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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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Jexhius impression posts with images -> duckroll post with tons of beautiful backgrounds -> critical mass of positive impressions causing more people to pick it up creating more positive impressions.
A picture is really worth a thousand words when it comes to getting people to pick up new anime.
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In the confusion of Corvo's turmoil about being bored by Hyouka (I'm sorry he's not picking up on Hotaro's development, which is about to get a lot more explicit and interesting), I thought cajun would be more interested in pointing out that episode 9 is the first appearance of Misaki Sawakiguchi.
There's no denying that the school festival is the best arc of the show, and it has worthwhile development for every member of the club, but there's already a lot more in motion than it would appear just from looking at the 'plot' of what has happened so far.
3/5 here. What do I win?
R_thanatos
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i actually agree tha the HIme sudden ending twist was nonsense.
Pullizzer award or nothing .
I just couldn't flower of evil.
I felt so disturbed by the first episode that i couldn't even enforce my 3 ep rule.
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Senyu 2
OK, that got me good.
Girl being the demon lord was obvious the moment she appeared in the ending.
google docs is your friend for posts like that.
I got Love Lab so I'm good.
astrogamer
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Oneechan ga Kita 4
So we now got the Siscon and probably masochistic brother. If he is masochistic, I don't feel bad for him
So we now got the Siscon and probably masochistic brother. If he is masochistic, I don't feel bad for him
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Chet Rippo
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Is there a way to give a show negative votes?
I already voted for From the New World last year, and it doesn't have enough votes across the community to bother putting it up again.
It's getting a lot of votes this year. Possibly more than last year.
I don't think that's true. It seems poised to place higher this year than it did last year, by my estimation.
Hmm, I wouldn't have thought the regular majority of the thread was that... well, "impressionable" has negative connotations, so maybe... keen on recommendations? Unless there really were a ton of people who were waiting for the show to be available in its complete form before even starting to watch it. Plus it seemed that scifi/space opera wasn't a genre that a majority of people here seemed to really get into. But I guess the praise from those who watched it was so overwhelmingly lavish that it broke over that too.
edit: by the way, just to head off any possible complaints, I have nothing against the show itself. I'm still debating it myself but space scifi really isn't usually my thing and I've got a ton of other stuff on my plate as is.
edit: by the way, just to head off any possible complaints, I have nothing against the show itself. I'm still debating it myself but space scifi really isn't usually my thing and I've got a ton of other stuff on my plate as is.
Peer pressure is a powerful thing.
My Hime was a fun show that echoed Battle Royale except with mecha and lesbians. My Otome had an annoying lead and daddy-cest.
ZachDeKoromaru
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There was also a ton of people recently that just started Hunter x Hunter 2011, whether it was because of the news of it ending soon I couldn't tell you.
Oh. I guess there's still time to change my vote.
R_thanatos
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My feelings about golden time :
Legendary , someone better catch him !
Legendary , someone better catch him !
I think it has a lot to do with the subject matter as well. Sci-fi (especially space opera) appeals really well to nerds and the regulars in this thread are nothing if not nerds.
Attempted daddy-cest to be clear!
And she didn't even make a move in the sequel OVA, what a coward!
Arika may be what got me to jump into late night anime in the first place. Her VA (Mika Kikuchi) was familiar to me from Dekaranger, and thus a good enough link to get me into it, even if I'd never seen HiME.
Fair enough; it was just a supposition on my part and I've been really distant from the thread anyway so I probably shouldn't claim to be able to analyze the tastes of the most frequent posters.
I see Nana remains secret best girl. I would totally watch a show about the hijinks of all of the likable side characters in this show, and what they get up to while everyone is angsting.
Eh, I don't think it's that crazy. "Hey these people whose opinions I agree with really like this thing. Maybe I would like it?"
R_thanatos
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Everyone is encouraged to at least give it a try ...did someone in thie thread ever dislike the show ?
Nana-sempai is best girl.
If they did, they were probably shunned and sent out into the wastelands of the internet.
Is that dude meant to look exactly like Zack Fair from FF7?
It's gotten like 10 votes on the last page. The comeback begins now.
Dedication Through Light
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Z/X Ignition Phase 4
Well the plot is good
. Somehow not much else to say though.
Well the plot is good
Michael v Gabriel and such there
I never found Him as fun as Otome was in its first half. Arika I do have issues with and yea I was not cool with angle.
THANK GOD IT DIDN'T GO ANYWHERE!
I still liked Sergay more then Tate, who is one of my all time most hated anime characters of all time. Most of all I can't ignore how really sloppy Hime's writing got and I don't just mean the ending.
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Pretty sure any spiky haired protagonist with a sword larger than themselves is supposed to look like Cloud/Zack.
still waiting on that death billiards comeback.
Crash Station
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Glare away!
Blue Exorcist Movie
I now see why this gets so much (well deserved) praise with all the insanely gorgeous backgrounds, fantastic layouts & animation, and a damn good story that's able to make this stand on its own without any prior knowledge of the series. My only real complaint is that I wasn't really feeling the ending all that much but everything else more than made up for it.
I still think Aura is a better movie overall but this is also well worth everyones time.
Oh, and how dare you forget about YAMA NO SUSUME???! tcht
I now see why this gets so much (well deserved) praise with all the insanely gorgeous backgrounds, fantastic layouts & animation, and a damn good story that's able to make this stand on its own without any prior knowledge of the series. My only real complaint is that I wasn't really feeling the ending all that much but everything else more than made up for it.
I still think Aura is a better movie overall but this is also well worth everyones time.
I'm waiting for the BD's for SSY but everything else is up there!
Oh, and how dare you forget about YAMA NO SUSUME???! tcht
its not really hated so much as some see it as repetitive and not exactly what they had expected.
Madoka merely popularized subject matter that other mahou shoujo had explored but to a much more niche audience.
Crash Station
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FUCK, I knew I forgot something for the Film/OVA category. Ah well, too lazy to add it now.
I almost left Wolf Children to watch after the AOTY deadline so I could leave Death Billiards in my top 3.
firehawk12
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To be fair, somehow I managed to convince DTL to watch the show the same time that I did. lol
An easy way to see the difference is to watch a Shakespeare production on stage and one on screen. The stage version also doesn't have the advantage of a foley operator adding in a giant slapping sound in post production, so if an actor gets slapped, they have to sell it like they were in the WWE. lol
Of course, seeing it outside of that context is just weird. As we see with
Koko flying in the air like a figure skater doing a triple sow cow
I think by the time I thought about the list, I stopped caring about where things would actually place since everything was already set in stone. Perhaps there's also recency bias, especially since the voting rules still make no sense (Madoka doesn't qualify even though people had the chance to watch it here in the format it was actually meant to be seen in? Of course, I'm just salty because I know Rebellion is going to be forgotten this year anyway).
I still find it funny that I really don't care about what the show looks like. Well, particularly the backgrounds anyway, since the most interesting parts of the show are on the ship or against a star field.
Well it is a sport anime. Even I a non sport anime watcher, knew enough about the structure to expect a fair amount of playing of the actual game. Personally I like the game playing part. Though there was one match in S2 that I felt went on a bit too long. And I do feel I don't get enough Arata or Shinobu on screen.
dakkumauji
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Inari, Konkon, Koi Iroha 03
How to catch a deity.
How to catch a deity.
Trojita
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That part had me laughing so much.
firehawk12
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Basileus777
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I voted for it last year and it charted. I'd rather see something else up there this year. Shows running into the Winter feel like a weird loophole in AOTY, especially last year because of how late the voting was.
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