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Winter Anime 2016 |OT| Celebrating the New Year and PSO2's release in the west!
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hosannainexcelsis
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Hakaba Kitaro 1
Really interesting and creepy start to this adaptation of Shigeru Mizuki's classic youkai manga. You can feel the Kenji Nakamura influence all over; the direction isn't quite as sharp and harsh as his Mononoke work, but the approach to horror and highly striking deployment of color is similar. Really, really good art direction and lots of uneasy atmosphere. Curious to see where this will go from here.
Really interesting and creepy start to this adaptation of Shigeru Mizuki's classic youkai manga. You can feel the Kenji Nakamura influence all over; the direction isn't quite as sharp and harsh as his Mononoke work, but the approach to horror and highly striking deployment of color is similar. Really, really good art direction and lots of uneasy atmosphere. Curious to see where this will go from here.
Cornbread78
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Dagashi ep.1
Now that was am interesting opening episode. I wasn't expecting the fanservice, but thrconcept sounds interesting enough and th characters are interesting, so let's go.
Now that was am interesting opening episode. I wasn't expecting the fanservice, but thrconcept sounds interesting enough and th characters are interesting, so let's go.
Oh I see pants do exist but were issued to those on the cold Eastern front.
KirbYuuYuu
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Can you keep tabs for me through PM or twitter or something for these posts?
The images you've posted are visually interesting to me.
Mahjong is Poker with tiles.
When they yell RON it means they made a complete hand and won the round. The game is point based so its not just the number of hands, but their scoring, which depends on how complex/rare the hands is.
Players maintain the same number of tiles in their hand. When they draw a tile or pick up a tile they have to discard a tile. It's a bit like Go Fish in this sense because you're trying to get the tiles you need to complete a suite while preventing your opponents from completing theirs.
There's a bunch of other rules but this is the cliffnotes.
When they yell RON it means they made a complete hand and won the round. The game is point based so its not just the number of hands, but their scoring, which depends on how complex/rare the hands is.
Players maintain the same number of tiles in their hand. When they draw a tile or pick up a tile they have to discard a tile. It's a bit like Go Fish in this sense because you're trying to get the tiles you need to complete a suite while preventing your opponents from completing theirs.
There's a bunch of other rules but this is the cliffnotes.
Admiral Woofington
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I can't even think of playing a board/table game that isn't American
If I can't clap while playing the game, what's the point
If I can't clap while playing the game, what's the point
MetroidPrimeRib
Banned
The most important rule of Mahjong is to have people standing over your shoulders watching you play, and then proceed to do your best to baffle them about what you are doing.
Also, you have to be excited when you call something. If you say Ron and not RON or Riichi and not RIICHI it doesn't count.
Also, you have to be excited when you call something. If you say Ron and not RON or Riichi and not RIICHI it doesn't count.
As I going through Dimension W, I decided to give a peek at the spring season to see what I can look forward too, now that I am back in kind of full force for anime heh.
I forgot there was a Ace Attorney anime, and despite preferring to watch original anime or anime based on something I haven't seen before, I likely give AA anime a go.
And then I noticed Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress, which seems quite interesting enough, till I learned the folks that were at the helm of Guilty Crown are doing this show. Not that GC was bad, but eeeeh if look into this show more, it be with low exceptions lol, through I hope it will end up good.
I forgot there was a Ace Attorney anime, and despite preferring to watch original anime or anime based on something I haven't seen before, I likely give AA anime a go.
And then I noticed Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress, which seems quite interesting enough, till I learned the folks that were at the helm of Guilty Crown are doing this show. Not that GC was bad, but eeeeh if look into this show more, it be with low exceptions lol, through I hope it will end up good.
I should mention that unlike DRAMATIC BASKETBALL or DRAMATIC GO, DRAMATIC MAHJONG is a real subgenre of film, because it's a gambling game that's very prominent in East Asian culture like poker is in American culture.
One of my childhood memories is of a Chinese drama where a kid grows up to avenge his father who was killed after losing a mahjong game where the other guy (a gang leader I think) cheated by masking a tile.
One of my childhood memories is of a Chinese drama where a kid grows up to avenge his father who was killed after losing a mahjong game where the other guy (a gang leader I think) cheated by masking a tile.
MetroidPrimeRib
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Kung Fu Mahjong 3: The Final Duel sounds like a fucking riot.
Admiral Woofington
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wasn't there a manga about people playing mahjong against like Hitler and George W Bush?
Whatever it was, always meant to read it never did.
Whatever it was, always meant to read it never did.
Ah I see, thanks for this.
The Legend of Koizumi. It's the best intro to animu mahjong.
MetroidPrimeRib
Banned
Mudazumo naki Kaikaku. I'll read it one day.
hosannainexcelsis
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Yeah, I'll be posting screenshots on my Twitter account.
Admiral Woofington
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WTF lol.
hosannainexcelsis
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You should watch the Legend of Koizumi OVA. It only adapts a small slice of the manga, but it works well with Tsutomu Mizushima's comedic sensibilities.
Admiral Woofington
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will do. might as well, it'd be easier to gauge the material in OVA form, I can always go to manga if I want more.
Cornbread78
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Dagashi ep.2
Well, that was a step back from ep.1, but it looks like Saya has some hiddenn power, lol.
Well, that was a step back from ep.1, but it looks like Saya has some hiddenn power, lol.
names2hard4you
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I gave up around here and posted my thoughts about it back when it aired. Still have the tweet with the GIF CheapJuice made about it bookmarked lol.
you're damn right she has a hidden power
MetroidPrimeRib
Banned
Its called a snaggletooth
names2hard4you
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The eyes bug me a lot. Also I don't know any of the candy being shown, so I can't even relate to it. I just don't find it funny or interesting to watch. Some folks seem to love it though
striferser
Huge Nickleback Fan
Japan has a manga magazine dedicated to mahjong, and it is a legitimate sport.
Give it a read, it was hilarious.
Oh yeah, mahjong movie is hilarious and feel like an action/supernatural movie.
hosannainexcelsis
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Majin Bone 25
I was going to say something about this episode but the ending twist made me lose the words.
I was going to say something about this episode but the ending twist made me lose the words.
Hellwarden
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Admiral Woofington
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I'm going to take a wild guess that the lead is a new student in a battle school, does something to piss off this lady, probably something perverted, she challenges him and he stands a chance or wins, making her fall for him because she's the princess of the school or something.
nintendoman58
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Majin Bone - 25
Wait a minute, what?!?
Wait a minute, what?!?
God Eater - Episode 5
That edge was so sharp I think I cut myself. Bleeding all over now. Such edge. Much edge. Wow.
If there's one thing the show constantly succeeds at, it's in maintaining this desolate sense of hopelessness. The wasteland beyond the walls with Aragami and Vajra all over truly resembles a sort of natural wildness with wolves and lions, except exaggerated in a post-apocalyptic way with crazy monster designs. But the problem I had with this episode was that a lot of this was put into use for perhaps the wrong reasons. It might be too soon to judge right now, but I find it hard to believe that either Lenka or Alisa can possibly die given how the narrative is set up. As such, I question the necessity of such cruel and lingering failure and violence being inflicted here.
From the first scene it appeared in, the Black Vajra was clearly an anomaly and they created the impression that it is a dangerous and relentless beast that even other Vajra fear. Once that was communicated, everything after felt like torture porn in a way. Why go through such an extent if there aren't going to be serious consequences after this? If Lenka and Alisa get out of this and recover, only to get stronger because they don't want to be defeated again, it totally trivializes the effort put into the horror and unwinnable nature of the scenario depicted here. So I'm genuinely curious as to how the show will continue after this point, as it will make or break my opinion on the character writing in the show. If they can somehow justify the direction they went in with real lasting psychological and physical consequences on the characters, then this could actually end up being a pretty interesting show.
As I viewer, I think if a show wants me to feel for the characters, and feel disgusted or horrified when something terrible happens, it cannot hand wave that away to carry things on per normal after that. If it does, I will never again feel any tension when characters are in danger. So hopefully they don't let me down!
No matter what though, the music in the entire episode was off the charts, but insert song this time was really haunting to boot. So fucking good. <3
Edit: Shit, I wrote so much shit I forgot to talk about the post-ED stuff. I really liked that, and now that the full picture of how things got to the state they did is coming together, it's pretty clear to me that Hirao's take on God Eater is not to direct it as a shounen power fantasy action series, but rather as something closer to The Walking Dead.
That edge was so sharp I think I cut myself. Bleeding all over now. Such edge. Much edge. Wow.
If there's one thing the show constantly succeeds at, it's in maintaining this desolate sense of hopelessness. The wasteland beyond the walls with Aragami and Vajra all over truly resembles a sort of natural wildness with wolves and lions, except exaggerated in a post-apocalyptic way with crazy monster designs. But the problem I had with this episode was that a lot of this was put into use for perhaps the wrong reasons. It might be too soon to judge right now, but I find it hard to believe that either Lenka or Alisa can possibly die given how the narrative is set up. As such, I question the necessity of such cruel and lingering failure and violence being inflicted here.
From the first scene it appeared in, the Black Vajra was clearly an anomaly and they created the impression that it is a dangerous and relentless beast that even other Vajra fear. Once that was communicated, everything after felt like torture porn in a way. Why go through such an extent if there aren't going to be serious consequences after this? If Lenka and Alisa get out of this and recover, only to get stronger because they don't want to be defeated again, it totally trivializes the effort put into the horror and unwinnable nature of the scenario depicted here. So I'm genuinely curious as to how the show will continue after this point, as it will make or break my opinion on the character writing in the show. If they can somehow justify the direction they went in with real lasting psychological and physical consequences on the characters, then this could actually end up being a pretty interesting show.
As I viewer, I think if a show wants me to feel for the characters, and feel disgusted or horrified when something terrible happens, it cannot hand wave that away to carry things on per normal after that. If it does, I will never again feel any tension when characters are in danger. So hopefully they don't let me down!
No matter what though, the music in the entire episode was off the charts, but insert song this time was really haunting to boot. So fucking good. <3
Edit: Shit, I wrote so much shit I forgot to talk about the post-ED stuff. I really liked that, and now that the full picture of how things got to the state they did is coming together, it's pretty clear to me that Hirao's take on God Eater is not to direct it as a shounen power fantasy action series, but rather as something closer to The Walking Dead.
CheapJuice
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them drills though
Cornbread78
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Wow, I thought these were shorts like Galko-chan, but oh well. We'll see if this goes anywhere interesting.
did you make it 2x24 minutes into 2 episodes and still think it was shorts
Cornbread78
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Lol, yeah figured that out after a few mins.
hosannainexcelsis
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I mean... it's kind of competent, I guess?
nintendoman58
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Majin Bone - 26
This show. I can't remember the last show I watched that has constantly subverted every single expectation I had going into it.
This show is more engaging and interesting than literally every airing show that I watched last year.
Just amazing.
This show. I can't remember the last show I watched that has constantly subverted every single expectation I had going into it.
This show is more engaging and interesting than literally every airing show that I watched last year.
Just amazing.
hosannainexcelsis
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The first 30 seconds of that trailer do look somewhat decent, but everything else is as generic as it comes. As far as art direction goes, I still think Inari Konkon is better, and even next season I like the look of Hai-Furi better than this.
I wouldn't go that far (though I've probably watched more 2015 anime than you have at this point), but this episode was indeed quite special. I wasn't expecting the Full Metal Panic-esque backstory.
Yeah I'm half way into the second series of the manga. They skipped a TON in the anime. Much more Ruby, much more satisfying.
nintendoman58
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Granted, the only airing shows I watched (or remember watching) in 2015 were Ushio and Tora, Soma, Plastic Mockeries and Comet Screwcifer, so it's not like the competition was all that tough despite me liking the former two.
But I constantly remind myself whenever I watch Majin Bone that this is a show based off a card game aimed for children. I can't for the life of me name any other anime with a label like that be as engaging as this.
Like, there hasn't been one dull episode to me in this show so far.
striferser
Huge Nickleback Fan
Forgot to mention there's no Super Aryan Hitler in the anime, so you're missing out a lot if you only watch the anime. (don't mind the 9gag marker)
Super Aryan said:
hosannainexcelsis
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The Majin mechanics are kind of goofy and transparently derived from a game (the whole form a line bit), but the character writing that the show consistently brings to the fore is indeed quite good and really makes the show believable. Also, as we discussed earlier, Majin Bone doesn't engage in throwaway episodes or meaningless time-filling, but is always working to develop something. The writing is admirably linked together in a continuous fashion which is quite something to pull off. I still need to watch Ginga e Kickoff and Niji-iro Hotaru, but this could end up being Konosuke Uda's best work.
nintendoman58
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I almost want to learn how the actual card game is played just to see how it connects to the anime.
And yeah, the lack of MOTW-esque episodes definety works in the show's favor, and I personally don't even mind those kinds of episodes (Though the show is still technically MOTW considering there's a fight in every episode, but you know what I mean).
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