Cornbread78
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Oh fuck. Finish watching it, stat!
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Winter Anime 2017 |OT| John Wick cleaning up KyoAni's mess
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Oh fuck. Finish watching it, stat!
names2hard4you
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I get it too, he isn't exactly wrong. He is the smart man in the room surrounded by people ranging from not so smart to completely dumb. He doesn't want things to go back to how they were, but his demeanor still annoys the shit out of me.
I'm not liking this!!!
nintendoman58
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The recap movie of the second half actually does a better job at cooling that demanor down, to make him come off as less of an asshole than the TV Series.
I hope you do find the time to watch the movies after the show, because they take a show that was already good and make it ten times better.
names2hard4you
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If only you knew the thing's I haven't seen
I may do it just so that I can see the story again knowing what's happening behinds the scenes.
Nice pickup!
Soon you'll know why I dropped so much money for that BD BOX. TTGL is my favorite for a reason
Joe Molotov
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AOTY
names2hard4you
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So far I am really enjoying this, I can't deny it. But it's like I said, if they off Nia I'll riot.Soon you'll know why I dropped so much money for that BD BOX. TTGL is my favorite for a reason
Gurren Lagann - 18
Quite a lot of thought was put into this show. Who would have thought what we saw up until now would lead to this?
Roflmao.
victreeb3l
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I cant stress how much I hate the new (err current) Crunchyroll Apple TV app. I'm sure I've bitched about it many times before but its basically making watching anime a goddamn chore.
New? Is there a new one?
victreeb3l
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The current one I guess. They made the update a few months ago and it has some awful user experience.
The previous one wasn't very pretty but it was much easier to find stuff.
Admiral Woofington
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How have I missed Aggressive Retsuko this whole time. It's amazing.
names2hard4you
Member
Goddamnit.
That's enough anime for today. I've been on a roll these past couple of days though! Can't remember the last time I watched this much content
Oh I like this one. Except that they removed text labelling in some parts so if you don't know what a shows icon is you are kind of screwed.
I already watched both of these shows.
I have watched Utena an Yurikuma. I suppose I could finally start watching Penguindrum.
Currently isn't a good time for me to start watching JoJo , maybe once I finished 1 or 2 of the bigger shows I'm watching righ now.
Cornbread78
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Scrapped Princess ep.19
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Names, sometimes we're too much alike.... Hurry up and finish the show!
Episode's name is "Aria of a Mother's Sorrow" and my goodness did this one deliver there. It's unfortunate that this relationship was only browsed upon so far because it could have been really powerful if so...
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Names, sometimes we're too much alike.... Hurry up and finish the show!
names2hard4you
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Will do!
Only if you care more for bombastic action and over the top animation than actual story pacing and development. The recap movie is pure indulgence. And not always in the good way.
Seconded.
Basileus777
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The Gurren Lagann movies are something you watch later to see a flashy rendition of the TV series, not really a thing I'd suggest you watch right after.
victreeb3l
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Yup, thats one of my biggest annoyances. Theres also no way to view series by seasons anymore and I have no idea why there isn't a "continue watching" section. I have to keep adding stuff to my queue. Another frustration is how multi season series are organized. Before they would list them by latest season first but now its the opposite.
Its just..why would you make these changes. It looks sleeker but the usability has gotten worse.
names2hard4you
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Yeah definitely going to watch it only after I finish all of the episodes.
I get what you mean also. Well we will see how I feel after I finish the show. Again I do have a lot of stuff I wanna get to eventually but at the same time, if I do move on to something else, idk when I'd be able to come back to them.
I'd agree on that with the first movie, but the second movie legitimately improves that arc. It adds some cool character scenes, the pacing is better, and the finale has even more over the top bombastic action, which is what it was all about in the show to begin with, so that's only a plus in my book.
But I wouldn't recommend the movies over the show. It's a cool thing to watch after the series.
I don't agree at all. I think it's only "cool" if you view it in the context of "oh I already saw the series, I don't really care about this standing alone or replacing anything, I just wanna see cool shit."
The pacing isn't better, the motivations aren't better, the action isn't better. There's more intensity in everything, but it's all indulgence based on expectations of fans who have already seen the series. I mean, if you feel that TTGL was all about being over the top and bombastic, then I'll just say that those are hallmarks of the director's flaws to me, not strengths. Imaishi is a juvenile director with a lot of good ideas but sloppy execution when he isn't toned down by good collaborators. I feel the series is best when the bombastic stuff are earned, and not done for the sake of being done. The movie represents the worst of Imaishi, not the best.
Admiral Woofington
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a human is fine too
I disagree with you in regards to the pacing. That was the one thing that people howled about when it was airing and they're somewhat right. The second movie truncates a lot of the bloat in the second half of the TV series. The second half isn't some sort of tight character study.
Also wut at the action not being better. The cuts in both movies wipe the floor with the TV version. The floor.
First time a friend showed it to me, we watched the entire series in one sitting because I got so addicted.
Best day ever.
Hellwarden
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The second half of Gurren Lagann was weak in quite a few areas. Cutting some of the fat off it sounds lovely.
Dedication Through Light
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I dont understand this, or see why its a concern at episode 1. Surely there are many great anime that have a complete scenario design or tell you everything.
The main character was just thrust the hand shakers power at the end of the episode, why would you expect a full explanation or not be confused about the powers origins or even why people are after him at ep1?
I think there's a range that goes from "bloated, could do with trimming" and "let's just cut out a bunch of shit of focus on jacking off animating a 10 minute action scene instead". The ideal is somewhere in the middle, neither is perfect. What I think is hilarious is how fans celebrate how awesome the action in the movie is when it's just really good animation masturbation. I got bored watching the final fight because it went on and on long after it had any reason to in terms of momentum. Good action direction is knowing when it is enough and to cap it off with a good finisher. Being good at designing numerous nice looking action sequences and getting them animated really well and then just stringing them all together doesn't automatically make something great.
ThatChairMan
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Tales of Zestiria 14
I actually just realized that they're already in Lastonbell, which means they skipped my favorite scene in the game, that fake inspection one.
I actually just realized that they're already in Lastonbell, which means they skipped my favorite scene in the game, that fake inspection one.
The first movie I will agree that it's too truncated. Simon's arc works better the longer he's in his funk after
Kamina's death
As for the length of the movie version final fight, it's not that long and works as a good climax point for the franchise. It allows all the characters a moment to shine and makes it feel more like a team effort than the TV series. Sushio's cut at the end is also really fantastic.
Admiral Woofington
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So remind me, why does GAF hate Drifters? I'm enjoying it so far.
GoldCrusader
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Jarmel just to be a good guy you should still spoiler tag that character's death.
He was already past it and it's a decade old show so I didn't think anything of it.
Cornbread78
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Bad comedy....
KuwabaraTheMan
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Drop everything you're currently doing and watch Eureka 7.
GoldCrusader
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bad first impression probably(in my case anyway), but in my case, once I figured Yoichi was a very present character, I appreciated Drifters more. The dub is also really good.
okay, maybe I should have been more clear, I wasn't really talking about the specific "hand shakers" stuff in hand shakers, I was talking about how the show handled its pre-text and exposition prior to everything.
The cold open was legitimately horrible (not just as a cold open, but as... anything really), Its unclear as to what the MC does at all (does he do electrical repair work on the side? or was it auto repair? or was it medical engineering? How did this doctor contact him? is it a genuine side job, or what? Is he a highschool student or a middle school one? what the hell and how the hell does this character do anything?), its unclear as to anything in the who what and where of it all too. We don't know where we are in the setting, we don't know who anyone (ANYONE) is, and we don't know a damn thing about what anyone is doing. There is absolutely ZERO context given in this episode, and for an introductory episode which is meant to give some semblance of setup that is downright disgraceful. If a book's first chapter or movie's first 10 minutes made the viewer feel as lost and made the production as pointless as this anime's first episode did it would have been deemed unacceptable by everyone.
Not to mention that the show is already constantly lying to you from the start. Theres some semblance that there this alt world in the cold open and when he first holds her hand, but then we see that the world looks exactly the fucking same. The weird and interesting imagery is just there to be "artsy and random" and doesn't work because its just a lie. Lets not forget that we are lied to about the whole "she will die if you don't hold her hand, handshaker" because we FUCKING SEE ANOTHER HANDSHAKER LET GO OF THEIR PARTNER'S HAND AND SHE WAS FINE! oooooooo that makes me miffed!
But the way this is paced makes me feel like the writer and director just thought "we'll put in this cool battle, and just have the entire episode be about leading up to that" but then forgot to give even an ounce of context. They had 22 minutes to give you a set up and it was wasted. This felt like a middle school writing essay that was written in a couple of hours right before the deadline; without editing or even another pass through. Just 1 read through, just one, would have told ANYONE in that production team that this was confusing and a huge mess of a first episode.
I'm fine with stuff like not telling up exactly what hand shakers are, and I'm fine with them not really telling up much on the mystical side of things but you can't give us fucking nothing for the first episode. You only have 12, don't waste your, and our, time!
It's boring after a point and the momentum is poorly paced. By the time you get to the end cut I don't even care about the fight anymore. It's the perfect example of a set piece that works better when split into a bunch of segments and just used as gifs or webms.
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