I couldn't even believe it. I was really glad they started doing his internal monologue because his thought processes are so unpredictable sometimes that it was just awesome.
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Winter of Anime 2013 |OT -5| This is stupid, kayos90 sucks!
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I couldn't even believe it. I was really glad they started doing his internal monologue because his thought processes are so unpredictable sometimes that it was just awesome.
Clairvoyance
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Sasami-san 03
Huh? Well, at least it's what I'd expect from Shaft. I wonder where it goes from here though. It's still weird hearing the brother's voice.
Huh? Well, at least it's what I'd expect from Shaft. I wonder where it goes from here though. It's still weird hearing the brother's voice.
They should hire Corvo as PR in the first place, maybe AGE not gonna bombed that hard.
Jex
Member
You wanna fight, bro?
+ Mazinger + GaoGaiGar + Gurren Lagann
Possibly + Madoka, but we're not quite sure about
Also Big O, if you count the tomatoes.
Jex
Member
Hey, you should have come to us first. We'd have said skip the first episode. In fact, here's some healthy advice for tacking any really long running episodic series: it's okay to skip ahead if you're bored.
Stick with it or skip ahead. Man up. I'd say it gets pretty great once you get into the 20's.
Darker Than Black 26
Hot man-on-elephant love.....go onnnnnnnnn.
So this was kinda a side story about how Otsuka writes anime fan-fiction (complete with the above) and ended up encountering Hei and wrote about it, putting a secret pin number in her story by accident. Then she sees him in real life and identifies him based on his sexy...collarbones. Okay. Well everything works out in the end. Also, Yin has made frietnds with Kurosawa's assistant.
Just to make sure,
Hot man-on-elephant love.....go onnnnnnnnn.
So this was kinda a side story about how Otsuka writes anime fan-fiction (complete with the above) and ended up encountering Hei and wrote about it, putting a secret pin number in her story by accident. Then she sees him in real life and identifies him based on his sexy...collarbones. Okay. Well everything works out in the end. Also, Yin has made frietnds with Kurosawa's assistant.
Just to make sure,
this all took place before Hell's Gate incident, right? Both Huang and Mao died in the process of that, and Amber's time power didn't go back that far.
Jex
Member
Eh, there's some really flat episodes. Learn to cut the fat.
I'd say you can skip episodic episodes most of the time as there's no character growth or plot carried over in general.
Robotics;Notes - 14
No amount of foresight could've prepared my heart for this episode.
None I tell you.
Bonus gif because it was great
No amount of foresight could've prepared my heart for this episode.
None I tell you.
Also Kona/Frau has always been my favorite, so just HNNNNGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH-
The robot stuff was scary, not to mention the brainwashed man who wound up dead in the Philippines shortly after. Shit is getting more and more real as we begin to get into the secret organizations. When the lid finally gets blown off it's gonna be real good.
Also, I love Frau. That was just plain adorable.
The robot stuff was scary, not to mention the brainwashed man who wound up dead in the Philippines shortly after. Shit is getting more and more real as we begin to get into the secret organizations. When the lid finally gets blown off it's gonna be real good.
Also, I love Frau. That was just plain adorable.
Bonus gif because it was great
Crash Station
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Oh, we're doing this again?
Fine, I'll watch episode 2 of Utena if you watch ep 12 of Medaka Box Abnormal.
Jex
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Winter is generally full of, (judgement call) shitty pandering anime and this Winter is no exception.
Speaking of TTGL, I got my $6 amazon DVDs on Wednesday and have just been continuously watching them non-stop.
R_thanatos
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Yes ..but you have to start somewhere ..hand holding , kiss on the cheek , kiss of the forehead or else before you gattai ..
A special mention should be made for those who haven't made the first step possible.
Very hard to in gintama because the most serious arcs start with some silly premises.
The best way is to watch them all
But the episodic episodes sometimes have crazy comedy ..again it's a dillema !!
??? there is some crazy negociation going on here ...
This looks like shit, what the fuck Trigger. Flat and uninteresting, not even the Kanadaesque effects were good.
If that's the animation they will be making, I'd rather they just disappear and the talent go freelance.
But Goldfish Warning is good.
Yeah I felt more or less the same about the beginning. It was OK at first, but after 20 or so I really felt it come into its own. Either that or it just finally really clicked with me.
RurouniZel
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Random Tamako Market question:
Shori's pony tail... is it being held in place by
? 'Cause in a couple shots it kinda looks like that's pocky in her hair...
Shori's pony tail... is it being held in place by
pocky
Queen's Blade Rebellion Premium Visual Book OVA - 'Seijo no Hanmon ~Shinkou no Tobira ha, Mata Hiraku ~'
It's weird watching this after Senran Kagura. Kobayashi Yuu voices the main character, Shigi, but she sounds nothing like her character in Senran. Instead she's a (mostly) prim-and-proper sounding nun.
No Ymir stripping? They skimp out on her too much.
I'm not specifically a huge Ymir fan but it still seems a little unfair how little time she spends naked compared to the rest of them.
Regarding the ending,
I also want to say, the bonus short animations on both these Premium Visual Book OVAs are way better than the those crappy Gynos Academy shorts on the first two seasons' BDs. I don't know why those turned out so bad, but not only did they have little actual animation, they didn't even match the character designs from the show. They look like some one-man doujin anime you might buy off DLsite. The Premium Visual Book bonuses, on the other hand, while very simple, look right and animate well.
Now that I've finished all the OVAs, it's finally time to start the Rebellion TV series.
With any luck I'll finish in time to do my 2012 AOTY votes.
It's weird watching this after Senran Kagura. Kobayashi Yuu voices the main character, Shigi, but she sounds nothing like her character in Senran. Instead she's a (mostly) prim-and-proper sounding nun.
No Ymir stripping? They skimp out on her too much.
I'm not specifically a huge Ymir fan but it still seems a little unfair how little time she spends naked compared to the rest of them.
Regarding the ending,
I'm glad they had Shigi actually carry through her words and burn the bandits to death. I always thought it was a little silly how characters like Melona and Erina talk as if they're vicious killers but manage to spend two entire seasons and six OVAs without killing anyone, at least directly. (They did lead a few armies.) I know they're playing a careful balancing act of characterization vs. turning off potential fans, but it feels goofy. If they want a franchise with pretty women fighters who never hurt anyone, the Queen's Blade world really isn't the one to do it in. The Ambition of Oda Nobuna suffered from that, too.
I also want to say, the bonus short animations on both these Premium Visual Book OVAs are way better than the those crappy Gynos Academy shorts on the first two seasons' BDs. I don't know why those turned out so bad, but not only did they have little actual animation, they didn't even match the character designs from the show. They look like some one-man doujin anime you might buy off DLsite. The Premium Visual Book bonuses, on the other hand, while very simple, look right and animate well.
Now that I've finished all the OVAs, it's finally time to start the Rebellion TV series.
With any luck I'll finish in time to do my 2012 AOTY votes.
Those are just hair pins.
RurouniZel
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Okay. Guess I was just mistaken then.
Well, they are sort of pocky-looking hairpins, but yeah.
dakkumauji
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I thought they were chopsticks used as hair pins.
Excellent.
OMG Don't tease me like that, Takamura!! There definitely needs to be an Akane and imouto docking scene. I need to see her in a Vividred outfit.
So tempting >< but I think I'll continue to avoid it for now, and just read my Milkie Strike books instead. In the case of IdolM@ster I was already avoiding it.
RurouniZel
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For reference, this is the shot that sparked my curiosity.
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
[Medaka Box Abnormal] 12
I was promised hilarity slash awesomeness, and all I got was... confusion? This was akin to watching a match of Calvinball, which in itself isn't a concept I'm against! I imagine I would appreciate the non-sequiturness of this episode had I kept up with Medaka Box to begin with, but if the rest of the battles in the so hyped genre shift are as non-sensical as this one then I don't see anything of the sort that tells me my dropping of this show in the beginning was unjustified.
I was promised hilarity slash awesomeness, and all I got was... confusion? This was akin to watching a match of Calvinball, which in itself isn't a concept I'm against! I imagine I would appreciate the non-sequiturness of this episode had I kept up with Medaka Box to begin with, but if the rest of the battles in the so hyped genre shift are as non-sensical as this one then I don't see anything of the sort that tells me my dropping of this show in the beginning was unjustified.
I gotta admit I laughed at the opening and the following scene with whatsherface running late with toast on her mouth solely because it made me think this was gonna be a parody of GAINAX troll endings. It would have been less of a waste of time had they taken that meta approach.
Your turn.
Jex
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[Mouryou no Hako] - 1
Sorry guys, I've been really shit in discussing this series despite the fact that I'm the one who has always been pimping it. My apologies.
I'd really forgot how extraordinary dense this episode was in terms of sheer volume of ideas. It can be a real struggle to keep up in parts and I have no trouble admitting that I had to re-watch multiple parts of this episode to try and understand what the show was communicating. It really isn't like any other show because every scene tends to be crammed with important detail, for example a short scene between Yuriko and her mother might involve:
Visual symbolism: Dolls - implying the other, suggesting being forced into a role (in this specific case), loss of individuality, female role etc
Visual symbolism: mirror - reflecting duality, vanity, a decline into old age, failing as a human being, a kind of death
Discussions that touch on: authority, control, societal roles, ageing, adulthood, womanhood, purity, sexuality
all that on top of just the character and story developments. Phew. That's a lot to keep up with in a fast moving show. The real problem is that very little of what is going on is just window dressing, when the characters are dancing in the moonlight (with a weird motion blur filter on) the moon isn't just the moon, it obviously has some other meaning that you're supposed to get. You're not supposed to sit back and let it role over you - you're supposed to engage with the material and think about what it's trying to say. Very few works demand that of you.
I think firehawk12 's theme-side would get a big kick out of this episode (I don't know about the show as a whole). It really is a very literary work. I rarely make direct recommendations or pledges to people because I find it a bit presumptuous - it implies that I have a fairly serious understanding of their preferences and enjoyments which is quite hard to gauge from casual internet discussions. However, as I've had some (extremely) protracted discussions with him I feel that this kind of thing would be write up his ally. Then again, he could rip it to shreds. Who knows.
Sorry guys, I've been really shit in discussing this series despite the fact that I'm the one who has always been pimping it. My apologies.
I'd really forgot how extraordinary dense this episode was in terms of sheer volume of ideas. It can be a real struggle to keep up in parts and I have no trouble admitting that I had to re-watch multiple parts of this episode to try and understand what the show was communicating. It really isn't like any other show because every scene tends to be crammed with important detail, for example a short scene between Yuriko and her mother might involve:
Visual symbolism: Dolls - implying the other, suggesting being forced into a role (in this specific case), loss of individuality, female role etc
Visual symbolism: mirror - reflecting duality, vanity, a decline into old age, failing as a human being, a kind of death
Discussions that touch on: authority, control, societal roles, ageing, adulthood, womanhood, purity, sexuality
all that on top of just the character and story developments. Phew. That's a lot to keep up with in a fast moving show. The real problem is that very little of what is going on is just window dressing, when the characters are dancing in the moonlight (with a weird motion blur filter on) the moon isn't just the moon, it obviously has some other meaning that you're supposed to get. You're not supposed to sit back and let it role over you - you're supposed to engage with the material and think about what it's trying to say. Very few works demand that of you.
I think firehawk12 's theme-side would get a big kick out of this episode (I don't know about the show as a whole). It really is a very literary work. I rarely make direct recommendations or pledges to people because I find it a bit presumptuous - it implies that I have a fairly serious understanding of their preferences and enjoyments which is quite hard to gauge from casual internet discussions. However, as I've had some (extremely) protracted discussions with him I feel that this kind of thing would be write up his ally. Then again, he could rip it to shreds. Who knows.
But that would mean reading the plot ahead of time which ruins the show.
Regulus Tera
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Gurren Lagann is mai favourite anime ever bro, don't go around implying shit about it.
Jex
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You're talking about like, arcs. When I watched the series in large, regular chunks I came across the odd (purely episodic story) which didn't do anything for me and I proceeded to skip it. It was very easy to tell when it was an arc and when it was just a one-off thing.
Now I really want to be your Nakama. You have good taste
Nia and Timeskip.
Hellsing321
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Are we bartering to get people to watch things now?
I'm offering Bartender to trade for best offer!
Regulus Tera
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Both awesome things. Also featuring Yukari Fukui in her last good role (fuck Dissidia she killed Terra's character).
Crash Station
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Robotics;Notes 14
Shit finally got real! Best episode prominently starring best character! Frau is so awesome.
Only issue is the conflict ended too soon, but there does seem to be more to this sinister plot than a simple robot attack.
Shit finally got real! Best episode prominently starring best character! Frau is so awesome.
Only issue is the conflict ended too soon, but there does seem to be more to this sinister plot than a simple robot attack.
UPS trucks go out early in the morning.
Crash Station
Member
I'm not actually in Charlotte now, though. Back home in Huntersville. It is listed as "out for delivery" though, so I wager there's a truck out there. Just with routes to make before it gets here, I guess.
ZachDeKoromaru
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Maoyuu 4
Great episode with LOADSA economics and Demon Korbo being cute as per usual.
Is this :chet ?
Great episode with LOADSA economics and Demon Korbo being cute as per usual.
There appears to be a battle some time in the future, in which case I'll be waiting to see how they animate fight scenes.
That makes it sound more fun than it actually is.
I'm not sure why I don't enjoy it as much as I should. They have cat ears and everything.
That picture. I just woke up and seeing that nearly made my heart stop.
Azumanga Daioh 10
Poor Sakaki, all she wants is to pet a kawaii neko-chan. =/
Also, looking forward to seeing how the addition of Kasuga affects things.
Speaking of Kagura...
Goddamn.
Now I think you understand my Kaorin drawing.
Sakaki is so cool! She is also determined to pet the cat.
This show is quite colorful. I have enjoyed it a lot more than Strike Witches for some reason.
TTGL will do that to you. Its soooooo easy to marathon.
For reference, this is the shot that sparked my curiosity.
You just wanted to post another picture of Shiori
haha I noticed that and had the same thought. Probably just a Pocky looking accessory.
Also, this is a Koyani show, it's "Rocky"
or is that Shaft? Or all anime?
RurouniZel
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Can't fool me! XD
RurouniZel
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Can you blame me?
RurouniZel
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Sadly bodly colored hair is becoming less and less common these days. :-/
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