firehawk12
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Holy shit.
Is anyone brave enough to gif up the French Kiss scene from Nobunagun 5? lol
Is anyone brave enough to gif up the French Kiss scene from Nobunagun 5? lol
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Winter 2014 Anime |OT| I've got to find a dandy guy who killed my dad in the space
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yeah. There is a kami-sama!
non non biyori too low. But the list overall is pretty solid.
Team Chiho ♥♥
hosannainexcelsis
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The character animation looks jerky, unfortunately, but I don't mind the character designs. I'm interested in seeing how it pans out.
Well maybe you should have voted
KirbYuuYuu
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Are we sure this isn't your room?
MikeHattsu
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Sakura Trick 4 was so cuuuuuuuuuute
I can't take this anymore (≧◡≦
(≧◡≦ (≧◡≦ (≧◡≦ (≧◡≦
EDIT: I didn't watch the 2 first on the list (I intend to, though) but Non Non Biyori is a lot better than anything else there :C
I can't take this anymore (≧◡≦
(≧◡≦ (≧◡≦ (≧◡≦ (≧◡≦EDIT: I didn't watch the 2 first on the list (I intend to, though) but Non Non Biyori is a lot better than anything else there :C
DiscoShark
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How does one determine who is and isn't AnimeGAF based on the filtered results? Number of posts in this thread?
I still don't get how Yozakura Quartet is so low on both lists. ;-;
I still don't get how Yozakura Quartet is so low on both lists. ;-;
Madp just said anyone who has a post in the last two threads, iirc.
hosannainexcelsis
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Either way it's another step towards duckroll's future of anime
Polygon Pictures has been making CG series for a number of years; this isn't really anything new for them.
Sakura Trick 4 was so cuuuuuuuuuute
I can't take this anymore (≧◡≦
Such an amazing show.
It's up there with No-rin, Mikakunin, Nisekoi and maybe Koiuta running for my favorite anime this season.
Still have to watch Inari though
Yes! Precure 5 GoGo! 41
And I guess this was Rin's final focus episode, in which she learns the TRUE MEANING OF ACCESSORIES. No, really, that was the plot of this episode. It was actually kind of sweet, particularly thanks to the adorableness of the little girl who helped Rin to have her eureka moment.
Also in this episode, Momoi-san's facade was finally broken, thanks to a little help from...Bunbee. Well, can't really blame the guy, it's not like he has any reason to help Eternal out after what happened last episode! Momoi-san wasn't doing the greatest job of keeping his disguise convincing today even without Bunbee's help, anyway - giving Rin evil motivational speeches about how she should only think of herself, and not-very-subtly trying to get her to tell him all her friends' weaknesses. Ah well, even the best villains have to slip up sometime.
And I guess this was Rin's final focus episode, in which she learns the TRUE MEANING OF ACCESSORIES. No, really, that was the plot of this episode. It was actually kind of sweet, particularly thanks to the adorableness of the little girl who helped Rin to have her eureka moment.
Also in this episode, Momoi-san's facade was finally broken, thanks to a little help from...Bunbee. Well, can't really blame the guy, it's not like he has any reason to help Eternal out after what happened last episode! Momoi-san wasn't doing the greatest job of keeping his disguise convincing today even without Bunbee's help, anyway - giving Rin evil motivational speeches about how she should only think of herself, and not-very-subtly trying to get her to tell him all her friends' weaknesses. Ah well, even the best villains have to slip up sometime.
MikeHattsu
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I honestly enjoyed Yuusibu more. Its a more fun show overall with a surprisingly similar premise. And it has Fino and she is perfect.
I loved that about this episode. It didnt actually bother with hot springs bullshit it focused on action.
it was refreshing. Really good episode.
Space Dandy 5
By far my favorite episode of the show's run so far. I love stories like this, and I've come away from it with far more respect for Dandy as a character, because I can't remember other times where he comes off as sympathetic. Adelle is a really cute character as well. In my opinion, I wish the chase scene didn't take as long as it did, but it wasn't a really big deal and I loved the montages and the scene at the carnival or whatever. What a great episode.
Edit: Oh, and as Defuser mentioned, dat Hanakana.
By far my favorite episode of the show's run so far. I love stories like this, and I've come away from it with far more respect for Dandy as a character, because I can't remember other times where he comes off as sympathetic. Adelle is a really cute character as well. In my opinion, I wish the chase scene didn't take as long as it did, but it wasn't a really big deal and I loved the montages and the scene at the carnival or whatever. What a great episode.
Edit: Oh, and as Defuser mentioned, dat Hanakana.
I dont vote in these. I like too many shows to rank them. Not that one vote would have put nnb higher to begin with. I cant even make a solid top ten list beyond top 3.
I'm just upset because everything that looks interesting ends up being either CG or 4 minutes long.
Hey guys, how's the quality of the Princess Tutu dub? I assume everyone's going to tell me to watch the sub, but I thought I'd ask.
The Princess Tutu dub is pretty good, if only for the extra included on the DVD release where the actress playing the lead character specifically asks if she can watch the final scene of the series and they filmed her reaction. Given that the character in question spends huge amount of the series flapping about
in several senses
The Japanese VA for the show is very good as well, but the dub wouldn't be ear torture essentially.
Theonik
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I like how the status quo is restored and she's in everything again.
Shame this isn't also happening with Miyakichi.
Oh, that would have been wonderful.I decided the AotY should look professional (as far as a post on a forum can be), but I was really really tempted to use this as a banner for AoT.
(Wait 20 seconds)
Hey Valvrave The Liberator fans. Did you know if your fellow fans had followed the rules then it would have ranked number 19 in the AotY charts?
And Log Horizon would have beaten Kyousogiga but that's not really as interesting.
Oh and Steins;Gate would have knocked Gundam Unicorn out of the top 6.
And Log Horizon would have beaten Kyousogiga but that's not really as interesting.
Oh and Steins;Gate would have knocked Gundam Unicorn out of the top 6.
ZachDeKoromaru
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I'd at least take her not being in so many bad things. She already started off the year with Z/X Ignition but luckily her character in Noragami is going to wreak havoc next episode, unf unf unf.
Theonik
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[UNF INTENSIFIES]
Getter Robo 39
I'm gonna tell you straight up: I'm more or less tired of this show. I don't think anime has any business running for 52 episodes 9/10ths of the time, and when those 52 episodes are ALL Monster of the Week I really have no idea how someone doesn't really lose their mind. Getter Robo is an incredibly formulaic, dated, archaic piece of anime. A lot of the time you know how an episode is going to end (and indeed exactly how the entirety of the plot is going to play out) before the first 10 minutes have ended. Emperor Gore's competence varies greatly upon the week, and character development is all but nonexistent (characterization abounds, but the infuriating need to return to the status quo at the end of the episode means that Hayato, Ryo, and Musashi are all more or less exactly the same guys they were when the show began, and that there has been no significant changes to the dynamics of their relationships, in spite of the many adventures they've been through.)
Having said that, the true beauty of the classic Mecha series is that every once in like, 15 episodes you will find an episode that is far, far better than the rest. For Gundam it's moments like the battle with Ramba Ral or Amuro meeting Lalah. In Macross it's things like Misa's
conversation with her father or Focker going to see Claudia's cake
In Getter Robo, the only episodes of this nature have been Michiru's mother's fear of the Dinosaur planes dredging up memories of the War, and the tragedy of Getter Queen.
Allow me to add, then, this episode about Shiori to the mix. By rights it should be a shit episode. It's what, the 4th time that the writers used "beautiful woman gets close to a Getter guy only to turn out to be a member of the Dinosaur Empire" as the plot for an entire episode. It ends EXACTLY the same way all of the other ones do
Where the Getter Queen episode succeeded with this plot was in establishing Gora as a bridge between humanity and dinosaurs, and showing that both Professor Saotome AND Emperor Gore were in terrible agony over her circumstances
Shiori works because the show punches you in the gut and doesn't stop. It's not the sudden, sharp pain of the Getter Queen episode, this is a constant struggle to hold back your manly tears. We meet her traveling with her 70 year old grandfather up a volcano to where her father is buried. Gramps reveals to Hayato that Shiori, though only 15, is dying of cancer, and has pretty much no time left. They reach the grave and Hayato can't hold back his tears. We're talking Hayato, who is a vicious, arrogant, smug bastard. And he has to walk away from that grave so no one can see that he can't keep it in as the grandfather laments that his son and granddaughter both will die before he does
Later in the episode, General Batto proves he's no slouch, and rips the dying girl into pieces, and puts those pieces in a robot. He orders her to do all kinds of nasty things for him, and the plot plays out as per usual. Batto defeated, Shiori is alive for one more brief moment before she is simply shot by a Dinosaur. As Hayato rescues her body from the lake, though, Michiru arrives, with a letter from the deceased. In it, Shiori confesses that she would gladly live again as a dying girl if it meant another chance to see Hayato. She requests that she be buried alongside her father and grandfather, and that Hayato play his harmonica one last time for her.
The choice of Hayato, I think, is a good one for this episode, because unlike Ryoma or Musashi, Hayato doesn't run on hotblooded good spirits. He's a pretty obviously messed up guy, and what happens to Shiori actually effects him in a subtle, not over the top kind of way.
I'm gonna tell you straight up: I'm more or less tired of this show. I don't think anime has any business running for 52 episodes 9/10ths of the time, and when those 52 episodes are ALL Monster of the Week I really have no idea how someone doesn't really lose their mind. Getter Robo is an incredibly formulaic, dated, archaic piece of anime. A lot of the time you know how an episode is going to end (and indeed exactly how the entirety of the plot is going to play out) before the first 10 minutes have ended. Emperor Gore's competence varies greatly upon the week, and character development is all but nonexistent (characterization abounds, but the infuriating need to return to the status quo at the end of the episode means that Hayato, Ryo, and Musashi are all more or less exactly the same guys they were when the show began, and that there has been no significant changes to the dynamics of their relationships, in spite of the many adventures they've been through.)
Having said that, the true beauty of the classic Mecha series is that every once in like, 15 episodes you will find an episode that is far, far better than the rest. For Gundam it's moments like the battle with Ramba Ral or Amuro meeting Lalah. In Macross it's things like Misa's
final
when he's literally dying.
Allow me to add, then, this episode about Shiori to the mix. By rights it should be a shit episode. It's what, the 4th time that the writers used "beautiful woman gets close to a Getter guy only to turn out to be a member of the Dinosaur Empire" as the plot for an entire episode. It ends EXACTLY the same way all of the other ones do
with her betraying the DE for the Getter's sake and dying shortly thereafter.
Gore was absolved of a lot of the horrible stuff he did in that episode by the revelation shortly thereafter that he had no choice, because Demon King Ura is pulling his strings.
Shiori works because the show punches you in the gut and doesn't stop. It's not the sudden, sharp pain of the Getter Queen episode, this is a constant struggle to hold back your manly tears. We meet her traveling with her 70 year old grandfather up a volcano to where her father is buried. Gramps reveals to Hayato that Shiori, though only 15, is dying of cancer, and has pretty much no time left. They reach the grave and Hayato can't hold back his tears. We're talking Hayato, who is a vicious, arrogant, smug bastard. And he has to walk away from that grave so no one can see that he can't keep it in as the grandfather laments that his son and granddaughter both will die before he does
at which point an earthquake kills him before Shiori.
Later in the episode, General Batto proves he's no slouch, and rips the dying girl into pieces, and puts those pieces in a robot. He orders her to do all kinds of nasty things for him, and the plot plays out as per usual. Batto defeated, Shiori is alive for one more brief moment before she is simply shot by a Dinosaur. As Hayato rescues her body from the lake, though, Michiru arrives, with a letter from the deceased. In it, Shiori confesses that she would gladly live again as a dying girl if it meant another chance to see Hayato. She requests that she be buried alongside her father and grandfather, and that Hayato play his harmonica one last time for her.
The choice of Hayato, I think, is a good one for this episode, because unlike Ryoma or Musashi, Hayato doesn't run on hotblooded good spirits. He's a pretty obviously messed up guy, and what happens to Shiori actually effects him in a subtle, not over the top kind of way.
NeonZ
Member
A random oddity about the new Keroro anime. They changed Natsumi's hair color, from red to pink hair.
Even Yoshizaki Mine, the manga author, also seems to be drawing her with pink hair now to match the new anime, in spite of many years of red haired Natsumi.
That's actually something that surprised me about the original Mazinger Z series. It was episodic and actually ran for two years, rather than just one, but events from one episode often seemed to stick, and even get referenced later, rather than just get completely forgotten next week.
An episode where the lab was destroyed could lead to a couple of episodes where the lab was getting rebuilt. In spite of always having monsters of the week, every single week, starting from the 30s, it sometimes had small 3-4 episode arcs during a few special events (like the Scrander's debut, Dr.Hell finally obtaining some Super Alloy Z, or Duke Gorgom's awakening). Each episode had their own monster, but it carried plotlines through them in those small arcs, tying them together, and they just increase while the show advances. Starting from around episode 68, and running up to the ending of the show, there are only a few episodes where the status quo is completely frozen.
The first 15 or so episodes are very rough animation-wise though, even compared to Getter Robo.
Even Yoshizaki Mine, the manga author, also seems to be drawing her with pink hair now to match the new anime, in spite of many years of red haired Natsumi.
That's actually something that surprised me about the original Mazinger Z series. It was episodic and actually ran for two years, rather than just one, but events from one episode often seemed to stick, and even get referenced later, rather than just get completely forgotten next week.
An episode where the lab was destroyed could lead to a couple of episodes where the lab was getting rebuilt. In spite of always having monsters of the week, every single week, starting from the 30s, it sometimes had small 3-4 episode arcs during a few special events (like the Scrander's debut, Dr.Hell finally obtaining some Super Alloy Z, or Duke Gorgom's awakening). Each episode had their own monster, but it carried plotlines through them in those small arcs, tying them together, and they just increase while the show advances. Starting from around episode 68, and running up to the ending of the show, there are only a few episodes where the status quo is completely frozen.
The first 15 or so episodes are very rough animation-wise though, even compared to Getter Robo.
hosannainexcelsis
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I'm sorry you don't like Mushishi.
Nobunagun 5
Why is everyone on this team so lewd. This show is at its best, in my opinion, when it's focusing on the interactions between the characters. That's pretty fun, but I start tuning out whenever they get to the actual alien-fighting business.
X-COM Dogoo mod when.
This isn't even subtext anymore
Why is everyone on this team so lewd. This show is at its best, in my opinion, when it's focusing on the interactions between the characters. That's pretty fun, but I start tuning out whenever they get to the actual alien-fighting business.
X-COM Dogoo mod when.
Deputy Dangle
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I shouldn't have been surprised that KLK made the #2 spot. It makes sense considering its popularity, and yet, here I am.
Rozen Maiden was robbed!
We already had an anime about kids playing with dolls. Why would we need 2?
Deputy Dangle
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I'd say this town is big enough for the two of 'em.
ZachDeKoromaru
Banned
Because GBF doesn't have Miyukichi.
ZachDeKoromaru
Banned
No Miyukichi no life.
Ral is Love.
ZachDeKoromaru
Banned
Miyukichi is hometown.
Nobunagun 5
Ohhhh yesyesyes! I loved that moment =D
When do we get to see Shio go back home to see Asao-san and share some tender loving, that's what I want to know.
amishpriest99
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Yeah, it's pretty hard for me to rank all the shows I watch too. My top ten is something that would be prone to changing a lot.
Sadly this is the only good part of the second series of Higurashi. Everything after the first series was an utter waste.
Bwahahaha that fujoshi posing with no ef given.
I'm just assuming that and all other future anime are 4-minute CGI shorts from now on, that way I can never be disappointed and only pleasantly surprised.
see if I voted my comments woul be how shows make me feel. I would just say "this show made me squee" over and over.
Plamya is #2. Kate is too much of a moenuke. So adorable and top tier.
hosannainexcelsis
Member
Pupa hurt you that much, huh?
That and the BrainsBase thing which I'm just assuming is 4 minutes now since it's a 4koma and that's the only way you can adapt those now apparently.
Oniisama e 4
Oh how I hate Mariko so much right. Deceiving asshole ruining Nanako and Tomoko's friendship.
Keep in mind the manga has actual regular pages with addition to the 4koma parts. So it's not guaranteed 4 minutes show.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Wow. lol
That's some effort.
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