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[cajunator]

If I want to experience drama I just logon to Gaf.

 

[RurouniZel]

If I want to experience drama I just logon to Gaf.

Oh you!

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It's true. Everything on GAF is serious business.

 

[Milamber]

Oh you!

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It's true. Everything on GAF is serious business.

How can you say that?

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To your brother's illegitimate child even!

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DUN DUN DUUUU-UUUUN!!

 

[BGBW]

Anime soap operas are the future.

 

[Kurita]

Dramas are not always... well, dramas though.

 

[RurouniZel]

How can you say that?

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To your brother's illegitimate child even!

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DUN DUN DUUUU-UUUUN!!

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B-But I have no brother unless... Oh God! This is straight out of an episode of "My little sister couldn't possibly be my older brother!"

 

[Defuser]

Single CD

*6, 20,965 20,965 Psycho-Pass "All Alone With You"

*9, 10,993 10,993 Psycho-Pass "Out of Control"

You see? I'm not the only one who thinks OP2 is terrible even the otakus thinks so. Even Abnormalize did better.

Good sales for Egoist, I hope this means more opportunities although I would like Chelly and Supercell to spread out instead of just Production IG shows.

 

[amishpriest99]

Thats probably a good idea. Sometimes shows just don't lend themselves well to impressions. Its more of something you enjoy on your own and then describe later as a whole. This is oftentimes why I will just say "watch that its adorable" or "this show is really fun" Because otherwise, what else is there to say?

This is how I am now mostly. I just prefer to sum up my thoughts on a series/season as a whole, unless an individual episode really leaves an impression.

 

[OceanBlue]

Winter 2013 Preliminary First Volume Sales

*7,064 *2 Ore no Kanojo to Osananajimi ga Shuraba Sugiru: 2013/02/27 (discounted price)
*2,358 *1 GJ-bu [DVD+BD]: 2013/03/06

Of course, we'll have to see how OreShura fares with the normal, non-event-ticket volumes later to get a feel for its true strength.

Also, I don't know if it's fair to consider it a part of any season, but:

48,534 *1 Nekomonogatari (Kuro) [DVD+BD]: 2013/03/06

-monogatari is as strong as ever. GJ-bu doing pretty well for the amount of effort put into it, IMO. Good result for it overall.

Hiromi is the best P.A Works girl, even a biglobe poll agreed! (Wait is that a good thing?)

Hiromi was the best girl in True Tears.

Ok. I take back what I said about long picture posts. Mobile GAF seems to sometimes forget to hide images and BAM that's 2MB gone just like that. Lets all agree to post JPEG instead of PNG. I know I am guilty of this too so I'll try my best too.

It's so easy to save as a JPG! Everyone should be doing it if they aren't already.

*6, 20,965 20,965 Psycho-Pass "All Alone With You"
*9, 10,993 10,993 Psycho-Pass "Out of Control"

Lol, this GIF is amazing.

 

[fertygo]

You see? I'm not the only one who thinks OP2 is terrible even the otakus thinks so. Even Abnormalize did better.

Good sales for Egoist, I hope this means more opportunities them.

CUUUUUUUUUZZZZZZZZZZ I FEEEEEEEEEEEEEL

That make the OP2

Btw I think the single sell more just because the band more popular.

 

[Steroyd]

Shit Idols Do For Attention - 49

Step one: Invade Rock Lee's Springtime of Youth.

Step two: Await global saturation.

 

[Joe Molotov]

Good news: you can order Inferno Cop t-shirts internationally from Rakuten's store.

Than a topic boiling TRIGGER latest animated cartoon, an inferno glass!
The machine glass which chose that knew the joy that was helpful for the person in hell, and lived in hell to Tee shirt!
A print part is ink and paste with a Japanese paper and sticks the special processing durability material that I pressed and steps on the discerning process that I write wash afterwards and become fluffy and adjusted it to.

Profound!

 

[BGBW]

It's so easy to save as a JPG! Everyone should be doing it if they aren't already..

MPlayer outputs screenshots as PNG so I have to re-save them as JPEGs. I mean it just requires me opening it in Preview and re-saving it but I got lazy.

But from today I'll change my ways.

 

[Defuser]

The person who did this is amazing.

 

[Steroyd]

MPlayer outputs screenshots as PNG so I have to re-save them as JPEGs. I mean it just requires me opening it in Preview and re-saving it but I got lazy.

But from today I'll change my ways.

I was going to say my SMPlayer outputs JPG because of my post just now, but I just checked and it seems imgur automatically converts them to jpeg.

The more you know.

 

[Kurita]

You see? I'm not the only one who thinks OP2 is terrible even the otakus thinks so.

CUUUUUUUUUZZZZZZZZZZ I FEEEEEEEEEEEEEL

That make the OP2

Btw I think the single sell more just because the band more popular.

This is true. Rin Toshite Shigure is simply more popular than Nothing's Carved In Stone.
It also helps that Abnormalize was their first new release since 2010.
10.000 units is not bad, that's what Nothing's Carved In Stone usually does. Actually, Out Of Control is their highest ranked single so far!

 

[Defuser]

 

[R_thanatos]

Imposing your will by force is conquest.

If you say so ..

Literally nothing happens with Saji Crossroad. Not in 16 episodes anyway.

Going into spoilers :
( first season )

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-nearly escape terroism
-sister get killed by main antagonist because she was looking/digging clues too much
-girlfriend entire familly get killed by celestial being , for no reason. Said girlfriend goes into mind break because she is the only survivor.

sorry but things happen ( this is just first season stuff )

Ezelcant wanted to end war and make people truly human. Durandal is the perfect example of NOT gaining something by force. He wants to end war by assigning roles which circumvent the need to for it. Pretentious Being wants to end war by, uh, by doing what again? I can't remember because they spent too much time on Saji fucking Crossroads.

Durandal used force to assume direct control of humanity.
Celestial being use force to prevent factions from fighting each other and better

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they act as a common foe against them leading to unification

This isn't anything like what FMP! Is about. FMP! Is about a boy and a girl falling in love with some giant robots along the way. Mythril doesn't aim to stop war. Oh sure, it's like Celestial Being in that it participates in Armed Interventions, but unlike Pretentious Being, Mythril does things when asked to do so, not whenever it damn well pleases. Oh, and three M9s, or 2 M9s and the ARX7 are not enough to STOP THE COMBINED MILITARY STRENGTH OF THE WORLD.

Mythril doesn't even have some overarching scheme going on. It's "secret purpose" is just

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to keep Amalgam in check

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And yes kira freedom wiped the floor of the coordinator fleet by himself once the seed was "on" .. i do remember an overwhelming victory in the destiny end. Kira wiped teh floor of 1 entire fleet and the paint on his gundam was still perfect.

This literally never happens. The Freedom can take down multiple units in one easy go, but he never takes down an entire fleet alone, let alone the combined military might of the entire world.

I was talking about gundam 00 there not FMP.

Besides there are numerous times where the freedom totally destory multiples opponents in a row without killing them and without taking damage..this stuff happenned way too much in seed and seed destiny.

Do you even social science? Game Theory debunks your point. The most you're going to get out of the Prisoner's Dilemma is that they might betray or ally. But you can't accurately predict whether they'll do either of those, which is why it's a dilemma. Complicating this fact is that in real life, betray and ally aren't clear cut options and people can and often do choose a third option.

Future stuff.
I'm not saying that this degree of prediction happen today , just that the logic and the basic theory for it exist already. Gundam 00 setting is the future already and said computer is century ahead everything else conceived.
So much that it becomes a key scenario point later.

Which is the whole point of why Ms. Sumiragi's forecasts are ridiculous and her reactions to their increasing innaccuracy is laughable. She's betting on whether or not a coin lands heads or tails and instead it lands purple helix. And if she has some super computer, tell me again why she's been wrong pretty much every damn time?

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Because some traitor in the celestial being faction has is own agenda and is using the same tech to mess withe the original plan ?

It isn't that easy, and the show itself has already illustrated this point. Sumiragi goes and plans some series of events for the battle, they all get caught by the combined military might of the ENTIRE FUCKING PLANET. So there's one thing for some reason they didn't see. Then they're all further surprised by the arrival of three entirely new Gundams.

Case closed.

Case open.
I didn't want to use spoilers , but it's impossible to explain otherwise.
Regarding sumeragi , she knew the outcome of this encounter and that they would lose and they would have lost yet they went anyway because their agenda and their goal dictated to.
And yes they are all surprised because as i said before,

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someone is messing with the plans. and will go as far as to give the engine to the rest of the world negating the advantage the heroes had on the rest of the world

 

[Kurita]

Mirai Nikki ANOTHER:WORLD ep.1

From the bestselling comic series comes an all new science fiction drama. The series, having sold over 4,000,000 copies in comics, is a non-stop romantic suspense about teenagers who obtain a "Future Diary". The diary is a cell phone diary that foretells the future, and those get ahold of it suffers the consequence of having to participate in a "survival game".
Prior to discovering the future diary, Hoshino Arata was an ordinary college student, without any faith in the coming future. Efforts seemed unrewarding and the future, well, who could change fate? Nonetheless, it is the diary that leads Arata to see tomorrow as a sign of hope.
"Destruction and Rebirth", "The Ultimate Love". These themes intertwine as Arata learns to deal with the diary and its consequences, and ultimately win the survival game set before him

Well that was pretty cool. Arata is a cool MC and I'm really looking forward to this survival game. The main girl is so cute, damn <3
There were cool looking effects, like when Arata's father dies, he slowly vanishes and you see number and digital stuff in the air.
The music was also neat.

 

[Taruranto]

The person who did this is amazing.

The memes were the only good thing that came out from PP.

 

[sonicmj1]

Wandering Son 10

Holy shit this show is good.

The first-person montages were very affecting. They were an elegant device, but they also made me empathize with Nitori's isolation and helplessness.

With this recent, more serious turn of events, it'd be easy for the show to devolve into melodrama. Instead, things are played with a steady hand. Time passes. Painful encounters are avoided or handled indirectly. Everyone struggles with things suddenly being thrown off-kilter. It's tough to watch, because you want everyone to be happy.

I know a long time ago we talked about lazy directing, with the example of a scene in Sankarea where all the characters are just standing in a flat line. I think this shot is a good example of how a group shot should be arranged. People are grouped in the foreground and background as well, and where they're standing fits what we know about all of them. It also sets things up for the confrontation that occurs.

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Nitorin obviously gets it worst of all, and it's hard watching him blame himself for everything that happened. His mom, his sister, his classmates, Momo... they beat a message into him that he can't help reinforce. He made up his mind about his decision, but he's not strong enough to fight it alone. And most of his friends grasp the unfairness of how he's being treated, but there's only so much they can do.

Next week should be great.

 

[Novid]

Wandering Son 10

Holy shit this show is good.



With this recent, more serious turn of events, it'd be easy for the show to devolve into melodrama. Instead, things are played with a steady hand. Time passes. Painful encounters are avoided or handled indirectly. Everyone struggles with things suddenly being thrown off-kilter. It's tough to watch, because you want everyone to be happy.

Spoiler

Nitorin obviously gets it worst of all, and it's hard watching him blame himself for everything that happened. His mom, his sister, his classmates, Momo... they beat a message into him that he can't help reinforce. He made up his mind about his decision, but he's not strong enough to fight it alone. And most of his friends grasp the unfairness of how he's being treated, but there's only so much they can do.

Next week should be great.

the series proved that the fanservice dudes given the right material "can" grow up a bit.

 

[R_thanatos]

Ok. I take back what I said about long picture posts. Mobile GAF seems to sometimes forget to hide images and BAM that's 2MB gone just like that. Lets all agree to post JPEG instead of PNG. I know I am guilty of this too so I'll try my best too.

exactly what i said yesterday about multiple Hd pictures in one post.

People sometimes makes big posts and don't realise they did.

 

[Arthea]

Blood-C : The Last Dark
lol.pic
Nothing from my mind can express how terrible this movie is. Not a single thing make any sense, it doesn't answer any questions from the TV series. The new characters are terrible and for the sake of being there, plot twist are cliche and can be seen from a mile away, the CGI is fucking ugly and doesn't goes well with the 2D. Fights between Saya and the old ones are anticlimatic which the TV series action is better. Production I.G wasted alot of production on this turd and got away clean. In other words, it lived up to the Blood-C name.

Just watched this movie last weekend. And for the love of blood, tell me this was bad translation or something. Must agree on "doesn't make sense" part with and author above.
Don't agree on quality part though.

Also, I kinda thought it was the final part of Blood C, but it looks more like start of a new season. Confusing!

 

[cajunator]

exactly what i said yesterday about multiple Hd pictures in one post.

People sometimes makes big posts and don't realise they did.

Some people make ginormous posts. When I see them I don't even bother trying to reply because its like microsurgery and makes me pissed off. I might make it a habit to mark down post #s and reply to them later on Jex-style.

 

[BGBW]

exactly what i said yesterday about multiple Hd pictures in one post.

People sometimes makes big posts and don't realise they did.

See since I only got mobile Internet last month and it is only 200MB I've been monitoring it. And when one post managed to somehow get past Mobile GAF's settings I suddenly saw my usage jump. Never really gave it much thought (which is rather bad of me because I sometimes go on about GIFs) but now I've seen the light.

 

[cajunator]

Mission complete!

 

[Dedication Through Light]

Finally.

Weekly Sales Rankings for March 4 - 10:


DVD
10, *,718 *,*19,151 Kuroko no Basket vol.8
11, *,710 *,**4,414 Magi vol.3 Limited Edition

I thought Magi was doing much higher than that.

Shit Idols Do For Attention - 49

Step one: Invade Rock Lee's Springtime of Youth.



Step two: Await global saturation.

I thought its our second time having an KHG48 skit in the anime.

 

[Theonik]

Remaining episodes of GIRLS und PANZER fans are dated for crunchyroll.

Haha, good job CR!!!!

Are the promotional artworks for anime shows, like posters and such, also done by the animators?

Sometimes, the promotional keyart and such is usually done by the character designers of key animators. They can also be in charge of doing illustrations and such.

man, he draws while fapping. If that aint impressive I dont know what is!

It is really the only way to do anything.

Interesting, would there still be that strata within the animation studio if they're working on an adaptation of like a manga or something?

You will always have someone doing the character designs for the anime even if they are near identical. (what works on a manga doesn't necessarily work well animated and may need to be adapted for the scope of the animation, sometimes you can also have fixes like KeyoAni stuff.)

Ok. I take back what I said about long picture posts. Mobile GAF seems to sometimes forget to hide images and BAM that's 2MB gone just like that. Lets all agree to post JPEG instead of PNG. I know I am guilty of this too so I'll try my best too.

No PNG is the only way. 4MB pictures on posts or nothing.

What are you guys duwang?

Just Roadroller with Da program.

 

[SDBurton]

Futari wa Precure Max Heart 23:

lol

Man, Max Heart is so cash-strapped that it can't even properly animate its own midseason confrontation. Even when the fight animation was good or had higher-quality keyframes, there's probably not a good cut in the entire episode that lasts more than three seconds. If this fight wasn't DBZ enough with its lightspeed punches and beam spam,

Spoiler

Nagisa and Honoka's new powerup is basically a Genki Dama-charged Marble Screw

.

Plot and powerup episodes are almost universally terrible, though, so simply by virtue of that the running vindication total stands as follows:

Max Heart gets better: 0
Max Heart stays shit: 1

Gotta watch it now, if only for the gif potential.

 

[Steroyd]

I thought its our second time having an KHG48 skit in the anime.

Might be, so many cross dressing moments I've lost track.

First time I remember Love Love though, all that's missing is Aikatsu and terrible CG dances and we have the full set.

 

[Chet Rippo]

Regarding Extollere's drawing:

Him, Chet, and others, make me jealous. You're a talented bunch!

Thank you.
Since that's Takane, did you start watching the iDOLM@STER?

Hah, I never noticed until now that she's holding an Xbox 360 controller with that ridiculous keyboard attachment.

I guess they figured it was foreign enough to get away with it. lol

Mission complete!

Hooray!

You will always have someone doing the character designs for the anime even if they are near identical. (what works on a manga doesn't necessarily work well animated and may need to be adapted for the scope of the animation, sometimes you can also have fixes like KeyoAni stuff.)

Oh no, I know that. I misinterpreted what OceanBlue said. I thought he meant that there were two people in the studio designated to character designs. I also managed to confuse myself...

 

[Dedication Through Light]

Naruto SD 49

More Sasuke made for an awesome episode. I wish Naruto would get more presence in these last few episodes. Escalator Jutsu had to have been one of Lord Orochimaru's best moves ever. I couldn't stop laughing especially when they went into that whole thing about elevator and escalator.

 

[Lain]

Brain Powerd 9



This show is pretty much Evangelion if it was written by a special needs child. Also, the budget somehow got even worse. So much :wonzo and sliding cels everywhere.

What the heck.

Why are you doing this to yourself? I subjected myself to the entirety of it and I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.

 

[TheOddOne]

Tamako Market 09 - Kind of getting bored by the lack of direction and too much focus on side characters. Well, so far I can see it following the normal anime procedure of cramming everything in the last two episodes.

Unrelated, Family Guy made a anime joke in the latest episode (I laughed, sorry):

 

[gashikunFLCL]

Puchimas! - 52

Another Monster Hunter clone.

 

[duckroll]

If anyone is planning on making a Devil Survivor 2 anime OT, this might come in handy:

 

[Dedication Through Light]

If anyone is planning on making a Devil Survivor 2 anime OT, this might come in handy:

The Anguished One is so far in the back :/

 

[Go_Ly_Dow]

That's funny I'm in the opposite situation now. I only watch 4 animes at the moment but watch a lot of dramas.

Last Friends was soooo goood.

 

[Kurita]

Last Friends was soooo goood.

I'm halfway through it, need to finish it asap. It's amazing.

 

[Go_Ly_Dow]

I'm halfway through it, need to finish it asap. It's amazing.

Need to find a clearer version of this beautiful track from the OST!

Last Friends

 

[darkside31337]

If anyone is planning on making a Devil Survivor 2 anime OT, this might come in handy:

I thought you were going to make it...

I don't think anybody else will.

 

[duckroll]

I thought you were going to make it...

I don't think anybody else will.

If no one else makes one, I probably will. But I was hoping there would be more interest!

 

[Kazzy]

The adaptation hasn't improved those Devil Survivor 2 character designs at all, as they continue to be awful.

 

[Kurita]

Need to find a clearer version of this beautiful track from the OST!

Last Friends

Any dramas you would recommend?
Right now I'm watching :
Priceless
Mother
Buzzer Beat
Last Friends
Mirai Nikki
dinner
Ryuusei No Kizuna
Biblia Koshodou no Jiken Techou
Saikou no Rikon

Completed :
Kagi no Kakatta Heya
Hungry!
Rich Man Poor Woman
Freeter Ie wo Kau (thanks again for this one, fantastic)
Liar Game

 

[Jarmel]

Holy shit that is so good.

 

[Dedication Through Light]

Any dramas you would recommend?
Right now I'm watching :
Priceless
Mother
Buzzer Beat
Last Friends
Mirai Nikki
dinner
Ryuusei No Kizuna
Biblia Koshodou no Jiken Techou
Saikou no Rikon

Completed :
Kagi no Kakatta Heya
Hungry!
Rich Man Poor Woman
Freeter Ie wo Kau (thanks again for this one, fantastic)
Liar Game

I dont see Ouran High School Host Club on your list!

 

[Kurita]

I dont see Ouran High School Host Club on your list!

I'll watch it, I promise!

 

[Syrinx]

Futari wa Precure Max Heart 23:

lol

Man, Max Heart is so cash-strapped that it can't even properly animate its own midseason confrontation. Even when the fight animation was good or had higher-quality keyframes, there's probably not a good cut in the entire episode that lasts more than three seconds. If this fight wasn't DBZ enough with its lightspeed punches and beam spam,

Spoiler

Nagisa and Honoka's new powerup is basically a Genki Dama-charged Marble Screw

.

Plot and powerup episodes are almost universally terrible, though, so simply by virtue of that the running vindication total stands as follows:

Max Heart gets better: 0
Max Heart stays shit: 1

Holy shit that gif lololol.

 

[Go_Ly_Dow]

Any dramas you would recommend?
Right now I'm watching :
Priceless
Mother
Buzzer Beat
Last Friends
Mirai Nikki
dinner
Ryuusei No Kizuna
Biblia Koshodou no Jiken Techou
Saikou no Rikon

Completed :
Kagi no Kakatta Heya
Hungry!
Rich Man Poor Woman
Freeter Ie wo Kau (thanks again for this one, fantastic)
Liar Game

Oooooh :O no doubt it will be me asking you for recommendations soon!

These 3 are must watches (for different reasons).

Nobuta wo Produce - great story about friendship

Hana Kimi (old version, not the 2011 remake) - one of the funniest shows I've ever seen. so many great characters.

Shinzanmono + Special + Movie - awesome detective drama