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Winter-Spring 2014 Anime |OT3| People incapable of guilt usually do have a good time
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I'll have to check it out in the morning, going to bed now.
Or you could just like both.
Durian is amazing. Corvy is correct. Papaya is the devil's asshole.
DiscoShark
Banned
A lot coming down the pipe today that i'm excited for. Ping pong, Knights of Sidonia, and Atelier are all premiering with selector infected's second episode airing as well. Thursdays and Fridays are looking to be great days for anime this season.
Still need to finish The Tatami Galaxy though ...
Edit : Watermelons and Mangoes are better than your favorite fruit. Kiwis are up there too.
Still need to finish The Tatami Galaxy though ...
Edit : Watermelons and Mangoes are better than your favorite fruit. Kiwis are up there too.
Soul Eater Not - Episode 1
This show is certainly (not) Soul Eater. It feels more like the Agents of SHIELD of Soul Eater. Bland. Uninteresting. Filled with cameos and references to a more interesting series. I dunno if the attempt to make a spinoff about more "mundane" elements of a more popular thing ever really works. It's like they took Soul Eater's setting and created a totally by-the-books high school type story with it, complete with a yuri angle to attract a "different" audience.Unoffensive, but pretty damn boring. Looks pretty damn ugly for a BONES show too. I hate the colors. they feel almost as bad as something from a PA Works show.
Cameos are almost the only good thing about this.
This show is certainly (not) Soul Eater. It feels more like the Agents of SHIELD of Soul Eater. Bland. Uninteresting. Filled with cameos and references to a more interesting series. I dunno if the attempt to make a spinoff about more "mundane" elements of a more popular thing ever really works. It's like they took Soul Eater's setting and created a totally by-the-books high school type story with it, complete with a yuri angle to attract a "different" audience.Unoffensive, but pretty damn boring. Looks pretty damn ugly for a BONES show too. I hate the colors. they feel almost as bad as something from a PA Works show.
PshycoNinja
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Sure, but were would be the edge in that?
She has this scene later in the episode where she and Soul show off their awesome synergy to the freshmen students. It looked so amateur compared to the action animation in Soul Eater. Just sad.
No Game No Life actually had a pretty strong first episode, in my opinion. It doesn't help that I watched Black Bullet and Kanojo no Flag wo Oraretara before it, which were massive exposition dumps lol. The dialogue in Black Bullet was especially awkward all of the time, while Gawoware was kind of just a mix of exposition dialogue and hurried pacing. Well, I'll still give all of them a few more episodes, but I'm surprised at how decent No Game No Life's first episode was considering I'm not a huge fan of the manga or the color palette.
I'll probably leave Mahouka and Hitsugi no Chaika for tomorrow. Gochiusa, Ping Pong, and Nanana are airing tomorrow so I might end up pushing the two back further though. :<
I'll probably leave Mahouka and Hitsugi no Chaika for tomorrow. Gochiusa, Ping Pong, and Nanana are airing tomorrow so I might end up pushing the two back further though. :<
In anime it's the other way around.
One of the visual aspects that bothered me the most was how static the perspective was. It was like they were hiding stuff off camera. In the hallway scene near the end of the episode specifically the windows are always framed as a backdrop behind the conflict, like the viewer is some third party in the world rooted to one spot. It's super weird.Soul Eater Not - Episode 1
Looks pretty damn ugly for a BONES show too. I hate the colors. they feel almost as bad as something from a PA Works show.
Zucchini makes better bread
What about melonpan?
I'm watching this while half asleep and it is the most terrifyingly surreal thing ever.
Maximilian Kolbe
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Chaika is gaijin so she speak like that
Psycho_Mantis
Banned
Asuka's da best.
Is this moe?
Eh I figured I might as well watch Mahouka before going to sleep. I don't think the execution was that bad (coming off of Gawoware and Black Bullet lol). It was a more entertaining first episode than Gawoware and Black Bullet but less entertaining than No Game No Life. Still, I had forgotten how boring the start of Mahouka was. Lol I can't imagine a way to make the content of this episode exciting. Maybe if it were a two-block special so they could at least start introducing Tatsuya's OPness or something.
That being said, I prefer the slower, more boring pace of Mahouka over the rushed and awkward pacing of Gawoware or the exposition-burdened pacing of Black Bullet. Having a hook at the end doesn't really alleviate the rest of the cringing that accompanies an episode which sprints through the plot. That doesn't make the beginning of Mahouka more exciting though, lol. I hope the show doesn't dwell on the first arc too much since I find it really boring. The fight scenes past the first arc combined with Iwasaki's music should be fun to watch so I'm anticipating those.
That being said, I prefer the slower, more boring pace of Mahouka over the rushed and awkward pacing of Gawoware or the exposition-burdened pacing of Black Bullet. Having a hook at the end doesn't really alleviate the rest of the cringing that accompanies an episode which sprints through the plot. That doesn't make the beginning of Mahouka more exciting though, lol. I hope the show doesn't dwell on the first arc too much since I find it really boring. The fight scenes past the first arc combined with Iwasaki's music should be fun to watch so I'm anticipating those.
Anime and WSHH, together at last.
Got tired of melon bread about three days into my holiday. Quite liked the eggy bread stuff I found in a Family Mart(or was it 711?). Yeah, I had bad convenience store breakfasts during my trip.
EDIT: I should note I didn't watch the vid because I can't be arsed to sign in.
Lee Chaolan
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Yuyushiki has to be one of the most rewarding ending themes I've seen. it's soooo freaking adorable how you see items and people from the episode in that cute little ending animation.
It's too damn cute.
It's too damn cute.
Majin Bone 2
The charming and diverse cast of characters keeps me coming back even if the CG's so utterly awful to watch. I blame it on the almost non-existent frame modulation to give the "suits" or whatever they are some actual sense of mass and place in the world.
JoJo: Stardust Crusaders 1
I think there was more animation in this first episode than the entirety of Season One. Holy shit. I still can't believe the Stands aren't CG even after watching this.
i do miss old sugita tho
The charming and diverse cast of characters keeps me coming back even if the CG's so utterly awful to watch. I blame it on the almost non-existent frame modulation to give the "suits" or whatever they are some actual sense of mass and place in the world.
JoJo: Stardust Crusaders 1
I think there was more animation in this first episode than the entirety of Season One. Holy shit. I still can't believe the Stands aren't CG even after watching this.
i do miss old sugita tho
Maximilian Kolbe
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Sega Hard Girls anime announced.
http://yaraon.blog109.fc2.com/blog-entry-23118.html
It's about anime girl personifications of Sega consoles and hardware.
Characters
http://shg.sega.jp/chara.html
http://yaraon.blog109.fc2.com/blog-entry-23118.html
It's about anime girl personifications of Sega consoles and hardware.
Characters
http://shg.sega.jp/chara.html
SO MANY CUTIES
JoJo: Stardust Crusaders 1
I think there was more animation in this first episode than the entirety of Season One. Holy shit. I still can't believe the Stands aren't CG even after watching this.
i do miss old sugita tho
I don't think Sugita's voice really fit Old Joseph. Probably the worst performance in ASB.
His Old Man Gintoki voice is ace though.
As silly as this is, I like that there's an American version of the Mega Drive character named Genesis.
PdotMichael
Banned
The designs don't look really interesting.
And not sure if I want a cast full of useless moe characters.
I am not even sure how any girl relates to any system design wise.
I dont mind a loli army!
So I was going back through episode 3 or 4 of Love Lab in search of big eyebrows and I came across this English quiz.
1. Marking 休み incorrect as a translation of "vacation" is bullshit. Definitely a mistake by the teacher.
2. Putting "(I'm/sad)" in proper grammatical order might be the easiest test question I've ever seen.
Nothing jumps out at first, but there are two notes I have to make.
I mean, I wouldn't put that many katakana-based words in there, but that sets up the "key-chain" curveball. In Japan, key-chains are called key-holders!
1. Marking 休み incorrect as a translation of "vacation" is bullshit. Definitely a mistake by the teacher.
2. Putting "(I'm/sad)" in proper grammatical order might be the easiest test question I've ever seen.
Didn't work for Blade and Soul either.
And its not like I have a high bar, I mean I watched all of Maken ki.
Yet the last hotel I stayed in had a sign that said "Closed Sorry we're".
FlyingSaucer
Banned
I still think it would be a much better show if the male lead dropped from a cliff and Kiriko was the main protagonist of the series.
But yeah, it was bad. It must be divine retribution for Takashi Watanabe for failing the Senran Kagura adaptation !
A Huge Battleship
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Character designs are generally terrible, with a few notable exceptions. Saturn is superior, appropriately enough, with HM to Master System.
Waiting with bated breath for a Neptunia crossover.
It was done in Love Live before, even! That whole series of shots climaxing in the rotating camera was one of a number of direct visual references to the first episode of the first series of the show.
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