Oh, this is fantastic -- solicitations just popped up on Amazon Japan for standard editions of Girls und Panzer BD volumes 1 through 4 -- late May for the first two, late June for the latter two. Comes with a fraction of the bonus features of the LEs (only the OVA, tank lecture, and cast commentary), at only a slightly cheaper price.
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Winter of Anime 2013 |OT -5| This is stupid, kayos90 sucks!
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I was trying to remember if I ever liked any show that Gonzo has worked on and after looking at their works on wiki, not really. The only one I did, was more inspite of Gonzo rather than because of them. God damn did they work on some stinkers.
S7 was at the time, dunno if it is anymore. It certainly has some great action scenes fwiw. I imagine the less you know of Seven Samurai the better when it comes to watching Samurai 7.
Dennou Coil is not exactly well known, it was never localized in the US, and only got a BD release relatively recently so its not surprising you wouldn't see much on youtube for it.
Jex
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Except in Japan, apparently. If the show is attempting to be accurate in it's portrayal of a Japanese workplace then shouldn't it have to reflect reality? It's not like there's some kind of mechanism to have Dojima removed or punished.
Crash Station
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Gonzo stuff I liked: Gate Keepers, Hellsing, Saikano, Gantz, Pumpkin Scissors, Afro Samurai, Kaze no Stigma.
Not terrible.
Not terrible.
I really hated Kaze no Stigma. Oh man.
Jex
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You'd have been here a lot earlier if you hadn't let the shows tempo burn off in the islands.
Jex
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Ah yes, episode 36 is just one massive tribute to
Space Battleship Yamato.
ZachDeKoromaru
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The best Gonzo show was clearly Strike Witches S1.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samurai_7
Still very weird there are barley any moving videos on youtube mostly just on still images with ost.
The only gonzo shows I've seen I can think of are
Liked
Afro samurai
Disliked then dropped
Gantz(the manga better)
dakkumauji
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Smile Precure! 09
Lying to hyper active girls is bad cause they'll cause your lie to grow exponentially.
Lying to hyper active girls is bad cause they'll cause your lie to grow exponentially.
Crash Station
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Oh, forgot Speed Grapher and Black Cat.
I wish I did too. Then I wouldn't have been as sad when the author died
I wish I did too. Then I wouldn't have been as sad when the author died
Seraphis Cain
bad gameplay lol
Then I can't be jman 2.0, since Nichijou is the best anime ever and I'm mildly interested in K-On, and am fairly ambivalent about Shaft.
I liked Gankutsuou, Basilisk, Tower of Druaga, and Witchblade to varying degrees. That's about it.
Well, I also used to think that Hellsing was the greatest thing ever as a new fan, but my opinion on the television series soured in retrospect after being exposed to Ultimate.
Well, I also used to think that Hellsing was the greatest thing ever as a new fan, but my opinion on the television series soured in retrospect after being exposed to Ultimate.
Christ. They should've just given me the money.
You could try searching for 電脳コイル
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zXv2gqclx4
I like some stuff by Gonzo, but most of them were taken over by other people at some point. Strike Witches, Full Metal Panic and Saki are my favourite stuff by them and all of them were done by different people for their second seasons. They never even got to do all of Saki season 1.
Definitely the source.
Dennou Coil 11-
This is really the first episode that I loved. Everything really clicked with this one.
Some sobering news from the manga front. So apparently, Japan is not immune to the thrashing that print publications have been getting in the rest of the world.
http://www.tokyo-np.co.jp/article/national/news/CK2013021102000114.html
The article says that manga magazines are being cancelled left and right. The latest being "Manga Sunday". It says that the current manga business model is turning into "publish in magazines -> release tankoubons -> release anime -> profit". Most magazines are turning into glorified advertisements for the tankobon/anime and have been operating with heavy losses.
According to the editor, "Manga Sunday" couldn't survive this model because its target market is older people and those don't really buy tanks/watch anime.
With the advent of the net and mangas being easily obtainable from the net, only things like Gundam, One Piece, etc are getting people to spend money on manga.
http://www.tokyo-np.co.jp/article/national/news/CK2013021102000114.html
The article says that manga magazines are being cancelled left and right. The latest being "Manga Sunday". It says that the current manga business model is turning into "publish in magazines -> release tankoubons -> release anime -> profit". Most magazines are turning into glorified advertisements for the tankobon/anime and have been operating with heavy losses.
According to the editor, "Manga Sunday" couldn't survive this model because its target market is older people and those don't really buy tanks/watch anime.
With the advent of the net and mangas being easily obtainable from the net, only things like Gundam, One Piece, etc are getting people to spend money on manga.
dakkumauji
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Smile Precure! 10
Well, I could go for some okonomiyaki now.
Well, I could go for some okonomiyaki now.
I'm not surprised. The manga industries' approach to the web is ludicrously out of touch.
Just like every print industry!
Fuck it's amazing. Probably my favorite Japanese dish. Maybe. This place down the road makes them like the size of little pizzas.
Crash Station
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Le Portrait de Petit Cossette 2
The direction in this is a pain in the ass. I can't feel tense when I have no clue what is going on, which is only made worse by the bipolar cuts.
Wasurenagumo this is not.
The direction in this is a pain in the ass. I can't feel tense when I have no clue what is going on, which is only made worse by the bipolar cuts.
Wasurenagumo this is not.
I wonder if they'll discover e-book tech and indeed if that will help.
Yo I'm hungry now.
What were you expecting from a Shinbo-directed work?
Evangelion 3.0
Took a break from my constant marathoning of GinTama to finally check this out. It was brilliant. Everything I hoped it could be. It's pure insanity and that's just amazing to see. Not knowing almost anything about where it was going before starting, every moment was just a massive surprised. Rebuild has really moved itself away from the main series, and I love it for it.
Sure, it's going to be divisive like all things Eva. Anno is not nice at all to any of the characters. Horrible, horrible things happen to people. If you're the type to get super emotionally attached to a character, you'll likely end up hating what goes on here. I personally love where they're going here. The relationship between Kaworu and Shinji resonates far better than in the original series. The way they come off the end of 2.0 is down right tragic in a lot of ways. As troll-y as Anno loves to make his stuff, I actually found a lot of things to be emotionally resonate. He didn't just get me from a troll perspective.
A couple last thoughts, avoid spoilers if it all possible. The surprise is part of what makes 3.0 so amazing. Not knowing much going in, I was in constant shock. Also, I want to take this moment to again praise the end of 2.0. As much as I love 3.0, I was a little sad there wasn't a moment that worked as well as that last scene of 2.0. The music and action mesh together absolutely perfectly. Here, emotional scenes aren't really augmented by music like that scene. In fact, there isn't a really great musical moment in 3.0. I was a little disappointed by that. Man, the wait for 4.0 cannot be more difficult. I cannot wait to see where they go from here.
Took a break from my constant marathoning of GinTama to finally check this out. It was brilliant. Everything I hoped it could be. It's pure insanity and that's just amazing to see. Not knowing almost anything about where it was going before starting, every moment was just a massive surprised. Rebuild has really moved itself away from the main series, and I love it for it.
Sure, it's going to be divisive like all things Eva. Anno is not nice at all to any of the characters. Horrible, horrible things happen to people. If you're the type to get super emotionally attached to a character, you'll likely end up hating what goes on here. I personally love where they're going here. The relationship between Kaworu and Shinji resonates far better than in the original series. The way they come off the end of 2.0 is down right tragic in a lot of ways. As troll-y as Anno loves to make his stuff, I actually found a lot of things to be emotionally resonate. He didn't just get me from a troll perspective.
A couple last thoughts, avoid spoilers if it all possible. The surprise is part of what makes 3.0 so amazing. Not knowing much going in, I was in constant shock. Also, I want to take this moment to again praise the end of 2.0. As much as I love 3.0, I was a little sad there wasn't a moment that worked as well as that last scene of 2.0. The music and action mesh together absolutely perfectly. Here, emotional scenes aren't really augmented by music like that scene. In fact, there isn't a really great musical moment in 3.0. I was a little disappointed by that. Man, the wait for 4.0 cannot be more difficult. I cannot wait to see where they go from here.
Gonzo shows I liked:
- Saikano
- Chrono Crusade
- Samurai 7
- Last Exile
- Gankutsuou
- Basilisk
- Welcome to the NHK
- Afro Samurai
- Seto no Hanayome
- The Tower of Druaga Season 1
I'm pretty sure quite a number of them would not stand the test of time in a rewatch. For example, I recently tried watching Blue Submarine no. 6 again and while Range Murata's designs still hold up great, the CG made my eyes want to throw up and die so I couldn't in good conscience put it on the list anymore.
I'd also like to point out that I'd never seen the original Kurosawa film back when I went through S7. In hindsight, that shit was probably pretty awful.
- Saikano
- Chrono Crusade
- Samurai 7
- Last Exile
- Gankutsuou
- Basilisk
- Welcome to the NHK
- Afro Samurai
- Seto no Hanayome
- The Tower of Druaga Season 1
I'm pretty sure quite a number of them would not stand the test of time in a rewatch. For example, I recently tried watching Blue Submarine no. 6 again and while Range Murata's designs still hold up great, the CG made my eyes want to throw up and die so I couldn't in good conscience put it on the list anymore.
I'd also like to point out that I'd never seen the original Kurosawa film back when I went through S7. In hindsight, that shit was probably pretty awful.
EReaders are becoming the hot new thing with Amazon, Rakuten and Sony duking it out against, well, tablets but the B&W nature of manga actually lends itself well to ereaders. The problem is of course getting publishers on board and distribution. As far as I know, manga doesn't release on time in the ereaders.
Not much unless you're rich. Food is expensive.
Crash Station
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Something visually coherent. Nothing else of what I've seen of his is this bad in how it conveys what's going on to the audience.
Edit: I take that back. Sasami-san@Ganbaranai is a thousand times worse.
Sorry, I'm gonna disagree with this. Eva 3.0 is a convoluted mess that makes zero sense if you took 5 seconds or so to think it through.
It takes everything you liked about the TV series and EoE and takes a massive dump on it. Characterizations, continuity, common sense, all go out the window in the name of Anno getting his kicks in and pissing off all its fans.
The fights sure were pretty though. (ugly battleship aside)
Oh hey Shinji, you have no idea whats happening but that's ok, we're gonna ignore you and treat you like shit despite you basically holding the key to 4th impact.
If Misato had the common sense to explain to Shinji what was going on, he wouldn't have gone back to Tokyo-3. For fuck's sake, just tell him Ayanami is dead and that one is a new clone. Problem solved.
If Misato had the common sense to explain to Shinji what was going on, he wouldn't have gone back to Tokyo-3. For fuck's sake, just tell him Ayanami is dead and that one is a new clone. Problem solved.
It's certainly visually convoluted, but it actually is possible if difficult to figure out what's going on.
You shouldn't really compare it to most of his SHAFT shows since he doesn't really direct most of those, LOL. They're watered-down Shinbo.
Well shit. Time to just fly over there, steal their recipes, and open a restaurant here.
For the first part, I don't really see a continuity issue. The
time skip
I don't see a real problem there. Even if she did explain it, Shinji wouldn't have believed her. He's proven time and time again to be a hardheaded little shit who believes what he wants. Even if she did explain all that, he would have dived right in in the hopes he could still find the Rei he knew.
Hasn't this been happening since, forever? Aren't there any Japanese restaurants over there?
BriseFlots
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Using internet is faster and less expensive to get the recipes.
Eva 3.0 basically invalidates Episode 25-26 of the TV series and the end of EoE.
For the characters:
Shinji didn't learn anything, he did not say "I" at the end of the world. He basically regresses into the miserable shit pile that he was at the start of the series. That's not rewriting the character?
Asuka is basically Asuka from Episode 8. She's there to bully Shinji and not care about him at all. Nothing they went through in Eva 2.0 or the series itself happened.
Rei. lol.
Misato is, what, again? Gendo? If Ritsuko is the more pragmatic of the two, then there's something really wrong there.
Asuka is basically Asuka from Episode 8. She's there to bully Shinji and not care about him at all. Nothing they went through in Eva 2.0 or the series itself happened.
Rei. lol.
Misato is, what, again? Gendo? If Ritsuko is the more pragmatic of the two, then there's something really wrong there.
Rebuild is it's own thing. There may be loose continuity, but this is a reset of characters. It doesn't invalidate anything. The only real continuity it has is the other two Rebuilds.
As for the change in Misato in particular, I found it easily explained by
living in the post apocalyptic world. She hates Shinji for causing this. She hates Gendou for trying to end everything for good. All she wants to do is prevent further damage
Don't worry about me. I refuse to spoil this openly for anyone. Like I said, the surprise is what makes parts of it so worth it.
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