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Winter 2012 Anime Thread 2.22: You Can (Not) Outpost Cajunator
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Why do you hate all that is good.
Inu x Boku SS 10
who knew an episode with the S&M dude could be so boring.
who knew an episode with the S&M dude could be so boring.
i'll repeat. watch soredemo!
WHATTHEFUCKNO
hosannainexcelsis
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Whoa now, Daily Lives is good but it's no Gintama.
Go_Ly_Dow
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Why do you hate all that is good.
-The majority of the cast is just annoying (seriously, the worst harem in recent memory)
-MC is dull
-They all have strangely drawn lips
-Ending sucks
-Not enough Erio development
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the OP sucks
Ultimadrago
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I've barely watched Gintama thus far and it's no Gintama.
chickdigger802
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Inu x Boku SS 10
who knew an episode with the S&M dude could be so boring.
i'll repeat. watch soredemo!
Yeah... peking duck was the best part. Her dress is also pretty adorable =)
Shame the eps was kinda boring.
How can you not like that OP?
Ultimadrago
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I have ears.
Also even not considering the atrocious song, the visuals of the OP are really slapdash and not-good. It's pretty bad for a SHAFT OP in every way.
I didn't mind the cast but the show just got mind-numbingly boring halfway through and until the end. I seriously cannot believe they ended it off with a
fucking baseball game.
It could've been so much better than it was. At least Meme was a cool character and Erio was super moe.
chickdigger802
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Inu X Boku Fanservice 10
Boring ass eps... wait.
*Bluray preordered*
Boring ass eps... wait.
*Bluray preordered*
A Black Falcon
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Denpa was a bad show and I dropped it after an episode for good reason. It just wasn't very good or interesting.
You have my sword.
hosannainexcelsis
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If I were to directly compare the two, I would say that Daily Lives has cleverer writing and stronger voice acting, while Nichijou has way better production values and visual humor.
Ultimadrago
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Jex
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Who says you learn nothing of value in this thread?
And my axe.
Y'know I can totally concede to that.
I'm still a few episodes behind on Nichibros so I'm not in a position to give a full opinion on it just yet.
The OP is the only good part about denpa.
yeah I like the OP song-included, bad singing is moe.:3
Jex
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Denpa commits a sin that even Nisemonogatari manages to avoid - it's just boring.
It so totally is. Bad singing is cute as hell.
RurouniZel
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I tend to exclude long-running series from these sort of generalizations, but since I haven't seen Gintama I still can't comment on it personally.
Brave 10 10:
Here's cajun's weekly dose of Isanami. Now you still don't have to watch the show!
Sooooo,
protect Isanami
cute flat-chested Iga girl
dude who hulks out when the seals on his body are removed. DAMMIT.
Snake bitch has a sister, and she's similarly hideous.
the show still hasn't hinted at any kind of motive for Ana's betrayal that would redeem her character.
Ana just turning out to be HURP DURP EVIL
That is pretty moe~
Finished the live action Usagi Drop.
One the biggest problem's with the movie is that for a very long while there is no conflict.
It felt like the story of Daikichi rather than the story of Daikichi and Rin. If I wanted to get really specific then I would say the biggest mistake was downplaying the interaction between Daikichi and Rin at the funeral. That would have gone a longer way in selling me on their connection rather than 40 minutes of unconflicted bonding.
This movie also lacks the heartwarming soundtrack the anime had. In fact, it lacks a soundtrack in general. It's as if the movie is not trying to have a tone.
The problem isn't that filmmakers tried to condense so much source material into 2-hours. Make no mistake, it would have been possible to do. It's that they didn't do it efficiently. (edit) It tried to be a story of Daikichi's struggle as an emerging parent. As a result every other character gets downplayed and it doesn't as at all provide the emotion punch that the anime delivered. I'd go as far as to say that Big Daddy (the movie with Adam Sandler) is a better movie than Usagi Drop. Needless to say though, I wouldn't recommend the live action Usagi Drop.
One the biggest problem's with the movie is that for a very long while there is no conflict.
Daikichi and Rin get along from the get-go. While this worked for the anime, it only worked because of the chemistry between the two leads. There is really little chemistry between their live-action counterparts. Who is Rin as a character? 50 minutes in and I still have no idea. Rin in the anime, at times, oozed maturity. The way she held her bag for example or how she would volunteer to read to the other kids in the nursery. She emitted this aura of being older than she really was. This live action Rin does very little to give herself character.
This movie also lacks the heartwarming soundtrack the anime had. In fact, it lacks a soundtrack in general. It's as if the movie is not trying to have a tone.
The problem isn't that filmmakers tried to condense so much source material into 2-hours. Make no mistake, it would have been possible to do. It's that they didn't do it efficiently. (edit) It tried to be a story of Daikichi's struggle as an emerging parent. As a result every other character gets downplayed and it doesn't as at all provide the emotion punch that the anime delivered. I'd go as far as to say that Big Daddy (the movie with Adam Sandler) is a better movie than Usagi Drop. Needless to say though, I wouldn't recommend the live action Usagi Drop.
Ultimadrago
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RurouniZel
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Awesome! ^^
Jex
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Clearly you've never loved a futon before.
Cute harem show with clinically insane girls.
Also futons, MILFs, helmets, aliens and cosplay.
Dem grenades.
hosannainexcelsis
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Your mistake was assuming Denpa was "about" something.
Samurai Champloo 14: The show has been solid so far, but that was some seriously impressive directing/writing. Prodigious.
I'm almost done w/ the series. Not sure what to watch next. Since everything new sucks I may just rewatch Mahoromatic* or something.
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I'm almost done w/ the series. Not sure what to watch next. Since everything new sucks I may just rewatch Mahoromatic* or something.
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Yeah, I loved it. So what?
Guilty Crown 21
Shu was finally right about something.
And he finally decided to act as a freaking protagonist.
The finale's probably going to disappoint. I'm feeling it won't be bad nor good enough to satisfy me.
Does he acknowledge that all this time he's been chasing the wrong girl?
Guilty Crown 21
Shu was finally right about something.
And he finally decided to act as a freaking protagonist.
The finale's probably going to disappoint. I'm feeling it won't be bad nor good enough to satisfy me.
She's so pure it hurts (lol Shoe) :lol
Dedication Through Light
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I must have zone out and missed that fact, episode was kind of forgettable overall based on the previous ones.
Come now, that doesn't happen in shounen shows.
He doesn't seem to mind because clearly the universe wouldn't allow him to spoil her pureness.
So bad. :lol
Trapeze 11- END
I found this episode relatively weak. Using
as a protagonist was a great idea, and it added another dimension to the show's depiction of mental illness. But he doesn't have much of an arc, and he just winds up seeming like a terrible person, up until his sudden and mostly unprompted ending revelation. I guess things suffered a bit from having to be compressed to include some show-ending material.
I really don't get what the point of the whole "canary" metaphor was here.
Kind of made the whole thing fall flat.
A show like this isn't very dependent on a high-quality final episode, though. I liked Trapeze a lot. Nakamura is a capable director, and I think that the episodic format coheres into a very solid total work about the different problems that individuals of all kinds face in society. And looking back, it's pretty surprising how well the live-action elements fit with the animation style.
There are some weird mysteries in the series that I never was quite able to figure out
, but I don't really mind. I'm happy I watched it.
That's basically the end of my season, though I'm going to keep following Level E. It was a good experiment, and I'd be interested in doing it again during another slow season.
Nakamura has learned from Yuasa well.
I found this episode relatively weak. Using
Yuta's father
I really don't get what the point of the whole "canary" metaphor was here.
People with psychological disorders are like canaries showing the problems in the lives of others? It's an odd view, and to me, it sort of downplays how a disorder affects the individual.
A show like this isn't very dependent on a high-quality final episode, though. I liked Trapeze a lot. Nakamura is a capable director, and I think that the episodic format coheres into a very solid total work about the different problems that individuals of all kinds face in society. And looking back, it's pretty surprising how well the live-action elements fit with the animation style.
There are some weird mysteries in the series that I never was quite able to figure out
(most particularly the "three forms" of Irabu)
That's basically the end of my season, though I'm going to keep following Level E. It was a good experiment, and I'd be interested in doing it again during another slow season.
Thats the main problem I had with Trapeze
The actual disorders were downplayed and simpified and often the "cures" made very little sense
I'm slightly more liberal with my choice of words online. Sorry if I offended anyone though.
Yep, you hit the nail right on the head. I'm just tired of everyone calling Shibboleth the one true creative force industry while dismissing others like Ikuhara.
It was interesting at first, sure. But Shinbo ends up forcing his 'eccentricities' down your throat. I fail to see how flashing whole paragraphs of text contributes to the anime except for giving the viewer a seizure.
That's not to say all SHAFT techniques are bad or the company is bad to the core. It's just they're overhyped and overpraised.
I do like those head tilts, SHAFT really gave thoae a different definition
and on the topic of Shaft OPs, i feel Arakawa Under the Bridge S2 OP was their best, although it's not particularly SHAFT like as others.
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