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[jman2050]

Shinboland is pretty nice this time of year.

 

[Haly]

The promised land of headtilts and Ikea-esque interior design.

 

[Narag]

Violinist of Hamelin 2

I sure didn't expect the OP to sound like that. Oboe has such a great voice as well. I'm liking that their showing Hamel's ability is a double edged sword so early on. It sort of makes him a scary protagonist. Fantastic stuff so far.

G Gundam 24

Back in silly G Gundam mode. That viking gundam had its own gundam sized longboat!

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Master Asia looks so damn old now.

I don't know why Argo sounds like Cookie Monster in the middle of the ep either. Sequence in the last third starting with Rain attempting to remote control the Shining Gundam was so damn good.

Saior Moon R 2

Standoffish Mamoru might be best Mamoru. I won't lie I was hoping for more hilarious solo Usagi action but I suppose they need to get back to business. I miss the old eyecatch too!

Rei/Usagi scenes are usually such a joy to behold.

Heartcatch Precure 2

I have no idea who that guy was that showed up but that was awesome.

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Her grandmother being a former Precure was a nice touch. I.. I didn't think the shitting out a coin step of the formula would be so literal either :lol

Shin Mazinger Z 14

Well fuck, I didn't expect that kind of revelation.

Infinite Stratos 8

I couldn't even remember why I was watching this show then I saw

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Char work Laura's shielding in a way that'd make Kyosuke Nanbu and the Alteisen proud.

so now I'm watching this show for Char. Laura delivered the laughs at the end too.

 

[jman2050]

Infinite Stratos 8

I couldn't even remember why I was watching this show then I saw

Spoiler

Char work Laura's shielding in a way that'd make Kyosuke Nanbu and the Alteisen proud.

so now I'm watching this show for Char. Laura delivered the laughs at the end too.

Just like everyone else.

 

[iavi]

Bakumatsu 4

Look at that quiet troll face. It killed me. That was a pretty good ep. It's actually an interesting story they're crafting here, from Akidzuki's repeated failures as a ronin, which completely contradict his stuck up ass demeanor. You'd think he has the follow-through to back that ego, but he doesn't, and with just about everybody chiding him--from master to bro(above), some more vocal than others, I have to wonder when he's going to snap with all that internalizing. Side note: Why is it that every series that Kozaki does the art for, the studio feels the need to do the cheapest | EDs | Ever? I know his art is good, but damn.

 

[madp]

Heartcatch Precure 2

I have no idea who that guy was that showed up but that was awesome.

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Her grandmother being a former Precure was a nice touch. I.. I didn't think the shitting out a coin step of the formula would be so literal either :lol

Just think of Chypre and Coffret as magical civet cats and the

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heart tree seeds

as magical coffee beans.

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It never stopped being uncomfortable to me.

 

[Unknown Soldier]

Considering an anime avatar for the first time.
Feels weird man.



Poor RE6 Chris.

Anime > Boulder-punching

 

[RurouniZel]

Just like everyone else.

'twas the only reason I kept watching.

 

[7Th]

All the craftsmanship of an Ikea product, too.

 

[Haly]

All the craftsmanship of an Ikea product, too.

But you assemble your own Ikea products! Therefore the fault must lie on you,

 

[Narag]

Just think of Chypre and Coffret as magical civet cats and the

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heart tree seeds

as magical coffee beans.

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It never stopped being uncomfortable to me.

So I learned something today about civet cats and now the concept is even more unsettling.

 

[hosannainexcelsis]

http://i.imgur.com/clh17.jpg

Disturbing.

 

[Unknown Soldier]

But you assemble your own Ikea products! Therefore the fault must lie on you,

Imagine if you could assemble your own Shaft anime out of a bunch of generic stock backgrounds!

 

[7Th]

Imagine if you could assemble your own Shaft anime out of a bunch of generic stock backgrounds!

Sounds like what Shaft themselves do all the time. They go around looking for license-free clipart, repeat it a few times in a white background and call it a day.

 

[jman2050]

Imagine if you could assemble your own Shaft anime out of a bunch of generic stock backgrounds!

The instructions would be hastily drawn on a coffee shop napkin and written with the Madoka witch alphabet.

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In Portuguese.

 

[Noirulus]

Sounds like what Shaft themselves do all the time. They go around looking for license-free clipart, repeat it a few times in a white background and call it a day.

We're onto something here. Deeper investigation must be done.

 

[Dedication Through Light]

Oh one final thing on Steins Gate

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Who was Daru's wife, the mother?

. Did I miss it being resolved?

 

[RurouniZel]

Oh one final thing on Steins Gate

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Who was Daru's wife, the mother?

. Did I miss it being resolved?

It's touched on in the OVA episode.

 

[iavi]

Oh one final thing on Steins Gate

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Who was Daru's wife, the mother?

. Did I miss it being resolved?

It was never delved into in the tv series.

 

[Thoraxes]

Her appearance is retconned in the OVA episode.

Fixed.

 

[prwxv3]

I hope this gets a adaptation some day. It gets pretty absurd that a guy is able to join this a pop Idol group and actually becomes popular among guys

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and men

. And he starts to actually enjoy it.

 

[Dresden]

l2imgurabloadminus

 

[Noirulus]

omg erryone new SAO anime character art!!!

Kirito

Asuna

SO HYPE.

 

[Thoraxes]

Why does Asuna appear to be topless in her headshots while the dude isn't?

 

[Noirulus]

Why does Asuna appear to be topless in her headshots while the dude isn't?

edit: Nvm Lol.

 

[Cwarrior]

Lupin III episode 2

silly and mostly boring,episode felt like filler with it's filler villan with no personality.

jigan is smooth, with his marksman skills and evil laugh.

 

[Haly]

I have to say, those designs are looking pretty uguu without getting into IM@S/K-ON territory.

Get hype.

 

[wonzo]

I have a friend with a deep love of enjoying terrible things. This was an opportunity.

Garzey's Wing

I wasn't really prepared for this.

I knew the dub was bad. It was pretty gloriously bad, which made the whole thing watchable. There's a real joy in trying to make sense of the convoluted translation. And some of the voice acting was fantastic. I particularly liked the older guy in the tribe, who always looked impassively stoic, but consistently shouted his lines like the conductor of a high school marching band.

It also really showed me things I take for granted. The editing in the first ten minutes of Garzey's Wing was the most manic, incoherent mess I had ever seen. The transition between Chris entering the world of Byston Well, to the tribe escaping through the forest and being pursued, to the tribe escaping into the swamps, interspersed with Chris at home, was total goddamn nonsense. It was like a full episode's worth of footage was left on the cutting room floor.

Beyond that, there's not really anything remarkable about it. I thought the idea of Chris basically bringing modern scientific knowledge to this primitive world was a cool one, but everything else is so grossly incompetent that it doesn't redeem the work creatively. Good thing there's that dub.

Also, that ending is just awful.

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My sword is incredibly dull.

Wings of my heart~

omg erryone new SAO anime character art!!!

Kirito
http://i.imgur.com/FXyZ8.png

Asuna
http://i.imgur.com/1ahEh.png


SO HYPE.

working!! the mmo. wan wan

 

[madp]

Symphogear 08:

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About fucking time that Miku made up.

And to think that all it took was

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a little yuri time with Hibiki's archnemesis

. Then again,

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any conflict that begins with yuri can be ended by yuri.

Symphogear 09:

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Three-way yuri dates, comic relief from the villainous Ryouko, and Tsubasa getting her groove back? It's just about time for shit to hit the fan and for everyone to die, I guess

.

I don't know if this has been pointed out yet, but lol animation error. The show would probably be more entertaining if Hibiki could actually do this.

Symphogear 10:

Man, fuck Engrish. Symphogear is setting records in this department.

So

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Ryouko is the primary suspect in the slaughter of the American soldiers but the best alibi she can give is "ololol I overslept"

? She's either

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convinced that her scheme has advanced to the point that it's unstoppable and she just doesn't give a shit

or she's just a moron. Probably both.

 

[Thoraxes]

edit: Nvm Lol.

I read your original response. Now i feeeeel like reading it.

 

[zeroshiki]

Sword Art Online is consistently at the top of LN rankings despite never getting an anime. Its quite impressive.

 

[Jex]

omg erryone new SAO anime character art!!!

Kirito
http://i.imgur.com/FXyZ8.png

[B]Asuna[/B]
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/1ahEh.png

SO HYPE.[/QUOTE]

They look...so...standard!

 

[hosannainexcelsis]

I have to say, those designs are looking pretty uguu without getting into IM@S/K-ON territory.

Get hype.

Those designs aren't better than Idolmaster's and certainly aren't better than K-ON's. They aren't bad or ugly, just very standard, as Jexhius points out.

working!! the mmo. wan wan

Same character designer, after all.

 

[Noirulus]

I read your original response. Now i feeeeel like reading it.

It's a fun light read, try it! (It'll also answer your question heh.)

They look...so...standard!

Yer, but if the anime gets a proper budget the world could look really beautiful.

Here's a novel illustration of Aincrad (SAO's world)

 

[Jex]

British "Cuisine" sucks. When I visited London the best restaurants I went to were, in order, a French place, a Spanish place, and an Indian place.

Fuck fish and chips. Real talk.

This is some bullshit.

 

[madp]

Yer, but if the anime gets a proper budget the world could look really beautiful.

Here's a novel illustration of Aincrad (SAO's world)

http://i.imgur.com/ADnjY.jpg

So basically this is going to be Tower of Druaga redux.

 

[Branduil]

It's a fun light read, try it! (It'll also answer your question heh.)



Yer, but if the anime gets a proper budget the world could look really beautiful.

Here's a novel illustration of Aincrad (SAO's world)

Let's be honest, it would be full of bad CGI and mediocre art in all probability.

Also, what kind of name is "Sword Art Online"? Besides a terrible one that sounds like the amateur website of a Renaissance Fair enthusiast.

 

[Jex]

I really should watch Arrietty sometime.

It's not exactly a "must-see" movie but it has some fairly well done elements and it's not aggressively stupid at any point.

 

[cajunator]

omg erryone new SAO anime character art!!!

Kirito

Asuna

SO HYPE.

What is this hnnnng before me?

 

[Branduil]

This is some bullshit.

Haly is quite wrong on this, that's true. Especially if you have malt vinegar.

 

[Noirulus]

Let's be honest, it would be full of bad CGI and mediocre art in all probability.

Also, what kind of name is "Sword Art Online"? Besides a terrible one that sounds like the amateur website of a Renaissance Fair enthusiast.

I'll keep my fingers crossed, but that's probably the road it'll take :/

It's called Sword Art Online because that's the name of the MMO that they're playing.

So basically this is going to be Tower of Druaga redux.

Nope. I don't want to spoil anything but it'll be different enough.

 

[hosannainexcelsis]

Let's be honest, it would be full of bad CGI and mediocre art in all probability.

A-1 Pictures is a solid studio, so chances are the Sword Art Online anime will look fine.

 

[Dresden]

Hard to take anything that starts out like this seriously. Or even as enjoyable pulp.

A grey sword cut my shoulder.

The thin line at the top left corner of my field of vision reduced slightly. At the same time a cold hand passed over my heart.

The blue line—called the “HP bar”—is a visual rendering of my life force. There was still a little over 80 percent left. No, this phrase isn’t appropriate enough. Right now, I was about 20 percent closer to death.

Reminds me of roleplayers in MMOs taking it all too seriously. Fanfiction for all!

Bloodcurdling, one could describe the fight.

The level 6 humanoid monster, «Ruin Kobold Trooper», was swinging an uncouth hand ax, and the person fighting the kobold was barely able to dodge. I felt a chill run down my back as I watched the battle. But after the player dodged three consecutive strikes, the kobold completely lost its balance and, instead of using this chance to escape, the person used a sword attack skill at full strength.

The skill was the first rapier skill players learn: the single thrust attack «Linear». This sword skill is activated by holding a sword in front of the body with the main hand, concentrating on it, and then thrusting the sword straight forward; it was a simple, basic skill, but the speed was terrific. Clearly, the speed was not left to the system motion assist alone, but was boosted by the player's own movement commands.

During the beta test, I saw with my own eyes many party members and enemy monsters using this same sword skill many times, but I could not see the rapier itself now, only the trajectory drawn by the sword skill's special light effect. That pure white flash cutting through the darkness of the low light dungeon reminded me of the shooting star of that day.

 

[Jex]

Sailor Moon ✔

Oniisame e ✔

Finally time to watch Utena...

I hate you so much right now.

Hey it's not like you need to watch Rose of Versailles first or anything.

You do, however, have to watch it at some point, because it's a great show regardless of it's connection to later works.

 

[Noirulus]

Hard to take anything that starts out like this seriously. Or even as enjoyable pulp.

I thought the exact same thing but you'll understand why it starts out like that if you keep reading.

 

[Branduil]

A-1 Pictures is a solid studio, so chances are the Sword Art Online anime will look fine.

I think A-1 studios is a mercenary studio, so it could look like anything, really.

 

[Jex]

Guys, I know who Lan's mom is:

You're talking like there's no such movie as Mardock Scramble.

 

[Branduil]

I thought the exact same thing but you'll understand why it starts out like that if you keep reading.

Is it some kind of hipster thing that's ironically bad?

 

[Jex]

I know you'll love it too, which is why I'm not pressuring you into it immediately; it's just tonally different from stuff like Oniisama e... and Door Into Summer even at its most dramatic moments.

I imagine it's about a windswept crossdresser in Revolutionary France.

So I'm told:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIe7HO4s798

 

[Haly]

Those designs aren't better than Idolmaster's and certainly aren't better than K-ON's. They aren't bad or ugly, just very standard, as Jexhius points out.

I like the fact that they're standard instead of being super moe.