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this Law of Ueki show looks right up my alley.

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it's a 12 minute short directed by Oshii about a basset hound meandering around an abandoned tokyo. it includes a weaponized robot girl flying around using twin musical french horns as a jetpack. what more could you want?
 
Dedication Through Light said:
Penguindrum 2

Kam and Shouma are hilarious as well as their two penguin partners. The episode was pretty gripping even if Ringo was unappealing and
creepy. Penguindrum is future diary? nice.
I like the animation style for running and how flashbacks are handle and funny signs.

SteinsGate 15/16

Suzuha's fate and subsequent father revelation and death was touching and shocking. So glad Mayuri was spared

Tiger & Bunny 15/16

Loss of powers for Kotetsu is an interesting plot change while revealing Yuri/Lunatic is related to Legend is cool. Starting to like Yuri, himself, pretty cool.
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Oh my god, do you go to the VT Anime Club too?
 
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Law of Ueki 6

This ep was actually kind of good. Heavy handed as all hell, but good. Weird. There were even moments where I was actually taken in by not just the narrative, but even the OST and cinematography. (the scene of Pic1) As usual, there were no rules to the operations, and shit did just happen for the fuck of it, but...yeah. I enjoyed that, a ghetto deen production, and think I might need a bath now. I'm actually interested in seeing where it heads from here.
 
Well, I hope you guys are having fun with your latest pact.

Also, DtL and 789 find each other in real life through Animu-GAF. DAWWWWWWWWWWWW

Zero no Tsukaima F - 05:

Louise and Saito are so cute together. We're talking some serious HNNNNNNGH these past couple of episodes. Everytime Louise and Saito kiss I can't help but DAWWWWWWWWW!

Judging from the next episode PV, it seems they are going to squeeze in a hot spring episode this season because, you know, why the fuck not? Sigh. I hope the author knows what he's doing here and will have the anime and LN endings match, what with this being the final season and all.
 
wonzo said:
Je t'aime



it's a 12 minute short directed by Oshii about a basset hound meandering around an abandoned tokyo. it includes a weaponized robot girl flying around using twin musical french horns as a jetpack. what more could you want?
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No bad j-rock.
 
7Th said:
Reading ANN reviews? I expected better from you, man.
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I was just following a twitter link! Anyway, I feel that because at around five paragraphs of average prose I feel hard pressed to call it a 'review'. I was merely interested to see what a live human being who had seen the film thought of the visuals, because I felt that I might be judging the film too harshly based off of the trailers.
 
Looks like the behind the scenes features for FMA Milos (the DVD/BD was released today in Japan) has given us our first glimpse at Yoshimichi Kameda, the kickass animator who is responsible for most of the best non-Nakamura action sequences in the last few BONES productions. Let's rate how moe he is from a scale of 1 to 5 cajuns.

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NeonZ said:
Those are the episodes with the "stand" and "dragon island" arcs, right? The ones that tried to mix comedy with serious stories... I was really not fond of them. It was probably the lowest point of the show to me.
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That's exactly right. If you're going to do a 'serious' arc, try to tone the 'comedy elements', or else what's the point of having these separate self-contained story arcs?
 
Jexhius said:
That's exactly right. If you're going to do a 'serious' arc, try to tone the 'comedy elements', or else what's the point of having these separate self-contained story arcs?
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I can't agree. Gintama's 'serious arcs' owe much of their perpetual effectiveness, imo, to the juxtaposing. It's done every time, and I've yet run into an arc where I felt as if they weren't composed well enough.

E: Except for this latest arc, incidentally enough.
 
Mirai Nikki 17:

Almost everything about how the manga material was adapted was absolutely pitch-perfect (as is usual for this series), even as the limitations of the budget are starting to show pretty badly in the really big action set-pieces. The
collapse of the tower
was hilariously terribly animated, which is sad as the full-page panel drawing of the same scene in the manga was one of my favorite single pieces of art in the whole series. Despite this, it hit all the right emotional notes just flawlessly. Once again they bring in additional content from outside the Mirai Nikki manga proper to explain Seventh a bit before the shit gets real. And yes, shit got really real.

The arc with Seventh was actually one of my favorite arcs of the entire series, because more than anything else in the series it establishes the boundaries within which Yukki and Yuno's relationship are confined. The contrast between Marco and Ai's relationship and Yukki and Yuno's is pretty stark in one sense yet strangely parallel in another. Marco and Ai's relationship is entirely conventional in terms of gender roles, in the sense that Marco is the strong man and Ai is the women he protects. This contrasts starkly with Yuno and Yukki's relationship, where Yuno is the strong man and Yukki is the woman she protects. And yet there is a strange parallelism where both Yuno and Ai are obsessed with their men to the point of stalking them and for the same reasons: both believe they were saved from a nonexistent and hopeless future by Marco and Yukki at some point in the past and so follow them with absolute devotion to a hopeful future. There is little doubt in my mind that the author of the manga intended this parallel dichotomy to be exactly as he planned.

Oh, right, shit is going to get even more really really real. You ain't seen real shit yet.
 
Mirai Nikki 17: True love.

Gotta say that despite the cheapness of the animation at times this is the one anime currently running that has never been dull (Chihayafuru had that recap episode). Great stuff, and sadly very underlooked. I guess that speaks more of the source material than the actual merits of the show though.
 
hosannainexcelsis said:
The Law of Ueki 3

This episode in the "Let's Laugh at DEEN Art" corner:

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That's supposed to be a midget. A midget. Someone failed their perspective class in art school.

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Seriously, who draws this stuff?
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Alright, those have to be the work of some kind of renegade attempting to sabotage the show. I can't believe someone thought that looked okay.
 
Regulus Tera said:
Mirai Nikki 17: True love.

Gotta say that despite the cheapness of the animation at times this is the one anime currently running that has never been dull (Chihayafuru had that recap episode). Great stuff, and sadly very underlooked. I guess that speaks more of the source material than the actual merits of the show though.
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The manga is one hell of a roller coaster and the anime properly adapts that storytelling aesthetic. Including, I hope, the
glorious trainwreck
ending.
 
Miri said:
I can't agree. Gintama's 'serious arcs' owe much of their perpetual effectiveness, imo, to the juxtaposing. It's done every time, and I've yet run into an arc where I felt as if they weren't composed well enough.

E: Except for this latest arc, incidentally enough.
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Most of the time it does work, at least for all the arcs I'd seen up to this point, but it really didn't come together for those two arcs, something was definitely off.
 
Chihayafuru 18: I think the problem with this episode is that they crammed too much stuff into twenty minutes. Chihaya versus Sakura-san should have been expanded into a full episode, and the finals of Class D and B feel very summarised as well. I understand the recap episode is probably inconsequential, but it is sad to see that the show is getting rushed after that happened.

Sakura-san was genuinely cute though. Not a MILF, but still moé.
RurouniZel said:
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Bacon is awesome! And too much of it provokes heart attacks too. My point remains.
 
Jexhius said:
Most of the time it does work, at least for all the arcs I'd seen up to this point, but it really didn't come together for those two arcs, something was definitely off.
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Personally, I feel the weakest arc of Gintama was Yoshiwara, since it dragged on a little too long. Although it did set up the spider arc, which provided the best episode of the entire show.

I think you'll like Season 4 better than Season 3. Perhaps because of the switch in directors, the earlier season was awkward at times.

Marrshu said:
Well I think they had quality control... once maybe?
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Back in 1985 when they animated Angel's Egg, sure.
 
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