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Winter of Anime 2013 |OT -5| This is stupid, kayos90 sucks!
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Ep or two a day, split it up into smaller chunks with breaks in between.
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Romanes Eunt Domus
[Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water] 22
Jesus fucking Christ so much tension.
And she almost did! Lately I've been saying that each episode of Nadia has been better than the previous one, and this one was no exception. Anno is at his fucking best right now.
What's up with the lack of promotional or fan pictures for the next episode preview? Don't tell me... we at the island arc now?
Oh God.
That's either a really ingenious way of corner-cutting or Gunbuster 6 all over again. Or both! Classic GAINAX was so awesome.
Jesus fucking Christ so much tension.
I seriously was thinking Electra was gonna kill herself.
What's up with the lack of promotional or fan pictures for the next episode preview? Don't tell me... we at the island arc now?
Oh God.jesus
Toradora 12
So not only do they get to stage something ridiculous for the culture festival, but it's actually pulled off really well too. That's amazing.
Can't wait to see what's up with
I like that Yasuko is pretty much the greek chorus for the show, lol
Taiga~
So not only do they get to stage something ridiculous for the culture festival, but it's actually pulled off really well too. That's amazing.
Can't wait to see what's up with
Minorin's abrupt personality shift and Taiga's dumb-ass sleazeball father.
Taiga~
firehawk12
Subete no aware
The best thing about not having cable is that you don't get caught in the rerun hell that defines sitcom watching.
And you know, the amazing thing was the massively popular shows that had new episodes and syndicated episodes going at the same time. I know that at one point, Frasier was a daily show for me. Will Daphne and Niles ever get together?! Will Frasier ever get along with his father and that dog? Repeat for 20 episodes a season for like 11 years. lol
I assume they still do that now. You could probably watch 10 episodes of The Big Bang Theory a day if you wanted to.
strangedopamine
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Sazae-san Episode 6,668 or "The Pop Quiz of Death"
The episode starts in the classroom where Katsuo (Sazae's brother) is talking about Nakajima (one of Katsuo's classmates). He then seemingly gets spured on to do well at a test. Of which then gets
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Weirdly Namihei enters a barber shop for some reason at the end. No idea why. The video cut out before the rock paper scissors match started.
The episode starts in the classroom where Katsuo (Sazae's brother) is talking about Nakajima (one of Katsuo's classmates). He then seemingly gets spured on to do well at a test. Of which then gets
92% and somehow he isn't happy with that mark
Weirdly Namihei enters a barber shop for some reason at the end. No idea why. The video cut out before the rock paper scissors match started.
What sucks is when you catch the old stuff in syndication then check the new stuff thinking hey this should be good. Shit burns so much when you realize how a show has gone to hell and its surviving off former glory.
-Minsc-
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- Haven't watched Cheers since it's first run when I was a kid.
- Never got in to Frasier.
- Watched MASH as an adult. This show truly stands the test of time.
- Watch the first run of Rosanne, most of The Cosby Show, Home Improvement, Fresh-Prince, Perfect Strangers, Full House, etc. etc. I've fallen out of sitcoms ever since That 70's Show finished.
- Watched all of Star Trek: TOS, TNG, DS9 (my fav), Voyager, and Enterprise.
- Watched all of Stargate SG-1, most of Atlantis, and all of Universe.
- Watched X-Files back in the day, though I have little interest to go back to that show now (kinda the same with Seinfeld).
- Babylon 5 and Firefly were great too.
Crash Station
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I'm really surprised you can say this and still be unable to get into other shounen series. Unless of course named attacks are that big of a turnoff for you. You're describing the genre completely right there.
I don't think you should really be making OP comparisons if that is your impression of the series. It isn't 100% wrong, but thematic variety is a big part of the series.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Oh yeah, there's nothing as jarring as watching a rerun from a show's first or second season and then watching a new episode from the show's current season and seeing those changes side by side.What sucks is when you catch the old stuff in syndication then check the new stuff thinking hey this should be good. Shit burns so much when you realize how a show has gone to hell and its surviving off former glory.
I hope Gintama never actually reaches that point, but even I will acknowledge the diminishing returns on any kind of premise/situation comedy. But hey, if The Simpsons can go on for 20+ years, I can't imagine why Gintama couldn't do the same... short of a dramatic shift in the standards of comic books for boys that would make it completely anachronistic (suddenly all shounen protagonists are strong female leads and the male characters are the sidekicks!).
That shift of standards would be so good.
Crash Station
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Many series are perfectly aware they're reusing tropes/arcs to manipulate the audience. They just don't outright parody it.
To be fair, it's not like Gintama does that either outside of 1 or 2 serious arcs. I don't really agree with firehawk's interpretation there.
As an aside, I find it so strange that I really don't care for the called attack* to the point I make note of it when said attack gets used in a show without the usual shout of its name.
*unless it's a hot blooded super robot pilot
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Hahahahaha, outstanding.
I do feel like it's a show that you can jump in and out of. It's weakness is also its strength in that regard. It's like how I could watch an episode of The Simpsons made in 2013 and not really miss a beat because the characters are mostly the same.
Oh man, there was a time when I watch watch Home Improvement and Fresh Prince reruns. Being a latchkey kid in the 90s was probably more damaging to me than anything else in my life. lol
X-Files was a show like that for me too, once Canada got its own version of the SyFy channel and started airing random reruns of popular science fiction shows.
Cheers was fun inasmuch as you'd see Diane and Rebecca episodes mashed up together... along with Coach and Woody episodes.
I will say, I'm almost glad that there's a sudden explosion of content that's readily available now. You really don't have an excuse to sit and rewatch the same stuff over and over again now unless you've just given up on watching new stuff.
(I suppose that also indicates how disposable our culture is now, but what can ya do.
)Part of it is the episode length, because god knows that Gintama is probably the longest running single series that I've seen in my life and the prospect of adding another show like that to my schedule is daunting.
The other part, with regards to One Piece anyway, is that the fights are just way too long. When you boil down the Courtesan arc, for example, there was really only 2 episodes of fighting... and the big showdown itself was only a single episode (and even then, it was maybe half of that episode). Sorachi is able to hit those exact same action beats with a exacting efficiency that I've just come to appreciate.
Keep in mind that I watched DBZ as live as one could watch it in the 90s - in as much as I rented pirated VHS tapes from Chinatown stores that taped the show straight off of HK satellite TV - so the indelible stain of watching fights go on for dozens and dozens of episodes has probably ruined me for shounen for the most part. I'm not saying OP gives me DBZ flashbacks or anything, but even that arc with Usopp near the beginning was a bit long for my tastes.
Well, watching those few later episodes out of context, it certainly felt like the whole friendship thing was the center of the morality plays that these fights typically end up being. But of course, I can really only be sure of the first twenty episodes or so of the series though.
I think most people agree Gintama are Comedy series, outside occasional serious episode.. Its a gag series, even if you complaining "why they do this then?" Its mean the author want this unique formula and its working, so why you just didn't understand that?
You're right though.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
SAO uses tropes to manipulate the audience for nefarious purposes.
I assume that most shounens uses these tropes genuinely, in that the authors believe in the mythos of masculinity and male heroism and want to tell stories about the bonds of brotherhood and so forth.
I feel like Gintama takes that just one step further by both celebrating it and mocking it, especially since the characters are so willing to shit on each other and essentially "break character" at any moment. Just think about what happens to the Shogun throughout the Courtesan arc, for example.
Gender-swap every character in Gintama. Best show ever?
Male Kagura = no sale
firehawk12
Subete no aware
What if it was male Kagura but it was still voiced by Kugiyama? lol
Dedication Through Light
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Gintama 5
Best episode so far, if only the action and intensity was always present. A true one on one with Gintoki v Hijikata would really be one of the best things ever, and hey throw in Okita too who always makes it funny by being disappointed in missing Hijikata.
The ending song is really good.
Best episode so far, if only the action and intensity was always present. A true one on one with Gintoki v Hijikata would really be one of the best things ever, and hey throw in Okita too who always makes it funny by being disappointed in missing Hijikata.
The ending song is really good.
You drive a hard bargain but I believe I am sold on this concept.
dakkumauji
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So basically like the host club and the okama bar episodes all rolled into one?
So shota it hurts.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
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Toradora 13
Holy shit Ami-chan's costume :lol :lol :lol. Great way to let her be her real self in front of an audience.
Holy shit Ami-chan's costume :lol :lol :lol. Great way to let her be her real self in front of an audience.
Oh man Taiga's dad you asshole. Holy shit. What a fuck-up. I knew and Ryuuji knew he was projecting his own feelings about his dad onto her situation but he went and did it anyway. Sigh, people.
Good old slow-clap routine.
Holy shit, Ryuuji taking a level in badass... running. dayum. Ahah, and Minorin keeping pace. AHAHA LOL SOFTBALL TAKEDOWN STOP STANDING AROUND YOU IDIOT RYUUJI
Argh my feels. Midseason feels.
Good old slow-clap routine.
Holy shit, Ryuuji taking a level in badass... running. dayum. Ahah, and Minorin keeping pace. AHAHA LOL SOFTBALL TAKEDOWN STOP STANDING AROUND YOU IDIOT RYUUJI
Argh my feels. Midseason feels.
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Oh right, that's the season I haven't watched because I'm still mad at Imaishi for what he did to the movies.
Spice and Wolf 2
That kinda turned dark there at the end, didn't it?
Lawrence accepting the kid's deal at the end was interesting, 'cause he knew he was lying. I know he really didn't make commitments (he hadn't given him his money), but that talk he had with Holo seemed to make him consider something.
The ED is really weird.
I'm sorry. Something about this show makes it hard for me to give any sort of detailed impressions. It's not because it's bad, but...I dunno. I don't really get the dynamic between Lawrence and Holo yet I suppose.
That kinda turned dark there at the end, didn't it?
Lawrence accepting the kid's deal at the end was interesting, 'cause he knew he was lying. I know he really didn't make commitments (he hadn't given him his money), but that talk he had with Holo seemed to make him consider something.
The ED is really weird.
I'm sorry. Something about this show makes it hard for me to give any sort of detailed impressions. It's not because it's bad, but...I dunno. I don't really get the dynamic between Lawrence and Holo yet I suppose.
ZachDeKoromaru
Banned
Do you even whistle round the world?
I only knew about that thanks to jman (rip) making a comment about a kugishota since I watched it dubbed. I forgot anyhow. ; ;
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Romanes Eunt Domus
omnomnomnomnom
It was pretty funny how
he asked about what happened to Ralph once and just couldn't bring himself to care and raise it up again. I guess at that point of the show he was more infatuated by Cleo anyway.
I wonder how Glass Fleet is with the original Japanese voices. I guess I'll just have to find this out for myself someday.
Crash Station
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You should watch Episode of Nami. Gives me a Yoshiwara arc feel.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-YD0cqHmGY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lq_MddYAXmo
Edit: oh hell, ever gone down the rabbit hole wondering what's at the bottom? I found it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVSnNB76mr0
amishpriest99
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Keep going! You can make it!
Crash Station
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Shin Getter Robo 1
I was not expecting this degree of non-mecha action. Shit's got better choreography than most all-ground series fights.
This is going to be a good set of OVAs.
I was not expecting this degree of non-mecha action. Shit's got better choreography than most all-ground series fights.
This is going to be a good set of OVAs.
Well, in the midst of all the Wonfes figure news -- which I'm pretty sure is going to annihilate some wallets -- it turns out that they're also making Accel World t-shirts that, when viewed with a special smartphone AR app, will make it look like you actually have the character's wings.
Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam: A New Translation II - Lovers
Not real happy with the changes like what happened to Four but I'll admit this seemed better constructed than the first movie. Plenty of new animation, I'd say better editing, a surprisingly strong ending leading into the final act, and even if it's just coincidence given where events fall in the tv series, the subtitle was pretty accurate at hinting the main theme given the focus on the differing personal relationships of the characters and how they're affected by them:
Probably just a conicidence though.
First shot cuts to the enemy then back to the second. smh It should look like the first throughout. It's not just the old animation that gets me but how it's cropped whereas the new stuff for the movie is framed properly.
I like Four's redesign. Top two are movie, bottom two are TV. I think it's the softer features that have her come across as younger and more sympathetic, far more suited for a tragic character.
Paptimus Scirocco is such a pimp.
Not real happy with the changes like what happened to Four but I'll admit this seemed better constructed than the first movie. Plenty of new animation, I'd say better editing, a surprisingly strong ending leading into the final act, and even if it's just coincidence given where events fall in the tv series, the subtitle was pretty accurate at hinting the main theme given the focus on the differing personal relationships of the characters and how they're affected by them:
- Kamille/Fa
- Kamille/Four
- Katz/Sarah
- Amuro/Beltorchika
- Quattro/Reccoa
- Henken/Emma
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Char/Amuro/Lalah
Probably just a conicidence though.
Revolutionary Girl Utena 11
Hey Utena, I gots a thought. If Himemiya is that important to you and you want to help her make a life of her own and help her make her own friends and such, how about you, I don't know, NOT LET TOUGA WIN?!
He ain't yo' prince. He's a creepy weirdo who's using your prince story against you so you'd let your guard down. He doesn't give a fuck about you. He wants your power and the Rose Bride, presumably because he's evil. I wasn't quite sure before, but now I'm pretty confident he's evil and a dick. And even if he was your prince, that doesn't mean you have to let him win. Beating doesn't mean stabbing him in the chest.
I'm mad now.
He ain't yo' prince. He's a creepy weirdo who's using your prince story against you so you'd let your guard down. He doesn't give a fuck about you. He wants your power and the Rose Bride, presumably because he's evil. I wasn't quite sure before, but now I'm pretty confident he's evil and a dick. And even if he was your prince, that doesn't mean you have to let him win. Beating doesn't mean stabbing him in the chest.
I'm mad now.
Finally. If you end up liking it, be sure to follow it up with Shin Getter Robo vs Neo Getter Robo and New Getter Robo. They're independent of one another but share the same sort of attitude.
Rofl dem wings.
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