I watched four episodes... it's no Time Jam!
Did you watch Jupiter Jazz? thats probably my favorite one.
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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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Did you watch Jupiter Jazz? thats probably my favorite one.
I watched four episodes... it's no Time Jam!
That's true, but what is?
Genre: Casual
Titian on blast.
As a non-manga reader Im not too affected by this.
KirbYuuYuu
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Hunter x Hunter (2011) 7
Who wants to grab some old man's ball?
Here we go, Killua's darkside!
Who wants to grab some old man's ball?
Here we go, Killua's darkside!
aka his Achilles Heel for this exam
firehawk12
Subete no aware
The last I remember, the girl ended up basically joining the crew.
True that!
ZombiePlatypus
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Not sure if it's appropriate to ask here since it's an older anime, but anyone seen Le Chevalier d'Eon? Is it a good series? Is it similar at all to Versailles no Bara?
So you stopped watching right before the best episode in the series.
A Black Falcon
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This show (B Gata H Kei in Japanese) is a good show, but the manga probably is better, and the anime doesn't get anywhere near the end of the manga, either. Yes, the manga finished, but they didn't make any more anime, it must not have done that well. Too bad.
Eventually the "Yamada's First Time" title actually does come true, right near the end.
Teru v. anyone was never going to end well, unfortunately I only hope that she can manage to do better somehow in the finals... Kuro's great and might be my favorite Achiga team member, but she sure got crushed badly there.
I'd say that they should make a Senriyama-hen sometime, but they kind of did in Achiga-hen, didn't they...
There's a reason why people started to joke about the series being "Senriyama-hen" around eps 11 and 12. Of course, that changed back later on, as Achiga made a late comeback...Achiga-hen started slow, but gets better and better as it goes along, for sure. It really comes together once it reaches the national tournament. That first round, with Teru and poor Kuro, was pretty good, and it just got better after that. The last match is by far the best, but yeah, Arata's is pretty good too. It's too bad that she gets so little screen time, though. For a character who looks a lot like some drawings of Ritz, Arata sure doesn't appear much... she's the Mako of Achiga. Too bad.
Awesome it indeed is. Oh yeah, and in the last episode we FINALLY are told what the main character's power is, too. Took long enough. Mahjong with superpowers sure is fun... for the girls who have strong enough powers to win, that is. For the losers... not so much.
Well, it won her the round against some pretty good competition, so it's a decently good power at least. It's got to be the strongest one on her not-really-superpowered team.
On the other hand, poor Ryuuka... Toki just couldn't put enough power into her thighs to get her through. Too bad, but Achiga and Shiraitodai had to win, so she really had no chance.
Really? I think some of the matches from the first season were great too... but that WAS a pretty great match, I admit. Be prepared though, the upcoming matches in Saki S2 should be just as great! No Toki, unfortunately, but great otherwise.
You like Achiga above Toki/Ryuuka, really? Eh, I like the Achiga team too, but Toki and co. really stole the show in Achiga-hen...
"The first couple of rounds of side-B Nationals because the manga's only 40% of the way through the third round of the nationals", that is, most likely... but the second round was quite long and exciting. That should make for a great match in the anime.
Is Hidamari Sketch yuri?
There's nothing as good as Nichijou because apparently great comedy in the classic cartoon vein isn't nearly as popular as otaku humor. I like that too, but it's not even close to as good. And yet there's lots of that, but only one Nichijou. Such a shame... because Nichijou is one of the best comedy animes ever.It's time to bring back Nichijou.
The best KyoAni show in the past 5 years.
Please KyoAni
It's good to see that IS S2 did well enough that a third season sometime is very likely.
Jupiter Jazz. Watch that one. Its two parts.
Mustard. Leonardo da Vinci wears mustard yellow in Nobunaga the Fool.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
You'd think they'd put the best episode up front then!
Good things come to those who wait.
KirbYuuYuu
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Hunter x Hunter (2011) 8
PSA: Tonpa is a jerkwado
And more reminders that the animals are rather bizarre.
A look back that it's rather interesting that they hire prisoners to handle some of this shit, on top of giving them a potential benefit.
PSA: Tonpa is a jerkwado
And more reminders that the animals are rather bizarre.
A look back that it's rather interesting that they hire prisoners to handle some of this shit, on top of giving them a potential benefit.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Backlog forever.
SoniAni 1
This is the sadness-tinged tale of a girl who simultaneously juggles three jobs and degrades herself for lustful men with money just to be able to afford her dead-end marine biology course at the local community college and to keep her cats fed. Born with malformed ears that impair her hearing, she still aspires to be a guitarist and simultaneously navigates several social circles, but she can only open her heart and her home to animals, whose nonverbal communication makes her feel truly at ease.
Too young to cope with the ennui and stress of unending responsibility and toil, she spends what little free time she has eating rich desserts from chic patisseries, putting her at odds with a culture that fiercely rejects overindulgence and endangering the commoditization of her body that she relies on to support her lifestyle. How will she balance all of these conflicting considerations and achieve her dream of breaking onto the Japanese pop music scene with her all-girl band?
Especially when her manager is Japanese Sweet Tooth?
This is the sadness-tinged tale of a girl who simultaneously juggles three jobs and degrades herself for lustful men with money just to be able to afford her dead-end marine biology course at the local community college and to keep her cats fed. Born with malformed ears that impair her hearing, she still aspires to be a guitarist and simultaneously navigates several social circles, but she can only open her heart and her home to animals, whose nonverbal communication makes her feel truly at ease.
Too young to cope with the ennui and stress of unending responsibility and toil, she spends what little free time she has eating rich desserts from chic patisseries, putting her at odds with a culture that fiercely rejects overindulgence and endangering the commoditization of her body that she relies on to support her lifestyle. How will she balance all of these conflicting considerations and achieve her dream of breaking onto the Japanese pop music scene with her all-girl band?
Especially when her manager is Japanese Sweet Tooth?
Turin Turambar
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I'm rewatching Cowboy Bebop these days. I think I watched it 13 or 14 years ago! Man I forgot most episodes. Still, the vague impression I had (good, but a bit overrated by the anime fandom) is still maintained. There are some weak episodes...
I do agree that it's slightly overrated, but that's kind of natural given its stature. It's still great. I also felt like it basically consistently got better right up to the end. The last episode was so good.
MikeHattsu
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Real life waifu wars then.
KirbYuuYuu
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Hunter x Hunter (2011) 9
Would calling Kuripika's hate for spiders a phobia be considered an understatement?
And damn, apparently this phase lasts for quite some time. The Hunter exam certainly does take some time to get resolved just from looking at the CR listings.
Would calling Kuripika's hate for spiders a phobia be considered an understatement?
And damn, apparently this phase lasts for quite some time. The Hunter exam certainly does take some time to get resolved just from looking at the CR listings.
Literally.
Theonik
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Humikane da gawd.
It's funny you mention Dandy, since Watanabe specifically brought some Satelight character designers on board to design them, some of which probably worked on Time Jam: Valerian and Laureline. (afaik)
KirbYuuYuu
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Hunter x Hunter (2011) 10
Betting in the game of LIFE! Think I'm done for tonight, lightheadedness is setting in.
Betting in the game of LIFE! Think I'm done for tonight, lightheadedness is setting in.
Turin Turambar
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What time is it in your country right now?
You done fucked up. The second season episodes are best enjoyed mixed in with the first season episodes for proper chronological order (this is how they were originally aired) so if you were going to do a rewatch you should have done both at once.
The second season itself is still worth a watch, though. Just steel yourself for the Endless Eight arc if you aren't already aware of how deeply controversial that was. Even if you wind up hating the second season, it's worth it to get to the movie.
Eh, Kill la Kill is only bad if you were chronically overhyped and are comparing it to Gurren Lagann at every turn. By any other standards it's a super-enjoyable series.
...Hell, I was chronically overhyped and comparing it to Gurren Lagann a fair amount, and I'm still loving it for the most part.
noooooooooooooo KanaHana's voice coming out of Onodera's mouth is wrooooooong
the little penis monster pet in Compile Heart's new game here (Extremely NSFW) http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=740629
is voiced by Tomokazu Sugita, lololololol
is voiced by Tomokazu Sugita, lololololol
DeadRockstar
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Obama breathes a sigh of relief as a new scapegoat emerges to shoulder the burden of everything wrong with the world. "Thanks duckroll" the masses cried. "Now we'll never be better than the Oscars."
They whole show is just one big gay metaphor by Togashi. What do you think Hunter x Hunter stands for?
Gon x Killua
Passive Assassin
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Hah.
Oddly enough, I kind of dislike the movie/show split precisely because it sells Wolf Children short. Of course Wolf Children is going to win when it's up against a tiny selection of other candidates most of which can't really compare and barely anyone watched. It would feel more meaningful to have it achieve a high position among the multitude of shows that people actually watched and care about.
Plus if people are ranking everything together, it's easy enough to separate it out into movies and shows afterwards and see what the results would have been like for each category separately. Whereas if people are making separate rankings to begin with, combining them after the fact is basically impossible, so we'll never know what could have been.
...Not that any of this has much to do with duckroll either way =p
Basileus777
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I agree with you on this. I wanted to place Wolf Children high on my top 10. Putting it ahead of the other films this year feels like a lesser acknowledgement.
BD/DVD sales
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2014-01-14/japan-animation-dvd-ranking-january-6-12
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2014-01-14/japan-animation-blu-ray-disc-ranking-january-6-12
Kill la Kill 7,567+1,221
Kanata 3,616+1,778
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2014-01-14/japan-animation-dvd-ranking-january-6-12
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2014-01-14/japan-animation-blu-ray-disc-ranking-january-6-12
Kill la Kill 7,567+1,221
Kanata 3,616+1,778
Will be funny if something else, like LWA, actually wins.
Also I don't see the beef. Films and TV already have separate rewards because they are consumed differently so it's not odd for us to do the same here. In fact some even said it should be broken down further so that films and the other one off shows like OVAs are separated from each other.
Also it would have been oh so much more useful if you actually said this stuff the months before when it was all discussed.
Also I don't see the beef. Films and TV already have separate rewards because they are consumed differently so it's not odd for us to do the same here. In fact some even said it should be broken down further so that films and the other one off shows like OVAs are separated from each other.
Also it would have been oh so much more useful if you actually said this stuff the months before when it was all discussed.
Basileus777
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KnK bomba. There is some justice.
I think OVAs work ok with films, it's the ONAs that should probably get their own category.
The format for this year is fine. I've grumbled about it, but it works well enough that there's no reason to get too worked up about it.
but then Free! is still selling 20k+ per volume D:
Kanata was easily better than Free
Basileus777
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Was it really? I found Free's melodrama to somehow be more tolerable than KnK's nonsense, and KnK's action didn't make it anymore watchable.
Not that either show was good.
Yeah, I kind of wish I had discussed this point earlier, but at the time I hadn't actually watched any movies so it didn't really occur to me xp
Heck, it was the AOTY awards that prompted me to finally get off my ass and watch Wolf Children. Who knows, I might not have even bothered if there hadn't been a whole separate category to fill out. So this method does have its advantages!
Just odd that everyone is grumbling about it after the threads creation and people have voted when all this was discussed months before the thread was made. The suggestion was put forward, lots of people liked the idea so I went ahead with it. Then suddenly all the counter arguments appeared. At least duckroll's big complaint (fanwank awards are not necessary) was voiced before the thread was made even if he did take it into his own hands to fix it.
And that was the main reason for it. Not so much Wolf Children, but to highlight all the other one off shows that may have been forgotten amongst the stream of anime series.
Basileus777
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Eh, every discussion I have seen about the voting process has had multiple opinions about how it should be done. I'm not sure why you are acting like there was some overwhelming consensus that all of a sudden people are speaking out against.
Turin Turambar
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is a tv series / movie division so weird? It's not like you have tv series participating in the Oscars, or the other way around.
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