I should get around to responding to some stuff I wanted to before the thread ends.
The only other chart still gives StrikerS too much credit, but it looks nicer I suppose!
Yeah, I don't quite understand the people who made those charts. Going by those you'd think that StrikerS's problem is that it was "only" as good as the first season, but that's not true at all! Strikers was a big disappointment compared to either of the first two seasons. Ranking it overall above S1 makes no sense.
Garden of Words
Leave it to Shinkai to complete shit the bed in the last ten minutes with his sappy and overly dramatic climax. Don't get me wrong, this is by far his best and most visually striking work yet but the last 10 minutes really did sour what was otherwise a great movie.
It's a good thing Shinkai's still relatively young so he has a lot of time to perfect his craft. Maybe he too will learn to walk on his own two feet, free from the shackles of bad melodrama.
Yeah... beautiful visuals, but the story was lacking. I thought it was a little disappointing overall, as a result of that.
Was re-watching gosick and saw this:
Please become an anime in a few years. Please biased god. I'll bring offerings
No! The last third of the first season of Gosick was so, SO awful... I don't want any more of that junk. It seemed good for a while, mostly, but then threw it all away, unfortunately.
Kuromajo 46-47
My amazement at such a bizarre app was immediately overwhelmed by the sheer sense of dread that ep 47 probably paved the way for hundreds of kids to develop some sort of TF fetish in the future. Fucking deviantart. ._.
I'm glad that the series recovered from the
horribly tonally dissonant, and plot-hole-riffic, episode 43-45 arc!
Mushishi-14
This is something straight out of Casshern. I'm really starting to get tired of the melancholic tone for so many of these stories. It's also starting to become somewhat predictable.
Yeah, that kind of show, like Mushishi, Miyu, etc, etc, they do get repetitive after a while; just about every single story ends with tragedy, and often in somewhat consistent ways. They're definitely the kind of thing best watched in small doses I think...
Sakura Trick 3
Wow this episode had way more making out than I expected. I hope things keep going that way.
Yeah, that would be good.
Also, I'm really surprised that the older sister isn't included in all the yuri. Makes me wonder what they're gonna do with her character.
I just hope she doesn't turn out to be a stupid "incestuous lesbian feelings" sister like Akari's sister in Yuru Yuri... it doesn't look like that so far though, thankfully. But we'll see. I thought her reaction shots in ep. 3 were funny, though... it worked well.
What's interesting is that a lot of that is just missing from the manga. The anime really is filling in a lot of jokes in order to make the episodes work, which is nice.
Heck, there isn't even an Okinawa side of the trip in the manga.
Well, if they didn't add content, there wouldn't be enough to cover! It's a short manga with only a few pages per chapter, after all. A straight adaptation would run out of content fast. But instead, they're doing a great job adding all kinds of great new stuff to this season. The series does have a few issues -- at times it's a little bit haremey, the author likes to make occasional incest jokes, and the jokes repeat constantly of course -- but apart from those things, SYD S2 is as great as ever. And it's mostly pretty great.
Abenobashi END
Gainax. 10/10.
Yeah, that show gets WEIRD in the last few episodes. At least they can say that it's different, though! Given how most of the series goes, who would ever have guessed how different the last couple of episodes would be.... but despite that, somehow, it worked. Great show.
I think war really changed this time
So what will come of this...
That's what happens when you make a comedy and spend more effort on the art than on the humor.
Yet another one of the most wrong statements about a comedy ever! Nichijou is the best, funniest comedy anime ever made. It's the closest thing to classic cartoon comedy I've seen in anime (note: my favorite cartoon series ever is Looney Tunes), and the results are fantastic. It's just tragic that it didn't do better... sure otaku humor comedies can be funny too, but not in the same way.
