dakkumauji
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Kuroko's Basketball NG-shuu 03
Oh you silly pooch.
Oh you silly pooch.
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Winter of Anime 2013 |OT -5| This is stupid, kayos90 sucks!
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Chet Rippo
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Good thinking.
I know. I bought both volumes. Dug through the whole list for the CDs
It wasn't cheap. About the cost of one Ultimate Madoka figurine for four CDs.
I agree. Ghibi film covers don't bother me one way or the other. I'm just concerned with the bluray.
just watched my first episode of Planetes
awesome anime pulled me in like pure Colombian cocaine, just so gooddddd
thanks Anime Gaf for the recommendation, hopefully wont get burnout by space anime to watch space brothers soon
Nice! Planetes is a pretty enjoyable realistic space story with some interesting twists and turns and great characters. I think Ai Tanabe is the sweetest, cutest thing, but others here disagree.
Yeah brutal is a good word to describe it. I didn't expect that kind of whiplash. Its interesting though. The show has a strange balance to it that keeps me hooked and kotoura is a sweetheart.
Seiji in Midori Days kind of did that too. Not as directly though.
You got Takane and Makoto way up there so I cannot hate this list, but why is Chihaya so low? Also Miki way too high and Yayoi is far too low.
AKB0048 Next Stage
Episode 4
Wow...Amazing...
On the one hand not much happened this episode but on the other, so much happened.
All that tension and drama!
The emotion!
All those tears!
Those smiles!
The happiness!
The love!
Amazing...
I'm genuinely curious as to what sensei sensei is referring and what will happen regarding all this surrounding the center nova.
Haha, the scariest part about this is apparently it sounds like the events in this episode might not be too far off from what happens in actual AKB48 elections! They might be even more crazy! Reality is stranger than fiction as the saying goes.
Episode 4
Wow...Amazing...
On the one hand not much happened this episode but on the other, so much happened.
All that tension and drama!
The emotion!
All those tears!
Those smiles!
The happiness!
The love!
Amazing...
I'm genuinely curious as to what sensei sensei is referring and what will happen regarding all this surrounding the center nova.
Haha, the scariest part about this is apparently it sounds like the events in this episode might not be too far off from what happens in actual AKB48 elections! They might be even more crazy! Reality is stranger than fiction as the saying goes.
zeroshiki should bite the bullet and just watch this one for us since he seems so knowledgeable in the ways of AKB.
Theonik
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You must have missed the time we were watching a Youtube stream of the previous ones on IRC.
This has been brought up more than once!
It is. It was Kayos' thing and he was being quite entertaining with it. Let little mascot-kun have his schtick.
That wasn't a sinful choice. She's like the only thing I liked about the few episodes I made myself endure. I made it about 6 episodes in before politely shoving the show to the bottom of my watchlist.
I'm not gonna say anything because at this point its almost all spoilers, but isn't the soundtrack pretty? Noir had a fantastic soundtrack. Actually, so did Madlax.
Dedication Through Light
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Cardfight!! Vanguard 63
Great start to possibly the second best duel in the entire series. I want Aichi to win.
Great start to possibly the second best duel in the entire series. I want Aichi to win.
though based on past things the story could go either way, they dont tend to do the expected. Best moment was when they were like you know what time it is when Blaster Blade appeared
ZachDeKoromaru
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Sora no Woto 8 (rewatch)
I forgot how hilarious this episode was. Probably on par with 7.5.
I forgot how hilarious this episode was. Probably on par with 7.5.
Tsuritama 06-12
Well I finished it in time at least. I wish that I liked it more, but it never really clicked with me. Really disliked the show visually and I found the backgrounds in particular to be extraordinarily ugly. It really wound up hurting the sense of place in many situations. While I liked how well planned out the story seemed it was fairly on the nose with most of its story cues, and as such I never felt very surprised or excited about where the story went. Additionally, I felt like much of that story lacked much meaning. It's possible most of that was lost on me, but rarely did it seem like scenes were significant even if they were presented in an emotionally heightened manner. It was often plot for the sake of plot and to progress things without things being mapped together using a unified underlying emotional framework. Things really didn't tie back to the main character often, and I wound up feeling relatively indifferent to him by the end.
When it comes to the climax,
Most cold blooded moment:
Well I finished it in time at least. I wish that I liked it more, but it never really clicked with me. Really disliked the show visually and I found the backgrounds in particular to be extraordinarily ugly. It really wound up hurting the sense of place in many situations. While I liked how well planned out the story seemed it was fairly on the nose with most of its story cues, and as such I never felt very surprised or excited about where the story went. Additionally, I felt like much of that story lacked much meaning. It's possible most of that was lost on me, but rarely did it seem like scenes were significant even if they were presented in an emotionally heightened manner. It was often plot for the sake of plot and to progress things without things being mapped together using a unified underlying emotional framework. Things really didn't tie back to the main character often, and I wound up feeling relatively indifferent to him by the end.
When it comes to the climax,
I guess I didn't really see the need to raise the stakes in the way the show did, and it never really justified much of the tension. For example, the threat of missiles being launched on the final fishing area is introduced, then pulled back because one of the DUCK guys is okay, then reintroduced because there are just more missiles around the corner. These kind of intangible and false stakes don't really add value to catching the alien, and along with the evacuation it wound up just being more stuff on the "plot for the sake of plot" pile.
The ending really wound up obfuscating much of the meaning to me as well. It seemed like the group of guys bonding together was one of the stronger points of the story but they don't really portray them as being in touch with one another. The whole aliens leaving thing was kind of just another piece that wound up being lame. It was built up quite a bit, then they go through with it, and then they just come back immediately. Yuki builds up how he will never let Haru go but he sure seems pretty nonplussed about the affair when the time comes.
The ending really wound up obfuscating much of the meaning to me as well. It seemed like the group of guys bonding together was one of the stronger points of the story but they don't really portray them as being in touch with one another. The whole aliens leaving thing was kind of just another piece that wound up being lame. It was built up quite a bit, then they go through with it, and then they just come back immediately. Yuki builds up how he will never let Haru go but he sure seems pretty nonplussed about the affair when the time comes.
Most cold blooded moment:
Yuki telling his grandma he doesn't have a family while she politely nods and continues to be nothing more than a plot device/voice of reason.
Is that the pee episode?
How could you forget the show that killed noitaminA?
ZachDeKoromaru
Banned
That is the pee episode.
Now here is a question: Who is your favorite Bitchy/totally unlikable character in an Anime?
Mine is :
I think we all know the winner here:
ZachDeKoromaru
Banned
Kanata has to wait in one place for a period of time and holds it in so she doesn't miss a super important phone call.
This tells me you haven't watched SNW and that makes me sad (and probably Firehawk too)
Good choice.I think we all know the winner here:
Nenene is pretty bitchy/unlikable, but I manage to like her.
I am glad that, there at least some of you lot that agree with me when it comes to its overall quality. I don't even know if I should continue watching it.
ChihayaFuru S2 Ep 1-3
Yes, one of my favorite Animes making a comeback and its as good as ever... until they introduced a bitchy and totally unlikable character. Yep, Shoujo is gonna Shoujo. Lets just hope she develop into a more realised character.
Now here is a question: Who is your favorite Bitchy/totally unlikable character in an Anime?
Mine is :
Theonik
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Nanami at least has dat Ojousama laugh.
Good choice.
Nenene is pretty bitchy/unlikable, but I manage to like her.
Come on she's perfectly likable. Actually that's probably only because I can relate to her as she's more or less the female me....
Jex
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Well, it is from the director of Elfin Lied.
Well, that's the point. If it was just some comedy in poor taste that'd be one thing, but the fact that it's THAT guy doing it again shows it's really just his sick fetish.
Good choice.
Nenene is pretty bitchy/unlikable, but I manage to like her.
I liked her too. she just doesn't put up with bullshit. Also, the thee sisters kind of drove her insane. Poor Nenene.
Do you always misspell that shows name on purpose?
And it is written by firm thread favourite Hiroyuki Yoshino, the gentlemen behind the super-classy Seikon no Qwaser.
This is like the opposite of Tsuritama, the show always building up time to build tension, chara development,, its very slowly building all that. Feel weird you said they "shoving" something else with moving the plot.
And What up with the contradictory on spoiler point?
You think the evacuation are only plot device and useless while you talking about firing multiple missile?
And ugly background, really?
I thought that's one of the show strong point.
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
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This show has become
Murphy's Law: The Anime
Its just a harmless fetish. Its not sick.
I don't want to watch someone else's fetish material.
then quit watching anime altogether.
Touche, but it's only really offensive when it becomes blatant and obvious.
Is that why he's taking the piss?
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If you keep making jokes like that, you should be forced to hand in your British passport.
Dedication Through Light
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Cardfight!! Vanguard 63-65 (end) eng dub
Pretty excellent end to season one. Overall a solid english dub that sounded as if it had new voices to the scene. The series really felt good and innovative for the genre with a wide variety of cards, effects, and rules. Decreasing focus on supernatural magic stuff that other anime in the genre have and at least have a much larger emphasis on strategy, deck building, practice, and realistic luck, made it rather enjoyable, pleasing, and pretty unpredictable at times. Final arc did somewhat change a bit:
, It was only shortlived and quite brief. I wonder if it returns s2.
Easily one of my favorite anime and I loved its usage of friendship, trying to bring one back to the side of light no matter what, as well as devotion and such to complement the card stuff. Really well done.
Pretty excellent end to season one. Overall a solid english dub that sounded as if it had new voices to the scene. The series really felt good and innovative for the genre with a wide variety of cards, effects, and rules. Decreasing focus on supernatural magic stuff that other anime in the genre have and at least have a much larger emphasis on strategy, deck building, practice, and realistic luck, made it rather enjoyable, pleasing, and pretty unpredictable at times. Final arc did somewhat change a bit:
Ramping up supernatural levels by having the whole game be a tie in to realistic action on the planet Cray and the characters through psyqualia being the ones commanding the troops on cray, which are their avatars
Easily one of my favorite anime and I loved its usage of friendship, trying to bring one back to the side of light no matter what, as well as devotion and such to complement the card stuff. Really well done.
I do not disagree. However in SnW its not blatant like it is in ElfEn Lied. Kanata just has to pee and she's dancing around, but she has an important phone call to monitor for. I'm pretty sure if its a real military call, a soldier has to sit there no matter what.
RurouniZel
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Raccon tail flight fail.
Now hang on, actual peeing scenes are a sick fetish, but just needing to pee really badly is funny and cute.
Right, guys?
...Guys?
Good thing I don't currently have one then.
And to all the Yayoi haters.
How can you be so horrid to that?
amishpriest99
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Well, at least it'll happen eventually. Perhaps I'll actually go and watch the .5 eps in the meantime.
Right.
I didn't use the term "shoving" anywhere. There simply wasn't an discernible meaning to most of what was going on, it simply happened to follow the expected story arc. I never really felt like Tsuritama did much with the ocean, its subject matter, or even its characters. The show could have been about anything and it would have wound up being the same. Even its themes like family never really take off or go anywhere because the story lacks consequence.
No, I understand why these things happen in context of one another. I do not understand why the happen within the context of the larger story of Yuki maturing.
I found them flat and underdeveloped, marred by awkward CG. Particularly bad at sea when you get those static waves. They often fail to communicate information about the world, and it feels like the locations are a set rather than real places with history.
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