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Winter Anime 2017 |OT| John Wick cleaning up KyoAni's mess
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Admiral Woofington
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God damn, I need this more than I need air and water.
It's true, they are; I actually had to study both in my undergrad. Personally I found Foucoult more readable than Derrida, but maybe that's just me. I studied Freud in my undergrad too, in the same course in fact! Foucoult bled into my MA work, but I didn't deal with Derrida too much after that. I'll leave that for the PhD candidates to deal with!
And I at the very least, worked hard at mine.
I think in the future we're definitely going to see more Aniplex-esque releases and less standard retail ones. I don't think companies like Funimation will go away, but they'll adjust thier business model accordingly.
Canada definitely has a big potential market for that, with the exchange rate and RightStuf's high shipping. You must be talking about the C&L Club! I've had good experiences with them, but it's always best to wait for a sale.
Admiral Woofington
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I mean I don't know what to tell you, it's popular because of alucard, the ultra violence and some of the ridiculous shit going on (nazis and kkk joining forces to fight the relatively good guys). It's always been a popular show in the West because of that specifically, nobody really cares for the comedy they just deal with it. Same with Drifters, the comedy is nowhere near the best aspect but folks just deal with it. You take the good with the bad
If you can't deal with the comedy to get through the action and violence, then don't. It's as simple as that. If folks are recommending it to you it might be because you tend to like action shows snd it's a very vanilla recommendation.
Dedication Through Light
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Gaogaigar 41
Thank you for saving Kaido! and returned all of J's folks back. Cant believe some of the strongest primeval's survived
Turin Turambar
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You are on a journey of self-discovery.
Exactly, the part where you discover popular recommendations are not to be trusted. There are a lot of people out there who standards are: edgy shit, blood, tits and asses, lots of action, cool "badass" characters.
They also voted for Trump.
Admiral Woofington
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Man I really gotta rewatch Yamato 2199.
You voted for Trump no takesies backsies
What fucking ever
You voted for Trump no takesies backsies
Hellsing Ultimate Vol4 is good. It has Maaya Sakamoto playing a nazi sniper singing Engeland Lied and Der Freischutz.
Dedication Through Light
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Azi Dahaka Daeva looks incredible (buddyfight), theres even Kyoya Gaen! https://twitter.com/hokuyuu/status/827676872687312900
Admiral Woofington
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You know for a country that wants to erase their involvement in world War 2 they sure love to keep bringing up nazis
Dedication Through Light
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Why is jean so far in the back, he needs to be right next to Eren
The deconstruction of facts.
OniBarubary
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Hellsing Ultimate is good tho.
It's not as if the comedy is the biggest problem. It just makes it worse than the 2001 version. I'm not even someone who often finds an anime boring. I'm a Slice of Life fan and those are the ones most people would consider boring.
And I'm normally all over Madhouse's adaptations. I'll see how this turns out. I'm not going to drop this just yet (but I'm pretty close to it).
The thing is, there's a lot of popular series I haven't seen yet. A lot of supposedly good titles as well. It's just that Hellsing is the one some of my friends always wanted me to watch.
And as I said, I'm an SoL fan, so that's probably not the reason for the recommendations.
Yeah, I had that realization back when Guilty Crown was airing. But Hellsing always seemed like something I'd like.
I'm watching it on Amazon Prime and they don't have the Japanese dub version, only German dub (which is pretty solid honestly). I already missed the "If anyone does not love the lord..." scene in the first episode because of that D:
Wow. No Wakamoto. No Nakata. No Maaya. No wonder you're not enjoying this as much.
Anyway, yeah Hellsing isn't that great once you grow out of the "OMG VAMPIRE GUNLORD VS NAZIS FUCK YEAH" phase. But I still have good memories of watching Arucard fucking destroy his enemies. When Ultimate is on point, it's really entertaining. The fight at the end of Vol2, most of Vol4, the stuff in Vol6-7. Then... it kinda goes downhill because the production was ?????????!!!!!!!!!!!????????????????O_O???? lol.
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Watched The Silent Voice yesterday. Damn, that was good. Both sort of uplifting and equally sad... Couldn't get Ueno = Mio out of my head, damn you KyoAni!
Yuri on Ice Episode 1
Well, there's some decent animation here. We'll see how the story progresses.
March Comes in Like a Lion Episode 16
Meaning to start Konosuba S2 but my watching habits are pretty erratic these days. I'll get to it...eventually...
Watched The Silent Voice yesterday. Damn, that was good. Both sort of uplifting and equally sad... Couldn't get Ueno = Mio out of my head, damn you KyoAni!
Yuri on Ice Episode 1
Well, there's some decent animation here. We'll see how the story progresses.
March Comes in Like a Lion Episode 16
Shimada wins! Whooo! He looked so exhausted though. Rei is finally starting to rely on other people to get through life...good, good.
Meaning to start Konosuba S2 but my watching habits are pretty erratic these days. I'll get to it...eventually...
Wow. No Wakamoto. No Nakata. No Maaya. No wonder you're not enjoying this as much.
Anyway, yeah Hellsing isn't that great once you grow out of the "OMG VAMPIRE GUNLORD VS NAZIS FUCK YEAH" phase. But I still have good memories of watching Arucard fucking destroy his enemies. When Ultimate is on point, it's really entertaining. The fight at the end of Vol2, most of Vol4, the stuff in Vol6-7. Then... it kinda goes downhill because the production was ?????????!!!!!!!!!!!????????????????O_O???? lol.
Yeah I thought about it long and hard. It's not on Crunchyroll or Netflix where I would expect a subbed version, so I just went with it.
I just finished episode 3 and yeah, seeing Alucard killing a bunch of people has its charm. Alucard is one of the very few reasons I continue watching this.
Admiral Woofington
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More of a jab at some of the white washing with that and other topics in textbooks. Of course I'm largely saying it tongue in cheek since the US (see: the South) also does the same with Japanese internment camps and recently with the topics of slavery.
GoldCrusader
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Hellsing had like one good episode, other then that the action was never something I would consider entertainig for more then a few minutes. Hellsing being like 45 minutes backfired on it imo.
Drifters is better simply based on the cast.
Drifters is better simply based on the cast.
Dedication Through Light
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Oh someone triggered my maaya sakamoto alert, didnt know she was in that anime, guess Ill try to find that song. Her voice is so good.
Hellwarden
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Huh, the second episode of Tanya the Evil basically shifts the genre of the show.
Which is appreciated, because that first episode was bad.
Which is appreciated, because that first episode was bad.
Errrrr. Japan doesn't pretend it wasn't involved in the war. What they deny are the war crimes. They very much accept that they were in a war, but they were the victims and lost, otherwise the ones who died were heroes. It's sick! If you think for a second that the conservatives are ashamed of the war, you need to think again!
Admiral Woofington
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No need to deconstruct when you have glorious nippon steel that can cut through filthy American pig guns and bullets
Just watch OVA4. The best.
Hi, Anime-GAF. I'm new here and wanted to say hi. Was just wondering if I'm missing any good shows from the season at this point. Here's the stuff I've checked out so far:
Rakugo S2
3 Gatsu
LWA
Dragomaid
Fuuka
Seiren
Akiba's Trip
Konosuba S2
Masamune-kun
Interviews with Monster Girls
Not saying that I'm into all the shows on this list. Rakugo, Konosuba, and 3 Gatsu are the only ones I'm enjoying a bunch atm. Though, I've only seen one episode of Dragon Maid and I feel like it might be a pretty solid comedy show.
Rakugo S2
3 Gatsu
LWA
Dragomaid
Fuuka
Seiren
Akiba's Trip
Konosuba S2
Masamune-kun
Interviews with Monster Girls
Not saying that I'm into all the shows on this list. Rakugo, Konosuba, and 3 Gatsu are the only ones I'm enjoying a bunch atm. Though, I've only seen one episode of Dragon Maid and I feel like it might be a pretty solid comedy show.
Wow. No Wakamoto. No Nakata. No Maaya. No wonder you're not enjoying this as much.
Anyway, yeah Hellsing isn't that great once you grow out of the "OMG VAMPIRE GUNLORD VS NAZIS FUCK YEAH" phase. But I still have good memories of watching Arucard fucking destroy his enemies. When Ultimate is on point, it's really entertaining. The fight at the end of Vol2, most of Vol4, the stuff in Vol6-7. Then... it kinda goes downhill because the production was ?????????!!!!!!!!!!!????????????????O_O???? lol.
I feel the same way about Hellsing. It was fun, but it ain't that great anymore.
Dedication Through Light
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Hand shakers.
You need to get on the Tales of Zestiria train.
Dedication Through Light
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At this point they should just wait until its over and then watch it all.
Scum's Wish has been pretty good so far.
I'd rec at least checking out if ACCA is your thing, with the caveat that it's pretty slow, last ep kinda sucked and the production values aren't quite there.
Turin Turambar
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You are missing Scum's wish.
Check out Scum's Wish (Kuzu no Honkai). We were talking about it a few pages back. It has a pretty interesting premise.
I finished watching Future Boy Conan, which was pretty great. Might write more about it later.
It was nice to see focus on multiple characters such as Conan, Lana, Jimsy, Monsley and Dyce. The only thing that felt lacking was Lepka's motivation. He basically got an off screen death lol.
Next up on the backlog will be some quality time with Gintama season 4.
It was nice to see focus on multiple characters such as Conan, Lana, Jimsy, Monsley and Dyce. The only thing that felt lacking was Lepka's motivation. He basically got an off screen death lol.
Next up on the backlog will be some quality time with Gintama season 4.
GoldCrusader
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Your missing
Tales of Zestiria the X
Gundam IBO
Twin star exorcist
élDLIVE
Blue Exorcist
These are all pretty good imo!
I watch pretty much all my shows on Crunchyroll, so not surprised I completely missed the boat on Scum's Wish. Those other recommendations don't look that appealing to me, outside of Gundam IBO. But for that I'd have to go back and watch the first season as well. Also, confession time: Never seen a single Gundam anime.
EDIT: Actually, I should try out ACCA as well, but it's probably one of those shows that's gonna make me want to drop it after the first episode.
EDIT: Actually, I should try out ACCA as well, but it's probably one of those shows that's gonna make me want to drop it after the first episode.
That's a good thing.
nintendoman58
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It's not when he hasn't watched G Gundam, GBF, and War in the Pocket.
Then it's a good thing.
Dedication Through Light
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I suggest going to daisuki (its free) and watching Gundam Wing and then Gundam Seed/Seed Destiny. Their the best of gundam.
Also on youtube you can watch Gundam Age, the third best gundam franchise and perfect for newcomers (same for wing and seed) Give it a try its great.
GoldCrusader
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IBO is a good starting point! SEED and GBF are also pretty good starting point.
It is different. I felt the second OVA flanderized her a bit, and made her far more annoying. The show undoes this, but adds in other issues as others have expressed. In the OVas it did seem like she was trying.
I need it.
Admiral Woofington
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You either die a hero or see yourself live long enough to become the villain
Hellwarden
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I should probably watch War in the Pocket sometime...
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