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Winter Anime 2015 |OT| ZA WARUDO is not square!
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firehawk12
Subete no aware
The ending isn't even that bad, if people would actually read it.
I mean, it's fabulously Asian in its angst, but it's not something stupid like whatever OreImo did.
That doesn't mean I can't pretend it doesn't exist!
I have a feeling it would be far less popular with that title.
Not if it was the Demon King and Godwin knocking back beers and grilling and shit.
I haven't read anything on how Khara actually got the rights. Maybe Anno/Khara pressured them somehow into selling the rights? Maybe Gainax needed the capital to stay afloat? It's sort of a mystery.
ZachDeKoromaru
Banned
King of the Hill with mofus? Anime of the century.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
To me, it's like Microsoft giving Bungie the Halo IP after their split. Which would seem like madness, really.
Wait, did you see the first season of idolmaster?
It sounds like you haven't seen the first season of idolmaster.
You should watch the first season of idolmaster!
It is good, my friend!!
The hype is real
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Heh, I've seen the first im@s, yes. I remember Chihaya's mono no aware arc. lol
Admiral Woofington
Member
Log Horizon-14
Ok the Ninja Turtle needs to join Log Horizon.
my understanding is that this is the only time we see him. Disappointment of the season
cosmicblizzard
Banned
Death Parade 1
Just like with Death Billiards, it's a concept I both like and am a bit iffy on. As tense as it is, sometimes drawing the worst out in people in their moment of weakness and then portraying them as monsters doesn't always sit right with me. It's why I found Jigoku Shoujo (which this series gives me MASSIVE vibes of) both fascinating and somewhat difficult to watch.
That being said, there's a pretty good chance I'll stick with it to the end.
Just like with Death Billiards, it's a concept I both like and am a bit iffy on. As tense as it is, sometimes drawing the worst out in people in their moment of weakness and then portraying them as monsters doesn't always sit right with me. It's why I found Jigoku Shoujo (which this series gives me MASSIVE vibes of) both fascinating and somewhat difficult to watch.
That being said, there's a pretty good chance I'll stick with it to the end.
...Scatter...
Banned
You're not kidding. You Lie in April is amazing.
Cross Ange-1
This is so mindblowingly stupid. Like how the fuck can you pull a coup on your father? What's the point of a monarchy if you can't override laws or have your dickhole son restrained?
"I brought the waste material" oh my so edgy i could cut myself
The episode itself has some pacing problems in that it seems to burn through the material in order to end on the sexual assault (which I loved how it was frame with her ass wiggling in front of the camera). I also don't think the mother's death was done in a very solid directorial standpoint.
I broke and I'm a worse human being for it. I blame Jexhius.
This is so mindblowingly stupid. Like how the fuck can you pull a coup on your father? What's the point of a monarchy if you can't override laws or have your dickhole son restrained?
"I brought the waste material" oh my so edgy i could cut myself
The episode itself has some pacing problems in that it seems to burn through the material in order to end on the sexual assault (which I loved how it was frame with her ass wiggling in front of the camera). I also don't think the mother's death was done in a very solid directorial standpoint.
Admiral Woofington
Member
The Flash 1
This is the right type of popcorn empty calories that I like. Pour some CW on me! Oooh in the name of love~
This is the right type of popcorn empty calories that I like. Pour some CW on me! Oooh in the name of love~
cosmicblizzard
Banned
Absolute Duo 1
Well, the OP and ED aren't bad. I actually dig the premise, but everything from the execution to the look is generic as fuck. Just standard light novel stuff that wastes an interesting hook with overplayed tropes and characters with no distinctive identity.
Will keep watching.
Well, the OP and ED aren't bad. I actually dig the premise, but everything from the execution to the look is generic as fuck. Just standard light novel stuff that wastes an interesting hook with overplayed tropes and characters with no distinctive identity.
Will keep watching.
MetroidPrimeRib
Banned
Cross Ange-1
I broke and I'm a worse human being for it. I blame Jexhius.
This is so mindblowingly stupid. Like how the fuck can you pull a coup on your father? What's the point of a monarchy if you can't override laws or have your dickhole son restrained?
"I brought the waste material" oh my so edgy i could cut myself
The episode itself has some pacing problems in that it seems to burn through the material in order to end on the sexual assault (which I loved how it was frame with her ass wiggling in front of the camera). I also don't think the mother's death was done in a very solid directorial standpoint.
Doo doo doo doo doo
another one bites the dust
ThatChairMan
Member
Idolmaster 2-10
This is a very silly anime.
This is a very silly anime.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
I stopped watching because I didn't want to follow Arrow as well, but at least it's better than Gotham.
It's truly what excellence looks like.
Excellent write up and summation of what makes the series great. I'll probably end up watching the movies soon and use you watching them as an excuse.
Femmeworth
Banned
ಠ_ಠ
Admiral Woofington
Member
Wow. Obviously that's not the song that Cromartie High's freddie mercury would sing. His song is clearly:
Hmmm hmmmm hmmm hmmm HMMM HMMM hmmm hmm hmm hmmmmmmmmmmm HMMM HMM HMMM hmmm hmm HMM HMM hmm hmm hmmmmmmmmmm
You don't know what you're missing if you'd allow me I could welcome you to the new age. Aka I need to catch up on Arrow as well, if Flash is popcorn then Arrow is greasy potato chips that happens to also be a harem anime.
AnathemicOne
Banned
Of course it is, you don't watch iM@S for the seriousness.
iRAWRasaurus
Banned
What really? That's lame..
firehawk12
Subete no aware
I mean, you can hate Asian melodrama. But at least know what you're hating at that point. lol
I watched everything before the big crossover thing. I think it just got too much for me and the superhero thing is probably less interesting to me than mecha. The fact that they're adding even more shows to the continuity makes it very much a thing I don't want to get into because, well, it's starting to become like comic books.
That said, I'm looking forward to Jessica Jones because she's one of the few interesting superhero characters in a sea of generic white, straight, male protagonists.
Cross Ange-2
So Angie is introduced to the sexual assault squad this episode. What I find weird is that the characters don't really act like soldiers raised from birth. It seems like this place isn't really in order and people just do what they want. It's also not that sanitary either. Speaking of sanitary, do they not have washing machines in this universe?
I should mention that I was surprised about the lack of sexual assault in the shower. The girls were somewhat restrained in that scene.
This world setting really doesn't make any sense. So why are the Normas the only ones fighting the DRAGONS? Also lol at DRAGONS being an acronym. Are they just cannon fodder while the real army does other shit or are they the only ones capable of fighting the DRAGONS? Why hasn't anybody run off prior to this as it's not like they're implanted with GPS chips.
There's my 2edge4u. I was starting to miss it.
So Angie is introduced to the sexual assault squad this episode. What I find weird is that the characters don't really act like soldiers raised from birth. It seems like this place isn't really in order and people just do what they want. It's also not that sanitary either. Speaking of sanitary, do they not have washing machines in this universe?
I should mention that I was surprised about the lack of sexual assault in the shower. The girls were somewhat restrained in that scene.
cosmicblizzard
Banned
Tokyo Ghoul Roots 1
This should have been the end to season 1. Pierrot couldn't hold out for one more episode?
This should have been the end to season 1. Pierrot couldn't hold out for one more episode?
iRAWRasaurus
Banned
Crunchyroll guest pass. Quote to reveal.
/a/ - Animu & Mango » Thread #119660803
https://archive.moe/a/thread/119660803/
To everyone on the thread earlier; still hoping for the best, guys... yes, I know you reading this, man!
https://archive.moe/a/thread/119660803/
To everyone on the thread earlier; still hoping for the best, guys... yes, I know you reading this, man!
Well, you could always change your username to a similar one like... don't know, maybe NeoSoma or something.This series has made searching my username for quotes pretty much impossible
It was at first a 'soft collab', with GAiNAX only lending additional support as copyright holder... and, in words of Hiroyuki Yamaga, out of a request from Hideaki Anno to actually produce the Rebuild of Evangelion project in-house at GAiNAX but turned down due to a busy schedule by Mr. Yamaga himself, who personally suggested to Mr. Anno the creation of a new studio to handle the task. Because of this the production was always considered one totally independent from GAiNAX. Only one version of the story and all that, be aware...
Probably (just probably) they were afraid of a irritated (and rightly so) Mr. Anno exerting pressure on them or even, at the worst outcome, him searching for litigation.
I know. I just need reason to post Freedie.
You had my curiosity, but now you have my attention
Your ears, they are broken.
Oh I remember this series! I watched it a long time ago though along with Tokyo Mew Mew. I had way more time back then.
So thats why I really loved that insert song. Its so catchy and has a great rhythm to it. Of course it would be a cover of an 80s song. Im really excited to hear the anime version of the song in full without all the sound and talking.
Turin Turambar
Member
I doubt it's going to be like that, all the time. I imagine there will be some episodes where the dead ones are somewhat good, at least, and the tone of the ep will be different. Like in Mushishi, I expect a bit of variance on the standalone stories.
Theonik
Member
We already got all we need anyway.
And fishing. Don't forget fishing.
I don't think that Khara necessarily was given the rights. Anno already had the IP anyway.
The way things were neither of them could sell the original series and movies and that benefited no-onem so at this point I think Khara was able to negotiate a deal since GAINAX probably needed money. It doesn't mean they have indefinitely lost the rights per-se, it could just be a deal for this release where their share royalties.
If Microsoft was broke and was losing a war of attrition with Bungie sure.
cosmicblizzard
Banned
Rolling Girls 1
I thought this was going to be about motorcycles, not literally everything.
Also, AOTS candidate right here. Does this show have an OT?
I thought this was going to be about motorcycles, not literally everything.
Also, AOTS candidate right here. Does this show have an OT?
Sailor Moon Mondays: Sailor Moon R: Episode 71:
Well, we have reached the point where it is time for a change of OP and it is filled with spoilers. Anyway, if Sailor Moon R has been packed with more episodes like this and less of the dumb shit that actually typifies this season I would actually agree with Jaken in its placement of this season. Yea, I will not deny that this run of episodes are actually some of the strongest storytelling and characterization I have seen from this re-visitation of the franchise. We have hit a certain base formula, one of Sailor Scouts is pitted against one of the Specter Sisters, but the sequences of events plays out far differently each time. Indeed the theme of this episode is loneliness and naturally the scout to be featured is our favored introvert Ami and honestly this is her best episode thus far by a country mile. We get to see not just how far she has come in the season and half we have known her but we get to the depths of her kindness and resolve as it is contrasted with the dark and lonely place Bertheir is coming from. I also like how continuity was used to ultimately turn things around. Yes, obviously highest recommendation to watch.
Well, we have reached the point where it is time for a change of OP and it is filled with spoilers. Anyway, if Sailor Moon R has been packed with more episodes like this and less of the dumb shit that actually typifies this season I would actually agree with Jaken in its placement of this season. Yea, I will not deny that this run of episodes are actually some of the strongest storytelling and characterization I have seen from this re-visitation of the franchise. We have hit a certain base formula, one of Sailor Scouts is pitted against one of the Specter Sisters, but the sequences of events plays out far differently each time. Indeed the theme of this episode is loneliness and naturally the scout to be featured is our favored introvert Ami and honestly this is her best episode thus far by a country mile. We get to see not just how far she has come in the season and half we have known her but we get to the depths of her kindness and resolve as it is contrasted with the dark and lonely place Bertheir is coming from. I also like how continuity was used to ultimately turn things around. Yes, obviously highest recommendation to watch.
We have an OT for like one show and this is baffling me. Why don't we have OTs on Rolling Girls and Death Bartender?
A Black Falcon
Member
Jinsei 1-13 (All) - Yeah, I ended up finishing this series. Jinsei is a series with a harem setting, with a guy and five weird girls around him, but indeed, it isn't really a harem show; there's minimal romance, and what there is is pretty much exclusively the MC with only one of the girls. That's great, if this was some generic harem show I'd probably have dropped it long before the end. Being a little bit different makes it better. It's set in a school has some fanservice (but not a lot), etc., but it's not your generic harem show, because it ISN'T in fact a harem show. Only one girl likes the MC romantically.
But what is it? Comedy, I guess... comedy / commentary, maybe? The guy and four of the girls make up the Second Newspaper Club in their school's "answer a question" team. The guy reads the question, and then each of the girls -- at first three, then four in the later episodes once the last girl joins -- writes an answer. Then they argue about their always very different answers. One girl is good at sports but not too smart; a second loves science and logic but of course doesn't know what to do about romance; the third's father is a priest and loves literature; and the last is a somewhat crazy artist. The fifth girl is the head of the Second Newspaper Club; she makes cameos once in a while, but doesn't appear as much as the main characters.
Each question follows that same formula of ask, answer, debate/argue. The arguments are often pretty entertaining; this IS a comedy show, after all. After that they often go looking for things relating to the question, and this provides plenty more comedy.
A lot of the show is about the questions and where they lead, but sometimes the show has various side scenes, to fill in some of the required stuff for any school anime, or just other general silliness. The show is mostly "realistic" comedy, but there are a few bits which go off into the quite impossible. Why not, it mostly works. Not every episode is equally funny, or equally good, but I liked it more than enough overall to keep going until the end. Good show, I'd watch more if it got made.
Cuticle Detective Inaba 1-12 (All) - Yes, it's an actual anime mostly about guys that I watched. It is a comedy, of course, mostly; there's also a drama side to the show (many characters have very dark pasts!) but the show dwells a lot more on comedy than drama, most of the time. That's how I'd want it to be. This is a show about a detective guy who can turn into a wolf and has a massive hair fetish. He obsesses over his hair, and can identify any hairs on sight. His team members are a crossdressing guy (he varies between nice and mean depending on who he's talking to), and another guy, a kid who is often the straight-man in jokes. He also stops the crossdressing guy from doing anything really bad. They have some allies in the police, most frequently a police detective, who is also something of a straight man.
The villains are a mafia run by a talking miniature goat. Yes, a goat. Heh. He's got a bunch of allies, including a sniper woman, a guy who can take over bodies, a mad scientist girl, and more. Yeah, for some reason all of the female characters are family (the detective has a wife and daughter) or are villains, though the villains are major characters in this show and aren't always particularly evil. For a mafia don, this goat sure doesn't seem to get much bad deeds done... but this is a comedy show, so that's great! Inaba is an amusing series which frequently was pretty silly. It's got a good sense of humor, and the character interactions are often so ridiculous that they're funny. The show likes to mix in bits of serious stuff into the comedy, but the combination works. Most episodes have just enough plot to keep the story moving, but focus more on the silliness.
As for the drama side it does appear once in a while, but fortunately the series doesn't turn full-on dark; bad things did happen in the past, but they don't happen anymore, thankfully. This clearly is an adaptation of an ongoing series, though, so it doesn't actually end, but what's here is good, and was worth watching. Good series.
Rolling Girls 1 - Fun series! I definitely see why a lot of people are comparing this series to KIll la Kill, stylistically it definitely has some similarities. It's also different, though; there's also a slice-of-life feel to this one, at times, in between the absurd action segments.
This series is a crazy story about a future where Japan has broken up into 10 separate nations, after some disaster. The details aren't explained, it just says 'well it happened' pretty much, which was amusing; "the disaster happened, and then the nation broke up into parts because it did" isn't much of an explanation, but it works in this comic action series. The main character is a girl who wants to join the defense group for her little nation. This is over-the-top comic action, though, not real war, but there is some danger involved, since another group keeps coming in and trying to take over. Despite the "rolling girls" title the defense group is of people of both genders, but the three main ones, the main character, her big sister (who is secretly their area's hero) and the villain girl, are all female. The interactions between the characters are often pretty amusing. There's a bit of yuribait too, which is nice. The episode was a lot of fun, with ridiculous comedy, over-the-top action, and lots of very colorful and stylistic visuals. It's a fun series well worth a watch. I wonder where it's going to go, it's too hard to tell from just this episode.
Tantei Opera Milky Holmes TD 1 - Finally! I've been really looking forward to, but also sort of dreading, this series. The first two seasons of Milky Holmes were really funny, among the best comedy animes in recent years. However, after that came a horrible OVA series and then a boring and subpar spinoff starring some other girls, so I wasn't expecting too much from this new series.
Well, it's good that my expectations weren't too high, because based on this episode, it's just about met them; Milky Holmes TD is alright, but it's nothing great. This has nothing on the hilarity of the first two seasons. It's not BAD, but it's not Milky Holmes S1 great. The tone this time is mostly comic, but with a mixed comedy/drama/idols theme. Yes, idol singers are central to this season, it seems. I wanted to watch Milky Holmes, not Idolmaster! Bah. At least it actually stars Milky Holmes, unlike S3 (which, as I said then, should have been called "We Are Feathers", not whatever its title was), and doesn't have the horrible harem element to it that the awful OVA did.
In this episode, the Milky Holmes girls get the mission that will apparently take a while: they need to find these spirits that were taken away from an idol-singer girl who had been the top idol, but lost all her powers when attacked by some mysterious thief during a concert. Why thieves are attacking singers and stealing their song magic we don't know, but they're out there. It's not the Phantom Thief Empire from seasons 1 and 2, though; they have a cameo denying responsibility. I can kind of understand why after the end of S2 they wouldn't stay on as villains, but it's too bad, they have such great, entertaining personalities! The Feathers duo also have a cameo appearance. Poor them... I hope their appearances are just cameos; a little bit of Feathers isn't awful, so long as it remains a little. The main police girl and her female underling also appear. The rest of Genius 4 continue to be written out of the series, as they were in Feathers' series, though I have no idea why; sure, police girl is funny, but she's better with the rest of her team around her! Bring them back already.
In the climax of this episode, the Milky Holmes girls manage to stop messing up for long enough to actually find the first one of the missing spirits. I liked the poverty jokes bit with the idol; she went down fast after losing her ability to sing.
That was very Milky Holmes S1/S2-like stuff. In the end there's a contest in a weird world to get back the spirit thing. They win it in a pretty crazy-silly way. So yeah, overall, Milky Holmes TD is a lot better than the last two shows, but based on one episode isn't nearly as good as the first two. It was amusing sometimes for sure, but all of the idol stuff in the beginning was kind of tedious, and it's not a pure comedy show like the first two seasons were, it's also trying to do some drama and action. Drama is something this franchise should not have, it's terrible at it. I hope this season is a lot more comedy than bad drama; most of episode 1 got the balance right, after that overly slow intro section.
Also... why did Milky Holmes need "idols training" segments? It didn't. It'd be better without them, but I know that the VAs are idols too, so they are clearly trying to mix that element into this show. There's a repeated joke where the Milky Holmes girls claim to be detectives, not idols; the joke is, of course, that their VAs are indeed idols. I imagine we'll hear more of that one. I just hope that the idol stuff doesn't overwhelm the show. In this episode it does for most of the first half of the episode, but it got a LOT better after that. I hope it stays more like the second half of the episode than the first one after this.
But what is it? Comedy, I guess... comedy / commentary, maybe? The guy and four of the girls make up the Second Newspaper Club in their school's "answer a question" team. The guy reads the question, and then each of the girls -- at first three, then four in the later episodes once the last girl joins -- writes an answer. Then they argue about their always very different answers. One girl is good at sports but not too smart; a second loves science and logic but of course doesn't know what to do about romance; the third's father is a priest and loves literature; and the last is a somewhat crazy artist. The fifth girl is the head of the Second Newspaper Club; she makes cameos once in a while, but doesn't appear as much as the main characters.
The science girl is the love interest, interestingly.
A lot of the show is about the questions and where they lead, but sometimes the show has various side scenes, to fill in some of the required stuff for any school anime, or just other general silliness. The show is mostly "realistic" comedy, but there are a few bits which go off into the quite impossible. Why not, it mostly works. Not every episode is equally funny, or equally good, but I liked it more than enough overall to keep going until the end. Good show, I'd watch more if it got made.
Cuticle Detective Inaba 1-12 (All) - Yes, it's an actual anime mostly about guys that I watched. It is a comedy, of course, mostly; there's also a drama side to the show (many characters have very dark pasts!) but the show dwells a lot more on comedy than drama, most of the time. That's how I'd want it to be. This is a show about a detective guy who can turn into a wolf and has a massive hair fetish. He obsesses over his hair, and can identify any hairs on sight. His team members are a crossdressing guy (he varies between nice and mean depending on who he's talking to), and another guy, a kid who is often the straight-man in jokes. He also stops the crossdressing guy from doing anything really bad. They have some allies in the police, most frequently a police detective, who is also something of a straight man.
The villains are a mafia run by a talking miniature goat. Yes, a goat. Heh. He's got a bunch of allies, including a sniper woman, a guy who can take over bodies, a mad scientist girl, and more. Yeah, for some reason all of the female characters are family (the detective has a wife and daughter) or are villains, though the villains are major characters in this show and aren't always particularly evil. For a mafia don, this goat sure doesn't seem to get much bad deeds done... but this is a comedy show, so that's great! Inaba is an amusing series which frequently was pretty silly. It's got a good sense of humor, and the character interactions are often so ridiculous that they're funny. The show likes to mix in bits of serious stuff into the comedy, but the combination works. Most episodes have just enough plot to keep the story moving, but focus more on the silliness.
As for the drama side it does appear once in a while, but fortunately the series doesn't turn full-on dark; bad things did happen in the past, but they don't happen anymore, thankfully. This clearly is an adaptation of an ongoing series, though, so it doesn't actually end, but what's here is good, and was worth watching. Good series.
Rolling Girls 1 - Fun series! I definitely see why a lot of people are comparing this series to KIll la Kill, stylistically it definitely has some similarities. It's also different, though; there's also a slice-of-life feel to this one, at times, in between the absurd action segments.
This series is a crazy story about a future where Japan has broken up into 10 separate nations, after some disaster. The details aren't explained, it just says 'well it happened' pretty much, which was amusing; "the disaster happened, and then the nation broke up into parts because it did" isn't much of an explanation, but it works in this comic action series. The main character is a girl who wants to join the defense group for her little nation. This is over-the-top comic action, though, not real war, but there is some danger involved, since another group keeps coming in and trying to take over. Despite the "rolling girls" title the defense group is of people of both genders, but the three main ones, the main character, her big sister (who is secretly their area's hero) and the villain girl, are all female. The interactions between the characters are often pretty amusing. There's a bit of yuribait too, which is nice. The episode was a lot of fun, with ridiculous comedy, over-the-top action, and lots of very colorful and stylistic visuals. It's a fun series well worth a watch. I wonder where it's going to go, it's too hard to tell from just this episode.
Tantei Opera Milky Holmes TD 1 - Finally! I've been really looking forward to, but also sort of dreading, this series. The first two seasons of Milky Holmes were really funny, among the best comedy animes in recent years. However, after that came a horrible OVA series and then a boring and subpar spinoff starring some other girls, so I wasn't expecting too much from this new series.
Well, it's good that my expectations weren't too high, because based on this episode, it's just about met them; Milky Holmes TD is alright, but it's nothing great. This has nothing on the hilarity of the first two seasons. It's not BAD, but it's not Milky Holmes S1 great. The tone this time is mostly comic, but with a mixed comedy/drama/idols theme. Yes, idol singers are central to this season, it seems. I wanted to watch Milky Holmes, not Idolmaster! Bah. At least it actually stars Milky Holmes, unlike S3 (which, as I said then, should have been called "We Are Feathers", not whatever its title was), and doesn't have the horrible harem element to it that the awful OVA did.
In this episode, the Milky Holmes girls get the mission that will apparently take a while: they need to find these spirits that were taken away from an idol-singer girl who had been the top idol, but lost all her powers when attacked by some mysterious thief during a concert. Why thieves are attacking singers and stealing their song magic we don't know, but they're out there. It's not the Phantom Thief Empire from seasons 1 and 2, though; they have a cameo denying responsibility. I can kind of understand why after the end of S2 they wouldn't stay on as villains, but it's too bad, they have such great, entertaining personalities! The Feathers duo also have a cameo appearance. Poor them...
I hope their appearances are just cameos; a little bit of Feathers isn't awful, so long as it remains a little. The main police girl and her female underling also appear. The rest of Genius 4 continue to be written out of the series, as they were in Feathers' series, though I have no idea why; sure, police girl is funny, but she's better with the rest of her team around her! Bring them back already.In the climax of this episode, the Milky Holmes girls manage to stop messing up for long enough to actually find the first one of the missing spirits. I liked the poverty jokes bit with the idol; she went down fast after losing her ability to sing.
Also, the bit with the two wigs she takes off is great! :lol
Also... why did Milky Holmes need "idols training" segments? It didn't. It'd be better without them, but I know that the VAs are idols too, so they are clearly trying to mix that element into this show. There's a repeated joke where the Milky Holmes girls claim to be detectives, not idols; the joke is, of course, that their VAs are indeed idols. I imagine we'll hear more of that one. I just hope that the idol stuff doesn't overwhelm the show. In this episode it does for most of the first half of the episode, but it got a LOT better after that. I hope it stays more like the second half of the episode than the first one after this.
BEAR has told me of this. I look forward to it!
The obvious answer is Freddie.
Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha 3
Wait, they call it soccer in Japan, too?
Food porn. And Yuuno-kun plays SliceSabre for the day.
She keeps mentioning that she's a third-grader, so why is there fanservice?
If you've played Final Fantasy V, you should know what I'm thinking right now.
Ooh, a new ability! And her wand is a gun now! Nice!
This soundtrack is so good. Really great mood.
Powerful ending.
The show is kind of loli-centric but it ramps up the action to 100 pretty soon and you forget all that. This show is fucking insane during some battles.
There is nothing wrong with Bunny Drop.
Well, Yakitate Japan kind of pioneered it.
haha, not a bad way of putting it.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Oh weird, I had no idea that Anno owned the IP. I wonder how that works, since I always assumed that people just made stuff on behalf of a studio./a/ - Animu & Mango » Thread #119660803
https://archive.moe/a/thread/119660803/
To everyone on the thread earlier; still hoping for the best, guys... yes, I know you reading this, man!
Well, you could always change your username to a similar one like... don't know, maybe NeoSoma or something.
It was at first a 'soft collab', with GAiNAX only lending additional support as copyright holder... and, in words of Hiroyuki Yamaga, out of a request from Hideaki Anno to actually produce the Rebuild of Evangelion project in-house at GAiNAX but turned down due to a busy schedule by Mr. Yamaga himself, who personally suggested to Mr. Anno the creation of a new studio to handle the task. Because of this the production was always considered one totally independent from GAiNAX. Only one version of the story and all that, be aware...
Probably (just probably) they were afraid of a irritated (and rightly so) Mr. Anno exerting pressure on them or even, at the worst outcome, him searching for litigation.
This was basically last year's Joshiraku though, but not as weird or dependent on working knowledge of contemporary Japanese culture. I kind of wanted to finish it, but it's sporadic schedule kind of made me forget about it.
Man, how fucked is Gainax if they need to give away their biggest thing?
Dominican Power
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Thanks.
But Mechazawa is Norio Wakamoto and Gorilla is......a gorilla.
By the way, the OP perhaps one of the catchiest OP I've heard.
Sailor Moon Mondays: Sailor Moon R: Episode 72:
Welp, so much for this being in formula, but it break with pattern to its own detriment and is feeding into my belief that the writers had no clue what to do with Makoto or Minako after having them move on from past love. They seemed to be vaguely trying to make them Those Two Girls but it has been so half assed the gimmick really hasn't taken hold. Anyway, Wiseman shows up and basically tells Rubius to hit the fast forward button and he decides to send out the remaining Specter Sisters in a last ditched effort on their end to complete the tasks set before them. Honestly, this episode is a few notches below the past couple of ones, still good, but now the emphasis is more on combat and a more generic form of the motifs that have been painted during this mini-arc. The say is eventually saved because evil can be stupid at times as well and a new technique is learned. We do also get McGuffin advancement as while the Black Moon clan has suffered a loss here they and Chibi-Usa have learned a vital piece of information that if the Scouts knew how vital it was they would have done a better job in keeping it secret. Overall, highest recommendation to watch based off of story elements alone and it stands on its own feel pretty well.
Welp, so much for this being in formula, but it break with pattern to its own detriment and is feeding into my belief that the writers had no clue what to do with Makoto or Minako after having them move on from past love. They seemed to be vaguely trying to make them Those Two Girls but it has been so half assed the gimmick really hasn't taken hold. Anyway, Wiseman shows up and basically tells Rubius to hit the fast forward button and he decides to send out the remaining Specter Sisters in a last ditched effort on their end to complete the tasks set before them. Honestly, this episode is a few notches below the past couple of ones, still good, but now the emphasis is more on combat and a more generic form of the motifs that have been painted during this mini-arc. The say is eventually saved because evil can be stupid at times as well and a new technique is learned. We do also get McGuffin advancement as while the Black Moon clan has suffered a loss here they and Chibi-Usa have learned a vital piece of information that if the Scouts knew how vital it was they would have done a better job in keeping it secret. Overall, highest recommendation to watch based off of story elements alone and it stands on its own feel pretty well.
Turin Turambar
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Cross Ange 14
Tusk... YOU BASTARD... you are ruining EVERYTHING
You just love putting that .gif
Now that I think about it,
it was the girl, Ange, who puts the moves on the guy, Tusk, who on the other hand he was the "pure" one who was reticent.
CA can be strangely progressive, if you squint your eyes hard enough to not see the fanservice.
CA can be strangely progressive, if you squint your eyes hard enough to not see the fanservice.
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