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Spring 2014 Tokyo MX, er, Anime |OT1.5| ORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORA

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Theonik

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Not that good a news considering it was originally meant to come out 2nd June. I've had it ordered since day 1, and it was cheapest, and a delay out the blue feels like a massive middle finger.
Anime Limited releases getting delayed is practically the norm. I don't mind that much though.
Also, most of the industry really.
 

Articalys

Member
Oh right, I was at an arcade the other day that had a corner with a bunch of older fighting games, and the only reason one of them caught my eye was because I noticed the credits on the anime-style attract mode intro included the name SHOJI KAWAMORI.

So, who here knows anything about Tech Romancer?
 

Jintor

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You're not a cop are ya?

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Nah man, why would you even say that
 

Jintor

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I mean like, what are you screenshotting in - is there a program that has uploading built into it? At the moment it's like a seventy stage process, exascerbated by my dual monitor setup
 

duckroll

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Chaika - Episode 4

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wonzo strikes again!

Outsourced episode, looked pretty bad at times, mostly in the first half. The adaptation is kinda interesting in what they choose to keep and what they omit and change though. The back story in this episode was supposed to be much darker, but what they've done with it feels kinda like a Disney version. Not that I really mind though, since there are tons of try hard grimdark 2edgy4me LN stuff out there anyway. Can't wait for the Scrapped Princess vibes to keep building. Lol.
 

Link Man

Banned
I mean like, what are you screenshotting in - is there a program that has uploading built into it? At the moment it's like a seventy stage process, exascerbated by my dual monitor setup

PrintScreen+Gimp+Minus for me, it's pretty simple on a computer.
 
Gundam 00 S1 - 14

Lotta tension being built up here. Something massive is about to happen and it's gonna happen soon. I've been told that at the halfway point, things don't stop happening for the first season, so I'm hyped. And I can definitely see some huge consequences coming up after how the resolution to the conflict from the last two episodes went.

Dis gon be good. I'm more into this show than I thought I'd be.
 

Syrinx

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Aikatsu! 54

Dream Academy really is investing a lot in some girl who's barely been there for a couple of weeks. What happened to that popular duo that appeared in the first episode?

Johnny-sensei was great early in the episode. He needs some sort of spinoff show.
 

Midonin

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Shuffle! 10-12

10's wedding hijinks and 11's focus on Mayumi and Benibara both felt like the show getting all the comedy out of its system before the major tone shift that occurred about halfway through episode 12. Even the title card and the eyecatch were different. Good on the staff for that, they would've felt too whimsical otherwise. I did appreciate the whimsy, especially with Mayumi. I know she's the origin of the "A flat chest is a status symbol!" meme, before Konata quoted it and everyone mimicked her version instead. Sia's date episode may have had panties as a focal point, but in Mayumi's half of episode 11, they were felt by their absence. Definitely the lewdest episode of what has otherwise not been too lewd of a series. A few peeks down the cleavage here and there, but that's almost normal.

And then comes 12. So Primula is
a homunculus of some sort. That explains a few things.
Feels like I'm at the tip of the iceberg here (pun not intended) for the reason this show got on The List. It's not a super huge departure from what's come before, and the show remains charming in its simple visual novel-ness. But that change of eyecatch signifies that we'll be doing this Da Capo style. Reel them in with some comedy and then go full-blown drama.
 

Defuser

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Hitsugi no Chaika ep 4
From a Dragoon to a human lady then to a loli.....what a downgrade.

Chaika is getting cuter and cuter every episode dammit are they gonna turn me into a cajun?
 

Link Man

Banned
Anohana 9

Man, these relationships are all sorts of messed up.
Yukiatsu is still stuck in the past, obsessed with Menma and looking for closure, yet he's extremely jealous of Jintan for being able to see Menma. He wants to hook up with Anaru, who still loves Jintan and is jealous of the attention he spends on Menma. Meanwhile, Tsuruko obviously wants to be with Yukiatsu, yet witnesses him trying to proposition Anaru. And to top it all off, now Jintan realizes that he's still in love with Menma, and doesn't want her to leave.
All of these emotions are boiling just beneath the surface, and it feels like they're about to explode.
 
Oh right, I was at an arcade the other day that had a corner with a bunch of older fighting games, and the only reason one of them caught my eye was because I noticed the credits on the anime-style attract mode intro included the name SHOJI KAWAMORI.

So, who here knows anything about Tech Romancer?

Jin Saotome (MvC) and his BLODIA!!!! are unlockable characters.

That's about it.
 

Theonik

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I mean like, what are you screenshotting in - is there a program that has uploading built into it? At the moment it's like a seventy stage process, exascerbated by my dual monitor setup
MPC's builtin screenshots, then optimise the PNGs in PNGGauntlet. Then upload. There are other better, slightly harder ways to use as well. As for uploading, I don't know. I don't see how that would make the process easier. (maybe if it was built into the player but at that point you are making things less flexible.)
 

JoeFu

Banned
Dropbox has a screenshot thingy now. You press printscreen and it goes in a folder and I just upload to min.us. Skips the open paint, paste, save, open folder to upload screenshots.
 
Anohana 9

Man, these relationships are all sorts of messed up.
Yukiatsu is still stuck in the past, obsessed with Menma and looking for closure, yet he's extremely jealous of Jintan for being able to see Menma. He wants to hook up with Anaru, who still loves Jintan and is jealous of the attention he spends on Menma. Meanwhile, Tsuruko obviously wants to be with Yukiatsu, yet witnesses him trying to proposition Anaru. And to top it all off, now Jintan realizes that he's still in love with Menma, and doesn't want her to leave.
All of these emotions are boiling just beneath the surface, and it feels like they're about to explode.

Theyre one sexually frustrated group of friends
 

Syrinx

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Aikatsu! 54

Kii > Seira. Where'd she learn to dance though if she's not an idol?

Her mom gave her ribbons names, but then started giving them numbers? Lazy.
 

Thoraxes

Member
Hard price to swallow because I don't care for anything that much to be willing to drop that amount for software.

Then again, with this, I'm gonna be ridiculously stingy here.
It's cheaper than I expected. Hell, I was ready to pay $500 if it came down to it.
 

Link Man

Banned
Anohana 10

They did a really good job of making it
feel like a wake and a funeral
. Also, Yukiatsu was a dick for that stunt he pulled.

So I'm guessing:

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Poppo witnessed the death and did nothing.

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Menma's still around because Jintan can't let go of her memory.

Anyway, gonna watch the final episode now.
 

jbug617

Banned
Anohana 10

They did a really good job of making it
feel like a wake and a funeral
. Also, Yukiatsu was a dick for that stunt he pulled.

So I'm guessing:

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Poppo witnessed the death and did nothing.

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Menma's still around because Jintan can't let go of her memory.

Anyway, gonna watch the final episode now.

Get the tissue ready.
 

Eusis

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You would punch yourself in the testicles out of simply preferring that to watching the show.
I search for it online to see what it is, and see it's on Crunchyroll.

I also see that the first "Viewers also liked" is that SiN movie.

... Hmm.
 
How bad is this anime, like if I were to watch it would I face palm.

Melody of oblivion is watchable ... but if you watch you probably won't be able to make sense of several episode , nor had a sense of what the show is about or where the show is going for a big chunk of episodes.

There will come a point where you'll think "i get it ! this is what this show is about" and then the last episode will come and will COMPLETELY shit on that notion

Melody of oblivion is set in a dystopian world where humanity is controlled by ..well things ..( i'll just call them "ennemies" ) and warriors of melos are travelling all around trying to fight the good fight to make things less oppressive. You follow the point of view of a new warrior ( forgot the name ) and things happens.

Melody of oblivion is not "that" bad , it's just bland.If you manage to reach the last episode , you'll see the masterfull WTF last arc and the superb troll ending.

Because of the last arc and that ending i can't hate this anime , but i can't recommand it either , unless you want an anime like nothing else that barely managed to hold itself from imploding in 26 episodes.

Moooooooooooooooooo
 
What certain Anime ending has made you feel like this.


To the point where you don't know what the hell to say.

There's Kurenai's disgusting ending with its whole "child abuse is okay if a minor goes along with it" thing. It's one of the worst and most offensive endings I've ever seen in fiction.
 
Anohana END

I dare anyone to watch that and not at least tear up. I'm still crying.

Yep, it was pretty bittersweet. I actually thought ep 10 build up was more emotional because it wasn't so, I guess, grandiose. Still, manly tears were shed at the end.

I'm just glad she was actually a ghost and not a figment of Jintans imagination. That would have been absolutely terrible.

Now go watch the movie!
 
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