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Winter of Anime 2013 |OT -6| How much lower can we go?!
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Only 13 days!
R_thanatos
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The sickle look like a toy to cut fruits from trees..
He probably find fun in watching the characters as his gif implies ?
[Gintama] - 264
Well fuck. It was fun while it lasted but I guess nothing lasts forever.
It's a joke
Dammit we're to close to the manga ...don't let this end.....
I can't stop noticing how the designs of all the weapons look like they're made with plastic accessory molding in mind for the model kit. Everything looks kinda cheap, and thin, and you can see where the parts will fit together and which are the clear parts which snap on. Arghhhhhh. Lol.
R_thanatos
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I agree even the sword give this "toy" vibe that is hard to ignore for now.. maybe it'll look better in motion but i'm pessimistic.
The rest of the weapons however are for the moment a big no. If i was the main character i'd ask for a new gear.
B Gata and Detroit Metal city are HILARIOUS. Nice choices.
Pink one is a cutie at least.
I saw you post in the cleveland thread. You are from Carolinas?
Well I grew up in Connecticut. I moved down here to the Charlotte area with my mother and brothers about 15 months ago. Mother couldn't take the weather anymore, and it was fucking awful to have to shovel all that snow only for it to pile up again and again. And I realize this conflicts with me preferring cold over hot, but winter of 2011 in Connecticut was...something else entirely. And so I started following hockey as I've been growing pretty disenchanted with the NBA (though I never followed it all that closely), and so the Hurricanes are giving me a team to root for in hockey and a local team, cause fuck the Panthers and LOL Bobcats.
As an NFC South rival fan, I agree!
Hockey isnt so bad. My roommate was a hockey player. He accidentally put a hole in the wall in the hallway with his head. I covered it up with a wallscroll of Saber.
Was he playing hockey or did he just headbutt the wall or something?
I think he was tired and passed out in the hallway right into the wall.
He is kind of clumsy. I heard a huge bang one day and went to check on him and he had somehow fallen down and pulled the dresser and the TV on top of him. I'm clumsy too but I mean DAMN. Of course I also slipped on our cat with a bowl full of hot soup and made a HUGE mess in the hall. Luckily we have stone tile floors.
Crash Station
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Ai-Mai-Mi 1-4
What the hell, I thought this was going to be another Chitose Get You, but it's actually closer to Teekyu. Pretty amusing.
What the hell, I thought this was going to be another Chitose Get You, but it's actually closer to Teekyu. Pretty amusing.
Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha the Movie 2nd A's
- AHH. I've waited so very long! Hype levels more than maximum. I cannot express this in words.
- First, what everyone of fine taste is most excited about: The transformation scenes. Transformations in Nanoha have always had that crunchy, almost-mecha-musume feel to them, but this movie really knocks it out the park. I'm not happy they removed Nanhoha kissing Raising Heart, but when half of your transformation sequence is spent on the catridge-loading, steam-venting staff device, you know you've got a winner. The redesigned barrier jackets' metal pieces really make this work.
- Nanoha's transformation was still better than Fate's, but not to as severe a degree as in the Movie 1st. Here, the girls are almost equal, but Raising Heart Excelion is cooler than Bardiche Assault. Also,
- Aside from the transformations, the level of lewd is lower than Movie 1st - I didn't catch a single pantyshot in the entire movie. The pure kind of lewd is present in spades, though.
- I had forgotten that Hayate had an accent - or rather, I'm not even sure I ever knew at all. I didn't know much Japanese when A's first aired. It's quite noticeable in this movie, though.
- Fights and plot details.
- The way they did things was a lot better for the pacing than Movie 1st, and it turned out excellently.
Verdict: Go and watch it immediately.
- AHH. I've waited so very long! Hype levels more than maximum. I cannot express this in words.
- First, what everyone of fine taste is most excited about: The transformation scenes. Transformations in Nanoha have always had that crunchy, almost-mecha-musume feel to them, but this movie really knocks it out the park. I'm not happy they removed Nanhoha kissing Raising Heart, but when half of your transformation sequence is spent on the catridge-loading, steam-venting staff device, you know you've got a winner. The redesigned barrier jackets' metal pieces really make this work.
- Nanoha's transformation was still better than Fate's, but not to as severe a degree as in the Movie 1st. Here, the girls are almost equal, but Raising Heart Excelion is cooler than Bardiche Assault. Also,
Hayate's transofrmation is much improved, but not quite as intense as either Nanoha's or Fate's.
- Aside from the transformations, the level of lewd is lower than Movie 1st - I didn't catch a single pantyshot in the entire movie. The pure kind of lewd is present in spades, though.
- I had forgotten that Hayate had an accent - or rather, I'm not even sure I ever knew at all. I didn't know much Japanese when A's first aired. It's quite noticeable in this movie, though.
- Fights and plot details.
- Those CG snakes... Why... The final boss CG was also bad, but less obviously so. All it did was sit there, flail a bit, and get ganked by everyone's super moves at once, so it didn't have much chance to get on my nerves.
- They shifted focus from the final boss to the second-to-final, and it worked great. It's like ten minutes straight of fast-paced, high-powered Nanoha vs. Reinforce. Some of the choreography and camera work was just astounding - one shot is ~10 seconds of Nanoha's POV, while she fights in melee range, and eventually gets nailed by an arm-mounted pile bunker after blocking a punch with her staff. It was crazy.
- They restructured the entire beginning half, so most of the fights from the series don't quite appear. The same characters fight, but under different circumstances and with entirely new choreography. Unlike the Movie 1st, which used redrwan cuts almost as often as Rebuild 1.0, the Movie 2nd is all new, all the time. The movie and the series have the same plot summary, but vastly different specific details.
The most major change is the removal of the Admiral / twins subplot. I actually forgot this even was a thing while watching and writing this, so clearly that worked out.
- They shifted focus from the final boss to the second-to-final, and it worked great. It's like ten minutes straight of fast-paced, high-powered Nanoha vs. Reinforce. Some of the choreography and camera work was just astounding - one shot is ~10 seconds of Nanoha's POV, while she fights in melee range, and eventually gets nailed by an arm-mounted pile bunker after blocking a punch with her staff. It was crazy.
- They restructured the entire beginning half, so most of the fights from the series don't quite appear. The same characters fight, but under different circumstances and with entirely new choreography. Unlike the Movie 1st, which used redrwan cuts almost as often as Rebuild 1.0, the Movie 2nd is all new, all the time. The movie and the series have the same plot summary, but vastly different specific details.
The most major change is the removal of the Admiral / twins subplot. I actually forgot this even was a thing while watching and writing this, so clearly that worked out.
- The way they did things was a lot better for the pacing than Movie 1st, and it turned out excellently.
Verdict: Go and watch it immediately.
Real Psycho-Pass END Impressions
So... the ending was pretty garbage. The problem with this show is that Akane's narration dramatized the entire case when in entirety it was just "another case" in the life of an inspector/enforcer. It was pretty mediocre how everything ended up resolving and in actuality it feels like nothing happened. Maybe it was because the conclusion wasn't what I expected but I felt that it just didn't wrap anything up. Things happened and life goes on. Issues were brought up but they get dropped entirely. Makishima's character was pretty much ruined. Akane is godmode apparently which is dumb as fuck. And the irrelevant characters get way too much screentime. Direction, pacing, and the actual narrative is all over the place. It was a poorly executed ending but most importantly it was a poorly executed episode. Just... Ugh.
So... the ending was pretty garbage. The problem with this show is that Akane's narration dramatized the entire case when in entirety it was just "another case" in the life of an inspector/enforcer. It was pretty mediocre how everything ended up resolving and in actuality it feels like nothing happened. Maybe it was because the conclusion wasn't what I expected but I felt that it just didn't wrap anything up. Things happened and life goes on. Issues were brought up but they get dropped entirely. Makishima's character was pretty much ruined. Akane is godmode apparently which is dumb as fuck. And the irrelevant characters get way too much screentime. Direction, pacing, and the actual narrative is all over the place. It was a poorly executed ending but most importantly it was a poorly executed episode. Just... Ugh.
Amagami SS Sae Nakata Arc
This arc is really different compared to the other two. First off there is a narrator and I don't think it worked that well. I think what the narrator was meant for is to show how shy both Junichi and Sae are. I don't see Junichi being shy because off all the weird things he made her do in the second episode.
My rankings right now at the half way mark.
Kaoru
Haruka/Sae
This arc is really different compared to the other two. First off there is a narrator and I don't think it worked that well. I think what the narrator was meant for is to show how shy both Junichi and Sae are. I don't see Junichi being shy because off all the weird things he made her do in the second episode.
My rankings right now at the half way mark.
Kaoru
Haruka/Sae
Amazing.
Any movie based on Nanoha A's is pretty likely to be epic and amazing. Taking the essence of the Nanoha series and showcasing the best parts of it sounds like a good source of entertainment. Just skip all the child drama and go right to cute magical girls beating the ever loving fuck out of each other.
That's fucking hilarious.
So... Makochii owns in video games and in real life. LOL
I just... I don't know how something like this happens.
Dedication Through Light
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The intermediate OP was good too, ah and I love Out of Control, cuz I feeeeel
firehawk12
Subete no aware
The narrator gimmick is the only thing that saves that arc though. It's like the director realized that the character herself is too boring to carry a story on her own.
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Gintama fin
Welp, I guess it's time to move on to Naruto or Bleach now that Gintama is over for good! I hope they make a Kintama season 2 though.
And you know, I still love when they use the
"sad theme" music
record scratch.
But yeah, I don't have much to say about the arc... probably because the Courtesan arc is still very fresh in my mind. It had a great denouement though.
Dammit need this already. Unfortunately Amazon still use DHL, who are godawful, so it's not going to be here until Tuesday ;_; First movie was so good.
Oh well, at least I have this to watch tonight:
I'm still waiting for my copies of both Nanoha and Smile to ship out, so I guess I'll not be watching Nanoha at least until next week.
Pretty much, I only ever thought the narrator was there to fill the void called Sae's personality.
Robotics;Note 22
It sure was a boring anime, the final batte was slow as fuck and not interesting at all, it was all about Kai spamming his super special skill and using the omgawesome software of Sawada (who is this guy already ?).
Overall I don't even remember what they were doing during these 22 episodes, surely they lost most of the time doing nothing but screwing around in school, the only memorable episode being the one starring Mista Pleaides... and it was at the very beginning.
It sure was a boring anime, the final batte was slow as fuck and not interesting at all, it was all about Kai spamming his super special skill and using the omgawesome software of Sawada (who is this guy already ?).
Overall I don't even remember what they were doing during these 22 episodes, surely they lost most of the time doing nothing but screwing around in school, the only memorable episode being the one starring Mista Pleaides... and it was at the very beginning.
Seraphis Cain
bad gameplay lol
Kotoura-san 11
Well that was kinda stupid.
Eh, whatever. Shit's dumb. One episode left, and from the looks of it, it's back to romcom status quo.
Well that was kinda stupid.
So Tsukino had an...alternate personality created by all her negative feelings? And it was defeated by the power of love? Or something?
Eh, whatever. Shit's dumb. One episode left, and from the looks of it, it's back to romcom status quo.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Seraphis Cain
bad gameplay lol
It just feels like a copout
giving Tsukino an actual alternate personality that functions like some sort of demonic possession or something instead of just having her be straight up evil or whatever
R_thanatos
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No, I don't like it.
a.) there are only like ten people outside of animegaf who care about it in the English-language world. not financially viable.
b.) when in doubt, blame Toei
c.) some of the seasons have actually been dubbed for children's television in Italy and Malaysia, so it depends on the market.
So, if I stalled on Psycho-Pass halfway in, is it safe to say now that it's not worth catching up with the rest?
I'm probably the only person on the planet who legit loves Waterworld and I have to say that this is half of the reason for my excitement.
I'm probably the only person on the planet who legit loves Waterworld and I have to say that this is half of the reason for my excitement.
I loved Waterworld first!
There are two big conventions happening/coming up. This week is Tokyo Anime Fair, next week is Anime Contents Expo. I have no idea which of the two (if either) there are supposed to be Sailormoon announcements at, but it's not as if there's no chance of something happening.
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
Crunchyroll has the very first season.
Well that makes me feel better about having to wait until Tuesday.
And damn, R;N is over already? Need to finish off the last few episodes and see how much they messed up the last few chapters then. Can't be as bad as Chaos;Head's last episode at least.
What did you bale on it?
PorcellainThrill
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The song is pretty cool. 3:40 is good stuff
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