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

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Mature

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Futari wa Precure Max Heart 14:

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What is happening here..?
 

Regulus Tera

Romanes Eunt Domus
Well yeah, it's not a retcon of sorts as it's meant to be independent from the series, but at the same time it's not an entirely different story with the same characters either. I guess an alternative universe version of the show would be accurate?
I meant to say retelling instead of retcon. Fcking autocorect
 

madp

The Light of El Cantare
max heart was made in a hurry because they didn't anticipate the first season sucess.
And they were pumping staff in the first movie as well when the terrible first 22 episodes were made.

So yeah the max heart season has some pacing, animation and story problems.

You almost make it sound like Max Heart isn't abysmally shitty the entire way through. I'd ask you to tell me more, but I want to be surprised.

what in the fuck have they done to Nagisa?!
maybe I should just keep the memory of how awesome she was in Futari wa precure and not watch this.

Just watch it through me and be satisfied with that. If I can save someone else from experiencing this miserable slog, it won't have been for nothing.
 

Regulus Tera

Romanes Eunt Domus
Won't have the time to watch it til next weekend, so I guess it's good I'm not watching it directly after.

Retelling? That's disappointing I guess. Though that is a good ending for the series I suppose.

...i gotta go ly dow.
It's not a retelling in the sense that it goes through the same motions of the show. You'll understand when you see it.
 

Syrinx

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Good I was gonna ask if I should even watch it if it was a retcon. Not too psyched about a retelling though. I just had it told to me and I love it the way it is.
 
Tiger & Bunny 1 - 13 (engDub)

Really fantastic english dub. Fire Emblem gets the worst voice unfortunately, but everyone else is really epic. Seemed like Saiko's (Bakuman) voice for my favorite Ivan Karelin (Origami Cyclone), Sasuke's voice is a surprisingly good voice for Barneby, especially when he goes and talks all about getting revenge and or his past, cant ever not imagine Sasuke. Gaara's voice for Lunatic made me enjoy every moment of screentime.
Sometimes Yuri doesnt sound like him, oddly, guess they dont want to make the reveal obvious
. Blue Rose has a good singing voice and it did take me awhile to get used to Renji's voice for Kotetsu.

Tiger & Bunny still remains massively exciting for this whole first part and makes me wish Viz would hurry and dub the movie and release it this year. I really want more of this franchise especially if they can do more in universe buff type moments like that good luck time, etc.
 

kayos90

Tragic victim of fan death
I'm still here. I just don't post as frequently because I have some life-related stuff that inhibits me from having much free time so.. yeah.
 

Regulus Tera

Romanes Eunt Domus
Speaking of Utena, my dad just crashed in while I was watching 28. In his words, it was the weirdest mushroom-trip he has ever seen animated, even more than Evangelion.
 

Syrinx

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Speaking of Utena, my dad just crashed in while I was watching 28. In his words, it was the weirdest mushroom-trip he has ever seen animated, even more than Evangelion.

Oh a family member seeing me watch Utena. I don't think I could handle it. My brother may be ready for the series someday, but probably not now.
 
You almost make it sound like Max Heart isn't abysmally shitty the entire way through. I'd ask you to tell me more, but I want to be surprised.

Well they got a huge change of internal staff after a certain point ..they started working on splash star early and got to work on the 2nd max heart movie..they did manage to have a coherent chain of operations at some point in the middle of the max heart season .. i'll let you judge if they managed to salvage max heart or not.

2nd max heart movie is pure goodness by the way.. highly recommanded.

I keep telling people to watch "splash star" and to avoid "yes precure" unless you're very bored but nobody listen to me anyway...

I'm still here. I just don't post as frequently because I have some life-related stuff that inhibits me from having much free time so.. yeah.

wait ..and your training ?
 

cajunator

Banned
You almost make it sound like Max Heart isn't abysmally shitty the entire way through. I'd ask you to tell me more, but I want to be surprised.



Just watch it through me and be satisfied with that. If I can save someone else from experiencing this miserable slog, it won't have been for nothing.

Im sorry but I cannot allow that again.
You nearly killed yourself watching Brave10 to supply me with Isanami pics and I felt bad about it. I will someday share in your misery watching max heart. If I blast through heartcatch it could be fairly soon.

I'm still here. I just don't post as frequently because I have some life-related stuff that inhibits me from having much free time so.. yeah.

I know that feeling.
 

Extollere

Sucks at poetry
But you can tell Manami would be up for anything.

But that's the problem, can't you see? There would be no way to embarrass her, and no resistance! If you catch Kuroneko off guard, she can be like "but Nii-san!" and then she's... "Dame!" and all like "hazukashii~" and so on...

Manami would just be like "if it's with you, it's okay..." *blush blush* Man, how boring!
 

BGBW

Maturity, bitches.
AKB0048
Why is it oh so great?
The main characters are from a fictitious Britain
And that makes me smitten.
They fight against the anti fun blokes
Whose policies are all jokes.
Hopefully there is a third season
Because it is my reason
For living every single day
to watch more AKB0048.
 
But that's the problem, can't you see? There would be no way to embarrass her! If you catch Kuroneko off guard, she can be like "but Nii-san!" and then she's... "Dame!" and all like "hazukashii~" and so on...

Manami would just be like "if it's with you, it's okay..." *blush blush* Man, how boring!

I'm not really into rape.
 

cajunator

Banned
But that's the problem, can't you see? There would be no way to embarrass her, and no resistance! If you catch Kuroneko off guard, she can be like "but Nii-san!" and then she's... "Dame!" and all like "hazukashii~" and so on...

Manami would just be like "if it's with you, it's okay..." *blush blush* Man, how boring!

yes. Manami is lovely and pretty much perfect but thats not really fun to be 100% predictable.
 

DrForester

Kills Photobucket
Fair warning, it's a retelling of the events rather than a linear continuation of them and doesn't really follow the same linearity. It also amps the symbolism up to 11 so you may be very very confused, especially if you try and identify it based on the series you just watched.
Edit: It doesn't attempt to explain the events of the series either but may give you some more perspective on certain characters.

And it's architecture porn.
 

Jarmel

Banned
Maoyuu Maou Yuusha 9-

I would have taken a 3rd season of Spice and Wolf over this. The whole point was to handle the situation in a quiet manner but its blown up now.
 

madp

The Light of El Cantare
I keep telling people to watch "splash star" and to avoid "yes precure" unless you're very bored but nobody listen to me anyway...

It's not that nobody listens, it's just that we're all dirty completionists.

...except I think not a single person currently running the Precure gauntlet has tried Yes 5 yet, so that's partially successful :lol It's still my ultimate goal to convince DTL to watch Yes 5 for Coco x Nuts, though.

Oh my god. :lol

I felt like someone asked this before, but what software do you use to make gifs?

VirtualDubMod w/DirectShowSource avisynth plugin and VirtualDub. I can learn ya in the mystic ways if you want.

I'm trying to find better gif software myself, though, because my method doesn't work with hi10p, which is a pain in the ass.
 

firehawk12

Subete no aware
Space Battleship Yamato 2199 11-14

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Man, this batch of episodes... it's so weird watching this show in what amounts to chunks at a time, because it doesn't have the natural "breathing" time that you would get if you were watching this on TV. Knowing nothing about the original TV series, some of the revelations here are fairly amazing and more importantly, are actually worked into individual episode arcs without the burden of infodump central that plagues science fiction.

Perhaps the biggest revelation, and although I shouldn't be too surprised given what the Yamato obviously represents, is that
the humans started the war and fired the first shot.
That in turn sets up a shift in focus on making the aliens into much more interesting and well,
human
, characters (which is something I assume LOGH does, since apparently it doesn't take any sides in terms of how it tells its story).

And while you're mulling over that series-shattering moment, the 14th episode then confirms the foreshadowing in the first episode and essentially confirms that
Yuki is the alien that first came to Earth and that she survived her crash when delivering the new engine
, but all in a surrealistic (dare I say, proto-Shaft-ish) yet classic psychological science fiction episode ripped right out of the Star Trek playbook. They really don't make science fiction like this any more and for anyone who cares about the golden age of scifi, that episode in particular was such a lovely throwback to when stories were just stories in their own right.

And hell, all of that happens while building the mythology of the universe and setting up the near term villains an the longer term ending of the series.

Fuck, if it weren't for the shitty anime-isms that they have to introduce into the series because it's 2012/2013 and otaku need moe and tropes in order to satisfy their urges, this might be the most perfect science fiction series that I've seen in at least the last 5-10 years.

April really can't come soon enough, if the teaser at the end of 14 and the new trailer they posted is anything to go by.
 

FYC

Banned
Does the Trigun anime cover / spoil any of Maximum? I would reckon not considering their release dates, but better safe than sorry. I've only read the first omnibus / 3 volumes of Maximum, which ends with
the puppeteer falling to his death, Vash revisiting his home and Wolfwood killing the 7 people controlling the giant robot.
 

Milamber

Member
So this is basically like a super light version of Saint Tail but with noodle advertisements?
I wish more people watched Saint Tail. Its totally adorable old-school cel drawn anime fun.

Every single time you post an old series you watched, I am surprised that I am not the only one to have watched this long ago.
 

SDBurton

World's #1 Cosmonaut Enthusiast
VirtualDubMod w/DirectShowSource avisynth plugin and VirtualDub. I can learn ya in the mystic ways if you want.

I'm trying to find better gif software myself, though, because my method doesn't work with hi10p, which is a pain in the ass.

I would appreciate it!
 

madp

The Light of El Cantare
Well, my weekly search for any kind of news on a Mystical Laws BD release date came up empty as usual, but I did find this. wtf

you cringe you lose!
 
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