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Winter of Anime 2013 |OT -6| How much lower can we go?!
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Dedication Through Light
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My granddaddy would get that mag, guess next time I see him I could bring up discussion of this and suggest eva or yamato 2199 for him to view.
amishpriest99
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It's Popular Mechanics. I'm not putting much stock into what they have to say on the subject.
amishpriest99
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That's pretty harsh. But deservedly so for that series.
lol yeah Nagisa probably makes her family wonder if she is talking to imaginary demons or something.
mipple and mepple are the worst.
some people hate Porun too but they have hearts as black as the night.
Tastes like justice to me. Gundam 00 is not what I'd call greatest Gundam of all time, but man if it isn't better than Gundam AGE.
Still a toss up for me over which is the worst mecha of all, though: Gundam RAGE or Rip-off Xephon.
MF G Gundam 10
MY NAME IS DOMON KASSHU AND I WILL BLOW UP ANCIENT NEO EGYPTIAN ROBOT MUMMY GUNDAMS AND YOU AND YOUR STUPID FEELINGS CAN'T STOP ME RAIN!
Revisit the notion when you finish it because dat ending
Futari wa Pretty Cure 10
Honoka episode. Automatically amazing right? Well...in some ways yes and some ways no.
Honoka herself brings her A-game. As adorable as ever. But that whole thing with the robbers was pretty ridiculous. At the end especially. When they decide they're gonna start a new life when they get out. Uhhhh...dude....maybe the law in Japan is different than 'merica, but...armed robbery of a high-end jewelry store...yeah, you ain't starting over for a looooonnnggg time. I realize they're supposed to be inept, but damn. Also, who the hell displays something that costs over 3 million yen in the fucking window?
Honoka's parents are weird. They sure spoil Honoka and act lovey-dovey to her for a couple of parents who only see her, like, a few weeks a year, tops?
I love Uga. He's a lovable oaf. A very endearingly dumb villain. I hope he doesn't get destroyed.
Also, I never asked this before, but is there some sort of international law stating you can't attack a magical girl while she's transforming? Does that violate the Geneva Convetion or something?
Honoka episode. Automatically amazing right? Well...in some ways yes and some ways no.
Honoka herself brings her A-game. As adorable as ever. But that whole thing with the robbers was pretty ridiculous. At the end especially. When they decide they're gonna start a new life when they get out. Uhhhh...dude....maybe the law in Japan is different than 'merica, but...armed robbery of a high-end jewelry store...yeah, you ain't starting over for a looooonnnggg time. I realize they're supposed to be inept, but damn. Also, who the hell displays something that costs over 3 million yen in the fucking window?
Honoka's parents are weird. They sure spoil Honoka and act lovey-dovey to her for a couple of parents who only see her, like, a few weeks a year, tops?
I love Uga. He's a lovable oaf. A very endearingly dumb villain. I hope he doesn't get destroyed.
Also, I never asked this before, but is there some sort of international law stating you can't attack a magical girl while she's transforming? Does that violate the Geneva Convetion or something?
You know that's right.
The final episode was great.. so I dunno what you talking about, its the end of series right?
There have been scientific studies on magical girl transformation sequences (and transformations in other series as well). Doesn't explain Alice's security cameras from DokiDoki though.
PGSM showed a transformation from a third party point of view at one point, I think. Near instantaneous!
Still good enough than AGE
This is also true for Combining Mecha.
There was actually a series who lampshaded this. The enemy-of-the-week in an episode of Voltes V could actually interrupt their transformations and beat them all up. They then developed some kind of electric shield that guards them during the combination sequence allowing them to finish combining and beat the enemy.
No Gundam series can end as terribly as Gundam AGE.
In Mobile Suit Gundam, the Hitler figure is shot IN THE BACK OF THE HEAD, by his own damn sister. In Mobile Suit Gundam AGE they build a statue of him with a metal dick sticking out for the ceremonial suckling of all who come to pay fealty. In Gundam SEED the guy who plans on firing nuclear weapons at the space colonies dies a horrible death and is mourned by none. In Gundam AGE the guy who plans on firing nuclear weapons at space colonies is again, commemorated with a statue for everyone to suck off.
I applaud Gundam AGE for having the audacity to be the Gundam series where the villain is the protagonist.
It almost made up for the second season entirely. Almost!
I was more referring to the movie that wraps everything up! You can read my spoiler free impressions here.
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Post porn or a racist rant.
Eps 12 with first memento mori attack was great too!
But no matter how sucky 00 was, the fast action directing >>>>>>>> trash pile of AGE. And what movie? 00 doesn't have any movie.
The way Gundam 00's plot is meandering right now, I can't tell if there's anything TO wrap up. So many damn characters to be honest I don't know what's going on. Why do I have to keep seeing Crossroads and his lame ass relationship? Why do I care about reporter chick? Why are we focusing on those two gay men out in the woods? Why can't we pay attention to just the Gundam pilots and the villains and call it a day?
It burns so bad though after the amazing promise of that first season. Hell even the first ep of the second season seemed to headed down the right path but noooooope.
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PM'ing mods didn't work?
No. I was under the impression the c in your name stood for console but, alas, it's apparently coward.
will this do the job
No that will just make me fall in love with you more.
AGE might be have the greatest premise of mecha series.
100 years wars, multi-generation protagonist, but LOOOOOOOOOOOL
00 at the very least only decide to became super generic 90's mecha anime.
This is actually really commonly addressed. Most Precure series take the Space Sheriff Gavan route of "its actually instantaneous", but Futari wa and Splash Star just use magical barriers. It's actually really plain to see in FW - that giant rainbow pillar is made of enemy-zapping death. It might be in SS, but I swear they use it offensively at least once.
well waht ever I don't think I've seen a porn gif before.
I admire both your honesty and your innocence. Let us part now as friends.
Instead of making this really painful for yourself, I told you that you can PM me to talk about it! Lol. I just need a good reason!
I was thinking about that first annoying arc in AGE the other day and found myself realizing I really liked the story in AGE. So much little stuff I'd written off as unimportant actually was important. It's a shame the execution in every nearly every other facet was abysmal to average save for the sexy Gundam fights.
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Cardfight!! Vanguard Asia Circuit ep 85 (eng dub)
Vanguard always has good beach episodes, and I loved this second part to it. Just the various match ups and characters going off on their own self improvement trips made it really enjoyable and the middle section having voices and character moments. Easily Toshiki Kai and Miwa were the best, though Kamui, Reiji, and Eiji too.
Vanguard always has good beach episodes, and I loved this second part to it. Just the various match ups and characters going off on their own self improvement trips made it really enjoyable and the middle section having voices and character moments. Easily Toshiki Kai and Miwa were the best, though Kamui, Reiji, and Eiji too.
If Misaki truly doesnt use her main Goddess of the Full Moon strategy in Oracle Think Tank anymore...Kamui's new Battle Razor upgrades were the best though
Im pretty sure that transformations get interrupted in Nanoha.
also in Futari wa precure
the two girls get separated by the villains later on before they can unleash Marble screw
R_thanatos
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First thing first the precures in splash star do learn to instant transform but they don't start with this skill as it is.They actually use this skill at least 3 times in their serie.
Second you can't attack a magical girl while transforming , all magical girls have "the storyboard plot armor advantage" skill letting them use the stock footage to gain time on animation . Sailor moon is guilty of this , so was doremi and so many magical girl shows ( heck even nanoha use that too at some points ).
It's a unwritten rule followed by everyone except comedy shows.
Third there are several laws for magical shows you need to be aware of . One commonly used is the fact that nobody recognise you while transformed.
Fourth : Enjoy precure dammit.. most of the season transformations are considered to be indeed instantaneous.
Hyouka 8 (Rewatch)
I really like Noriyuki Kitanohara's work as an animator, and he is great with comedy, but this episode of his didn't strike me as very remarkable. There's some good staging, the introduction of Irisu was okay, but on the whole it was simply 'correct', and with a script where nothing much happens, the result isn't a really strong episode.
I also thought the animation was worse than usual, with some static shots and boring drawings here and there; it's still very good of course, but not on the level of the rest of the show. The film did feature some nice "bad acting" parts though, I guess I can commend that.
As for the story, it was obvious since the beginning that Irisu had some intention not revealed to the viewer, but it was nice that they put little things signalling Hongou's circumstances in the episode, like Chitanda asking about her (which also doubles as a good point for her characterization, since she is the one who brings up the matter in episode 11). The editing for that part makes it somewhat more tense than the rest of the episode, and so it's easy to tell that there is something fishy about her/her situation.
Besides that, I enjoyed the little glimpses of students preparing for the Festival:
Something as glorious as that arc even needs in-show effort to be accomplished!
This is probably among the weaker episodes of Hyouka if you ask me. It's only partially saved because the home-made movie gimmick from Haruhi is back in full force.
Damn straight.
I really like Noriyuki Kitanohara's work as an animator, and he is great with comedy, but this episode of his didn't strike me as very remarkable. There's some good staging, the introduction of Irisu was okay, but on the whole it was simply 'correct', and with a script where nothing much happens, the result isn't a really strong episode.
I also thought the animation was worse than usual, with some static shots and boring drawings here and there; it's still very good of course, but not on the level of the rest of the show. The film did feature some nice "bad acting" parts though, I guess I can commend that.
As for the story, it was obvious since the beginning that Irisu had some intention not revealed to the viewer, but it was nice that they put little things signalling Hongou's circumstances in the episode, like Chitanda asking about her (which also doubles as a good point for her characterization, since she is the one who brings up the matter in episode 11). The editing for that part makes it somewhat more tense than the rest of the episode, and so it's easy to tell that there is something fishy about her/her situation.
Besides that, I enjoyed the little glimpses of students preparing for the Festival:
Something as glorious as that arc even needs in-show effort to be accomplished!
In both directions, too, which is in line with certain third party scenes in the manga.
The anime, though, has them be in the final pose afterward and the visible ribbon mechanic is meaningful during under-duress half-transformed states.
As a rule, Precure mascot characters are annoying shitstains.
All of them.
Tarte dude. Gotta make some time for Fresh!
I never found any HC mascot to be insufferable; if they were something, it was easily ignorable. No clue if this applies to other Precure shows.
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