Valdfellgar
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Cool! Glad you're enjoying it. I've become a huge fan of Polygon Pictures, not so much for their CGI
Although I do think they're one of the better CGI studios
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Winter Anime 2017 |OT| John Wick cleaning up KyoAni's mess
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Cool! Glad you're enjoying it. I've become a huge fan of Polygon Pictures, not so much for their CGI
NaDannMaGoGo
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That's a good point. I usually found myself thinking that these moments where quite lacking beyond simply looking good visually. I think it was in the penultimate episode (or maybe the last one?) where Majime was dreading this 'word vortex' sucking everything away and I was just thinking that it's such a simplistic attempt to portray his fears. I never bought into him actually seeing things this way. I mean, I liked the baseline of a 'sea of words' and such but it remained a very simple analogy.
While apparently the "Sea of Words" metaphor has actual historical significance for Japanese dictionary-making, I always found it rather inexact for describing the roles dictionaries serve. You don't go to a dictionary to find words, you go to find meanings. A dictionary won't give you the words to express how you feel, but it can help you understand the words of others. Most of the time, I felt like they were describing it backwards.
Cornbread78
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Sweet, the new girl they hired loves anine & manga.
I almost hit the floor when she said Chobits was her fav.
On a side note, she tried to get me to watch Elfen Lied. Yup, this is gonna be fun. She also tried to get me to watch sone show about a girl that turns into a cat? No idea what she was talking about..
Oh and sbe loved Full Moon wo Sagashite and Clannad..
I almost hit the floor when she said Chobits was her fav.
On a side note, she tried to get me to watch Elfen Lied. Yup, this is gonna be fun. She also tried to get me to watch sone show about a girl that turns into a cat? No idea what she was talking about..
Oh and sbe loved Full Moon wo Sagashite and Clannad..
Vincent Alexander
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Have you not watched RahXephon episode 19 yet?! I keep refreshing waiting to see your thoughts. Oh god, I seen ow you did on the last page! I got distracted.
I'm glad you finally got to this episode. I haven't seen RahXephon in at least 10 years, yet this episode still haunts me just thinking about that ending. What a gut punch, and really took me from liking the show a bit to loving it.
To Love Ru Darkness OVA episode 1.
PdotMichael
Banned
What a girl.
Basically wife material.
Basically wife material.
godisntheradio
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yeah, that was something
this reminds me i watched the entirety of to love-ru and i don't know why i watched it
yes, that was probably it
I'll suggest the reason was it was super interesting before anyone else might.
Cornbread78
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Yeah, that was rough. You could tell something was up, but not THAT... now, I just want to know how everything works...
She said it was a series though. I'll have to drill her for info next week to get more ingo.
Yeah, but she waaaaaay to young for me, lol.(not to mention I'm married, lol) It's cool to have someone else to chat with though.
GoldCrusader
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Orange END
Ok this was amazingly touching and beautiful. The characters were all great. I personnaly had a soft spot for both Kakeru and Agita. While Agita was both the comedic moment guy and the smart guy, Kakeru was just...it's hard to explain, but he got me pretty hard by the emotions, episode 12 was super hard to watch. With us seeing things from his PoV. It made me feel depressed so much. 13 though, was soooooo good looking. It was so true and pure on a feeling level that it made me cry so much from both sadness and joy. Seeing Kakeru
. The only big problem the show had really, was how bad episode 9 looked. It was awful. I guess I can't really end this without saying how much of a best bro Suwa was...I mean god damn.
This is clearly a show I'm interested in seeing what the blu-ray fixed.
Ok this was amazingly touching and beautiful. The characters were all great. I personnaly had a soft spot for both Kakeru and Agita. While Agita was both the comedic moment guy and the smart guy, Kakeru was just...it's hard to explain, but he got me pretty hard by the emotions, episode 12 was super hard to watch. With us seeing things from his PoV. It made me feel depressed so much. 13 though, was soooooo good looking. It was so true and pure on a feeling level that it made me cry so much from both sadness and joy. Seeing Kakeru
smile at the end just made me super happy and was the biggest reward
This is clearly a show I'm interested in seeing what the blu-ray fixed.
Are we talking actually turning into a cat or cat-girl? Because i can't seem to find very many series where a girl just straight up turns into a cat...
Also, your life just turned into a shoujo manga, congrats
victreeb3l
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Masamune Kuns Revenge 3: First 2 minutes
Are you fucking serious? Who finds this funny? This isn't the first time they made these gay jokes about the kid either.
Are you fucking serious? Who finds this funny? This isn't the first time they made these gay jokes about the kid either.
Cornbread78
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Not sure about the cat transformation. I'll get more info next week.
Lol. Yeah, she likes a lot of that "girly" stuff.
not that I'm much different, lol
She threw too many names out there I haven't heard of, lol. She be an interesting conversation with the other girl that works with us that has only really watch Adult Swim/Toonami stuff, plus a few others like Clannad,SAO, that are dubbed. She keeps trying to get me to watch Level E?
The Great Passage: 1-2
I don't think even I can compete in terms of nerdiness with the people depicted in this show. What is Nishioka doing there anyways considering that his personality and attitude is so out of place anyways?
For me the most impressive aspect of this show is the minute details. Maybe it's just me but this show seemed to contain a lot of motion that, while often times small, makes it feel really alive.
I don't think even I can compete in terms of nerdiness with the people depicted in this show. What is Nishioka doing there anyways considering that his personality and attitude is so out of place anyways?
For me the most impressive aspect of this show is the minute details. Maybe it's just me but this show seemed to contain a lot of motion that, while often times small, makes it feel really alive.
Crimson_Echidna
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It's literally Red Pill the Anime. If that pisses you off, wait until the show gets in deep with who Masamune's actual love rival is.
Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju 1-2
Yakumos's first ever performance was fucking brutal. How he came to fall in place with rakugo and become the master of it will be interesting to see.
Yakumos's relationship with Konatsu was exposed at a pretty bizarre pace in ep 1. The basics are clear but the actual dynamic between the two still seems foggy. It's a relationship with tension, but I really can't get a grip on their interactions beyond that.
Yakumos's first ever performance was fucking brutal. How he came to fall in place with rakugo and become the master of it will be interesting to see.
Yakumos's relationship with Konatsu was exposed at a pretty bizarre pace in ep 1. The basics are clear but the actual dynamic between the two still seems foggy. It's a relationship with tension, but I really can't get a grip on their interactions beyond that.
Hah, yeah, after having watched the first two episodes, I thought that was weird. Maybe they should be making a thesaurus. XD
MetroidPrimeRib
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the episodes are like eight minutes long, sounds like a personal problem
Hellwarden
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He might be talking about in time relative to cat years tho.
You should! I remember it being a lot of fun.
Admiral Woofington
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Close to finishing s1. I think the show's biggest weaknesses but also surprisingly its strength is in the lead character. The character is the polar opposite of who people want as the lead: a sociopath who is into self preservation. He doesn't want to save the day, he just wants to be left alone. In fact he goes to great lengths to be left alone.
The lead villain on the other hand is a psychopath terrorist who while he has a greater purpose hes just an asshole.
And of course there are the humans, particularly the government. No black or white. They're straight up grey leaning on black. They do disgusting horrible things for the sake of science and knowledge. Its fairly well done just how despicable some of these characters are where even when you learn they have a sweet side or a Noble goal, you can't help but wonder if the ends justify the means.
I'm really, really liking the show. It's hard to know who to root for among the good guys and it mirrors reality a bit too well when it comes to shady government shit.
Will write more thoughts when I review season 1. But I gotta ask now, were there no people in here who watched it? I assume it attracted a crowd that came for one reason of a superhero like supernatural battle seinen, but left due to the lead character (as I've seen in some reactions online). Or was there an underlying issue with the show I'm pushing aside that others couldn't, similar to 91 days?
I don't recall seeing many posts about the show.
Dedication Through Light
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I wish people wore actual anime shirts, I never know to bring up anime when they wear the obligatory howls moving castle shirts since sometimes thats litrally the only anime theyve ever seen and if I bring up haikyuu (I have haikyuu shirt on) or starmu or sao (shirts for both) they act like Im speaking a foreign language 
Was sitting at a bar at the science conference Im at and the MD had one on and we talked [pkmn].
Was sitting at a bar at the science conference Im at and the MD had one on and we talked [pkmn].I wish people wore actual anime shirts, I never know to bring up anime when they wear the obligatory howls moving castle shirts since sometimes thats litrally the only anime theyve ever seen and if I bring up haikyuu (I have haikyuu shirt on) or starmu or sao (shirts for both) they act like Im speaking a foreign language
Just ask what some of their favorites are and gauge fandom from there.
For what it's worth, I actually like stuff like Knights of Cydonia and Ajin. Not sure what it that makes me overlook it, maybe the fact that it's all CG and there's not this awful juxtaposition between 2D and 3D? I'm not certain...
So far, the best I've seen is the EoE movies. Cheating of course because they're high-budget movies, but most of it is hot garbage in my experience.
There is some decent stuff in the newer ufotable shows, but some really terrible stuff too (the pan of the storage room in UBW sticks out as a particularly egregious example).
As much as I enjoyed Drifters, I thought the CG was the low-point of the series in terms of animation. Some really great hand-animated stuff that clashes with awful pan shots of the battlefield.
Apparently I need to watch this shit.
Any more good examples? I'm really interested.
So far, the best I've seen is the EoE movies. Cheating of course because they're high-budget movies, but most of it is hot garbage in my experience.
There is some decent stuff in the newer ufotable shows, but some really terrible stuff too (the pan of the storage room in UBW sticks out as a particularly egregious example).
As much as I enjoyed Drifters, I thought the CG was the low-point of the series in terms of animation. Some really great hand-animated stuff that clashes with awful pan shots of the battlefield.
It's a crime... I just don't get it.
Pictured: my average Internet browsing session.Scum's Wish in a nut shell:
On a level you can't even comprehend.
Apparently I need to watch this shit.
victreeb3l
Member
I should have seen it coming with all the "male victims" from the first episode. I hate all the characters and I have zero motivation to even finish this episode so I'm probably dropping it. What happens later on? I dont mind spoilers.
She pushes Elfen Lied, so you're right to be cautious. But Level E is worth a watch. When it's good, it's really good.
KirbYuuYuu
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I wasnt being sarcastic btw
Yep
RahXephon 16
It feels like so much happened in this episode, I liked the progression. Interested to see how Ayato feels on his return home.
Also I totally feel like most of the main cast will die by the end of the series.
hosannainexcelsis
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For examples of strong anime CG, I like to point to the Go Princess Precure movie. Toei's CG department has some great people working there. I'm also fond of the work Buemon did for the Kaze no Matasaburou short film from 2016 Anime Tamago, especially since it focuses on subdued character animation, which tends to be a weak point for a lot of CG animation. They hit on a really strong art style. For integration of CG with 2D animation, in addition to the work done by KyoAni generally and Xebec/Orange on Fafner Exodus, I am also rather fond of how Tatsuya Oishi at Shaft has been handling the Kizumonogatari movies.
Etotama's CG was pretty good.
Dedication Through Light
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Majin Bone
MetroidPrimeRib
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Mekaku City Actors
nintendoman58
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That doesn't look great to me. Though I don't think I've liked any CG mech anime.
The lack of context really hampers the clip. Maybe it's one of the coolest bits in the series but we wouldn't know due to it being things kinda sorta fighting in blockland.
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