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Winter Anime 2015 |OT| ZA WARUDO is not square!

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Cloudy

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Really? They're better then a lot of current stuff
*cough*Valvrave*cough*
but still a bit too sharp for my tastes.
The Vilkiss has a figurehead and that's great though

Edit: Y'know what I changed my mind they're pretty good.

The 2 modes are great. I'd order an action figure that could transform if it was priced decently
 
Upotte 04

There is an Israeli fox girl and a Finnish Elf. Maybe I can get behind this.

The drama between M16A4 and L85A1 is incredibly forced.
 

jgminto

Member
The mechs in Cross Ange are the best designs I've seen in any anime...

They look better than a few recent anime (Valvrave, Majestic Prince, Aldnoah Zero aside from the grunt suits) but they're pretty clearly just cut down Gundam-esqe mecha. And the two recent Gundam anime both beat it in the design department.
 

Quasar

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Absolute Duo- 2-4
Bad-Teacher.jpg

This is without a doubt one of the worst schooling systems I have ever seen in any medium. "Let's rehire your psychopath teacher because she fucked up trying to kill you".

Oh and we getting a taste of world culture now. When is France showing up?

The 'this is sparta' reference amused me.
 

fertygo

Member
Some reaction to oreimo is strange tho, you watching incest show but rooting against incest ending? lol?

I didn't bother to watch past s1 because I know I can't mang..
 

TUSR

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Some reaction to oreimo is strange tho, you watching incest show but rooting against incest ending? lol?

I didn't bother to watch past s1 because I know I can't mang..

i was expecting a reveal in S2 that they weren't blood related, not that it makes it too much better. but it does.
 

phaze

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I think the issue her is you're coming at it from the perspective that Madoka is a godly being and currently possesses godly powers. While yes when Madoka made her wish she was able to rewrite the universe its still remain unclear how much power she actually has after that. Remember QB said she was merely a concept now after she did the universe rewrite who knows how much power she actually possesses and if she would be the type to interfer with things going on on Earth.

It certainly is an assumption I'm coming from and I feel it's an justifiable one,
given the feats she performs on the daily basis as the Law of the Cycle. And Godmura was seemingly able to play around with Incubators like they were nothing to her. At the end of the day, it's not like breaking of that barrier required a lot of power. Homura and Madoka in their "base" forms managed to achieve that.
As for what Homura did to Madoka I always felt it was a opportunity sort of thing. The opportunity to forever make Madoka her's presented itself and she took it at the most vital of moments.
She says "I've waited so long for this" so it feels like a keikaku long time in the making. :p

Also considering we're dealing with magic here and magic doesn't really have to explain itself it isn't so far-fetched the Homura's 'love magic' built up over countless years of time traveling allowed her to acquire godlike power as well.
Where does Homura's power to change the universe come from? Well it's not fully explained because how do you make a consistent ruleset for god creation? But what I imagine happened was that Homura was isolated and studied for a very very long time. I don't think we should take the movie at face value and assume there is 1:1 relationship between time in the world inside Homura's gem and time in the world outside of it. With that in mind, it's very possible that Homura's witch powers fermented and changed over time into something new, so what happened to her was unprecedented in both the pre-Madoka and post-Madoka universes.
I dunno. Even Madoka who was said to have the most potential out of all magical girls, needed a wish from QB to translate that potential into raw power. Homura getting this kind of might without a wish seems to me to break the previously established rules of the universe, however wacky and vague they were even before that.

Zan Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei 01

As if there ever was any doubt which show has the best harem in existence.
 
Oreimo infuriated me enough already when it tried to tell me that the little sister acquired a gigantic collection of ecchi and hentai games/VNs just because she thinks little sisters are cute.

Like, that's why.

"So you're telling me you gather all this and watch little girls getting banged by their brothers constantly because...you think little sisters are cute? What kind of cute are we talking about here?"

And yeh, supposedly she realizes and admits later down the line that she may have found that stuff alluring or so. But too late, you cannot tell me she was that fucking stupid to never really question her motives before.

The idea that she acquired this large stash of porn games because of her fondness for cute sisters (or that she genuinely believed that) is outrageously stupid and one of the worst premises I've seen.

edit: I mean, after that kind of opening episode there couldn't even be any shocking ending.
 

BGBW

Maturity, bitches.
I already knew the ending so I watched the final episodes with a grin on my face knowing full well others were watching it in despair.
 
i was expecting a reveal in S2 that they weren't blood related, not that it makes it too much better. but it does.

The reveal that they are not blood related only happens in the 2nd psp game ( whose plot was written by the author of the books) and that game follow the same storyline you've got in anime expect some light differences ..it was also released months before the end of the books.

I always find it funny that they choose to not include this part since it would have made the whole , "less" annoying for many.
 

jgminto

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Gundam Build Fighters Try 16
Up until this point I had been wondering whether the tri team gimmick was a worthwhile addition to the formula. It seemed like it wasn't adding much and all of the battle highlights were one on one. But the Tryon 3 (and its transformation sequence) just entirely justified the existence of the gimmick.

GUNPLA IS FREEDOM!

The visuals this episode were quite rough though, might have been one of the most consistently off model episodes so far. And that terrible CG dragon mecha, the stuff of nightmares! I guess this is what happens when a show doesn't sell discs and is only held together as an advertisement. I hope they're just saving their budget for the finals because it's going to be really disappointing if an amazing mecha like the Tryon 3 doesn't get to look beautiful while it destroys things.
 

Sölf

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So, I have no idea if this is the right thread. But since it's about anime, eh, why not.

So, I started a game in another forum where you had to guess which anime this song belongs to. Basically, I took 50 songs from various anime (OP/ED/Background/Insert Song) and cut them to like 15-30 seconds parts per song and made a single file were these parts pla one after another.

Would AnimeGAF dare to accept said challenge, and try to solve the mystery to which show each song belongs?!
 

Theonik

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Sölf;149492297 said:
So, I have no idea if this is the right thread. But since it's about anime, eh, why not.

So, I started a game in another forum where you had to guess which anime this song belongs to. Basically, I took 50 songs from various anime (OP/ED/Background/Insert Song) and cut them to like 15-30 seconds parts per song and made a single file were these parts pla one after another.

Would AnimeGAF dare to accept said challenge, and try to solve the mystery to which show each song belongs?!
There were a bunch of sporkle quizes posted here in this past.
Like this one for instance
Or this one closer to what you mean to do.
Edit: Or the much superior
 
If you didn't like the end to Oreimo its your own damn fault. What did you expect would happen? You didn't honestly think Kuroneko would win, did you? The show ended exactly as it should have, exactly as the title said it would. It wasn't called "My Little Sister's Friend Can't Be This Cute!" If you expected anyone other than Kirino to win then you only have yourself to blame.
 

BGBW

Maturity, bitches.
Avatar betting already? That's rather bold of you.

I like it.

Narag's bullying culture is taking hold.
 

Sölf

Member
Well, I only wanted to know if people in here would actually be willing to do that!

This "game" is still going in another forum (and I know at least 2 people besides me who are active here and there), so I would wait until they have finished.

And avatar bets? Everytime!
 
Sölf;149497481 said:
Mine would be more like... a bet? You guys vs me, you have a few days to solve it and the winner(s) picks an avatar for the looser(s). :0

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Sorry, but it's a pet peeve of mine.

I'm personally not really interested but would assume AnimeGAF stands a decent chance. Then again, if you'll just take the more obscure anime and use background/insert songs it'll be rather tough, but...maybe also quite interesting.
 

fertygo

Member
Gundam Build Fighters Try 16

Up until this point I had been wondering whether the tri team gimmick was a worthwhile addition to the formula. It seemed like it wasn't adding much and all of the battle highlights were one on one. But the Tryon 3 (and its transformation sequence) just entirely justified the existence of the gimmick.

GUNPLA IS FREEDOM!

The visuals this episode were quite rough though, might have been one of the most consistently off model episodes so far. And that terrible CG dragon mecha, the stuff of nightmares! I guess this is what happens when a show doesn't sell discs and is only held together as an advertisement. I hope they're just saving their budget for the finals because it's going to be really disappointing if an amazing mecha like the Tryon 3 doesn't get to look beautiful while it destroys things.
I don't know, various mecha match in this eps got decent drawing, the CG AGE robot is fucking terrible indeed but Shia's mech got some flashy animation.
 
If you didn't like the end to Oreimo its your own damn fault. What did you expect would happen? You didn't honestly think Kuroneko would win, did you? The show ended exactly as it should have, exactly as the title said it would. It wasn't called "My Little Sister's Friend Can't Be This Cute!" If you expected anyone other than Kirino to win then you only have yourself to blame.

What if I wanted nobody to win and rather have a S3? :p
 

BGBW

Maturity, bitches.
I tried out one of the links Theonik posted and scored 100%...

...for the shows I've seen, which was about ten of them.
 

Shard

XBLAnnoyance
Gundam Build Fighters Try Episode 16:

Well, I see we are getting the jobber matches over quickly and that works for me.
 

BGBW

Maturity, bitches.
I got about 80% for 101 OP one >.>

I did the 100 audio only one. The video one is a bit easier since you can just guess by recognising characters. Do I know what the Naruto OPs sound like? No. Do I know what the characters look like because of mass sightings of them online? Yes.

Also "K-On!! 2" is not the name of the show. Such a cheat. It's K-On! and K-on!! I wrote the double exclamation marks!
 

Theonik

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I did the 100 audio only one. The video one is a bit easier since you can just guess by recognising characters. Do I know what the Naruto OPs sound like? No. Do I know what the characters look like because of mass sightings of them online? Yes.

Also "K-On!! 2" is not the name of the show. Such a cheat. It's K-On! and K-on!! I wrote the double exclamation marks!
That's the biggest problem with these. Answering is such a pain since it will autofill shit and it might be really wrong or pedantic about it. It's the quiz author's fault.
 

Sölf

Member
Goddamnit, Akagi ends on a cliffhanger with 2 games out of 6 remaining with the villain :(

You want to hear a, uhm, "spoiler" (regarding the manga)?

That game is still going. I don't read the manga, but this frigging game is still ongoing. This single game has more chapters then the rest of the story, if I am not mistaken.
 
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