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Winter of Anime 2013 |OT -6| How much lower can we go?!

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cajunator

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Its pretty true too.
There are huge debates going on right now at Myfigurecollection about which version of the Princess of the Crystal is the superior sculpt.
 

Defuser

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sakuga fans lol

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Regulus Tera

Romanes Eunt Domus
Thanks to you guys I've dug into my pile of shame and start watching Legend of the Galactic heroes and.. I'm kicking myself for not starting sooner. Looks like I'll be dropping some of the meh newer anime to make room for this gem. I'm up to ep 5 and still debating which side I want to root for.
Follow the path of Space Prussia. Democracy is for clowns.
 

Narag

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Gundam AGE 21

Asemu living in Flit's shadow has become one of the better parts of this arc. Asemu's a bit more developed than Flit was at this point in his as a consequence.
 

cajunator

Banned
Futari wa Precure 18

This episode had an interesting and slightly different feel to it. It involves the villain Kiriya, who is a young boy about the Precure's age and conflicting feelings he has between the human world and his role in the evil plot. This is something that has been explored in many animes but its an effective plot mechanism.
Also Poisony is probably the only villain so far to be even remotely effective or close to defeating the Precure. Their fight with her in this episode was quite different than usual and didnt really resolve anything. It had a foreboding sense though. There was no Zakenna for example.
 

Narag

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Gundam AGE 22

Flit heading out in the AGE-1 to take command set to that music then losing his cool against Desil was the fucking best.
 
So yeah last week I watched 58 episodes of Hunter X Hunter 2011, which is probably more episodes than I usually watch in an anime season. I'm gonna tell HxH 2011 to hold dat for a while so more episodes build up... so how does Togashi's previous series in YuYu Hakusho hold up against Hunter X Hunter? Is the anime actually conclusive? Manga superior?

I really liked what I watched of Level E, so Togashi's 2 from 2 with me so far.
I think HXH is superior. Yyh was really good until the ending and ending arc and the art in the manga really starts to drop in quality fast, like he got lazy all of a sudden. Though hxh has art issues too :(
 

Jintor

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Somewhere on the net, someone is arguing over which toothpaste brand makes your teeth the whitest.

I remember some anecdote about someone lurking a vacumn cleaner forum and hearing discussions which mirrored the console wars here.

That said, apparently beauty forums are a lot looser because they're all about self-improvement, and being based on chemical reactions to products helps too since there's no real subjectivity involved there
 
I just ingested a bunch of anime to catch up on the shows I care about. I'm suprised how much I am enjoying Cuticle Detective Inaba. I really enjoy the absurd comedy it brings. The fan service is a bit on the nose at times but with the pace of the show it doesn't really bother me. The Unlimited continues to be good enough. Nothing extraordinary but decent characters and action. Am I supposed to be rooting for Hyoubo and his gang? They seem like the most likeable of the cast, even if they are a terrorist group. I can't imagine the main series focusing on the trio of girls. Every second they are onscreen they annoy me. I've dropped Maoyu. Nothing really grabbed me. The characters were pretty meh and the overall plot didn't seem very interesting. I'll probably drop Tamako and Senran as well. I caught up on Kotoura-san due to the ot thread. The funniest parts are when it's dark. Otherwise it's a pretty average romcom anime with decent characters. Jojo and Inferno Cop are still the saviours of anime.
Inaba and Hakkenden are the best anime this season, both are so good. Inaba is so funny at times and the characters really act hilariously with each other, the random extras are quite memorable. I also love whenever the characters dance, the pie dance was amazing.

The children, those girls, are really awful in the unlimited, I hope we dont get some ending in which they defeat hyoubu or something. Really cant wait to see where this goes, especially for andy hinomiya.
 
Mobile Suit Gundam AGE 49

Ohhhhhhkay, so the final badguy is Xenogears piloted by Liquid Snake? That'll go well with the stupid Metal Gear RAY that apparently just came back to life. UGH. Fucking xrounder xrounder xrounder. Why do we still do this? AND OF COURSE THE FAT GUY IS STILL EATING. UGH.

Now Kio is doing the morally superior magic girl dance. Fuuuuuuuuck. AHAHAHA IT SHOT YOU WITH ITS ROBOT DICK. And now he's merged with Liquid's Hand or Cid or something.

Hey hey hey, remember how in Gundam SEED when Blue Cosmos launched Nukes at the PLANTs? Now Flit is gonna do that! But he's a hero because Hino says!

Oh fuck are you kidding? THIS FUCKING SHIT FROM GUNDAM SEED AND DESTINY WE HAVE TO DO AGAIN?

DAMMIT FLIT YOU HAVE A WIFE. FUCKING GET AWAY FROM THE DEAD GIRL. FUUUUUUCK. AND NOW FLIT IS FORGIVEN?

FUCK IT. I DON'T CARE. JUST FUCKING FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK THIS FUCKING SHOW AND EVERY FUCKING PERSON INVOLVED IN IT. If I were a Vagan, I wouldn't listen to this asshole who had A FUCKING NUKE POINTED AT MY HOME. But ONE WORD FROM DEAD GIRL and Flit is SUDDENLY A NEW MAN WHO ISN'T RESPONSIBLE FOR A WAR OF GENOCIDE THAT LASTED SEVENTY GODDAMN YEARS.

Wow, and Kio even lectures the brainless monster. Fuuuuuuuck.

AND OF COURSE HE FUCKING SAVES THE BRAINLESS MONSTER EVEN THOUGH THAT MAKES NO FUCKING SENSE.

Whatever. It's done. It's fucking done. And if Gundam AGE ever gets brought up again may it die a similarly ignominious death.

Allow me to articulate my feelings for the entire show, now:
FUCK.
The last 3 episodes don't make any sense .. if this was the intended result then teh writter is crap. If this wasn't then the writter is crap Because they never realised how foolish everything was.

THIS IS A PEN !!!
dat engrish
This isn't even bad (yet.) Just really average.
Narag has a much much higher tolerance than normal humans ... this is a fact but still , There is some episodes to watch before it goes into "true stupidity"

Gintoki route leads to the most character development.
A fan-created Gintama otome game with an original character MC and decent quality CGs?

I'll be damned.

I want to play this game :(
I think it's great that a game like this was made .never underestimate the fans of a franchise .
 

sonicmj1

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Hataraki Man 7

Good news: this episode didn't make me want to throw things.

Bad news: It was kinda boring.

Weird news: I've never been more aware of how heavy the sponsorship is in this show.

I've already commented a few times on the more obvious forms of sponsorship in this show, like the frequent appearance of Tsutaya or those energy gel drinks. We've also speculated on the heavy use of Sambomaster in the show. But this episode takes it to another level.

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Our gel drink returns for the second shot in the episode!

I mean, think about the main conflict in this episode. Hiroko is annoyed by the article she has to write about encouraging tourism to Yakushima. Not because there's anything wrong with the place, you understand. It's because a frivolous advertorial like that doesn't show enough respect for the importance and natural beauty of the site.

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Look how serious she is.

I mean, this is her tortuous dilemma? No wonder it was hard to get invested in this episode. It's like the only bad thing about Yakushima is that it's just too good. Then we get some filtered photos of the place mixed in with some generic anime landscapes so we can see the "natural beauty" for ourselves. This whole episode was probably paid for by the Yakushima tourist board.

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And I haven't even talked about how that photographer guy from a few episodes back also took photos of Yakushima for no adequately explained reason.

Then I figured out the rabbit hole goes even deeper. Remember those natto maki that Hiroko always eats? One of the show's sponsors is a natto company.

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They're the one under 'dip: one to one satisfaction', which is a job search company.

I should have known something was up from the start. Natto is gross.

So yeah, the commercialism in Hataraki Man runs deep. I'm not surprised it hasn't been repeated more, though. What companies would actually pay to get their generic consumer goods in front of otaku? This show probably could rope some companies in since it was riding the foremost crest of noitaminA, but we already know how that experiment has turned out.
 

cajunator

Banned
Sponsorship/ads in anime will probably become more prevalent as studios starve for revenue. I guess its a price to pay for anime to live.
 

cajunator

Banned
Futari Wa Precure 19

Now the stakes have been raised. a far more powerful and effective villain has appears and he looks like...uhh...Krillin without antennae. his abilities are far greater than the others, and combined with Poisony, this could become really dangerous for the Precure.
Shit is getting real.
 

RurouniZel

Asks questions so Ezalc doesn't have to
So I was gonna totally take a break from work and watch some anime, and I lose power. Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu-!

At least I can browse GAF on my phone. *hugs GAF*
 

cajunator

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So I was gonna totally take a break from work and watch some anime, and I lose power. Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu-!

At least I can browse GAF on my phone. *hugs GAF*

what on earth is going on up there with power?
The country is in some real trouble if it cant keep the power on consistently.
 
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