To me, I had not enjoyed watching an anime as much as the mentioned since Attack on Titan in April of 2013.
I don't watch many anime, so maybe my scope is limited in claiming that it's personally one of the best anime I have watched in a while. Still, the production values are among the best I have ever seen for an anime (TV) and the story, and pacing, is great.
KanColle's streaming time has been clarified. Tomorrow, at 1:30 PM ET.
I don't know a whole lot about this franchise beyond the massive amount of pixiv fanart it got, but this and Cinderella Girls are potentially the way of the future.
I'll have my fun with watching/reading incest whenever its brought up.
And I even consider Older Sister + Younger Brother to be one of the most entertaining kinds.
But Namie attaching the head to a stalker her brother just killed so he could frolic around with it saying love this and love that, while she's content with just keeping tabs on him as her form of love?
So I guess there's more plot now like they said there would be. And the loser squad getting more attention since they were treated like crap towards the end of the first half.
Boring character designs. Show is interesting. So no one questions
a loli principal and the fact that girls and boys are shacking up. I expected the girls to get pissed at the lead sharing a room with the girl, but not a peep.
Being a magical girl boy show, I need awesome battles and/or suffering to watch really, this episode showed me neither so this is probably not for me. It had a few funny moments and random ass stuff like that.. pink wombat alien and chikuwabu food enemy? I'm a fan of stupid shit.
I'll see how next episode evolves before I decide to stop watching, maybe the comedy alone will win me over. That green hedgehog is up to no good with the cool kids. I'll let the image speak for itself.
To me, I had not enjoyed watching an anime as much as the mentioned since Attack on Titan in April of 2013.
I don't watch many anime, so maybe my scope is limited in claiming that it's personally one of the best anime I have watched in a while. Still, the production values are among the best I have ever seen for an anime (TV) and the story, and pacing, is great.
I can't agree to this sentiment if only because at least Absolute Duo would have shock value on its side to make it interesting, it can;t even managed the ability to offend it is so cliched in its perversions.
The first episode of Bears goes up tomorrow at Funi's site, so I'll see what everyone's talking about then. Also, since both Earth Defense Club and World Break have their start dates listed as a week after their TV debut, it makes me think CR will also get World Break and stream it worldwide.
This Funi/CR teamup creates a fair bit of redundancy, but makes more shows watchable by more people. These opening weeks of simulcast season are always the toughest.
Breaking Edit
CR has Military!, the short anime and other cute military anime this season.
Well alright then. Let's get some of the objective stuff out of the way. NATHAT is about a young Japanese boy named Shuzo Matsutani (or "Shu" as he prefers.) He's an extraodinarily obtimistic boy who sucks at kendo and likes to climb smoke stacks. One day he meets a Rei clone young girl named LaLa-Ru, who is kidnapped by a mysterious woman and snake robots. After a struggle, he is transported to another world which is covered in desert, aboard a ship called "Hellywood" ruled by one King Hamdo. I've heard about this series for a long time, and have had it in my backlog. For one reason or another I never got to it, but I finally had the chance to watch it (dubbed).
The series is very well directed. The director is Akitaro Daichi, who aside from Fruits Basket I am not very familiar with his work. But on the directing side he did a bang up job with some stuff here. The way shots were all placed wonderfully, whether they were from a character's perspective,
inside a skull
, an aerial view or underneath, there was a real photo-like quality to many of the shots. Scenes like the
strangled cat motif
and
Hellywood's launch
are some of the best directing I've seen.
The sound design likewise is phenomenal. Not just simple things like the music (which I enjoyed), or the dub(which was great), but just the way things sound. Clanging against metal, steam hissing out, rocks crumbling, blows landing. I consider the best sound design I've heard in anime to be Jin-Roh, but honestly this came close. Not to mention the usage of music, which sprung up from time to time, but mostly the scenes and the acting were left on it's own, which I appreciated.
On to the meat of the show, the writing. NATHAT is known for being depressing. No, not "aw that character I liked died" depressing, I mean brutal soul crushing holy shit is this what this episode is about depressing. It will put you through the grinder from episode 2, and just goes higher and higher. This anime deals with child soldiers,
sexual abuse and abortion
completely straight. It got under my skin. But even with that, I think the show handled such sensitive topics very well, and I will acknowledge that.
But I do have a problem with the show, a rather large one in fact. That problem is Shu, or rather the show's treatment of him. Now, I have no problem with optimistic, headstrong, and resourceful characters, in fact I welcome that. I'm forgiving of situations in fiction that stretch the limit of my disbelief. Sometimes, good things happen to the protagonist that allows him to succeed where others would fail, that's just something that happens in fiction.
But the problem with this show is the ludicrous amount of times that things work out great for Shu. I'm talking contrivance after contrivance. The series spends some early episodes putting Shu through the ringer, but as soon as he gets his big stick you might as well have given spinach to popeye holy shit. Escapes from Hellywood and has a large search party after you? No worries!
Nabuca will be the first and only one to find you and let you go.
Giant sandworm in the desert? No problem!
Just find a backpack filled with grenades that the worm will grab with its tongue, pulling the pin out at the same fucking time.
The village you're staying at ransacked by Hellywood?
NABUCA AND BOO WILL BE THE ONLY FUCKING PEOPLE TO FIND YOU, AND THE MINUTE TABOOL IS ABOUT TO SHOOT YOU THE ORDER IS GIVEN NOT TO SHOOT YOU.
It's baffling, because aside from that I wouldn't call the series poorly written. Everything that's important is established early on. There's visible character development and characterization. It's a show that knows what it wants to do with the characters, and in many cases does it effectively, but sometimes it can come up with some really dumb ways of getting there.
ok, getting long. Did I like the show? Yes. Would I recommend the show? Yes. Is it perfect? Hell no. But at 13 episodes, You could do a hell of a lot worse.
Also, the world of Hellywood was totally the future, it says it at the beginning of like every episode.
This show is something else. Really hit me hard for some reason when I watched it. The ED wasnt helping matters. Some see it as heavy handed but I think the show did a good job of putting characters through hell and back and really show what they were made of. Hamdo is a completely fascist crazy bastard of a villain and I loved him for it.
I can't agree to this sentiment if only because at least Absolute Duo would have shock value on its side to make it interesting, it can;t even managed the ability to offend it is so cliched in its perversions.
OHSHIT! PUNI PUNI POEMY NAMED DROPPED! BY PEDRO'S KID SANDORA NO LESS!
PEDRO LIVES AGAIN TO DO BATTLE AGAINST GOMEZ~! WHAT EXCITEMENT!
Too bad Sandora died ;-;
Also a whole bunch of American lies about Japanimation, that just seems so cruel to watch nowadays because it's no longer true. Oh man... it's just so sad....
I have no fucking clue what the hell I just watched. Is Utena this indecipherable?
Barakamon 1-6 & Nozaki-kun 1-6
Ok, these are pretty legit (the former more than the later). Barakamon can be a bit heavy handed but I do appreciate its generally strong attempts at character development. As for Nozaki-kun, Hori & Kashima's relationship is weird. The show is already kind of Looney Toons but I'm not sure it's Looney Toons enough to pull off their kind of slapstick :/
I had to go like 15 pages deep to find it to update my post. Full impressions here. Held off until I watched Barakamon, but as it turns out I didn't think that show was all that special. Felt like there was a lot of places that show could have gone, but instead took a relatively boring direction.
