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Summer 2014 Anime |OT3| where everyone watches doremi for hito

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Articalys

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cajunator said:
KK thanks. what about Zakuro? Its an older series and on the NISA DVDs are on sale. But no chance of a bluray there right?
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I, um, don't think that's ever even gotten a BD release in Japan. So no.

edit: also, I'm pretty sure NISA is not generally in the business of releasing new BD sets (if one exists) for their older DVD shows... Toradora was a major exception because it was so crazy popular (and also their first experiment with a dub).
 
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Jex

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[Space Dandy 25]

I don't think spending 20 minutes to essentially set up a single punchline was really worth it. Unlike so many other really unique and beautiful and weird episodes in the 2nd half of Space Dandy, this was ultimately forgettable.

I will say that I wasn't actively bored by the trial, which is a little surprising, but it did nothing for me. It felt like we were treading water while everyone worked on the finale.

Unless you're one of those "Dandy lore" weirdos!
 
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Wake Up, Girls! 06

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Harsh.

Some famous composer/producer that's worked with I-1 Club comes along, uses the I-1 Club method of working everybody hard and gives them an ultimatum. And it's not enough for I-1 Club to win, they have to crush any competition :p
 
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Jex

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[Nozaki] - Finale

This was okay.

With regards to the fireworks scene, I don't think the show shouldn't try to pretend that it's an actual shoujo romance because it isn't. It's a comedy that's at it's best when it's making light of those tropes and characters. As soon as it actually tries to act like a romantic shoujo the audience is forced to confront the reality that these are actually fairly static characters and relationships that exist for the sake of making gags. They can't progress because of the limitations inherent in the genre and set-up. The 'shipping' audience can only end up disappointed and so it's not surprising that some people were rubbed the wrong way by that element of the finale.
 
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Jex

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[Sagebu] - Finale

That was about what I had expected, I just wish the choreography and action animation could have picked up a little for the finale, but I honestly wasn't expecting anything. Momoka got her just desserts for acting out of character.
 
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Midonin

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Blade Dance 11

Team Claire is at last assembled! Not a bad episode, just not a whole lot to talk about. Though I'm kinda looking forward to how the final match goes, because "Ren Ashbell" has been playing into everyone's backstories so much that something like that being dropped should shake things up a bit.

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Well. Though I don't think I felt a lot of Okada or Satou in this show, I can't say it's become boring as it's gone on. Sort of a quasi-Eva thing going on for the finale, with Akashi being one of the few to resist getting taken up by the even darker place. Though my favorite Monday shows are the two that are up next.
 
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Jex

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[Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ] - 1 to 19

There's just something about a Tomino series that makes it compelling. I can't quite explain why I'm still watching a series which has the following problems:

- Frequent bouts of tonal whiplash.

- No apparent story arc despite being of a serialised nature.

- A script where women are only characterised in the following ways: bitchy, clingy, headstrong or crazy. Did I mention the little girl stuff? Of course, I imagine that by the end of the show they'll all be "victims".

- No clear characterisation for any of the cast (and no, 'rebellious' doesn't count). Nearly any character can do anything at any point for any reason - usually to inject some 'drama' into the proceedings to help create a 'plot'. One of the few characters with any kind of core to him was treated entirely as a joke.

- Everyone in the show is incredibly stupid all the time for no apparent reason.

- The editing lacks any sense of time or place. Whenever we're faced with a location we have no idea where one space connects to another, or how. It doesn't even feel like time exists.

But you keep watching because literally anything could happen next and it will probably involve a cool fight scene. In that sense, it's pure entertainment but based on recent developments I feel the hand of 'serious' Tomino returning which is always a bad sign. The thing that makes the first set of episodes so entertaining is that Tomino doesn't even try for stakes or drama, it's just for fun. As soon as that goes away it's going to be a real drag.
 
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zulux21

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TUSR said:
Who is putting the Fall thread together? Pretty sure we have shows debuting Sunday.
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the first show of the fall season actually starts airing on tv on the 25th... though I doubt most will care about it

first real anime seems to be terra formars on the 27th unless you count the preview episode of Cross Ange being shown on the 23th in a special event held at Shinjuku Milano
 
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jman2050

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kiriin said:
Dogakobo did a great job with the anime adaptation of Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun. Hope it does well in bluray/DVD sales.
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Surely Season 2 is right around the corner!

Along with Love Lab S2. And Mikakunin S2.. And Yuru Yuri S3... and GJ-Bu S2....

Welp now I'm depressed again.
 
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TUSR

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zulux21 said:
the first show of the fall season actually starts airing on tv on the 25th... though I doubt most will care about it

first real anime seems to be terra formars on the 27th unless you count the preview episode of Cross Ange being shown on the 23th in a special event held at Shinjuku Milano
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Fall starts on Oct 2nd with Amagi.
 
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MikeHattsu

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Wake Up, Girls! 07

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Well, things gets dramatic with fighting and crying, but everything works out in the end.

I dunno, a bit too much crying in the main story here. The parts in this episode with the parents worked better.
 
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victreeb3l

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Sabagebu! 12 END

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Man I loved this show. So fucking ridiculous and outrageous. Deep creepy voiced Poorara will always make me go into laughing fits. What an awesomely ridiculous last episode to go out with as well.

Momoka was such an awful person, you cant help but love her. Favorite character this season.

Hope theres more.
 
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Midonin

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Hanayamata 12 + Final Thoughts

This was my favorite show of the season. I've stated my bias towards Manga Time Kirara shows before, and since there won't be one next season, I'm throwing my weight behind this with all I've got. All the elements were there. Music. Comedy. Cuteness. And drama, which made the show a little bit more standout, but even if it had been cuteness (and cute and drama can and often do go together), I'd still love it. The art style was pretty beautiful, the yuri levels were high, and it had probably the best eyecatches for the season. A wonderful show in just about everything. There's some K-ON! in it, some Love Live in it, and a distinctly Japanese flavor that's not really in either of the previous two. My favorite part of Mondays, and one of my favorite parts of the week. Let's yosakoi!
 
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BGBW

Maturity, bitches.
I was wrong. For this whole season I said Sabagebu was the best comedy, but I've just realised how gravely mistaken I have been.

The best comedy this season is Free!
 
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Midonin

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Blue Spring Ride 12 + Final Thoughts

I watched this mostly as a vehicle to experience more Maaya Uchida, and that's how I'm going to review it. Not all romance dramas in this category are quite "the same" either. This is also one of the more dramatic ones I've watched, but the feelings of friendship are still pretty strong in it. There were some sketchy parts the first time Futaba went off in search of Kou, though the payoff where she was pushing him to the ground and instead of asking him to stay away, trying to pull him in, makes it... still morally sketchy, but the show didn't lionize Kou's position. Futaba's growth from an outcast into someone with confidence and inner beauty was fairly well done. I didn't even mind the love triangles. The show looked pretty good with its watercolor palette, though I wish the episodes had actual episode titles instead of Page.##. It's a minor thing. I'm not really sure what my favorite girls' romance actually is, but I rather enjoyed this one. It's got a lot of good things going for it.
 
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MikeHattsu

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Wake Up, Girls! 08

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And everybody gets shocked and then excited about participating.

I-1 Club training is ruthless as always, the centers of I-1 and WUG have a talk and then there's some fighting again. Next episode will finally have Mayu's backstory?
 
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Psycho_Mantis

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ultimatemegax said:
Why yes, I'm utterly sure it's the animation studio at fault and not the publisher's decision to promote ongoing titles that don't have an anime adaptation and have room to grow over a franchise that has three previous adaptations, declining sales of both visual/print mediums, and which hasn't been on Japanese TV (outside anime-specific channels) in 6 years. No, let's just blame this studio because you're not getting what you want because why bother supporting a license of the novels again? (which would get you the conclusion of the story because that's what Fujimi Shobo and Kadokawa Shoten do for anime; promotion for novels)

FMP images come out for associated things like Super Robot Wars and people get all upset because the only fucking thing that goes through anyone's mind outside of Japan is "ANIME?????!!!!!!!" It's utterly idiotic.
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No I mean I have no faith in Kyoani to make a good anime.
 
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Crocodile

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Psycho_Mantis said:
No I mean I have no faith in Kyoani to make a good anime.
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As far as I can see, the problems with recent Kyoani anime has been the writing and the subject matter. Unless the last parts of FMP fell off a cliff (I haven't read them so I have no idea), there's no reason to expect a quality nosedive compared to FMP: Second Raid is there?
 
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Jex

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[ZZ Gundam] - 20

I feel like only Tomino would have the gall to insert a "protagonist doesn't want to kill other mecha pilots" development into a series after we've seen him casually butcher dozens of men. It literally just feels like they had to put this storyline in the show because that's what happens in all these real robot shows despite the fact that we've established that Judau kills people without batting an eyelid.

Bizarre.
 
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CorvoSol

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Jexhius said:
[Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ] - 1 to 19

There's just something about a Tomino series that makes it compelling. I can't quite explain why I'm still watching a series which has the following problems:

- Frequent bouts of tonal whiplash.

- No apparent story arc despite being of a serialised nature.

- A script where women are only characterised in the following ways: bitchy, clingy, headstrong or crazy. Did I mention the little girl stuff? Of course, I imagine that by the end of the show they'll all be "victims".

- No clear characterisation for any of the cast (and no, 'rebellious' doesn't count). Nearly any character can do anything at any point for any reason - usually to inject some 'drama' into the proceedings to help create a 'plot'. One of the few characters with any kind of core to him was treated entirely as a joke.

- Everyone in the show is incredibly stupid all the time for no apparent reason.

- The editing lacks any sense of time or place. Whenever we're faced with a location we have no idea where one space connects to another, or how. It doesn't even feel like time exists.

But you keep watching because literally anything could happen next and it will probably involve a cool fight scene. In that sense, it's pure entertainment but based on recent developments I feel the hand of 'serious' Tomino returning which is always a bad sign. The thing that makes the first set of episodes so entertaining is that Tomino doesn't even try for stakes or drama, it's just for fun. As soon as that goes away it's going to be a real drag.
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It's sort of fascinating for me to watch other people watch ZZ Gundam and react more positively to the zany, manic first half than the second, more serious half. Because the zany, crazy stuff is the stuff the Cult of Zeta so heavily derides.

In the interest of killing your hopes now, the show will stop being silly and start being TominoSerious at about episode 26, with women screaming in sorrow over their husband's graves and protagonists crying their eyes out over dead loved ones being the regular Zeta Norm.

You've already seen Unicorn so I will also just go ahead and tell you now that yes, several young women are going to be victimized. Specifically ones related to a certain someone from Unicorn. The one who isn't is sort of a coin standing on its edge scenario, but I'll save that discussion for after you've finished the show.

MadP has put it to me that he thinks there isn't much in the way of character development in the show. I disagree, but I think I will wait for you and Narag to finish the show before I write out in any detail why. I do agree that some characters don't have as well fleshed out as they ought, but I think that's true of Tomino's work in general. He's not very solid on that point. The progression of Char from Zeta to CCA is so sloppily done I still have no idea why people like it, for instance.

That said, I do think Judau and Haman stand out by the show's end as being strongly written (by Tomino standards) and having a fair amount of chemistry and development. Judau in particular I like because he differs so much from Amuro and Kamille. He's a cheeky, upbeat, hotblooded guy who only gets down once or twice the whole show. "Unflappable" is sort of an operative word I use to describe him.

I think you're right to discount "rebellious" as a character trait because its sort of a trait the entire cast shares. Its a part of the show's strange atmosphere. At times ZZ Gundam feels more like an American 80s movie, you know? Like, Goonies in Space or something. And that atmosphere can be either enjoyable or grating depending on one's tastes.

I do think you've hit on something that I noticed during my second run of Zeta that's actually a major appeal of UC Gundam, though (and which ought to have been more obvious from the get-go.) The battles in UC Gundam are a lot of fun to watch. Whether they're the land based struggle of the Gundam vs the Gouf, or the space battles of the Zeta and ZZ against the Qubeley, there's a lot of fun to be had there, and I think that that is one of the entire franchise's greatest strengths. Its sort of a constant that has continued throughout.

Like, the cool thing about Gundam is how it manages to combine both the starfighter and jedi knight aspects of Star Wars battles for some really memorable fights. I think everyone who is even a casual fan of Gundam can name at least one fight from a series that they remember as being really good.
 
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TUSR said:
Happy birthday btw

Is Unicorn worth watching?
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Thanks, and I think you kinda need to have knowledge of UC Gundam shows in order to get the full experience of Unicorn. I mean I've heard that it's good on its own, but still.

UltraGunner said:
Go with either G Gundam or Gundam 00, those are usually the ones most people start with. 00 will be familiar to you because it's a retelling of sorts of Wing (the second season goes for Zeta Gundam instead).
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Now while I'll admit that I liked 00's first season, I can't say that I'd recommend that show to people. Mostly because of the fact that you'll feel compelled to watch the second season given the way it ends.

And the second season is bad. I liked some parts in it, but it's still bad.

And the 00 Movie is garbage. I couldn't sit through that trash in one sitting.
 
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