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Winter 2014 Anime |OT2| Waiting for Sakamoto

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Articalys

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aaaaand that's the last time I try to catch up on four days of missed posts at once. God damn all it takes is a bit of outside perspective to see just how fast this thread moves. And recognize just how distant I am from the thread culture.
 

Jintor

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You can take all the greatest animators in the industry and put them all together can they still won't be able to make anything remotely as compelling as True Detective. So what the fuck is the point of the anime industry?

to sell you character merchandise
 

Branduil

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You can take all the greatest animators in the industry and put them all together can they still won't be able to make anything remotely as compelling as True Detective. So what the fuck is the point of the anime industry?

And that's why anime must reject the 3D CGI future; because all the people who are pushing it will just abandon it at the first sign of the next big thing :(
 

Dresden

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unf unf

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BGBW

Maturity, bitches.
Is March the unofficial doujin avatar month this year again?
While it was funny, I think the fact I killed it when I kept it going until, what was it agin, September. Though it seems only when my avatar reflected a Nintendo game (New Leaf and Wind Waker) that people had major beef.

Though I have some fun Haruka ones I made last year that don't look dodgy despite their source.
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Though I have a feeling people may have assumed my current avatar is from a doujin but it's actaully from this.
 

Westlo

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True, true. I don't know Mitsuo Iso, Kouichi Arai, etc. by name though I wouldn't be surprised if I've watched some of their work over the years. Checking ANN, it doesn't appear that Iso has done anything recent. I guess he retired?

eva 4.0, believe
lol :(
 

Jex

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You can take all the greatest animators in the industry and put them all together can they still won't be able to make anything remotely as compelling as True Detective. So what the fuck is the point of the anime industry?

Time to close this down folks. I heard KLK was supposed to be The Sporanos of anime?
 

BGBW

Maturity, bitches.
The bombardment of thrillers on TV is actually what made me turn to anime in the first place. I just needed to watch something completely different no matter the quality.

Dear TV people, for a year how about not writing another show that focuses on the police/detectives and write something else like a show about a person who dreams to own the world's biggest plushie store.
 

Theonik

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Guys Regulus was just reborn as Regulus Flamenco.

This is the power Samumenco has to unite us all.
I think it was more because of PreCure than SamFlam.

Off topic but, I finally found a piece of anime clothing I'm not embarrassed to wear!

Am I a weaboo now?
I've been keeping a blacklist of people with that sort of apparel so you know. Do you really want to go on that list?

3777 x 1080 px
PNG image
3.65 MB

theonik pls
I plead the 5th!

Cnet pls, your post is absurdly long!
And people cry about my posts!

Bottom right looks the most UNF.

Mad Bull 34 3

I have a hard time putting into words why I love Mad Bull when it's such a wildly inappropriate, offensive piece of fiction.
Clearly you enthralled by sleepy. It's not hard to admit!
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The bombardment of thrillers on TV is actually what made me turn to anime in the first place. I just needed to watch something completely different no matter the quality.

Dear TV people, for a year how about not writing another show that focuses on the police/detectives and write something else like a show about a person who dreams to own the world's biggest plushie store.
I would watch the shit out of this. Your move BBC. Make me get a TV license.
 
I haven't felt that with this, but this is the second arc in a row where I've been completely bored by the main plot aside from the fact that it introduced Yuuma. And I'm not sure if my entertainment from the interaction between Kojo and all his allies is enough for me to continue on.

Tokyo Ravens on the other hand I'm enjoying whole heartedly, and have decided to read the LN because I feel I'm missing a fair bit of the politics that seems to have been chopped out when they adapted it.

Strike The Blood has had its fair share of boring episodes, but has at least some good arcs and magic. The haremy stuff is too generic.

I agree with Tokyo Ravens.
 

Hitokage

Setec Astronomer
I'm mainly thinking about the Pillar Men introductory episode which was pretty garbage on a number of fronts including visual clarity.
That episode was also blatantly written with non-chronology in mind, which is a medium mismatch. Everyone standing around talking, explaining or shouting out every last detail.
 

sonicmj1

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Rozen Maiden Z 9

Stuff happened, and that was cool. Jun seems to be getting closer to getting somewhere.

But then this happened.


Suiseiseki is the absolute worst, and it's not just her verbal ticks. Get out of the way of the plot please.

I hope she gets stabbed by thorns.
 

wonzo

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You can take all the greatest animators in the industry and put them all together can they still won't be able to make anything remotely as compelling as True Detective. So what the fuck is the point of the anime industry?
those 6 minutes man…
 

Theonik

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Hidamari Sketch Special 02
This was a lot less good than the previous special. No landlady, no talking Ume-sensei etc.
Plenty of Hiro x Sae and wide however so I'll take it. Yuno was less cute in it too.
 
BGBW makes me feel inadequately English, despite being born here. His willingness to make intrinsically, and perhaps confusingly British jokes and references, while viewing anime through the lens of our culture are things that don't occur to me. I can finally relate to the people that consider themselves "bad Jews".

I haven't even watched Kiniro Mosaic.
 

Theonik

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BGBW makes me feel inadequately English, despite being born here. His willingness to make intrinsically, and perhaps confusingly British jokes and references, while viewing anime through the lens of our culture are things that don't occur to me. I can finally relate to the people that consider themselves "bad Jews".
Heck even I noticed that and I'm a foreigner. Reeeeep

I haven't even watched Kiniro Mosaic.
You can yet redeem yourself!
 
Sakura Trick 7
A very nice yuri filled pool episode. Kotone's little sister was very cute. I love Mitsuki and how she acts towards Haruka
 

Narag

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BGBW makes me feel inadequately English, despite being born here. His willingness to make intrinsically, and perhaps confusingly British jokes and references, while viewing anime through the lens of our culture are things that don't occur to me. I can finally relate to the people that consider themselves "bad Jews".

I haven't even watched Kiniro Mosaic.

Any time the Union Jack shows up, I submit a screen to him for approval.
 

Jintor

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Union Jack is right, I think.

SYD 07

Uomi is best girl. Too bad she had less than a minute of screen time this episode.
 

BluWacky

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We always call it the Union Jack here.

I deliberately try not to post Britishisms. It's an international thread; we have a few non-native speakers and people speaking different kinds of English, and it's like talking to yourself if no-one understands you.

Witchcraft Works 1-7

I fully admit to only watching this because duckroll and wonzo are. I started off really rather enjoying it - it's well paced, every episode has something dramatic happening, and it's decently animated - but the past couple of episodes have left me a bit cold. I feel a bit as if the story has run its course already and it's just treading water until the end of the show now.

Plus I could do without the younger sister character being unsurprisingly anime-ish about being a younger sister...

Samumenco 4-6

Catching up. About to hit the crazy, I think. Hopefully there'll be a bit more budget in some of the upcoming episodes?

Noragami 2-3

A solid action anime with no surprises and a lot of competency. Which is nice. I look forward to the female lead potentially doing something useful rather than always needing protecting, however.
 
Just going by what wikipedia tells me. Take it up with them if I'm wrong!

Took a look at the Wikpedia article and there seems to be conflicting evidence between the usage of the two names.

This part made me laugh though.

Wikipedia said:
Since there is no uniquely Welsh element in the Union Jack, Wrexham's Labour MP Ian Lucas proposed on 27 November 2007 in a House of Commons debate that the Union Flag be combined with the Welsh flag to reflect Wales' status within the UK, and that the Red Dragon be added to the Union Flag's red, white, and blue pattern.[39] He said the Union Jack currently only represented the other three UK nations, and Minister for Culture, Creative Industries and Tourism Margaret Hodge conceded that Mr. Lucas had raised a valid point for debate. She said "the Government is keen to make the Union Jack a positive symbol of Britishness reflecting the diversity of our country today and encouraging people to take pride in our flag". This development sparked design contests with entries from all over the world; some of the entries incorporated red dragons and even anime characters and leeks.
 

cnet128

Banned
I deliberately try not to post Britishisms. It's an international thread; we have a few non-native speakers and people speaking different kinds of English, and it's like talking to yourself if no-one understands you.

Occasionally I notice something I say is particularly British and wonder if I should change it so that Americans will be more likely to "get" it. Then I realise the alternative is phrasing it in a specifically American way and I'm like "fuck that, if they don't get it they can just look it up like I do when they post weird American things".

Plus I feel like there are enough British people here who might get a kick out of the reassurance that they're not alone =p

At any rate, you're certainly not going to catch me writing "aluminum", "math" or "mom". Unless I'm making a "your mom" joke. Those are universal =p

(I have found myself writing "mother" specifically to sidestep the "mum"/"mom" issue on occasion, though. I always feel vaguely dirty afterwards.)
 

BGBW

Maturity, bitches.
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And this was the winning design.


I can't remember when my Britishness was picked up on. I mean I can't exactly change my odd sense of humour to cater to a universal audience but I do like to think most of what I write can be understood by all. I mean if the Hairy Bikers* can cope in Japan I think I'll do OK.

*This is a show about two Northern chefs. They currently have a show where they are travelling to far eastern countries.
 

Taruranto

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You can take all the greatest animators in the industry and put them all together can they still won't be able to make anything remotely as compelling as True Detective. So what the fuck is the point of the anime industry?

Doujins on sadpanda.

True Detective can't do that now, can't it?

(Also TD isn't even the best thing HBO ever produced :p)
 
That's kind the thing with Saki , no matter how bullshit your power is , there is always someone there to negate/cancel it !

Seeing the perfect way to reach a favorable hand ? Negated
Creating the perfect hand from scratch ? negated
super explosive riichi at start ? negated



I would be overjoyed ..but this week i've started idolmaster 2 so i cannot help but find faults in the choegraphy in this vid .

R_thanatos, can you explain why I didn't watch any anime and can't stop playing Idolm@ster? It's all your fault...I finished that unit I had and started a Miki, Makoto, Chihaya unit.
 

cnet128

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Heartcatch Precure! 6

Poor Marine, she didn't even get a chance to try out a catchphrase of her own this time, because by the time Blossom did her patience-snapping thing, she'd already been
turned to stone
! ...For some reason I find it vaguely amusing that this episode's Desatorian had an ability on par with the ultimate ability of the second-in-command of the enemy forces in GoGo. And she treated it as a last-resort ability that endangered her own life!

I guess it's only fair for the monsters of the week to have some pretty OP abilities this time around, though, because as we discovered this episode, the Cures themselves have quite the arsenal of crazy power-ups up their sleeve in the form of the Heart Seeds they've collected. This time Blossom used one that gave her crazy super speed. I can't wait to find out what all the others do!

This episode's focus side character was a camera-loving girl named Kanae - basically this series' equivalent of the venerable Masuko Mika from Yes. I hope she becomes a recurring character, because curious cameramen chasing after the Cures are always entertaining. Oh, and I loved Tsubomi's grandmother in this episode, she didn't bat an eyelash when Kanae came to see her looking for a Precure scoop. Flawless deception.
 

Theonik

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I guess it's only fair for the monsters of the week to have some pretty OP abilities this time around, though, because as we discovered this episode, the Cures themselves have quite the arsenal of crazy power-ups up their sleeve in the form of the Heart Seeds they've collected. This time Blossom used one that gave her crazy super speed. I can't wait to find out what all the others do!
I would keep my expectation at a very low level on that if I were you.
 
R_thanatos, can you explain why I didn't watch any anime and can't stop playing Idolm@ster? It's all your fault...I finished that unit I had and started a Miki, Makoto, Chihaya unit.

Do you see me watching anime these past few days ? because i haven't ..
now is the time for you to guess WHY i haven't ( Hint it's in your post )

The saddest thing here is that there is only 24 hours in a day and i still need to sleep .

To break this streak of "not watching anime" i'm gonna watch some just because...
 

Kansoku

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Strike Witches 2 - 1~6

The combat scenes are so much better, it's not even funny. And it's just me or they've toned down the fanservice? (There's still a lot, but at least there isn't a bath scene every 3 minutes).
 
Do you see me watching anime these past few days ? because i haven't ..
now is the time for you to guess WHY i haven't ( Hint it's in your post )

The saddest thing here is that there is only 24 hours in a day and i still need to sleep .

To break this streak of "not watching anime" i'm gonna watch some just because...

Guess I'll watch some Log Horizon and Space Brothers, too...and then play some fucking Donkey Kong.
 
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