[Branduil]

That's...disappointing. I am reading similar responses from a number of other people, which makes me think I should drop the show right now and not even bother watching the second episode.

Perhaps, but you should trust those other people and not the person who brought us "Bebop the Cowboy."

[Mad Pierrot]

Sailor Moon R 87:

I'd make this face too if I was just brainwashed into believing that I was being NTRed by my own future daughter

Wow, when Usagi actually makes an effort to be intelligent and mature, things go better than expected. I still can't believe that she actually out-reasoned Demando and got him to renounce his ways, but it wasn't totally unbelievable. Dat "Saphir was going to tell you the same thing!" emotional manipulation though, heheheh.

Also, fuck Wiseman. What an asshole. RIP Demando, go kick his skeletal ass, Usagi.

What was Rei thinking with that pose?

Sailor Moon R 88:

Anything else that I could cap from the episode would be a spoiler, so here's a random white flash.

Well that certainly went more smoothly than S1's finale. None of the Senshi die, and all Usagi really had to do was have the usual exchange of philosophy with the Big Bad followed by dueling crystal kamehamehas! No muss, no fuss, let's go eat cake.

I'd say something about "FINALLY, CHIBIUSA GTFO" but unfortunately I know that we're stuck with her.

Sailor Moon R 89:

This is billed as a clip episode featuring scenes from S, so I'm bailing out unless Hito tells me that it's safe to watch.

[BGBW]

[cajunator]

We need still animes with girls as battleships, satelites, modern philosophers, cockroaches. there are still enough things. And I love it! But I don't believe ghost girls are that crazy.

The os-tan imageboard suggests that we have barely scratched the surface of possibilities!

It's awesome, and unlike School Days doesn't end with a lot of cursing.

Actually I think the cursing with Geass starts far earlier :)

[SDBurton]

Code Geass R1 9 After this Kallen-centric episode, I must say that I'm a little fond of her.

Ugh.

[Brazil]

Code Geass R1 12

And we're finally back to full keikaku mode!

Pretty tame episode, considering the last one. We ended up getting more of Shirley's pedestrian problems... Followed by a Shirleyton in the end.

Huh.

Population with over 192 million. Thats a lot.

I'm a hivemind.

[Branduil]

Yeah, that oughta teach those lazy entitled socialists to pull themselves up by their breadsticks instead of relying on universal breadcare. WINDARIA ISLAND, LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT

Don't you just hate those loafers who want all of our hard-earned dough? Let them eat cake, I say.

[Ultimadrago]

Code Geass R1 12

More tasty keikaku and TABLE-KUN!

As Ledouche works out ways to gain a militant advantage over their opponents, love blooms elsewhere.

Shirley is still head-over-heels for a Ledouche that doesn't seem to care much for her romantically. (I don't care for her either) However, things change when his alter ego/identity is villainized in her eyes for being behind her father's death.

What should he do?!

Eh, shrug it off, eat Pizza Hut.

[Mad Pierrot]

Eh, shrug it off, eat Pizza Hut.

Then again, doesn't this advice apply to everything in life?

[Ultimadrago]

Then again, doesn't this advice apply to everything in life?

My man.

*high fives*

[Branduil]

Interesting. So could this be a way of distinguishing production values? If a show has a ton of repeating frames then couldn't that mean that they're doing half the work (obviously not an exact scale) compared to a studio that has each frame being unique.

No anime will ever be animated on ones. The only exception I know of is Akira.

[wonzo]

[img]vlc miku[img]

[Branduil]

[IM]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/18780843/anime/vlc2.gif[/IMG]

That's pretty amazing.

[Ultimadrago]

[IMG]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/18780843/anime/vlc2.gif[IMG]

More artifacts than a museum.

Sounds about right!

[BGBW]

Then again, doesn't this advice apply to everything in life?

If you are literally faced with no other choice when it comes to pizzas maybe.

VLC_attempts_to_play_10bit_anime.gif

Nice.

[Hellsing321]

[IMG]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/18780843/anime/vlc2.gif[/MG]

This is giving me a fuck

[Envelope]

More artifacts than a museum. Sounds about right!

It's probably just because I'm tired, but that is the funniest thing I've read all day, bravo.

[Mad Pierrot]

Wow, that really creates some interesting scene transitions. I wonder what the Baccano! OP in 10p would look like in VLC!

[dakkumauji]

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/18780843/anime/vlc2.gif

I had no idea where it started and where it ended.

[Makoto]

Wow, that really creates some interesting scene transitions. I wonder what the Baccano! OP in 10p would look like in VLC!

VLC plays 10p fine since the 2.0 release.

[wonzo]

basically vlc creates art ergo it's the best player!

[BGBW]

[Theonik]

Interestingly enough this never happened to me with VLC but I did come across it on the first episode of the new Lupin III on MPC.

http://h12.abload.de/img/freakyjwux8.gif

Ok this one got me haha. This is some camouflage level stuff.

[SDBurton]

http://h12.abload.de/img/freakyjwux8.gif

Oh shit! :lol

[Trojita]

[moonspeak]

I love how I know which /a/ thread you guys are getting these from :3

[sonicmj1]

VLC plays 10p fine since the 2.0 release.

Yeah. I used to use MPC, but VLC really hasn't had any problems for me at all lately.

That doesn't mean there's a lot of particular reasons to use it, but it's a totally valid choice at this point.

[Brazil]

Code Geass R1 13

Cool new OP and ED.

Damn you to hell, Shirley. Stop trying to drag everyone down with you.

And we're already back to the action. Cornelia won't stop escaping death, and Zero's mech was totally made out of cheap plastic. Damn.

[Ultimadrago]

Code Geass R1 13

New OP song is kinda a hip cat, unfortunately not much in the way of new visuals.

So this episode takes a peek into Ledouche's extremes when coming to the safety of others in order to reach his ultimate goal. Again, not new grounds in the way of resistance groups, but this guy has the power of clawed mechs and C.C. That has to mean something!

Also we got some more action, and a very strange display of destruction/wreck shopped with Ledouche's mech.

More Pizza Hut showed up, which made me glad, this time as a large cardboard box.

Next, I request Table-kun with a Pizza Hut box on him...and some extra pizza inside for an afterwards snack (lol)!

[Dresden]

Code Geass R1 13 Cool new OP and ED. Damn you to hell, Shirley. Stop trying to drag everyone down with you. And we're already back to the action. Cornelia won't stop escaping death, and Zero's mech was totally made out of cheap plastic. Damn.

What I didn't like about Code Geass was that it was such a blatant copy of Guilty Crown, it even patterned Shirley after Hare.

[KillerMan91]

Damn. All this Code Geass talk makes me want to rewatch it for a third time...Maybe I will when my summer holiday starts next week! It has been several years since I watched it last time.

[Brazil]

What I didn't like about Code Geass was that it was such a blatant copy of Guilty Crown, it even patterned Shirley after Hare.

Tell me about it.

They're totally going after that worst girl lovers audience.

[pizzaroll]

No anime will ever be animated on ones. The only exception I know of is Akira.

I'm pretty sure that none of Akira is on ones either. It just has incredibly detailed keyframes for the entire duration of the movie. As the saying goes, quality over quantity, etc.

I'm pretty sure you'd have to go back to early 60s Toei Doga films and limited time shorts (modern day) to find Japanese animation on ones. In general, it's a waste of money, time, and energy. Frame count doesn't really matter.

[e_i]

Haiyore! Nyarko-san episode 4

Hasuta...best trap...or BEST TRAP? Clumsy, sweet, and that voice (Rie Kugimiya???).

[Hitokage]

Well unless they've changed it in a later version (haven't updated in a while) it doesn't seem to allow you to save commands and turn them on and off for when you need them. And it doesn't seem to have an option to say where to save screenshots. Default is the desktop but when I run the command "-vo jpeg -ss 00:11:14 -endpos 15 -nosub" nothing appears. I guess I can play around with it a bit more, but for now I'll stick to what I'm used to.

I always found it more productive to just open terminal and run mplayer inside the package if I'm going to be doing stuff like that. All the same, it is true you don't have selectable command line options.

[Jintor]

These VLC gifs are the bomb

[A Black Falcon]

Tasogare Otome x Amnesia 3 - Woah, this episode was amazing! Seriously, best episode of this series yet, by far. This was a really impressive episode with a very strong story, good visuals, and good character interactions, too. Great work!

This episode introduces the third girl, who is Yuuko's sister's granddaughter. Oh, and Yuuko's sister runs the school too. The new girl can see ghosts, but doesn't acknowledge their existence be because she thinks they're probably evil or at least up to no good. In this episode, she influences the MC against Yuuko, and there's a bit of a crisis between the two of them...

It's quite interesting how the attitude of the person looking at her determines what they see. His fears lead to a real, big change in how he sees her. Fortunately he overcomes them in the end, and things return to normal, just with another character... or do they? Not exactly, there are many more mysteries to come.

In addition, another couple of theories of what happened to Yuuko and how she ended up dying in that basement room begin to be presented, here.

-First, it could be an accident. Her leg was broken, so maybe she couldn't move, and starved to death or something with no one knowing she was there.

-But... there's a creepy shrine in that same room, in the gloom, too. Is it REALLY a coincidence that she's there, in the same room as that thing? That does seem to make it less likely, and there's a rumor that the school was built on top of an old temple site too that could be connected to this...

-Or it could be something else, not revealed yet.

"What happened to Yuuko" is of course teh show's central mystery, though, so I don't expect to learn the whole truth for quite some time. There are a lot of mysteries to work through, and a lot of internal resistance from the characters to struggle against as well... I mean, what would happen if she learned the truth? Does she really want to know? Would she still be able to be there with Teiichi, like she wants?

... Yeah, I have trouble seeing this series end with anything other than tears, but we'll see, no way to know for sure at the moment. Either way though, this is really good. I just hope it stays as good as this episode was.

Afaik there is not enough content for another season.

This is wrong. As I said earlier in the thread, the Bodacious Space Pirates anime covers three books of the eight that have been published, at a pace of about 6 episodes a book. Apparently the final quarter of the anime's going to be new material, and there are now eight books out; when they started working on the anime back in '09, there were only three.

So yes, there is plenty of material, if the show does well enough to get the second season it so very very much deserves.

Dusk Maiden of Amnesia 2 Wow, why the fuck wasn't this the first episode? This was not only much better than the last ep but it would have made the perfect introductory episode instead of the pile of shit we got instead.

Episode 3's even better. Blows away the first two episodes combined, I think, and I liked ep. 1 well enough.

Yeah, I thought that scene was strangely out of place. I don't really see the point though, except for nostalgia.

Yeah, if those two scenes felt a bit out of place... yeah, they were. I'm not sure why they were included; either they're not sure if there's ever going to be a second anime based on the main Saki series and they want to cover a few of the basic points of what the main cast is doing after the first anime, or they want to have a bit of Saki in there because this show IS going to cover the finals so they'll reappear there, or maybe something else. I don't know, we'll have to see.

If only this was a 2-cour show.

I mourn for how great this would be as a 2-cour show. :(

They could fit in more characterisation to make the characters more three-dimensional and full of personality. and also not have to skip so many rounds. The skipping really annoys me :(

Absolutely, those things are all pretty annoying issues for sure. More episodes would indeed fix all of them. :(

Yeah, Achiga-hen's decent but it's just an inferior Saki from top to bottom. Less substantial characters, less mahjong, less plot time. I'm still grateful and enjoy the fact that we still have Saki, even if it's as a spin-off but the issues are still so glaring.

Yup. It's still very good, but not quite as great as the original. (Oh, and I like the main series' art a bit more than Achiga's, I think, too...)

Why would you expect animeGAF to have a consensus about anything? :p

What, there isn't a consensus to disagree all the time?

Natsuiro Kiseki 1-4 I came for the character designs. I stayed for no good reason. "Be Careful What You Wish For: The Spring 2012 Anime" or Natsuiro Kiseki, isn't pandering enough and had I stuck to just 3-episodes, I may have set myself of this show but episode 4 was okay enough that I'm sticking around. At least it's not AKB0048.

Fanservicey shots like that are rare in the show, it's mostly reasonably classy I think... but yeah, it is good. Not great, and somewhat generic, but good enough to keep watching certainly.

Yeah. I used to use MPC, but VLC really hasn't had any problems for me at all lately. That doesn't mean there's a lot of particular reasons to use it, but it's a totally valid choice at this point.

Yeah, I used to have problems like those in those pictures, in VLC, but not anymore.

[Trojita]

Haiyore! Nyarko-san episode 4 Hasuta...best trap...or BEST TRAP? Clumsy, sweet, and that voice (Rie Kugimiya???).

One you have the wrong idea, and two I believe that word is generally frowned upon on NeoGAF

[e_i]

One you have the wrong idea, and two I believe that word is generally frowned upon on NeoGAF

Okay.....is it considered derogatory?

[Makoto]

Tasogare Otome x Amnesia 3

I agree with these impressions. Episode 1 was super ehhh, episode 2 was good (certainly should have been episode 1 as mentioned before) but episode 3, man, that quality just shot way upward.

[Brazil]

Code Geass R1 14

I take this episode of a sign of good things to come. Can we really put Shirley past behind us now?

That was kind of a roller coaster. First, Shirley surprisingly did the right thing and shot the chick who found out Zero's identity (although she couldn't really nail it, as expected). Then, she was exposed by the crazy guy. And, finally... She forgot everything about Ledouche! Yes! The worst haremette is gone.

Or is she?

Awesome random cosplay. Good taste.

And Ledouche finally found a rival up to his level... Or above his level, seemingly. Meanwhile, CC comes to save the day like a true white knight for the third time.

I wonder what's their story together.

[Ultimadrago]

Code Geass R1 14

I like this C.C. outfit so I have put it as my screen cap instead of something more related/significant to the story :D

This episode is for Shirley and Ledouche. He recognizes that she cared enough to shoot someone else just to protect his identity and being. She recognizes that life goes on and that there is always light at the end of the darkness (in regards to her father's death and her want of love reciprocity from Ledouche)

So yeah, some growth stuff, not counting the new antagonist Mao that was used as a means to get the two together. Also seems to have a fond connection with C.C. Hmmm, shall be fleshed out later, no doubt.


Anyways, not a Shirley fan, but I guess she needed this.

May it never be picked up again in favor of more Pizza Hut and mech fights.

[Branduil]

I'm pretty sure that none of Akira is on ones either. It just has incredibly detailed keyframes for the entire duration of the movie. As the saying goes, quality over quantity, etc. I'm pretty sure you'd have to go back to early 60s Toei Doga films and limited time shorts (modern day) to find Japanese animation on ones. In general, it's a waste of money, time, and energy. Frame count doesn't really matter.

I don't think it necessarily doesn't matter, it's just not worth it for the vast majority of anime because the quality wouldn't be high enough anyway.

[Trojita]

Okay.....is it considered derogatory?

Yeah. Also that is actually a boy lol.

[A Black Falcon]

Okay.....is it considered derogatory?

Yes.

I agree with these impressions. Episode 1 was super ehhh, episode 2 was good (certainly should have been episode 1 as mentioned before) but episode 3, man, that quality just shot way upward.

Absolutely. They've clearly gotten it together now...

[Brazil]

Fanservicey shots like that are rare in the show, it's mostly reasonably classy I think... but yeah, it is good. Not great, and somewhat generic, but good enough to keep watching certainly.

The fourth episode of Natsuiro Kiseki convinced me to keep watching it even after the mess that was the third one. I hope we never see those little kids again, haha.

[Thoraxes]

So what is correct, surprise transvestite?

[e_i]

Yeah. Also that is actually a boy lol.

Yes...I know Hasuta is a boy. I thought the character was a girl at first because of his voice (like Mahiro). I did not mean the word in a derogatory way.

Anyway, can't the -kun suffix be used for girls as well (but younger than you)? I've heard older characters address a younger female with the -kun. It's rare, but I've heard it.

[Attackthebase]

All the posts about Pizza Hut is really making me hungry. Time to make a sandwich before I make the ill decision to order Pizza Hut.

[Thoraxes]

All the posts about Pizza Hut is really making me hungry. Time to make a sandwich before I make the ill decision to order Pizza Hut.

Well, remember who owns it.