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Winter of Anime 2013 |OT -4| It's not my fault!

Community's choice! What should the next numbering of the |OT| format be?


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cajunator

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Skip the first two episodes, otherwise, I thought it was a worthwhile mech anime of sorts. Chobi was a useful component of Argos team and gave some comedy moments.

Is there a certain series where she shows up? Is it standalone or do I need to follow others in the series? She dresses up as a catgirl maid at some point and generally just looks like an adorable little badass. I have to see at least some of this.
 

Go_Ly_Dow

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Rich Man, Poor Woman - 9

I've really grown to like the character late on. It's nice to see them outside of their normal environment.

When things are look down, puddings and alcohol can bring the brightness back.

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Liked how these two scenes demonstrated the simple notion that money doesn't always = happiness.

 

SDBurton

World's #1 Cosmonaut Enthusiast
Nekomonogatari:Kuro 03

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List updated accordingly... thank you!


Never doubt of the attraction pull of /ak/! We consume any kind of related information about the series like... let's use this simile... 'maná' from heaven. Also, those .GIFs of Aim for the Top! Gunbuster & 'Team GUTS!' posted here were also from there (http://archive.foolz.us/a/search/image/3D7-_l9nEAqa_g0LPuvX1Q/, http://archive.foolz.us/a/search/image/KFIWbdnqOyluP0BN_2RozA/, http://archive.foolz.us/a/search/image/t3JPuxvfiZTNIkC6nueaYw/ and http://archive.foolz.us/a/search/image/UykW2B7wggsuhu3maZC6Kg/). Just what you'd expect from that combination of HARD WORK with a spoon of COURAGE, and a little bit of homage sprinkled on top:

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Holy shit that's awesome. #TeamAce is best team.

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Nao is a slut!

Whaaaaaat?! PM if you have to!

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The people demand only the best service.

This man speaks truth.
 

-Minsc-

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That looks like it! I'll have to find a copy of it. Thank you Minsc

Glad I could help. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to track this down. I never would have known of its existence or had the notion to watch it if you hadn't. :) Good luck finding a copy.
 

wonzo

Banned

wonzo

Banned
Hm... interesting Smile Pretty Cure spoilers.

http://ca3.blog76.fc2.com/blog-entry-1436.html#more

In episode 45, a group of girls similar to them, the "Bad End Pretty Cures" appear before Pierot and fight against the Smile Cures.

It seems oddly late for a twist like that...
I wonder if they'll be straight clones of Miyuki and co or if their design will have somewhat original designs at least?

Edit: Hey, found an image already:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...psf69b4b16.jpg

Obvious evil clones, but at least they aren't just recolors.
owns

Another Crunchyroll simulcast enters the Winter lineup with Ishida & Asakura. But we sort of knew this one from that earlier leak via Comic Natalie..
OWNS
 

madp

The Light of El Cantare
Oh, and the "find your otaku crush" thing from the ad?


They just have some kind of system where you can sort characters in a database by skin/eye/hair color and personality :lol
 

Kagami

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Ayako Kawasumi used to be everywhere...
Speaking of Kawasumi Ayako, she plays the lead in the series I'm catching up on at the moment:

Queen's Blade Season 2 - "The Evil Eye"

So I've had a bunch of blind-bought QB BDs in my backlog for years now; kind of strange I didn't get to the rest of it earlier considering how much I liked the first season, but you know how backlogs are. With the AOTY 2012 voting deadline approaching, I wanted to catch up and see if 2012's Queen's Blade Rebellion was as disappointing as many QB fans seem to find it, so I picked up where I left off back in season 2.

While the first season was an adventure story, the second season is a tournament. The overall structure and story situations remind me of Fate/Zero. The winner becomes queen of the land, effectively granting them their every desire. Many of the combatants are good people with noble goals, but have no choice but to fight each other. Some are just selfish, and others are downright evil. Nefarious schemes and plots are going on in the background behind the fights, which are often not as "fair" as they're supposedly intended to be.

The officially sanctioned fights, while dangerous, aren't to the death per se, and people don't drop like flies like in Fate/Zero, but a variation on the "
characters not in the source material
are the ones who die" rule is in effect. More so than the first season, it's possible to take the whole thing completely seriously, but generally I think of the franchise as homage to campy American sword & sorcery movies of decades past. (On the QB radio show, Kawasumi Ayako and Noto Mamiko once commented that the series is "not so much moe as it is American-style sexy.")

Of course the biggest draw for me to the TV anime is Rinshin's beautiful character designs (she's also the animation director). She only did solo designs on the first season and was joined by Noguchi Takayuki on the second, but it's Rinshin that drew me in.

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Not to disparage the original gamebook artists, but I just really love Rinshin's faces.

There's three different ending animations, animated by Urushihara Satoshi, and they're gorgeous. I wish I knew how to make animated GIFs from these BDs, because still images just don't do it justice. (Think Highschool DxD.) I wanted to link to the endings on Crunchyroll but it seems they only have season 1 and Rebellion, no season 2. Bummer.

Anyway I still have a few eps left, but it's been great so far, so I'm expecting a strong finale as well. After that, it's time for the OVAs.


Why does Queens Blade even exist? It makes me sad :( I'll admit, I thought it was hilarious when bunny girl was using her ear-hands to squirt acid milk... for like about five seconds till I realized my brain didn't like what my eyes was seeing. It wasn't that it was offensive (I can deal with offensive and certainly have watched raunchy shit) but seeing women squirting milk and pee while having the shit beat out of them just seemed like one step away from snuff porn. Not interested.

Oh... uh, er, hmm. W-well the second season is somewhat different?
 
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