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[Crash Station]

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Yajima!?

0_o

Nice missile spam near the end there. The mech battles in this really do have some nice choreography in spots even if they aren't perfect.

 

[duckroll]

Are writers even paid that much?

Okouchi is the co-creator of Geass along with Taniguchi. They're both credited on everything for the franchise, so yes, I think he's making mad bank on it compared to most people in the industry.

 

[trejo]

Can someone recommend some anime that is either war theme (e.g. like Last Exile, no Gundam/robot please) or something silly (like Working!!) please? Does not have to be recent.

For something silly, try Soredemo Machi wa Mawateiru.

 

[Geneijin]

War? Zipang.

 

[hosannainexcelsis]

Can someone recommend some anime that is either war theme (e.g. like Last Exile, no Gundam/robot please) or something silly (like Working!!) please? Does not have to be recent.

War: Legend of the Galactic Heroes
Silly: Gintama

Many hours of quality entertainment right there.

 

[KO Traveling Hobo]

Ghost in the Shell (superior ver.)

Filthy, ignorant plebeian here: which version are you referring to?

 

[Cwarrior]

Can someone recommend some anime that is either war theme (e.g. like Last Exile, no Gundam/robot please) or something silly (like Working!!) please? Does not have to be recent.

war: berserk...it's medieval war but if you want spaceship war I got nothing.
silly:gintama

I dunno, I've always seen Berserk as extremely juvenile and overly gratuitous in just about every way. I'll never understand the love for it. I honestly don't get how any socially well-adjusted individual can get any enjoyment out of it either, considering the type of stuff it revels in. Grotesque killings and lots 'o rape every 10 pages, woo.

Didn't you like Akira?

Akira has some pretty grotesque blood, guts and oh they managed to get a bit of some young girl's titty in there.

 

[Risette]

Filthy, ignorant plebeian here: which version are you referring to?

 

[KO Traveling Hobo]

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/18877092/anime/oshii_main_240.jpg

Oh god, make him stop. I'm sorry. I've watched anime here and there for a long time, but I've only recently started exploring the medium.

 

[Dedication Through Light]

Area no Kishi/Knight in the Area 5

I hope they tone down the "grip your heart and heartbeat" sound after every mention of soccer. Anyway decent episode, with the formal introduction of characters in the opening, Kaoru, and the captain, Mao, was it (had the stylish swim shorts), were cool. Beach soccer was cool, hope theres more.

 

[sonicmj1]

Trapeze 05

Great as usual.

This episode affected a lot of the preconceptions I had about the show, from what was established in the first episode.

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With the way that Dr. Irabu followed the characters around all the time (in the same time period) and the way that nobody outside the patients commented on his being there, I always assumed that he didn't really exist outside of his office, and I didn't have to pay attention to the way he changes form from kid to adult to bear-thing.

In this episode,

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he exists outside of his office, and other people know him and acknowledge him.

I feel like I'm half-right and half-wrong, but now there's a sort of overarching mystery that may be addressed, which gives things a little more urgency than before, when I was enjoying each episodic tale for its own sake.

 

[Risette]

Oh god, make him stop. I'm sorry. I've watched anime here and there for a long time, but I've only recently started exploring the medium.

But he's the director of the superior GITS!

 

[KuwabaraTheMan]

Knight in the Area 5:
I'm not really a fan of how fast the anime is going. They skipped over some pretty interesting stuff from the manga in this episode. Still, it's nice to be getting to some of the really good stuff from this period of the story. I just wish they weren't going at such a fast pace. We missed out on a lot of good stuff. 26 chapters in 4 episodes is...pretty frantic.

 

[KO Traveling Hobo]

But he's the director of the superior GITS!

I figured. He looks so sad, though. His name's Oshii?

 

[wonzo]

Kill Me Baby 3-5

damn, that's some high level ninja trolling techniques. op and ed still own.

I figured. He looks so sad, though. His name's Oshii?

Mamoru Oshii, the master of the basset hound. This reminds me that I really need to get around to watching Angel's Egg or and Beautiful Dreamer.

 

[Femmeworth]

I think I now understand why he likes basset hounds so much.

 

[firehawk12]

Knight in the Area 5 is so dumb because of the whole

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my brother's heart talks to me

thing.

I get the feeling that it's going to be the crux of the story, but I can't take it that serious. And this is coming from Cross Game, which went stupid when

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a girl who looks exactly like Wakaba shows up out of nowhere

in order to create a fake love triangle.

 

[Crash Station]

Can someone recommend some anime that is either war theme (e.g. like Last Exile, no Gundam/robot please) or something silly (like Working!!) please? Does not have to be recent.

If you want silliness, watch Dororon Enma-Kun MeraMera and Yondemasuyo, Azazel-san. Both are a bit more silly than Working though.

 

[sleepykyo]

I'm pretty sure I don't live in a reality where every single person I know has been

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sacrificed and tormented for someone's wish.

Neither do I thankfully. But that could have been the case for the Korean/Chinese comfort women and still the case in parts of South Africa(?).

 

[Femmeworth]

Neither do I thankfully. But that could have been the case for the Korean/Chinese comfort women and still the case in parts of South Africa(?).

You forgot the middle east and (south) east Asia.

 

[dakkumauji]

Zoku Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei 3

Well, the first part was quite confusing. Giving us animation that has no relevance and instead make the plot a radio drama made it hard for me to really focus on either one. Didn't even realize there was a new person introduced or that she was a classmate.

I did like the latter bits with the dramatic statements and reaction shots.

 

[cajunator]

For something silly, try Soredemo Machi wa Mawateiru.

I second this.
Chiaki omigawa is so Hnnnnnnnnnnnnnnng!!!

 

[wonzo]

and

whoops, i done fucked up. fixed

 

[Thoraxes]

I second this.
Chiaki omigawa is so Hnnnnnnnnnnnnnnng!!!

I knooooooowwwwww!!!

 

[Instro]

I knooooooowwwwww!!!

Paging duckroll.

 

[duckroll]

Hi guys.

 

[InfiniteNine]

Hi guys.

Yo dawg.

 

[iavi]

I knooooooowwwwww!!!

She's only hated cause she's beautiful. We all know it.

 

[Thoraxes]

She's only hated cause she's beautiful. We all know it.

It's true.

 

[NewFresh]

She has one too many dimensions.

 

[A Black Falcon]

Blood C is not a trainwreck. The writers clearly planned for the show to go a certain manner from the outset, they weren't just making stuff up as they went along for extra shock value.

A trainwreck is the kind of thing which lots of people watch because it's hard to turn your head away - but Blood C opened with a series of boring, formulaic episodes which is exactly where most people dropped it. Very few people seemed to get to the end of the show, and I know that many people here wouldn't have picked it up without duckroll bringing it up.

I know that practically no-one watched that show because there were very, very few blog posts about the ending. If you've seen how the show ends, you'd have to write something fairly substantial about it, so I can tell many people never even got that far.

As was suggested, no, a trainwreck is most certainly still a trainwreck when it's the engineer who intentionally derailed the train.

If Strike Witches really is such a defining moment for us as a species then how come I still see girls wearing pants all the time?

Because most of the world has not yet realized its brilliance.

Even when Jesus was alive, we ended up nailing him to a cross.

Indeed, these things take time. Hopefully they will eventually come around, right?

So shame at one's own puny flesh, then? Gotcha.

Yup.

 

[InfiniteNine]

She has one too many dimensions.

Yeah, what a weirdo.

 

[InfiniteNine]

Some of us were born this way.

:'(

You're still beautiful to me husbando~

 

[Femmeworth]

She has one too many dimensions.

She's a 4D person? O:

 

[wonzo]

Niiniigami SS+ 5

all I can think about while watching this was how the hell are they gonna top the knee kissing from the first season. damn, these cram schools sound like a network of prison camps.

She has one too many dimensions.

no one's prefect.

 

[Femmeworth]

I try to think of myself as a kawaii moeblob on the inside fwiw.

But your picture looked so cute, why would you want to be a moeblob?

 

[iavi]

I try to think of myself as a kawaii moeblob on the inside fwiw.

That's like preferring to self-loath.

 

[Thoraxes]

It's the only way she can be with her waifu/husbando.

 

[NewFresh]

Some of us were born this way.

:'(

I too am cursed with 3 dimensions instead of two.

But our imperfections are what makes us special <3

 

[Unknown Soldier]

Sometimes I go away for a day and thread goes entirely insane. :|

 

[Thoraxes]

Sometimes I go away for a day and thread goes entirely insane. :|

We were sane at one point?

 

[Femmeworth]

Sometimes I go away for a day and thread goes entirely insane. :|

We have one of these posts roughly every day or two.

 

[DrForester]

I try to think of myself as a kawaii moeblob on the inside fwiw.

No self hate man... no self hate...

 

[Instro]

Do I look like a miserable pile of self-loathing to you?

Chin isn't long enough

 

[cajunator]

I am all D's at once.
I am googol-D.

 

[NewFresh]

You still haven't assigned me a tortuous task to overcome and through it seek redemption!

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Wait, why am I reminding you of this...

Because we are all masochists at heart and proud of it! Also, I'm still debating the severity of the task, your infraction was minor.

 

[iavi]

Do I look like a miserable pile of self-loathing to you?

With eyes like that? Of course.

 

[wonzo]

K-On!! 8

oh man, this is gonna get all :firehawk on me isnt it? ;_;

Do I look like a miserable pile of self-loathing to you?

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12085667/uguumirror.png[img][/quote]
it's like reverse microcephaly

 

[cajunator]

K-On!! 8

oh man, this is gonna get all :firehawk on me isnt it? ;_;


it's like reverse microcephaly

No.
KON is not very :firehawk.

 

[iavi]

No.
KON is not very :firehawk.

K-ON!!, emphasis on the !!, is very firehawk. In fact, wasn't it the show responsible for the coinage of the term?