Jex
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The relativists have won. We'll soon all be marrying toasters and lamposts.
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Winter-Spring 2014 Anime |OT3| People incapable of guilt usually do have a good time
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The relativists have won. We'll soon all be marrying toasters and lamposts.
We generally don't though.
PshycoNinja
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Madoka 11
- Oh..... it's all
.
- Well.... It would be nice if we got a happy ending wouldn't it?
- You know.... Logically what the cat says makes a lot of sense. But I am human and have a moral and emotional center/filter to balance me out. I love this kind of Logic vs Emotion thing happening right now. Actually quite fascinated with it.
- Two adults talking. That's unusual for this show.
- That's pretty heavy Homura. But you can't do it alone.
- I don't know why I laughed at the
but I did.
- Holy crap! Homura isn't playing around.
- Oh snap!
I always have the same reaction.
- Mom is laying down the law! Mom is cool.
- When
you know stuff is getting real.
- Oh Madoka! It's time for awesomeness to ensue!
- Yes the ED is back. So awesome.
Summary:
Well this episode was pretty great for setting up whatever the next (last) episode has in store. But like I said at one of my stream of consciousness points I am actually very fascinated with the Logic vs Emotion idea the show portrays. It actually reminded me of a test I took in collage which determined what type of personality a person possesses and one of the traits was if you were more logical or emotional. It's a psychology test. I don't remember what it was called. Anyways, what the cat says (as much as I hate to admit it), makes a lot of sense. At the same time the cat has on numerous occasions has said
. So there's that.
Anyways, the show this episode was just setting up for what I assume is the balls to the wall finale.
Thoughts during episode:
- Oh..... it's all
Homura's fault
- Well.... It would be nice if we got a happy ending wouldn't it?
- You know.... Logically what the cat says makes a lot of sense. But I am human and have a moral and emotional center/filter to balance me out. I love this kind of Logic vs Emotion thing happening right now. Actually quite fascinated with it.
- Two adults talking. That's unusual for this show.
- That's pretty heavy Homura. But you can't do it alone.
- I don't know why I laughed at the
abstract elephant stomping on one of those creatures
- Holy crap! Homura isn't playing around.
- Oh snap!
Slap to the face! Don't know what it is about that but when characters start slapping each other
- Mom is laying down the law! Mom is cool.
- When
buildings are being thrown around
- Oh Madoka! It's time for awesomeness to ensue!
- Yes the ED is back. So awesome.
Summary:
Well this episode was pretty great for setting up whatever the next (last) episode has in store. But like I said at one of my stream of consciousness points I am actually very fascinated with the Logic vs Emotion idea the show portrays. It actually reminded me of a test I took in collage which determined what type of personality a person possesses and one of the traits was if you were more logical or emotional. It's a psychology test. I don't remember what it was called. Anyways, what the cat says (as much as I hate to admit it), makes a lot of sense. At the same time the cat has on numerous occasions has said
it doesn't care about the human race
Anyways, the show this episode was just setting up for what I assume is the balls to the wall finale.
nintendoman58
Member
Grabbed. Thanks!
That terrible moment when junk-anime-GAF finds out that PrecureGAF isn't his, but that INT-anime-GAF was sleeping around.
Psycho_Mantis
Banned
wow who posts in all 3. What shit taste they must have.
MikeHattsu
Member
I hate NTR.
What if you post in all 3.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
That seems much less romantic than the anime made it. lol
Also, do you have a photoblog somewhere collecting all of these?
PshycoNinja
Member
Well I like Key and KyoAni anime so apparently my taste was s**t from the get go.
Awesome, I'm mid-tier then! Behold my power, single thread peasants!
DiscoShark
Banned
Soul Eater Not! - 1
As someone who, at the very least, appreciates the world that Soul Eater created I found it interesting that it expanded on the whole process of finding out you're a weapon and going about life from that point. Yeah we had a bit of that with Soul and his family from the original series but it was different when the person wasn't coming from a highstrung family of musicians. Not a huge fan of the tweaking of some of the designs of the original cast - Black Star in particular seems way more buff - but I was surprised at how well Maka's design ended up growing on me, certainly looked better in motion than what some of the initial PVs for the show lead me to believe.
I ended up enjoying this one a lot more than I initially thought I would and the way it serves to fill in a lot of the fuzzier aspects of the world and the school is something i can absolutely get behind. Looking forward to the next episode for sure.
Hitsugi no Coffin Loli - 01
The hair "X" that the male protagonist is sporting is super annoying, even more so when he decides to go super saiyan. Despite that I can't deny that the special effects they're using for the magic are actually pretty damn neat looking. Didn't really save the episode for me though as the middle part dragged on and on with uninteresting banter between pretty much all of the characters they decided to go on to introduce from there. Sigh sigh.
As someone who, at the very least, appreciates the world that Soul Eater created I found it interesting that it expanded on the whole process of finding out you're a weapon and going about life from that point. Yeah we had a bit of that with Soul and his family from the original series but it was different when the person wasn't coming from a highstrung family of musicians. Not a huge fan of the tweaking of some of the designs of the original cast - Black Star in particular seems way more buff - but I was surprised at how well Maka's design ended up growing on me, certainly looked better in motion than what some of the initial PVs for the show lead me to believe.
I ended up enjoying this one a lot more than I initially thought I would and the way it serves to fill in a lot of the fuzzier aspects of the world and the school is something i can absolutely get behind. Looking forward to the next episode for sure.
Hitsugi no Coffin Loli - 01
The hair "X" that the male protagonist is sporting is super annoying, even more so when he decides to go super saiyan. Despite that I can't deny that the special effects they're using for the magic are actually pretty damn neat looking. Didn't really save the episode for me though as the middle part dragged on and on with uninteresting banter between pretty much all of the characters they decided to go on to introduce from there. Sigh sigh.
ZachDeKoromaru
Banned
This wouldn't happen in Vanilla-animegaf.
Look, as much as Precure has crafted plastic peddling to a science, it is by no means new or noteworthy in its existence. Like I tried to edit in, Ojamajo Doremi also based whole seasons on marketing strategies, but what made that show so damn good was that the people behind it insisted on making things work regardless. You also mentioned MLP, and that show also tried to make something worthwhile on its own merits despite ultimately having to market toys to kids. I feel it's not as successful at this than Doremi, but it's still the same point. Even Sailor Moon, which is based on a manga with no original need to peddle, was influenced by a genre that pushed toys to boys, and was ruthlessly exploited for merchandising regardless.
The presence of this element isn't even worth talking about. It's only when it's egregious or when the show doesn't bother to try to be anything else that it deserves close scrutiny, and the whole point of my introduction was that Happiness Charge Precure was doing things to put itself above the "mere peddling" distinction.
I'm amused at just how much Game of Throne/Song of Ice and Fire discussion cropped up in here.
Anyways:
Anyways:
Honestly to me it's kind of silly to stick just with Toonami/Adult Swim for anime nowadays. They were a great option for those that didn't mind (or actively wanted) dubs and didn't want to buy up tons of DVDs while still watching legitimately, but now with the likes of Crunchyroll, Neon Alley, Hulu, even Netflix it seems kind of pointless to stick just with them. But to each their own I guess, and maybe I'm missing something (not wanting to subscribe to those? Though outside of Netflix they seem to have free options typically.)
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Geimu offu Stronsu is very anime. It's the SAO of live action TV.
If you are a dub-only guy, then your options are much more limited. You can never really keep up with Japan, for one.
On the subject of the merchandise shows - I've been in the toku fandom for so long that it's not even something on my radar anymore. Every show's trying to sell something, it's just a bit more toyetic with kids. And then every so often you get something like Gaim which pushes out more toys than Bandai knows what to do with, but still tells a super compelling story.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
MLP and Sailor Moon and what I've seen of Doremi felt much more genuine about trying to tell good stories that happened to take place in a toy universe. Sort of like how the Lego movie doesn't explicitly mention the Lego movie toys even if that's probably a huge part of the business.
But maybe it's my distaste of CCGs and preying on the addictive nature of collecting more than anything else. It's really off putting. Even more than Pokemon, which was also an anime that literally told people to "catch them all".
curlyfriski
Banned
My toilet might be my wife, but I'll be damned if I call it art.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
MikeHattsu
Member
The Silver
Member
Selector Infected WIXOSS
They're really doing the incest thing huh, smh.
They're really doing the incest thing huh, smh.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
But I could be following you on the instagramz or whatever it is the kids use. lolNo. I'll do something when I got better time/get home. Too busy sightseeing now
Not really, going by the anime you're supposed to release them all.
The anime was actually working against the base product.
Which is my whole point! That it has to sell something to pay the bills is easily forgiven if it can provide quality entertainment otherwise. It doesn't always have to get in the way.
Chet Rippo
Member
The original school that was there moved to a new building, and were going to demolish the old one until K-ON! came along and made it an Otaku tourist spot.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Come on, you're telling me you don't see a difference between SM/MLP and the Precures in terms of how hard they push the merch? Is it really just on me?
Ash was fighting the system all along??
Yeah, I saw that on another blog. I'm just surprised that it's still there, given that K-On is pretty much all but done at this point.
Of course, it is interesting how Precure makes a point to have merchandise prominently displayed and used in such a way where it's clear how kids can do so themselves.
MLP is much worse than SM, if we're making relative comparisons. What I'm doing is arguing relevance.
Love meter.
On the plus side I know how those work. Well, toasters anyway. Lamp posts are still magical light trees.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Yeah, it does. A lot of the small details in the anime are taken from the real school.
http://punynari.wordpress.com/2010/09/25/k-on-school-anime-pilgrimage-part-1/
I guess I could just scrub through all that.
Moral Panic
Member
GoT is practically already an anime. It already has teenage heroes, CGI dragons, magic, incest, people coming back to life, sword fighting, an ancient order tasked with the defence of the world against an ancient evil, etc. It just needs know, to be animated. A minor detail in the rand scheme of things.
And that took an entire episode to do nothing but peddle it. The episode was shit, and there's no excusing it.
I'd imagine I'm far more familiar than you with how merchandizing works overall in Precure, which is why the mere existence of collectible cards doesn't strike me as particularly disturbing when I know how vigorously it pushes other things you might not be as personally adverse to.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
#chemtrails #believe
Tyrian is Kirito.
I will say, every iteration of the show I watched after I watched Smile just felt really bad. It's just that CCGs are extra terrible.
Chet Rippo
Member
They did just release the Box set of the first season as a 5th anniversary. Let the milking commence.
Though the real school was an Elementary School, not a High School *insert K-ON! is for pedophiles comment here
This thread you're talking about already exists. It's called the current season anime OT thread.
Pancakes
hot, steaming, as melted butter slips into the cracks, drizzled with sticky sweet syrup OH GOD
Oh yea I should probably give those away too.
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Shouldn't that be Jamie? Perfect swordsman. Fucks his sister. Has to do stuff that "he doesn't want to but is wicked awesome" for his country.
Yeah, it does. A lot of the small details in the anime are taken from the real school.
http://punynari.wordpress.com/2010/09/25/k-on-school-anime-pilgrimage-part-1/
Is this an actual functioning school? That blog post doesn't make it seem like the school is running.
So, who is Brienne?
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