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Winter-Spring 2014 Anime |OT3| People incapable of guilt usually do have a good time
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firehawk12
Subete no aware
But now you do!
ZachDeKoromaru
Banned
I hope my tax dollars are going towards butt-related sciences.
dakkumauji
Member
Oh yeah, just wait for that Charizard X vs. Charizard Y fight now. Just to complete the circle of Charizard being everyone's favorite Pokemon.
The episode preview might ruin that if it looks like we're getting an entire episode about Wilbell.
Jex
Member
Is there any other kind?
I don't think it's fair of me to really talk further about the show until I've watched the second episode to see how it handles things there - I'm talking only based on the first ep, after all. I hope you're right, and that I will be able to suspend my disbelief because the show will be engaging enough for me to do so. Perhaps it's just a consequence of this particular "type" of plot that I find it harder to accept than not.
It's odd that I feel this way given how much I like these amnesia plots - I watched a fairly rubbish TV movie last year called Remember Sunday that did the 24 hour memory loss thing and enjoyed it rather a lot. It's probably just the timespan of the amnesia that's bugging me.
A Huge Battleship
Member
Posting some vintage firearms in a vintage firearms thread.
We already have a idol wrestling show.
Amazing
As emotional as that scene was it still really bugs me. "I must help them in case they drown from being in a not very deep river".
Gochumon wa Usagi Desu - 01
Really, really saccharine sweet. This would probably be a nice bit of fun if it wasn't for Cocoa being so obnoxiously loud and annoying. Mentally deficient moe in full force I guess. For some reason the rabbit screaming "No!" had me in absolute pieces though. Also kinda of a weird thing to add to the show:
the grandfather being in the form of a rabbit.[/url]
We'll see how the next ep goes but I might have to drop it just from Cocoa.
We'll see how the next ep goes but I might have to drop it just from Cocoa.
astrogamer
Member
Moonphase 24
Pretty good final battle. Fairly exciting twists and Kouhei was kind of cool.
Pretty good final battle. Fairly exciting twists and Kouhei was kind of cool.
Though there are 2 more episodes so I don't remember what happens next. It's a little weird to have an epilogue over 2 episodes
firehawk12
Subete no aware
I don't think they were threatened with being drowned, it's just that she didn't want to leave them behind. The fact that Usagi team would essentially play an integral part in the final gambit makes her choice the right one anyway - it's a scenario where the sports play actually contributes to not only the outcome of the game, but to the story as a whole!
chickdigger802
Banned
nananananananaana 1
uh... that was... ok? glasses is best.
also is she playing pso2? mgrgrgrgr
uh... that was... ok? glasses is best.
also is she playing pso2? mgrgrgrgr
I'm not sure if I'm OK with math and sciences being used like this...
We don't need to worry until we get to Uni level stuff
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Someone needs to calculate the how much her butt is affected by relativity.
Well I get that it was more about not leaving them behind but the scenario of it happening to be in water like the original incident was too much a coincidence. The scene just felt like it was being treated as something more overly serious like before rather than "well shit, they're stuck".
Although now I'm of a mind to go order the Miho Nendo now...
firehawk12
Subete no aware
It's war though, no man left behind!
Hellsing321
Member
If Einstein were alive today I can guarantee thats what he would be spending his days doing.
Theonik
Member
Just think of the amount of strength she needs to stay on at those speeds.
She's probably ripped.
dakkumauji
Member
Ace of Diamond 27
Shounen teamwork!
Lol, a recap episode? Haven't seen one of those in ages
Shounen teamwork!
Lol, a recap episode? Haven't seen one of those in ages
firehawk12
Subete no aware
You mean she's built like a brick shithouse?
One Week Friends 2
So after all that wondering about the premise, it seems I'm perfectly happy to suspend my disbelief after all when the show is as "nice" as this (I hate to use the word nice, but it really describes this show very well...)
I'm looking forward to it expanding its horizons a little, as per the next episode's title, but what we have here is a perfectly pleasant yet bittersweet way to spend 20 minutes or so.
So after all that wondering about the premise, it seems I'm perfectly happy to suspend my disbelief after all when the show is as "nice" as this (I hate to use the word nice, but it really describes this show very well...)
I'm looking forward to it expanding its horizons a little, as per the next episode's title, but what we have here is a perfectly pleasant yet bittersweet way to spend 20 minutes or so.
Nothing1016
Member
One Week Friends - 02
This is gonna be brutal.
This is gonna be brutal.
better than Yayoi? Those are some BIG WORDS.
lol stop buying figures...like trying to quit smoking
Ewwwww.
nintendoman58
Member
All right, time to make good on my promise to PshychoNinja, since he finished Madoka.
Angel Beats - 4
So we have our comedic anime baseball episode. Honestly, while this episode was fun, I liked the one in Clannad After Story better. Why? BECAUSE EVERYBODY WAS ALIVE IN THAT SHOW.
The more I think about it, this is a pretty demoralizing place to go to when you die. Hello! You died, so welcome to the high-school for dead teenagers!
Hey, I've got an idea! Why not make the show about one of these so-called NPCs?
That's one way this setting could work, I guess.
All in all, the main problem of this show still sticks out like a sore thumb, but at least everything else is adorable. Yui in particular is hilariously :cajun and enjoyable.
Angel Beats - 4
So we have our comedic anime baseball episode. Honestly, while this episode was fun, I liked the one in Clannad After Story better. Why? BECAUSE EVERYBODY WAS ALIVE IN THAT SHOW.
The more I think about it, this is a pretty demoralizing place to go to when you die. Hello! You died, so welcome to the high-school for dead teenagers!
Don't experience the happiest moment of your life here though, otherwise you'll go through SUPER death! This is like rubbing salt on a nihlistic wound. "Oh, life is meaningless as we're all going to die in the end, and when we do die we're going to go to a place where we'll die again if we get really happy."
Hey, I've got an idea! Why not make the show about one of these so-called NPCs?
Yeah! One of the characters is shown, living his everyday life, then suddenly some people he knows start dissapearing one by one, until he comes to the horrifying realization that the world he lives in is a limbo for dead people and he's just a pawn with fake memories.
All in all, the main problem of this show still sticks out like a sore thumb, but at least everything else is adorable. Yui in particular is hilariously :cajun and enjoyable.
FMP The Second Raid 13 END
This series was a major tone shift, not just from Fumoffu! but even the first season. The comedy/drama balance was shifted hard, and to the show's detriment. The latter half especially was quite a slog to get through, without even much action to leaven up the relentless drumbeat of glum introspection and existential dread. I was even looking forward to seeing Gates appear, for fuck's sake. If Film Crit Hulk is right about one thing, it's this: Don't drag out the Refusal of the Call. It just kills the pacing and annoys the audience.
The sad thing is, the show really nailed that stuff when it actually got around to doing it. The comedy was as funny as anything from the past seasons, and the finale had some of the best Real Robot style action scenes that have ever taken place in Earth's atmosphere. I just wish the balance had been struck to feature those strengths more.
If the light novels progressed further in this same direction, I don't know that I feel particularly bad about the animated adaptation just leaving off here.
Normally I find Chidori's slapstick violence a tad annoying, but here her frustration with Sousuke mirrors my own, so it's very cathartic.
Christ, Gates is an asshole.
Why hasn't that Lamda Driver-powered punch ever been an attack in Super Robot Wars? The Arbalest needs a boss-killer, aside from the Uruz team attack.
Denouement was sweet, although it's bullshit putting off the romantic development further.
Christ, Gates is an asshole.
Why hasn't that Lamda Driver-powered punch ever been an attack in Super Robot Wars? The Arbalest needs a boss-killer, aside from the Uruz team attack.
Denouement was sweet, although it's bullshit putting off the romantic development further.
This series was a major tone shift, not just from Fumoffu! but even the first season. The comedy/drama balance was shifted hard, and to the show's detriment. The latter half especially was quite a slog to get through, without even much action to leaven up the relentless drumbeat of glum introspection and existential dread. I was even looking forward to seeing Gates appear, for fuck's sake. If Film Crit Hulk is right about one thing, it's this: Don't drag out the Refusal of the Call. It just kills the pacing and annoys the audience.
The sad thing is, the show really nailed that stuff when it actually got around to doing it. The comedy was as funny as anything from the past seasons, and the finale had some of the best Real Robot style action scenes that have ever taken place in Earth's atmosphere. I just wish the balance had been struck to feature those strengths more.
If the light novels progressed further in this same direction, I don't know that I feel particularly bad about the animated adaptation just leaving off here.
Welp, now I'm drooling
its interesting. Most folks I know much prefer railgun, and hated railgun s2 because it brought in Touma and all the index bullshit.
Admiral Woofington
Member
I don't know why but when the season was starting for One Week Friends I was expecting it to be brutal in the feels territory. But seems like they decided to go with less drama and more cute moments than Ef. So I don't expect it to get brutal except for maybe a couple of manly tear scenes.
hosannainexcelsis
Member
Haikyuu 2
You don't see well-animated eyecatches very often. The last time I saw them was probably Natsume. It's nice to see a show put in the extra effort into them.
You don't see well-animated eyecatches very often. The last time I saw them was probably Natsume. It's nice to see a show put in the extra effort into them.
Seikoku no Dragonar 2
Ughhhh, I knew I was making a mistake giving this show a second episode to convince me. Almost everything about it is still horribly mediocre and unappealing, but I can't bring myself to drop it when the frequently-nude dragon loli, who is clearly the star of the show, is so great.
I'll admit that the actual plot events in this episode also felt somewhat more engaging than last episode's where I honestly couldn't give a shit about a single thing that happened, but even that may just be thanks to the fact that Eco was involved in them this time around. The climax of this episode, where the scientist woman
, was just...ugh. That kind of mixing "comedy" and drama is very "anime" in the worst possible way. It felt completely out of place and cheapened the whole scene.
Oh, and despite the fact that the loli dragon and her fanservice value seem to be the main draw of this show and frankly the only reason I can see why anyone would actually want to watch it, the show doesn't even seem to be doing a good job of appealing to that audience outside of that one character. There are no other lolis in sight, and the other wildly sexualised characters we've seen so far are the aforementioned scientist woman from this episode, and the weird dragon succubus...woman...thing from the dream sequences in the previous episode. Both of whom are disgustingly well-endowed and about as far from loli as it's possible to get. I'm not sure if this show even knows what it wants to be.
Ughhhh, I knew I was making a mistake giving this show a second episode to convince me. Almost everything about it is still horribly mediocre and unappealing, but I can't bring myself to drop it when the frequently-nude dragon loli, who is clearly the star of the show, is so great.
I'll admit that the actual plot events in this episode also felt somewhat more engaging than last episode's where I honestly couldn't give a shit about a single thing that happened, but even that may just be thanks to the fact that Eco was involved in them this time around. The climax of this episode, where the scientist woman
was honest-to-god going to dissect Eco and this was treated as a legitimate threat, only for her to suffer no consequences for this attempt after being defeated and instead become their new class teacher with no reasonable justification other than "lol isn't it funny now your teacher is psycho-woman"
Oh, and despite the fact that the loli dragon and her fanservice value seem to be the main draw of this show and frankly the only reason I can see why anyone would actually want to watch it, the show doesn't even seem to be doing a good job of appealing to that audience outside of that one character. There are no other lolis in sight, and the other wildly sexualised characters we've seen so far are the aforementioned scientist woman from this episode, and the weird dragon succubus...woman...thing from the dream sequences in the previous episode. Both of whom are disgustingly well-endowed and about as far from loli as it's possible to get. I'm not sure if this show even knows what it wants to be.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
S2's take on the whole Index thing was just waaaaaaaay too long.
R_thanatos
Member
I'm standing strong with my decision
Hey ! I can do it !
Railgun and all the index spin-off are only there to expand the index world , nothing else . The sister arc was a mandatory passage but it should be the only arc in that sense with railgun ( ever ) The rest is much more original stuff
and much more misaka focused ...
I mean the sister arc in index S2 was fine when misaka was the main character , problem in that arc ( in the railgun context ) is that the main heroine didn't do shit for the finale...
Thankfully we'll have the daihaiseisai to look forward to from misaka perspective if they plan to make a railgun S3..
KirbYuuYuu
Member
Space Brothers 2
Screwing makes you interesting, as well as flushing your mother down a toilet!
Oh lovely, we also gain 2 new characters, not-Wright, and a girl.
Screwing makes you interesting, as well as flushing your mother down a toilet!
Oh lovely, we also gain 2 new characters, not-Wright, and a girl.
FelixOrion
Poet Centuriate
Nobel Prize guaranteed.
Wish I'd never stopped on that. Stupid fucking capsule thing.
I like Railgun a lot more.
cannot wait. This show is practically inevitable.
thats some really high praise!
PshycoNinja
Member
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Honestly, just skip it. It has some minor consequences, but it's stuff they catch you up on anyway. I think the moon arc is good place to start.
dakkumauji
Member
Haikyuu!! 02
Captain's da best.
Woo, forced being friends with each other and teamwork! Enjoyable episode, nice contrast between the two and I like the other members of the team we have been introduced to. All the animation quirks were pretty fun too.
Captain's da best.
Woo, forced being friends with each other and teamwork! Enjoyable episode, nice contrast between the two and I like the other members of the team we have been introduced to. All the animation quirks were pretty fun too.
FelixOrion
Poet Centuriate
Tonari no Seki-kun! 15
I love these episodes where Goto misinterprets Yokoi and Seki's relationship
I love these episodes where Goto misinterprets Yokoi and Seki's relationship
cause I want YokoixSeki to actually happen ;_;
R_thanatos
Member
Not even washu can prevent the tenchi universe saga to be less intresting than the oavs.
More short stuff.
Soredemo Sekai wa Utsukushii ep.2
Annoyed at the start of the episode but it got better as it went on. Will keep watching at least another week.
Baby Steps ep.2
Simple, but enjoyable enough. I'm not really a sports person but I can relate to that feeling when you get the right form, or get in the "zone", or whatnot.
One Week Friends ep.2
So they will be able to make this adorable without being repetitive. Good to know.
Tonari no Seki-kun ep.15
Pigtails.
Love Live! S2 ep.2
Still just as much fun as the first season, or maybe even more so since the whole cast is together right from the get go.
Soredemo Sekai wa Utsukushii ep.2
Annoyed at the start of the episode but it got better as it went on. Will keep watching at least another week.
Baby Steps ep.2
Simple, but enjoyable enough. I'm not really a sports person but I can relate to that feeling when you get the right form, or get in the "zone", or whatnot.
One Week Friends ep.2
So they will be able to make this adorable without being repetitive. Good to know.
Tonari no Seki-kun ep.15
Pigtails.
Love Live! S2 ep.2
Still just as much fun as the first season, or maybe even more so since the whole cast is together right from the get go.
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