Dedication Through Light
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I miss school food punishment, rpg one of their best songs and good visuals. C has a really good dub.
Winter of Anime 2013 |OT -4| It's not my fault!
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This guy was weird. Only person I didn't like in EP1.
Theonik
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Can't handle the bitterness it seems. He was a cool dude.
Coffee vs Tea discussion gogogo!
Ultimadrago
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Summon the Team list!
But we already did this! It just divides us even further! I prefer coffee most days (as I make it from a Japanese kettle), but I love tea. If I have tea, I prefer to whisk matcha in a ceramic bowl and drink it out of a saucer. The body, flavor, temperature, and beneficial properties are all better, and it feels very zen.
I guess if I were living in a concentration camp or something I'd suck it up and drink some earl grey.
gross.
Joe Molotov
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Yoiko 01
I'm 12 years old and what is this?
I'm 12 years old and what is this?
dakkumauji
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Shakugan no Shana II 15
Blah, blah, action everywhere, non-reveals going on, etc.
Blah, blah, action everywhere, non-reveals going on, etc.
lol, I forgot I recommended AO to you.
Soymilk for the win bro!
Gundam AGE 15
Let me just start this by saying that, had Flit been forced to kill Desil, my opinion of this show would've been radically altered. A show in which Flit's obsessive drive to be a Savior had forced him to kill the girl he like-liked and a little boy, and lead two ethnic groups to utter ruin, ending with an empty Flit unable to comfort a wildly sobbing Emily after he shot down the entire crew of the Diva once Grodek had revealed himself as an agent of Flit's mother, who had orchestrated all of this, would have been the best thing ever.
But no. The show doesn't even dwell on the fact that the UE are human. They don't even go by anything other than UE. Instead we have to have Flit masturbate to Yurin's stupid ribbon in teal heaven. While fighting a giant brown pickle. OH LOOK OUT TWELVE YEAR OLD WITH A GUN! And now Flit, as God, pronounces that anyone who behaves without his permission is not human.
OH GOD THE UE ARE LIKE A CRAPPY VERSION OF THE JOVIAN LIZARDS. UGH
OH FOR THE LOVE. EVERY TIME FLIT HAS TO STAIN HIMSELF, SOMEONE COMES ALONG AND BAILS HIM OUT. FOR THE LOVE. Flit just HAS to be perfect. Instead of Flit killing the bad guy and bearing the burden of robbing a kid of his parent, Grodek has to do it.
What were they thinking when they made Flit be so perfect? Even Kira had to get his hands dirty and be wrong once or twice.
Let me just start this by saying that, had Flit been forced to kill Desil, my opinion of this show would've been radically altered. A show in which Flit's obsessive drive to be a Savior had forced him to kill the girl he like-liked and a little boy, and lead two ethnic groups to utter ruin, ending with an empty Flit unable to comfort a wildly sobbing Emily after he shot down the entire crew of the Diva once Grodek had revealed himself as an agent of Flit's mother, who had orchestrated all of this, would have been the best thing ever.
But no. The show doesn't even dwell on the fact that the UE are human. They don't even go by anything other than UE. Instead we have to have Flit masturbate to Yurin's stupid ribbon in teal heaven. While fighting a giant brown pickle. OH LOOK OUT TWELVE YEAR OLD WITH A GUN! And now Flit, as God, pronounces that anyone who behaves without his permission is not human.
OH GOD THE UE ARE LIKE A CRAPPY VERSION OF THE JOVIAN LIZARDS. UGH
OH FOR THE LOVE. EVERY TIME FLIT HAS TO STAIN HIMSELF, SOMEONE COMES ALONG AND BAILS HIM OUT. FOR THE LOVE. Flit just HAS to be perfect. Instead of Flit killing the bad guy and bearing the burden of robbing a kid of his parent, Grodek has to do it.
What were they thinking when they made Flit be so perfect? Even Kira had to get his hands dirty and be wrong once or twice.
never heard of almond milk before.
Anime catch-up time...
Sasami-san@Ganbaranai 1
I liked the Chocoslovakia pun - particularly as I went on a chocolate making course this afternoon.
Otherwise, after the frankly distasteful opening to the show and the idiotic nature of the frog girl, I thought there were a few nice ideas in the execution - the filter over Sasami's home, or the ED - drowned out by a lot of seemingly clever but actually irritating stylistic things, and otaku stuff I'm not interested in. I'm no clearer about what this show is supposed to be than I was when I started watching it, either.
Cuticle Detective Inaba 1
:kayos :kayos :kayos
Is "something ridiculous happening" the same thing as a gag? I gave up five minutes in, too much mania without structure for me.
The Unlimited 1
Good effects animation - maybe close to Code:Breaker in quality - but without much in the way of atmosphere or an interesting narrative.
Vividred Operation 1
While I'm normally all for puns, I really don't like the character naming scheme in this show. All the girls are named after their colour schemes (Akane, Aoi, Momo), and from looking at Wikipedia their surnames tell you what order they'll get introduced in. Super cheesy.
Leaving aside the pervy buttshots, this is a pretty decent opening episode for a modern magical girl story. None of the characters are particularly irritating (although they're hardly original), the animation is solid, and the music helps a lot to make the show seem dramatic. I guess it remains to be seen whether it gets particularly pervy or not, or whether it has anywhere interesting to go with its storyline.
Sasami-san@Ganbaranai 1
I liked the Chocoslovakia pun - particularly as I went on a chocolate making course this afternoon.
Otherwise, after the frankly distasteful opening to the show and the idiotic nature of the frog girl, I thought there were a few nice ideas in the execution - the filter over Sasami's home, or the ED - drowned out by a lot of seemingly clever but actually irritating stylistic things, and otaku stuff I'm not interested in. I'm no clearer about what this show is supposed to be than I was when I started watching it, either.
Cuticle Detective Inaba 1
:kayos :kayos :kayos
Is "something ridiculous happening" the same thing as a gag? I gave up five minutes in, too much mania without structure for me.
The Unlimited 1
Good effects animation - maybe close to Code:Breaker in quality - but without much in the way of atmosphere or an interesting narrative.
Vividred Operation 1
While I'm normally all for puns, I really don't like the character naming scheme in this show. All the girls are named after their colour schemes (Akane, Aoi, Momo), and from looking at Wikipedia their surnames tell you what order they'll get introduced in. Super cheesy.
Leaving aside the pervy buttshots, this is a pretty decent opening episode for a modern magical girl story. None of the characters are particularly irritating (although they're hardly original), the animation is solid, and the music helps a lot to make the show seem dramatic. I guess it remains to be seen whether it gets particularly pervy or not, or whether it has anywhere interesting to go with its storyline.
dakkumauji
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Shakugan no Shana II 16
SAD GIRL IN THE WIND.
SAD GIRL ON A BRIDGE.
New OP and ED sucked.
SAD GIRL IN THE WIND.
SAD GIRL ON A BRIDGE.
New OP and ED sucked.
FWIW, Omo posted a pretty interesting analysis of the episode earlier today that at least makes some sense of what's going on.
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
I don't feel like this is a valid... anything.
Mobile Suit Gundam 15
Man, the show just WANTS me to ship Mirai and Noah. No idea what Sela was planning in this episode, but hey, gotta have one stupid, half-hot-blooded girl per Gundam, so I guess she'll be pulling the role. Also with shades on she looks exactly like Char. EXACTLY. And for a guy with no special powers and what I might call the single most basic Gundam in the series, Amuro still manages to be a total badass in the Gunman.
Man, the show just WANTS me to ship Mirai and Noah. No idea what Sela was planning in this episode, but hey, gotta have one stupid, half-hot-blooded girl per Gundam, so I guess she'll be pulling the role. Also with shades on she looks exactly like Char. EXACTLY. And for a guy with no special powers and what I might call the single most basic Gundam in the series, Amuro still manages to be a total badass in the Gunman.
dakkumauji
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That does make the whole episode much more interesting.
Yeah, it's not a whole lot of . . . anything. The rest is sound, if shallow. There isn't much to work with in Sasami-san outside of basic references.
Feels like the opening makes it clear, anyways, if you sat through the lazy mess. It shows Sasami dressed in a miko's garb while her brother marches in, and later her brother does the Haruhi dance thing before kicking off the whole chocolatey mess.
And it stops after Sasami is presented/offered to the brother (which he even states!) as a chocolate statue, and the red-sister mentions that it was the only way.
RurouniZel
Asks questions so Ezalc doesn't have to
*sips Sobe*
firehawk12
Subete no aware
But did the top stop spinning?
Is this one of those incest things? Why are those so big in Japan?
amishpriest99
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It's really good stuff. I like it better than soy or regular milk, to be honest.
"What the fuck did I just watch!?"
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
Have you looked at European royal bloodlines? The phenomenon is hardly exclusive to Japan.
Deeper.
Nerds are secret Egyptians.
Monetized fetishization of it, though, on the other hand . . .
Gargantia of awesome.
Here, have one.
I want this bag. This joke never gets old.
Well, yeah actually I did. 10 AM - 4:30 PM.
K-On is roughly translated as Light music club apparently. Or at least part of the title.
Aria didnt ocme with extra swag but it does have on disc stuff that is really cool. Now I have four big ARIA boxes sitting there and they stand out on the shelf. In a good way of course.
You know this thread was always weird little mascot-kun.
I'm going to try coffee with a tea bag in it tonight. YOLO.
I like that stuff called Rice Dream.
"Because, Shinbo" would not normally be a valid explanation, but in this case it is.
Is that good or bad?
It's a bad show. I plan on watching episode two. Does that help?
Sasami is cute, very strange, and 200% SHAFT.
It didnt really go anywhere in the first episode and the voice acting confused me completely.
Well it's split between.
"What the fuck did I just watch" - but it was awesome.
"What the fuck did I just watch" - fucking Shaft!
You may not like it but calling it horrific is over the top imo, I would save that description for actually horrific looking stuff.
Dedication Through Light
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From the New World 15
Not really as compelling as the previous episode until a hypothesis was brought up.
Not really as compelling as the previous episode until a hypothesis was brought up.
Could Squelor have managed to capture a False Minoshiro or whatever and gotten access to some books or something. I think that whole replacing humans idea Satoru suggested makes it way more interesting now than finding Maria, especially since I guess its been two years since they last saw him.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
You know, I should watch the Kyoto episodes just to see how they handle the scene where they give Azu-cat her "character" to see how they even tried to localize that part. lol
Only for pre-order bonuses. I came in much too late for those though... one of the bonuses was a Aria-sachou toy.
amishpriest99
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Good stuff to look forward to. Have a good night at work!
Chet Rippo
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Imouto shows take us one step closer to Isis.
I'm sure she knows what the actual title means. She's asking what the dub is trying to reference with the way they pronounce it.
Yeah, but normally that was cousins, not SISTERS. And you don't hear a lot of European stories about people wanting to get jiggy with their siblings.
What does that mean?
In Europe, incest in royal families is a slightly distasteful quirk that no-one really likes to talk about except to mock them.
In anime, incest is a selling point.
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