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Winter of Anime 2013 |OT -6| How much lower can we go?!
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I don't understand what JDrama has to do with this. Are you saying Hosoda wrote GTO or Hana Yori Dango or something?
What do you mean zero evidence?
Souhei went to her house every day. He obviously knew that Yuki felt terrible about it. Because of this, Yuki also knows that at the very least Souhei doesn't hate her either.
Not complete without some Suguha NTR.
Charoncaori
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It's not like it was completely out of nowhere. The resolution was honestly quite touching. You have to handwave some things about how important Ame's new job must be, but that's fine in a movie about children who freaking transform into wolves. I had a bigger problem with their dead father (does he have a name, btw?) showing up in Hana's near-death experience.
It's not the best bit of storytelling, but the movie felt more like a series of vignettes than a movie with strong pacing, plot, and climax. It was fine for what the movie needed to do.
It's not the best bit of storytelling, but the movie felt more like a series of vignettes than a movie with strong pacing, plot, and climax. It was fine for what the movie needed to do.
So I feel like watching something. Should I watch Char's Counterattack, the Saiyuki Requiem dub, or more Votoms?
Nature's call. The storm is essentially about the intrusion of nature into the civilized world; we see the everyday routines of normal people disrupted by its presence. It's something
Ame couldn't resist. We see this by his almost hypnotized exit out of the house. The wolf side of him can no longer abide within the caging of the house.
Awful Falafel
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Bah, then why is there any conservation of leaps at all? Like when she made that huge leap to set Kosuke up with Kaho she should've gained plenty of leaps. Also wouldn't she have had infinite karaoke leaps? I could've sworn the counter distinctly went down from before and after that. Oh no, I'll have to watch this great movie again to double check! Poor me, heh.
Maybe I'm asking for trouble if I'm expecting any time travel plot to be completely consistent but I still think TGWLTT was more well thought out than WC. All nitpicking anyway, both are still worth the while.
firehawk12
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TGWLTT: No stakes.
Summer Wars: Stupid stakes.
Wolf Children: Just right.
I don't get your complaint about the proper build up. The movie essentially plays its hand the moment the two children go to school.
There was no need for a conversation. That entire
transit through the mountain was their dialogue. We've seen time and time again through the movie that there are sequences where no dialog is needed or offered. Her journey through the darkness, and out again, is representative of the understanding she gains.
Razgriz-Specter
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He also conveys the fact that nobody should be an idol or supermodel, because everyone looks exactly as ugly as each other.
They better have versions of this for all the characters.
We clearly see
Souhei making every effort to get to know her. Her going to school again is a result of his efforts. By the time the storm arrives they've clearly become friends, but the tension is still there with the things they dare not tell each other.
Do you understand why Souhei is so attracted to Yuki?
It's because of her family. He's drawn to that which he cannot have. We see a deliberate contrast between his mother and Hana. Everything from their clothes to the way they are arranged in the composition, one positioned as an adversary, framed off-kilter from the center, dominant yet not balanced.
When the
:roymustang happens, it's essentially the climax of that awkward friendship they develop. It never felt 'swept under the rug' because all the things necessary to make it feel 'real' were laid in place, and given enough space to breath, with other events happening in the interim to give it enough time to feel that something indeed developed.
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
AAAAAAAH
Charoncaori
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I thought tissues are used to pad bras, not...every other article of clothing.
OMG the right one look worse than that square guy.
Btw the good dudes fighting monster king like in old school mecha or what?
But Ajimu can.
Zero Sum Real: Power over life and death skill.
Plastic Nee-san:
I didn't laugh. Sorry, wonzo
neat, more Gakkatsu and KuroMajo. rip noitamina for the umpteenth time
TGWLTT: Good build up.
Summer Wars: Meh build up.
Wolf Children: No build up.
What's not to get? I didn't feel like the climax was properly earned. You can't just carelessly insert drama into a low key story like Wolf Children. It doesn't fit.
It's like if Yotsubato suddenly went all grimdark on me by killing off Koiwai and ending the movie with Yotsuba standing over his grave with Jumbo and Yanda and the neighbors, trying to pretend her tears are rain.
It's like if Yotsubato suddenly went all grimdark on me by killing off Koiwai and ending the movie with Yotsuba standing over his grave with Jumbo and Yanda and the neighbors, trying to pretend her tears are rain.
Awful Falafel
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I didn't know what American sitcoms had to do with it either but I kind of just went with the flow, I did mention it was off topic didn't I?
I acknowledged that he displayed remorse for it earlier but the subtle moment when he inspects her hand and she quickly withdraws it betrays the idea she's forgiven him doesn't it? Also you seem to be missing that the resolution of her hurting him isn't in question, it's him harassing her in the first place that's unresolved.
jesus purple why
Majestic Prince has a deep and epic story spanning millions of years. I can't explain it in one post!
I don't have to sell it to you. When everyone here is watching it next month, you'll just follow along like the drone you are!
a mans glop, will never die!
those two on the right look like rejects from a poor mans Glass Fleet
firehawk12
Subete no aware
It was perfectly earned! If anything, I could understand if someone argued that it was way too romanticized, because I still think the film privileges Ame's choice, but I mean... in that moment, the drama was in the split between the two children, not in what happens to the mother. It's about how a mother has to let her children become what they are destined to be, whether that is an easy choice or a hard choice.
The story
begins with drama, man. I don't think anything in the movie rivals the moment papawolf gets trashed for pure :roymustang.
And it certainly makes Hana's acceptance all the more poignant. She understands the danger involved but in the end, she understands the path he chose to take.
And it certainly makes Hana's acceptance all the more poignant. She understands the danger involved but in the end, she understands the path he chose to take.
Dude, we already seen DRAMA before that climax. Ame got shrink, Ame and Yuki fighting brutally.. its all build up to that, its nothing like Hidamari goes grimdark.
Btw this should already end with that Dresden's ether.
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There should be an arc in the manga where she
comes back to life and
Don't worry, everyone who "bails out" because of the characters, will come running back for these:
So original!
That's more or less what I'm planning to watch the show for right now, yes (plus I like the other robots too).
I always like mecha shows where you can clearly tell that different designers handled different design lines. Xenosaga and Gundam 00 were like that, and they really benefited from it. Here you can also tell that the more military style mechs and ships are all one guy, the wackier stuff in the main 5 mechs and the main ship are another guy, and the alien stuff are another guy. Good stuff. Hope Orange delivers on the direction too. Could really help errr... "balance" the show visually. LOL.
If there's one person that can pull off that level of meta, it's Nisio.
It's not worth it.
I'm actually looking forward to the show for comedy just as much as I am for action. The adventures of the Zannen Five is going to be hilarious!
I didn't like that much either. So abrupt. Their life together would've made for a good movie in and of itself. Wolf Children needed to be a duology.
See, that was good drama. Two young siblings, who both have different ideas of how to live, get into a fight over their budding life values. This is normal, this is expected, and it was the perfect time for them to scrap it out.
This will end when I feel like it.
No, I got that. And I saw it coming like everyone else and it was good.
But the experience was soured by Ame's stupidity, which is something I can't forgive.
But the experience was soured by Ame's stupidity, which is something I can't forgive.
To be fair, Infinite Ryvius was not only a very early use of those character designs but also made them look a little bit more distinct than what they've eventually become over the years.
A more appropriate example would be...I don't know, maybe Heroic Age?
Futari wa Precure Max Heart 27:
not the pears oh god not the pears ANYTHING BUT THE PEAAARSSSSSSSS
okay so just how deeply, appallingly braindead does Hikari have to be to freeze in senseless terror of the millionth variation of the same fucking monster she's been fighting for the whole series and not lift a finger to save her friends who are about to be crushed underfoot until she's informed of the fact that her friends are about to fucking die, occurring right before her eyes yet apparently unable to be processed by her brain into anything meaningful, by Porun of all people, who he himself is already profoundly cognitively deficient?
not the pears oh god not the pears ANYTHING BUT THE PEAAARSSSSSSSS
okay so just how deeply, appallingly braindead does Hikari have to be to freeze in senseless terror of the millionth variation of the same fucking monster she's been fighting for the whole series and not lift a finger to save her friends who are about to be crushed underfoot until she's informed of the fact that her friends are about to fucking die, occurring right before her eyes yet apparently unable to be processed by her brain into anything meaningful, by Porun of all people, who he himself is already profoundly cognitively deficient?
firehawk12
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He was never stupid!
Also, I feel partly responsible for Dresden using
:roymustang
Husbando confirmed.
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