MetroidPrimeRib
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Winter Anime 2016 |OT| Celebrating the New Year and PSO2's release in the west!
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Evil Dead!
Yea I'm pretty sure I've seen the psycho licking the knife from Western productions too.
Better filmed than 90% of action shot nowadays.
Better filmed than 90% of action shot nowadays.
This. I really don't get the salt for the possibility that OPM might take the crown. It reeks of elitism. If it's not your jam than whatever but its still a great show. You shouldn't have to love something to understand why someone might legitimately like it and not because "herp derp they don't know better".
OniBarubary
Banned
Divine Gate 01
I am...unsure why people didn't like this. I thought this was a really solid first episode and I'm interested in watching the rest.
I'm vaguely certain that 90% of the responses to it included the words tryhard or edgy which means I don't really need to pay attention to them, but while it didn't set my soul ablaze within a 20 minute time span it did enough to hook me.
I am...unsure why people didn't like this. I thought this was a really solid first episode and I'm interested in watching the rest.
I'm vaguely certain that 90% of the responses to it included the words tryhard or edgy which means I don't really need to pay attention to them, but while it didn't set my soul ablaze within a 20 minute time span it did enough to hook me.
Time for Macross.
If they don't end this series with them just sharing him I'm going to be incredibly disappointed.
Hellwarden
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I'm calling it. Everybody gonna suffer and die. In RPG terms, we're approaching the bad end.
What type of shows are you into?
Admiral Woofington
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This is like the white version of the final fight of The Raid 2.
When they started the fight it was a 6/10.
Then they took off their shirts, bumping it to a 7.5/10
But then the woman came with a broken arm in a cast swinging that towel and I don't think a rating system can do this justice.
^^^^^^^^^
MetroidPrimeRib
Banned
The Witness is making me angry
I need some love live as an anesthetic
only idols can soothe the rage i have for tetris shapes
I need some love live as an anesthetic
only idols can soothe the rage i have for tetris shapes
Crash Station
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Seriously. OPM has the advantage of having both an appealing concept and great execution. The last anime that invaded the mainstream only had one of those. It's something both anime veterans and newcomers/lapsed fans should theoretically be able to enjoy and see as a high-quality product provided they aren't completely averse to the genre.
Psychopass had both plus literature things, tho.
Admiral Woofington
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well you can wait probably no more than a week and you'll have the AOTY results.
Cornbread78
Member
There's Omega Quintet for that..
Evangelion ep.14
1/2 review, 1/2 new plot. Will they hurry up and get to what is going on. This "angel of the day" format needs more uummpphh.
Crash Station
Member
This is true, Psychopass had some great executions, like that one where the guy explodes.
kabloom \o/
Hellwarden
Member
Just off the top of my head, Death Parade, Shirobako, Maria the Virgin Witch, Space Dandy, My Love Story, Garo, ERASED (ongoing), Jojo, Yona of the Dawn.
Check out those shows. See what you like.
Sibersk Esto
Banned
Oh it gets some uumpph from next episode on
remember: recap episode = arc finished, new arc begins
names2hard4you
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Haikyuu!! S2
More character development for the side characters, I like it. Pretty well done too, via the flashback. Show continues to be great at storytelling, and keeping you hyped up with the sport moments.
More character development for the side characters, I like it. Pretty well done too, via the flashback. Show continues to be great at storytelling, and keeping you hyped up with the sport moments.
hosannainexcelsis
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Honestly I feel that Garo the Animation would be a big hit with the Toonami crowd if it had the right publicity.
If I'm going to whittle down my backlog, I've got to be aggressive! I'm actually hoping I can finish that set of shows by mid-year so I can throw on another set of roughly equally sized shows (probably nothing else as long as Urusei Yatsura though) for the remaining half year.
Best director and studio, am I right
names2hard4you
Member
I can see it on your avatar choice.
ZachDeKoromaru
Banned
I have been making good progress on my first two new Precure: Suite and Doki. I guess it's good to get the latter out of the way sooner rather than later.
phoenix296
Member
Oops. I watched Cinderella Girls instead.
SliceSabre
Banned
I mean to add Card Captor Sakura and Princess Nine.
NeonZ
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I think the way it goes very quickly into the cast's melancholy, without even letting the viewer bond with them first, is off putting to most viewers. It's not even just the first episode and Aoto. Every main character seems to be handled in a similar way so far.
Also, it loves exposition about the characters and their feelings. Even in the first episode, when she wasn't the focus, Midori's exposition about why she liked to run was really awkward... and exposition usually doesn't bother me.
How did Toonami react to Casshern Sins? I would expect more or less the same for Garo given the episode structure and superficial artistic similarities, unless the entire series is derided for "quality" like numerous Space Dandy episodes.
SliceSabre
Banned
Narag know's what's up.
CheapJuice
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Grimgar - 04
I like how they have blended some of the RPG elements with, uhm, reality of sorts. They learn new skills and such, but that doesn't automatically make them used efficiently in combat, or even at all.
I appreciate that they took the time to flesh out how some of the classes work, how trivial it may seem in the big picture. Such as Priest cannot use blade weapons, the relationship between Favaro and his demon, the guilds "Gods" and the role they play for moral support.
The slow pace really works well for me.
The pivitol event of this episode didin't come as a big surprise, nor did it have much of an impact on me personally, but much like the goblin scene in a previous episode, I did really like how the reactions of the party was portrayed.
Mr Rogue VA did a really nice job throughout the second half. His loud "No!" and the following slight facial expression of surprise, after the head-priest's proposal stuck with me especially.
His little sprint to the head-priest with the back and forth at the end, a long with other small body movements was a neat way to show everyone's desperation and unfamilliarity.
The illustrations of the party members was also pretty!
I like how they have blended some of the RPG elements with, uhm, reality of sorts. They learn new skills and such, but that doesn't automatically make them used efficiently in combat, or even at all.
I appreciate that they took the time to flesh out how some of the classes work, how trivial it may seem in the big picture. Such as Priest cannot use blade weapons, the relationship between Favaro and his demon, the guilds "Gods" and the role they play for moral support.
The slow pace really works well for me.
The pivitol event of this episode didin't come as a big surprise, nor did it have much of an impact on me personally, but much like the goblin scene in a previous episode, I did really like how the reactions of the party was portrayed.
Mr Rogue VA did a really nice job throughout the second half. His loud "No!" and the following slight facial expression of surprise, after the head-priest's proposal stuck with me especially.
His little sprint to the head-priest with the back and forth at the end, a long with other small body movements was a neat way to show everyone's desperation and unfamilliarity.
The illustrations of the party members was also pretty!
MetroidPrimeRib
Banned
Love Live 11
at least honkers died doing what she loved, idoling
at least honkers died doing what she loved, idoling
I don't have problems with OPM winning, I just don't like it when voting is heavily skewed by posters who made just 1 show vote without giving other shows a chance just because it's the only show they watch this year, at least a minimum of 3 shows.
MetroidPrimeRib
Banned
People said the same shit when Bloodborne won GOTY but the skew really isn't as big as you would think. In fact, it hardly exists.
thank you tusser
I'd be concerned that'd truly poison the well if people watched something they really really liked but ended up watching trash show A and trash show B just to have their vote count.
To add, Space Dandy was declared AOTY early by folk certain it'd win in a landslide by virtue of it being the only thing the toonami demographic would be eligible to vote for. It placed high but not for this reason.
hosannainexcelsis
Member
Garo has some similarities to Casshern Sins, most notably sharing the writer Yasuko Kobayashi, but it is more approachable and just plain better. Casshern Sins has a monotonous melancholy that makes it difficult to sit through; Garo has a wider emotional range, a more comprehensive world and narrative, and more fleshed-out and likable characters. Garo also has the burning emotions and action setpieces that appeal to a Toonami action fan. Since it has a vaguely European medieval fantasy setting, it doesn't even have any heavy basis in Japanese culture that would turn off Westerners. I really do think if Funimation dubs Garo and gets it on Toonami, it'd do pretty well there.
MetroidPrimeRib
Banned
With pretty much any show like One Punch Man or Space Dandy that people who don't watch that many anime a year will vote for you'll have an equal or even more people from this thread voting for them as well.
OPM was my #1. Space Dandy was my #2.
OPM was my #1. Space Dandy was my #2.
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