Hmm. Can't argue with you there.
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Winter 2012 Anime Thread 2.22: You Can (Not) Outpost Cajunator
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Hmm. Can't argue with you there.
Jex
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While it was somewhat amusing to engage in a bit of that towards the end of the last thread I see no point in engaging in such an activity other a longer time-scale, unless my goal was simply to fill up a the thread with noise (of which there is already too much of for some people) and get to the next OT.
I was never convinced that he had a heart of gold. I thought the point of his character was that he was sociopath, which I rather enjoyed. It was kind of refreshing to see a character engage in so many inhumane and vicious actions without any kind of pretence or justification from a character point of view.
He finally admits it.
Yeah, he kills people, but not just for his own pleasure, generally they tried to kill him first.
Maybe, but the more important point is that he acts like a douche to everybody except when he's dishonestly trying to manipulate people. I mean the first arc in the show is about
how Hei is a lying magnificent bastard who can't be trusted.
Is that really misanthropy, though? He doesn't particularly show hatred towards humanity as a whole.
Jex
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Right, and it's not like he has some kind of moment of self-doubt about his action or the consequences on them. He doesn't reflect on them in that manner.
Well that's it. Cajun's my rock now.
Well it's not like he has a tendency to wax philosophically, so we just have to judge him by his actions, which are pretty consistent.
That's what makes him a fun anti-hero to watch.
Mouretsu Space HNNNG 09
Goddamn I love this show.
Mouretsu
is best.
Sooooo fucking cute wearing the pirate hat.
Also more of Chiaki being tsundere and blushing.
Good shit.
Plotwise,
I can't wait to see more of this.
Goddamn I love this show.
Mouretsu
Usagi
Sooooo fucking cute wearing the pirate hat.
Also more of Chiaki being tsundere and blushing.
Good shit.
Plotwise,
the Bentenmaru makes contact with one of the ships in the fleet, and it turns out to be members of Princess Serenity's home. They give her vital information useful to find the golden ghost ship they were searching for. I wonder how much storage that chip has?
And wow that's an expensive box!
And wow that's an expensive box!
Also, I just remembered that
the very first person we see him kill, is someone who was willing to cooperate with him, and was completely at his mercy. So yeah.
This is a very high priority after seeing those pictures.
Definitely my show of the season. I had a feeling this one would be fun from the start and it didn't disappoint. I just hope it gets a DVD/BR release because I will fucking buy it day 1.
10 is quite awesome also.
Stop poking holes in my theory!
Sentai has licensed it for home release in the USA. Do they do blu rays, or just DVD?
Neko Mimi Mode
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Clearly an outward reaction to an inward compulsion to quicken the arrival of spring anime season of salvation.
Stop poking holes in my theory!
Sentai has licensed it for home release in the USA. Do they do blu rays, or just DVD?
Sentai licensed it? Then it will likely be a DVD release and it will be sub only. But that's ok. I JUST WANT THE SHOW. I will double dip if a BR gets released later. I dont think Sentai has that kind of money though.
Well, Sentai is releasing a BD of Grave of the Fireflies, so I guess they do have the capability...
HxHr 22
I wish they'd just breeze through this stuff and get to the
as all I really wanna see at this point is how they handle it. Probably not very well at all going by the rest of this adaptation.
I wish they'd just breeze through this stuff and get to the
Nen training
is there a date for the release?
How far did you get? It does get better after episode 5.
Cajun, from the official press release:
It depends on the popularity. Sentai did release EF a Tale of Memories and Angel Beats on BR so who knows how Pirates will end up? I will buy the best version regardless.
See now if Aniplex had released a 400$ boxset of Mouretsu Pirates I WOULD buy that.
It just really depends on the show.
Episode 8.
Edit: I suppose half my problem is that the show doesn't seem to have a major overarching plot yet. It doesn't really have any direction and just kind of seems to meander... in space.
It released 5 days ago, March 6th
Oh well, I guess there just isn't much hope for you.
that's DVD, not BD.
Well, there Is a bit of osmething starting after episode 8 but who knows? I like the unpredictability of this particular show. I'm thinking one of these times
It could also go in another direction entirely. I can't help but feeling that there's something going on behind the scenes that is the REAL reason for piracy in space.
a legitimate threat will occur and test MArika and her crew to the limits.
Yeah I have several of those. Shows you how much I read company labels.
I guess it just depends on the show. Kobato for example got a two set DVD only release.
So did a bunch of other shows. I'm guessing newer stuff gets the BR's. TWGOK has a nice BR release.
Smile Precure 6
This show is so wonderfully, wonderfully self-aware of its genre, especially when
. I doubled over laughing.
Really, the whole episode was a riot, too many things to list. The absolute highlight, though, has to be
Of course, they'll eventually need to step up the quality of the fight scenes, but if they can keep up this level of humor I think I'll manage just fine.
This show is so wonderfully, wonderfully self-aware of its genre, especially when
Miyuki has one brief moment of joy after their first full team transformation... right before a rocket slams into them at full force
Really, the whole episode was a riot, too many things to list. The absolute highlight, though, has to be
Miyuki accidentally teleporting herself to a research station in the middle of Antarctica.
Of course, they'll eventually need to step up the quality of the fight scenes, but if they can keep up this level of humor I think I'll manage just fine.
Ironically it currently has a goal, and it holds intrigue.
Jex
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I'm sorry trejo, I just can't spam it up any more, even for you!
Moelicious Pirates 10
Chiaki makes an awesome replacement for Marika when it comes to pirating. She has just the right flair for the job.
There was an actual space battle in this episode, complete with lasers and missiles!
I wish that
It looks like at least parts of this arc will be finishing next episode. I didn't dislike the slow pacing of the first 5 episodes, but I must say I prefer the faster pace from episode 6 onwards.
Chiaki makes an awesome replacement for Marika when it comes to pirating. She has just the right flair for the job.
There was an actual space battle in this episode, complete with lasers and missiles!
I wish that
they would have drawn out Usagi's disturbance that Marika was nonchalantly opening fire on Serenity's fleet, but as it is, it was still handled well, with Marika reminding Usagi that they are real pirates, not just for show.
It looks like at least parts of this arc will be finishing next episode. I didn't dislike the slow pacing of the first 5 episodes, but I must say I prefer the faster pace from episode 6 onwards.
Jex
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So many high-quality titles.
Mouretsu Pirates 10
I nearly died in the first 3 minutes.
DAT
.
Chiaki
, while
Apparently, Child labor laws exist in space and on Pirate ships.
After Marika returns to the bridge,
.
I fully expected this episode to end with "Second star to the right, and straight on till morning". The music in this show is superb.
I LOVE THIS SHIT.
It certainly does. He left off right when it was getting good.
I nearly died in the first 3 minutes.
DAT
PIRATE CAPTAIN CHIAKI
Chiaki
goes off on a regular Piracy mission disguised as a captain
Marika and the Others head into the area of the Ghost Ship through a space storm. Princess Serenity is aboard.
After Marika returns to the bridge,
the radar detects enemy ships. The Bentenmaru hatches a plan to shoot and run and it works
I fully expected this episode to end with "Second star to the right, and straight on till morning". The music in this show is superb.
I LOVE THIS SHIT.
It certainly does. He left off right when it was getting good.
I'm this close to buying Pirates, but I'll probably go for the $400 Japanese set if I do. (Which is surprisingly cheap for a 26 episode show.)
They have mini-dramas w/accompanying new character vocals, soundtracks, petit-Nendoroids, footage from the pre-airing event, and presumably more to be announced when they start giving more details about the later discs.
Plus the usual reasons of not wanting to wait an extra year, and worrying about the possible problems N.A. versions have a habit of suffering from (missing/altered music, Japanese credits removed, missing ending animation, lossy audio, etc. etc.) that always make me nervous about waiting until after the Japanese releases are sold out to find out about...
I'm looking through the store full-set bonuses and the only thing really interesting to me there is Gamers' artbox, but I don't think I'll jump from Amazon's discounted $407 to Gamers' SRP of $582 for a box.
Besides the artbox at Gamers, there's an A2 size bath poster at Animate, a B2 tapestry at Tora no Ana, a mousepad at SofMap, and another B2 tapestry at CharaAni. Pretty sure those mostly all sell for SRP like Gamers, though.
Lol I doubt there'll be a 400$ set of Pirates. Was just saying if there was I would totally buy it, unlike Fate Zero.
Luckily Sentai is not so ambitious, nor crazy. They have much more affordable releases, in line with the American disc release model. Aniplex seems to bank on Otaku who overspend on a show they really like (which I will admit to doing for Madoka Magica)
Ah I see you meant the Japanese release. Hmmm now I AM interested.
THis I would pay for!
Someone needs to bring us true classics like Infinite Stratos and A-Channel!
A-Channel gets a US release, Yuru Yuri doesn't. It's clear which is the better show!
Ah sorry, it's not a set really, just 7 BD singles.
Doesn't look like there's any English on it, though.
RurouniZel
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As do I. She's a much more fun character. :3
Ashura was amazing in Shin, I always thought he.. eh she.. uh whatever was a bit of a joke from watching the original series as a kid. But in this series... Ashura is the motherfucking man.. Imagawa really made me appreciate the character though I doubt he's had as much development and focus in any other Mazinger series.... Also did they ever follow up this series with anything? dat
cliffhanger
A Black Falcon
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Hey, stuff happens, once every five or eight episodes or so, max... but yeah, it's a pretty boring series.
So basically, it's your average Ultimate Girls episode.
Silk, boring? Well, kind of, but I think she's more frustrating than boring. She's so useless most of the time that even when she beats enemies it's often by accident... argh. The other two girls are far better characters for sure.
There are autocratic countries in the world today, though. Yes, democracy has been on the rise over time, but is its absolute victory inevitable? That'd be nice, but you never know, perhaps not...
I do find space empires run by archaic monarchies based on 16th-19th century Europe kind of hard to believe, even Saudi Arabia isn't quite like that today, but the point often isn't to be believable, but to have a generic anime monarchy, and anime certainly does love its monarchies.
But yeah, more space democracies would be great, I agree.
I don't know if it's the final form of government, but it is the best one known to humans, yes.
Yeah, it really is a great series. I thought that a few of the episodes later on were somewhat weak, I think, if I'm remembering right (I only watched it once, but it does leave an impression...), but it made up for that and more with its fantastic final episode. That episode was tragic, happy (sort of), sad, touching... just great work. The Beethoven music fit perfectly too, at the end.
I haven't watched season two, as I said above I just couldn't do it after hearing it wasn't as good as the first one. I didn't want to change my good memories about the show...
I've always thought the "hnng" thing was a bit annoying, probably because I'm not really a fan of that gif it comes from (I don't know, it's not awful, just kind of stupid), so sure. It's nothing too horrible, but "cute" probably is the better term.
... If those are seriously the options, that's incredibly disturbing.
... You wrote a post about a bunch of currently airing animes and didn't mention Space Pirates, really?
On the first point, that's for sure. A bunch of people on animeGAF seem to basically hate anything popular, pretty much, or at least many things popular in certain popular anime sites/blogs...
That's pretty cool. I've done reviews on most of the Fate/Kaleid Liner Prisma Iliya manga in the manga thread, for anyone who wants to look those up (it's a couple of moderate-length posts). I liked it; yeah, it's about lolis, and I wish that the main characters were older, but apart from that it's a good series. And not all of the characters are lolis; the main pair Iliya and Miyu are, but their magical girl mentors Rin and Lluvia are older of course (and hilarious, they fight so much!) and Iliya's parents are characters too, to name a few (and yeah, her mother is awesome. :lol).
I hope that they don't go overboard with the fanservice, but still, it has some promise at least. Oh, and I also wonder how much of the manga it'll cover. The first Fate/Kaleid Liner Prisma Iliya manga is fairly short, but the second one is longer and ongoing, last I checked, and it's a direct sequel that pretty much picks up shortly after the first one left off...
Fate/Kaleid Liner Prisma Iliya is one of the most optimistic things I know of in the whole franchise. It's got some serious elements, but for the most part it's a much happier world than the other versions... and yes, I agree that that's great.
Also, even though it's about () the harem elements are almost entirely gone, because the stupid MC of the original series is only a minor character. It's so nice to have something in the franchise that both isn't depressing AND doesn't have him on screen all the time!alternate world versions of the main characters from the original series, plus a few others
It does have too much loli fanservice, as I said above, but apart from that I like it.
A Black Falcon
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I disagree, Germany wasn't so bad. Her "100% tsun/100% dere" combination works well, really... and the tsun side is basically right about Ichika, while the dere side is great thanks to "Ichika is mai waifu". I mean, come on, that's awesome.
Positives? How are high heels a positive in a fighting costume, if you want it to be even vaguely believable (unless the characters are flying around all the time or something and it doesn't matter)?
And yes, I know they're really common. Doesn't make it any less stupid.
Is America really that great? Huh... it's too bad we'll never see a second season.
What, because girls normally have like 99% of the airtime in anime comedies?
Yeah, the Saki BD box came with some cool extras -- that mahjong set, some other stuff, a Nodoka nendoroid I believe...Wow, that Saki MJ set.
YUA is really good, but bah, sure Ultimate Girls is pretty bad, but overall it's a funny bad.
While that is somewhat questionable behavior, that is different from real-life actions, or even just feelings, about stuff... drawings and reality are different things.
I haven't watched Rinne past ep 2 or 3, which didn't have much yuribait at all in it yet, so I can't compare the two, but in Oreimo's case, the incest is most assuredly not something comparable to your average "put just enough in for yuri fans to be able to imagine it's there, but not enough to prove anything" yuribait. It's far beyond that, and it's proven as such from the first episode. If I remember right, the defense is something along the lines of how the series doesn't actually follow through on what you expect it to from the title, concept, and beginning, but that's just not true, that's not true at all.
Because, as I said, on both sides, the basic concept of their relationship only works in the context of the incest elements on both sides, pretty much. I know some people are in serious denial about its existence, but that doesn't mean it's not there. It's a much more real thing than most yuribait, which usually isn't actually there.
As I said though, I don't know how far Rinne goes on the issue, I found the show too boring to keep watching.
Yeah, it's a pretty good series. Much better than you might expect from something that could have been more loli fanservice junk. It's not that at all, much to its credit. It's a very good series.
I've heard the manga is nowhere near as good, but haven't read it to find out... if that's true, I probably don't want to. I also haven't watched the second season. Heard it was worse and couldn't get myself to watch it after that.
What, don't some manga and anime authors do exactly that though?Actually, I could see a really funny anime come from this. Take the idea of "The Producers" and run with it.
"She hated the otaku with a passion, disgusted by their very existence. Deciding that the purpose for which she had been born was to destroy the otaku she jumps straight into the lion's den, joining the anime industry as a writer. Her goal, write anime after anime that are awful and contrived that the entire industry will collapse, causing the otaku to die off after losing the anime they subsist on for survival.
But something happened she did not intend.
Rather than destroy the industry, her work became a massive hit! The otaku ate it up and bought her shows in droves! Her plan having backfired, she must decide between trying a new tactic to destroy them, or accept defeat and make her money from the very otaku she despises!"
...
Nah, probably would be terrible. But then that might very well help it sell oh fuck I've lost it.
Clearly he does. He's quite consistent about such things, too... never too shy to clearly state his perversion.High School DxD 10
Issei definitely has his priorities straight when coming up with special moves.
It does seem so, yes.
Yeah. I think Trinity Seven might be a little bit better than High School DxD, but sure, yes, do watch it. It's entertaining stuff. It's the bad harem action show of the season to watch, you know.
Go_Ly_Dow
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Envelope 498
cajunator 498
...and to think several months ago, we were safe from these new hnggg :cajun overlords.
Another 8
Pretty great episode. Was expecting the typical beach fan service fest, but we got that and more!
cajunator 498
...and to think several months ago, we were safe from these new hnggg :cajun overlords.
Another 8
-THE BALL IS OBVIOUSLY TOO FAR OUT.
-NO GET THE FUCK BACK!
-WHY ISN'T ANYBODY CALLING HIM BACK!!!!???????
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-NO GET THE FUCK BACK!
-WHY ISN'T ANYBODY CALLING HIM BACK!!!!???????
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Pretty great episode. Was expecting the typical beach fan service fest, but we got that and more!
Nisemonogatari ep 10
Good god,somebody should lock araragi up and throw away the key. Toothbrushing and now breast groping,what's next?
On the other hand, poll on Persona 4 fav character
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2012-03-09/anime-one-poll/favorite-persona-4-character
I though Chie is popular? Why is she the 9th place?
Good god,somebody should lock araragi up and throw away the key. Toothbrushing and now breast groping,what's next?
On the other hand, poll on Persona 4 fav character
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2012-03-09/anime-one-poll/favorite-persona-4-character
I though Chie is popular? Why is she the 9th place?
Jex
Member
I get the feeling that Imagawa took a look at the character of Baron Ashura and thought 'there's some real potential here', especially when you take such a character and combine it with Imagawa's melodramatic storytelling.
No, there's been absolutely zero word of any follow up or sequel of any kind. Which is extremely disappointing, but there you go.
Smile Precure - 06
Was... was that a Precure movie in the OP?
The self awareness in this show really delivers some comedy gold moments I hope they keep it up.
How the deus is Aika so high up!?
Was... was that a Precure movie in the OP?
The self awareness in this show really delivers some comedy gold moments I hope they keep it up.
How the deus is Aika so high up!?
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