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Winter-Spring 2014 Anime |OT3| People incapable of guilt usually do have a good time
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victreeb3l
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Nagi no Asukara 26 (End)
That was a nice ride but the ending really didnt feel satisfactory. Things just wrapped up rather quickly and conveniently I thought. I'm glad we got a nice happy ending but I wish the lead up was a little better.
Overall I thought the series was solid and one of my favorites. The time skip in the middle was the highlight of the series and the few episodes afterwards were absolutely amazing. Then nothing really happened and the show ended which felt a little deflating. Pacing problems suck.
But damn. The art is absolutely gorgeous. Even the boring episodes had such eye candy you couldnt help but keep yourself glued to the screen. The music was just as lovely.
I'm really gonna miss this show and miss the Sea God being an idiot and Manaka and Akira being ridiculously cute. Totally a 9/10. While story pacing could have been better, the art and music bumps it up a few points.
That was a nice ride but the ending really didnt feel satisfactory. Things just wrapped up rather quickly and conveniently I thought. I'm glad we got a nice happy ending but I wish the lead up was a little better.
Overall I thought the series was solid and one of my favorites. The time skip in the middle was the highlight of the series and the few episodes afterwards were absolutely amazing. Then nothing really happened and the show ended which felt a little deflating. Pacing problems suck.
But damn. The art is absolutely gorgeous. Even the boring episodes had such eye candy you couldnt help but keep yourself glued to the screen. The music was just as lovely.
I'm really gonna miss this show and miss the Sea God being an idiot and Manaka and Akira being ridiculously cute. Totally a 9/10. While story pacing could have been better, the art and music bumps it up a few points.
Sooooo many cuties. Im going to die.
That Cinderella Girls PV is edited from a longer, less flitery video previously released for the games anniversary event, by the way.
R_thanatos
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Well i have the perfect answer to that :
And it's the perfect transition to talk about :
Mikakunin de Shinkoukei - OVA
That i just watched.
it was an alright oav , but it was a little short .
Benio DA BEST , and mashiro is in close second ..so when the 2 are running alone in the forest at night , i like ... Nothing else to add , if you liked the tv series , then you're right at home , with a limited cast because they had limited time.
I. AM. GOING. TO. DIE.
ZachDeKoromaru
Banned
R_thanatos
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I can already predict some intense but civilised waifu wars with cinderella .
With so many girls, I bet my favorite girl won't get enough screen time. I can just see that already.
I'm gonna watch this today, can't wait for that Benio body
HHHHHHHGNNNNNNNNNNNNN
I hope she washes Kobeni's back, and then say "let me wash the rest too"
BUT NEE-SAMA, THAT'S EMBARRASSING, I CAN WASH IT MYSELF
"Ko-be-ni, leave it to your nee-sama"
awwwwwww shieeeeeeeeeeeeeeet
I'm gonna watch this today, can't wait for that Benio body
HHHHHHHGNNNNNNNNNNNNN
I hope she washes Kobeni's back, and then say "let me wash the rest too"
BUT NEE-SAMA, THAT'S EMBARRASSING, I CAN WASH IT MYSELF
"Ko-be-ni, leave it to your nee-sama"
awwwwwww shieeeeeeeeeeeeeeet
Theonik
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6/5 starts indeed.
thequickandthedead
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Can anyone recommend a completely unpredictable anime with actual shocking twists? They seem to be quite rare.
Jex
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I think you're actually right. It was just weird that even though Aikurō knew and worked with Dr Matoi and knew all about the Kamui he still didn't know about the Scissors, but I think that's perfectly explainable. It's just that, as I've come across many genuine plot problems, I'm miss-attributing normal writing patterns as retconning due to being pre-geared to look out for plot problems.
LOGH.
(This is a joke).
Samurai Flamenco
Jex
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To be quite honest, I've only been checking because a certain-someone claimed that SamFlam was bad because it was "made up as it went along" but Kill la Kill was clearly "planned from the start".
Dedication Through Light
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I personally rather suspect that they were both planned from the start to feel like they were made up as they go along, but that may be giving people too much credit.
I tend to agree that Nudist Beach initially had a much larger role.
I can't believe they planned to give all the shit that happens in the last episode the same amount of time they gave to fucking boxing club or tennis club. It makes no sense.
They probably just saw that people thought it sucked and was really fucking boring and then decided to go insane with the second half.
And in my opinion it was worth it. Disliked the last episode
, but other than that, the second half was pretty godlike.
I can't believe they planned to give all the shit that happens in the last episode the same amount of time they gave to fucking boxing club or tennis club. It makes no sense.
They probably just saw that people thought it sucked and was really fucking boring and then decided to go insane with the second half.
And in my opinion it was worth it. Disliked the last episode
(aside from short hair Satsuki)
How does Hirai keep getting hired?
Didn't somebody say that the scissor blades were used by the Kiryuins in tailoring life fiber clothing?
I think what that individual was trying to express, but perhaps clumsily, was that Samurai Flamenco destroyed any Suspension of Disbelief - compared to the world the show is initially set in and the very haphazard way it moves between arcs and escalates it all just feels very disjointed. You kind of want to call "bullshit" very frequently. Kill la Kill has narrative and writing issues but the way plot proceeds makes sense within the context of the world it has set up and inhabits.
For a 24 episode series, I don't think it's realistic at all to think that anything of importance was really changed as a reaction to viewers at all. While production of episodes runs down to the wire most of the time towards the end, pre-production is generally completed substantially in advance. This means scripts and storyboards would be finished long before there is any time to get any sort of feedback on how audiences feel about specific plot points.
Often when people think stuff is re-written because of feedback, the reality is just poor writing and planning.
Often when people think stuff is re-written because of feedback, the reality is just poor writing and planning.
Jex
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I can't really give either set of staff that much credit, but especially Imaishi because, well, why would you give him the befit of the doubt!
Well this is Trigger, so I'm not sure how far in advance the later stuff was done. I'm actually more inclined to believe that SF was preplanned than KLK is.
He has the most boring character designs in all of anime.
Jex
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For the record, I don't think anything was re-written as a reaction to audience feedback. I think they changed their minds as they were making it (not like, in the middle of the series or anything) and that ended up shifting the focus of the story.
thequickandthedead
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LOGH kinda has one of my favourite twists in anime ( not really a "plot" twist though)
Lang's anonymous payments to charities and welfare institutes ever since he became a junior bureaucrat. Thoughout the anime he's portrayed as a pathetic power hungry individual so this was quite the surprise.
There's seems to be quite a mixed opinion of this show but i'll still check it out.
Thanks. Will check these out although i've heard not so great things about Code:breaker.
PdotMichael
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It's really fucking stupid. I loved it.
Yami To Boushi To Hon No Tabibito
Edit: On another note, are we still waiting on announcement for Captain Earth being picked up?
It was doing better/good for awhile, I guess.
Jex
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The people like it! Maybe you will too!
All the scripts were written before it even aired. Storyboard for any given episode were completed several months in advance before those episodes aired.
This looks so good! And it's made by Shaft too? I'll definitely watch this.
You should, it gets really good in the second half.
Dedication Through Light
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Then someone really fucked up then. I was trying to give Nakashima the benefit of the doubt.
I knew they were somewhat ahead for the earlier episodes(we were getting tweets about ep 7? being worked on in the spring) but I wasn't sure about the later ones.
Why would you give the benefit of the doubt to the two people who were hyping up the series as "something even more hot blooded than Gurren Lagann" when they announced it?
So I started watching Monogatari yesterday and immediately got hooked. Already watched all of Bake and most of Nise, and it's truly Nisioisin and Shaft as fuck. Love it. The infamous toothbrush scene was a bit too much, but the almost equally infamous bath scene with Araragi and Shinobu was just amazing. It came completely out of nowhere, but the way the two interacted was awesome and unexpected, acting like master/servant (but inverted), lovers, mortal enemies and best buddies at the same time. And I absolutely love Kanbaru. She'll apparently have a bigger role in +α?
PdotMichael
Banned
thequickandthedead
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Unintentional or is it meant to be over-the-top wackiness?
The latter.
I think PA Works is really solidifying its spot as an excellent original anime storyteller. Being able to do that makes it a top 3 studio IMO even if it doesn't put out the numbers other studio's put out, most all its shows have been very very solid. (My top 3 atm are Kyoani, PA Works, and Bones in no order, and Shaft in a close 4th.)
Jex
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Why would you give the benefit of the doubt to the two people who were hyping up the series as "something even more hot blooded than Gurren Lagann" when they announced it?
They said a lot of stuff and things. To quote duckroll earlier:
The toothbrush scene is from the Monogatari series? I know what I'm watching after JoJo.
I'm actually hoping I dislike most of Spring so I can keep working on my backlog. This last season was too crazy.
Though I'll definitely watch all the cute girls shows so I can participate in the best girl debates.
Oh, it's definitely intentional. You'll see when you watch it.
I'm actually hoping I dislike most of Spring so I can keep working on my backlog. This last season was too crazy.
Though I'll definitely watch all the cute girls shows so I can participate in the best girl debates.
Oh, it's definitely intentional. You'll see when you watch it.
Dragonar Academy 01
Of the premieres I've seen so far, this one had the most exposition. Establishing all the terminology of the world and the factions... and a rather bloody beginning, too. I know I've seen stories like this before - there's shades of Zero no Tsukaima and Machine Doll in here - but I'll wait until episode two or three before really making a call on what I think of it. Once the world building is out of the way and the characters have some breathing room, then the show's real intentions can come out.
I like the OP and ED. Good work by the voice actresses and Yui Sakakibara. Anything sung by her is going to be associated with eroge, and given all the boing going on with Rebecca, that may not be very far off. Odd watching this after Fairy Tail last night, which had a rather different idea of what a dragon festival was. Not bad, and as far as the MF Bunko Five go, a much more solid start than Magical Warfare.
Of the premieres I've seen so far, this one had the most exposition. Establishing all the terminology of the world and the factions... and a rather bloody beginning, too. I know I've seen stories like this before - there's shades of Zero no Tsukaima and Machine Doll in here - but I'll wait until episode two or three before really making a call on what I think of it. Once the world building is out of the way and the characters have some breathing room, then the show's real intentions can come out.
I like the OP and ED. Good work by the voice actresses and Yui Sakakibara. Anything sung by her is going to be associated with eroge, and given all the boing going on with Rebecca, that may not be very far off. Odd watching this after Fairy Tail last night, which had a rather different idea of what a dragon festival was. Not bad, and as far as the MF Bunko Five go, a much more solid start than Magical Warfare.
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