OniBarubary
Banned
I will cuck you upside the head.
Oh did it? I was reading impressions and it seemed like they did some other stuff at the end that took up a bunch of time. Huh. Watch it tonight and see I guess.
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Winter Anime 2016 |OT2| Bellariology, Puellology and Simulacrumology
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I will cuck you upside the head.
Oh did it? I was reading impressions and it seemed like they did some other stuff at the end that took up a bunch of time. Huh. Watch it tonight and see I guess.
nintendoman58
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I can't wait for Spring to start so we can start talking more about Jojo, MHA, and Ace Attorney instead of Erased.
hosannainexcelsis
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Hataraku Maou-sama 1
I kind of wish we got more of the fantasy setting at the start. It was generic, but it looked really cool visually.
The comedy in Japan was pretty good though. I wish the episode didn't leap so far forward in time at the commercial break though. It would have been nice to see Maou gradually get domesticated instead of all of a sudden.
I kind of wish we got more of the fantasy setting at the start. It was generic, but it looked really cool visually.
The comedy in Japan was pretty good though. I wish the episode didn't leap so far forward in time at the commercial break though. It would have been nice to see Maou gradually get domesticated instead of all of a sudden.
OniBarubary
Banned
Agreed. I will say that strangely I don't think the comedy hits as high of a high that the first episode did (the lost in translation parts got legitimate out loud laughter from me) but I definitely thought the show was worth a watch and elicited a number of laughs out of me regularly.
I also enjoyed the characters which helped.
I also enjoyed the characters which helped.
muri de-ssu yo senpai.
Tekkonkinkreet
Growing really tired of internal character strife being done by the way of "tulpa wars" and consequently, not a fan of how Black's destructive tendencies were handled at the end there. All the more so since this was literally Darkness spewing bullshit like: "Embrace my power" and the like. You can show that struggle without resorting to cheesy devices like that. White's supernatural connection to Black also rubbed me the wrong way. Yes, I got that he had all the screws Black needed, I really got it. You don't need to beat me over the head with it.
I feel like I should like this movie more than I did, cause it certainly is well accomplished on the technical level with some really great visuals, backgrounds in particular, direction and a story that ties everything neatly at the end but I dunno, somehow I just couldn't give a damn about B&W, I even liked those two older gangsters and their stories more.I felt pretty much the same about Ping-Pong though so maybe it's just my deep seated, irrational problem with Matsumoto's characters at large.
He also made one about the scene with Kayo and Satoru meet in the park.
He's really good at analyzing things. Don't necessarily always agree with his tastes, but hey that's even better. Haven't watched this video yet, but I'm curious to see what he thinks of it.
(I'm a pretty big fan of this guy, if it's not obvious.)
Wait, only or? So they have an abstinence marriage? That just sounds sadistic to everyone involved.
MetroidPrimeRib
Banned
Da Ga Shi Ka Shi 10
Hotaru was 2 cute this episode. You want to talk about diabetes
Galko 11
Hotaru was 2 cute this episode. You want to talk about diabetes
Galko 11
hosannainexcelsis
Member
Looking good. I'm glad Nishii is doing the designs now.
OniBarubary
Banned
Imma need an explanation on those butts
The whole point about -ssu is that it's a phonetic contraction of desu. Please get your proper vercal tic usage right.
NaDannMaGoGo
Member
Oshiete! Galko-Chan - 11
Lmao. A-grade imagination.
OniBarubary
Banned
I prefer a good old-fashioned degozaru myself. Sounds like a bull demon or something.
NaDannMaGoGo
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Sher and Her Cat - Everything Flows - 03
Hefty dose of sadness. As far as Daru is concerned, he's pretty much confirmed dead already.
Hefty dose of sadness. As far as Daru is concerned, he's pretty much confirmed dead already.
MetroidPrimeRib
Banned
sekko boyz 11
medici sends Line stickers of himself. Amazing
Cats going to die 03
This cat is going to die.
this should get some play come jojo part 4
medici sends Line stickers of himself. Amazing
Cats going to die 03
This cat is going to die.
KenjiGlove
Banned
Minutes spent on raising death flags: 03
This eerie feeling raised by basically everything the cat does is super unnerving to me.
I wonder how it plays out, MC is already pretty depressed right now, are they going to go even lower in the next and final episode?
This eerie feeling raised by basically everything the cat does is super unnerving to me.
I wonder how it plays out, MC is already pretty depressed right now, are they going to go even lower in the next and final episode?
NaDannMaGoGo
Member
The two will go to some Rakugo performance and commit double suicide afterwards.
That made Kenshin fun and also really helped Saori's geeky attitude in OreImo.
My favorite speech patterns would probably be, in no particular order:
- Imperative -tamae: Krauss used that a lot in Umineko, and his VA did the same in Samurai Flamenco.
- Old-style refined lady speech patterns: Shinobu does it. Umineko' Beatrice also does, only her mix of refined and impolite speech patterns gives her a much more playful/teasing characterization that really resonates with her character as a whole
- -souro style formality: Again, Dlanor's underlings Cornelia and that other girl from Umineko. I remember reciting their ubiquitous "謹啓、謹んで申し上げ奉る" phrase to my Japanese teacher and she pointing out that the speech patterns were used by people in the Japanese court in ancient times. Rarely used in anime because I guess archaisms can get hard to understand even for native Japanese speakers
OniBarubary
Banned
As much as the Umineko anime was...well, whatever it was, I did greatly enjoy Beatrice's voice acting and speech patterns. It fit her pretty damn well.
They used the voice actors to voice the PS3 adaptions of the sound novels and it was fantastic. Check out the voice rips if you are interested in the series.
It's funny how the 30 year old paired with the 17 year old is the "normal" relationship of the series.
OniBarubary
Banned
Ooo neat!
Turin Turambar
Member
Yes, it's stupid, both because there was never a true romance angle in the series, and because the true age gap.
But about the last point, I'm going to add that maybe some people ships come from a problem that I already commented before, the protagonist adultness is very dialed back and the story is almost told as he is truly a kid with some knowledge of what it will happen in the future. So much that I think some viewers forgot he wasn't really a kid.
I love spotting the Umineko VAs when they show up on other shows. Off the top of my head, Rudolph's is freaking everywhere (always as a badass smug grown man), Krauss was that axe ranger mentor guy in Samurai Flamenco, and Kyrie was Caster in Fate/UBW. The rest I don't know all that much about, but it was surprising for me when I saw both Battler and Kinzo were voiced by the same actor. BEATORICHEEEEEEEEEE!
KenjiGlove
Banned
While I agree with you, I feel like Satoru saying "Come on, you're 29 years old!" to himself a bunch of times should've reminded people about his age.
He's like a reverse Conan, where he has the mind of an adult in the body of a kid but forgets to use his adult wits because he loves clinging to that idiot ball of his.
I mean, it would've been interesting to see him psych the killer out with all his knowledge of the case (didn't the perp kill some people in nearby towns before?) or who his original targets were... but no, he had to act as a kid and stay frozen by fear while the killed got to do whatever unimpeded.
Kine'mon's voice actor in One Piece does these really well.
Satoru clearly got too into reliving his childhood for his own good, it could be seen from the beginning when he is reliving things he had forgotten and gaining appreciation for things he ignored or took for granted (his Mom, for example).
Was it stupid of him? Yeah, it definitely was, but I'm ok with him being stupid.
Was it stupid of him? Yeah, it definitely was, but I'm ok with him being stupid.
That's alright for "safe" things, and maybe even acceptable for some moments of his everyday life that he learned to appreciate as he got the chance to live through them again... but don't tell me he keeps that childish and easygoing attitude when faced by the freaking murderer he had set out to stop in the very first place. His whole goal was to thwart the mastermind's plans, so staying in child mode when facing things related to the crimes makes absolutely no sense.
I also loved his "I know your future" line, because that was the best comeback he could muster and it was obviously completely wrong: Satoru changing the past means the future he came from would be replaced by a new one with a safe Kayo and all that. Like, come on.
"Why does Jotaro wear white?"
"Why did Bones change this part of the plot in MHA?"
"Why is Ace Attorney made on PowerPoint?"
Yeah, I can't wait.
Hellwarden
Member
Garo Crimson Moon Episode 21
So, stuff is finally kinda happening. Seimei has been possessed by an ancient horror, and the gang traps her so Raikou can enter her heart to drive it out.
Apparently Seimei's heart is full of nothing but fog...
So, stuff is finally kinda happening. Seimei has been possessed by an ancient horror, and the gang traps her so Raikou can enter her heart to drive it out.
Apparently Seimei's heart is full of nothing but fog...
I don't get it. Why wouldn't you use this moment to flesh out Raikou and Seimei's relationship more? How couldn't you?
Cornbread78
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Dagashi ep.10
Good for a couple laughs at poor hotaru still not taking care of herself and her candy illness. The shows better (for me) when it's not completely about different types of candy I've never heard of before, so I could definitely keep up with this episode.
Good for a couple laughs at poor hotaru still not taking care of herself and her candy illness. The shows better (for me) when it's not completely about different types of candy I've never heard of before, so I could definitely keep up with this episode.
victreeb3l
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But he wasnt happy. Didnt he slowly become estranged from his friends? They showed how his guilt from Kayos murder affected him into adulthood and he grew up depressed and unhappy. I always felt this was a second chance for him to, well, live again.
I was a little bummed that
Kayo and Satoru didnt meet in the future and got together but I dont think Satoru's intention was ever to romance her. We dont even know if he ever had romantic feelings for her. IIRC he just wanted to save her. He did what he set out to do and thanks to his efforts the two friends he rescued were able to live a happy life together and create another life of their own.
I feel like Satoru has sacrificed a lot already and he deserves a break. Cant have everyone have a happy ending except for him. That being said, I'm not convinced that this is the true timeline as he still needs closure from his other adult timeline. I definitely think another revival is coming. Was 2003 the year his mother was killed or was that much later?
Thanks, using this for my debut album title
Oh, I hadn't noticed you had changed your avatar to a Monogatari one. Welcome to the club!
Hellwarden
Member
On March 26 or the day after.
MikeHattsu
Member
So I decided to make my avatar for next season early this time. I don't wanna be stuck with last season's avatar for half the season like I did this one
Its gonna be Midoriya.
No worries.
Looks like I need to watch the latest episode. Thanks for reminding me Candybread!
Its gonna be Midoriya.
No worries.
Dagashi ep.10
Good for a couple laughs at poor hotaru still not taking care of herself and her candy illness. The shows better (for me) when it's not completely about different types of candy I've never heard of before, so I could definitely keep up with this episode.
Looks like I need to watch the latest episode. Thanks for reminding me Candybread!
hosannainexcelsis
Member
Hataraku Maou-sama 2
Atsushi Ikariya is doing his job. The character animation is pretty fun.
Atsushi Ikariya is doing his job. The character animation is pretty fun.
GATE 23
This show is at its best when it features modern military blowing the fuck out of medieval armies. Not sure what Bozes was thinking when trying to rescue the princess. Did she think they were just going to let her walk through the palace gates? I wonder how Itami and the gang are going to take on the entire capital by themselves. Hopefully the prince and his bunny slave get what's coming to them next episode.
This show is at its best when it features modern military blowing the fuck out of medieval armies. Not sure what Bozes was thinking when trying to rescue the princess. Did she think they were just going to let her walk through the palace gates? I wonder how Itami and the gang are going to take on the entire capital by themselves. Hopefully the prince and his bunny slave get what's coming to them next episode.
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