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Spring Anime 2012 | Welcome Home, Space Cowboy
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Hope its more anime, this is great.
More Yuta, Yuki, Kanamecchi, Chizuru, and Shun will be great on Mondays. Monday is looking up for anime this season.
Saint Seiya Omega, I hope its really cool.
Neko Mimi Mode
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Maid Sama is a fantastic series; funny, sweet and filled to the bursting with Misaki being outrageously attractive. What more do you want?
Oh and Usui may be femme-service, but he's clearly a badass. Just wait till he starts speaking engrish, even I went a bit weak in the knees. Just sayin.
Jex
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Ano hana wasn't that bad, when you consider the fact that shows like No.6, UN-GO, [C], Fractale, and Guilty crown came out in the same year it was in.
We all know that comparing bad shows to worse shows doesn't tell you anything helpful!
Always, right?
So fucking preordered. Pretty boxes *_*
Deen is one of my favorite studios and I'm not being ironic. I like them. so what?
Toradora is also a good show. It's definitely the most tolerable kugiloli show. It has a good ending and somewhat realistic behaving characters. Its good.
Hook it to my veins.
They must be stopped before its too late.
Well judging by the sales of things like Redline and Flower Declaration of Your Heart people don't want good mechanical animation anyway.
Jex
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'Anime' in the English usage is an example of a reborrowed loanword. 'Anime' (アニメ
So, Korra no Densetsu is 'anime' in the correct Japanese usage of the term, and it isn't in the reborrowed English usage of the term. I'll let you decide for yourself which usage is the correct one. I've wasted too much time typing this goddamn post instead of using it enjoyably to watch another episode of F/Z.
Yes, but who decides what it means for a work to be 'English', 'French' or 'Japanese'? I mean, many so called 'English films' are backed in large part by Americans, does that make them Hollywood movies?
A classic trap.
So Korra fans are the kind of unclassy people that hate K-ON? more reason not to check out the show in the future!
firehawk12
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Jex
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I'm the only person in the world that likes Eiken, aren't I
That's going on a list, somewhere.
Greatest love story ever told will forever live on in our hearts.
What you meant to say was Clannad (+AS)
firehawk12
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Do you think she is stronger than Sokka?
Jex
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Why are you hurting yourself?
No, no. "Could Korra cut the lifeline of Korra's bending powers?"
That's a real discussion.
hosannainexcelsis
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The Kids on the Slope website has posted the staff for the first episode. (credit to duckroll)
Ep1 - Moanin'
Script: Ayako Katoh
Storyboard: Shinichiro Watanabe
Episode Director: Kotomi Deai
Animation Directors: Cindy Yamauchi, Manabu Akita, Daisuke Niinuma
Art Director: Shinichi Uehara
Looking good. Kotomi Deai directed the fantastic fourth episode of Natsume S4, so I'm even more excited than I already was. Two more weeks!
Ep1 - Moanin'
Script: Ayako Katoh
Storyboard: Shinichiro Watanabe
Episode Director: Kotomi Deai
Animation Directors: Cindy Yamauchi, Manabu Akita, Daisuke Niinuma
Art Director: Shinichi Uehara
Looking good. Kotomi Deai directed the fantastic fourth episode of Natsume S4, so I'm even more excited than I already was. Two more weeks!
Ano hana wasn't that bad, when you consider the fact that shows like No.6, UN-GO, [C], Fractale, and Guilty crown came out in the same year it was in.
The horror.
What happened in 2011 stays in 2011.
I mostly hate this show because of Usui and what it represents. Why even bother making the heroine credible as a human being when all you're going to do is have her get supplanted all the time by a man?
God damn shoujo.
I gave up that notion, and just treated it like Special A but with maids.
That type of shoujo is rare to non-existant and even if it did exist, it was only a matter of time before they go squee~
Jex
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Good, at least they'll be kicking off the show with an episode that's been worked on by the overall director. I know most shows have at least ONE episode where the director storyboards/directs, but it's not always the opening one.
I mostly hate this show because of Usui and what it represents. Why even bother making the heroine credible as a human being when all you're going to do is have her get supplanted all the time by a man?
God damn shoujo.
So basically, Usui never stops being there to catch Misaki when she falls? I can still probably live with this. Even if it's a disservice to the strength of Misaki's character, it's at least an accurate reflection of the current global economic climate and the fact that the underclasses can't save themselves from their own lack of upward mobility with any amount of effort.
I probably won't be watching this show through its intended lens
The first edition of Otaku Teen is free, so you're in luck. This month we have awesome articles on saving sex with your 2D waifus for marriage and on how Ronald Reagan was the first otaku president.
Yeah, I have no problems with the Usui manservice. I have a feeling that I'm eventually going to be yearning for his warm, comforting bishounen embrace as well.
Huh? Isn't it the opposite? It's almost always the director who storyboards the first and last episode, and in many cases the director also directs the first episode.
Trojita
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After having a few days to let the ending of Another sink in, here are my thoughts.
Plus all of the fucking crazy people were just disappearing like the fucking joker.
The last two episodes were sloppy in characterization. Let's get it over with that the calamity had bullshit added "effects" that made people forget memories of who died before and then for some reason even affects physical media to even allow the story to play out the way it did.
Most of people in the lodge ended up going bat shit insane. Is this the result of the calamity like the teacher? The one guy falls two stories, somehow survives, and then somehow starts stabbing people. Red haired girl sees crazy friend choked to death (of her own accord) sees Misaki Mei with the blade or whatever it was, goes crazy by somehow jumping to conclusions that because she had the blade in her hand something something the friend got choked. What? Red Haired girl going crazy was so out of character.
The Misaki Mei being a twin came out at the last moment, though they tied it in with things shown previously, and was used as the plot point to cause the fucking retarded girl and classmates to think Mei was the dead person. The twins didn't even look exactly alike.
Old lady going crazy. Killing her husband for some reason. The slowest fire EVER. I don't think fires work that way when the one guy opened the door and the flame went flamethrower mode. You can't explain that with oxygen being available to the fire, because the fire would have died without oxygen anyways in that room it was in for what seemed like fucking hours.
The extra chair being in the faculty room was just fucking retarded. I don't even remember Reiko mentioning she was the teacher.
Most of people in the lodge ended up going bat shit insane. Is this the result of the calamity like the teacher? The one guy falls two stories, somehow survives, and then somehow starts stabbing people. Red haired girl sees crazy friend choked to death (of her own accord) sees Misaki Mei with the blade or whatever it was, goes crazy by somehow jumping to conclusions that because she had the blade in her hand something something the friend got choked. What? Red Haired girl going crazy was so out of character.
The Misaki Mei being a twin came out at the last moment, though they tied it in with things shown previously, and was used as the plot point to cause the fucking retarded girl and classmates to think Mei was the dead person. The twins didn't even look exactly alike.
Old lady going crazy. Killing her husband for some reason. The slowest fire EVER. I don't think fires work that way when the one guy opened the door and the flame went flamethrower mode. You can't explain that with oxygen being available to the fire, because the fire would have died without oxygen anyways in that room it was in for what seemed like fucking hours.
The extra chair being in the faculty room was just fucking retarded. I don't even remember Reiko mentioning she was the teacher.
Plus all of the fucking crazy people were just disappearing like the fucking joker.
But that's literally this entire thread, no?
firehawk12
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You hate Kimi ni Todoke, so I don't even know what to say.
It feels like a chicken and an egg problem. Do girls fantasize about men saving them because that's the only option they get in the media, or does the media produces work about women being saved by men because that's what girls actually want?
It's same with otaku fantasies, but arguably more destructive.
You only ask this now?
Jex
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This is never going to change, right? I mean, I know it's been bad for awhile, but I assumed at one point there'd be a breaking point where that can no longer work.
Then again, perhaps we'll just carry on with the slow-decline and talent drain that exists at present.
You're thinking of a different thread that's all about shounen power levels.
There's that and whatever Misaki can do, Usui can do better, she gets 110% in an exam, he gets 120% etc etc. Despite having a strong female character there's always a stronger male lead that makes her one step less than alpha for reasons unkown to man.
hosannainexcelsis
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Yes.
Jex
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Use this thread (although not all of it!) and some common sense to help you along: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=173356
Shinichi Uehara has a pretty good resume, of course the show has looked great in the previews, so that's no surprise.
firehawk12
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It's because women are simply genetically inferior. Like, duh!
This was the biggest flaw in Maid-Sama, but it also
made the episode/chapter where she takes on the stalkers by herself that much more awesome.
Jex
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Oh thank god, a real animation studio.
The answer, as always, is robot labor. At least until they gain sentience.
He's doing Science for the People who are still alive.
I really think this method of payment and treatment of workers is complete bullshit and horrific. The problem is that I sort of support it buy buying anime. Damned if you do....
Well, there would have to be some kind of reason for girls wanting men to save them, wouldn't there be? It's not like they're genetically conditioned to want this, so it has to come from some kind of external influence. If women think that being saved is their only option, it's only because they've traditionally been forced into reliance on men for everything.
I'm actually even more interested in watching now, if only to see if they can take this oneupsmanship to ridiculous heights.
firehawk12
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Sure, but when did it start? Was this like early religion, where a cabal of men decided to invent standards in order to control women?
I think the fact that this is basically an "international" standard makes it even more fascinating to me, because it transcends culture and language.
Stories first, I think.
Primitive Society -> Patriarchal Society -> Misogynistic Culture -> Stories about Men saving Women -> Cultural Conditioning -> Women accepting "Chivalry" as the norm -> Women expecting "Chivalry" from men
Primitive Society -> Patriarchal Society -> Misogynistic Culture -> Stories about Men saving Women -> Cultural Conditioning -> Women accepting "Chivalry" as the norm -> Women expecting "Chivalry" from men
It would have had to start when the concept of "gender roles" first surfaced in human culture, I suppose.
Gender issues are one thing that I'm still too afraid to discuss on GAF so I dooooooooooon't know if I want to get into addressing the why of this concept being near-universal among all cultures through history, but it's certainly an interesting question with no apparent answer.
Master Milk
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I like the animes where a girl has to save a girl. Those are the best.
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