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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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Jarmel

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...It's not!? :(

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sonicmj1

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I like how the scientists chose slug avatars for no possible conceivable reason.

I recall someone on AnimeGAF saying that they chose slug avatars because the tentacles served as the equivalent of extra hands, allowing them to get more work done.

A better adaptation wouldn't have left out such important details from the book, I guess.
 

Jarmel

Banned
Hrrmm... so the author was so lazy, he did a find-replace on all references to gender? I mean, the main girl calls the dude "hime"...

...

Should I watch more?

Can't be any worse than Turn-A.

It somewhat is, but it's close.

I recall someone on AnimeGAF saying that they chose slug avatars because the tentacles served as the equivalent of extra hands, allowing them to get more work done.

A better adaptation wouldn't have left out such important details from the book, I guess.

How does that even work though? It's not like you have four, or more, arms in real life.
 

madp

The Light of El Cantare
I recall someone on AnimeGAF saying that they chose slug avatars because the tentacles served as the equivalent of extra hands, allowing them to get more work done.

A better adaptation wouldn't have left out such important details from the book, I guess.

That still begs the question; why not just human avatars with extra arms?
 

CorvoSol

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I'm half way through the first episode of Goku: The Midnight Eye and I can't stop laughing.

-Motorcycle laser breathing dog brained naked red head.

-Tit flashing peacock hypnotist.

-Your eye has the awesome power to access the internet and also hack THE SOVIET UNION. Here is a Monkey's stick. Because you need it when you have a nuclear arsenal IN YOUR LEFT EYE.

-Leather jacket over nothing and a neck tie that could basically be a piece of string.

Can't stop laughing. Of all the gritty shitty futuristic tits and gore bad dub dystopian cyberpunk cop dramas on The List, this is the most gritty shitty futuristic tits and gore bad dub dystopian cyberpunk cop drama of them all.
 

Gazoinks

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Rozen Maiden 2013 3

They really do a good job of making it feel like Jun has absolutely nothing to live for outside of this doll business. What a depressing dude. I like this show so far, looking forward to seeing where the plot goes.
 
Pocket Monsters X/Y 013

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Just slightly creepy.

The battle with the POWER OF THE MOON was pretty fun, until using Attract brings it down. Otherwise, your standard kid is scared of Pokemon so let's do something to get him over it.

It's always a boy that's scared of them too. Do young girls just not know fear against Pokemon or something?
 

Jintor

Member
I recall someone on AnimeGAF saying that they chose slug avatars because the tentacles served as the equivalent of extra hands, allowing them to get more work done.

A better adaptation wouldn't have left out such important details from the book, I guess.

How does that even work though? It's not like you have four, or more, arms in real life.

That still begs the question; why not just human avatars with extra arms?

Are they even classified as players or are they sub-GMs? Why do they need to be in the virtual world in the first place? If they're admin-level why even bother incarnating as a 'physical' avatar?
 

Jarmel

Banned
Started watching the latest episode of Witch Works and one thing this really makes me ache for is a really good Harry Potter anime. LWA is the closest I've seen.
 
Hunter x Hunter (2011) 67

So now we're finally in a party.

I think what's funny here is when you consider that 9 in japanese sounds like two. Unfortunate! Getting close to the Volleyball game segment though!
 

wonzo

Banned
Wizard Barristers 2

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Two episodes in and this still really entertaining. I still couldn't help but feel at the beginning this'd be better served as a show about magical cops kickin' some magical criminal ass but I couldn't really care any less now as this still finds a way to include some action scenes, bon.
 

wonzo

Banned
Tamako Market: Absent Choinded 3 END

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I'll be so pissed if they don't turn Dela v Mechadela into a real thing for the movie.
 

CorvoSol

Member
I wish I could .gif some of what's happening in Goku The Midnight Eye but it's all waaaaay too NSFW. Still, midget security man riding on laser breathing dog motorcycle topless red head is perhaps the funniest thing I've seen all week.
 

Jarmel

Banned
I can't see BONES doing Akame anyway. Akame is edgy as fuck sometimes, usually for the hell of it.

Let's put it this way, there's some stuff in Akame that make Deadman Wonderland look like a petting zoo.
 
Saki 03

So is this an all-girls mahjong tournament?

Or is there only one co-ed high school in town?

Or does no guys (expect like one guy) plays mahjong?
 

Jarmel

Banned
Nah, I'm only familiar with it in passing.

There's some hardcore stuff in there. Either the anime is going to be neutered as fuck or censored as fuck. Also no way in hell are they going to animate that bonus chapter. People who have read it know exactly what I mean. I'm pretty used to 'suffering' and 'edgy' and there's some stuff in there that are rough.
 

fertygo

Member
I can't see BONES doing Akame anyway. Akame is edgy as fuck sometimes, usually for the hell of it.

Let's put it this way, there's some stuff in Akame that make Deadman Wonderland look like a petting zoo.

Dude, they make that Soul Eater spinoff.
Maybe at this point, they just bowing to their Square-Enix overlord.
 

CorvoSol

Member
Goku: The Midnight Eye 1

I think I really have seen waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too much bad anime recently because I legitimately, unironically came to enjoy this thing by its ending. I never, ever thought I'd find myself enjoying a bad dub gritty gore and tits cyber punk dystopian future cop drama, but there it is. I mean, the thing was actually pretty well animated, the plot was easy to follow, the action was neat, and the terrible dub enhanced Goku's one-liners, rather than just being a crummy dub job. At the end of the piece, Goku is pondering his eye's awesome power and concludes:
"But I still couldn't save the life of one woman. Bummer."
END FILM. There was all kinds of stupid weird shit that made it List worthy and not just really bad, like motorcycle and peacock woman and the fact that Goku's magical eye's donor is never even explained. There were manly, hardcore scenes like Goku gouging his own eye out to save his life, or using the laser head to shoot the evil scientist through the head. The violence wasn't just dumb uber gory violence. It was actually enjoyable in the kind of over the top way one might appreciate, rather than "hey look at this guy squeeze a head into popping like a balloon!"

And the worst part of it all was that Goku's eye, broken as an eye that grants one control to all nuclear missiles on Earth is, was actually used in a fairly reasonable way. It didn't give him laser vision or invincibility, but rather it made Goku, who had hitherto been more bruiser than detective, use his brain to get out of situations. Its hints and clues were more or less actually just hints and clues and not some magical bullshit I'd expect from an anime. I can't believe I'm saying this but the Midnight Eye was a fairly believable, reined in power for an anime protagonist to have. And that says a lot about how bullshit anime heroes' powers are if a dude having access to two nuclear arsenals is reined in.

Does the List require I watch the second one? Should I? I probably will.
 
Just caught up with all of the shows I missed this weekend. After watching them, the world conquering loli show grew on me a bit more, and the rest were ok or enjoyable enough to not drop.


Noragami continues to be the stand-out show this season for me. While nothing out of this world original, Yato's underdog charisma is amazing (dat voice acting), the animation is incredible and the music. Jesus christ I am loving the music. It's like the World Ends With You all over again. I really do hope they release the OST.
 
Saki 03

So is this an all-girls mahjong tournament?

Or is there only one co-ed high school in town?

Or does no guys (expect like one guy) plays mahjong?

The guys have a separate tournament. Have to segregate them out in order to keep things fair, because they'd never have a chance of winning against the better girls...

For instance, Ritz said at some point (not in the manga) that the winner of the guys' tournament would only be about as good as a mid-tier player on the girls' side, at best. Of course apart from in Saki Shinohayu (the new spinoff manga showing the backstory of the mahjong pros along with some new characters too, which is currently in elementary school) no boys have been seen playing mahjong, but they do exist. (Shinohayu minor early spoiler)
And yes, even in elementary school the girls are better. One guy reaches the final in the first tournament shown, but he finishes last there.
So yeah, there are guys, just not as many of them, and they aren't as good. Also note how most mahjong pros, all of them except for the one old guy, are women too. (And remember, they're real pros. They play for pro teams, have leagues, there are mahjong pro trading cards which some of the girls collect, the works.) Guys don't get lesbian powerboosts, unfortunately...
 

Mik317

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Nobunogun 3

This show is just the right kind of stupid. It's dumb fun for the most part....

Wizard Barristers 2

The MC design is so bad that it is ruining what could be a damn interesting premise...it is made even worse by the fact that almost everyone else looks normal and that she is getting called out on it. Like I am a guy who normally doesn't mind out there designs...but fucking hell man.
 

wonzo

Banned
Sekai Seifuku 2

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It's reassuring this is embarrassing the absurdity of it all and is keeping it relatively light-hearted as I really doubt this show will be able to keep it together the moment it starts taking itself seriously. The stuff in the preview has me worried to say the least.
 
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