I'll do it for something that I can't find here and now, and at the time shoujo was definitely one of those things. Like I said, I did it with Breaking Bad, and I did it with Friday Night Lights before that. But a show really needs to get its hooks in me if I'm not seeking it out for some reason. It's just much easier for me to watch something guaranteed like Roseanne or MASH if I'm going into old shows. And even then, I feel like I'm already missing out by not watching shows like All in the Family or other watershed/landmark American shows that define modern American television (which admittedly, is cultural bias/privileging).
The background fluff is more generic like other anime. All of the Shaft-isms come from how the characters are depicted. I really did lose my shit when they basically used the SZS "I'm in despair" shot for the main character. I couldn't tell if it was lazy, parodic, satire, or just genius.
Different things happen in each iteration of Endless Eight as well. It's not like they ran the same episode 8 times.
I find there's a difference between disinterest and dislike. For me, I can say I disliked Penguindrum. But I still finished it because I watched it "live". I don't have any strong feelings toward any of those old shows, and in the case of something like Space Cobra and City Hunter, I liked what I saw. But today like two new big PC games came out, there is probably new anime out, there is definitely new television out, let alone Oscar season is at its peak and there are dozens of excellent new movies to watch. Perhaps keeping up with the zeitgeist is a problem - but short of dropping a medium altogether (I already dropped sports, music, and comic books) - I don't know what else I can do.
Ironically, the most outdated period of anime is the early '00s when they switched to digital and now all of those shows are locked at SD resolutions forever
This really is the Endless Eight of conversations, so I'll just pull a Kyon and convince you to do your summer homework and get us out of this particular loop.
Forever stuck in the digital ghetto. The switch to digital is one of the worst things to happen to anime.
Did the Smile Precure movie come out this year? lolWhat is this Gundam and why are you excited?
Sure.
Again though, I don't actually have any kind of file or anything.
Haha. I still haven't watched the Smile PreCure! movie yet. If I see it before the end of the month then I can vote for it as far as AOTY! (maybe it's even better than Wolf Children!? ;p) Then I won't have any more Smile to watch though...
I think you dropped Doki Doki but are you going to take a look at Happiness Charge (or HapCha)?
This is why I think Endless Eight is genius. If this is how you felt after eight cycles, imagine how Nagato felt after thousands?
Ironically, the most outdated period of anime is the early '00s when they switched to digital and now all of those shows are locked at SD resolutions forever
The same things happened, they just storyboarded and animated them differently. It's not really anything like Groundhog's Day outside of the premise. In fact I can't think of any other story with a similar premise that was stupid/spiteful enough to do what Endless Eight did.
fucking finally
I don't know where else to put this ... I work as a writer/actress at FOX and convinced them to let me do a tribute to anime. Sorry if it doesn't count as Winter 2014, but if it doesn't go here, I don't know where to put it.
This will air on TV. And is maybe the culmination of my life's work.
It's for us. For you. For me. The song of a shonen hero with the combined powers of the big anime of the last decade and a half.
Ultimate Anime Hero.
Ewww DVD
Yeah, that was pretty OTT for an inside joke, but a look of the character depictions are straight from the manga, which I checked up on for some odd reason. Bizarrely, for a SHAFT show, the parts that were the different to the manga usually involved actually good looking cuts of animation that seemed to be there just for fun.
Like, are they making this show strictly for SHAFT fans? I guess I'm okay if they are, since I would probably just jump out a window if one of the characters just showed up with wideface, but it's just so weird.
In Bebop, all of the ships would be in CG, but all the warp gates would be inexplicably hand drawn.
Takagi and Sato are great with Conan It almost seems like he feels he doesn't have to keep up appearances as much around them. The best example of this is the Parade Bomber case where Conan basically confesses there's something different about himself to Takagi. I think since they're younger detectives, they buy more into the wonderment and perspective of a kid and value it. Perhaps they can suspend their disbelief a bit better than the inspectors.
Smile Precure movie is like... what you would've expected from Smile Precure based on the premise it was sold to you as.
As for Hapcha...
Honestly, I hope they drop some ef: a tale of memories references somewhere, just because they can.
You say that as if Monogatari's strength isn't the acting/writing!
Sure, but then there were just all the Monogatari-isms. If I blinked, I could have sworn I was watching short-haired Senjougahara on the screen instead of some boring harem protag.
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