Well, that's because you're watching the worst seasons! Duel Monsters and 5D's are actually pretty entertaining.
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Winter 2014 Anime |OT2| Waiting for Sakamoto
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Well, that's because you're watching the worst seasons! Duel Monsters and 5D's are actually pretty entertaining.
KirbYuuYuu
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>Watching ZeXal
You know, this is entirely your own doing, right? Unless someone made you do it, then you can blame them instead.
And it was western crunchtime stories that had me realising I'd never want to work in game development. Stories like the above have shaking my head totally not understanding why people would up with that. But then my philosophy is generally 'work to live' not 'live to work'.
Admiral Woofington
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Aishiteru Ze Baby 01
If this was any sweeter I'd get diabeetus
If this was any sweeter I'd get diabeetus
I've still got to find a way to get rid of all the Yugioh and Pokemon cards I bought as a kid and get some money back from it. Such regret...
Onigiri giri giri oniiiiigiri
Passive Assassin
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Macross Frontier 2
Eh. It's okay. Hopefully it gets better later.
Eh. It's okay. Hopefully it gets better later.
JoJo 5
Dio is such a dick.
This episode was pretty fun 'n' goofy. Dio being a magnificent bastard, the hair fight, everyone SHOUTING WITH SHONEN SPIRIT ABOUT OBVIOUS THINGS. Koyasu does a great Dio, he seems like he's having a lot of fun with the voice (and I just finished his first major arc in Gintama!). Looking forward to hopefully finishing Phantom Blood tomorrow.
Also this
I WILL SOLVE THIS PROBLEM WITH ABS
Dio is such a dick.
This episode was pretty fun 'n' goofy. Dio being a magnificent bastard, the hair fight, everyone SHOUTING WITH SHONEN SPIRIT ABOUT OBVIOUS THINGS. Koyasu does a great Dio, he seems like he's having a lot of fun with the voice (and I just finished his first major arc in Gintama!). Looking forward to hopefully finishing Phantom Blood tomorrow.
Also this
Admiral Woofington
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Finished ep 2. It managed to take Usagi Drop's manga dark turning point, and make it into diabeetus.
KirbYuuYuu
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The funny part about Gazoinks watching Jojo right now is that I was just watching those exact episodes with another group
That show was Usagi Drop before Usagi Drop.
I really should find out more about UK game development because quite frankly the english gaming media is very American centric so we really only hear about those who live in horror of displeasing their eagle god. Though I wouldn't be surprised if it is more the same. Of course all we talk about is the good ol' days of bedroom coders with the Spectrum. Where games has less colours than even an episode of Blood Lad.
Wolf's Rain - 1
Here's another show that I was introduced to some ten years ago, but never followed up on. I seem to remember buying the first single from Bandai and being really interested, but for whatever reason, never following through with the rest of the series. I'm sure so many of these instances exist for me since the price point of $24.99 or more for four episodes in my youth was unreasonable— despite my enthusiasm for the series. At any rate, with names like Tensai Okamura, Keiko Nobumoto, and Dai Sato attached to the project, I thought this one deserved to be rediscovered.
The characters of Wolf's Rain are immediately familiar thanks to Toshihiro Kawamoto's character design and the memorable work he did with titles like Cowboy Bebop and Golden Boy. Kawamoto was also the animation director of this episode as he similarly was for the premier episode of Cowboy Bebop as well as the shows more memorable episodes. His style and influence is very clear and robust here. The dystopian landscape is only a hop, skip, and jump from the ones in Bebop as well. Architecture of street corners and taverns are cracked and splintered with wear and have a very lived in feel. The look of this style coupled with the sound direction and Yoko Kanno's dreamy score create a beautiful juxtaposition that lends well to the narrative points of searching for a paradise. One look at sound director Kazuhiro Wakabayashi pedigree (an apparent frequent Okamura collaborater with Darker than Black and it's sequels as well as Kenji Kamiyama with Moribito and Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex amongst others) and it's obvious that Wolf's Rain should feature an impressive aural accompaniment. And, judging by the first episode, it does. This first episode is rife with great to serviceable animation and art throughout as well.
As a first episode, there was a lot going on here. It competently balanced between lore building and a slight air of mysticism with the main cast building through their actions and inaction's and a little bit of obtuse exposition from other characters. Nobumoto wrote this first episode and Yoshiyuki Takei directed it and who, like Kawamoto, also all worked in these respective roles on Bebop's first episode. I think one of Nobumoto's strengths in script is her pacing. By the half-way point, we've already seen so much and the narrative has time to breath without feeling like it rushed to get to that point (something Asteroid Blues also did very well).
The wolves and their plight are an interesting enough story; I'm looking forward to seeing how and if it lives up to it's potential.
Here's another show that I was introduced to some ten years ago, but never followed up on. I seem to remember buying the first single from Bandai and being really interested, but for whatever reason, never following through with the rest of the series. I'm sure so many of these instances exist for me since the price point of $24.99 or more for four episodes in my youth was unreasonable— despite my enthusiasm for the series. At any rate, with names like Tensai Okamura, Keiko Nobumoto, and Dai Sato attached to the project, I thought this one deserved to be rediscovered.
The characters of Wolf's Rain are immediately familiar thanks to Toshihiro Kawamoto's character design and the memorable work he did with titles like Cowboy Bebop and Golden Boy. Kawamoto was also the animation director of this episode as he similarly was for the premier episode of Cowboy Bebop as well as the shows more memorable episodes. His style and influence is very clear and robust here. The dystopian landscape is only a hop, skip, and jump from the ones in Bebop as well. Architecture of street corners and taverns are cracked and splintered with wear and have a very lived in feel. The look of this style coupled with the sound direction and Yoko Kanno's dreamy score create a beautiful juxtaposition that lends well to the narrative points of searching for a paradise. One look at sound director Kazuhiro Wakabayashi pedigree (an apparent frequent Okamura collaborater with Darker than Black and it's sequels as well as Kenji Kamiyama with Moribito and Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex amongst others) and it's obvious that Wolf's Rain should feature an impressive aural accompaniment. And, judging by the first episode, it does. This first episode is rife with great to serviceable animation and art throughout as well.
As a first episode, there was a lot going on here. It competently balanced between lore building and a slight air of mysticism with the main cast building through their actions and inaction's and a little bit of obtuse exposition from other characters. Nobumoto wrote this first episode and Yoshiyuki Takei directed it and who, like Kawamoto, also all worked in these respective roles on Bebop's first episode. I think one of Nobumoto's strengths in script is her pacing. By the half-way point, we've already seen so much and the narrative has time to breath without feeling like it rushed to get to that point (something Asteroid Blues also did very well).
The wolves and their plight are an interesting enough story; I'm looking forward to seeing how and if it lives up to it's potential.
I have a coworker who was on his way out to go on a trip with his family on JANUARY 2ND who got a call from the office asking him about this and that thing and he CANCELLED the family trip right then and there to login to the system and read thousands of lines of code. This is why I will never be one of them.
Ooh, I keep meaning to watch thi-
Wait.
You're telling me the character designer for Bebop was the same as Golden Boy? I was wondering why that one woman had Faye hair.
chickdigger802
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Finally a fight with watching. Other dude had some good faces and yami aichi is finally a badass. The mcguffin of the show is unraveling too.
Hope the mystic stuff isn't too idiotic.
Kai is also an idiot. No clue why the camera always pans to his emotionless face. Pad out an eps?
Finally a fight with watching. Other dude had some good faces and yami aichi is finally a badass. The mcguffin of the show is unraveling too.
Hope the mystic stuff isn't too idiotic.
Kai is also an idiot. No clue why the camera always pans to his emotionless face. Pad out an eps?
That's how I'd like to imagine it, with a bit of pub time at the end of the day, but how I fear it really is just as gloomy the American game industry just we less guns, clapping and flag saluting. ;__;
So when it is Halloween or Christmas we often see a few show make reference to this. So how many can we expect to be about celebrating Pancake Day tomorrow?
Admiral Woofington
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Lol Kippei is such a pimp even preschooler kids and teachers have the hots for him.
AOTY.
AOTY.
Wow, I had no idea. Thank you for pointing this out.
I surely didnt!
I probably would be happier if the hobnobs and tea was plentiful.
Admiral Woofington
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French crunch time is different though. When they're too stressed they give up.
MikeHattsu
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Still want one of those. Even with that price.
Hm... Interesting. Didn't know that.
Internet goes dead when sending message. Give up. Take shower. Come back and post message. Find original message went through after all.
Sacrebleu! Ze game must come out soon.
Vat are you talking about you silly sausaage. Ze game comes out in six months.
Six months?
Oui. Six months.
Oh ho ho ho you are right. Ve still have six months. How could I be zo silly?
Exactamont! Six months.
Admiral Woofington
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Did you take into l'account our vacation time?
Aw! Non monsieur! With vacation time it would take us 2 whole years!
Oh ho ho ho ho. Good zing I asked. Wouldn't want to have to worry for our like 20 years of paid vacation Hunh hunh hunh!
Is this Monty Python's Flying Game Development Studio?
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Shiki 7
Wow, the writing and acting in this show are on a whole other level. It's like one of those "so bad it's good" movies you hear people talking about.
Oh yes, and there's also that whole "vampirism as pedophilia and rape" metaphor, with a dash of homoeroticism.
Passive Assassin
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Macross Zero
First half was great... second half not so much.
First half was great... second half not so much.
This remind me for doing write up for Macross Plus, already finish it awhile ago.
Wake Up, Girls! 1-2
Well now. This pretty much starts off straight from the movie not only in the overall plot but in just how knee deep the self loathing of IDOL CULTURE is. It's so incredibly cynical that the group, named after a love hotel down the road, get scammed by a creepy ass manager that whores them out to skeevy old dudes at a health spa only to end up getting saved by the President of the talent agency that ran off with their fucking money and gambled it all away. It makes the IDOL CULTURE seen in the legendary AKB49 look like the spittle on a three year olds chin in terms of depth.
Speaking of money, the production of this series certainly lacks some as everything that isn't the dance scenes (one of which was reused from the movie) just looks bad, sometimes even Samumenco levels of quality and this is just the second episode. The OP's just reused footage from the movie (which is advertised with scrolling text,) the ED's just some filtered photographs of Sendai, and the Previews consist of two of the voice actors being filmed IRL trying to pull of their best anime voice possible which is giving me some serious PTSD flashbacks to the AKB48 live election stream I watched with IRC ages ago. Jesus.
In closing I don't even know whether this is the best or the worst idol series ever made. Either way, I'm certainly watching more to see if this saves Yamakans career (and anime) or ends it in the most laughable trainwreck since Fractale.
Well now. This pretty much starts off straight from the movie not only in the overall plot but in just how knee deep the self loathing of IDOL CULTURE is. It's so incredibly cynical that the group, named after a love hotel down the road, get scammed by a creepy ass manager that whores them out to skeevy old dudes at a health spa only to end up getting saved by the President of the talent agency that ran off with their fucking money and gambled it all away. It makes the IDOL CULTURE seen in the legendary AKB49 look like the spittle on a three year olds chin in terms of depth.
Speaking of money, the production of this series certainly lacks some as everything that isn't the dance scenes (one of which was reused from the movie) just looks bad, sometimes even Samumenco levels of quality and this is just the second episode. The OP's just reused footage from the movie (which is advertised with scrolling text,) the ED's just some filtered photographs of Sendai, and the Previews consist of two of the voice actors being filmed IRL trying to pull of their best anime voice possible which is giving me some serious PTSD flashbacks to the AKB48 live election stream I watched with IRC ages ago. Jesus.
In closing I don't even know whether this is the best or the worst idol series ever made. Either way, I'm certainly watching more to see if this saves Yamakans career (and anime) or ends it in the most laughable trainwreck since Fractale.
Sneaky Gato
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Just how many episodes is World Conquest going to be? Like the alast episode a lot.
Having never watched it can someone tell me why Fractale is so famous for being bad? I know about the whole meme surrounding it but what about the actual show?
Having never watched it can someone tell me why Fractale is so famous for being bad? I know about the whole meme surrounding it but what about the actual show?
Mockingbird
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Ano Hana: The Movie
This movie came out a year or two after the series, and the best way to watch this movie is a probably a long while after the series. So if you want to refresh your memory about this series before watching this movie, don't. The movie itself will do that for you. It serves as a nice epilogue to the series, taking place a year after the final episode of the TV series and it doesn't go about recapping the usual way, but rather throughout the movie the characters will recall moments from the tv series while providing their own commentary. For those who love the series, the insights are great. Especially the final character's insight in the last recap scene in the movie. It'd definitely something Ano Hana fans will appreciate, but you'll appreciate it a lot less if you jump into it right after marathoning the TV series. The best thing is checking up on how everyone is doing a year after the TV series' events. And you shouldn't watch it if you haven't seen the series; it's not meant to be a standalone movie. Watching it without seeing the TV series is actually the worst thing you could do.
Also, I saw it without subs and understood about 97% of everything and was happy I was able to understand that much =)
This movie came out a year or two after the series, and the best way to watch this movie is a probably a long while after the series. So if you want to refresh your memory about this series before watching this movie, don't. The movie itself will do that for you. It serves as a nice epilogue to the series, taking place a year after the final episode of the TV series and it doesn't go about recapping the usual way, but rather throughout the movie the characters will recall moments from the tv series while providing their own commentary. For those who love the series, the insights are great. Especially the final character's insight in the last recap scene in the movie. It'd definitely something Ano Hana fans will appreciate, but you'll appreciate it a lot less if you jump into it right after marathoning the TV series. The best thing is checking up on how everyone is doing a year after the TV series' events. And you shouldn't watch it if you haven't seen the series; it's not meant to be a standalone movie. Watching it without seeing the TV series is actually the worst thing you could do.
Also, I saw it without subs and understood about 97% of everything and was happy I was able to understand that much =)
I liked it but most dont. It really goes off the rails even by my lax standards.
The exploitive managers/obsessive fans/"glue" handshakes/consumerist prostitution kind of IDOL CULTURE.
Oh. I thought that was just idol culture. IDOL CULTURE being, as demonstrated at least four times per Love Live episode, extreme sexual harassment all the way up to the "r word".
Obviously there is overlap between the two.
Yeah, IDOL CULTURE's really just a catch all phrase for how utterly fucked up and depraved the entire industry is from top to bottom. The harassment stuff in Love Live is just a more marketable anime extension of that. ._.
Rozen Maiden 12
This episode would have been a totally decent ending to the series, since it closes the book on most of the main arcs of the show. But I wouldn't mind one more go.
I'm trying to figure out how the dolls' stories fit thematically into the picture of this show. Is Suigintou struggling to learn empathy supposed to be a parallel to Jun's own struggles? What was the point of the stuff with the twin dolls? It's a bit messy.
Anyway, even if the conclusion is a bit cheesy, it's still very well directed and good. The scenes between Suigintou and her master work really well, which seems like a tough act for a character as emotionally unbalanced as that girl is.
I guess I'll finish this tomorrow.
This episode would have been a totally decent ending to the series, since it closes the book on most of the main arcs of the show. But I wouldn't mind one more go.
I'm trying to figure out how the dolls' stories fit thematically into the picture of this show. Is Suigintou struggling to learn empathy supposed to be a parallel to Jun's own struggles? What was the point of the stuff with the twin dolls? It's a bit messy.
Anyway, even if the conclusion is a bit cheesy, it's still very well directed and good. The scenes between Suigintou and her master work really well, which seems like a tough act for a character as emotionally unbalanced as that girl is.
I guess I'll finish this tomorrow.
it's not harassment if it's between two cute girls! nico nico ni etc etc etc
MikeHattsu
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Have fun waiting in line to even get into the cafe.
You should read AKB49 to prepare yourself for the depths of sadness you'll encounter.
Behind each reaction face is a history of shaved heads and sexual molestation.
Deputy Dangle
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This is largely why I see it as a critique or examination on Japanese ideals and how that affects Jiro's character to the point where he has such a detached, impersonal personality. That kind of cultural divide is something that usually can hurt a movie for me as I personally can't empathize or respond emotionally to how characters deeply embedded in another culture choose to go about their relationships, work, and so on. Strangely, The Wind Rises having that subtext as well as walking that line between fantastical and the almost too subdued disillusionment worked for me.
I understand the complaints and I understand the disconnect some have, but it culminated into something I still found very captivating for me. It's been constantly on my mind over the past three days, so I'm hoping to see it again this week to clear up more of my thoughts.
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