hosannainexcelsis
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Holy cow, the author of Hyouka is writing this! (assuming this is correct)
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Holy cow, the author of Hyouka is writing this! (assuming this is correct)
Huh, what? So a reverse of Hyouka?
They should tell Yonezawa to work on more Hyouka instead.
lolololololol
The tears would be amazing if it was true. Holy shit.
Too bad it's not.
Umetsu didn't do character design for Donna. That one was Shingo Adachi (the SAO anime guy!)
They made a ton of money off that movie so it was probably worth pissing of the hardcore crowd. The franchise is all but dead anyways.
nintendoman58
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Hunter X Hunter - 112
Well I'm certainly not disappointed. Seeing as I caught up with the manga, I'm hyped as hell for seeing what's to come in animated form in this show.
You know, I bet Netero is somewhat disappointed that he has to fight something that can actually love a human as opposed to the demon that he thought he was going to fight minutes ago. I know I'd feel bad if I was prepared to absolutely brutally obliterate what's supposed to be a demonic evil monster only to walk in it's cave, to find said monster caring for its kin like a loving father.
Now he's probably thinking: "Aw dammit, victory ain't gonna be so sweet now."
Now he's probably thinking: "Aw dammit, victory ain't gonna be so sweet now."
Well I'm certainly not disappointed. Seeing as I caught up with the manga, I'm hyped as hell for seeing what's to come in animated form in this show.
People who want more Hyouka.
I wonder what it feels like to write a super-popular franchise and then be like "meh.... I don't really want to finish this."
I'll start crying once theres more material to adapt.
hipbabboom
Huh? What did I say? Did I screw up again? :(
Oh crap... thanks for catching that, I miss-read. He was credited with original work... still his hands are visible... man loves his violence.
Maximilian Kolbe
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I think it's true
They guy in 2ch bought this magazine then leak the info a bit earlier than official announcement
That can't possibly be true. It says it has a live action dorama tieup as well.
Probably about the same as Miura.
It doesn't make a lick of sense on multiple levels unless Gatoh is helping Yonezawa out with the scripts.
But most are resigned to the fact that
a. there's not enough material
b. it's difficult to produce anything of such caliber again
c. the studio doesn't seem too inclined to undertake such a venture
d. kaho >>> misaki
The awful LN designs threw me off, but whoever ends up handling it for the animation will likely change them for the better. Otherwise, Takemoto, Gatoh, blah blah blah, I can deal. Better than more Free or Chuu2.
Besides, the tears from FMP fans drowns out anything else.
KirbYuuYuu
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Ojamajo Doremi Dokkaan! 15
This Mother's Day episode was much easier to swallow in comparison to older episodes detailing this event, but it certainly is very interesting nonetheless.
This image isn't even relevant to the events of this episode, but it still poses a very interesting question. I know there were episodes where the dad got focus, but Father's Day? Different story. Think it also applies for Precure as well, I don't really recall many father's day episodes, if at all.
That being said, Hazuki actually grows a pair
and it was like FUCK YEAH! FUCK YOUR MOTHER! Hazuki, Onpu, and Aiko (to a lesser extent) had the floor here. Doremi's mother had a place for this episode
. Momoko... why exactly was she there?
There's also some insight on why Onpu became a child idol, as well as her goal, and well...
Hoooooooooly shit! Nevermind the "Hey, I'm a big fan of yours!" And then followed up with that! What the fuuuuuck! I had to double take when I saw that.
This Mother's Day episode was much easier to swallow in comparison to older episodes detailing this event, but it certainly is very interesting nonetheless.
This image isn't even relevant to the events of this episode, but it still poses a very interesting question. I know there were episodes where the dad got focus, but Father's Day? Different story. Think it also applies for Precure as well, I don't really recall many father's day episodes, if at all.
That being said, Hazuki actually grows a pair
Despite being Baaya to do some of her heart yelling
mainly running away from home so lets stay at her place
There's also some insight on why Onpu became a child idol, as well as her goal, and well...
Hoooooooooly shit! Nevermind the "Hey, I'm a big fan of yours!" And then followed up with that! What the fuuuuuck! I had to double take when I saw that.
nintendoman58
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I gotta be honest, while the show definetly has it's depressing moments, it didn't have as much as I thought it would have originally.
The
Chimera Ant
That's what makes this show great. While it certainly can do happiness, it can do dark just as well, creating a good balance that makes it unpredictable and fun.
Well that doesn't preclude the possibility of Yonezawa actually doing the scripts himself for a 2nd season, which before this announcement (if true which I doubt), wasn't a real possibility.
Maximilian Kolbe
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Actually i think it's hard to believe too
I guess i have to buy that mag to confirm that,if no one take a picture to prove that(staff) in short time
THE GOLDEN LAWS
As Previously, Within are my thoughts during the course of the film, so you may read, laugh, or avoid them at your pleasure.
This movie was dumb. Seriously dumb. As someone who considers himself extremely hesitant to mock the religious beliefs of others, this was a dumb, dumb movie.
And you know what? It wasn't because it hilariously glossed over Jesus, made all kinds of Shin Mazinger Z claims about pre-Greek history, or because it had a guy basically flirting with his descendant for two hours. All of that was appalling, yes, let there be no mistake, but that wasn't really what makes The Golden Laws the worst Happy Science film I've seen.
The Laws of Eternity was boring, and the Rebirth of Buddha was a significant improvement over it. Unfortunately, it seems that what they took away from the focus groups there was "Less blah blah blah more alien invasions" meant "More blah blah blah but this time with TIME TRAVEL!"
Let's break it down, shall we?
There is no plot to this film. Not really. Satoru and his not-girlfriend-really-granddaughter hop in her hijacked time machine, accidentally cause HALF OF HISTORY, all the while avoiding all manner of historical things (no seriously did the Sphinx even exist in the days of Moses? That is some Aladdin level of nonsense.) but once the "plot" gets underway it's just . . . "Hey let's go to 21st Century Japan!" LOL NO HERE IS ANOTHER HISTORICAL MOMENT INSTEAD. And that's it. For 2 hours. That's it. Which leads us into the next complaint I have to make.
You can only have so many spiritually moving moments accompanied by majestic orchestral pieces in a movie before eventually they stop having effect. Watch a movie about the miracles of Jesus. You'll notice they give you some breathing room. They give you scenes of Christ teaching. It's not just miracle miracle miracle miracle. Significant amounts of time are spent building you up for the Crucifixion so you know it is a big deal and not just another in a long, long line of miracles.
I mean seriously, 2000ish years ago the guys writing the Gospels knew to fucking build you to that moment. That isn't the case in this movie. I was constantly bombarded with amazing miraculous moments and stirring speeches about the sugar-coated, non-denominational love of God. "See God part the Red Sea for Moses! See Buddha calm a rampaging Elephant without blinking! See Hermes beat the first level of God of War! See Hermes beat the last level of God of War 3! See God in the stream of time. YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY." And that goddamn moving music blaring nonstop gets old after awhile. It's enough to make even the deepest of believers question why the all loving God won't shut the eternal cacophony of horrible, washed up English voice actors and most-generic moving spiritual music the Hell up.
There is no development to the cast this time around. I mean do we really expect two teenagers who are on a joyride to have much development? I suppose not, but some would be nice. The closest we get to it is that moron girl learns the definition of "awesome" (opening up a proverbial Pandora's Box of questions about how language works when she needs to use a translator to translate modern Japanese but not to speak to a kid from 500 years in her past, and how his notepad, in spite of being 500 years older than her time machine, is fully interfaceable with it.) And also that Ash Ketchum decides he wants to be a religious leader . . . which is preeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeetty obvious he wants to do anyway. I guess he overcomes his doubts, but they're never, ever elucidated, ever.
The nearest things we get to references to older works in this movie are the endless talk of King Hermes who was the physical incarnation of God (begging no end of questions as to what was meant by "Queen Aphrodite is a Goddess" and furthermore of all the Gods, why did they choose to further deify HERMES?" And is he with Aphrodite because of Cupid? What's the deal there? Cuz normally Haephestus does not take kindly to dudes sleeping with his amorous wife.
Anyway, what else was their to cover? The CGI sucked, the characters continued to have the same ghastly pallor to their skin they've had since the first movie, there were racist caricatures and Jesus gets gipped so massively I really don't know why they bothered to include him. I mean how do you do the Crucifixion and Resurrection in like, less than 10 minutes? What, did you have somewhere to be?
The most laughable part though was that if I take this movie literally (which I have NO idea if I am meant to) it means that roughly 1/3 of all spiritual phenomona throughout human history can be attributed to two teenagers on a joyride in a stolen time machine.
That is some really, really out there doctrine.
As Previously, Within are my thoughts during the course of the film, so you may read, laugh, or avoid them at your pleasure.
This movie was dumb. Seriously dumb. As someone who considers himself extremely hesitant to mock the religious beliefs of others, this was a dumb, dumb movie.
And you know what? It wasn't because it hilariously glossed over Jesus, made all kinds of Shin Mazinger Z claims about pre-Greek history, or because it had a guy basically flirting with his descendant for two hours. All of that was appalling, yes, let there be no mistake, but that wasn't really what makes The Golden Laws the worst Happy Science film I've seen.
The Laws of Eternity was boring, and the Rebirth of Buddha was a significant improvement over it. Unfortunately, it seems that what they took away from the focus groups there was "Less blah blah blah more alien invasions" meant "More blah blah blah but this time with TIME TRAVEL!"
Let's break it down, shall we?
There is no plot to this film. Not really. Satoru and his not-girlfriend-really-granddaughter hop in her hijacked time machine, accidentally cause HALF OF HISTORY, all the while avoiding all manner of historical things (no seriously did the Sphinx even exist in the days of Moses? That is some Aladdin level of nonsense.) but once the "plot" gets underway it's just . . . "Hey let's go to 21st Century Japan!" LOL NO HERE IS ANOTHER HISTORICAL MOMENT INSTEAD. And that's it. For 2 hours. That's it. Which leads us into the next complaint I have to make.
You can only have so many spiritually moving moments accompanied by majestic orchestral pieces in a movie before eventually they stop having effect. Watch a movie about the miracles of Jesus. You'll notice they give you some breathing room. They give you scenes of Christ teaching. It's not just miracle miracle miracle miracle. Significant amounts of time are spent building you up for the Crucifixion so you know it is a big deal and not just another in a long, long line of miracles.
I mean seriously, 2000ish years ago the guys writing the Gospels knew to fucking build you to that moment. That isn't the case in this movie. I was constantly bombarded with amazing miraculous moments and stirring speeches about the sugar-coated, non-denominational love of God. "See God part the Red Sea for Moses! See Buddha calm a rampaging Elephant without blinking! See Hermes beat the first level of God of War! See Hermes beat the last level of God of War 3! See God in the stream of time. YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY." And that goddamn moving music blaring nonstop gets old after awhile. It's enough to make even the deepest of believers question why the all loving God won't shut the eternal cacophony of horrible, washed up English voice actors and most-generic moving spiritual music the Hell up.
There is no development to the cast this time around. I mean do we really expect two teenagers who are on a joyride to have much development? I suppose not, but some would be nice. The closest we get to it is that moron girl learns the definition of "awesome" (opening up a proverbial Pandora's Box of questions about how language works when she needs to use a translator to translate modern Japanese but not to speak to a kid from 500 years in her past, and how his notepad, in spite of being 500 years older than her time machine, is fully interfaceable with it.) And also that Ash Ketchum decides he wants to be a religious leader . . . which is preeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeetty obvious he wants to do anyway. I guess he overcomes his doubts, but they're never, ever elucidated, ever.
The nearest things we get to references to older works in this movie are the endless talk of King Hermes who was the physical incarnation of God (begging no end of questions as to what was meant by "Queen Aphrodite is a Goddess" and furthermore of all the Gods, why did they choose to further deify HERMES?" And is he with Aphrodite because of Cupid? What's the deal there? Cuz normally Haephestus does not take kindly to dudes sleeping with his amorous wife.
Anyway, what else was their to cover? The CGI sucked, the characters continued to have the same ghastly pallor to their skin they've had since the first movie, there were racist caricatures and Jesus gets gipped so massively I really don't know why they bothered to include him. I mean how do you do the Crucifixion and Resurrection in like, less than 10 minutes? What, did you have somewhere to be?
The most laughable part though was that if I take this movie literally (which I have NO idea if I am meant to) it means that roughly 1/3 of all spiritual phenomona throughout human history can be attributed to two teenagers on a joyride in a stolen time machine.
That is some really, really out there doctrine.
KirbYuuYuu
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Doesn't help that it also looked like a bag of testicles.
The only reason I could see something like that happening is if Gatoh is grooming Yonezawa for more productions. There was nothing in Hyouka that would suggest that Yonezawa would be a good fit for slaptstick comedy stuff, not to mention that Yonezawa hasn't done scripts for an anime production as far as I can see, and we know that Gatoh is perfectly capable and willing to do the scripts for his own TV shows.
But didn't he already use the theme park mascot idea in FMP?
Corvo: According to what I've read regarding the book...
Satoru is Jesus.
Another great shot.
If this involves kid abuse then I'm in. Honestly I think it depends on the tone they go for with this. It's not going to be super serious but if they do have a somewhat angry tone, then it could be a lot of fun.
Not to any serious extent.
I should be done with Jojo: Phantom Blood within a week or so. I'll post impressions on it then. I can't wait to start Battle Tendency.
Here I uguuu~! *splat*
Here I uguuu~! *splat*
According to yaraon, something called Inugami-san to Nekoyama-san was also announced as a short anime.
It seems like its Yuri.
rhizomatic
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First, it's really nice to see that AnimeGAF is finally acknowledging Hunter x Hunter.
Second,
Pani Poni Dash - 1
I'm not feeling this right now. I know the series isn't perfect by any metric, but I'm absolutely certain I'd like this a lot more if I weren't feeling like shit at the moment.
I'm gonna give it another episode and then see if it clicks then. If it doesn't, I'll wait until I'm in a better mood to watch it.
Second,
Pani Poni Dash - 1
I'm not feeling this right now. I know the series isn't perfect by any metric, but I'm absolutely certain I'd like this a lot more if I weren't feeling like shit at the moment.
I'm gonna give it another episode and then see if it clicks then. If it doesn't, I'll wait until I'm in a better mood to watch it.
KirbYuuYuu
Member
But Jesus got no screen time in that movie! [screams internally]
Fair enough.
This is no boy's Zaku, no boy's Zaku!
Battle Tendency is so, so much better in every way.
EDIT: Will From the New World 20 match up to 19? Probably not, but it's time to find out!
Kino's Journey 9
There was...a lot to this episode, and I might end up missing some things or whatevs, but here goes.
The Author here was...an interesting fellow. I feel like I should have seen the reveal about the "book about everything" coming (I didn't). That, along with burning down the book collection in the castle, tie into his message that people need to write their own stories and create their "reality". The book about everything is empty because the person who writes in their knowledge and their stories will thus create what is, to them, the book about everything. He claimed to Kino that becoming an author was how one broke out of the meaninglessness of their lives and the suffering that comes with being a main character in a story that won't let them be one. And that's why he made that book; because by creating your own idea of reality, you can become the main character in your story, not "the" story.
The most interesting scene to me was when Kino was talking to the head lady of the book sorting and shit. Her claim as to the secondary reason they have their policy seemed to be a dig at the people, a lot of whom seem to be on NeoGAF, just drone on and on about how what they're reading sucks and how everything is wrong with it. But then she claimed that reading a book was a personal matter that should be kept in the heart. But her department specializes in keeping these books away from people outside the castle. Kino said that everything available for public exchange at the library were sterile, not able to make any connection with the reader. If this woman loves reading and connecting with her books so much, why does she consider them harmful and work to keep them away from people?
Episode also seemed to have a few other digs there, with "Critics are never wrong!", and "Yeah, but (people who pine for a character in a book) are crazy people".
Contrast between the newly arriving critics and the experienced critics seemed interesting to me. Coming in you have a group of readers who've been reading and spreading "harmful" books against the law. The people who've been there the longest were just a group of cynical, self-important people who, as mentioned before, were droning on and on about how everything they were reading sucked. Is the implication there that people who do nothing but consume and consume the worlds created by others just end up becoming numb to these books as they start to scrutinize and scrutinize them?
Keeping all this in mind, it would seem like the episode was just a criticism of those type of people, those who read and read and read to the point of becoming obsessed with them, and then becoming cynical and jaded about them. But I'm not sure it is, because 1. Does the fact that there are people like this mean that all people should be prevented from exposing themselves to these "harmful" things? and 2. If this is the path of the person who only consumes, why is writing books banned? Why is producing these works straight outlawed? I guess it's because often society tries to counter these types of people not by dealing with them but the works they consume, trying to censor things, or blame them when problems arise in the real world.
And in between these two extremes is the man Kino met outside the country in the beginning of the episode. The man who seemed tired of absorbing himself in the worlds created by others and decided he was going to go create one of his own, so that other people could absorb themselves in his. And the critics will cynically trash it to no end, and it will be deemed harmful and banned from the public library. A vicious cycle, but at least one man seemed to escape from it.
There was...a lot to this episode, and I might end up missing some things or whatevs, but here goes.
The Author here was...an interesting fellow. I feel like I should have seen the reveal about the "book about everything" coming (I didn't). That, along with burning down the book collection in the castle, tie into his message that people need to write their own stories and create their "reality". The book about everything is empty because the person who writes in their knowledge and their stories will thus create what is, to them, the book about everything. He claimed to Kino that becoming an author was how one broke out of the meaninglessness of their lives and the suffering that comes with being a main character in a story that won't let them be one. And that's why he made that book; because by creating your own idea of reality, you can become the main character in your story, not "the" story.
The most interesting scene to me was when Kino was talking to the head lady of the book sorting and shit. Her claim as to the secondary reason they have their policy seemed to be a dig at the people, a lot of whom seem to be on NeoGAF, just drone on and on about how what they're reading sucks and how everything is wrong with it. But then she claimed that reading a book was a personal matter that should be kept in the heart. But her department specializes in keeping these books away from people outside the castle. Kino said that everything available for public exchange at the library were sterile, not able to make any connection with the reader. If this woman loves reading and connecting with her books so much, why does she consider them harmful and work to keep them away from people?
Episode also seemed to have a few other digs there, with "Critics are never wrong!", and "Yeah, but (people who pine for a character in a book) are crazy people".
Contrast between the newly arriving critics and the experienced critics seemed interesting to me. Coming in you have a group of readers who've been reading and spreading "harmful" books against the law. The people who've been there the longest were just a group of cynical, self-important people who, as mentioned before, were droning on and on about how everything they were reading sucked. Is the implication there that people who do nothing but consume and consume the worlds created by others just end up becoming numb to these books as they start to scrutinize and scrutinize them?
Keeping all this in mind, it would seem like the episode was just a criticism of those type of people, those who read and read and read to the point of becoming obsessed with them, and then becoming cynical and jaded about them. But I'm not sure it is, because 1. Does the fact that there are people like this mean that all people should be prevented from exposing themselves to these "harmful" things? and 2. If this is the path of the person who only consumes, why is writing books banned? Why is producing these works straight outlawed? I guess it's because often society tries to counter these types of people not by dealing with them but the works they consume, trying to censor things, or blame them when problems arise in the real world.
And in between these two extremes is the man Kino met outside the country in the beginning of the episode. The man who seemed tired of absorbing himself in the worlds created by others and decided he was going to go create one of his own, so that other people could absorb themselves in his. And the critics will cynically trash it to no end, and it will be deemed harmful and banned from the public library. A vicious cycle, but at least one man seemed to escape from it.
Personally the show goes into a slump after 19, recovering only by the finale. But many people liked the whole thing so your mileage may vary.
More than Yonezawa defying logic and writing the script, the live action drama kills it for me. That's super unlikely to happen especially with the plot.
It is truly the year of yuri!!
dakkumauji
Member
Tonari no Seki-kun OAD
Ten minute segments of Seki-kun works just as well as the 5 minute format. I guess they are just too worried of using up all the existing material.
Ten minute segments of Seki-kun works just as well as the 5 minute format. I guess they are just too worried of using up all the existing material.
Tonari no Seki-kun OAD
Ten minute segments of Seki-kun works just as well as the 5 minute format. I guess they are just too worried of using up all the existing material.
Woah, I didn't know there was an OAD. Excellent. More Seki-kun is always good.
I-is this a joke?
dakkumauji
Member
So he's being strangled by a girl classmate while he's at a boy's high school?
I guess everybody needs a paycheck.
rhizomatic
Member
Damn, someone's desperate for money. Are the Kino LNs actually any good, or is it just the anime?
I mean, I'm not expecting a light novel to have brilliant prose or anything.
nintendoman58
Member
You might want to spoiler tag your posts of this show from here on out, as the episodes from this point are pretty damn heavy.
Other than that, great write up. Pretty much why I like that episode. So deep.
Oh right, you forgot the part about making it cry.
Which will be spelled out in total in the next movie, The Laws of the Sun.
Crossdresser I'm sure.
Sounds incredibly self-aware going purely by the Author. Would read.
Unless the stories in the anime were heavily altered, I would think so.
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