If the entire middle of AoT hadn't happened I might have voted for it.
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If the entire middle of AoT hadn't happened I might have voted for it.
I finished it to give it a fair shake for the AOTY thread and...
i agree with the above.
nintendoman58
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So after a busy week of me working a little fanfic of mine and other things, it's time for me to get back into a show I started last year but sort of forgot about. Anywho, thankfully I remember where I left off.
Full Metal Panic! - 8
I forgot how hilarious the juxtaposition of anti-terrorist soldier in a high-school setting was. I loved it when he played the dating sim. For the love of all that is sacred, don't let this man near Call of Duty!
"Why do I hear the voices of children? Where is everybody? Why can I only call in an airstrike after killing a certain number of people in a row?"
He'd be better off playing Battlefield.
Full Metal Panic! - 8
I forgot how hilarious the juxtaposition of anti-terrorist soldier in a high-school setting was. I loved it when he played the dating sim. For the love of all that is sacred, don't let this man near Call of Duty!
"Why do I hear the voices of children? Where is everybody? Why can I only call in an airstrike after killing a certain number of people in a row?"
He'd be better off playing Battlefield.
actually I feel the same way. Desert Punk would have been absolutely perfect for Toonami/Adult Swim. Huuuuuuge missed opportunity.
BassForever
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Well they did just pick up Black Lagoon which is from 2006 so I guess a 2004 maybe not be too much of a stretch
KillerMan91
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Well my brains are pretty numb for temporary pacing problems after they have seen and processed hundreds of episodes of Dragon Ball, Naruto and One PIece lol.
Save 'N Quit
Banned
Kill la Kill 16
Opening: Naked Tsumugu and a better song automatically make it superior to the first one. CG is shit though.
Ending: Going to be very cruel if Mako actually dies.
So much Sensei goodness.
Glad to see the show starting to show even more of him and Tsumugu now.
I could do without the unnecessary bath scene. Didn't really need to see a mother molest her daughter.
Okay, let's try this again. Sorry for the confusion.
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Hey guys I made a short survey about Winter shows and a couple other things. If you've got a minute please feel free to take a look and fill it out:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1DSo3EJnLomx2jNIPlOvb__kYa2ighDFWTe_kRlkex8w/viewform
(lurkers welcome too this time)
Should give a nice little at-a-glance look at which shows are getting the most viewership.
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Hey guys I made a short survey about Winter shows and a couple other things. If you've got a minute please feel free to take a look and fill it out:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1DSo3EJnLomx2jNIPlOvb__kYa2ighDFWTe_kRlkex8w/viewform
(lurkers welcome too this time)
Should give a nice little at-a-glance look at which shows are getting the most viewership.
Ice Lightning
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Japan is releasing a GJ-Club complete collection Blu-ray March.
http://www.amazon.co.jp/GJ%E9%83%A8-%E3%82%8A%E3%81%B4%E3%83%BC%E3%81%A8-%E3%81%A7%E3%81%83%E3%81%99%E3%81%8F-Blu-ray-%E4%B8%8B%E9%87%8E/dp/B00HZLWRE4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1391218027&sr=8-1&keywords=4988021713078
What I do not understand, and hope someone can better translate than Google Translate, is why all 12 episodes are on just one BD. This does not seem to be a summary release, as the 276 minutes shows that 12 episodes were 23 minutes each, but Google Translate kind of translated it that way. I ask this as most Japanese BD-boxes have more than one disc, yet still fewer discs than the single releases.
Had to double-check my watch list since all the series' names on your doc are the Romanized titles and not the English given titles by the licensor/streamer.
http://www.amazon.co.jp/GJ%E9%83%A8-%E3%82%8A%E3%81%B4%E3%83%BC%E3%81%A8-%E3%81%A7%E3%81%83%E3%81%99%E3%81%8F-Blu-ray-%E4%B8%8B%E9%87%8E/dp/B00HZLWRE4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1391218027&sr=8-1&keywords=4988021713078
What I do not understand, and hope someone can better translate than Google Translate, is why all 12 episodes are on just one BD. This does not seem to be a summary release, as the 276 minutes shows that 12 episodes were 23 minutes each, but Google Translate kind of translated it that way. I ask this as most Japanese BD-boxes have more than one disc, yet still fewer discs than the single releases.
Had to double-check my watch list since all the series' names on your doc are the Romanized titles and not the English given titles by the licensor/streamer.
Lollipop Dave
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The only thing that bugs me with the OP is the part where they look like they are sliding.
Really bugs me.
Done.
strangedopamine
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The catwalk is obviously a sheet of ice!
hosannainexcelsis
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Pupipo is good.
Pupipo is good, ignore Pupa anime and read the manga instead.
arti Im glad you decided to stay here and post because I do appreciate your input in this thread.
Black Lagoon is so rife with uncouth language Im not sure how they can air it without it resembling morse code.
BassForever
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Desert Punk Dub 15
HOLY SHIT
This really is Trigun, plot suddenly got story focused and very dark/serious. Machine Gun Bros sister is awesome and the action seen was completely bad ass. That final shot :O damn I'm all on board
HOLY SHIT
This really is Trigun, plot suddenly got story focused and very dark/serious. Machine Gun Bros sister is awesome and the action seen was completely bad ass. That final shot :O damn I'm all on board
Canis lupus
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Wasn't me. Why would you think that I'm an anime hater lol.
I think Attack on Titan had a really strong start, and it had a pretty decent end, but the problem is the middle openly exposed one to every single flaw the show had, so that when the ending came around those flaws could no longer be overlooked.
Sousuke actually legit has problems with war movies and war games. Pretty sure that comes up fairly soon.
More people watching FMP warms my tiny, cockled heart.
Ah, well there you go. I don't watch them shows, haha. I struggle with just 50 episode runs of mecha shows because I honestly do not believe 90% of Gundam NEEDS those 50 episodes or makes good use of them.
So, thinking about this again, I kind of hope they actually address that later. Like, I doubt that ever happens, but I hope they do have that come back around to bite Ragyo in a big way. It also explains, somewhat, why Satsuki is the way she is.
I took part. Thanks for setting this up.
Hopefully this gets licensed here because that show was joyous and squeeful.
I knowwwwww ♥♥♥
nintendoman58
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Shin Mazinger Shougeki! Z-Hen - 1
So uh...
I feel like I just watched the second-to-last episode, awesome as it was.
Dr. Hell is the best villain name ever.
So uh...
I feel like I just watched the second-to-last episode, awesome as it was.
Dr. Hell is the best villain name ever.
Kill La Kill 16
I feel like something along the lines of this episode should've happened earlier, but at this point I'm glad it happened at all. Fast pacing, plot revelations, actual depth to the characters (especially Satsuki), and more! Woo!
And that scene. Was a thing. Yup. moving on....
This was a good episode, and it gives me hope for that the rest of the series will be quality. Make it so, Trigger!
New OP: Barely any animation, but better song and direction makes better OP.
New ED: Mako/10
I feel like something along the lines of this episode should've happened earlier, but at this point I'm glad it happened at all. Fast pacing, plot revelations, actual depth to the characters (especially Satsuki), and more! Woo!
And that scene. Was a thing. Yup. moving on....
This was a good episode, and it gives me hope for that the rest of the series will be quality. Make it so, Trigger!
New OP: Barely any animation, but better song and direction makes better OP.
New ED: Mako/10
it does get a bit dark but no worries the humor continues. This show doesnt stay serious very long.
Surprise! YOU DID.
BassForever
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I'm honestly cool with it being darker the whole way though, and it's never stopped being funny the same way Trigun never stopped being funny. I plan to read the manga because apparently this anime skips over a lot of stuff and the manga story is still ongoing.
Lemon Angel Project 09-10
The episode I expected to be filled with drama turned out to be heartwarming, and the episode I expected to be heartwarming ended on a rather bittersweet note. That's a surprise. Looks like Takumi knew he wasn't Erica's brother all along, and also didn't care. Family's family. Even finding out that Katagiri trained an idol so hard her vocal chords stopped working (though that may have been her own ambition) ended on a positive note by discovering she's a piano teacher now, and still loving music.
Now episode 10 was a lot of fun at first. Erica and her idea of disguises continues to amuse, and Miki was revealed to be more than the aloof queen of music she's been presented as thus far. Then there's what happened to Saya. First of all, we have an idol (who was formerly named Yayoi), who's a bit of a crybaby, dresses up in costumes, voiced by Koshimizu...
It's very much like Yayoi Takatsuki. Her Xenoglossia version. Though with Saya going on about costumes and not wanting to wear them, this morning's Kill La Kill was still fresh on my mind. Then the ending with the old lady.
The show may not be the best idol show in the world, and that storyline has been seen many times before, but damn if it doesn't know how to aim right for the heartstrings.
I can see only a few ways this will go.
The episode I expected to be filled with drama turned out to be heartwarming, and the episode I expected to be heartwarming ended on a rather bittersweet note. That's a surprise. Looks like Takumi knew he wasn't Erica's brother all along, and also didn't care. Family's family. Even finding out that Katagiri trained an idol so hard her vocal chords stopped working (though that may have been her own ambition) ended on a positive note by discovering she's a piano teacher now, and still loving music.
Now episode 10 was a lot of fun at first. Erica and her idea of disguises continues to amuse, and Miki was revealed to be more than the aloof queen of music she's been presented as thus far. Then there's what happened to Saya. First of all, we have an idol (who was formerly named Yayoi), who's a bit of a crybaby, dresses up in costumes, voiced by Koshimizu...
It's very much like Yayoi Takatsuki. Her Xenoglossia version. Though with Saya going on about costumes and not wanting to wear them, this morning's Kill La Kill was still fresh on my mind. Then the ending with the old lady.
She was looking for her granddaughter, also named Saya, who it turns out had died a long time ago, and she was trying to live in the past. Though she enjoyed talking with the Saya we know and was given a brief moment of happiness.
The show may not be the best idol show in the world, and that storyline has been seen many times before, but damn if it doesn't know how to aim right for the heartstrings.
Also, the (digital) Lemon Angels are back somehow.
nintendoman58
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Waitwaitwaitwait that was literally episode 25? Nononono that was episode 14 right? That was the second-to-last episode of the first arc right? No?
FFS Kabuto if you're going to narrate the opening then at least warn me of spoilers first!
Ice Lightning
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I can see NISA licensing GJ-Club, seeing as they licensed both Nyaruko and The Chronicles of the Going Home Club. Maybe they could license the Minami-ke series and OVAs too?
Going back to my original question, did you have a better translation to the contents of this Japanese BD release than Google did?
I don't really want to totally spam the thread with megami pinups, so find your favourite here (or if someone wants to repost it here I already dumped them on minus). Anyways... Mikakunin!
And I can't help myself but ask, why are the boobs blushing in the next one?! I've noticed this in some other illustrations before and it's really bizarre.
And I can't help myself but ask, why are the boobs blushing in the next one?! I've noticed this in some other illustrations before and it's really bizarre.
Curse you and your Sphere question. Where's the option for "there would be no winner because the whole thing would devolve into a yuri lovefest, now GIVE ME MY SECOND SEASON OF NATSUIRO KISEKI".
IT'S TOO GOOD
Nourin 4
This episode was fine and I appreciated the Ringo development, but it didn't really have much that I feel like commenting on.
Therefore in lieu of comments, have this gif I made from the OP.
KillerMan91
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Yeah. I can definitely see how people that are not used/don't like normal shonen pacing could have issues with middle section of AoT. Hopefully studio Wit will adapt the second season better now after they have experience of making full lenght tv series (If I remember right AoT was their first tv anime (?)). I can imagine that the budget is not the problem.
That was literally the end of the series. I think the first minute of episode 2 is also the end of the series? Then you have to pick up the last episode of Mazinger Z to see how it all really wraps up.
My only complaint with the series, really.
http://www.fandompost.com/oldforums/showthread.php?17934-GJ-bu#post225089
It really is just all 12 episodes on one BD. No extras, no special features, nothing else.
And sorry about the titles; the list that let me copy/paste them all the fastest had them in those forms.
Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha A's Episode 2:
Yep, everybody is certainly in so last season mode as the Cloud Knights have basically curb-stomped the entire main squadron and only some last minute mega magic saves their asses. Clearly some new powers are needed to combat this new threat.
Yep, everybody is certainly in so last season mode as the Cloud Knights have basically curb-stomped the entire main squadron and only some last minute mega magic saves their asses. Clearly some new powers are needed to combat this new threat.
Joe Molotov
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"PLOT!"
BassForever
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Desert Punk Dub 16
Even when he wins he loses, stay losing Desert Punk lol
The origin story was hilarious, fantastic episode
Even when he wins he loses, stay losing Desert Punk lol
The origin story was hilarious, fantastic episode
nintendoman58
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Wow. That's just a dick move.
Whatever. I'll still watch the rest though. I can't get that ending song out of my head.
ROCK MEEEEEEEEE. BURN IT UP.
I swear to god I'm gonna buy the fuck outta this show when it gets released here.
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Sakura Trick - 04
HARUKA YOU PIMP.
This is the show I've been wanting for ages. Cute fluff, comedy, and 100% yuri with legit kissing scenes. Words cannot express how grateful I am to be able to watch this. Goddamn.
Haruka confirmed Madoka Tier:
Get your swag on gurl!
NOW PAIR UP YUZU AND KAEDE ALREADY!!
I cant comment on the manga.
NISA release would have a gloriously cute artbook with it. Hell yes I would buy that!
Ice Lightning
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Really considering getting this, even if it does not appear to have English-subs. The singles only appear to have creditless OP/ED, audio commentaries, and some other PR content. Bonuses would be nice to have, but I would probably only watch those extras once anyway. Then the next thing I will have to worry about is securing a copy of the GJ-Club special if/when that is released in April or later.
No problems with the titles, just a minor inconvenience on my end.
Loved the premium packaging for Zakuro and Katanagatari. The standard edition of Bunny Drop though...I thought I was going to break the discs in half when getting them out. NISA needs to consider better standard release cases for series with more than two discs.
they upped the ante. Like stratospheric.
dakkumauji
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Go! Go! 575 04
Well it was a thing.
I guess since the game bombed, that's all we're ever going to get from this.
Well it was a thing.
I guess since the game bombed, that's all we're ever going to get from this.
Thankies Vito.
Mashiro would be a miracle except Japan has proven to be a squee factory. This is no accident.
Well, I mean, technically much of the first episode is PARTS of the last few episodes, but there are parts that are in the first episode that sort of complete the series. It's an in media res that is sorta just weird, but I promise the rest of the series is great.
And yeah, I love that OP.
I swear to god I'm gonna buy the fuck outta this show when it gets released here.
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Sakura Trick - 04
This is the show I've been wanting for ages. Cute fluff, comedy, and 100% yuri with legit kissing scenes. Words cannot express how grateful I am to be able to watch this. Goddamn.
Haruka confirmed Madoka Tier:
Get your swag on gurl!
NOW PAIR UP YUZU AND KAEDE ALREADY!!
Lots of people will. I think Sakura Trick will be quite popular.
Sakura Trick 04
Haruka's well on her way to unlocking the Sonoda sisters route. Must have something to do with the boobs. I am loving this show. The Hidamari Sketch-like visual language combined with some comedic and slightly saucy yuri is a combination that works out pretty well. Looking at the episode titles for next week, Mitsuki is just working her way into the ensemble, isn't she? Anyone crazy enough to turn headgear into headlights would draw attention. Loving it.
Haruka's well on her way to unlocking the Sonoda sisters route. Must have something to do with the boobs. I am loving this show. The Hidamari Sketch-like visual language combined with some comedic and slightly saucy yuri is a combination that works out pretty well. Looking at the episode titles for next week, Mitsuki is just working her way into the ensemble, isn't she? Anyone crazy enough to turn headgear into headlights would draw attention. Loving it.
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