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[AquaWateria]

But the year of Sanji

I won't believe it till I see it. For all we know Oda might just step on Sanji's character even more.

 

[Hellwarden]

I must have a bad memory, but what is the significance of this? I don't immediately recognize it.

That's Jiruba, German's Mado Tool. Basically his version of Zaruba.

She's quiet in comparison to Zaruba.

 

[Chindogg]

I won't believe it till I see it. For all we know Oda might just step on Sanji's character even more.

The most recent chapters of the manga have really buffed Sanji so be patient.

 

[duckroll]

I must have a bad memory, but what is the significance of this? I don't immediately recognize it.

Remember when Germain talked to his tool a few episodes back, and said he had something for her to do?

 

[Grexeno]

I won't believe it till I see it. For all we know Oda might just step on Sanji's character even more.

You had better believe it bro.

 

[hosannainexcelsis]

That's Jiruba, German's Mado Tool. Basically his version of Zaruba.

She's quiet in comparison to Zaruba.

Remember when Germain talked to his tool a few episodes back, and said he had something for her to do?

Oh right. The show doesn't make a big deal out of that; before she talked I never even really thought about the fact that of course German would have his own Tool. I do like that the show trusts viewers enough to put two and two together.

 

[Dedication Through Light]

The saddest part to all this is that One Piece turned for the worst after the timeskip.

It especially shat on Sanji's character.

One Piece will only be great again once Ace comes back.

Sabo was a step in the right direction.

Sadly Ive only been reading Luffy, Sabo, or Zoro, manga panels so the anime for this upcoming arc will be a new experience for me.

 

[Grexeno]

Sadly Ive only been reading Luffy, Sabo, or Zoro, manga panels so the anime for this upcoming arc will be a new experience for me.

I know your schtick AND MY BRAIN STILL HURTS

 

[Puruzi]

One Piece will only be great again once Ace comes back.

bruh

 

[TUSR]

Dagashi Kashi 3

Much better than the last two episodes.

 

[Dedication Through Light]

bruh

We have S and L, we just need A.

I hope Oda watches Naruto Shippuden and decides to do like they do, a full series reimagining of if Ace was still around.

 

[Hattori]

[Mobile Suit Gundam] - 8

I'm glad that this show portrays that there are good people on both sides.

[Mobile Suit Gundam] - 9

Amuro continues to be a whiny unlikable baby catching feelings about everything he does.

[Mobile Suit Gundam] - 10

Poor Garma. At least he went down fighting until the end.

 

[MetroidPrimeRib]

Dagashi Kashi 3

Much better than the last two episodes.

stop stealing from my twitter

 

[Bebpo]

What are some really stylish (and yet also good) shows from the last couple of years? Feels like all the good shows people recommend these last bunch of years have been fairly plain on the style.

Looking for stuff like Mononoke, Tatami Galaxy, Gankutsuo, etc...

 

[Narag]

What are some really stylish (and yet also good) shows from the last couple of years? Feels like all the good shows people recommend these last bunch of years have been fairly plain on the style.

Looking for stuff like Mononoke, Tatami Galaxy, Gankutsuo, etc...

Ping Pong

 

[MetroidPrimeRib]

What are some really stylish (and yet also good) shows from the last couple of years? Feels like all the good shows people recommend these last bunch of years have been fairly plain on the style.

Looking for stuff like Mononoke, Tatami Galaxy, Gankutsuo, etc...

Ping Pong for sure. Space Dandy also has great stylistic variety.

 

[hosannainexcelsis]

What are some really stylish (and yet also good) shows from the last couple of years? Feels like all the good shows people recommend these last bunch of years have been fairly plain on the style.

Looking for stuff like Mononoke, Tatami Galaxy, Gankutsuo, etc...

So you're looking for visually striking productions? I'll recommend some films and shorts as well, if you don't mind.

20 Minutes Walk from Nishi-Ogikubo Station
Asura
Blue Exorcist: The Movie
Bubu and Bubulina
Concrete Revolutio (cannot completely vouch for this, but it certainly has a unique visual style)
Diary of Ochibi
Eccentric Family
Endless Night
Erased
Flowers of Evil
From the New World
Garo the Animation
Giovanni's Island
Hozuki no Reitetsu
Kagewani
Kanon (the Animator Expo short by Maeda)
Kyousougiga
Meganebu
Noragami
Osomatsu-san
Parol's Future Island
Ping Pong
Rozen Maiden 2013
Saint Young Men
Space Dandy
Tale of Princess Kaguya

 

[duckroll]

From the New World has a pretty unique style. Especially the direction.

 

[Haly]

I think the direction is unique but the designs certainly aren't. They're generic modern shoujo designs, all lanky and big eyes and voluminous J-pop hair.

 

[duckroll]

The designs are kinda whatever, but the actual art style in the show, especially when certain episode directors uses it well, is pretty unique. Very flat compared to most anime.

 

[Droplet]

I'm going to be a broken record here and say Tsuritama since everything else I can think of has been mentioned. Is Wandering Son from a couple years ago? That watercolor style was nice.

From the New World has a pretty unique style. Especially the direction.

The really bright and saturated colors during some of the action scenes suited it really well. Also the ending/folk story scenes had that bright brushwork style that was pretty different.

 

[Bebpo]

I'm going to be a broken record here and say Tsuritama since everything else I can think of has been mentioned. Is Wandering Son from a couple years ago? That watercolor style was nice.

Yeah, Tsuritama was one of the last shows I watched and was really nice to look at. Wandering Son was great and right up my alley too. Watching Ping Pong now.

Any other shows you'd highly recommend since stuff like Tsuritama/Wandering Son is exactly what I'm looking for.

 

[Lee Chaolan]

Gundam Age and Gundam seed/seed Destiny.

Gundam Seed was already on my list. Thanks, I'll check them out ;D

Spoiler

What's your avatar from?

 

[Sterok]

Komugi R 3

Taukasa isn't as crazy as Kokona, but she's still enjoyable. Komugi keeps getting killed in weird ways, though at least she didn't lose her spot this time. CG seemed to be improved this time.

 

[AquaWateria]

Do you guys believe hype can destroy a series?

 

[MetroidPrimeRib]

Do you guys believe hype can destroy a series?

No, not really. Expectations can. They're different to me, hype is a dirty marketing word.

 

[Basileus777]

Do you guys believe hype can destroy a series?

Only a few men have the power to destroy a series with hype.

 

[Haly]

Only the duckhype.

 

[Narag]

duckroll hype has never let me down.

 

[Dedication Through Light]

What are some really stylish (and yet also good) shows from the last couple of years? Feels like all the good shows people recommend these last bunch of years have been fairly plain on the style.
.

God Eater

This Boy Can Fight Aliens (30 min)
This Boy Caught a Merman (30 min)
Robotica*Robotics (<30min)

Meganebu

 

[MetroidPrimeRib]

duckroll hype has never let me down.

So when are you watching Captain Earth

 

[Narag]

So when are you watching Captain Earth

Sidetracked with stuff for wonzo this weekend so getting pushed back.

 

[mAcOdIn]

Wasn't there some hentai where a dude rapes serial killers to get revenge on them or something?

I dunno. I mean, regardless, would we call that guy a good guy? There's a difference between being the protagonist of a story and being a good guy I think. I don't know if I want to live in a world where someone can refer to a rapist as one of the good guys.

 

[Clov]

What are some really stylish (and yet also good) shows from the last couple of years? Feels like all the good shows people recommend these last bunch of years have been fairly plain on the style.

Looking for stuff like Mononoke, Tatami Galaxy, Gankutsuo, etc...

I've seen most of what Hosanna's posted in their list, and the ones I've seen have been great. I'd like to add a few myself:

Atama Yama (short film)
Cat Soup (OVA)
Franz Kafka's A Country Doctor (short film)
Gosenzosama Banbanzai (6 episode OVA)
Kaiba
Kick-Heart (short film)
Muybridge's Strings (short film)
Redline (film)
Tekkonkinkreet (film)
Trapeze

 

[Narag]

Umaru 1

I thought the Japanese Garfield shit was just a meme...

 

[TUSR]

IDOLM@STER CG 17 is a whole Mika episode?

I AM NOT READY.

 

[Admiral Woofington]

Garfield had the decency to not shriek like a Harpy. Though both do ruin the day of the caring head of the house.

 

[Peco]

Yeah, Tsuritama was one of the last shows I watched and was really nice to look at. Wandering Son was great and right up my alley too. Watching Ping Pong now.

Any other shows you'd highly recommend since stuff like Tsuritama/Wandering Son is exactly what I'm looking for.

Watch those Studio Colorido shorts/ovas, they are really pretty.

 

[Crash Station]

I dunno. I mean, regardless, would we call that guy a good guy? There's a difference between being the protagonist of a story and being a good guy I think. I don't know if I want to live in a world where someone can refer to a rapist as one of the good guys.

Are you asking if a rapist can be portrayed sympathetically and also be on the "good guy" side?

There's actually a character in Mahou Shoujo of the End that's kind of a rapist, but he's a "good guy" and also the fan favorite. I've seen a lot of people get super conflicted over the guy because he's a really likable character, yet was introduced in a pretty rapey way.

 

[TUSR]

Both iDOLM@STER and CG episode 17s were the best.

TRIGGER did one.
Mika was in the other.

 

[mAcOdIn]

Are you asking if a rapist can be portrayed sympathetically and also be on the "good guy" side?

Not really, from a story perspective that's somewhat easy to do since stories are a bit more reductive than real life. No different than how many people in the US view the founding fathers highly despite them being slavers and shit. So how a story portrays someone is one thing, what gets me is how another person would then portray that character to another person. I can't imagine a scenario where someone would say a woman gets raped by one of the good guys that isn't sarcastic.

I guess how I feel about it is, if you're a rapist you can't, by definition, be a good guy but you can be on the side of the good guys.

There's actually a character in Mahou Shoujo of the End that's kind of a rapist, but he's a "good guy" and also the fan favorite. I've seen a lot of people get super conflicted over the guy because he's a really likable character, yet was introduced in a pretty rapey way.

I don't even understand, "kind of a rapist," "introduced in a rapey way?" What even leads to such a weird place? Demonic possession? Some kind of weird roleplay gone wrong?

 

[Chindogg]

Cat Planet Cuties 1-12 + OVA

Another stupid harem that actually payed off. I loved it.

 

[wonzo]

Are you asking if a rapist can be portrayed sympathetically and also be on the "good guy" side?

There's actually a character in Mahou Shoujo of the End that's kind of a rapist, but he's a "good guy" and also the fan favorite. I've seen a lot of people get super conflicted over the guy because he's a really likable character, yet was introduced in a pretty rapey way.

 

[blurr]

lewd TUSR avatar

 

[Hellwarden]

So everyone over on the Toonami side is watching filler Naruto.

Early filler Naruto.

If hell was a place, this would be how I imagine it.

 

[TUSR]

So everyone over on the Toonami side is watching filler Naruto.

Early filler Naruto.

If hell was a place, this would be how I imagine it.

I turned it off dude.

Join me in not watching.

 

[Basileus777]

So everyone over on the Toonami side is watching filler Naruto.

Early filler Naruto.

If hell was a place, this would be how I imagine it.

Does it make you wistful for those good old LN adaptations?

 

[Moaradin]

So everyone over on the Toonami side is watching filler Naruto.

Early filler Naruto.

If hell was a place, this would be how I imagine it.

Has nothing on the current filler hell for shippuden

 

[wonzo]

Akuta Rintaro was a police officer before the magical girl attack. His sanity had slipped by the time he meets the survivors from the high school, who sought refuge in the mall where he was apparently working. At first he behaves like a complete cretin, becoming sexually aroused and taking his genitalia out at the sight of two dead, under dressed girls and intending to rape Yoruka and Tsukune. He is knocked out by Ren and handcuffed to a fixed structure for safe keeping. When Parasite M begins her rampage, however, he is released and ends up being the one to finally kill her by squashing her between his hands like a mosquito. Since then Akuta has proven to be well-adapted to his new environment and somewhat useful, being the first to figure out that humans could use the magical girl's wands as well. At the medical center, he loses his right arm by way of Explode M.

He has nicknamed Yoruka "titty-chan" ("Lil' Miss Funbags" in the English translation) due to her large breasts. Although he appears to have developed legitimate feelings for her, his main interest remains to be her chest.

"good guy" "kind of a rapist" "fan favourite"

 

[PdotMichael]

What is this?