Winter 2012 Anime Thread of Roundcats Up in This

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I'll do top 5 series.

1. Super Dimension Fortress Macross
2. Baccano!
3. Trigun
4. Azumanga Daioh
5. Shiki

Special Mention: Episodes 1-4 of Higurashi



I can only get Garzey's Wing on RightStuf but I'm game.



I joined to post in both Gaming and Off-Topic, but spend most of my time here....

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We can detect things behind the sun with radar or satellites. Let's say people on the home planet detect them during the attack. Then what? They take the long voyage out there and show up long after the attacking ship leaves?

You cant detect things behind the sun with radar from earth. That's not how radar works.
Maybe they reroute a nearby ship to do something if they find out, either way you dont want people knowing you're attacking
Just because you're a few miles from the nearest police station doesn't mean you just rob people in the middle of the road in broad daylight because you know cops wont be there right away, does it?
 
Much like that fight, and this one later on in the series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQvAHEloOpY (Which happens to be my favorite anime fight scene ever) The use of first person really adds to, and in the second clip almost makes, the scene itself, imo. It's a shame you see it used so rarely, and with such tact at that.

My favorite episode of Cowboy Bebop in general, partially because of the excellent fight scenes.

The Rinne no Lagrange OP + ED Single will be out tomorrow!

Hype, hype, hype, hype!

yes YES. I haven't been this excited for a song release since Rock Over Japan (which wasn't that long ago, I guess.)
 
The Rinne no Lagrange OP + ED Single will be out tomorrow!

Hype, hype, hype, hype!

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Where have you been???
 
You cant detect things behind the sun with radar from earth. That's not how radar works.
Maybe they reroute a nearby ship to do something if they find out, either way you dont want people knowing you're attacking
Just because you're a few miles from the nearest police station doesn't mean you just rob people in the middle of the road in broad daylight because you know cops wont be there right away, does it?
You wouldn't rob someone in broad daylight because the chances of someone noticing who could intervene or stop you is higher. In this situation where the victim has no means of communication, and there is certainty that nobody is nearby it makes more sense to strike before circumstances change or the victim becomes aware of your presence.
 
Where have you been???

As in posting in Anime thread?

I want to start catching up with some recent release, waiting for the series to end then watch the whole batch is pretty nice, especially with some many gaffer testing poison. I do miss the anticipation of weekly release, like back when the whole thread explode every time a new episode of Madoka released. The problem is there are nothing exciting to follow this season. =/
 
Fry Brain 17

Twists all up in here!

I think Rook is due for a breakdown pretty soon. His reaction to
"love"
seems to be imply some fucked up shit went on in his childhood and his inability to comprehend it will play a role later on.
 
As in posting in Anime thread?
Yep.

I want to start catching up with some recent release, waiting for the series to end then watch the whole batch is pretty nice, especially with some many gaffer testing poison.
Oh, you're one of those people. You sadistic bunch D:

I do miss the anticipation of weekly release, like back when the whole thread explode every time a new episode of Madoka released. The problem is there are nothing exciting to follow this season. =/
Well, you aren't missing much by waiting :lol
 
Kill Me Baby 3-4 - One good episode, one bad one.

Ep. 3 - I found this the worst episode so far. It just wasn't very funny at all beginning to end. I actually almost dropped the series, after this...

Ep. 4 - This episode, on the other hand, made me glad that I hadn't stopped watching -- I found this the most amusing episode of the series so far. Sure, this show is INCREDIBLY stupid, but it can be amusingly so some of the time, and this episode often was that. Also, the ninja girl continues to be the best character in the show so far. She can be pretty amusing when the completely trolls the two lead characters. :)

2 is just a triangle. At the very least you need a square imo.
This is generally true, but I can imagine a scenario where you could have a harem with two, perhaps... like, if the two girls aren't fighting over the guy but are just "sharing" him or something is it still a triangle? I don't know, maybe, but that might make things a bit less clear.

Still, yes, generally two is a triangle, and it requires more than that to be a harem.

Space Pirates operates in the exact opposite way a show should. So far it looks like there will be 6+ episodes of high school girls on an emotionless and uneventful pleasure cruise.
Less accurate words to describe their voyage are hard to imagine. What they wanted was a simple pleasure cruise, but thanks to the people after the MC, they've gotten the opposite of that, with hacking attacks on the station, threats in space, and a likely upcoming attack. And that's not mentioning the stuck sail, either. It has been very eventful and there's been a fair bit of emotion as well, as they deal with situations they haven't really thought of having to face before.

None of the characters interact with each other outside of the exposition of information.
Not really true, though given the flow of events happening, you would expect a lot of their conversation to be about their work, yes.

Pirates didn't need any of the episodes they've shown so far.
While I don't know how valuable ep. 1 was apart from basic setup, episodes two through four are all very valuable.

They don't establish the characters well, or work towards telling the story that is obviously being set up.
The lead character and some the other major ones have been established. As for the other club members, we haven't really met them yet, but ep. 4 does give us some background on the two most important of them, which was nice.

I didn't post about episode four because I turned it off once in the middle when the high school girls said they would be attacked as they passed behind the sun because nobody would be able to see them.
I would make a joke about how people think this show is "realistic", but Pirates fans suffer enough without me piling it on.
I came back to it later and just wound up skipping through the last half of the episode. Guess what I missed out on. Literally nothing.
You seem to have gotten the entire plot of the episode very wrong, but when you skipped half of it, that is far from surprising. That is not at all what happened.

They never said that bro
They said the pirates might be hiding in the shadow of the sun
Unless you can magically detect ships directly behind stars, it sounds right
Right, the idea is that the enemy ship hides behind the star so it can't be detected, and then flies out to attack them when they're at the far point of their route, the farthest from the planet. It makes a lot of sense.
 
Maybe she's just a senile old lady.
And after what was said at the beginning of the episode, once the nurse mentioned her brother was in the same class it was apparent she was not long for this world. I really liked her too. :(

I had the nurse marked ever since she was talking on the phone to the MC in the hospital in the dark on her own in episode 1, granted I was expecting someone to come out of the shadows and slash her neck while she was on the phone, but I was close enough.
if I wasn't half expecting it to happen every episode I would have been sadder about the whole thing because she's pretty much the only character I liked.
 
Fall 2011 Preliminary First Volume Sales

41,369 *8 Persona 4 [DVD+BD]: 2011/11/23
22,673 *4 Kyoukai Senjou no Horizon [BD]: 2011/12/22
19,613 *4 Working´ !! [DVD+BD]: 2011/11/02
11.984 *2 Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai [DVD+BD]: 2012/01/13
10,042 *1 Guilty Crown [DVD+BD]: 2012/01/25
*4,524 *2 Sekai-ichi Hatsukoi 2 [DVD]: 2011/12/22
*4,077 *1 Tamayura ~hitotose~ [DVD+BD]: 2011/12/21
*3,885 *1 gdgd Fairies [DVD+BD]: 2012/01/27
*3,421 *2 Maji de Watashi ni Koi Shinasai!! [DVD+BD]: 2011/11/25
*3,379 *1 Shinryaku!? Ikamusume [DVD+BD]: 2011/12/21
*3,119 *1 Maken-ki! [DVD+BD]: 2011/12/22
*3,026 *1 Last Exile Ginyoku no Fam [DVD+BD]: 2012/01/25
- - - - - - - - - - - Manabi Line (2,899) - - - - - - - - - - -
*2,828 *1 Shakugan no Shana III -Final- [DVD+BD]: 2011/12/22
*2,336 *1 Mirai Nikki [DVD+BD]: 2011/12/22
*2,333 *1 Chihayafuru [DVD+BD]: 2011/12/21 (Second volume sales)
*2,101 *1 Ben-To [DVD+BD]: 2011/12/21

*2,038 *1 C3 [DVD+BD]: 2011/12/21
*1,853 *1 Kimi to Boku. [DVD+BD]: 2011/12/21
**,954 *1 Morita-san wa Mukuchi. 2: [DVD]: 2012/01/27
- - - - - - - - - Anime Saving Line (883) - - - - - - - - -
**,*** *0 Mashiro-iro Symphony [DVD+BD]: 2012/01/25
**,*** *0 Hunter x Hunter (2011) [DVD+BD]: 2012/01/25
**,*** *0 UN-GO [DVD+BD]: 2012/01/27
**,*** *0 Phi Brain Kami no Puzzle [DVD+BD]: 2012/01/27

Not out yet
**,*** ** Kidou Senshi Gundam AGE [DVD+BD]: 2012/02/10
**,*** ** Fate/Zero [BD-BOX]: 2012/03/07
**,*** ** Bakuman 2 [DVD+BD]: 2012/??/??

fuck you japan
 
Persona 4 numbers are ridiculous. They basically just crapped that show out and the otaku are lapping it up. Apparently all you need to do to make big money is license a hot property and then make the cheapest, crappiest show you can.
 
at least the Rinne OP + ED single's finally out... 10k guilty crown ;_;

Persona 4 numbers are ridiculous. They basically just crapped that show out and the otaku are lapping it up. Apparently all you need to do to make big money is license a hot property and then make the cheapest, crappiest show you can.
i guess they figured they could get away with it considering it's an adaptation of a fairly popular game, and it looks like they did :(
 
Persona 4 numbers are ridiculous. They basically just crapped that show out and the otaku are lapping it up. Apparently all you need to do to make big money is license a hot property and then make the cheapest, crappiest show you can.

I figured this would be a given with how well licensed games sell.

The show has gotten a lot better.
 
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