Psycho_Mantis
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Its more the case of no named characters dying and no one caring lol.
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Winter 2014 Anime |OT| I've got to find a dandy guy who killed my dad in the space
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Its more the case of no named characters dying and no one caring lol.
Psycho_Mantis
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Don't make me get out that gif lol.
On a more serious note yeah those two would be my favourite female characters. They get shit done.
Space Battleship Yamato 26
Melodramatic cheese is okay if it happens to things I care about. This ending was great. This show was great. The miraculous stuff even made sense in the weird context of all the stuff they set up in the ending.
I'd never have expected this show to be so good, but it's definitely cemented its spot at number 2 on my AOTY ballot. Given a fairly tight episode count and an ambitious scope, Yamato manages to make a pretty big ship crew feel like a tight family, giving each important member development while simultaneously tackling intergalactic space politics, adventures, and one of the best crews of antagonists an anime can hold. It's so rare to see a science fiction show that can spin a compelling tale of the far future without ever losing sight of the human stories that form the bedrock of any good work of fiction.
A truly special show that nearly anyone can appreciate. I can't thank AnimeGAF enough for recommending it until I couldn't ignore it anymore.
Melodramatic cheese is okay if it happens to things I care about. This ending was great. This show was great. The miraculous stuff even made sense in the weird context of all the stuff they set up in the ending.
I'd never have expected this show to be so good, but it's definitely cemented its spot at number 2 on my AOTY ballot. Given a fairly tight episode count and an ambitious scope, Yamato manages to make a pretty big ship crew feel like a tight family, giving each important member development while simultaneously tackling intergalactic space politics, adventures, and one of the best crews of antagonists an anime can hold. It's so rare to see a science fiction show that can spin a compelling tale of the far future without ever losing sight of the human stories that form the bedrock of any good work of fiction.
A truly special show that nearly anyone can appreciate. I can't thank AnimeGAF enough for recommending it until I couldn't ignore it anymore.
War in the Pocket and 08th MS Team are both worthwhile watches. I'm not the biggest fan of 08th MS Team, but a lot of other people really enjoy it. Stardust Memory is the one you want to avoid. That and Victory. The rest of UC is okay.
Well, speaking honestly F91 was pretty bad, but it gave us Crossbone, so I forgive it.
I agree that S2's designs were weaker than S1's, but I think they bounced back a bit for the movies. S1 had the best designs in the run, though.
Theonik
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I recall at least two instances of the Yamato sustaining major losses. In both instances it is mentioned only for dramatic effect and doesn't change the way the ship operates at all. You'd have thought they'd miss not having anyone to man all those positions but nope!
Theonik
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Amazing medical advances my ass!
how long does it take for the counter-intelligence dude to recover when he gets wounded?
Clearly the majority of the functions of the Yamato are automated and the crew outside the major characters exists simply to purchase the space parfaits and be jettisoned into space dramatically.
KirbYuuYuu
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Well 08th MS team was something I considered after seeing the OVA released last year, but I didn't get around to it (because PreCure).
Well there were people with names or something, that's the only reason why they played it for dramatics.
Trojita
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To be honest she is one of two of the most vapid main characters I've ever seen in an anime, and the other one is the male main character in the same anime.
The anime just seems like a vehicle for the girl's older sister (which I found hilarious that she was the ojou-sama of the school) and the male mc's little sister.
Every station had a backup person to man it while people were busy with the plot. Backup navigator was so earnest!
Crazy crossover anime theory of the day: Space Battleship Yamato and Jojo's Bizarre Adventure!
Consider the following: The mystical power that Jonathan and Joseph Joestar use is called the Ripple in most English translations. But what's the Japanese word for it? Hadou （波動）. And what power does the Yamato use to fly through the galaxy and shoot things? Wave Motion, or in another language, Hadou. A ripple is wave motion! They're the same thing!
What this means is that the Iscandarians developed a way to produce a ripple with technology, harnessing the free ripple energy of the stars to allow for FTL travel.
Thanks, Iscandar, for giving Earth the technology for the Ripple Core and the Ripple Gun!
Jex
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Of course the real reason it happened that way was because
that's what happened in the original.
iRAWRasaurus
Banned
Anyone know when the next Gudamn Unicorn comes out?
I feel like I should check out Space Battleship Yamato 2199 now..
I feel like I should check out Space Battleship Yamato 2199 now..
Don't forget it's also it's the movie about how Shinji growing a pair and do something not for the sake of acknowledgement from his father but for someone he actually cares about (outside of SRW@3) will fuck everything up.
To wit, Shinji must always be miserable.
You should, it's good anime
Ryu's fireball is also the HadoukenYamato x Jojo x Street Fighter all in the same universe confirmed?
I'd be on board, but the existence of the Dark Hadou seems to go against everything the other two universes establish about the power of the Ripple.
On the other hand, according to Wikipedia...
!!
You're on to something big here D:
R_thanatos
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Ah the feeeeeeels
Kiddy grade music was probably too hard to Top i guess.
And this is why i can't dislike the show entirely they really tried a new approach .. they did make some mistake along the way ..
They really went too far in that direction
Ryu's fireball is also the Hadouken
Okay, here's the deal:
- Humanity first discovered the art of Hamon ages ago in Jojo history to fight against immortal superbeings who might or might not be aliens from the Large Magellanic Cloud.
- This was in fact an form of drawing out the wave energy from all life, which is the same basis of the technology behind the Wave Motion Engine developed by the Ischandar empire.
- But with the dawn of Stands, humanity abandoned Hamon, and instead used a flashy new power instead.
- Decades later, Ryu is one of the only current generation practitioners of the art, which has greatly degraded in power from days of old because of a lack of interest from the martial arts work.
RIP.
Basileus777
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The ripple is hamon(波紋
Shhh, we can't let that stop our fanfiction.
Never let facts get in the way of a good story.
astrogamer
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Strike the blood 13
I don't really get why spatial distortions would be limited to doors especially in anime. Its a technical point in games but in anime, there isn't a problem like that
I don't really get why spatial distortions would be limited to doors especially in anime. Its a technical point in games but in anime, there isn't a problem like that
Basileus777
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They aren't going through a door when the first distortion happens in the airport .
Theonik
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Resistance will be silenced.The ripple is hamon(波紋
I need to get back to Jojo. Damn thee school schedule!
Already read and saw it.I didn't like Gravitation. The will-they-or-won't-they plot didn't mandate some 8 volumes to play out, so the whole thing felt like it was at a standstill until close to the very end. I stuck with it in the hopes that there might be a massive payoff (and that the main pairing would become a bit more interesting), but the ending wasn't good enough to justify the buildup. The anime fixed the pacing considerably, at least, and I ended up finding that okay.
Otokogokoro might work well.
Already read and saw it.I didn't like Gravitation. The will-they-or-won't-they plot didn't mandate some 8 volumes to play out, so the whole thing felt like it was at a standstill until close to the very end. I stuck with it in the hopes that there might be a massive payoff (and that the main pairing would become a bit more interesting), but the ending wasn't good enough to justify the buildup. The anime fixed the pacing considerably, at least, and I ended up finding that okay.
Otokogokoro might work well.
jediyoshi
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Space Battleship Yamato 2199 2
G'damn, their uniforms are so on point it hurts.
G'damn, their uniforms are so on point it hurts.
Wish they weren't being so overt about Yuki Mori and whatever her ties are to Iscandar. Planting seeds is fine, but they're pretty much beating you over the head with it. Curious if it's just matching the pacing of the original.
R_thanatos
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Exactly I'm pretty sure anything that serve as a "gateway" can be linked to a distortion.
It's magic after all.
Normally I would agree but this episode was pretty much the only one that breaks that tone.
The sister just randomly shows up with no real intervention on the part of the characters. It's a little too happy and sort of unearned especially when you compare it to the other episodes such as the star gazing one.
MikeHattsu
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But after that I have to travel back in time to watch some of the later episodes first...
R_thanatos
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Log horizon - 15
This episode was a little less entertaining than the others but it was still quite good.
It also had some weird shots here and there but it stayed watchable.
Now we can finally start the "return to the goblin king arc"
Next episode will be politics , drama and fighting ..... can't wait.
This episode was a little less entertaining than the others but it was still quite good.
It also had some weird shots here and there but it stayed watchable.
Now we can finally start the "return to the goblin king arc"
Next episode will be politics , drama and fighting ..... can't wait.
Joe Molotov
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No-rin 01
This was pretty funny, I don't care what anyone says. Also, plenty of :chet busting out all over the place.
This was pretty funny, I don't care what anyone says. Also, plenty of :chet busting out all over the place.
I dont think it was necessary. We can already tell from the getgo this is one frustrated and naive little lady.
thats what Mashiro is for. She is the show.
darkside31337
Tomodachi wa Mahou
Golden Time 01-02
This show is seriously awesome. Way more awesome than I could have ever imagined a JC Staff, Chiaki Kon directed anime that didn't involve boys kissing to ever possibly be. There's like a love polygon going on here with some potential and the MC obviously has some sort of shady past that they haven't touched on yet. Also Kouko is hot. Waifu material!
And yet I can't shake this uneasy feeling that the show is going to inevitably suck given who is working on it. Guess I'll find out for myself this weekend.
This show is seriously awesome. Way more awesome than I could have ever imagined a JC Staff, Chiaki Kon directed anime that didn't involve boys kissing to ever possibly be. There's like a love polygon going on here with some potential and the MC obviously has some sort of shady past that they haven't touched on yet. Also Kouko is hot. Waifu material!
And yet I can't shake this uneasy feeling that the show is going to inevitably suck given who is working on it. Guess I'll find out for myself this weekend.
Admiral Woofington
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On 1st highlight: LAWLZ
On 2nd highlight: it depends how easily you give up on the show based on the 1st highlight. Some of the peepz watching stopped but a sizable amount of us are still going.
Yeah the OP/ED of Kiddy GRade is pretty great. Corvy couldnt stop humming the OP.
Ill post it again for him
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnmbrSfefi8
Youll hate a certain element almost assuredly, but how much you love Koko will determine if you keep going or not because she isnt the problem.
jediyoshi
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Wake Up, Girls! - Seven Idols
WAKE UP, GIRLS! I'M BACK IN!
Suddenly the first episode makes a lot more sense. Seems pretty ballsy they'd use up all of their origin story for the movie since that's probably the 'safest' story you could tell. Still a fan of them grounding it a bit more. Straight up shots of textboard threads and overweight dudes who are a little too into idols.
Hope manager makes her way back into the show.
WAKE UP, GIRLS! I'M BACK IN!
Suddenly the first episode makes a lot more sense. Seems pretty ballsy they'd use up all of their origin story for the movie since that's probably the 'safest' story you could tell. Still a fan of them grounding it a bit more. Straight up shots of textboard threads and overweight dudes who are a little too into idols.
Hope manager makes her way back into the show.
foxuzamaki
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Log Horizon Episode 15
Lots of fun this episode, until it gets real at the end,
Lots of fun this episode, until it gets real at the end,
wonder whats up with rudy, does he not really exist? Maybe thats why it looks like he dies in the opening.
That reminds me. I haven't seen Hidamari yet but would like to, so this question is open to both yourself and really anybody who's reading and knows. I think I remember someone mentioning that the first season of Hidamari Sketch was a little bit different compared to the followup seasons?
It looks like there's a widescreen version for BD and the TV version was cropped? Is this the only difference and is it true that it was just the first season?
Ok. Well as kind of part of the more recent conversation in the thread that I'm getting to, I don't have any problems if you personally really enjoyed the show,haha. That's totally fine.
I guess it just didn't resonate with me as much. I actually saw the English dub and not the original Japanese and this might have been the last show that I've seen in English. I'd have to double check my listing of shows but other than maybe seeing some English clips that people have linked to, it's been Japanese for me for years. I haven't done a AOTY vote post yet so I might find some way to sneak it in there,haha.
I just listened to the first ten or fifteen minutes of your newest podcast and it sounds like you guys are going to do a bit of a AOTY as well?
Ah, forgot the twelve, yeah. Haha.
I like her. Her name is Miki Saijo and she's voiced by Satomi Moriya. Here's her character card:
This show will be divisive, no question about it.
I must be weird because how I'm approaching the current narrative seems to be different from everyone else. It's certainly not Toradora, but right now I don't think that's a bad thing...
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