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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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BGBW

Maturity, bitches.
Cheap melodrama? Bad colours? Trophies to collect? Judging by what games sell this gen it's bound to be a hit.
 
Jex

Jex

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Mad Pierrot said:
That's International saimoe. Regular old saimoe is organized on 2ch and they've erected walls, moats, electric fences, tiger traps and viper pits to keep filthy gaijin out of the tournament so their vote counts are smaller.

I guess that it doesn't mean much anyway considering that with some Angel Beats uguuthing sweeping ISML it's confirmed that international moe otaku have just as terrible taste in characters as their nihonjin brethren.
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Are you suggesting that the winners of popularity contests tend to be character who pander to the lowest common denominator?
 
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madp

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Jexhius said:
Are you suggesting that the winners of popularity contests tend to be character who pander to the lowest common denominator?
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I'm simply remarking that there are apparently no significant cultural differences in what constitutes the lowest common denominator in this instance.

Not that you'd expect that from a group of people who largely identify with Japan over their own culture, anyway.
 
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madp

The Light of El Cantare
Moyashimon Returns 09:

buenoooooooooooooooo

Tadayasu falling for a girl that looks just like Kei
is so damned uncomfortable, hahah. Symbolisms?

And
Hasegawa dumping one ugly guy just to hook up with another one
would be way too ridiculous. I don't think it'll actually happen but those scenes are totally designed to make the viewer think "what if?" at least.



Moyashimon Returns 10:

Eat sashimi in Japan = all day errday. Food-borne illness? What's that?

Eat sashimi in France = you're already dead.

Ryuuta was looking kind of Montana Max there for a minute, hahahah. Finally dramaz out of the way and we can end this thing.
 
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cajunator

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sonicmj1 said:
Paranoia Agent 10

Well... this was an episode.

I don't like it as much as most of the other episodes, because the guy that they focus on is just kind of pathetic in every way. Even if he
may or may not have been bumping off every other person in the staff
, he's just a lazy, irresponsible guy. We're not given a lot of reason to care what happens to him, despite that classic Kon-styled intercutting framed by his going in and out of consciousness.

The cool (and unexpected) thing here is that the whole episode is set in an anime studio where the staff are trying to crunch and finish an episode of their own. The closest thing I've seen to an anime approaching the production of anime is that short part in OreImo where they're lobbying to make Kirino's LN adaptation better (ugh), and this is much more exhaustive. We even get short rundowns of what role each person has in the making of an anime.



It's also pretty friggin' dark. The staff themselves often look pretty disheveled or out of shape, and they're frazzled and overworked trying to meet impossible deadlines. One kink in the chain of command and the whole thing starts falling apart like a line of dominoes. People start taking their frustration out on each other, being abusive and violent. We even get quips from the narration like, "There aren't a lot of girls working in the anime industry, so if you're just a little bit cute, you can easily become an idol." It fits well in the world of the show, but I'd have thought it'd be hard for a studio to make this kind of work about their own industry, unless they were really unhappy.

The preview implies they might be "getting back on track" next episode, but I don't even know what that would look like anymore.
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Have you not watched Goldenboy?

TurkishEmperor said:
Well, I have had my Gundam fix for now, gotta watch some different genre. Angel Beats any good?
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Not really, but I enjoyed it. I watched all the Keyshit so I cant really be trusted in this particular matter.

fertygo said:
You might want check this chart.

http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/769/1309550914989.jpg
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HOLY FUCK KIMI GA NOZOMU EIEN IS CONNECTED TO MUVLUV? MY MIND JUST ASSPLODED

Articalys said:
Saimoe Round 1 - Group H, Day 1 Results

H05
1st 220 Kuroyukihime @ Accel World
2nd 124 Ritsuko Akizuki @ The Idolmaster
3rd 70 Hiroko Funakubo @ Saki

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Today's match preview
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This pleases me.
Also, hopefully Elsie, Minko, and Nano wins this next one.
 
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Dedication Through Light

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jman2050 said:
I suppose one could think Angel Beats were good if they were into really cheap melodrama, were partially colorblind, and want their love interest characters to be trophies for the MC to catch at the end and nothing more.
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BluWacky

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jman2050 said:
I suppose one could think Angel Beats were good if they were into really cheap melodrama, were partially colorblind, and want their love interest characters to be trophies for the MC to catch at the end and nothing more.
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But that's exactly what the target audience for Angel Beats wants, isn't it? Obviously there are other things that its fans will appreciate, but the selling point of Angel Beats is Jun Maeda's writing, and the audience is going to expect a similar "gotta catch em all" mentality to the heroines - because that's what his games do.

The OST is good though, so there's that.
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I haven't seen any of Angel Beats beyond the OP, and I will admit to really liking My Soul Your Beats. I guess I'm just a sucker for all the piano and strings in there :(
 
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Chet Rippo

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They really should have made Golden Boy into a full show.
Or at least animated the story arch where Kintaro sneaks into an all-girls-school by cross dressing.
 
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duckroll

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Here's a clean scan of the Psycho-Pass spread in Otomedia, from 2ch:

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The illustration here is by Hiroya Iijima, colored by Noriko Arisawa.

The choice of illustrators so far for the spreads are interesting, especially if they're an indication of the animators potentially working on the show itself. Michinori Chiba and Hiroya Iijima are both animators who worked under director Fuminori Kizaki on his various projects - Afro Samurai, Basilisk, and more recently X-Men. I would be pretty excited if Kizaki himself is somehow involved with this show, because he does action with adult characters pretty well.

I'm still wondering who did the Animage spread though. That one looks the worst by far. Lol.
 
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cajunator

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BluWacky said:
But that's exactly what the target audience for Angel Beats wants, isn't it? Obviously there are other things that its fans will appreciate, but the selling point of Angel Beats is Jun Maeda's writing, and the audience is going to expect a similar "gotta catch em all" mentality to the heroines - because that's what his games do.



I haven't seen any of Angel Beats beyond the OP, and I will admit to really liking My Soul Your Beats. I guess I'm just a sucker for all the piano and strings in there :(
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It had some other good songs like these:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qq1ANk_RVbY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-t06qBtiJk
 
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Jarmel

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duckroll said:
Here's a clean scan of the Psycho-Pass spread in Otomedia, from 2ch:



The illustration here is by Hiroya Iijima, colored by Noriko Arisawa.

The choice of illustrators so far for the spreads are interesting, especially if they're an indication of the animators potentially working on the show itself. Michinori Chiba and Hiroya Iijima are both animators who worked under director Fuminori Kizaki on his various projects - Afro Samurai, Basilisk, and more recently X-Men. I would be pretty excited if Kizaki himself is somehow involved with this show, because he does action with adult characters pretty well.

I'm still wondering who did the Animage spread though. That one looks the worst by far. Lol.
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That looks a lot better. I'm really interested in an animation PV to see if it looks similar to this. The guy to the immediate left of Shinya looks a lot better than on the website and any other shot we've had of him. If the show looks like this then I'm a happy camper. That Animage one was indeed awful.
 
near

near

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I'm getting pretty pumped up for Psycho-Pass now, finally something I'm really looking forward to outside the usual BONES stuff. Tari Tari has been good though, still waiting for something to top True Tears by P.A. Works. :p
 
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Articalys

Member
Hitsugime no Chaika
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Toru Acura, an incredibly lazy man with some hidden talents, has been forced by his sister Akari to actually go outside and search for work. However, he is in for a big surprise when he meets Chaika Trabant in the forest, and they are suddenly attacked by a monster! How will they survive? Who is this mysterious girl, and why is she being targeted?
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By Ichirou Sakaki, author of Scrapped Princess, Shinkyoku Soukai Polyphonica, and Macademi Wasshoi.
 
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madp

The Light of El Cantare
Moyashimon Returns 11 (END):

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The real winner in all of this.
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Man, this whole arc really exceeded expectations. Devoting the entire second half of the series to
something that ditches half of the cast and places the other half in a setting about as far-removed from the university as they could get
was gutsy, and it mostly paid off. Granted, I had a couple of issues with the
Paris
arc--
Marie
was a fairly unrealistic character and several goals that Tadayasu and co. were struggling to achieve serendipitously happened in her presence, but aside from simply being extremely entertaining, this storyline did such an amazing job of maturing Tadayasu and Hasegawa as characters and lifting Misato and Kawahama out of joke status that the small issues aren't particularly worth mentioning.

Overall, Moyashimon Returns gets the award for most improved of the season. I was discouraged by the bad character designs, inartful infodump, bad pacing and lifeless direction of the first episode like everyone else, but once the second season narrative begins to come into its own and isn't simply a messy splicing of reintroductions and random microbe factoids into the material, the character chemistry and comedy of the original take over again and restore things to their due enjoyability in short order. Hell, we even get another amazing
festival episode
like the original.

There's a greater emphasis on the distillation of alcohol in this season which may disappoint those who enjoyed the more balanced perspective on agriscience present in the first season, but this season's preoccupation with spirits ultimately becomes key to Tadayasu's growth and resolve as a future sake brewer which should at least be some retroactive consolation for anyone missing the Surstromming antics and whatnot from the first season. Overall, the balance between fun character interaction, serious character interaction, and microbe stuff ended up being just right.

Also
THAT FUCKING TEASE AT THE END KNOWING FULL WELL WE'LL NEVER HAVE A SEASON THREE YEARRRRFGJBHJBHDJFDKSFJ
A very special fuck you goes out to Kodansha for canceling the English releases of the manga after absorbing Del Rey.
 
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