Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
Silly kayos, the thing has already been shared in the IRC. Plus it's really not as shameful as some of the macodinXABF doujin fics and manga we used to post years ago.
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Winter of Anime 2013 |OT -4| It's not my fault!
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cj_iwakura
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Finished Madoka 12.
I'm not really sure how to process that finale, but
I'm not really sure how to process that finale, but
I'm pretty sure it wasn't happy.
Am I crazy in thinking Homura created that uber witch that kept beating everyone until the end?
Am I crazy in thinking Homura created that uber witch that kept beating everyone until the end?
Install an IME, like this one
Or install the one from Microsoft that comes with Windows.
Japanese keyboards
I doubt every Japanese character is represented on that keyboard. I guess that's why I'm so confused.
Theonik
Member
I always knew that there was more to glomping. I mean, just listen to how the word sounds. If it was just hugging then there wouldn't be any need to create a whole new word for it.
waifu
R_thanatos
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NO it wasn't happy ending .. but it wasn't a bad ending
and yes you are crazy. Homura is responsible for what happened but she does share blame with other characters IMO
BriseFlots
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Indeed. As I told you it's phonetic based.
Plus you can switch from romajis to hiragana anytime by pressing the appropriate key on your keyboard
It's more
bittersweet than happy, that's for sure.
And if my memory doesn't fail me, every single time Homura went back in time she made the witch get stronger because she was increasing the potential influence the monster had in the course of history or something like that.
And if my memory doesn't fail me, every single time Homura went back in time she made the witch get stronger because she was increasing the potential influence the monster had in the course of history or something like that.
Are you talking about kanji? All hiragana characters (and by extension katakana) are represented there. For the kanji (and other exotic stuff), you type out words in the hiragana and the IME pulls out something like an autosuggest for you to pick out the word you want.
Of course no one actually uses the hiragana keys anymore. Just type it out in romaji and the IME takes care of it.
amishpriest99
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Truly, we are living in the golden age.
It was happier. Madoka's wish resets the status quo of the universe, her wish to destroy her every witch with her own hands before they appear means that the definition of what a magical girl is in their universe has changed significantly. Magical girls don't create witches when they run out of power, they simply 'burn out'. However, if they keep fighting, their soul gem will continually replenish and they can avoid that fate (unless they do what Sayaka does and completely expend their magical energy). And since Madoka's wish ensures the death of every witch before they appear, her own witch is constantly destroyed.
This resets the relationship between Kyubey and magical girls as well. They don't rely on the sudden shift from hope to despair to collect emotional energy, but rather collect the residue that the demons leave behind.
It's a much more 'traditional magical girl' arrangement, basically.
What happens next is, I think, a bit more unclear, but I'm reasonably sure what happens after a magical girl finally dies is that they're taken to a sort of 'Valhalla' for magical girls, but none of that was ever explicitly mentioned, so don't take me at my word.
I have no idea what's going on when Homura grows wings, though. Either it's a sequel hook or just part of her powers or something. There's a lot of speculation involving that.
This resets the relationship between Kyubey and magical girls as well. They don't rely on the sudden shift from hope to despair to collect emotional energy, but rather collect the residue that the demons leave behind.
It's a much more 'traditional magical girl' arrangement, basically.
What happens next is, I think, a bit more unclear, but I'm reasonably sure what happens after a magical girl finally dies is that they're taken to a sort of 'Valhalla' for magical girls, but none of that was ever explicitly mentioned, so don't take me at my word.
I have no idea what's going on when Homura grows wings, though. Either it's a sequel hook or just part of her powers or something. There's a lot of speculation involving that.
The fact that she's a mentally disturbed person seeking another person only adds to the panderbait aspect of it. Again, to quote the manga:
Yeah, it's been out of print for years and people are gouging the hell out of Anime Legends stuff now that Bandai is dead so it's not going to be cheap.
Theonik has taken out the link, but you should probably edit the link out of your quote too.
Buying it used from eBay seems to be the only choice nowadays.
Ultimadrago
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Did you find the latter half and "dramatic" events in the first-half humorous? They were hilarious.
Funnier than most of the new comedies in 2012 (excluding Jinrui (1-2,9-12)...that's it).
I got spoiled on certain events from the novel and it only made things more amusing in the anime.
Ressentiment features virtual girls growing human emotions
thats more moe pandering than anything in NHK
dakkumauji
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Hakkenden Touhou Hakken Ibun 03
Delicious.
Not a bad episode. Lighter on the story, but at least they are moving forward.
I still find the fashion in this world so weird. It's quite weird how mixed up it is in terms of periods.
Delicious.
Not a bad episode. Lighter on the story, but at least they are moving forward.
I still find the fashion in this world so weird. It's quite weird how mixed up it is in terms of periods.
Sorry man.
I cannot say Im sorry for your Patriots though. they have enjoyed a lot of success.
The fact that she's a mentally disturbed person seeking another person only adds to the panderbait aspect of it. Again, to quote the manga:
Im sorry, but Im gonna have to disagree. You could just take any characterization at this point and call it moe panderbait because just about everything is. Misaki does have some traits that could be considered moe to some people, but again, thats how her character was written in the story. Else I could take any anime character and just throw away character development and call her pander moe.
Tsuritama Episode 5-12
No pictures because I wasn't about to stop what was going on the screen for the sake of a few screen-caps.
I really cannot believe how completely this show passed me by. To think I'd never have picked this up if it weren't for this thread.
This was really just an absolutely phenomenal show.
I think somewhere in the middle of the fifth episode, something inside of my head just clicked. My reservations about the cast (Haru, in particular) and where the story was going to go melted away and I just let the show carry me away from one episode to the next as the highs got higher. And as everything - the progression of the plot, the development of the characters, the surrealism - swells into the climax, all of it just felt so satisfying. I really couldn't have asked for a better ending.
It's a testament to how strong the direction was that despite all that was going on, the show never lets itself get away from its' core themes and ideas. At the end of the day, everything that's going on is grounded in its' characters and their friendship. I've seen very few shows with such a solid center of gravity in terms of its' vision and execution of that vision. And as such, every complication, every event, just feels so much more powerful. As Yuki recounts what happened in the ensuing year, I was simply thinking about how much they deserved it.
And have I mentioned the music enough already? I can't think of a single instance where it didn't do something to elevate any particular scene. I haven't seen a soundtrack this well composed and utilized since Hyouka.
As an aside, let me just say how impressed I am over how often the show has zig-zagged my expectations in terms of where the plot was going to go. Maybe the destination was never in doubt - there was, after all, no question that they were going to fish out
, and a 'happy ending' was a certainty, but it's the stuff in the middle that I often found myself blindsided. I think I said somewhere in one of my earlier episode impressions about how sure I was
, which, of course, never happened. I spent the entire series expecting it (among many other things), only to find, as the credits rolled on episode 12, how absolutely wrong I was in my assumptions. And how glad I was to be.
On the show itself, I can't help but be reminded of that talk that Yuki's grandmother has with Haru - flowers all eventually die, but before they do, you should make sure they bloom brightly. Tsuritama is behind me now, but it stands out quite vibrantly in my memory. The ride's over, and I'm just glad that I was on it.
Somehow this has made me really excited about finishing Code: Breaker, too.
No pictures because I wasn't about to stop what was going on the screen for the sake of a few screen-caps.
I really cannot believe how completely this show passed me by. To think I'd never have picked this up if it weren't for this thread.
This was really just an absolutely phenomenal show.
I think somewhere in the middle of the fifth episode, something inside of my head just clicked. My reservations about the cast (Haru, in particular) and where the story was going to go melted away and I just let the show carry me away from one episode to the next as the highs got higher. And as everything - the progression of the plot, the development of the characters, the surrealism - swells into the climax, all of it just felt so satisfying. I really couldn't have asked for a better ending.
It's a testament to how strong the direction was that despite all that was going on, the show never lets itself get away from its' core themes and ideas. At the end of the day, everything that's going on is grounded in its' characters and their friendship. I've seen very few shows with such a solid center of gravity in terms of its' vision and execution of that vision. And as such, every complication, every event, just feels so much more powerful. As Yuki recounts what happened in the ensuing year, I was simply thinking about how much they deserved it.
And have I mentioned the music enough already? I can't think of a single instance where it didn't do something to elevate any particular scene. I haven't seen a soundtrack this well composed and utilized since Hyouka.
As an aside, let me just say how impressed I am over how often the show has zig-zagged my expectations in terms of where the plot was going to go. Maybe the destination was never in doubt - there was, after all, no question that they were going to fish out
the 'dragon'
that the show was strongly foreshadowing the death of Yuki's grandmother
On the show itself, I can't help but be reminded of that talk that Yuki's grandmother has with Haru - flowers all eventually die, but before they do, you should make sure they bloom brightly. Tsuritama is behind me now, but it stands out quite vibrantly in my memory. The ride's over, and I'm just glad that I was on it.
And Tapioca finding a lover was perhaps the most I've laughed all week, my god.
Somehow this has made me really excited about finishing Code: Breaker, too.
2007/2011 Super Bowls were the best.
OreImo is definitely more enjoyable than Shana.
Ultimadrago
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I'm glad to read over someone else's experience with it. I'm even more glad that you enjoyed it!
It definitely came as a "click" to me as well and once it came on, the ride was largely rather swell.
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
"All the stuff that makes this character so and so doesn't count because it was deliberate."
What.
Probably so. If it must be done I will bite the bullet.
Man. you guys know what Im trying to say here. Misaki is not a moe stereotype. shes an emotionally fucked up girl. Guess what, that happens in real life too!
Not as bad as the Other M thread where someone said the story can't be sexist because if you switched the genders of the characters it wouldn't be.
That's fine as Ressentiment was a critique of escapism via dating sims and MMO's. The same cannot be said of NHK which tries to have it both ways (criticising otaku culture while using the very same pandering that's so endemic in said culture).
As for the AI girl, she never actually chose to swoop in and help the sexless looser by acting as his support and actually
ends up moving to a virtual whorehouse no thanks to the pathetic MC.
one of his long time co-workers whom later tries to start an actual relationship but ultimately fails in the end.
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
Every post of yours makes her sound more and more like a character in a Key tragedy porn visual novel/animu.
And that's exactly the problem.
I have nothing to add to this discussion except there was this one episode where the girl was trying to help the NEET dude (they were in some kind of park and she was reading a self help book to him) and she was all stumbly and dumb and had no idea what she was doing. The goddamn NEET knew more about the world than her.
It was then that I had the thought that NHK was just another one of those shows with just the NEET hook.
It was then that I had the thought that NHK was just another one of those shows with just the NEET hook.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
I didn't even know people thought it was pandering!
Because she is even more fucked up than he is!
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
Moé pandering is not the only way you can use a female character in fiction to satisfy male fantasies.
Fine, if you want to call NHK moe panderbait, then Hyouka is nothing but moe panderbait. Chitanda is just a dumb moeblob with no depth or realistic characterization. she was designed to sell pillows for otakus to fuck.
doesnt make her any less of a moe archetype
naive virgin AI waifu/schoolgirl/loli with a complicated past
they even push the wish fullfilment further by
having him fuck her
Wait...what?
I was looking at the VA cast of Mondaiji-tachi ga Isekai kara Kuru Sou Desu yo?, cause Shiroyashi sounded awfully like Kuroko from Toaru Majutsu no Index (I was right) and came across the VA for that voice command gift girl. Kudou Asuka is voiced by a Austrailian Japanese, Sarah Emi Bridcut. Hopefully this means better english when a show warrants it.
I don't hate anybody! In fact, I pretty much like all of you, even Enron!
Yes, watch Gunbuster - but don't bother with Diebuster, IMO. Gunbuster is a powerful, emotive, simplistic yet effective (and self-contained) story. It is short, and it is sweet. It needs nothing to accommodate it. In fact, saying that it does is almost an insult to the show. That's how good it is. Gunbuster is best viewed with little distractions, a drink in hand, and the lights down low.
Diebuster is like giving an ADD hyper attentive child coffee. While at times entertaining, it is also directionless with too much energy. Gunbuster offers you a story, and while there is some room for interpretation, it still offers you closure. Diebuster is neither a true sequel nor is it a spiritual successor, instead it aims to fill in some blanks and can be viewed as both unnecessary and supplementary at best. On it's own it might have been interesting, but the unfortunate reality is that it's tied to Gunbuster and certain comparisons will be always be made.
I don't understand why people say things like this. What if wonzo agrees with you?
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
cajunator, I really like you as a poster, but this type of reductionism is not doing any services to your argument.
RurouniZel
Asks questions so Ezalc doesn't have to
Regulus would love this if we go by DTL canon, 'cause that's basically me getting NTR'd.
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