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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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Crocodile

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Kirito's new game character isn't actually a girl, it's just a really, really girly looking male avatar. So no, there's no yuri in GGO.

If SAO is going to go stupid (as it always does) it should go full stupid and make him a girl straight up :/ Hatewatching the franchise is the only legit purpose it has anyway.
 
That's what we thought about Kill la Kill too, and I think it outperformed expectations. Dandy has another advantage too - it's going to air across two non-consecutive seasons. So by the time it ends it'll be October - just 3 months before the voting starts. As a big show which aired at the start of the year and ended near the end of the year, and having more exposure than the usual show, unless the rest of the series totally tanks, I think it'll be a pretty major contender.

I agree that it'll be a major contender, I just think it's more likely to end up where Titan did this year: 4 or 5 instead of 1. But it's really early to be making predictions.

I feel that characters with personality is not the point of Yuyushiki, so I understand your point.

It´s still 20 something so that's not bad, I think it´s well appreciated. I actually wish Love Lab had been higher in the top 20 more than Yuyushiki being in top 20.

I'll agree there; Love Lab had hilarious comedy, memorable characters (Huggy <3), and was well-structured.
 

duckroll

Member
Ah so is that how Dandy is airing over the year? I've heard so many conflicting things about episode count, etc. I wasn't sure what was going on. Do you have a source perchance?

I can't provide an official source because it hasn't been announced, but yeah that's how it's going to be released. There'll be a break after the first 13.
 

Midonin

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Saki The Nationals 05

Two blondes, a miko and a Mako. After Mako got her plans sabotaged by Kaori's lack of skill back in the first series, having her be the one to turn the tables on Aislinn was a nice bit of karma. Her sketchboard imagination power was also nifty. How often does New Zealand show up in fiction anyway? I may not know much about mahjong, but the characters' reactions tell the whole story.
 
Shin Mazinger Shougeki! Z Hen - 2

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Yozakura Quartet / Kyousougiga were robbed! Robbbbeeedd!

Betting on Kill la Kill charting next year too, especially if the second half of the series delivers.

Mushi-shi Zoku Shou better win AOTY 2014, just sayin.

I'm crossing my fingers here for it to be a fraction as good as the first series was. They're bringing back the director for Season 1 / Aku no Hana, right?

Hope Jojo maintains the quality so people can brag about it placing in the top 10 three years running!

The thought of Jojo coming back and potentially charting for a third year in the row is sort of insane to me. The series has legs like no other. Wasn't a personal fan of what I read of part 3 in the manga though, Jotaro is no where near as interesting a protagonist as Joseph was.
 

duckroll

Member
They seem more indifferent by virtue of it being long running. Even Space Bros had a big drop off.

I imagine HxH would place much higher if the people that just started watching it in here got caught up with what was covered in 2013.

Maybe people will start watching it after it actually ends. Lol.
 

jman2050

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Yamato had almost thirty more first-place votes than the next-highest title?

What the hell did you guys do to people? Where were they all hiding?

It's likely very good and I'm interested at looking at it in the future, but I also suspect there's a significant case of Recency Bias in effect here.
 

Narag

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Wizard Barristers 4

episode felt more like a procedural than the previous three. good god at the cliffhanger though

  • good eyecatch
  • lol'd hard at he lunch scene
 

Crocodile

Member
So I got like two episodes or so into Love Lab and I'm interested in starting it back up but I vaguely remember there were concerns that a future episode was kind of racist towards black people or something. I know Japan is kind of ignorant/sheltered about these things unfortunately :( Is it bad enough that I'm going to want to rage quit when I reach that episode?
 
I'm crossing my fingers here for it to be a fraction as good as the first series was. They're bringing back the director for Season 1 / Aku no Hana, right?

Yes, Nagahama and just about all of the other key staff from the original Mushishi are returning. If you want to get a taste of the second season, make sure you watch the new special that came out at the beginning of this year. I'd say it lives up to its pedigree.
 

madp

The Light of El Cantare
Kirito's new game character isn't actually a girl, it's just a really, really girly looking male avatar. So no, there's no yuri in GGO.

LOL RIP SDBurton ahahahahahahahaha

So I got like two episodes or so into Love Lab and I'm interested in starting it back up but I vaguely remember there were concerns that a future episode was kind of racist towards black people or something. I know Japan is kind of ignorant/sheltered about these things unfortunately :( Is it bad enough that I'm going to want to rage quit when I reach that episode?

There's a scene where one of the characters is in blackface as a "soul singer" for a few seconds. Insensitive? Sure, but I'm not sure that it was actively mean-spirited if that's what concerns you. It happens and ends in an instant.
 

Midonin

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Tonari no Seki-kun 05

I remember those old science classroom desks. Seeing more students than Yokoi and more desk space for Seki to do his work on changes things up a bit, and that stamp was pretty creative. Nobody would've even found out... the master's work, undone. For shame.
 

jman2050

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So I got like two episodes or so into Love Lab and I'm interested in starting it back up but I vaguely remember there were concerns that a future episode was kind of racist towards black people or something. I know Japan is kind of ignorant/sheltered about these things unfortunately :( Is it bad enough that I'm going to want to rage quit when I reach that episode?

I'm still not sure if they were suppose to be lampooning ganguro or not.
 

Narag

Member
Tonari no Seki-kun 5

let's all make a pact to put this in positions #2, #3, or #4 in the 2014 AOTY vote so it ranks high
 

Link Man

Banned
Kino's Journey 6

So I started watching this show about a month ago, then stopped for a little while and just now got back to it. I like the show well enough, it feels like Homer's Odyssey or The Voyage of the Dawn Treader in that it's more about world building, in a world where nothing is consistent. It's always introducing something new, but due to that, it feels like there's no overarching plot, no direction. Because of this, it feels like a show to put on the back burner, something to watch when there's nothing else I want to watch.

As for this episode, it does flesh out Kino's character a bit, and I'm looking forward to seeing the resolution next episode.
 

Shard

XBLAnnoyance
Tonari no Seki-kun 05:

Ah, I remember science class looking like that, which is kind of considering this is Japan and all.
 
Tonari no Seki-kun: The Master of Killing Time Episode 5

Todays episode was hilarious best one yet. Uzawa-kun needs more screentime as that was so good seeing him there and interaction and such to finally make Seki do something interesting after the previous three episodes boring nature.
Taking his hand, dipping it in the stamp pad, was best moment for reaction.
 
I guess I can make Seki-kun happen.
In exchange, if HapCha is still good by the time we vote again, it better make the top ten.
 

Shard

XBLAnnoyance
Oh yea, dropping Wizard Barristers, I really have no mood or mind to pay heed to Yasuomi Umetsu creepy as fuck fetishs any longer.
 

Narag

Member
Might be old but I guess the last (?) of the FOX ADHD anime inspired shorts went up: Attack on Titan parody

(I only remembered because I remembered i forgot to watch it last night. Oops.)

Oh yea, dropping Wizard Barristers, I really have no mood or mind to pay heed to Yasuomi Umetsu creepy as fuck fetishs any longer.

See, it took me five episodes to figure that out with Galilei Donna. Only took one for Wizard Barristers.

Director should have been enough to tip you guys off.
 

SDBurton

World's #1 Cosmonaut Enthusiast
Kirito's new game character isn't actually a girl, it's just a really, really girly looking male avatar. So no, there's no yuri in GGO.

Fuck you Kawahara.

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Saki: Zenkoku-hen - 05


Taco girl
you dun goofed! Having your sempai clean up your mistake, for shame!
 

cnet128

Banned
At least the action is good in Wizard, which is more then I could say for Donna.

At least the character designs were nice in Donna, which is more than I can say for Wizard.


Space Dandy 5

Cute alien. Cute roadtrip. Cute resolution. Cute episode.
 
Space dandy - 05
This was a pretty much an episode very cowboy beebop-like ... the nature of the hero takes priority over the situation at hand and get better .

I liked it very much.
I hope she makes a quick return,mixing people minds is really an hability for nonsense situations

Ps: penguins don't fly dammit !!!!
 
Nobunagun 5

Oh God, so many people trying their damnedest to distract Shio from her one true love Asao-san. It's kind of a pity Newton isn't remotely attractive, since her...interesting habit...would be pretty amazing coming from a cute girl, but coming from her I just have the same reaction as the characters involved, namely "aaaaaaghhh get away".

Yeah. It was weird.
 
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