 06
Opening skit was weak but thankfully it rebounded well!
Saw it coming but it was still fucking hilarious. Poor Hidenori
bwahaha this was so damn stupid but I just couldn't stop laughing!
Highschool girls are funky wasn't at its usual level this time but goddamnit just listening to their voices induces laughter.
Opening skit was weak but thankfully it rebounded well!
Saw it coming but it was still fucking hilarious. Poor Hidenori
bwahaha this was so damn stupid but I just couldn't stop laughing!
Highschool girls are funky wasn't at its usual level this time but goddamnit just listening to their voices induces laughter.
I watched Milos again, and having seen it twice now I can pretty accurately pin point the exact moment in the film where it starts to completely fall apart.
Right after Ashley kills Atlas brutally, which was an awesome scene, he does this "I'm the badass final boss" pose while standing on the landing above the characters, and starts making this speech about using the Truth to create a new world. I felt that was the exact moment where the movie suddenly shifted from a relatively above average action movie with a strong political focus, into a totally generic shounen fight movie.
You have Ed and Ashley arguing over totally pointless philosophies while fighting, while the "world" the movie is set in faces certain destruction if Al and Julia fail to stop the lava, etc. All the stakes are suddenly raised to insane levels and all the plot developments in that short span of time basically have nothing to do with the other 90 minutes of the film before it. Yeaaaaaah.
You have Ed and Ashley arguing over totally pointless philosophies while fighting, while the "world" the movie is set in faces certain destruction if Al and Julia fail to stop the lava, etc. All the stakes are suddenly raised to insane levels and all the plot developments in that short span of time basically have nothing to do with the other 90 minutes of the film before it. Yeaaaaaah.
Is this news?
tl,dr:
Miyazaki's next film is due out in 2013
Goro is working on his film, a samurai period piece
Anno is collaborating with Ghibli on a museum exhibit that may or may not be a new movie
tl,dr:
Miyazaki's next film is due out in 2013
Goro is working on his film, a samurai period piece
Anno is collaborating with Ghibli on a museum exhibit that may or may not be a new movie
AnimeGAF convinced me to buy Glass Fleet. DVDs should be here today!
Needs more Takahata news. zzzz
Melody of Oblivion hurts because the ideas are sound but the execution is awful.
I don't think anyone on gaf saw it, but I heard it wasn't that good.
Hellsing321
Member
After being inadvertently being spoiled on the ending to Another. I'm interested to see how they handle it.
RurouniZel
Asks questions so Ezalc doesn't have to
Well, we know what Otaku are watching. For better or worse.
Hellsing321
Member
Usagi Drop am cry.
Just for you, way back from sales last August:
34, *2,780 *2,780 Usagi Drop "Sweet Drops"
But Eri Kitamura is probably more popular than Puffy anyway.
darkside31337
Tomodachi wa Mahou
Sailor Moon 46:
Yeah. Not feeling this last episode or the conclusion, at all. It looked great but thats really all I got out of this.
The final battle scenes was top-notch stuff.
But my real gripes come with the ending of the episode, with
, which is so tripe I couldn't help but laugh. And yeah its a Magical Girl anime all right with the
I get that it just straight runs into the next season but the entire episode honestly feels lackluster and insignificant which is odd given the events that transpire in the episode itself. It honestly felt like it was just going through the motions, I haven't been so underwhelmed with an Ikuhara episode since last summer.
The season in general I enjoyed but it's pretty flawed. The pacing in the season is completely horrendous especially towards the end. Some episodes are absolutely enjoyable but a lot of the filler is complete dreck. Some of the characters in themselves feel completely pointless, Sailor Venus / Minako is a complete afterthought. All the other girls get significant development and screen time during the series but poor Minako is literally just there. She doesn't even seem to have any significant relationships with any of the other girls at least thats how I take it from the show.
I'd give the first season 7.5 dumpling heads out of 10.
But most importantly,
Rei > Makoto > Ami > Minako > Usagi.
Yeah. Not feeling this last episode or the conclusion, at all. It looked great but thats really all I got out of this.
The final battle scenes was top-notch stuff.
Mamoru and Usagi slugging it out was nice but the whole Queen Beryl / Metalia stuff was pretty lackluster.
Usagi calling upon the souls of her dead friends for help
glorious reset at the very end.
The season in general I enjoyed but it's pretty flawed. The pacing in the season is completely horrendous especially towards the end. Some episodes are absolutely enjoyable but a lot of the filler is complete dreck. Some of the characters in themselves feel completely pointless, Sailor Venus / Minako is a complete afterthought. All the other girls get significant development and screen time during the series but poor Minako is literally just there. She doesn't even seem to have any significant relationships with any of the other girls at least thats how I take it from the show.
I'd give the first season 7.5 dumpling heads out of 10.
But most importantly,
Rei > Makoto > Ami > Minako > Usagi.
PdotMichael
Banned
Moshidora
Sketchbook
Kamichu!
Unique taste and stuff. I don't like the idea of recommendations.
Setting up alternate realities in which people are or are not outraged over such an imaginary scenario is a rather absurd and meaningless concept to me. Trying to connect dots where there are none is fairly illogical, and yes, her point does become that people should be getting outraged about how the Yuno character works. It's setting her values on top of other people and asking them to comply and see things her way or be sexist.
I also don't really get the point of bringing it up. It has nothing to do with the content of the story, but rather everything to do with reaction and perception of it, which can only be based around anecdotal evidence and fabrication. Their hopeless blame game turns from targeting the creators to targeting viewers, who evidently are not reacting to the piece of media in a manner that isn't sexist.
KO Traveling Hobo
Member
If you asked me to point out what's good about it, I don't think I could come up with anything, but at the same time I can't bring myself to call it legitimately bad or "so bad it's good."
If nothing else, the writer did an excellent job of letting the characters drive the plot and not the other way around. It just so happens that the characters have absolutely no right to be operating a vehicle.
"Why spend money on space when we have problems here?"
Americans stopped caring about the moon after we beat the Russians. Americans today still think 0.5% is too big a share of the federal budget for NASA. Why is it so far fetched that some other group of people would also fail to see the point?
Also, jets are pretty expensive too.
No pictures?
How disappointing.
Not sure Usagi belongs last, either, but I can let that slide since you finally started watching Sailor Moon again. Now onto R!
Hito is very upset about the lack of NASA funding!
Everyone should be upset about the lack of NASA funding!
Jex
Member
That's also 2013, supposedly.
I'm not American, and my own country has no realistic hope of ever bothering with a space program of our own, so I don't really care! My soul is dead anyway.
Dedication Through Light
Member
Darn Meteor Light couldnt do better, its good too, and I cant wait for the other character songs.
RurouniZel
Asks questions so Ezalc doesn't have to
Yep, it's sad. As I mentioned, for better or worse their choice of singles is very informative of what Otaku are watching. ( ´Д`)y━･~~
I'm disappointed in you now. At least Hito cares about what's really important!
Crash Station
Member
I would say it's been great recently but virtually all of animegaf disagees with me. You could still check it out if you want.
Jex
Member
People demanding to be paid is the real cancer killing the anime industry.
It's a trainwreck, but it's not entertaining, and that's the key difference between something like Guilty Crown and something like Glass Fleet or Code Geass.
Jex
Member
From previous experience, I think it's pretty obvious that lots of AnimeGaffers must hate themselves, just look at the works they voluntarily consume!
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