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Winter of Anime 2013 |OT -6| How much lower can we go?!
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Nope, but it seems to continue on regardless.
It isn't my fault some people mistook Gundam 00 for a good show.
But dem backgrounds.
HARUKA KA!~
It's the death you wanted for animegaf.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Wind girl, magician girl... same thing!
ZachDeKoromaru
Banned
Aqua Lion EVOL 1-2
Man that was some shit. Did everyone just have sex via magic mech power of love?
Man that was some shit. Did everyone just have sex via magic mech power of love?
This show seems quite interesting.
If I didnt have a backlog that makes me cry at night I would add it. Maybe in 2020.
Hah, Dan "Nana's Everyday Life" Kim found out about the NASA moe contest and sent along a submission of his own, apparently:
https://twitter.com/CloneManga/status/313023528695898112
https://twitter.com/CloneManga/status/313029703579611136
http://blog.clone-army.org/?p=325
https://twitter.com/CloneManga/status/313023528695898112
https://twitter.com/CloneManga/status/313029703579611136
http://blog.clone-army.org/?p=325
Just tomat despite what he says.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Why aren't they using Space Bros... seems like a no brainer.
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
I thought carpet bombing was slang for pulling out.
Dedication Through Light
Member
Toriko 14 - 26 (funiDub)
BB Corn and Bubble Tuna still one of my favorite arcs and foods and was just as fun to encounter for the third time now. Still a solid dub, narrator feels more into the role (though still not as good as the JPN one), and then some other voices introduced are fitting. Granny Setsuna is nearly amazing, just the whole Century soup emphasis thing isnt as memorable as the JPN voice actor for her. Im ready to relive Century Soup arc once pt 3 comes.
BB Corn and Bubble Tuna still one of my favorite arcs and foods and was just as fun to encounter for the third time now. Still a solid dub, narrator feels more into the role (though still not as good as the JPN one), and then some other voices introduced are fitting. Granny Setsuna is nearly amazing, just the whole Century soup emphasis thing isnt as memorable as the JPN voice actor for her. Im ready to relive Century Soup arc once pt 3 comes.
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
This reminds me, did we ever decide on a final version of AnimeGAFtan?
EVOL sucks so much lol. I do like the character art for that bunny haired girl.
I don't think we ever came to a consensus.
ZachDeKoromaru
Banned
Aqua Lion EVOL 3
This show is stupid and has sex innuendos everywhere but I'm loving it!
This show is stupid and has sex innuendos everywhere but I'm loving it!
I thought that was Star Ocean 3.
GaoGaiGar 22
Wow, Goldimarg is kinda dumb. I mean not as in dumb pointless, but like, he's not that bright in the head. Still, guy rolls over a bomb and literally tanks it, so he can't be useless.
Show is a crazy mix of Power Rangers and Transformers. Team's shaping up, too, with what, seven mecha? Hard core, yo. And Hana is ALWAYS in trouble. Girl has NO luck.
GTO 22
Onizuka can carry pianos one handed. Most impressive of all, though, is that no Crestas were harmed in the making of this episode. And I was wrong, Onizuka didn't have to hunt down the adulterous teacher to fix her to fix the student to fix Fuyutsuki.
"I wanted to commit adultery, but I have two problems! I'm not married and I only have fifty yen!"
Wow, Goldimarg is kinda dumb. I mean not as in dumb pointless, but like, he's not that bright in the head. Still, guy rolls over a bomb and literally tanks it, so he can't be useless.
Show is a crazy mix of Power Rangers and Transformers. Team's shaping up, too, with what, seven mecha? Hard core, yo. And Hana is ALWAYS in trouble. Girl has NO luck.
GTO 22
Onizuka can carry pianos one handed. Most impressive of all, though, is that no Crestas were harmed in the making of this episode. And I was wrong, Onizuka didn't have to hunt down the adulterous teacher to fix her to fix the student to fix Fuyutsuki.
"I wanted to commit adultery, but I have two problems! I'm not married and I only have fifty yen!"
R_thanatos
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But nobody made that mistake !
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IXION SAGA DT 23
Death flag episode !
It's death flag week
Anime remain enjoyable thanks to some crazy and predictable writing.
It does look cheap at times i guess last week ate a bit of their money !
Dying and Getting erased from existence are 2 diferent things
Oh boy. You're certainly in for something. I dropped it halfway though so the second half might have been more... something.
You need to watch :Where be Kurita when I need some Jdrama recommendations?
Kagi No Kakatta Heya
Priceless
Sunao ni Narenakute
Buzzer Beat
Nodame Cantabile
So, I watched OreImo yesterday, considering the second season is coming soon and all. Don't really get why this show is so popular. It's not really bad or anything, but everything this show does, someone else did better. So in that regard, I guess it's kinda similar to Haganai - another show that's for some reason much more popular than it has any right to be. What's the point?
Incest angle. There's also the otaku shaming stuff I find hilarious but I'm apparently not supposed to like it for that reason.
Gundam 00 22
Okay, okay, so Best Character is still alive, which is nice. This episode saw the death of 2/3 of the most annoying team. Setsuna still randomly exclaims GUUUUH NDUM at weird, inappropriate moments, and the most annoying member of the most annoying team was still alive, and there was too much Ribbons Hallmark for my taste, but on the other hand, seeing Lockon bond with the worst Gundam Meister was okay, and seeing the Trinity Team get its butt kicked all over the place even better.
Aeolia Schenberg is the worst kind of planner ever.
"Oh, someone attacked my coffin, which means there's still war in the world. I don't even know who is in my Gundam Exia or if the Exia is still around, but I'm gonna activate its super mode as a failsafe for my plan. WHAT'S THE WORST THAT COULD HAPPEN?"
Seriously, Schenberg is a damn fool.
Oh, and Saji Crossroads is emo now. Because there weren't enough whiners in this show's cast already.
Okay, okay, so Best Character is still alive, which is nice. This episode saw the death of 2/3 of the most annoying team. Setsuna still randomly exclaims GUUUUH NDUM at weird, inappropriate moments, and the most annoying member of the most annoying team was still alive, and there was too much Ribbons Hallmark for my taste, but on the other hand, seeing Lockon bond with the worst Gundam Meister was okay, and seeing the Trinity Team get its butt kicked all over the place even better.
Aeolia Schenberg is the worst kind of planner ever.
"Oh, someone attacked my coffin, which means there's still war in the world. I don't even know who is in my Gundam Exia or if the Exia is still around, but I'm gonna activate its super mode as a failsafe for my plan. WHAT'S THE WORST THAT COULD HAPPEN?"
Seriously, Schenberg is a damn fool.
Oh, and Saji Crossroads is emo now. Because there weren't enough whiners in this show's cast already.
Seraphis Cain
bad gameplay lol
Kamen Rider Miyako!
Dedication Through Light
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Cardfight!! Vanguard: Asia Circuit 86 (eng dub)
Nothing better than a Crossride and Limit Breaks by both opponents. Really fun episode with excellent lines all around and some cool card spinning. Still wish to know how they do it, it even accelerates while its already spinning while suspended in mid air, Gouki. Dimension Police is a cool clan that I wouldnt mind using, just for the sake of all the Daiyusha!
Nothing better than a Crossride and Limit Breaks by both opponents. Really fun episode with excellent lines all around and some cool card spinning. Still wish to know how they do it, it even accelerates while its already spinning while suspended in mid air, Gouki. Dimension Police is a cool clan that I wouldnt mind using, just for the sake of all the Daiyusha!
Koutei leaving for Singapore Institute of Technology was a bit sad, I hope he returns in season three...
Pandering.
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (2012): Phantom Blood arc:
I've decided to catch up on the show over the next few days, and I reached episode nine in fairly short order. I've had no previous experience with the franchise before beginning the series, so I apologize if I criticize any aspect of the adaptation that is actually inherent in the source material.
There's no denying that this is a really entertaining story. There's a glut of delicious melodrama visually reinforced by a gaudy aesthetic and garish color palette, unambiguously evil villains that are deeply despicable on a level that most anime antagonists could never dream of reaching, a refreshing setting and almost exclusive presence of actually adult characters, and copious amounts of manliness, bravery, sacrifice, and virtue. The first three episodes were mostly excellent, I thought, and the show did a wonderful job of setting up a bitter revenge story that easily got me to feel personally invested in Jojo's quest. Even so, since those first episodes I don't find myself absolutely on fire while watching it in the same way that others seem to.
It's nothing to do with the narrative itself, but the way in which the story is adapted feels like it cuts so many corners that it actively interferes with my enjoyment. The pacing borders on too fast at times and most of the score is terrible bombastic synth and actively painful to listen to, but I hear that Iwasaki Taku is composing for the next arc, so I hope that this particular problem is over. Most importantly, though, there's really no excuse for a lack of good animation in an action show. Characters move stiffly and there's an absolute minimum of full-body animation and choreography. The whole production reeks of a low budget, but nowhere more than the absence of entertaining action. This is made even worse by the continual relaying of events that are happening on screen by characters spectating from the sidelines as the events are happening. It's annoying, it's redundant in a majority of cases when it's perfectly possible to intuit what's happening on screen, and it feels like further corner-cutting by the animators in that they can tell rather than show and, furthermore, don't even have to think about constructing scenes in a way that allows the viewer to infer for themselves.
This is a problem to some extent in countless action series, but the high frequency at which it happens in Jojo is very nearly at the level of a child's anime. It's understandable when it's a character's internal monologue on a battle strategy or whatnot, but there are many, many ways to, for instance, illustrate how a character's power works without straight infodumping. The dialogue in Jojo rarely feels naturalistic during battle scenes due to the characters blurting out these play-by-plays. Now, for all I know this could be a holdover from the manga, and in that medium it may be a necessary evil for a work with a lot of things going on and a limited number of panels in which to depict them, but animation imparts virtually unlimited freedom on how, well, anything can be depicted and so it's disappointing when direction/storyboarding/etc. of a scene that, if properly done, would require no additional explanatory dialogue at all are halfassed and real-time peanut gallery narration is employed to fill in the gaps.
It's still a fun and engaging watch, so don't let my longwinded criticism of this particular point make anyone think that I don't think that the show is still good on the whole. If anything, it's just made me want to read the manga, which I'll probably do after I've caught up in time for the finale of the next arc.
I've decided to catch up on the show over the next few days, and I reached episode nine in fairly short order. I've had no previous experience with the franchise before beginning the series, so I apologize if I criticize any aspect of the adaptation that is actually inherent in the source material.
There's no denying that this is a really entertaining story. There's a glut of delicious melodrama visually reinforced by a gaudy aesthetic and garish color palette, unambiguously evil villains that are deeply despicable on a level that most anime antagonists could never dream of reaching, a refreshing setting and almost exclusive presence of actually adult characters, and copious amounts of manliness, bravery, sacrifice, and virtue. The first three episodes were mostly excellent, I thought, and the show did a wonderful job of setting up a bitter revenge story that easily got me to feel personally invested in Jojo's quest. Even so, since those first episodes I don't find myself absolutely on fire while watching it in the same way that others seem to.
It's nothing to do with the narrative itself, but the way in which the story is adapted feels like it cuts so many corners that it actively interferes with my enjoyment. The pacing borders on too fast at times and most of the score is terrible bombastic synth and actively painful to listen to, but I hear that Iwasaki Taku is composing for the next arc, so I hope that this particular problem is over. Most importantly, though, there's really no excuse for a lack of good animation in an action show. Characters move stiffly and there's an absolute minimum of full-body animation and choreography. The whole production reeks of a low budget, but nowhere more than the absence of entertaining action. This is made even worse by the continual relaying of events that are happening on screen by characters spectating from the sidelines as the events are happening. It's annoying, it's redundant in a majority of cases when it's perfectly possible to intuit what's happening on screen, and it feels like further corner-cutting by the animators in that they can tell rather than show and, furthermore, don't even have to think about constructing scenes in a way that allows the viewer to infer for themselves.
This is a problem to some extent in countless action series, but the high frequency at which it happens in Jojo is very nearly at the level of a child's anime. It's understandable when it's a character's internal monologue on a battle strategy or whatnot, but there are many, many ways to, for instance, illustrate how a character's power works without straight infodumping. The dialogue in Jojo rarely feels naturalistic during battle scenes due to the characters blurting out these play-by-plays. Now, for all I know this could be a holdover from the manga, and in that medium it may be a necessary evil for a work with a lot of things going on and a limited number of panels in which to depict them, but animation imparts virtually unlimited freedom on how, well, anything can be depicted and so it's disappointing when direction/storyboarding/etc. of a scene that, if properly done, would require no additional explanatory dialogue at all are halfassed and real-time peanut gallery narration is employed to fill in the gaps.
It's still a fun and engaging watch, so don't let my longwinded criticism of this particular point make anyone think that I don't think that the show is still good on the whole. If anything, it's just made me want to read the manga, which I'll probably do after I've caught up in time for the finale of the next arc.
Did anyone realize that there was an English version of the SAO site?
http://www.swordart-onlineusa.com/
http://www.swordart-onlineusa.com/
Chet Rippo
Member
Is Haganai really that popular, like in the same league as Oreimo?
Of course not.
Obviously. I'm just not sure who the target audience is supposed to be. Depressed closet otaku who don't actually have a little sister I guess?
Didn't say it's as popular. Just that it's another somewhat popular show with a similar target audience I don't get.
It's nice to be the target demographic.
Light novels sales are very close to each other, but I think the anime sales for Oreimo are higher.
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
The infuriating part about this is that there's one episode later in the following arc that is actually constructed like a competently made shounen and the quality disparity is jarring.
Hanamaru Kindergarten - 1 ~ 12 (End)
I passed on this show during the season in which it aired, but mostly-randomly decided to give it a go upon seeing it in Crunchyroll's back-catalogue this weekend. (Even though this was Shinkai Weekend, I can only take so many clouds in one sitting.)
I actually ended up enjoying it quite a bit more now than I think I would have in 2010 when it aired. I've been working at a daycare since 2011, and in those two years, I've experienced more of the situations the main character gets himself into than I should probably admit. Things like getting funny looks from mothers just for being male, or playing Dragon Quest with the boys (though in my case, it was Pokemon and Mario Kart) probably weren't that entertaining to most people, but they resonated with me quite a bit.
The romance and comedy sides of the show were as anime as it gets, of course, so that's where the similarities to my life end. This might suprise you, but in real life, daycare attendants aren't all beautiful young women, unfortunately. Still, even for anime, the relationships in this show are like two-thirds of the way to Card Captor Sakura levels of strange; but since its a comedy, no one seems to mind all that much. On that note, the little sister should have been in more episodes.
Overall, it was just a simple, thoroughly cute series. I'd heartily reccomend it to anyone who needs to brighten up after a bad day. 7/10, I guess.
I passed on this show during the season in which it aired, but mostly-randomly decided to give it a go upon seeing it in Crunchyroll's back-catalogue this weekend. (Even though this was Shinkai Weekend, I can only take so many clouds in one sitting.)
I actually ended up enjoying it quite a bit more now than I think I would have in 2010 when it aired. I've been working at a daycare since 2011, and in those two years, I've experienced more of the situations the main character gets himself into than I should probably admit. Things like getting funny looks from mothers just for being male, or playing Dragon Quest with the boys (though in my case, it was Pokemon and Mario Kart) probably weren't that entertaining to most people, but they resonated with me quite a bit.
The romance and comedy sides of the show were as anime as it gets, of course, so that's where the similarities to my life end. This might suprise you, but in real life, daycare attendants aren't all beautiful young women, unfortunately. Still, even for anime, the relationships in this show are like two-thirds of the way to Card Captor Sakura levels of strange; but since its a comedy, no one seems to mind all that much. On that note, the little sister should have been in more episodes.
Overall, it was just a simple, thoroughly cute series. I'd heartily reccomend it to anyone who needs to brighten up after a bad day. 7/10, I guess.
ZachDeKoromaru
Banned
Aqua Lion EVOL 4
Fudo Zen is a badass motherfucker, this show has great insert songs in battles, and the Infinity Punch was stupidly amazing.
Fudo Zen is a badass motherfucker, this show has great insert songs in battles, and the Infinity Punch was stupidly amazing.
Aniplex USA has a number of their recent series set up with an English site that closely mirrors the Japanese one:
http://madokamagicausa.com/
http://www.madoka-magica.com/index2.html
http://durararausa.com/
http://www.durarara.com/
http://fatezerousa.com/
http://www.fate-zero.jp/
http://www.magi-usa.com/
http://www.project-magi.com/
Dedication Through Light
Member
Theyve were tweeting and facebooking it ever since they press released the show. Was well done as they did update the episode synopsis as the episodes were coming out over the season.
Mobile Fighter G Gundam 22
AWWW YISS. Battle to escape Guiana and make our way to Hong Kong! Rousing, inexplicable song during the middle of the fight. Master Asia being outwitted by Schwarz Bruder. Rain x Domon. THE RUSSIAN LADY'S NAME IS NASTASHA LIKE YOU KNOW that one character in MGS nobody cares about.
Next episode is more Master vs. Domon. Gonna be so bossssssss.
AWWW YISS. Battle to escape Guiana and make our way to Hong Kong! Rousing, inexplicable song during the middle of the fight. Master Asia being outwitted by Schwarz Bruder. Rain x Domon. THE RUSSIAN LADY'S NAME IS NASTASHA LIKE YOU KNOW that one character in MGS nobody cares about.
Next episode is more Master vs. Domon. Gonna be so bossssssss.
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