Didn't click, but to be fair I suspect I did get more actual comedy value out of NouCome than I do from Space Dandy. Space Dandy is wacky and entertaining, but I don't think it's particularly funny for the most part.
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Didn't click, but to be fair I suspect I did get more actual comedy value out of NouCome than I do from Space Dandy. Space Dandy is wacky and entertaining, but I don't think it's particularly funny for the most part.
PdotMichael
Banned
Comparing Angel Beats with Haibane Renmei. I don't even.
KirbYuuYuu
Member
Gintama 194
Super Fist of the Nose Snot
Super Fist of the Nose Snot
That snot death. Trying to be endearing but obviously too difficult to take seriously. Only laughs.
They explore the same themes. It is what it is.
I've never watched it, but that's a wonderful description.
MikeHattsu
Member
Well... I've not seen Haibane Renmei, so I have no idea what to expect.
Fight back and make it better!
Save 'N Quit
Banned
My decision on buying this depends heavily on who will voice Kurumi.
What? The lady's dad is a JELLYFISH. Come on.
nintendoman58
Member
If it makes you feel any better I'm not exactly finding it to be the best thing since sliced bread where I am right now.
That's not to say it's horrible so far. It's just kind of "meh".
Haibane Renmei is amazingly good.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Welp, I guess SDBurton will be pleased at the surprise twist ending in this week's No-rin.
Spoiler image: http://i.imgur.com/knxYEgHl.jpg
And I guess not to harp on this again, but I really think this show does more to capture the whole farming spirit/farming school thing "better" than Silver Spoon. Yeah, the comedy is otaku-driven, but the message about farming seems much more genuine. For me, it's probably because the main character isn't always vacillating about how he feels and genuinely just enjoys farming for the sake of farming.
Spoiler image: http://i.imgur.com/knxYEgHl.jpg
And I guess not to harp on this again, but I really think this show does more to capture the whole farming spirit/farming school thing "better" than Silver Spoon. Yeah, the comedy is otaku-driven, but the message about farming seems much more genuine. For me, it's probably because the main character isn't always vacillating about how he feels and genuinely just enjoys farming for the sake of farming.
Admiral Woofington
Member
Angel Beats took the concept of life after death/limbo and ruined it by making it into a highschool in limbo where the adventures are so wacky and there's also school festivals kawaii desu.
It's like my number 1 example of how anime tropes can ruin a good concept.
It's like my number 1 example of how anime tropes can ruin a good concept.
Keep going on, I need every help for my research for eps 11 of that thing..
MikeHattsu
Member
Hm... I see that it's on Hulu. Will get to watching it one day...
Well thats true but people can still have fun with it.
This is anime.
I was expecting something mind-warping and insane. Something that defied logic in a creatively visual way.
MikeHattsu
Member
Angel Beats 02
I remember this from the Resident Evil movie.
Lots of traps in this episode and
. Yurippe reminds me a little bit of Haruhi. Some backstory, but as always I can't get emotionally attached this early. Story itself was sad though and I guess we'll find out how people died later on.
They can create
I remember this from the Resident Evil movie.
Lots of traps in this episode and
an underground weapons factory
They can create
things they know about from dirt? Like all kinds of guns, grenades and explosives, but they can't make a proper cannon/turret? Weird.
nintendoman58
Member
Yes, I'm definitely having fun putting on the Looney Tunes music whenever a giant hammer comes out of nowhere and whacks somebody.
I don't see that kind of slapstick in anime very often so I'm giving Angel Beats a point there.
Why would you expect that? ICE is notable for being incoherent and incomprehensible, not creative in a visual way. It's just REALLY crazy. Jellyfish woman licking eyeballs. Birdplants. Cyborg lesbians. Pregnancy ice.
Pregnancy ice.
It was mostly ruined when it turned into
a love story between the MC and a literal non-character
100% with you. NouCome was hilarious at times, I'm glad No-rin is picking up the crazyness.
hosannainexcelsis
Member
I haven't seen Hachiken really vacillate about farming. At the beginning of Silver Spoon he's skeptical about the whole thing, which makes sense considering his non-farming background, and he gradually comes to get used to, embrace, and thrive in the farming lifestyle.
Unless you're talking about Hachiken's angst during the Pork Bowl plot, but that seems like a pretty sincere exploration of the contradictions inherent to growing livestock for meat. And those contradictions are something Hachiken does come to grips with and accept.
You gonna watch another eppy of Kino's today?
Why would I expect that? Because you told me that birds turning into flowers was only the beginning of the crazy.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
It's more the fact that he constantly has self-doubts, because that seems to be the only arc he's able to live in. This thing with the festival was the latest iteration of that. The characters in No-rin are confident in their work and in the impact it has on society - including the city girl who is the Hachiken-like outsider.
That said, since No-rin deals with crop farming, I will admit that it's much easier to put a love of farming message into it. There's something more romantic about going out and planting seeds and picking crops than there is with dealing with animals that are being raised to be slaughtered.
Wake Up, Girls 07
Twinkle's words of wisdom have been followed through on. After a good cry,
Also, an inordinate amount of time spent on a crane game. I wonder if this idol festival will end up like the titular Love Live and actually never be reached. Though it's more likely it will.
Twinkle's words of wisdom have been followed through on. After a good cry,
Airi's not leaving the group after all.
Jex
Member
Mouryou no Hako
This show can be a real headache to follow at times so I thought I should compile what we know by the end of episode five.
Characters (In their order of Introduction)
Sekiguchi (The Writer)
Sekiguchi is a struggling writer who seems to occasionally write for newspaper due the number of reporters that he knows. I'm not entirely sure what his role within the story is of yet but he seems to be closely connected to a number of key players.
It's suggested that he played a role in another complicated investigation, the Zoushigaya case, but he denies that he was that helpful.
Episode 5 reveals that he has a wife. We haven't seen her up till now and it's unclear whether or not she's left him, although he tells his friend that she's just gone out to see a movie.
At the start of each episode we are presented with some kind of scene that Sekugchi is involved in. It's unclear what the purpose of these sequences is but they seem to tie into the story at least on a thematic level. They tend to extremely symbolic, rather than literal, and they certainly aren't easily understood.
I think it's interesting that we see Sekiguchi and his editors discuss the problems he's having putting together his the stories that he is writing. He seems uncertain how they should be arranged chronologically which reminds me quite a bit of the fragmented nature of how this story is being told. In which case, is Sekiguchi a stand in for the author? He even mentions that having a killer turn up murder a girl is a 'cheap ending' that he's dissatisfied with. What will satisfy him then?
On multiple occasions Sekiguchi muses over the nature of killing and whether he could ever kill anyone. Other characters even make passing references to this as a joke which seems pretty odd.
Sekiguchi knows Atsuko (the reporter) Toriguchi (the reporter) Detective Kiba (the police detective) and Kyougokudou (the bookshop owner?).
The man with white gloves
A mysterious figure. We catch glances of him from time to time and he's purportedly been seen at a number of crime scenes. Yoriko claims he was the assailant.
Kusumoto Yoriko (The Witness)
Yoriko is a highschool girl. She's fairly average and unremarkable and she doesn't seem to have many friends or be particularly good at school. Therefore she becomes entranced by the dazzling Kanako who seems to prettier and more intelligent than anyone else. Yorkio is fascinated by her, especially by Kanako's claim that she is the reincarnation of Kanako and that Kanako is a reincarnation of Yoriko and that this cycle of incarnation will continue endlessly.
Yoriko hates her mother for being impure, for being a single women who is trying to attract men, for being old. They do not have a good relationship.
Yoriko is involved in an incident with Kanako by the train tracks. They're both going to go out on the train to a place where they can kill themselves (seemingly) but before that can happen Kanako falls in front of a train. It's unclear whether she was pushed, or fell, or who did it. .
Yuzuki Kanako (The victim)
Kanako is a mysterious figure. Beautiful, intelligent and independent she easily captures the eye of Yorkio who becomes obsessed with her. Kanako is sophisticated and elegant, but she holds a rather strange theory which is that she and Yoriko are the reincarnations of each other and always will be.
At the start of the series her home life is shrouded in mystery. Her guardian is a man called Amemiya. It's unclear how he came by this role. During the course of the first episode Kanako ends up falling in front of a train and being severely injured. She is then taken to a hospital where here life is stabilized. At the end of episode three she is kidnapped and her whereabouts remain unknown.
During the course of episode five we learn more about her past and it is revealed that she was conceived as the result of an affair between an ordinary women and a man of considerable social standing. Shibata Youkou was a wealthy and powerful man but all his important family members died, apart from his grandson Hiroya. Hiroya is the one who attempted to elope with Kanako's mother but he could not. Youko attempted to pay off Kanako's mother but she wouldn't accept money. Therefore he offered to take care of Kanako's social and medical fees on the condition that she could never meet with Hiroya again. Hroya died at war. Youko then decided to give his fortune to Kanako. For Kanako to inherit this fortune, however, it would have to be proved that Kanako was indeed Hiroya's child. If Youko dies before Kanako this will becomes effective, if it's the other way around then it does not.
Kanako knows Yoriko, her sister Yuzuki Youko /Minami Kinuko and her guardian Amemiya.
Amemiya Noritada (The Guardian)
We don't know much about Amemiya. He's Kanako's guardian, apparently, and he seems extremely concerned with her well being.
Detective Kiba (The Police Detective)
Detective Kiba a police officer from Tokyo. He's spends his time trying to peace together the evidence to work out what is exactly is going on in the main case that develops over the course of the series. He spends quite a bit of time interviewing people and he can read people very well from their body language, he also pays attention to their language carefully. Still, he seems a little dense when it comes to women and he has some trouble understanding Yoriko and Kinuko.
He'd like to try and play the hero to rescue the girl, like a character in the old movies he used to watch. He remembers Minami Kinuko from the time she used to be in movies and seems to maintain a crush on her that he developed at that time.
He's still haunted by the visions of the war he fought in previously.
He knows Sekiguchi, that other detective, and he knows of Minaki Kinuko.
Masouka (The Attorney)
From his interactions with Kiba early on he seems to be quite an unpleasant, blunt character who is only concerned the details of Kanako's case. He doesn't really appear to care about Kanako so much as what her current condition is. He is extremely dedicated to his job.
Minamki Kiunko / Yuzuki Youko (The Damsel)
Kanako's sister and only living relative, or so it seems. She used to an actress in the movies but that was all some time ago. Her family arrangements seem...complicated. She begs Kiba to help her with the case.
In episode 4 the director, Kawashin, suggests that someone was forcing her to be an actress.
During the course of episode five it is revealed that Kanako was born as the result of a one off affair. As such it doesn't seem likely that she's Kanako's real sister after all.
Yoriko's Mother
It is unclear that the man she father Yorkio with is dead or has simply left. She's currently courting a man who sells her doll parts which she uses in her workshop.
She believes that her home has been poisoned by an evil spirit, a Mouryou, and this has contaminated daughter Yoriko. To the audience, of course, a much more logical explanation is that there's no evil spirits, Yoriko is just going through a phase where she rebels against her parents and their values.
Cult Guy/Old Spirit Man/Exoricust
A guy who charges money for exorcising evil spirits.
Sasagawa
The man courting Yoriko's mother.
Toriguchi Norihio (The Reporter)
A reporter who is investigating the case of the dismembered bodies. He is friends with Sekiguchi and appears to be dating (or at least attempting to date) Atsuko, another reporter.
Atsuko (The Reporter)
A reporter who is investigating the case of the dismembered bodies. She is the little sister of and Kyougokudou.
Ishii (The rival policemen)
Some Kanagawa police guy who doesn't like Kiba at all. He seems far more incompetent than Kiba and he completely falls apart under pressure.
Mimasaka (The doctor)
The head of the box hospital. It's revealed in episode four that at some time during the war he appeared to be working on creating an immortal soldier. ?Or so Kawashin says.
Suzaki (The assistant doctor)
The assistant chief doctor at the box hospital. He is killed shortly after Kanako goes missing.
Unnamed Prostitute
A women who is apparently murdered by the man with white gloves.
Kiba's Friend (The policeman)
fellow law enforcement office who appears to start linking the two cases together.
Kawashin (The Film Director)
A director who used to know of Kinuko/Youko.
Enokizu Reijirou (The Private Detective)
A private detective who Masouka hires to investigate the Kanako case. He is either clairvoyant or extremely skilled in reading people and making intuitive connections. He appears to use a variety of tactics to annoy Masouka so as to keep him off kilter during their discussion.
He's also the bishiest character yet.
Kyougokudou (The bookshop owner?)
A man of great investigative insight, or possible clairvoyance. From the brief period of time we've spent with him he appears to know, well, everything about everything.
He thinks that when man kills another man it is like being taken over by a spirit, a Toori-mono. Something that clouds the mind and brings misfortune. He says that any motive similar to one from a mystery novel is unlikely to be true.
Story
This show can be a real headache to follow at times so I thought I should compile what we know by the end of episode five.
Characters (In their order of Introduction)
Sekiguchi (The Writer)
Sekiguchi is a struggling writer who seems to occasionally write for newspaper due the number of reporters that he knows. I'm not entirely sure what his role within the story is of yet but he seems to be closely connected to a number of key players.
It's suggested that he played a role in another complicated investigation, the Zoushigaya case, but he denies that he was that helpful.
Episode 5 reveals that he has a wife. We haven't seen her up till now and it's unclear whether or not she's left him, although he tells his friend that she's just gone out to see a movie.
At the start of each episode we are presented with some kind of scene that Sekugchi is involved in. It's unclear what the purpose of these sequences is but they seem to tie into the story at least on a thematic level. They tend to extremely symbolic, rather than literal, and they certainly aren't easily understood.
I think it's interesting that we see Sekiguchi and his editors discuss the problems he's having putting together his the stories that he is writing. He seems uncertain how they should be arranged chronologically which reminds me quite a bit of the fragmented nature of how this story is being told. In which case, is Sekiguchi a stand in for the author? He even mentions that having a killer turn up murder a girl is a 'cheap ending' that he's dissatisfied with. What will satisfy him then?
On multiple occasions Sekiguchi muses over the nature of killing and whether he could ever kill anyone. Other characters even make passing references to this as a joke which seems pretty odd.
Sekiguchi knows Atsuko (the reporter) Toriguchi (the reporter) Detective Kiba (the police detective) and Kyougokudou (the bookshop owner?).
The man with white gloves
A mysterious figure. We catch glances of him from time to time and he's purportedly been seen at a number of crime scenes. Yoriko claims he was the assailant.
Kusumoto Yoriko (The Witness)
Yoriko is a highschool girl. She's fairly average and unremarkable and she doesn't seem to have many friends or be particularly good at school. Therefore she becomes entranced by the dazzling Kanako who seems to prettier and more intelligent than anyone else. Yorkio is fascinated by her, especially by Kanako's claim that she is the reincarnation of Kanako and that Kanako is a reincarnation of Yoriko and that this cycle of incarnation will continue endlessly.
Yoriko hates her mother for being impure, for being a single women who is trying to attract men, for being old. They do not have a good relationship.
Yoriko is involved in an incident with Kanako by the train tracks. They're both going to go out on the train to a place where they can kill themselves (seemingly) but before that can happen Kanako falls in front of a train. It's unclear whether she was pushed, or fell, or who did it. .
Yuzuki Kanako (The victim)
Kanako is a mysterious figure. Beautiful, intelligent and independent she easily captures the eye of Yorkio who becomes obsessed with her. Kanako is sophisticated and elegant, but she holds a rather strange theory which is that she and Yoriko are the reincarnations of each other and always will be.
At the start of the series her home life is shrouded in mystery. Her guardian is a man called Amemiya. It's unclear how he came by this role. During the course of the first episode Kanako ends up falling in front of a train and being severely injured. She is then taken to a hospital where here life is stabilized. At the end of episode three she is kidnapped and her whereabouts remain unknown.
During the course of episode five we learn more about her past and it is revealed that she was conceived as the result of an affair between an ordinary women and a man of considerable social standing. Shibata Youkou was a wealthy and powerful man but all his important family members died, apart from his grandson Hiroya. Hiroya is the one who attempted to elope with Kanako's mother but he could not. Youko attempted to pay off Kanako's mother but she wouldn't accept money. Therefore he offered to take care of Kanako's social and medical fees on the condition that she could never meet with Hiroya again. Hroya died at war. Youko then decided to give his fortune to Kanako. For Kanako to inherit this fortune, however, it would have to be proved that Kanako was indeed Hiroya's child. If Youko dies before Kanako this will becomes effective, if it's the other way around then it does not.
Kanako knows Yoriko, her sister Yuzuki Youko /Minami Kinuko and her guardian Amemiya.
Amemiya Noritada (The Guardian)
We don't know much about Amemiya. He's Kanako's guardian, apparently, and he seems extremely concerned with her well being.
Detective Kiba (The Police Detective)
Detective Kiba a police officer from Tokyo. He's spends his time trying to peace together the evidence to work out what is exactly is going on in the main case that develops over the course of the series. He spends quite a bit of time interviewing people and he can read people very well from their body language, he also pays attention to their language carefully. Still, he seems a little dense when it comes to women and he has some trouble understanding Yoriko and Kinuko.
He'd like to try and play the hero to rescue the girl, like a character in the old movies he used to watch. He remembers Minami Kinuko from the time she used to be in movies and seems to maintain a crush on her that he developed at that time.
He's still haunted by the visions of the war he fought in previously.
He knows Sekiguchi, that other detective, and he knows of Minaki Kinuko.
Masouka (The Attorney)
From his interactions with Kiba early on he seems to be quite an unpleasant, blunt character who is only concerned the details of Kanako's case. He doesn't really appear to care about Kanako so much as what her current condition is. He is extremely dedicated to his job.
Minamki Kiunko / Yuzuki Youko (The Damsel)
Kanako's sister and only living relative, or so it seems. She used to an actress in the movies but that was all some time ago. Her family arrangements seem...complicated. She begs Kiba to help her with the case.
In episode 4 the director, Kawashin, suggests that someone was forcing her to be an actress.
During the course of episode five it is revealed that Kanako was born as the result of a one off affair. As such it doesn't seem likely that she's Kanako's real sister after all.
Yoriko's Mother
It is unclear that the man she father Yorkio with is dead or has simply left. She's currently courting a man who sells her doll parts which she uses in her workshop.
She believes that her home has been poisoned by an evil spirit, a Mouryou, and this has contaminated daughter Yoriko. To the audience, of course, a much more logical explanation is that there's no evil spirits, Yoriko is just going through a phase where she rebels against her parents and their values.
Cult Guy/Old Spirit Man/Exoricust
A guy who charges money for exorcising evil spirits.
Sasagawa
The man courting Yoriko's mother.
Toriguchi Norihio (The Reporter)
A reporter who is investigating the case of the dismembered bodies. He is friends with Sekiguchi and appears to be dating (or at least attempting to date) Atsuko, another reporter.
Atsuko (The Reporter)
A reporter who is investigating the case of the dismembered bodies. She is the little sister of and Kyougokudou.
Ishii (The rival policemen)
Some Kanagawa police guy who doesn't like Kiba at all. He seems far more incompetent than Kiba and he completely falls apart under pressure.
Mimasaka (The doctor)
The head of the box hospital. It's revealed in episode four that at some time during the war he appeared to be working on creating an immortal soldier. ?Or so Kawashin says.
Suzaki (The assistant doctor)
The assistant chief doctor at the box hospital. He is killed shortly after Kanako goes missing.
Unnamed Prostitute
A women who is apparently murdered by the man with white gloves.
Kiba's Friend (The policeman)
fellow law enforcement office who appears to start linking the two cases together.
Kawashin (The Film Director)
A director who used to know of Kinuko/Youko.
Enokizu Reijirou (The Private Detective)
A private detective who Masouka hires to investigate the Kanako case. He is either clairvoyant or extremely skilled in reading people and making intuitive connections. He appears to use a variety of tactics to annoy Masouka so as to keep him off kilter during their discussion.
He's also the bishiest character yet.
Kyougokudou (The bookshop owner?)
A man of great investigative insight, or possible clairvoyance. From the brief period of time we've spent with him he appears to know, well, everything about everything.
He thinks that when man kills another man it is like being taken over by a spirit, a Toori-mono. Something that clouds the mind and brings misfortune. He says that any motive similar to one from a mystery novel is unlikely to be true.
Story
Meji Era 13th Year - A number of experiments are conducted on clairvoance. While they initially show positive results the experiments are disrupted by someone who claims that the experiments are a trick. As a result, the experiments care called off and the two women who claim to be clairvoyant are soon dead. This ends the academic debate over the existence of clairvoyance or spiritual powers.
On the night of the 15th August Showa Era Year 27 Yorko and Kanako are at the train station. Kanako is ends up falling in front of a train. Detective Kiba is onboard this very train and begins his investigation into the incident. When he travels to the hospital that night with Yorko he meets Masouka, Kinuko and Amemiya and a few things come to light.
That night Kanako is moved to the mysterious Box Hospital and everyone else follows suit. Kanako stays alive that night.
On August 17th Yoriko and her mother argue. Yoriko's mother is concerned that the house has been infected by a demon and on August 18th she brings in an exorcist. To cleanse the house. Yoriko flees from the commotion and encounters the man in black with white gloves.
On August 30th Sekiguchi has become involved in the case of the 'dismemberment killer' who is cutting up women and distributing their limbs about the countryside. The right arm was discovered on August 29th, on August 30th both legs turned up. Sekiguchi is called by his reporter friend, Toriguchi, to go the crime scene. They are both joined by Atsuko, another reporter. During the course of their investigation they end up at the box hospital where Kanako is being kept, which is surrounded by heavy security.
On August 31st Kiba hears a rumour that none of the patients at the hospital ever come back. Kiba controns Kinuko/Youko about a note she has received. Later that day Yoriko visits the box hospital and Kiba to say that the man with the gloves pushed Kanako. When Yoriko, Kiba and others go down to visit Kanako another incident occurs where Kanako is kidnapped. Shortly thereafter Suzaki is murdered. Part of her is discovered on September 16th. Kiba is visited by a friend to discover the dismemberment case and how it appears to be linked to Kanako case by the man in white gloves
On September 6th and 7th more body parts are found. On September 10th Sekugchi meets with his publishers to discuss the order of his stories. Atsuko appears to inform Sekiguchi that more body parts have just been discovered.
On September 15th an unnamed women argues with her mother about prostitution and is eventually captured by the man with white gloves. Her body parts are found on September 16th.
On September 22nd Sekiguchi laments the problems with his latest story. Toriguchi, the reporter, comes to visit him. They discuss Kyougokudou briefly, before Yukie explains that needs some help investigate an exorcist that he believes to be a swindler. To this end Sekigcuhi suggests they visit Kyougokudou. Kyougokudou seems to know everything that's going on about, well, every part of the case. His skills appear to be clairvoyant in nature
On September 23rd Masouka visits the Rose Cross Detective Agency to discuss the Kanako case.
On the night of the 15th August Showa Era Year 27 Yorko and Kanako are at the train station. Kanako is ends up falling in front of a train. Detective Kiba is onboard this very train and begins his investigation into the incident. When he travels to the hospital that night with Yorko he meets Masouka, Kinuko and Amemiya and a few things come to light.
That night Kanako is moved to the mysterious Box Hospital and everyone else follows suit. Kanako stays alive that night.
On August 17th Yoriko and her mother argue. Yoriko's mother is concerned that the house has been infected by a demon and on August 18th she brings in an exorcist. To cleanse the house. Yoriko flees from the commotion and encounters the man in black with white gloves.
On August 30th Sekiguchi has become involved in the case of the 'dismemberment killer' who is cutting up women and distributing their limbs about the countryside. The right arm was discovered on August 29th, on August 30th both legs turned up. Sekiguchi is called by his reporter friend, Toriguchi, to go the crime scene. They are both joined by Atsuko, another reporter. During the course of their investigation they end up at the box hospital where Kanako is being kept, which is surrounded by heavy security.
On August 31st Kiba hears a rumour that none of the patients at the hospital ever come back. Kiba controns Kinuko/Youko about a note she has received. Later that day Yoriko visits the box hospital and Kiba to say that the man with the gloves pushed Kanako. When Yoriko, Kiba and others go down to visit Kanako another incident occurs where Kanako is kidnapped. Shortly thereafter Suzaki is murdered. Part of her is discovered on September 16th. Kiba is visited by a friend to discover the dismemberment case and how it appears to be linked to Kanako case by the man in white gloves
On September 6th and 7th more body parts are found. On September 10th Sekugchi meets with his publishers to discuss the order of his stories. Atsuko appears to inform Sekiguchi that more body parts have just been discovered.
On September 15th an unnamed women argues with her mother about prostitution and is eventually captured by the man with white gloves. Her body parts are found on September 16th.
On September 22nd Sekiguchi laments the problems with his latest story. Toriguchi, the reporter, comes to visit him. They discuss Kyougokudou briefly, before Yukie explains that needs some help investigate an exorcist that he believes to be a swindler. To this end Sekigcuhi suggests they visit Kyougokudou. Kyougokudou seems to know everything that's going on about, well, every part of the case. His skills appear to be clairvoyant in nature
On September 23rd Masouka visits the Rose Cross Detective Agency to discuss the Kanako case.
KirbYuuYuu
Member
Gintama 195 Not Losing Arc
Well that sure was something
and that one other girl that someone showed me a while ago. Oh... my...
Well this is something.
Well that sure was something
weather lady is actually stronger than she appears
and that one other girl that someone showed me a while ago. Oh... my...
Well this is something.
Deputy Dangle
Member
I wish I had known about the original post while I was going through this. Would have made things a little easier to swallow. I've accepted it being too dense for me, but I might revisit it at some point. Really great work, Jex.
It's become almost as bad as an American hockey team. Time to shut it down.
Jex
Member
Your choice, guys:
- Too soon
or
- Keep sports references, out of my 2d waifu thread Jason
All anime threads and blogs can be improved by gratutious sports references.
Jason understood this important fact early and has in turn excelled!
Yes. Today is day 2 of Kinothon.
Well yeah, I mean the lady reveals she's half jellyfish AFTER that part, and the cyborg on meido sex scene is after that. They eyeball licking and the time loop, too. So crazier things definitely came afterward. It wasn't 2001 a Space Odyssey, but it was still more insane as it went on.
Persona 4 23
Yosuke is confirmed for the only canon love interest. Dat romance scene of comfort. Lots of manly tears in this episode, and it was nice to see Yu's breakdown reflect the player's during it all. Also it dawns on me that the reason Igor and Margaret are riding in a car in this is because they're channeling Akio and Touga. If your persona has not truly given up, you can hear the nose that runs through the world.
You're just mad that Crosby-san is the destined winner of Gold Medal's harem despite always tanking in the popularity polls.
Strike the Blood 19
Lots of explanations going on. The line that sticks out to me the most was "If I didn't have a huge hole in my gut, I'd probably be turned on now." Sayaka's just getting bolder as the arcs continue to go on. I'm not sure if this feels more like two distinct arcs or one mega-arc. There's enough evidence for both.
Another one to Kojo's harem, and another new arc begins. I suspect this one may be a five parter, since the show is closing in on the end of its run.
Lots of explanations going on. The line that sticks out to me the most was "If I didn't have a huge hole in my gut, I'd probably be turned on now." Sayaka's just getting bolder as the arcs continue to go on. I'm not sure if this feels more like two distinct arcs or one mega-arc. There's enough evidence for both.
And I did not expect that bath scene aboard the ship to provide a solution to the plot with Natsuki. Foreshadowing at its finest.
Another one to Kojo's harem, and another new arc begins. I suspect this one may be a five parter, since the show is closing in on the end of its run.
Jex
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Anyway on a somewhat related tangent Jason pulled one of the moments from last week's KLK that I wanted to highlight briefly:
I really like the character designs for these two characters because, fashion and haircut wise, it seems to suggest that not only do they come from the 80's but they come from what the 80's looked like in anime with hilariously giant hair. I'm sure this minor detail is lost on some members of the audience but it's a neat visual shortcut that instantly sets these characters in a recognisable time and place in a recognisable past.
I really like the character designs for these two characters because, fashion and haircut wise, it seems to suggest that not only do they come from the 80's but they come from what the 80's looked like in anime with hilariously giant hair. I'm sure this minor detail is lost on some members of the audience but it's a neat visual shortcut that instantly sets these characters in a recognisable time and place in a recognisable past.
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Sweden = Ruri
MikeHattsu
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Angel Beats 03
The power of pi.
An explaination of what the band is for and another sad story. Actually got touching towards the end when
And another new character. The shorter and slightly weird one it seems.
The power of pi.
An explaination of what the band is for and another sad story. Actually got touching towards the end when
she started singing the ballad. But then she just disappeared?
And another new character. The shorter and slightly weird one it seems.
KirbYuuYuu
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Gintama 196 Not Losing Arc
I really didn't think that aspect from way back when would actually be relevant in a future arc, but lo and behold, here we are.
To think, it was just a gag point to spite Gin...
I really didn't think that aspect from way back when would actually be relevant in a future arc, but lo and behold, here we are.
The aspect being the marriage/divorce of Ketsuno.
To think, it was just a gag point to spite Gin...
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