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Winter-Spring 2014 Anime |OT3| People incapable of guilt usually do have a good time
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I don't update when I'm watching things. I do it some other time.
http://www.project-magi.com/movie/index.html
There's a full trailer out for the Magi Sinbad OAD now. It honestly looks like it could be pretty good. They totally nailed the birth of Sinbad scene. It's a 2-part OAD which will be released with Vol3 and Vol4 of the Sinbad spin-off manga, and the first part is out in May. The OAD is not produced by the same staff as the Magi TV series, but by Lay-Duce, a new anime studio formed by the ex-producer who ran BONES' D Studio.
There's a full trailer out for the Magi Sinbad OAD now. It honestly looks like it could be pretty good. They totally nailed the birth of Sinbad scene. It's a 2-part OAD which will be released with Vol3 and Vol4 of the Sinbad spin-off manga, and the first part is out in May. The OAD is not produced by the same staff as the Magi TV series, but by Lay-Duce, a new anime studio formed by the ex-producer who ran BONES' D Studio.
Its a pretty basic (scroll list) of your MAL with the Watching/Completed/On Hold/Dropped/Plan to Watch categories, I have only ever used MAL so I don't exactly know how it compares.
I cant remember that much later lol.
Thats pretty much where its strength is for me. At least on android. The free app 'Tenpenchii' is great.
As an aside, there seem to be a major proliferation of anime studios with new ones popping up all over the place in recent years. Normally, expansion means business is good - if animation were a struggling industry in Japan, studios would be shutting down not being created. Am I right to assume the recent surge of new studios means anime, at least from a business perspective, is in a good place?
I dont use an app, just was going to the site. I guess I could try an app.
Mockingbird
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Lovely Complex 1-24 END
It was interesting but towards the end things were getting boring with the same jokes and stuff. The supporting characters in this show aren't that great so when they got a focus I really didn't care about them at all with the exception of the Otani's neighbor. I liked the Kansai dialect. Kimi ni Todeke is the better shoujo romance comedy with much more interesting characters. I feel like I don't have enough of an attachment to the show to read the remaining manga chapters either, unlike Kimi ni Todoke.
It was interesting but towards the end things were getting boring with the same jokes and stuff. The supporting characters in this show aren't that great so when they got a focus I really didn't care about them at all with the exception of the Otani's neighbor. I liked the Kansai dialect. Kimi ni Todeke is the better shoujo romance comedy with much more interesting characters. I feel like I don't have enough of an attachment to the show to read the remaining manga chapters either, unlike Kimi ni Todoke.
I dunno if we can really assume that. A proliferation of new businesses in an industry doesn't can be a result of various factors. My personal take on it though is that it's an indication that there's still a lot of interest and passion from newer and younger individuals in the industry and they want more ownership of their work.
Many of the new studios we've seen pop up recently are not new studios formed by people investing into the industry, so it might not be a sign that the money is attractive, but rather since most of them are start ups by producers and directors who have left existing established studios, it seems like a sign to me that enough talent has been cultivated at those places such that some of the staff want to spread their own wings. That's certainly not a bad position for a creative industry to be.
MikeHattsu
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If ahoges are out, then I change my vote to Renge:
Oh, and feel free to add me on MAL:
http://myanimelist.net/profile/MikeHattsu
Since people were talking about that.
Kind of like the gaming industry really. not so much new talent as old talent creating its own new studios to work on new projects. Still indicates continued interest in the industry and thus health. Especially since startups are risky.
If ahoges are out, then I change my vote to Renge:
Oh, and feel free to add me on MAL:
http://myanimelist.net/profile/MikeHattsu
Since people were talking about that.
Added you. Planning to watch Haibane Renmei? good Mikey. Planning to watch Saikano? Better intersperse that with something happy.
Also, Renge is pretty amazing but I like her more cause shes a cutie and less cause of her antennae.
What ads?
Witch Craft Works 12 END
I'm honestly really disappointed Mizushima didn't go for an original end as anything would've been better and more conclusive than this terrible arc centering around the equally terrible character Weekend. At least the manga had the possibility of redeeming itself after that mess and did just that with Chapter 32:
I'm honestly really disappointed Mizushima didn't go for an original end as anything would've been better and more conclusive than this terrible arc centering around the equally terrible character Weekend. At least the manga had the possibility of redeeming itself after that mess and did just that with Chapter 32:
MikeHattsu
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Well... You guys keep bringing Haibane Renmei up when a certain other show is mentioned.
And I added Saikano to my backlog because of that saddest anime thread.
Hm... Not sure I've seen any characters I like yet just because they have antennae. Usually only take notice if somebody in the show points out a strange hairdo anyway or if their hair does something strange.
Well... You guys keep bringing Haibane Renmei up when a certain other show is mentioned.
And I added Saikano to my backlog because of that saddest anime thread.
Hm... Not sure I've seen any characters I like yet just because they have antennae. Usually only take notice if somebody in the show points out a strange hairdo anyway or if their hair does something strange.
I just really love Kuroyukihime's because shes already an elegant beautiful butterfly girl and the antennae just makes her look adorable.
MikeHattsu
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Ah, ok.
On MAL.
Oh hey, I do remember that guy. It sucks that he won't be returning to us for more than a year and a half still =(
Because they're amazing.
Nope.
Still nope.
This is probably fairly accurate, though =p (Not that it stops me wishing I had a real one)
Pitou is pretty androgynous, but I'm fairly sure he's male. At any rate he's about as far as you can get from a cute catgirl. He is one of the best damn characters in the show, though (and in Hunter x Hunter, that's saying a lot).
Well, this summer she's voicing a haniwa-shaped robot =p
Plants are weird. I think a weird-ass life is pretty par for the course when you
marry one
Hmm. This does indeed sound relevant to my interests.
I'm so bad at actually getting around to watching OVA episodes, though, even for shows I really liked when they were airing. Case in point: I still haven't got around to watching the second Gargantia OVA even though "Suisei no Gargantia Specials" has been sitting in my watchlists on MAL and Hummingbird for ages, mocking me.
An iOS app for MAL is certainly interesting to me, but it doesn't look like this one has a native iPad version, so I don't think it would be all that useful for my purposes =/
Right now my routine involves keeping my MAL and Hummingbird watchlists open in tabs on my iPad browser (alongside AnimeGAF, natch) and switching over and incrementing them both whenever I finish an episode. It's not perfect, and I'd probably switch over to using native apps for both of them if good ones existed, but an iPhone-optimised app doesn't really cut it and would probably just feel less efficient.
I do wish the page would load a little faster. It's a lot better than it used to be, though.
I actually find that MAL is more trouble these days, due to a few factors. The watchlist has been coming up with these weird pseudo-popup ads at the bottom of the screen lately that get in the way and seem to confuse the hell out of the iPad browser, the increment buttons are tiny targets so occasionally I hit the wrong one, and they don't seem very responsive either (sometimes I'm sure I hit the "+" button but it doesn't actually register, other times I hit it and the number updates like five or more seconds later...) Oh, and it really doesn't want to keep me logged in. It logs me out at least once a day even if I tell it not to. I still find it pretty functional despite all these annoyances though.
I see a lot of conflicting information about Neferpitou and its gender. Also a lot of fanart of it as female. So I dunno. Whatever Neferpitou is, I like the character.
Pitou doesn't really have a gender.
thats what I gathered.
Theonik
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It's still delivering.
It is.
It does have the dub.
Positive. All of them do in fact as a rule have JP, ENG, FR, GER dubs as a minimum on disk if they exist. Castle in the Sky is the odd one here because of the different OST where they implemented the dub differently.
To be fair, dead bodies decompose very quickly especially in the summer.
I still remember the "Kazuma is actually a guy" disappointment
Thats good to know. So by this point I gather that Doki was coming off the rails?
gashikunFLCL
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Episode 40 is something else, together with 49.
It's better you be prepared, because it's the beginning of the end. =D
Theonik
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At this point Doki was already shit but people were still seeing hope.
Impressive.
R_thanatos
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There is a very "naughty" cat-like character in Hxh , but said character doesn't appear until quite a chunck of episodes
While the character is great i don't think it'll be cajun - approved
Too soon , we're still in the friendship phase !!!
There is a very "naughty" cat-like character in Hxh , but said character doesn't appear until quite a chunck of episodes
While the character is great i don't think it'll be cajun - approved
Too soon , we're still in the friendship phase !!!
I like awesome characters of many kinds, not just cute
astrogamer
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Witch Craft Works 12
Fairly fun finale. Still can't believe that he thought kissing on the lips was something for after marriage. I liked the rabbit and bear's friendship
Fairly fun finale. Still can't believe that he thought kissing on the lips was something for after marriage. I liked the rabbit and bear's friendship
Maken-Ki! Two 1-10
Having never finished season 1 it was up to GAF's screenshots to pull me back into this series. The show works much better (imo) when its just one shot stories not bothering to attempt to be anything else but an ecch harem. The best girl remains Azuki with Kimi being a close second. The show is a lot of fun if ecchi is what you are looking for and oh is this show ecchi.
Having never finished season 1 it was up to GAF's screenshots to pull me back into this series. The show works much better (imo) when its just one shot stories not bothering to attempt to be anything else but an ecch harem. The best girl remains Azuki with Kimi being a close second. The show is a lot of fun if ecchi is what you are looking for and oh is this show ecchi.
Dedication Through Light
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R_thanatos
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i know that..
But that character is kinda different ( don't want to spoil anything ).
Anyway if you want an escuse to start watching Hxh by all means, please do.. it's one of the best shonen series out there.
AquaWateria
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Why do people have the perception that Neferopitou is a male because it doesn't really explain that.
nintendoman58
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It's because the manga keeps stating him as a male using "he", and "him" in sentences.
AnathemicOne
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I find a major flaw in Angel Beats! is also its greatest strength: its numerous cast of characters.
darkside31337
Tomodachi wa Mahou
Its pretty bad.
I say this as somebody who thinks Clannad (especially AS) is by far the best thing KyoAni has ever worked on and as somebody who loves Kanon (06), Angel Beats ain't worth watching. It doesn't have the KyoAni touch and the story is pretty lousy in general.
FelixOrion
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We'll see, like I said, nothing so far to make me give up on it.
I watched first episode subbed, but I'll check it out.
Yeah, I get ya. It is a KEY show after all.
If TK gets more spotlight, that a-OK with me.
Well, I guess we'll see. I've trudged through some garbage before, but haven't seen much yet to classify it one way or another. I think it has potential, but that really means nothing.
MikeHattsu
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I would rather watch Air. But that's me though.
Hm... Have you watched Kanon 2006? Can't remember if you've said so.
FelixOrion
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Theonik
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