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Winter of Anime 2013 |OT -4| It's not my fault!
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Theonik
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Threads go backwards because of the effects of 『All Fiction!』
Probably would have worked better if I made the joke first.
Meh. It was too late.
Is this Kodaka?
Kobato.
K-ON! 13
So this episode was just the girls doing their own thing for the most part.
Mio, how the hell did you think sitting by the shoreline in the middle of winter was going to be a good atmosphere for writing lyrics? You couldn't even keep your notebook on the same page, and every time you try to have a thought or idea, all you can think is "FUCK IT"S COLD!" Bad idea.
Ritsu thinks she got a love letter They were actually lyrics from Mio. Those lyrics kinda are strikingly about Ritsu, so I understand her confusion.
Mugi got a job. She was having way too much fun at first. Then she almost started crying cause she got an order wrong and bumped into a fellow worker and spilled a coke on her. Toughen up, Mugi. You're prolly gonna have to face some really obnoxious customers at some point.
Azusa was watching an adorable kitten. I nearly had a hnnnngggggg overload when the kitten was stretching out with her and then sat in her lap. I thought it just had a hairball (how do you not know that cats get hairballs, Azusa?), but I was still worried as fuck because it's a goddamn kitten.
Yui and Ui went shopping for sabe or something. Chocolate curry sounds nasty as fuck.
So this episode was just the girls doing their own thing for the most part.
Mio, how the hell did you think sitting by the shoreline in the middle of winter was going to be a good atmosphere for writing lyrics? You couldn't even keep your notebook on the same page, and every time you try to have a thought or idea, all you can think is "FUCK IT"S COLD!" Bad idea.
Ritsu thinks she got a love letter They were actually lyrics from Mio. Those lyrics kinda are strikingly about Ritsu, so I understand her confusion.
Mugi got a job. She was having way too much fun at first. Then she almost started crying cause she got an order wrong and bumped into a fellow worker and spilled a coke on her. Toughen up, Mugi. You're prolly gonna have to face some really obnoxious customers at some point.
Azusa was watching an adorable kitten. I nearly had a hnnnngggggg overload when the kitten was stretching out with her and then sat in her lap. I thought it just had a hairball (how do you not know that cats get hairballs, Azusa?), but I was still worried as fuck because it's a goddamn kitten.
Yui and Ui went shopping for sabe or something. Chocolate curry sounds nasty as fuck.
Chihayafuru S2 - 01
To be honest, I was expecting a re-introduction of everyone just incase we had forgotten the first season for some reason, and I quite like how all that was to an effect thrown into the background (Chihaya's sister being a model, being group talk while things are moving along for example). So in effect it's carrying on as business as usual.
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To be honest, I was expecting a re-introduction of everyone just incase we had forgotten the first season for some reason, and I quite like how all that was to an effect thrown into the background (Chihaya's sister being a model, being group talk while things are moving along for example). So in effect it's carrying on as business as usual.
Ok. thank Im not familiar with the names. Meat is the one with a butterfly hairpiece?
In what show?
Yes her name is Sena.
Chet Rippo
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Sena has a real name you know!
And Kodaka is the main guy, and older brother to Kobato.
And Rika is DTL.
Only character I don't remember the name of is Index loli, not that I want to.
RurouniZel
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Is that the first thing you noticed?
firehawk12
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The big difference there is that, as an original show, the anime producers have no incentive or need to drag things out and offer a limp conclusion. The show doesn't need to go on forever because the manga or light novel needs to go on forever.
It then becomes a question of what anime is actually for - advertising for the franchise or an actual storytelling medium?
(I realize I'm a hypocrite of sorts, because I could make the same complaints about Gintama going no where for 250+ episodes but I don't. lol)
I've *mostly* given up on expecting anime to meet the standards of even the worst American/British television these days. I think it was duckroll who said this, but if you are a talented writer, why would you waste your time with anime?Oh come on, you are. You always are, you mention it every time you mention sports shows, just like you dismiss loads of shows with "syfy" and "phantasy"
(American cartoons have the advantage of being created and written by decent comedians, so that seems to be the exception, but even then it's not like you'd see an American version of Wandering Son any time soon)
SyFy and Phatansy are just tautological shorthand though. It's easier than saying "jerked around for 6 years like Lost and BSG" or "3 hours of boredom like The Hobbit". lol
The first four episodes, which I felt was the biggest bait and switch I've experienced as an anime watcher. lol (Ginga e Kickoff sort of did that with the whole Nadeshiko Japan thing that opened that series).
Oh, and the music. I wish Chihayafuru was a show that could live up to the sweeping themes in the OST.
I'll admit that I liked OoFuri because it was obsessed with baseball. In 26 episodes, they only played 2 baseball games. That means they animated all 9 innings of the 2 games that they showed. At the time, I thought it was an impressive achievement... but I really only need that experience one. I'd rather have character development, of any sort, than more sports playing. It's why I both ironically and unironically enjoy a show like Saki, because although the character development is fairly empty in terms of being actually meaningful and not just a vehicle for yuri fingersex, at least it exists at all.Because I suspect that's actually what most of the audience for it are really interested in, too.
The shounen sports cliches are a convenient, tension building framework on which to build the emotional content of the show - as with virtually any sports anime - and have universal appeal - to say that, say, Monkey Turn appeals only to speedboat "fetishists" seems a bit much, as even without specialist knowledge everyone can relate to competition, particularly if it's drawn/animated in a thrilling and interesting way. Chihayafuru's main distinguishing factor is that it's a josei sports show, and thus not only employs a different visual aesthetic to most sports shows but also means that the emotional content is more reflective of josei manga.
You're right that the show doesn't use sports as a backdrop to look at other issues, and that it's basically just presenting the same old stories but in a different way - one where the men and women are both beautiful and emotionally repressed, rather than whatever you get in shounen/seinen. But then that's why Chihayafuru is a smash hit manga that's run for 6 years or so, whereas Friday Night Lights had terrible ratings and ended up premiering its final few series on cable
Even the nearly insane twist that happens in the latter half of Cross Game is acceptable to me because, even though it makes absolutely no sense, at least the characters are forced to react in meaningful ways that are more important than whether or not they make it to the Koshien or not.
And hey, if we go by popularity and ratings, NCIS is the best show on American television and The Wire is the worst show HBO ever made.
I'm all for stories about people who play sports. ESPN's 30 for 30 series is an amazing treasure trove of fascinating sports stories. I didn't even know there was a transgender tennis player that sort of set the standard for transgender rights in sports until I watched Renee - and they managed to tell an interesting sports story without relying on dozens of hours of tennis footage to pad out the length.
I really wonder how much of this comes down to the financial reality of the manga/light novel world. In the same way that shitty harems are shitty because they have to go for 50 volumes and no one can progress as a character until the finale volume, maybe sports books have to rely on detail and (presumed) verisimilitude because that's a surefire way to take a story that maybe could be told in 5 volumes and stretch it out to 20 volumes.
Chet Rippo
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It's Maria. and then there's the manly maid, Yukimura.
firehawk12
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She's not Yozora I guess. The whole cast is kind of terrible when you think about it for longer than a few minutes anyway. lol
You're not supposed to like them. See, the story is working perfectly.
dakkumauji
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Oh yes, since Yozora is sooooo much better.
Pretty much that. Though, imouto is probably the best. Or Yukimura.
I never said I liked Yozora that much either.
That's why they can't make friends!
Aren't they all kind of assholes?
firehawk12
Subete no aware
lol
True!
I will say, the best thing about the cast is that because they're all so flawed, there is no consensus fan favourite. lol
dakkumauji
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You only have two viable choices.
They are all socially inept so they form a club together or something to suffer in the company of each other. That's the story right?
There's no no choice?
KillerMan91
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Versus... =(
Now that I'm done with Season 1 of K-ON! I might start to address my backlog a bit. Maybe I'll watch Heartcatch Precure. Or maybe I'll take on something else like Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, though I'd rather wait to finish Cowboy Bebop or Darker Than Black before starting that. Maybe Revolutionary Girl Utena, but probably not yet.
I'll figure something out. Maybe I'll just keep on watching what I've got and then start with a sort of clean slate.
I'll figure something out. Maybe I'll just keep on watching what I've got and then start with a sort of clean slate.
Yeah. I didn't catch the end of season 1 though so I dunno if they were better by the end or not.
RurouniZel
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Me more than you. 600+ Detective Conan and counting. XD
But yeah, it's sad that most shows these days can only get funding if it's basically advertising for a never-ending manga/light novel. :/
Chet Rippo
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Tamako Market 1
Now the bird. He's just as bad as I thought he was going to be.
I hope he gets better than just some loser that goes beyond just having a stupid name.
Not the best thing ever, but I liked it for the most part. I'm sticking with it.
It's an ok beginning of what could be a good show. I suppose it's a little hard to make an introduction to what I'm guessing to be a rather complete ensemble cast. None of the characters seem to get much spot light outside of Tamako and the annoying bird. Still, the premise is still interesting, and I'm looking forward to seeing what goes on with Tamako and her friends. Midori is my favorite so far, of what we've seen of her anyways. Tamako herself so far is just like her K-ON! expy, Mugi from the first season. I might end up liking her more, but so far she's been kinda so-so.
Please do, or eat him.
Now the bird. He's just as bad as I thought he was going to be.
I hope at the end of all this they roast him and eat him.
Not the best thing ever, but I liked it for the most part. I'm sticking with it.
Why is the gradeschooler less clothed than the highschooler? Damn you KyoAni. I hope they get to the summer season quick!
Chet Rippo
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Well, it makes sense that they're so flawed. Otherwise they wouldn't be in the club!
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
all shit, you should join us for backlog season instead
What did I miss? I just remember trying to watch SAO and then not watching because I wanted to read the novels first (never did).
This show has something for everybody especially the Big 3 (DTL, SDBurton and Chet).
Chet Rippo
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Don't listen to Regulus. He's full of it.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Yep, they are all horrible!
Pretty much. lol
Yeah. Some original anime seems to hit some measure of success, but that doesn't seem to encourage anyone to do more of it. lol
Zombie anime.
Lol, that made me chuckle
Chet Rippo
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This is all going to make no sense come time when the bet is over and he changes avatars.
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