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Summer 2012 Anime |OT3| Where All the Waifus Are Made Up and the Points Don't Matter

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firehawk12

Subete no aware
Well,
so Shinko and Tatsuyoshi, the son of the policeman who committed suicide, confront the yakuza in Bar California. One of the yakuza mentions that the policeman had showed him how to carve a top, which causes Tatsuyoshi to recall how he had rejected his drunken father's offer to teach him that. He goes on to break down in angry tears, mourning all that he had not gotten to do with his father that he would now never get to do. He and Shinko go running out of the bar. Afterwards, he tells her that he is leaving the next day to live with his mother's relatives in Osaka, and resolves that when he becomes an adult he'll teach his children how to carve tops. He gives her his sword and says goodbye.

I like the way this acknowledges the pain and tragedy in this world that doesn't have a simple answer, that you can't make go away by simply waving your Mai Mai. How do you respond to this tragedy? Is it by picking up your sword and giving into the destructive impulses of revenge? Is it by dwelling in the past of lost opportunities? No. It is by looking to the future, and turning the pain you've experienced into something constructive, something that benefits others. Tatsuyoshi's dad was not brought back from the dead, yet the miracle of bringing life out of death still took place inside his son. It's a miracle we can all strive to live up to in our daily lives.

Yeah, so it's a :firehawk ending. Although it's interesting to tie looking forward with a text that, at times, chooses to look back (namely with the flashbacks to the princess).

Although, come to think of it, the other girl deals with
her dead mother in the same way in the beginning of the film with the makeup and such
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Soma

Member
well looking at the past few threads:

Summer |OT2| - Started 07-27 Ended 08-28
Summer |OT1| - Started 06-28 Ended 07-27
Spring |OT3| - Started 05-24 Ended 06-28 (though that closed early at around 17,000 posts)

I'm pretty sure this one will get to 20K before October at least especially with a bunch of shows ending within the next week or so.
 

wonzo

Banned
Yes and there is also a high resolution clean key visual:


And this: http://www.project-magi.com/app/next/magic_word.cgi ; which is teasing a new Magi XXX announcement, is clearly a Magi videogame. If you type anything else in the box, it rejects it. Lol.
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Episode 4 has lots of unrobed Araragi, you will love it. ^^
unless he's watching the home release!

CG camels? :(
naw, those are deff. handdrawn

Looks good, I should probably watch the first season before this starts now that I've read a fairly sizeable chunk of the manga (which owns btw).
 
Rinne no Lagrange 19
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Once again, I have punched a worthless object.
And that raps up that little space arc. It could almost mark the end of the show if it didn't keep going, but they made sure to set something up for the future. There's no way they're going to keep their vow.
Now the return of the Jersey club and some good old fashioned high school antics. I expect to see some pretty lewd hand holding.
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Dead eye moe~
 

Jex

Member
*grabs stick*

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Come at me.

Of all the various arguments about NTHT I am really take issue with this particular one only because it's actually wrong! Look, that structure was clearly damaged by the snake thing and not to much by the stick. It was clearly architecturally unsound unsound anyway!

There are plenty of other things which are riper material for complaints.
 

cajunator

Banned
I have to admit I put the DVD in my computer and have just zoned out listening to the opening theme of Strawberry Panic for over an hour. Its so awesome.
 

Haly

One day I realized that sadness is just another word for not enough coffee.
I hope the tagline for Fall 2012 is "From the New Thread".
 
Yeah, so it's a :firehawk ending. Although it's interesting to tie looking forward with a text that, at times, chooses to look back (namely with the flashbacks to the princess).

I think one of the main themes of the movie is that the imaginative reconstruction of the past is able to help guide your decisions in the present and path into the future. We look back to prepare ourselves for looking forwards. That's the "coming of age" archetype in a nutshell, after all.
 

wonzo

Banned
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nuts and gum, together at last

why the hype over this Magi show? Is it because of Masunari? Its seemingly got Yoshino on script duties, no director can surmount that.
The source material's great so I can't help but get hyped for it even with Yoshino handling the script. Well, that and Mor.

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