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Spring Anime 2013 |OT -7| My Giant CG Pony Can't Possibly Read This Much Baudelaire
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Seraphis Cain
bad gameplay lol
Oh.
My.
God.
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dakkumauji
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Sengoku Collection made them amazing.
Well, thank you. Gunbuster really is the best.
Excellent song and PV and very very cute, but what does this show offer that sets it apart from all the other very cute slice of life high school comedies?
Its gonna hurt if this bombed lol
I guess in the sense that they're willing to animate anything as long as it's subsidized by someone else, but it's probably one of the most amazing examples of turning shit into gold in the entire medium. And apparently it still worked well enough that S2 is coming!
Jormungand 23-24 END
I don't really remember why I didn't watch the last two episodes sooner but I honestly wished I hadn't even bothered. What a stupid ending, it's so dumb that even the show points out how
and that still doesn't make it any less stupid. The whole
was just the shit-cherry on top of this dumb pile of shit.
I don't really remember why I didn't watch the last two episodes sooner but I honestly wished I hadn't even bothered. What a stupid ending, it's so dumb that even the show points out how
impractical and futile the whole plan is
USSR v2.0 and BIG BEN BEING BLOWN UP BY EUROZONE TERRORISTS
What kind of :cajun question is this
This one has a new hat.
Good animation and some, uhh, distinctive faces. Out of the sea of CGDCT shows airing next season, I think I'll give this one a chance. Even if it's as mind-numbingly fuwa fuwa as it looks, it might be entertaining from a technical standpoint.
Cute Girls Doing Cute Things
I figured it out literally within a second of posting my question.
Gargantia is finally confirmed to be a 1-cour show. They also announced the release format at the ACE talk event. The show will be released in 3 blu-ray box sets, each set comprising of 4 episodes and a bonus OVA episode. So there will be a total of 12+3 episodes. The final OVA will feature Minori Chihara (the OP singer) playing a guest character.
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
[Fresh Precure!] 09
idol model culture. These are not the values I expect in my little girl cartoons.
The entire plot about Miki leaving Pretty Cure for the sake of her dreams reminded me of Smile Precure! episode 44, which also led me to an uncomfortable realisation: why were the girls so melodramatic about Reika leaving for London when they have a magic bookshelf that can take them anywhere in the world at a moment's notice!?!?!?!?
The removal of all freedoms, mother/son incest, promiscuity, and even
The entire plot about Miki leaving Pretty Cure for the sake of her dreams reminded me of Smile Precure! episode 44, which also led me to an uncomfortable realisation: why were the girls so melodramatic about Reika leaving for London when they have a magic bookshelf that can take them anywhere in the world at a moment's notice!?!?!?!?
ZachDeKoromaru
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Neat, Minori Chihara makes a damn good OP.
dakkumauji
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They probably forgot about it like how they do for most of the show expect for that one episode where they use it to travel around the world.
oh hey, it's Junk Warrior from Yu-Gi-Oh!
horrifying, it's like if a Transformer had sex with a TIE Fighter and its baby was born without legs.
Funny way to spell "horrible design".
I don't think it's really horrible. It's pretty interesting, since in a previous interview they mentioned that for the Dorssia mechs, they were going for a more "realistic" military design where they would be more like attack craft instead of humanoid robots, and none of the designs will have legs.
There'll probably be other stuff from the other faction as well. We'll have to see. There are 6 mecha designers working on the show, and we've only seen like 2-3 mech designs so far, with the Valvrave being the only humanoid one.
PdotMichael
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So regarding the 3 mecha shows this season, these are the episode counts confirmed so far:
Valvrave - 13 episodes according to the broadcasters, but the composer says it is 2-cour, maybe split-cour
Majestic Prince - 24 episodes confirmed
Gargantia - 12 episodes confirmed, with 3 bonus OVA episodes on blu-ray
So 52 episodes of mecha anime in total at least! 3 shows added together is about 1 normal Gundam season! Lol.
Valvrave - 13 episodes according to the broadcasters, but the composer says it is 2-cour, maybe split-cour
Majestic Prince - 24 episodes confirmed
Gargantia - 12 episodes confirmed, with 3 bonus OVA episodes on blu-ray
So 52 episodes of mecha anime in total at least! 3 shows added together is about 1 normal Gundam season! Lol.
I think it's a valid approach, at least on paper, and actually seems to go back to the RB-79 Ball in concept. I'm not too excited by the ones they've shown, but I don't hate them either.
Sacred Seven was so forgettable it doesn't even exist anymore.
Sounds about right.
This is to mecha what Killzone 2 was to shooters.
...Patrick Bateman will be wanting a reservation.
Betterman 01:
Okay, so.....uhh..........Seraphis, if you want to mutually dissolve our agreement, I'm cool with that, because this was just.......man, I don't even know where to begin.
I suppose it was a bad sign already when the OP was a live action video of a coral reef under the ocean with translucent stills of the characters slowly panning across the screen to some kind of slow, warbling song. It was uncomfortably Arjuna-esque. I mean, any mecha series from the years immediately following Evangelion should be assumed by default to be pretentious garbage full of DEEP THEMES, but this show basically trumpets it from the hilltops within a minute of starting.
I think that what struck me the most in the first few minutes was just how much the art design in the show embodies the absolute worst of the 90s. The insufferably-loudmouthed wiener of a protagonist has an endless repertoire of fugly faces, and virtually every other character is afflicted with some severe curves in their facial profiles, cheek zigzags, goo-goo-googly eyes, really sharp hair, and other unfortunate features common in shows of the era. I mean, this is just a taste:
good lord.
Apart from the character design, it's a visually bland show. While this may have been partially attributable to the subterranean locale in which most of the episode took place, the color palette feels dark, dull, and muddy. There is no impressive animation of note, and while it's always tempting to describe 2D mecha animation as being good by default, Betterman's mecha are entirely average for a work of its time. There was no fluidity, complexity, or dynamism to the combat in the episode; the mecha essentially stands in place, makes simple punches, beam attacks, and so on. There are really only two visual aspects of the episode of note: first, the show seems to have been produced in widescreen, which is unusual for the time. It's sometimes clear that the staff has no idea how to frame scenes correctly because the tops of characters' heads are often awkwardly cropped off, so if this was a thoughtless choice to make the show appear more "serious", it's laughable.
Second, and perhaps most oddly, it's quite noticeable that whenever a scene has any sort of digital effects e.g. displays on computer monitors, the entire scene is inked digitally and the show freely switches between ink and digital animation at will. It's blatantly obvious:
I'm not even going to speak about the narrative because it's the same boy-meets-mecha and same absolute mess of technobabble that every Evangelion ripoff that ever was and ever will be has had as a first episode. Except Betterman is worse than the average ripoff because even serious scenes are laced with ill-fitting and atrocious manic "comedy", usually courtesy the protagonist. Imagine a version of Evangelion where, at the moment that Gendou orders Rei to be bought out on her gurney after Shinji refuses to pilot Eva-01, that Rei's IV bag pole falls over and hits Shinji in the balls with a loud clanging sound effect. That's the essence of Betterman comedy.
I'm unsure as to whether or not I'll stick with this as I have far better shows that I want to use my time to catch up on, but it's unquestionably bad.
Okay, so.....uhh..........Seraphis, if you want to mutually dissolve our agreement, I'm cool with that, because this was just.......man, I don't even know where to begin.
I suppose it was a bad sign already when the OP was a live action video of a coral reef under the ocean with translucent stills of the characters slowly panning across the screen to some kind of slow, warbling song. It was uncomfortably Arjuna-esque. I mean, any mecha series from the years immediately following Evangelion should be assumed by default to be pretentious garbage full of DEEP THEMES, but this show basically trumpets it from the hilltops within a minute of starting.
I think that what struck me the most in the first few minutes was just how much the art design in the show embodies the absolute worst of the 90s. The insufferably-loudmouthed wiener of a protagonist has an endless repertoire of fugly faces, and virtually every other character is afflicted with some severe curves in their facial profiles, cheek zigzags, goo-goo-googly eyes, really sharp hair, and other unfortunate features common in shows of the era. I mean, this is just a taste:
good lord.
Apart from the character design, it's a visually bland show. While this may have been partially attributable to the subterranean locale in which most of the episode took place, the color palette feels dark, dull, and muddy. There is no impressive animation of note, and while it's always tempting to describe 2D mecha animation as being good by default, Betterman's mecha are entirely average for a work of its time. There was no fluidity, complexity, or dynamism to the combat in the episode; the mecha essentially stands in place, makes simple punches, beam attacks, and so on. There are really only two visual aspects of the episode of note: first, the show seems to have been produced in widescreen, which is unusual for the time. It's sometimes clear that the staff has no idea how to frame scenes correctly because the tops of characters' heads are often awkwardly cropped off, so if this was a thoughtless choice to make the show appear more "serious", it's laughable.
Second, and perhaps most oddly, it's quite noticeable that whenever a scene has any sort of digital effects e.g. displays on computer monitors, the entire scene is inked digitally and the show freely switches between ink and digital animation at will. It's blatantly obvious:
I'm not even going to speak about the narrative because it's the same boy-meets-mecha and same absolute mess of technobabble that every Evangelion ripoff that ever was and ever will be has had as a first episode. Except Betterman is worse than the average ripoff because even serious scenes are laced with ill-fitting and atrocious manic "comedy", usually courtesy the protagonist. Imagine a version of Evangelion where, at the moment that Gendou orders Rei to be bought out on her gurney after Shinji refuses to pilot Eva-01, that Rei's IV bag pole falls over and hits Shinji in the balls with a loud clanging sound effect. That's the essence of Betterman comedy.
I'm unsure as to whether or not I'll stick with this as I have far better shows that I want to use my time to catch up on, but it's unquestionably bad.
Seraphis Cain
bad gameplay lol
Thank you. I was afraid I'd actually have to watch more than one episode of this.
Ugh.
looks bad
looks boring
can't stop laughing at the midget samsung note carrying mecha
I kind of like Sacred Seven (still not watched that movie, though), but that aside, for all that Horizon and Love Live have done well, and Accel World did OK, it's not like even Sunrise 8 have that great a batting average on this stuff - NeraGaku didn't do that great, and as much as I personally like Xenoglossia and SoraKakeGirl, well, they didn't really do much either.
I got a quarter of the way through that before I ended up distracted by life!
I can almost hear Otaking popping a boner somewhere off in the distance.Betterman 01:
A Huge Battleship
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From the Frontier Works booth at ACE. Neptunia anime related:
Director is apparently Masahiro Mukai. He's said to be a fan of Nepgear and Uni, which spells nothing but unmitigated disaster. On the plus side, he's also reported as saying that he doesn't want to show a male character in the anime.
I can honestly say that Betterman's digital scenes looked better than its cel scenes.
Betterman 1
Not bad given I had no idea what to expect but I can understand the reservations other have. That said, the staff didn't let me down with GaoGaiGar so Ii'm more than willing to give this a fair shot even if it does lack a good hook to start things off with. The promise of the beatdown at the end of the ep isn't really a good way to start, ep should have ended with it.
Not bad given I had no idea what to expect but I can understand the reservations other have. That said, the staff didn't let me down with GaoGaiGar so Ii'm more than willing to give this a fair shot even if it does lack a good hook to start things off with. The promise of the beatdown at the end of the ep isn't really a good way to start, ep should have ended with it.
I fell in love with that mech when I saw it had wheels!
Those high eyes. I still can't unsee the Terraformars roaches.
Ufotable's Yoyo and Nene movie looks great: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVswez8lzYQ
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