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Winter Anime 2017 |OT| John Wick cleaning up KyoAni's mess

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Cornbread78

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Monster Girls ep.8
This just made last week's episode feel so out of place with the new characters introduced and separate plot line for succubus sensei.

There were also some very uncomfortable sexual innuendos mixed in about getting hair stuck in teeth and succubus sense I tasting the best. It was pretty funny, but c'mom male teacher building a female demi harem here, lol. Just ship the teachers already!
 
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convo

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Admiral Woofington said:
has someone posted the blame trailer?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwy806RC2-Q

Making me want to read the manga, but I don't recall being too wowed at the beginning.
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With previous Blame! adaptations having a lower budget than audio dramas this seems like a good effort. Blame is about scenary ,architecture and gun porn, the character faces could have been just blank nothing and it would still be extremly provocative to me. The setting is the go to dream place for a sci-fi souls game to be set for me.
I want to see what the coolest weapon in all of existence (to my middle school self) is gonna look like in this. I didn't watch anything of Sidonia but it didn't seem all that bad.
 
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duckroll said:
This is a legit good year for nominations. Zootopia, Monoa, Red Turtle, Kubo, all had good merits to win, and appealed greatly to different audiences. You want a bad year to bitch about? Bitch about this one:

Big Hero 6 – Don Hall, Chris Williams and Roy Conli
The Boxtrolls – Anthony Stacchi, Graham Annable and Travis Knight
How to Train Your Dragon 2 – Dean DeBlois and Bonnie Arnold
Song of the Sea – Tomm Moore and Paul Young
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya – Isao Takahata and Yoshiaki Nishimura

Holy shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit.
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Yeah, I knew Kaguya wouldn't win that year, but I still couldn't help but be a bit annoyed. An absolutely brilliant film, and they chose Big Hero 6 over it? We've known this before, but the Oscars just doesn't take animation seriously.
 
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Syrinx

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Aikatsu! Stars 45

Wait, Tsubasa has another year of eligibility? I knew Yuzu did but I could've sworn Tsubasa was a third year.
 
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hosannainexcelsis

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Anime Tamago 2017 long PV.

Studio Comet's short looks the best, seems a fairly fun children's adventure. Studio 4C's Red Ash is Inafune still finding ways to get money for his multimedia projects somehow. Nippon Animation's short has some potential with basically attractive art design. The SSS/Studio Live/Wao World short looks like they dug up the Shirobako girls' anime club short.

Not nearly as exciting as the 2016 lineup was, but I'm mildly looking forward to Studio Comet's work at least.
 
Cornbread78

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zulux21 said:
it was a fine series, not as good as Shoji gatoh's other series Full Metal Panic, but it was still a decent series and I would watch a season 2. Plus I will be buying it on home video later this year.
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I would love a season 2 as long as they actually complete the ship, lol.
 
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koro sensei quest 1

for a gag comedy spin off, this isn't horrible.
as a series in general.... this doesn't seem very good.

a very big step down from the actual series it is based off of.
I did however like the 8bit remake of one of the openings for the end song though.

oh well I will burn through two more episodes to knock it off my funimation dubs list for a later date so I can reach my goal of watching at least 3 episodes of every dubbed anime on funimation.com by the end of the year lol.
 
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zulux21

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Tuck said:
Hm. Thats fine. Zootopia was really good. I think I preferred Moana somewhat, but it was close. Moana was just oddly applicable to my life atm, so I connected with it better.

Your Name was better than both
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it's a tight race between moana and zootopia for me, but given they are so close the simple fact that
I found zootopia's ending very very boring and predictable, while moana's ending was at least somewhat interesting
gives the edge to moana for me.

I haven't watched your name yet, but I would hands down rate both zootopia and moana over kubo and the two strings at the very least as that one isn't even a contest for me.
 
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firehawk12

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Narag said:
I've been following this through impressions to see if I wanted to watch it later and this makes it sound like the misery x titillation is really superficial and everyon watching just wanted a wild ride. I'm a little less inclined to check it out now.
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I mean it's Japanese melodrama, so, it is what it is.

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Scum's Wish 01-07
My initial interest in the series wore through pretty quickly. The nihilistic viewpoint of sex and love is not inherently a dealbreaker, but here it feels like a narrow lens that everything in the story is viewed through. In its efforts to weave some kind of complex web of relationships the story crawls, regularly letting characters shift in and out of the picture as convenience dictates. Divorced from reality, consequence, and emotion, it's difficult to muster much interest in the internal ramblings of these characters as they string each other along to little effect. Direct character interaction feels so limited and scattershot that none of the characters really wind up coming across as all that deplorable. Stories like Oniisama e border on being classified as tragedy, but Scum's Wish finds itself in a fairly limp and uninteresting middle ground. These characters never seem to stop crying, but their suffering and internal strife feel fairly surface level and inconsequential. The show's underdeveloped understanding of the male psyche casts an ugly spotlight on the childish simplicity of this interpretation of love, and the meekly naive and repetitive depiction of sexuality deeply undercuts anything the show has to say about the physical manifestation of love. The only bodily fluid you'll regularly find in Scum's Wish are the characters' crocodile tears.
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I mean, having read a spoiler about one of the relationships, I'm already prepared to be disappointed about the nature of the relationships and how it's all just moving pieces.

But the thing is that anime in general isn't capable of producing something about relationships on this level. I suppose one could argue that Scum's Wish is as trite as Seiren, despite them being diametrical opposites in terms of how they explore the complicated nature of human desire, but I think the bar is so low that Scum's Wish becomes interesting by default. It acknowledges that sex exists, it acknowledges that sex and love are not necessarily one and the same, and it acknowledges that desire itself is not love. This is basically the most complicated these things are allowed to get and still be popular or marketable enough to be made into anime (and a Jdrama).
 
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Aikatsu Stars 45

Ako is precious. A true idol knows to put her fans before her personal ambitions. And Animal Carnival is a perfect song for her. Too bad she probably screwed herself over. But it seems the 3rd years are competing for S4 slots too? Even though they're graduating? Uh, that changes just about everything. Hard to see anyone beating Hime except maybe Lily. Mahiru isn't on Yozora's level yet. Tsubasa is a loser, but Ako is more of one. Exciting times ahead.
 
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KraytarJ

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K-ON!! 12
Continuing along with the inevitability of high school friendships ending, and how important the time you spend together is as major themes of S2. At this point I'm dreading the finale, if it's at all like what I'm expecting it to be.
 
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Sterok

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Little Witch Academia 8

I think Sucy is just legitimately evil. Like straight up crazy, and one day someone is going to have to save the world from mad witch Sucy. This episode was just Trigger being pure Trigger. Like, slow down a little please. The effectiveness of crazy is dulled when it's constantly being thrown in your face with no respite.
 
Jex

Jex

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[LWA TV] - 8

The only good episode in the series thus far has arrived!

Oh, so Studio Trigger can actually good episodes of this show. Like, really good episodes.

Why haven't they done so up until now? What took so long? Will there be any more good episodes in the future?

If you know the answers, please let me know!
 
Jex

Jex

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MetroidPrimeRib said:
Episode 8 is Sucy focused right? Actually excited for an episode of this
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Hmm...

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Marvel Reveals Marvel Future Avengers TV Anime, Manga Project

coming summer
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The anime will follow Makoto, a young boy who gains superpowers due to an evil gene manipulation experiment. Makoto and other youths join the Avengers as apprentices named "Future Avengers." The anime will show Makoto and others as they train, fight villains and grow, under Avengers members Iron Man, Captain America, Hulk, Thor, and Wasp.

Additionally, Teruaki Mizuno (Kyōryū Taisen Dinobout, Metallica Metalluca) is drawing a manga version that will debut in Shogakukan's Bessatsu Coro Coro Comics Special magazine's April issue, which ships on Tuesday.
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more info about history of marvel projects in the link from the start.
 
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Kemono Friends 02

The character interactions are so playful. Bag and Serval's greetings to one another are so endearing. And the fact that the protag calls herself Bag is hilarious.

I'm noticing a theme of displaying the unique strengths of animal species which is then contrasted to human ingenuity. Both episodes start with Bag feeling inadequate to her kemono friends but in the end her inventiveness helps solve issues they could never solve themselves.

firehawk12 said:
It's spreading~
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I had plans to precure but somehow started this instead.
 
Jex

Jex

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duckroll said:
He storyboarded it. I mean, Yoshinari storyboarded 1.5 episodes so far too, and has directed zero episodes.

Gotta let the younger people in Trigger do all the real work!
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Isn't storyboarding where the real 'magic' happens anyway, duckroll?

The magic of making anime?
 
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When an episode director doesn't storyboard, do they then provide fairly precise instructions on how those have to look or what else is it exactly that makes someone an episode director.
 
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duckroll

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NaDannMaGoGo said:
When an episode director doesn't storyboard, do they then provide fairly precise instructions on how those have to look or what else is it exactly that makes someone an episode director.
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It depends on the episode director, but they're basically the person who sits in on every meeting involving that episode, and acts as the in-between for the staff and the series director. Some episode directors leave it to the animation directors to instruct animators on how to handle their cuts, some give specific direction themselves.
 
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Shergal

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Makoto Nakazono also directed and helped out with the SB in episode 2, but it's not at all on the same level

cmon duck, we all know the storyboarder is the name to look at most of the time!
 
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duckroll said:
It depends on the episode director, but they're basically the person who sits in on every meeting involving that episode, and acts as the in-between for the staff and the series director. Some episode directors leave it to the animation directors to instruct animators on how to handle their cuts, some give specific direction themselves.
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Hmm aye. Must be kinda tough when your precise job can differ quite substantially between productions. Especially freelancers are probably experiencing some massive shifts sometimes.
 
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Jexhius said:
Isn't storyboarding where the real 'magic' happens anyway, duckroll?

The magic of making anime?
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That's probably true of the half of a typical Imaishi episode which consists of super-limited animation bordering on stills. Maybe not so much for the other half (although Imaishi's stylistic fingerprints are all over this episode anyway).
 
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Pundere

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Fuck.

I mean it's one thing to have your hatred of a character justified, but this is a whole new level. Sengoku's arc sorta feels like Hanekawa's character development happening to someone too shitty to learn and improve from it. In particular I loved her getting ethered by Shinobu and Tsukihi and the scene where she completely loses it at school.

This is straight up one of the best character turnarounds I've seen. God damn. I'd like to believe she was made boring and unlikable on purpose so that this arc would have that much more impact.

And shoutouts to Senjyogahara for
convincing God Sengoku that she'd kill literally everyone, including her, if Araragi died.
That's dedication to your schtick.
 
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Haly

One day I realized that sadness is just another word for not enough coffee.
This Sucy episode told us nothing about Sucy what the fuck is wrong with TRIGGER holy shit.
 
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