the only thing they would confirm is that the publisher was guilty of paying people to make positive reviews for the game.
beyond that they didn't go into detail, but the whole thing is just very sad.
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the only thing they would confirm is that the publisher was guilty of paying people to make positive reviews for the game.
beyond that they didn't go into detail, but the whole thing is just very sad.
I laughed at the prospect of a 50-second throwaway gag sneeze scene.
This makes me wonder if any shows have done the inverse: have character A sneeze and cut to the aftermath of B and C talking about A behind his/her back. That'd probably be even weirder, since I can almost picture it with the cut switching to two girls finishing their girls talk with generic stuff such as "maji maji!".
Scrooge McDuck
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"We still have half a page to fill!"
Well, maybe not. In comics it's such a throwaway joke that nowadays I mostly only see them represented by a super-deformed character sneezing in a little blurb it the corner.
Going on the manzai train of thought, I'm guessing it's the whole offense-and-reaction style of comedy, then. The offense of "talking about someone behind their back" must be accentuated by the reaction of "sneezing".
I agree 100%.
Dedication Through Light
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Yes. Definitely watch with the sound turned up, the music enhances the many epic Utsugi Lenka scenes. I think its in the lead with Owari no Serafu for best post apocalyptic anime.
ShinRPGamer
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Is the game any good? Might get it since I might not have that chance again.
Watched Kaiba
today and it was a really interesting show. The Astro Boy-esque art style was neat. I think this would translate well into a point-n-click adventure game, like one by Amanita Design.
I'm also 10 episodes into Ullrecka Seven - Not really feelin' this one yet, but it seems like they're starting to explain more of what's going on.
vangelion
I'm also 10 episodes into Ullrecka Seven - Not really feelin' this one yet, but it seems like they're starting to explain more of what's going on.
nintendoman58
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Crash Station
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I should probably start reading the manga so it's not super fresh in my mind when the anime starts.
Cornbread78
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Planetes ep.7-8
Overgrown loli Mabuchi, lol. Pretty interesting episodes, but still no central plotline. This plays out like a space SoL series but it's entertaining at least.
Overgrown loli Mabuchi, lol. Pretty interesting episodes, but still no central plotline. This plays out like a space SoL series but it's entertaining at least.
Ugh, thinking of changing my mind now...
Yona of the Dawn - 1
This... wasn't very good. Until the end, at least.
I don't know what I was expecting, but this wasn't it.
For some reason I had it in my heard that Yona was far more mature, cold and calculating. Instead she's a 9 year old girl in a 16 year old girl's body, crushing on her cousin. For the entire episode.
Uh... ok.
Anyways, the last few minutes were good. I figured Soo-Wan was gonna be evil and set things in motion. Not exactly the most original but it'll do.
Sounds like Soo-Wan has the same VA as Elam from Arslan. Actually, the whole show kind of reminds me or Arslan.
Also horrible opening song. Where the fuck is my j-pop?!
This... wasn't very good. Until the end, at least.
I don't know what I was expecting, but this wasn't it.
For some reason I had it in my heard that Yona was far more mature, cold and calculating. Instead she's a 9 year old girl in a 16 year old girl's body, crushing on her cousin. For the entire episode.
Uh... ok.
Anyways, the last few minutes were good. I figured Soo-Wan was gonna be evil and set things in motion. Not exactly the most original but it'll do.
Sounds like Soo-Wan has the same VA as Elam from Arslan. Actually, the whole show kind of reminds me or Arslan.
Also horrible opening song. Where the fuck is my j-pop?!
Hellwarden
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I'll have to see your references for such a claim.
Give it time. Yona shakes off her naivety pretty quick.
Dedication Through Light
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Assassination Classroom anime will do Takebayashi time and the chapter immediately after it are going to get animated (both came before Kayano Time episode), as four 5-minute episodes online. https://twitter.com/oricon/status/704109095536582657
Karmisa has an excellent cover!
Karmisa has an excellent cover!
firehawk12
Subete no aware
So the Love Live dub is kind of okay... totally surprised. They actually tried to be like their Japanese counterparts rather than just phone it in with their Californian accents that you get in most dubs.
Cornbread78
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MetroidPrimeRib
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Someone should make a Symphogear community thread
hosannainexcelsis
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I'm only a little bit into Cyber Sleuth, but so far its story seems very much .hack.
She's not a 9 year old girl; she's a pampered princess and behaves as you would expect a pampered princess to behave. Yona's character is actually one of my favorite things about the series, because she experiences meaningful and believable gradual character growth instead of being flawless from day 1 (*cough*Shirayuki*cough*)
I wouldn't be so quick to write off Su-won. The series is more nuanced than that.
If you really want your J-pop, you'll get it in episode 15.
Edit:
OK, I looked this up, and while Su-won's VA, Yusuke Kobayashi, does have a role in Arslan it's actually Arslan himself.
I think Cyber Sleuth approached the "how do we make a Digimon JRPG plot appeal to modern anime fans" issue in a pretty novel way. When it starts, the inspiration from .hack and SAO is immediately obvious. This might be a minus for those tired of this sort of story, but it's an effect hook for general audiences. How it develops from there though, is very interesting and uniquely Digimon. What I also like is how the design of EDEN seems greatly influenced by Hosoda's VR-World concepts used in Our War Game and Summer Wars.
KuwabaraTheMan
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Yeah, I can see that. The opening of the game definitely has a very .hack feel (Digimon actually already did the whole .hack thing back in Digimon World 3, even). But over the course of the game that feel gradually shifts into something different, and it becomes more of a traditional Digimon story, but one that is absolutely built on the foundation of those early chapters, and the Eden syndrome and the virtual world that has been created.
Cornbread78
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Kare Kano ep.12
All about Tsubasa and her father's potential remarriage and family situation. I guess it was interesting to see our heroine's rival's backstory of brattyness.
All about Tsubasa and her father's potential remarriage and family situation. I guess it was interesting to see our heroine's rival's backstory of brattyness.
hosannainexcelsis
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Yona of the Dawn 23
Speaking of character development, the meeting between Su-won and Yona at the beginning of this episode was a good way of bringing things full circle, calling back to the last time they were together in the events in episode 1-2 while showing how far Yona has come since then. A fitting way to almost end the anime. Guess we need one more episode so we can squeeze the Yellow Dragon in though! (It's amusing that the OP has shown the four dragons all throughout the series, but they don't all show up in the anime proper until the very last episode.)
Speaking of character development, the meeting between Su-won and Yona at the beginning of this episode was a good way of bringing things full circle, calling back to the last time they were together in the events in episode 1-2 while showing how far Yona has come since then. A fitting way to almost end the anime. Guess we need one more episode so we can squeeze the Yellow Dragon in though! (It's amusing that the OP has shown the four dragons all throughout the series, but they don't all show up in the anime proper until the very last episode.)
She starts out as a naive, spoiled princess. It's sort of the point, to take this person and convert her into a warrior. Just stick with it. Believe!
konosuba 1-7
inoffensively self-aware but it still cant quite fully escape its genre trapping even with its main hook being terrible people owning themselves. it's one of the only visually interesting things i've seen this season so i'll stick with it till the end unless it gets really bad
ooya-san 1-8
was kinda worried this was one of "those" shows but it's more than varied enough to shake that off. hands down the sakuga show of the season especially with that op
inoffensively self-aware but it still cant quite fully escape its genre trapping even with its main hook being terrible people owning themselves. it's one of the only visually interesting things i've seen this season so i'll stick with it till the end unless it gets really bad
ooya-san 1-8
was kinda worried this was one of "those" shows but it's more than varied enough to shake that off. hands down the sakuga show of the season especially with that op
hosannainexcelsis
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Is that supposed to be an example of good voice acting?
MetroidPrimeRib
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Love Live dub sounds bad again. rip nico nico ni
names2hard4you
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No time for anime today, gaah. Got a job interview tomorrow for a coop bright and early so I wanted to make sure I was ready for the behavioral and technical questions. At least I am on my reading week, so I have no classes to worry about. I'll get through today's stuff plus Shirayuki tomorrow.
Good luck.
Yes, damn it.
names2hard4you
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Thank you!!
Cornbread78
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nintendoman58
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Good luck! Do your best!
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Someone should clip the segment from season 2 episode 6 where the girls pretend to be each other. It just shows that the actresses created defined characters with their voices.
Nicoooooooooooooooooooooo.
Go grow some space potatoes in your poop!
MetroidPrimeRib
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why cant all dubs be log horizon's nyanta dubbed
Well then, it really isn't.
hosannainexcelsis
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Yona of the Dawn 24 END
While the Yellow Dragon was kind of a baffling anticlimax after the stories of the other three dragons (I assume he gets more development in the manga eventually), the episode actually ended up being a better stopping point than I anticipated. It did a good job reflecting on the journey Yona's been through, consolidating the character and thematic work of the series and presenting new resolve for the future. And they did end by bookending the series with the same scene as the flashforward at the very beginning, so the anime staff was clearly planning this carefully. Great show overall. Time to hope for a season 2! (Or at least that this obviously skilled director goes on to do better things than that thing he's currently doing.)
I'll leave with the cutest image of the show:
I don't get it. It doesn't sound better than a typical Sentai dub.
While the Yellow Dragon was kind of a baffling anticlimax after the stories of the other three dragons (I assume he gets more development in the manga eventually), the episode actually ended up being a better stopping point than I anticipated. It did a good job reflecting on the journey Yona's been through, consolidating the character and thematic work of the series and presenting new resolve for the future. And they did end by bookending the series with the same scene as the flashforward at the very beginning, so the anime staff was clearly planning this carefully. Great show overall. Time to hope for a season 2! (Or at least that this obviously skilled director goes on to do better things than that thing he's currently doing.)
I'll leave with the cutest image of the show:
I don't get it. It doesn't sound better than a typical Sentai dub.
I think someone did clip that segment, but I can't be arsed to find it. The VAs really seem to hit their stride in S2 though (for obvious reasons).
The background dialogue between Nico and Rin flows more naturally than in the subbed version, which was what I was trying to get at—the script is better. The voice acting is clearly worse.
Hellwarden
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I don't think that dub sounds too bad.
But then again I don't have any reference for the original, and I typically don't judge the voice acting of kid characters very hard, due to the difficulty of voicing kid characters.
But then again I don't have any reference for the original, and I typically don't judge the voice acting of kid characters very hard, due to the difficulty of voicing kid characters.
I watched like two episodes back when it was airing, thought it was pretty bad. Also kind of boring.
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