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JJ Abram's strikes again, this time attempting to erase the original Star Trek from history!
Not so long as Leonard Nimoy is still alive and likes a paycheck.
Lee Chaolan
Member
The World God Only Knows - S2 - 5-7
I thought that was Elsie and Keima's classmate from the opening and ending. Chihiro is way cuter than she lets on. Her voice is very familiar too, but as I've sad before I don't really follow seiyuu that closely.
Loved Keima's Virtual Boy addition to his PFP. lol. It's amazing how similar the two are as well. This was a pretty cute arc.
Looking forward to the student teacher next, she seems adorable
I thought that was Elsie and Keima's classmate from the opening and ending. Chihiro is way cuter than she lets on. Her voice is very familiar too, but as I've sad before I don't really follow seiyuu that closely.
Loved Keima's Virtual Boy addition to his PFP. lol. It's amazing how similar the two are as well. This was a pretty cute arc.
Looking forward to the student teacher next, she seems adorable
Hellsing321
Member
Ok reading through more summaries of the next arc for SAO and it just sounds awful. Like so bad I can't believe people would read it and be impressed by it.
Link to a summary I suggest Firehawk stay out for his sanity.
Here are some choice excerpts
Link to a summary I suggest Firehawk stay out for his sanity.
Here are some choice excerpts
R_thanatos
Member
Only alfheim is badly written, Sao anime suffers from bad choices and rushed moments doesn't help.
i'm actually glad that SAO continues because people will see that alfheim arc was just a bad moment and that good things can happen in this universe
**sigh**Ok reading through more summaries of the next arc for SAO and it just sounds awful. Like so bad I can't believe people would read it and be impressed by it.
Link to a summary I suggest Firehawk stay out for his sanity.
Here are some choice excerpts
Putting some events out of context is really making your point across ...
I'm really impressed the lenght some of you take to search information in order to dumb down this franchise. you'd think that if you disliked it that much you'd not watch it anymore or ignore the rest.
You seem to be doing a fine job working yourself into an aneurysm so I'll just sit here and wait for you to keel over before I call the proper authorities.
I wouldn't put too much hope on that. Some will just jump off the cliff of their own volition.
Recently, My Sister is Unusual
Director: Hiroyuki Hata
Animation Production: Project No.9
Opening Date: 1/4
Official Site: http://imocyo-anime.com/
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpLDtLLWyL4
See, this is why I told you to stop.
Psycho_Mantis
Banned
Sword Art Online Extra Bullshit
So how do you frame a clip show so that you can trick people into watching and perhaps paying for this thing?
Here's Mr. Exposition, Chief of Exposition of the Exposition Department, here to give them a reason to shit out the entire series in a movie.
Oh, but that wouldn't be enough to get people to buy this. You can't ignore the harem!
Hey, they all have boobs except the short one. Isn't that funny?
It's like a one-two punch of shit. One where you're reminded of all the terrible plot that led Kirito to be the BEST GAMER EVER and the other where you're reminded that these girls all fell on top of his rod and want to ride him.
Fuck
You
Fuck
You
FUCK
YOU
AWFASDFLJ:THJDLFKASDL:JASDKFASDFASF
God, it's all coming back to me. I still hope that Kawahara doesn't *believe* in any of this bullshit and that he has found the perfect way to get into the heart of the otaku and stroke his "ego" in order to sell shitty fiction, much in the way that I just assume Stephanie Meyer actually hates her reading audience because there is no way that she thinks her writing is actually any good.
I can only hope that because I'm just reminded of the fact that the anime itself has no self-awareness. That it expects me to give a shit about any of these characters and their lust for the most perfect man ever. That it expects me to just buy into the shitty OreImo angst to the point that in the new material, they do their best to push it hard because I'm assuming (pseudo)-incest sells the most and Sugu is the "fan favourite" character of the franchise. Even in what amounts to a pointless OVA with no ties to the series beyond setting up the sequel season in a 5 second Marvel-esque tag after the credits, they just can't fucking help themselves. Fucking hell.
The people who like this thing will continue to like it. I'm sure they'll like the second season too. But for me, this was a reminder of everything that was contemptuous and insidious of the original series. Is it the worst thing on the internet since child porn? Apparently some crazy asshole said it was earlier in the year, so I'll have to defer to his opinion. All I can say that this series still represents everything that is terrible about anime in the 2010s. It's not the moefication of heroines or the rise of girl-only slice of life shows (because people who reduce Hidamari Sketch to "girls being cute for male audiences" can just go fuck themselves), it's this need to encourage the otaku audience into self-gratification through a reification of their hobbies. Buying games and figures and BDs and doujin and body pillows and onaholes are sacred activities to be praised and encouraged, because the otaku will feel good about themselves while continuing to contribute to the churn of the industry.
But you know what? Maybe this is the anime that we deserve, because even something like Yamato 2199 can't fully escape the churn of the modern anime industry.
I'm sure someone will point that I watched a show I called BoobJoust, and if you count the five minutes it takes for me to go through each episode, then yes, I did. But the thing is that BoobJoust, and I presume the other harem shows this season, don't insist on the importance of their characters or their plot. The directors or writers or whomever know enough that they are just hocking merchandise, than any dramatic beats are to create a serviceable story, not because they have a story that is actually worth telling. Imagine a shitty harem with the gravitas of 12 Years a Slave. That is what's wrong with SAO in a nutshell.
Too conclude, insert Asuna joke here.
No......no .....make it stop. MAAAAAKKEEEE IT STOOOOOOOOP!
I agree entirely with you Firehawk. This anime represents everything wrong with the medium condensed into such a shitcicle of cringeworthy drama and cheese that its hard not to take SAO seriously as a meta commentary of everything wrong with the medium. First my cousin and now my little sister, please make it stop. Please..
darkside31337
Tomodachi wa Mahou
He's already on board for S2. Every week will be a post that is more and more angry but internally he will be more excited to watch it week after week.
It ends with him buying an Asuna dakimakura and playing the eventual SAO fanservice eroge somebody makes for the Oculus.
Thanks, will check them out.
Admiral Woofington
Member
I'll probably end up watching SAO season 2 for the production quality and because fuck it. I mean I watched Infinite Stratos 2. And at least Kirito ended up with a waifu, even if it seems like it turns into Monogatari where the girlfriend gets pushed to the side WAY too much since we need to Expand the Harem.
Any reason I need to watch Extra?
Any reason I need to watch Extra?
Pancakes
hot, steaming, as melted butter slips into the cracks, drizzled with sticky sweet syrup OH GOD
gashikunFLCL
Member
Touch (2005) - The :kurita version
Gotta go fast. Minami and Harada actors were nice, mainly Harada. Nitta was an asshole.
I can't tell them apart.
But can someone explain this to me:
Gotta go fast. Minami and Harada actors were nice, mainly Harada. Nitta was an asshole.
I can't tell them apart.
But can someone explain this to me:
how can this...
?...become this
darkside31337
Tomodachi wa Mahou
Happy New Year to you as well ducky.
R_thanatos
Member
Admiral Woofington
Member
Hey that looks like my friend's dog. And if it's the same breed, then yes, those cute little puppies become gigantic within months. In fact, his dog derped so much he forgot he couldn't fit in the doggie door anymore.
darkside31337
Tomodachi wa Mahou
Whoa WTF?
There was a live version of Touch. Holy crap I had no idea. I gotta watch this.
MikeHattsu
Member
Godt nytt år AnimeGAF!
Sword Art Online Extra Bullshit
So how do you frame a clip show so that you can trick people into watching and perhaps paying for this thing?
Here's Mr. Exposition, Chief of Exposition of the Exposition Department, here to give them a reason to shit out the entire series in a movie.
Oh, but that wouldn't be enough to get people to buy this. You can't ignore the harem!
Hey, they all have boobs except the short one. Isn't that funny?
It's like a one-two punch of shit. One where you're reminded of all the terrible plot that led Kirito to be the BEST GAMER EVER and the other where you're reminded that these girls all fell on top of his rod and want to ride him.
Fuck
You
Fuck
You
FUCK
YOU
AWFASDFLJ:THJDLFKASDL:JASDKFASDFASF
God, it's all coming back to me. I still hope that Kawahara doesn't *believe* in any of this bullshit and that he has found the perfect way to get into the heart of the otaku and stroke his "ego" in order to sell shitty fiction, much in the way that I just assume Stephanie Meyer actually hates her reading audience because there is no way that she thinks her writing is actually any good.
I can only hope that because I'm just reminded of the fact that the anime itself has no self-awareness. That it expects me to give a shit about any of these characters and their lust for the most perfect man ever. That it expects me to just buy into the shitty OreImo angst to the point that in the new material, they do their best to push it hard because I'm assuming (pseudo)-incest sells the most and Sugu is the "fan favourite" character of the franchise. Even in what amounts to a pointless OVA with no ties to the series beyond setting up the sequel season in a 5 second Marvel-esque tag after the credits, they just can't fucking help themselves. Fucking hell.
The people who like this thing will continue to like it. I'm sure they'll like the second season too. But for me, this was a reminder of everything that was contemptuous and insidious of the original series. Is it the worst thing on the internet since child porn? Apparently some crazy asshole said it was earlier in the year, so I'll have to defer to his opinion. All I can say that this series still represents everything that is terrible about anime in the 2010s. It's not the moefication of heroines or the rise of girl-only slice of life shows (because people who reduce Hidamari Sketch to "girls being cute for male audiences" can just go fuck themselves), it's this need to encourage the otaku audience into self-gratification through a reification of their hobbies. Buying games and figures and BDs and doujin and body pillows and onaholes are sacred activities to be praised and encouraged, because the otaku will feel good about themselves while continuing to contribute to the churn of the industry.
But you know what? Maybe this is the anime that we deserve, because even something like Yamato 2199 can't fully escape the churn of the modern anime industry.
I'm sure someone will point that I watched a show I called BoobJoust, and if you count the five minutes it takes for me to go through each episode, then yes, I did. But the thing is that BoobJoust, and I presume the other harem shows this season, don't insist on the importance of their characters or their plot. The directors or writers or whomever know enough that they are just hocking merchandise, than any dramatic beats are to create a serviceable story, not because they have a story that is actually worth telling. Imagine a shitty harem with the gravitas of 12 Years a Slave. That is what's wrong with SAO in a nutshell.
Too conclude, insert Asuna joke here.
Somehow this is more amazing than whatever Corvo ever rant. bravo.
dakkumauji
Member
RIP firehawk again
Admiral Woofington
Member
Winter anime seems pretty decent. Unless there's another reason you're saying that. Like dat voodoo magic.
Eh?
Well that's even darker than my post.
hosannainexcelsis
Member
The worst part of SAO S2 is that the thread is going to be like this for another half a year.
But I already made a new thread!
hosannainexcelsis
Member
So does that mean SAO discussion in here will be outlawed?!
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Given the tag at the end of the credits, I'm sure it'll be
YOU ARE THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN SAVE US KIRITO-SAMA. I AM FORMING THE SAO INITIATIVE.
If only someone could fly around the sun to stop JJ from making Trek!
I'm sure they'll eventually break out the checkbook to bring in Shatner or Stewart at some point. Seems inevitable.
It won't stop. This is exactly what the dwindling fanbase wants.
I dunno, given that Carmack is on it, I'm sure the Oculus will come out the same time as Doom 4/Quake 5.
You know, I'm not sure how I would feel if SAO ever just became a pedestrian haremshit like a BoobJoust. Presumably it would be antithetical to the entire purpose of SAO, where Kirito is not only the Jesus and God of MMOs and Japanese MMO security, but where girls stop falling in love with him because of REASONS and just harem-up like any other show. But hell, if they're still milking the fake-incest stuff now, I can't see any of that happening.
Also, Happy New Years!
Oh yes, give me some more SAO.
I LOVE SAO, people, it's time to EMBRACE IT, feel it deep inside you.
Yes...
gashikunFLCL
Member
RIP AnimeGAF.
lewd
Pancakes
hot, steaming, as melted butter slips into the cracks, drizzled with sticky sweet syrup OH GOD
Lee Chaolan
Member
The World God Only Knows - S2 - 8.0 - 8.5
I love these types of episodes. lol. Was amazing seeing everyone again especially ShIori <3
Part 2 was cuter with Haqua showing up and that model. I can't believe that showed that even with the blurry filter on it. Elsie was so pissed! xD
Love the inbetween episodes, looking forward to Student Teacher now
I love these types of episodes. lol. Was amazing seeing everyone again especially ShIori <3
Part 2 was cuter with Haqua showing up and that model. I can't believe that showed that even with the blurry filter on it. Elsie was so pissed! xD
Love the inbetween episodes, looking forward to Student Teacher now
firehawk12
Subete no aware
We're already dead.
:shyamalan.jpg
In fact, perhaps we all died after SAO first aired and this is a Key anime!
Its okay we'll find another show like Code Breaker and hype it up as one of best action show ever made and live another year.
Psycho_Mantis
Banned
Given the tag at the end of the credits, I'm sure it'll beYOU ARE THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN SAVE US KIRITO-SAMA. I AM FORMING THE SAO INITIATIVE.
If only someone could fly around the sun to stop JJ from making Trek!
I'm sure they'll eventually break out the checkbook to bring in Shatner or Stewart at some point. Seems inevitable.
It won't stop. This is exactly what the dwindling fanbase wants.
I dunno, given that Carmack is on it, I'm sure the Oculus will come out the same time as Doom 4/Quake 5.
You know, I'm not sure how I would feel if SAO ever just became a pedestrian haremshit like a BoobJoust. Presumably it would be antithetical to the entire purpose of SAO, where Kirito is not only the Jesus and God of MMOs and Japanese MMO security, but where girls stop falling in love with him because of REASONS and just harem-up like any other show. But hell, if they're still milking the fake-incest stuff now, I can't see any of that happening.
Hopefully its a fad and dies out quickly. I suspect it is. Anyway if anyone needs a laugh:
I'd argue thats the best part.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
I will say, it's hard to know who to take less seriously when it comes to anime reviews - ANN or Kotaku.
Yes, embrace it like me and you will find bliss.
Pancakes
hot, steaming, as melted butter slips into the cracks, drizzled with sticky sweet syrup OH GOD
Bliss is an odd way to spell madness.
Lee Chaolan
Member
Cool, new SAO special to check out
It'll wait til after TWGOK
It'll wait til after TWGOK
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