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[firehawk12]

All the background art budget went into the sweat animation, surely.

 

[Haly]

All the background art budget went into the sweat animation, surely.

And drawing creepy detailed lips.

 

[MCD]

Man...this Bakemongarbage series is still going on?

Couldn't stand watching one minute of this derp animu screensaver.

 

[firehawk12]

And drawing creepy detailed lips.

It makes it that much easier to make the pillows.

 

[dimb]

Would you review the first 26 minutes of a movie or even any other episode of TV?

This isn't a formal review. I am posting impressions on a message board.

I liked the first twenty-six minutes of The Wire. Or Chinatown. Or a bunch of other stuff that I consider to be good, and I feel like someone could watch those sections of any piece and have something worthwhile to say about what they watched.

 

[dakkumauji]

Who's the one between Natsu and Kirito? Or is that just Lucy and I'm blind.

Yeah, that's actually Lucy.

 

[Regulus Tera]

I guess I should have asked when, I figured it was to do with sexualizing Precures, something I've never done myself...

Stop lying I have evidence.

 

[Dedication Through Light]

Who's the one between Natsu and Kirito? Or is that just Lucy and I'm blind.

Lucy

 

[Jex]

All the background art budget went into the sweat animation, surely.

Well I imagine they are completely separate artists and budgets! Most of the actual character animation looked average of above average, for a SHAFT show, with the best cuts being fanserivce related. Other studios have very specific background artists or, more commonly, they use the talents of company that specialises in producing background art because it's clearly a completely different skillset to animation (unless you're an animator that doest that as well).

 

[Crash Station]

Hey guys and gals. I'm hoping to get into a bit more anime this year and I'd like some recommendations. Preferably I'd like movies/ series that are only one or two seasons long.

I've already seen quite a few movies like Ponyo, Totoro, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (loved it), Perfect Blue, Spirited Away etc.
My fave series are Evangelion (loved the action and story but not sure about Rebuild) and Death Note (again, great story). I'm a few episodes into Fruits Basket and I'm liking it so far.
I did buy Vandread but I didn't really like it much (story didn't sparkle with me and the cgi in it was odd).

So yeah I was just after something new, preferably with a good story and a bit of action.
Thanks in advance

If you liked Death Note, I would recommend Kaiji. Has the same level of tension, though the story is wildly different. More about mind games and stuff like that.

 

[Nafe]

This sounds suspiciously like one of those pairing names that shippers create.

"JexUnator" almost sounds like some kind of Jexhius Terminator designed to eliminate cajunator from the top spot. I can already hear the late Don LaFontaine doing the voice over for a movie promo.

---

He used to reign supreme at the top of the wall where no one could dare touch him.

but then one day the junior cajunator appeared...

It was a posting blitz the likes of which had never been seen before, leaving him beaten and broken.

Now he's returned...

to terminate the one at the top and take back his rightful spot.

He is...The JexUnator!

"I'll be back!"

Coming Winter 2013

Spoiler

...maybe

This film has not been rated.

 

[Crash Station]

CODE: BREAKER 13 END
I'd read the manga to find out but I've heard some truly terrible things about it. Now all I can do is hope this gets the second season it deserves.

It won't. Just read the manga. It's not THAT much worse than the show. If anything, it's even more ridiculous. Besides, the best arc is the one after Hitomi.

 

[Jex]

And drawing creepy detailed lips.

It's so you can feel like you're really kissing them.

 

[dimb]

[Nekomonogatari (Black)] - 1
This is really quite unfortunate because even ex-SHAFT people can create a show which uses a number of visual techniques from SHAFT's catalogue of shows but also embraces how important background art is in the overall composition of the image:

It's not like Dusk Maiden was a particularly expensive show, either. SHAFT are just clearly happy enough to crank out shit in-house background art because it's cheap and quick but I feel like it damages a number of scenes because of how shoddy everything appears.

There are Dusk Maiden art guys working on Sasami-san@Ganbaranai. I'll be interested to see what happens with that show.

 

[Haly]

It's so you can feel like you're really kissing them.

But everyone knows 3D girls are gross, this is a step backwards!

 

[darkside31337]

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/feature/2013-01-01/

Nice writeup on stuff from 2012, good read and I agree with most of it. You guys should check it out.

 

[Regulus Tera]

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/feature/2013-01-01/

Nice writeup on stuff from 2012, good read and I agree with most of it. You guys should check it out.

Anime of the Year: SAO
Runner-up: So I can't Play H

No.
Edit: lol they got me but still no

 

[Clairvoyance]

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/feature/2013-01-01/

Nice writeup on stuff from 2012, good read and I agree with most of it. You guys should check it out.

Series of the Year: Sword Art Online

Yep, don't bother.

Edit: Even as a joke, still no.

 

[firehawk12]

Well I imagine they are completely separate artists and budgets! Most of the actual character animation looked average of above average, for a SHAFT show, with the best cuts being fanserivce related. Other studios have very specific background artists or, more commonly, they use the talents of company that specialises in producing background art because it's clearly a completely different skillset to animation (unless you're an animator that doest that as well).

Hey, there are only so many packets of ramen to go around...

Or maybe they just don't care about the cheap looking background art. I'll admit, the "style" used to try to cover up the bland looking backgrounds didn't really work in the two scenes in this 'episode'.

This isn't a formal review. I am posting impressions on a message board.

I liked the first twenty-six minutes of The Wire. Or Chinatown. Or a bunch of other stuff that I consider to be good, and I feel like someone could watch those sections of any piece and have something worthwhile to say about what they watched.

Well, it's impossible to judge really. A test would be to watch something you've never seen before and just stop at 26 minutes to see if you feel you can make an impression of the subject.

Of course, David Simon already hates the fact that people review television in an episode by episode basis, so I can only imagine what he would do if people started reviewing episodes in an act by act basis. lol

 

[Narag]

Gintama 53

Truer words etc

Can't tell if I enjoyed this episode or not. I mean, I like the firefighter/daughter angle but the drama felt kinda forced as I had no emotional attachment to either.

 

[cajunator]

Stop lying I have evidence.

Im afraid I wont believe this until I see proof.

 

[Haly]

Of course, David Simon already hates the fact that people review television in an episode by episode basis, so I can only imagine what he would do if people started reviewing episodes in an act by act basis. lol

He would hate the manga thread, then, where people rate the chapters every week with a grade from A to F.

 

[firehawk12]

Gintama 53

Can't tell if I enjoyed this episode or not. I mean, I like the firefighter/daughter angle but the drama felt kinda forced as I had no emotional attachment to either.

I will say that this episode pays off in a very awesome way. I'll leave you to discover how though. lol

He would hate the manga thread, then, where people rate the chapters every week from A to F.

What if people started rating panels? lol

 

[duckroll]

It won't. Just read the manga. It's not THAT much worse than the show. If anything, it's even more ridiculous. Besides, the best arc is the one after Hitomi.

I'll keep waiting for more anime. I'll rather not have anything at all than to read a bad manga with awful artwork. I'm not even interested in the story if the anime staff aren't handling it honestly. They make better fights than the manga, and it art actually looks good with proper effects animation and good direction. The manga is just awful.

 

[survivor]

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/feature/2013-01-01/

Nice writeup on stuff from 2012, good read and I agree with most of it. You guys should check it out.

anohana is designed mostly for breaking hearts. A drama about five friends and the girl whose death shattered their lives, it's an aching look at growing up and growing apart and a periodically devastating examination of grief and grieving. I gave it the top spot for its embarrassment of memorable characters and also the indelible mark it leaves on the heart.

Well said

 

[cajunator]

Well said

AnoHana is a show with huge heart but terrible execution.
Its charming enough to work, but damn it could have been so much better.

 

[Jex]

Of course, David Simon already hates the fact that people review television in an episode by episode basis, so I can only imagine what he would do if people started reviewing episodes in an act by act basis. lol

Maybe he should make movies then!

 

[firehawk12]

AnoHana is a show with huge heart but terrible execution.
Its charming enough to work, but damn it could have been so much better.

At least it gave us this:

Kimi to natsu no owari shourai no yume
Ookina kibou wasurenai
Juu nen go no hachigatsu
Mata deaeru no wo shinjite
Saikou no omoide wo...

Maybe he should make movies then!

He did threaten to quit TV after Treme.

 

[Go_Ly_Dow]

Time to watch Nekomonogatari.

Expecting shitness of a perverse nature.

 

[cajunator]

At least it gave us this:

Yes it did.
It also gave us..hmm...
Thoraxes is the guy to ask about that one...

 

[Dedication Through Light]

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/feature/2013-01-01/

Nice writeup on stuff from 2012, good read and I agree with most of it. You guys should check it out.

Koko from Jormungand for character of the year? What even. Should have been Kirito from SAO, someone thats actually memorable and good.

Why are they obsessed with Chu2byo?

Best English Dub Performance – Male: Kent Williams as Momoko, Shangri-La (Runner-Up: Ian Sinclair as Ryner Lute, The Legend of the Legendary Heroes)

Legendary Heroes was a good dub, one of my favorite funi purchases.

 

[Regulus Tera]

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/feature/2013-01-01/

Nice writeup on stuff from 2012, good read and I agree with most of it. You guys should check it out.

Not a single mention of Jojo in the unlicenced gems section. :S

 

[MCD]

I'll keep waiting for more anime. I'll rather not have anything at all than to read a bad manga with awful artwork. I'm not even interested in the story if the anime staff aren't handling it honestly. They make better fights than the manga, and it art actually looks good with proper effects animation and good direction. The manga is just awful.

Yeah, I read Code Breaker weekly and the art is as awful as ever (COOL POSES EVERYWHERE). And the beginning was at least bloody because now it's ultra shonen: no one dies, love conquers all...etc.

Only reason I am following it is Heike. I can't get enough of his trolling.

 

[Crash Station]

Right here...

lol, what the hell is this a parody of?

 

[Jex]

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/feature/2013-01-01/

Nice writeup on stuff from 2012, good read and I agree with most of it. You guys should check it out.

They couldn't even properly identify the best action sequence in Sword Art Online. That's shameful.

 

[firehawk12]

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/feature/2013-01-01/

Nice writeup on stuff from 2012, good read and I agree with most of it. You guys should check it out.

How to make a top ten list:
http://crymore.net/2012/12/24/how-to-rank-your-top-ten-anime-lists-v-fall-2012/

 

[dakkumauji]

CØDE：BREAKER 13

Good ending, good fight, good lesson, good amount of OGAMI.

 

[cajunator]

Not a single mention of Jojo in the unlicenced gems section. :S

ANN is a great source of information but never trust them.

 

[Dynedom]

KAMI SAMA HAJIMEMASHITA - 13



The most intresting thing to note in this whole ordeal is that despite the classic highschool girl fears nanami has ( toward love ) she is a pretty great girl..
She realised what she had to do by herself.. No need for a slap , a declaration or a phone call discussion. that alone put nanmi way high in my top 10 of shojo heroines.
Shojo heroines don't have to do everything by themselves ..but actually realising that some things are wrong and just saying .." well better try for real rather than lose everything" is also a plus ... but reaching that conclusion on their own ? PRICELESS !

Gonna get to the manga to see if this trend continues ...

I actually forgot they had turned this into an anime. The manga, itself, is fun as hell. Definitely pick it up.

 

[Jex]

How to make a top ten list:
http://crymore.net/2012/12/24/how-to-rank-your-top-ten-anime-lists-v-fall-2012/

Sounds like it was written by someone from ColonyDrop.

 

[dakkumauji]

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/feature/2013-01-01/

Nice writeup on stuff from 2012, good read and I agree with most of it. You guys should check it out.

This just serves to remind me that I have no idea what aired at the beginning of last year.

 

[Regulus Tera]

ANN is a great source of information but never trust them.

I wish I too were paid money for having bad taste.

 

[Jex]

Wait, what the fuck is that writer saying about the fanbase of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure?

For Fall 2012, the hiveminds have determined you must like JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure and Chuunibyou. If you don’t include them in your top 3, you may as well just shut down your blog now. Include an intellectual show as well, to show that you is so smarts.
Spoiler:

You should rank them as follows: the most popular show, then the most intellectual show, then the show with the worst fanbase.

1. Chuunibyou Demo Koi Ga Shitanai!

2. Shinsekai Yori

3. JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure

 

[Chet Rippo]

Im afraid I wont believe this until I see proof.

It's a secret!

 

[cajunator]

How to make a top ten list:
http://crymore.net/2012/12/24/how-to-rank-your-top-ten-anime-lists-v-fall-2012/

Whether intentional or a joke, that IS a pretty good list

 

[Regulus Tera]

Wait, what the fuck is that writer saying about the fanbase of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure?

Overcompensation. I bet he doesn't even pose!

 

[SolarPowered]

Time to watch Nekomonogatari.

Expecting sweatiness of a perverse nature.

You are gonna drown in it.

 

[Jex]

Overcompensation. I bet he doesn't even pose!

Typical!

 

[Chet Rippo]

"JexUnator" almost sounds like some kind of Jexhius Terminator designed to eliminate cajunator from the top spot. I can already hear the late Don LaFontaine doing the voice over for a movie promo.

---

He used to reign supreme at the top of the wall where no one could dare touch him.

but then one day the junior cajunator appeared...

It was a posting blitz the likes of which had never been seen before, leaving him beaten and broken.

Now he's returned...

to terminate the one at the top and take back his rightful spot.

He is...The JexUnator!

"I'll be back!"

Coming Winter 2013

Spoiler

...maybe

This film has not been rated.

Hehehe
Love it!

 

[R_thanatos]

There's only two reaction on Neogaf:

Love
Hate

The sooner you learn this, the better.

Disapointment ?

for magi i don't hate the anime i'm just disapointed so i'm gonna watch it later