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Winter-Spring 2014 Anime |OT3| People incapable of guilt usually do have a good time
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Tonari no Seki-kun 13
I love the robot family so much. EVERYONE LOVES SCRAMBLED EGGS. I liked how this episode was mostly Yokoi playing by herself. Even though it was a short gag series, it made it feel like it ended in a slightly different place than it started.
This was a fun show that, like Pupipo, was a pleasant surprise. Very charming, very funny, and some surprisingly good music (the ED is great, and Danran Robot Kazoku is the greatest).
Backlog Winter season is now officially over! I am ready for spring! Come on! Bring it!
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Is it Jojo time yet.
I love the robot family so much. EVERYONE LOVES SCRAMBLED EGGS. I liked how this episode was mostly Yokoi playing by herself. Even though it was a short gag series, it made it feel like it ended in a slightly different place than it started.
This was a fun show that, like Pupipo, was a pleasant surprise. Very charming, very funny, and some surprisingly good music (the ED is great, and Danran Robot Kazoku is the greatest).
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Is it Jojo time yet.
Basileus777
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I think DTL might have suffered through the whole thing.
Hard for me to disagree. I probably liked Log Horizon more, but I think SS was much more consistent in its quality.
FelixOrion
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Tonari no Seki-kun 13 END (?)
This was a cute, fun, little ride. It exuded a very Calvin & Hobbes-like atmosphere the whole time for me. Not the greatest in terms of comedy per-say, with Yokoi explaining every little thing, but the situations that were going on were hilarious and it was a thoroughly enjoyable ride.
Is there gonna be more? The minor change in the OP thinks yeah.
This was a cute, fun, little ride. It exuded a very Calvin & Hobbes-like atmosphere the whole time for me. Not the greatest in terms of comedy per-say, with Yokoi explaining every little thing, but the situations that were going on were hilarious and it was a thoroughly enjoyable ride.
Is there gonna be more? The minor change in the OP thinks yeah.
I quit after the end of the Mars saga and the intro to ugly blue metal kid. Show sucked for the most part anyway, such a disappointment.
I've never experienced glorious NA prices in my life
They are quite affordable in comparison as long as you can do without the collectibles
Maybe this is what truly killed 7th.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Gotta start reverse importing man. And it's not like you can't watch stuff in English anyway. lolI've never experienced glorious NA prices in my life
It was either that or the midseason Regina gank in Doki.
I'll have no internet when JoJo airs
Don't worry, I'll screencap the episodes and send you a flipbook.
Now it is time to work on catching up on Mushishi.
Censorship for one. Toriko is a manga is very violent for a shounen(people constantly getting limbs and hole in their chest). The anime did not have none of that. Then Toei butched the biggest event in Toriko (think One Piece Marineford BIG) by going the complete opposite of the manga.
On a happier note, I like Eden of the East, interesting anime.
Eden of the east is pretty cool at times.
Would you mind going into a little more detail, spoilers are fine I'm just curious. I've watched the anime, I'll probably read the manga instead now instead of being lazy.
G Gundam is still the best Gundam, though it's Beloved Son, Build Fighters, is definitely following its footsteps.
Hype death. Schlepping through 5-10 episodes of heinous production values and content to get to the next good episode is no way to live.
Did Umakoshi even direct or KA anything in S2?
I remember buying P4 Golden from Amazon JP for, like, $40 when the JP version was still at $60 or so. I felt like I stole something :lol
No but I was actually interested in the Sumo thing that was replacing it until I learned it had basically the same staff working on it. rip
PshycoNinja
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Really? What do you think of Gundam Wing then?
You're right, but that also sounds like your typical shounen anime.
Umakoshi was never a director! Only an animation director.
There's always Kindaichi Shounen no Jikenbo R if you're feeling Toei-curious next season. It's basically a reboot of a 90s detective anime that ran for like three years.
Schlepping? You a New yorker?
PshycoNinja
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Nisekoi 7
I actually didn't expect this kind of episode to be honest. Quite a little action mixed in with the usual comedy of the show. I knew from the start that
Cliche but it was done well. And she is also pretty cute.
All in all I see the seeds being planted for this shows eventual end. As long as it's not a cop out I think this show will actually be a pretty great RomCom. Good characters, set up and jokes. I like it at this point as much as I enjoyed watching Toradora. Every episode so far has been fun. If it can deliver a decent ending it'll have that one up on Toradora.
I actually didn't expect this kind of episode to be honest. Quite a little action mixed in with the usual comedy of the show. I knew from the start that
Tsugumi was a girl. There were to many lines of them emphasizing the sex that I knew that was going for the "oh she's actually a girl" route.
All in all I see the seeds being planted for this shows eventual end. As long as it's not a cop out I think this show will actually be a pretty great RomCom. Good characters, set up and jokes. I like it at this point as much as I enjoyed watching Toradora. Every episode so far has been fun. If it can deliver a decent ending it'll have that one up on Toradora.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
This used to be the case for me too, when the Canadian dollar wasn't junk. Thankfully the book and movie industry is competitive, but games went up 10 bucks across the board so there's less reason to play new games now.
Admiral Woofington
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how dare you insult master fly swatter
Wing has the best mechanical designs in the entire franchise. There's a reason the Wing Zero and Epyon are insanely popular. Heero Yuy is worth it just for being the bridge between Chirico and Sousuke, and a sorta sarcastic dick. Zechs does Char's Counter Attack infinitely better than Char's Counter Attack did. Wu Fei is an insufferable bastard. The English dub is the only correct way to enjoy Wing.
I'm kinda split on Wing. On the one hand, it's really derivative of UC, although not nearly as much as SEED, but on the other hand it was my very first Gundam show and I continue to maintain that it is an excellent show for people to start Gundam on specifically because it condenses so much of UC and yet still manages to make it its own thing (whereas SEED is pretty much exactly MSG right up until Kira gets the Freedom. At the which point it's still pretty darn MSG, but not exactly the same.)
The secret evil organization being controlled by the secret evil organization being controlled by the secret evil organization thing grew old really quick.
PshycoNinja
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I don't hold it against the other great 24 episodes, but the way it flubbed at the finish line was pretty bad. Still kind of irks me only because everything else was so well done.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Now imagine the ending spread across an entire 24 episode series and that precisely explains how I felt about Golden Time.
PshycoNinja
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Now imagine the ending spread across an entire 24 episode series and that precisely explains how I felt about Golden Time.
I've only watched 3 episodes of Golden Time so far. So I am not able to really argue any points yet other than the first 3 episodes showed a lot of promise and was fun. Plus I like the fact that for once there's a RomCom that doesn't take place in High School. Other then that I can't really comment on anything else.
Mushishi 13
Well that was profoundly depressing!
Watch Nodame Cantabile! It takes place in a music college!
I didn't watch all of Golden Time, but it definitely suffers from romance syndrome where it desperately flails around kicking up drama wherever it can to extend the series. Which is a shame, because I liked parts of the show, but it got too much for me.
Well that was profoundly depressing!
I like the episodes like this one and the depressing suicide one where Ginko fails. It makes him feel much more like a human than a lot of the protags of this kind of show.
Watch Nodame Cantabile! It takes place in a music college!
I didn't watch all of Golden Time, but it definitely suffers from romance syndrome where it desperately flails around kicking up drama wherever it can to extend the series. Which is a shame, because I liked parts of the show, but it got too much for me.
I just think the
disappearing thing, however long it is,
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Oh, I liked the opening episodes too.
PshycoNinja
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Hmmm. That's interesting. Then I was probably a good thing that it was my first Gundam and that I did indeed watch it dubbed. Ha!
That she does. Good thing the fights are a good distraction from her. I am going to have to watch more G Gundam but so far Wing's fights are still some of my favorite mech fights.
Well I mean, the
kissing/fake marriage scene is essentially the climatic resolution of the entire story.
It's certainly not a perfect ending, that's for sure.
Hahaha, fair enough, but Wing had some cool moments, too, like Treize standing their in the TGII as King of Earth to challenge Zechs' Epyon, or Quattre freaking out under the control of what was basically Venom if Venom wasn't a crap 90s villain and was instead a Gundam.
I used to hate Relena. Then I experienced the likes of Beltorchika Irma, Reccoa Londe, Sarah Zabiarov, Quess Paraya, Katejina Loos, Shakti, Princess Marina Ismail, Nena Trinity, Stella Lousier, Gerardo Spriggan and whoever Nena's replacement was in the movie. Relena is chump change compared to those women.
Flip side is Wing gives us Noin and Une. And Sally Po. I guess. I dunno what her deal ever was.
Again, Relena wasn't great by any means, but relatively speaking she's nowhere near the worst woman in Gundam.
Hey if I were actually a Gundam fan (G Gundam is the best Gundam precisely because it isn't really a Gundam series) I'd give Relena the benefit of being graded on a curve, but as is, I'm just calling it like I see it.
PshycoNinja
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So many anime recommendations this week. My goodness....
Basically this. I understood why she did it but it didn't help that it happened in the last 7 minutes of the show. It was on track and at the end it fell off the track. To put it in sports terms, it was like me watching my Patriots having their perfect season only to lose at the Super Bowl. They did fantastic all season and I won't forget it, but I didn't like the end result.
Oh boy...
Just remember that where Wing's fights are flashy war machines going to town on one another, G's fights are martial arts matches. Sort of. Also that G is Wing's predecessor, so Wing has the benefit of learning from G in some areas.
I'm not saying Relena isn't like, the worst girl in Wing, just that after seeing how bad Gundam girls can really be, Relena's a pretty low-tier drag. PLUS she has that one good moment in the movie.
PshycoNinja
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And that's the problem in a nutshell. It was supposed to be winding down/ having it's falling action at that moment. Problem was after that scene the author threw in that twist.
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