I actually listen to DitB. This weeks episode, which didn't have a quiz, unfortunately, was pretty amusing as Brian made Ant watch magical girl shows from across the decades.
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Winter of Anime 2013 |OT -5| This is stupid, kayos90 sucks!
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I actually listen to DitB. This weeks episode, which didn't have a quiz, unfortunately, was pretty amusing as Brian made Ant watch magical girl shows from across the decades.
It doesn't have more, but it's certainly a higher rank. It won't sell more, but it doesn't bode well for Tamako...
Shows above Tamako this season, atm:
Vividred
Love Live
Encouragement of Climb
OreShura
GJ-Bu
Haganai NEXT
MMY
Kotoura-san
AKB0048
Hetalia
--Tamako Market
MisterSamMan
Member
It's worth watching till the end...even if it is just for the last episode.
darkside31337
Tomodachi wa Mahou
I'm sad that Tamako is a bomba, it deserves more than Chuu2
No it really doesn't.
I hope Tamako is the worst selling KyoAni show of all time. It honestly deserves that fate.
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
Chihayafuru 2: The Karutaing 03
Amazing episode. Also loved the new music that played around the 17 min. mark. That's some real shounen shit.
Amazing episode. Also loved the new music that played around the 17 min. mark. That's some real shounen shit.
Is that some netorare potential I see with Arata and the Queen? OMFG YES
Ohhh...I get it now. I really shouldn't mix this show with beer. Live and learn.
RurouniZel
Asks questions so Ezalc doesn't have to
Sadly if it's bomba-ing it's probably because it's an original and not based on something with an existing fanbase like Nich-....
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... fuck. ;_;
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... fuck. ;_;
Seraphis Cain
bad gameplay lol
I dunno, I couldn't see myself watching it more than once.
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
Not enough pandering.
Dedication Through Light
Member
Talking birds are unappealing.
This is a condescending way of putting it, but it's probably the main reason. There's not a clear hook that will attract the disc buying audience.
Curiosity.
Jex
Member
Well, few shows can claim to be quite so unsuccessful.
To be fair, that's far from the only anime shirt he's worn on QI...
Hyouka has a much more obvious hook and shipping potential.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
I want to say it was the fake Gundam arc, because you could almost feel the troll coming (because
why would they write off Elizabeth?
I used that as a back up once. It works surprisingly well. lol
So every time your phone rings, people are asked if they are lady?
Oh god, I forgot this t-shirt. lol
But I thought Fat Mayaka wasn't in the anime?
You just aren't seeing the right clues. It's like Howl's Moving Castle, Oreki sees her inner character.
Perhaps I should have put more readable suspicion into my post. I thought perhaps my reputation would be enough!
ZachDeKoromaru
Banned
Black Rock Shooter TV 3
Yomi being jealous for no reason, NotoMamiko-sensei being really creepy, some symbolic robe plant people, the most straight girl is still pretty flamboyant. I still don't even.
Yomi being jealous for no reason, NotoMamiko-sensei being really creepy, some symbolic robe plant people, the most straight girl is still pretty flamboyant. I still don't even.
R_thanatos
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CUTICLE TANTEI INABA - 05
Good job i guess.
Ps: Kyo-ani should just animate another season of fumoffu if they want my support !
It's been a while since i saw a hot spring episode that made me laugh like that ..
Good job i guess.
Ps: Kyo-ani should just animate another season of fumoffu if they want my support !
Are we watching the same Tamako Market?
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
I stopped watching in episode two so not really, but it was nowhere near as cynical in its otaku pandering as Chuu2.
Theonik
Member
Oh yeah good on him really. *insert link of Anno in his oversized by Japanese standards house not giving a fuck interviewing in pyjamas*
darkside31337
Tomodachi wa Mahou
Pander this, pander that.
You know it could just be that there aren't a lot of people who think its a good show or one worth owning.
You know it could just be that there aren't a lot of people who think its a good show or one worth owning.
Well sure, but Chuu2 is pretty off the charts when it comes to that. Not much else can compete.
Tamako Market also practically wasn't marketed. It was announced in the middle of a Chuu2 episode 1 month away from airing, and there was very little in the way of promoting it. Hyouka and Chuu2 which were more heavily marketed and brought to attention from the beginning (especially Chuu2).
dakkumauji
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Soul Eater 43
All the perfect symmetry.
Good episode. Nice action in a show where it's been mostly words and drama lately.
All the perfect symmetry.
Good episode. Nice action in a show where it's been mostly words and drama lately.
Jex
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[Serial Experiments Lain] - 1
Well, I figured that it's been weeks since by BD's actually arrived so I should probably get around to re-watching the series. I've been putting it off for a while because I knew that a show as serious and complicated as this would require all my attention. Furthermore I realise that writing about the show would require a great deal of effort as there's not much point watching a show this popular and not trying to say anything interesting about it.
Still, I haven't actually had the time to make a proper post about this episode so all I have left are impressions.
The first thing that springs to mind when watching this is: if this was released today it would be an From the New World level failure. This series is far too bizarre and inscrutable to have any kind of mass market appeal. Yet, somehow, when this series was released overseas it was a sizeable hit and attracted a very large fanbase for reasons that still boggle me to do this day. I mean, I know that a certain portion of the fanbase presumably have some kind of creepy attraction/interest in Lain herself but as far as characters go she really uninteresting and not cute at all. Beyond that I guess it just rode that Matrix wave right into success station.
On the production quality front, not only does the remaster of this series look good it sounds good. This is actually far more important than it is for most shows because a great deal of effort was clearly put into producing a rich 'audioscape' for this world. I probably never noticed this the first time I watched this series because my speakers were rubbish but listening to it today I can't help but notice how powerful and oppressive the audio is. It reminds me of a horror movie, or playing Dead Space with my headphones on.
With the weird, hallucinatory visuals and the incredible audio design I was starting to think this almost feels like a work that Mamoru Oshii would make if he made a TV series that was nothing but weird shit happening. Then I realised that actually it was far more like Ghost Hound. What I didn't realise, somehow, was that the director Ryutaro Nakamura is actually the director of Ghost Hound and now everything makes a lot more sense.
Well, I figured that it's been weeks since by BD's actually arrived so I should probably get around to re-watching the series. I've been putting it off for a while because I knew that a show as serious and complicated as this would require all my attention. Furthermore I realise that writing about the show would require a great deal of effort as there's not much point watching a show this popular and not trying to say anything interesting about it.
Still, I haven't actually had the time to make a proper post about this episode so all I have left are impressions.
The first thing that springs to mind when watching this is: if this was released today it would be an From the New World level failure. This series is far too bizarre and inscrutable to have any kind of mass market appeal. Yet, somehow, when this series was released overseas it was a sizeable hit and attracted a very large fanbase for reasons that still boggle me to do this day. I mean, I know that a certain portion of the fanbase presumably have some kind of creepy attraction/interest in Lain herself but as far as characters go she really uninteresting and not cute at all. Beyond that I guess it just rode that Matrix wave right into success station.
On the production quality front, not only does the remaster of this series look good it sounds good. This is actually far more important than it is for most shows because a great deal of effort was clearly put into producing a rich 'audioscape' for this world. I probably never noticed this the first time I watched this series because my speakers were rubbish but listening to it today I can't help but notice how powerful and oppressive the audio is. It reminds me of a horror movie, or playing Dead Space with my headphones on.
With the weird, hallucinatory visuals and the incredible audio design I was starting to think this almost feels like a work that Mamoru Oshii would make if he made a TV series that was nothing but weird shit happening. Then I realised that actually it was far more like Ghost Hound. What I didn't realise, somehow, was that the director Ryutaro Nakamura is actually the director of Ghost Hound and now everything makes a lot more sense.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Just skip all that stuff and move on.
Jex
Member
Well, you are in the material that is the same as season one. You should probably at least move to the point where they diverge and see how you like it from there.
Robotics;Notes 15
*Sigh*
Back to boring.
Magi 16
And this show has officially crossed the border into hatewatch territory. What a turd. Both protagonists are insufferable beyond reason. The villain who keeps throwing line after line of exposition just won't shut the hell up. Every single important event happens for either completely stupid reasons or due to deus ex machina. The sound direction is a complete joke. The visuals are pure shit (what the hell is this, and why can't they decide how Alibaba's djinn equip looks like?).
So Alibaba's sword gets smashed, like this:
In the following two minutes, the same sword is portrayed, in order: broken in a completely different way; with a little dent/completely fixed; back to broken in half; completely fixed; and finally broken like this again.
This is not nitpicking. This shit happens in the span of two minutes. The animators and the director are basically screaming at the viewers, "Hey, look how fucking incompetent we are!"
And to think this was the arc everyone was hyping up.
*Sigh*
Back to boring.
Magi 16
And this show has officially crossed the border into hatewatch territory. What a turd. Both protagonists are insufferable beyond reason. The villain who keeps throwing line after line of exposition just won't shut the hell up. Every single important event happens for either completely stupid reasons or due to deus ex machina. The sound direction is a complete joke. The visuals are pure shit (what the hell is this, and why can't they decide how Alibaba's djinn equip looks like?).
So Alibaba's sword gets smashed, like this:
In the following two minutes, the same sword is portrayed, in order: broken in a completely different way; with a little dent/completely fixed; back to broken in half; completely fixed; and finally broken like this again.
This is not nitpicking. This shit happens in the span of two minutes. The animators and the director are basically screaming at the viewers, "Hey, look how fucking incompetent we are!"
And to think this was the arc everyone was hyping up.
The sound was the biggest thing I noticed when watching the blu rays too. Part of that is probably because the first time I watched it was on TV at like 11 at night so I had to keep the volume down, and partly because the remaster has better sound quality and I pay more attention to that kind of thing now.
Between this and Ghost Hound, Nakamura sure knows how to use sound effectively and in unusual ways. It's too bad Ghost Hound was so inconsistent everywhere else.
Yeah that was a great ending. You'd think people would be used to the way Gintama handles things, but oh my, the rage over that episode. Remarkable.
It's alright I guess. Though I suppose testing it with Vocaroo isn't the best idea.
If it ever rings. HA HA...ha...
I implied you'd already written one. How suspicious do you want to come off as?
Joe Molotov
Member
Oh my!
Chuu2 was more pandering. The main gal was literally made up of parts of all the popular tropes from the previous seasons.
Shin Sekai Yori - 09
Some thoughts:
At the end, Saki goes off into the night to do something about the information she learned from Maria.
It's definitely an improvement over the last 3 episodes. I don't enjoy the personality of the 14 yr old characters as much as their younger counterparts, so I hope they get better.
Some thoughts:
Why wouldn't the village elders have Saki & Co. killed after they returned 2 years ago if they were fully aware of their miscreant behavior? They have no problem letting hordes of children 'disappear' at the slightest inability to comply with their psychological conditioning, yet children who have already been 'soiled' in a sense are allowed to get away scott-free?
Or maybe Shun was just wrong and the village elders don't have a clue whether their cantus was sealed. Or maybe there's something altogether that i'm missing. I'll take a bet on the latter.
Or maybe Shun was just wrong and the village elders don't have a clue whether their cantus was sealed. Or maybe there's something altogether that i'm missing. I'll take a bet on the latter.
Was that monster's eye inside Shun's egg in class a warning to the village chief? The village tried to kill him through the use of a monster, but Shun killed it instead, and he's taunting the elder by showing him the eye of the monster? (Yeah, I know the egg breaks after the elder leaves, but maybe he sensed it somehow?). I might be completely off, but I figured that scene was what made the elders take drastic measures and bring out the lion fiend.
At the end, Saki goes off into the night to do something about the information she learned from Maria.
What on earth could she possibly do, though? We shall see.
It's definitely an improvement over the last 3 episodes. I don't enjoy the personality of the 14 yr old characters as much as their younger counterparts, so I hope they get better.
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