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[MetroidPrimeRib]

Sekai Seifuku: Bouryaku no Zvezda OVA

Holy shit Roboko is moe as fuck

 

[PK Gaming]

YUKI YUNA IS A HERO Episode 9

I'm pretty sure the episode title refers to the

Spoiler

viewer's grief

Now if you'll excuse me, i'll be sobbing in a corner

 

[firehawk12]

The Wind Rises

Better than I expected, but the love-tragedy sideplot was very gratuitous.

Since I don't think anyone here actually read Kaze Tachinu, I wonder if it's saying too much to suggest that the movie is as much about celebrating the author of the book upon the sanitarium plot was based as it is about celebrating Jiro.

Its a test! Also god is an asshole like that.

Seems like a paradox!

 

[cajunator]

Welcome to the NHK gave me so many feels. Just finished it. The soundtrack was pretty good too.

Excellent show. One of my tops.

 

[Narag]

Wait, if they're fated to be together, how can fate also separate them??

You'd know if only you'd watched The Fault in Our Stars!!

 

[Haly]

Since I don't think anyone here actually read Kaze Tachinu, I wonder if it's saying too much to suggest that the movie is as much about celebrating the author of the book upon the sanitarium plot was based as it is about celebrating Jiro.

It just wasn't strong enough. Nahoko's character was flimsy in more ways than one, and their contrived reunion + ensuing romance was also on the weak side. It's not the existence of the sideplot that I dislike, but that it was poorly executed. I cared about Jiro, the engineer. I did not really care for Jiro, the husband to a wife dying of tuberculosis.

 

[survivor]

When's the shoujo watch??

someone make a shoujo watch for an old anime like Kare Kano or other 80s/90s shoujo.

 

[firehawk12]

You'd know if only you'd watched The Fault in Our Stars!!

So Votoms ends in the Anne Frank museum?

It just wasn't strong enough. Nahoko's character was flimsy in more ways than one, and their contrived reunion + ensuing romance wasn't sufficiently padded. It's not the existence of the sideplot itself that I dislike, but that it was poorly executed. I cared about Jiro, the engineer. I did not really care for Jiro, the husband to a wife dying of tuberculosis.

Well, the reading I saw somewhere is that the inclusion of that storyline is to celebrate the process of writing a novel. I guess the question becomes how well known Kaze Tachinu is as a work or Hori Tatsuo as an author who wrote during the same period of time as Jiro. Certainly the film makes a point of crediting Tatsuo's work anyway.

someone make a shoujo watch for an old anime like Kare Kano or other 80s/90s shoujo.

I'd probably wouldn't mind rewatching that either. lol

 

[Haly]

Well, the reading I saw somewhere is that the inclusion of that storyline is to celebrate the process of writing a novel. I guess the question becomes how well known Kaze Tachinu is as a work or Hori Tatsuo as an author who wrote during the same period of time as Jiro. Certainly the film makes a point of crediting Tatsuo's work anyway.

I want to see this reading that interprets a girl dying of tuberculosis as the writing of a novel.

 

[Narag]

So Votoms ends in the Anne Frank museum?

That's where the real VOTOMS begins.

 

[firehawk12]

I want to see this reading that interprets a girl dying of tuberculosis as the writing of a novel.

It's the fact that the film is an adaptation combined with the fact that you're left unsure about how much of this is based on Jiro's life, if anything.

That's where the real VOTOMS begins.

So would a Votoms also be a Beiber maniac or whatever he signed in that guest book?

 

[Haly]

It's the fact that the film is an adaptation combined with the fact that you're left unsure about how much of this is based on Jiro's life, if anything.

Even in a vacuum, divorced from all external and historical context, the sideplot would've been weak.

 

[firehawk12]

Even in a vacuum, divorced from all external and historical context, the sideplot would've been weak.

I mean, I guess it depends on what you see the film as trying to do. I don't think it even necessarily has an obvious narrative arc, since it emphasizes the process (and given the film's ending).

 

[Narag]

Ahh, I get it now. Unsure if it's due to always assuming it was prologue or just never connecting it with Chirico because I'm terrible about that sort of thing but yeah, this sets him up perfectly.

 

[sonicmj1]

Ahh, I get it now. Unsure if it's due to always assuming it was prologue or just never connecting it with Chirico because I'm terrible about that sort of thing but yeah, this sets him up perfectly.

Yeah, I thought that prologue was a really effective setup. The details don't matter, but it seems to perfectly capture who Chirico is in the context of what's happening around him.

 

[Quasar]

Series impressions

Madan no Ou to Vanadis could have been better , they should have followed the source material better . Overall i have to admit that most of the changes they made are for the most part : better , but i really dislike all the stuff they cut.
Some of the leftovers was used for vanadi-chu, the chibi anime , but goddamit , so much was left on the road.

For me it worked enough that I've now started reading the book that follows on from the end. Am kind of bummed that they separate Tigre from everyone pretty much straight away.

Anyway, I guess if I was Japanese the series worked as planned (getting me to want to read the books).

 

[Quasar]

Tried to get back to Durararara so I can finish it all before S2 starts. Instead got side tracked by MangaGAF into re-watching Majikoi instead.

I find it rather pleasant.

 

[Maximilian Kolbe]

So this is happy new year picture from wargaming, what kind of company are they now.

 

[Haly]

I mean, I guess it depends on what you see the film as trying to do. I don't think it even necessarily has an obvious narrative arc, since it emphasizes the process (and given the film's ending).

Once I saw the failed Falcon test, I had strong feeling that the movie would end on Jiro designing his dream plane and putting it to flight. So the arc was:

Inspiration > Study > Work > Learn from Glorious German Engineering > Trial and Error > Success.

Which is great, very strong, because it is a perfect allegory for any kind of creative work. Except what actually happened in the movie was:

Inspiration > Childhood Promise > Study > Work > Learn from Glorious German Engineering > Tearful reunion five years later > Trial and Error > Success > Secret Base.

 

[Deleted member 22576]

Ahh, I get it now. Unsure if it's due to always assuming it was prologue or just never connecting it with Chirico because I'm terrible about that sort of thing but yeah, this sets him up perfectly.

DAng what show is this. This is my show.

 

[firehawk12]

It certainly wasn't structured like a mockumentary. Once I saw the failed Falcon test, I had an inkling that the movie would end on Jiro designing his dream plane and putting it to flight. So the arc, for me, was:

Inspiration > Study > Work > Learn from Glorious German Engineering > Trial and Error > Success.

Except what actually happened in the movie was:

Inspiration > Childhood Promise > Study > Work > Learn from Glorious German Engineering > Tearful reunion five years later > Trial and Error > Success > Secret Base.

Well, not for nothing, but the

Spoiler

surrealistic dream ending

would point to the film being anything but a straightforward story about designing the Zero.

So this is happy new year picture from wargaming, what kind of company are they now.

GuP and KanColle ruined military otakuism for everyone.

 

[Narag]

DAng what show is this. This is my show.

Armored Trooper VOTOMS

GuP and KanColle ruined military otakuism for everyone.

Up to Strike Witches to save it.

 

[Haly]

Well, not for nothing, but the

Spoiler

surrealistic dream ending

would point to the film being anything but a straightforward story about designing the Zero.

I thought the dreams were very straightforward, actually a little bit too blunt because Miyazaki needed to shoehorn in his trademark "whimsical and wizened elderly mentor" character, twice! Once in Caproni and again in the German duder.

 

[Zolf]

I really need to watch VOTOMS; a long time ago I was given a free VHS at Anime Expo that had some random episodes of the Jungle arc (at least I assume that's what it was since it was in the jungle and had a very Vietnam War-ish vibe), and while I had no context for what was going on considering I hadn't seen any other parts of the show, I remember enjoying it quite a bit.

 

[sonicmj1]

DAng what show is this. This is my show.

It's some goddamn Armored Trooper VOTOMS. And now's the perfect time to start! Because...

Heads up to people -

me, sonicmj1, and wonzo are starting a VOTOMS watch and if anyone wants to join, they're welcome to after going through an extensive background check (fee: 345$). We're doing 3 episodes a week for three weeks, and then 4 episodes for the fourth, as the show goes through 13-episode arcs.

So by the 11th of January, you should be up to episode 3, and by the 18th, up to episode 6, etc. Feel free to watch it whenever but talking about it on Sunday is encouraged to drive up noise and to strongarm random moe fans into watching manly mecha shows.

 

[firehawk12]

I thought the dreams were very straightforward, actually a little bit too blunt because Miyazaki needed to shoehorn in his trademark "whimsical and wizened elderly mentor" character, twice! Once in Caproni and again in the German duder.

Yeah, but I mean, he's being taken to be

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reunited with his wife while being left to wonder about his legacy

. There are plain (heh) ways to end a film that would be meant to be biographical, but really, I still think the film is Miyazaki coming as close as he can to creating an autobiography.

Armored Trooper VOTOMS

Up to Strike Witches to save it.

You and your pantsless fetish.

 

[MikeHattsu]

To give you a bit of meat to chew on though – for new titles, to make it to #10 for a new title – you just need to sell more than 100 copies…

Damn.

 

[Narag]

You and your pantsless fetish.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=22599796&postcount=5238

 

[firehawk12]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost...postcount=5238

Pff, context.

Besides, all that does is make me :firehawk about all the people who used to post here. I mean, at one point Strike Witches was the anime of the generation according to AnimeGAF. lol

 

[MikeHattsu]

Hm... There's no plans of releasing Encouragement of Climb S1 in the US, right? And the Japanese release got no subs?

 

[firehawk12]

Hm... There's no plans of releasing Encouragement of Climb S1 in the US, right? And the Japanese release got no subs?

I can't imagine. It's a 30 minute thing when put altogether...

 

[Lafiel]

The Wind Rises

Better than I expected, but the love-tragedy sideplot was very gratuitous.

My biggest problem with The Wind Rises is it doesn't take the political implications of the premise seriously enough. I.E it's a film about a guy who spends all his creative energy creating war machines.. and the consequences of that are never fully explored in great depth.

 

[Narag]

Pff, context.

Besides, all that does is make me :firehawk about all the people who used to post here. I mean, at one point Strike Witches was the anime of the generation according to AnimeGAF. lol

Unannounced S3 will the anime of the generation of the next generation of AnimeGAF. You can be Sarek and hang around though.

 

[firehawk12]

Unannounced S3 will the anime of the generation of the next generation of AnimeGAF. You can be Sarek and hang around though.

http://neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=22627077&postcount=5634

RIP Cowie. Already feeling nostalgic for old AnimeGAF. lol

(Those K-On quotes are still relevant!)

My biggest problem with The Wind Rises is it doesn't take the political implications of the premise seriously enough. I.E it's a film about a guy who spends all his creative energy creating war machines.. and the consequences of that are never fully explored in great depth.

Watch Eien no Zero. lol

 

[ZachDeKoromaru]

Pff, context.

Besides, all that does is make me :firehawk about all the people who used to post here. I mean, at one point Strike Witches was the anime of the generation according to AnimeGAF. lol

That still hasn't changed. Also they wear pants you ignoramuses!

 

[Narag]

That still hasn't changed. Also they wear pants you ignoramuses!

They could be wearing more pants though.

 

[ZachDeKoromaru]

They could be wearing more pants though.

But who wears more than two pairs of pants? Nerds, that's who.

 

[firehawk12]

But who wears more than two pairs of pants? Nerds, that's who.

Are they pants or underpants??

 

[Theonik]

http://neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php...postcount=5634

RIP Cowie. Already feeling nostalgic for old AnimeGAF. lol

(Those K-On quotes are still relevant!)

Watch Eien no Zero. lol

"In time you will realise that Strike Witches is the voice of the generation"
BY GOD THEY WERE RIGHT.

 

[MikeHattsu]

I can't imagine. It's a 30 minute thing when put altogether...

 

[ZachDeKoromaru]

Are they pants or underpants??

This is the last time I'm going to post this!

"In time you will realise that Strike Witches is the voice of the generation"
BY GOD THEY WERE RIGHT.

I did my part, I'm the best recruit officer.

 

[Theonik]

I did my part, I'm the best recruit officer.

*pets*

 

[cajunator]

*pets*

Yall gonna kill my heart

 

[FelixOrion]

Himegoto 1-13

 

[firehawk12]

This is the last time I'm going to post this!
I did my part, I'm the best recruit officer.

I don't understand that picture.

http://i.imgur.com/MebsK05.gif

The flip side is that Sentai is probably going to sell that GooP OVA all on its own for 40 bucks, so who knows. lol

"In time you will realise that Strike Witches is the voice of the generation"
BY GOD THEY WERE RIGHT.

Cowie was the hero we didn't deserve... or however that goes.

 

[Haly]

My biggest problem with The Wind Rises is it doesn't take the political implications of the premise seriously enough

lol

"I don't like that this movie wasn't what I thought it should be."

 

[fertygo]

My biggest problem with The Wind Rises is it doesn't take the political implications of the premise seriously enough. I.E it's a film about a guy who spends all his creative energy creating war machines.. and the consequences of that are never fully explored in great depth.

That's not the point of story at all..

Btw I like it better than Bamboo Princess

 

[Admiral Woofington]

lol

"I don't like that this movie wasn't what I thought it should be."

That's my complaint with KyoAni anime nowadays. But it's more like

"I don't like that this show wasn't what I thought it should be, that being actually good"

 

[BGBW]

God dang, I just started watching Sword Art Online and its my favorite show ever. I've seen 5 episodes so far. Man this shit is good.

This guy here has some of the best taste in this thread.

To be fair, I've seen shows release here that I see as a lost cause to release but apparently people buy them! Watamote being a recent example. Would a show like that really sell to a wide audience in the UK? I know it was/is popular but still...doesn't seem like the type of show one would buy on a format like Blu-ray, meanwhile the same distributor releases a show like Michiko & Hatchin only on DVD? Strange decision. Michiko & Hatchin was also released on Blu-ray in the US and from what I heard, both the picture and sound quality was pretty decent on it and the US copy was region A/B (maybe that's why?)...

Thanks for this. I'll read through it in detail when I'm a bit more wake. Though the comment about Ghibli reminds me that I was given The Wind Rises BD for Christmas and it includes the DVD as well which I thought was interesting since I though that practise had finished.

Yes, I am aware the UK Ghibil copies are apparently the worst in the world but it was a present from my dear mother so I'm not going to complain.

 

[Shergal]

Kaguyahime > everything Miyazaki's ever created