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Winter Anime 2016 |OT2| Bellariology, Puellology and Simulacrumology

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Hakaba Kitaro 9

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A shot like this, I'd like to frame it and stick it up on my wall.
 

brawly

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Slam Dunk 19

Jesus 19 episodes to finish one match and it was only a pre-season game. It was fantastic though. That heart-breaking last second Sendo buzzer-beater, damn stole Sakuragi's big moment really did not expect that.

Some pretty cool visuals they use to show characters perspectives, like Ruwakawa moving completely on instinct and all he can see is the outlines of the jerseys.

In my top 5. It's so good. The pacing issues suck but I love it so much.
 

Quasar

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When Clannad: After Story is rated as the #8 greatest anime of all time maybe its time to wonder how many of those ratings are white noise that you shouldn't particularly care about. MAL ratings sure as shit aren't representative of this community.

But this community is not representative of the wider anime community any more than ann reviewers are.

Of course I really liked AS...it is probably the anime that has moved me most emotionally. Dunno if I'd put it in a top 10 overall (or top 20 even) though. actually..checking its #14 in my completed anime list on mal.

Generally though I'm fine with MAL. Sure the scores are inflated like game review scores but I generally find highly ranked shows of interest. And when I first got into anime I found invaluable in finding shows, in particular finding shows rekated to other shows I liked.
 

pbayne

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In my top 5. It's so good. The pacing issues suck but I love it so much.

Yeah its skewed a bit too much towards comedy at times that kills the pacing a bit but meh its a minor issue, im still really enjoying it so far.

Plus the way the end of the game played out I can imagine Sakuragi maybe becoming a bit more serious. Just a bit though lol.
 

Theonik

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Well top shows having 700k users scored them doesn't mean that the upper limit of MAL users is 700k as not everyone watches the same shows or scores them. Of course even counting that there are more people watching anime worldwide but especially if you subtract those people that watch only one or too mainstream shows (like for example Pokemon, Dragonball, or Naruto) I would say MAL represents at least a substantial amount of anime fans.
It is not, but that's part of my point. These ratings only represent a subset of MAL users that is in itself a tiny subset of the community as a whole. More-over systems like these tend to be very difficult to impossible to extrapolate outside their respective communities because these ratings are not given in a vacuum.
 

Just T

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JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders 39

Intense moments with Iggy and good to see Kakyoin back. They finally made it, now for the last push.
 

TUSR

Banned
GuP - 1

Is this just a bad Strike Witches?

The main characters whole resolve of moving away to a different school to not do tankery got changed in a couple of minutes.

Edit: I didn't necessarily dislike it, I'll watch 4 more episodes tonight and see how I feel about it.
 

pbayne

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So boss looking.

Black Jack OVA 2

Holy tone shift. The first one was a very considered morality tale and then this was a fast-paced like detective/mafia story. Time absolutely flew watching it, couldn't believe 50 minutes went by.

I think the style is absolutely gorgeous. I love the character designs so so much. This OVA had some really weird quirks so i assume it had a change of director between OVAs maybe? Like the pacing of scenes is relentless, nothing is given time to breathe. For example big dramatic scene and the music just starts to swell, boom, hard cut to next scene. It was really odd. And just other quirks like tons of pans over some nice painterly still images and holy god the overuse of split-screens.
 

cj_iwakura

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Erased Episode 12

Tear jerker of a finale, really enjoyed it.

I agree an extra episode detailing the killer could have been useful. I would've put it right before Episode 11, but I'm happy with what we got.
 

Clov

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It starts April 10. An English simulcast hasn't been announced for it yet.

There's still time.

On a different note, any Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood fans here? A bit of interesting news; as of today, Funimation no longer has the rights to the series! Any videos relating to it should be removed from their site today, and the BD release is officially out of print.
 
No matter how good Fafner: Exodus may be, the fact that it has CG Mechs and Hirai faces automatically sets it below Gundam Build Fighters, which has no Hirai faces and has 2D mecha.

While I agree that 2d mechs are better, fafner has really good CG. I also never had any problem with Hirai faces but thats a question of taste at this point.

In the end Exodus is just way better then gbf.
 

Cornbread78

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Fairy Tail ep.42-48 (Thunder Tower arc)
Ok, the formula hasn't gotten old yet. Definitely the power of friendship to the max, but man, the battles were excellent between the clan members and Luxes. I admit, that ending with Master and the signal got me; beautiful.... How can I feel bad for that douche? I also don't trust Gadjeel, but I was surprised at that scene with master.. This is still really good guys.
 

Cornbread78

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Cross Game ep1

Damn damn damn this first episode. That was unexpected turn of events 😭

Yeah, it hit me really hard too
ye, I got a little teary eyed)
, why does it always have to be the
little girls
dammit... I serves as the backdrop for the entire series, so it was all important stuff and you will pick up on minor details of those scenes later. Really good writing in this one outside of a couple episodes later.
 

Jintor

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GuP - 1

Is this just a bad Strike Witches?

The main characters whole resolve of moving away to a different school to not do tankery got changed in a couple of minutes.

Edit: I didn't necessarily dislike it, I'll watch 4 more episodes tonight and see how I feel about it.

it's actually a sports anime disguised as a cute-girls-go-to-war anime
 

Szadek

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Fairy Tail ep.42-48 (Thunder Tower arc)
Ok, the formula hasn't gotten old yet. Definitely the power of friendship to the max, but man, the battles were excellent between the clan members and Luxes. I admit, that ending with Master and the signal got me; beautiful.... How can I feel bad for that douche? I also don't trust Gadjeel, but I was surprised at that scene with master.. This is still really good guys.
I would be suprised if you don't enjoy the show all the way through, although the next arcs aren't as good.
They are still important ,though.
You are also getting to close to the first filler arc and I highly recommand skipping it.
 
Broken Blade 10

Ok, this is damn good, the mech designs are nice and battered and the battles are visceral, the MC is tolerable... why I haven't heard of this series before? I hope the last 2 episodes don't ruin it.

I like it even more because it looks like one of my dream game ideas that I hope to make one day.

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you may have never heard about it because originally it was aired as some OVA movies and recently-ish they did a rerelease as an anime. But it's an ongoing manga and the anime ends nowhere near where it currently is.
 
While I agree that 2d mechs are better, fafner has really good CG. I also never had any problem with Hirai faces but thats a question of taste at this point.

In the end Exodus is just way better then gbf.

Uh, no it's not.

The problem with Hirai faces is that every single character has the exact same face.


Meanwhile, GBF has characters that actually look different and distinct from one another!


You can't call Exodus a better show than Gundam Build Fighters when it has absolutely no diversity in the faces of its characters.
 

Dio

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I didn't know what you meant exactly until I saw the OP.

hahahahaha

So good

I don't think we saw the same thing if you think Super Sonico's site for April Fools this year isn't one of the creepiest things you've ever seen.

Well, either way, it takes a lot to disgust me and this is crossing a line.

Don't even GO FUCKING NEAR that site for April Fools if you're anywhere near anyone. It's not pornographic but I'm quite frankly in shock that a company like Nitroplus would do something like this, even as a joke, for April Fools.
 

Mailbox

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I don't think we saw the same thing if you think Super Sonico's site for April Fools this year isn't one of the creepiest things you've ever seen.

Well, either way, it takes a lot to disgust me and this is crossing a line.

Don't even GO FUCKING NEAR that site for April Fools if you're anywhere near anyone. It's not pornographic but I'm quite frankly in shock that a company like Nitroplus would do something like this, even as a joke, for April Fools.

Oh, I thought you meant this http://www.nitroplus.co.jp/

Oh...

You've got me interested....

Mmmmmmmm
 

Man God

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SWORD ART ONLINE - EPISODE SIX: Illusionary Avenger

A g-g-g-g-ghost? Griselda, you monster! Wait a minute, it's smoke and mirrors, they were never killed in the first place. It was Grimlock all along...because his wife was no longer submissive?

KILLED YOUR WIFE!

This episode is pretty good until this dumb ass reveal. The murder mystery is fun until this final dumb as hell tweeeest. Oh the ghost being real as fuck at the very end is kinda neat as well.

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Mailbox

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I don't think we saw the same thing if you think Super Sonico's site for April Fools this year isn't one of the creepiest things you've ever seen.

Well, either way, it takes a lot to disgust me and this is crossing a line.

So I went to the Super Sonico JP site and...
Am I missing something? I didn't see anything that warrants the tag "creepiest"

Did I go to the wrong site again?
 
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