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Summer Anime 2015 |OT| SharingMana

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Dedication Through Light

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Verily the anime goddesses have breathed new life upon Bushiroad, Cardfight!! Vanguard G Gears Crisis & Futurecard Buddyfight Season 3 were announced. So hyped.

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firehawk12

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Wow, they even made Yuki sound like Yui from K-On for maximum moeblobness. This is like the opposite of that mind reading anime from a few years ago. lol
 
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Shard

XBLAnnoyance
firehawk12 said:
Wow, they even made Yuki sound like Yui from K-On for maximum moeblobness. This is like the opposite of that mind reading anime from a few years ago. lol
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I have long believed that the Zombie Apocalypse would have made K-On! watchable.
 
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ultimatemegax

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Cornbread78 said:
Damn, so my impressions are pretty on point with what happened in production then. Is that the way the LN ended as well? Such an odd "non-ending ending" way to leave things, even for a novel... It's my own fault for expecting more moments like :

but not getting it. Rikka and Yuuta were too cute a couple to get treated like that. I actually really liked Yuuta's approach of being a solid MC and not waivering in resolve the entire season..
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The novels are very different than the anime adaptation due to the format differences. Volume 1 is purely about
Yuuta being assigned to help Rikka pass a math re-try after she failed the first one spectacularly. It also has some bits like a random field trip one day. It's not the best written novel I've read, but I enjoyed it a lot. The content focused nearly 100% on Yuuta/Rikka with a fair amount of Nibutani, Isshiki, and Kannagi. It ended with Yuuta and Rikka getting together, kissing, and Rikka failing her re-try.

Volume 2 takes place a month later
with Yuuta planning a celebratory first date. They go on the date and kiss again at the end. The next day, Shichimiya, Yuuta's old friend, shows up while Yuuta is alone. Rikka comes in and catches them together and starts to get jealous. Shichimiya battles Rikka (chuuni-style) and loses, thus runs away. She comes back the next day and Yuuta blows off Rikka to show her around the school (running into Nibutani, their mutual old friend). Rikka catches them together again and is even more jealous. She ignores him all the next day and they make up after school. The following day Rikka catches Yuuta again with Shichimiya and runs away crying. Yuuta later finds her bag all alone and gets a call from a kidnapper who kidnaps Rikka. With Nibutani's help, he finds where the kidnapper is and it's revealed to be Shichimiya. He and Shichimiya battle again for him to find Rikka's location. During the battle, she confesses that she loved him but couldn't express it before she moved away. She and Rikka make up as Rikka now knew that Yuuta had no feelings for her. A couple weeks later, Shichimiya transfers to their school.
 
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Mandelbo

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I didn't realise that Dekomori was an original character for the Chuunibyou anime. Strange considering she's more or less my favourite aspect of the show.
 
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KenjiGlove

Banned
Gakkou Gurashi 01

This is cool, The setting is pretty interesting because
the main girl isn't aware that there is a zombie apocalypse going on.

I'll definitely watch it, I hope this show isn't going to pull it's punches.

I'm digging the girl with the shovel.
 
Cornbread78

Cornbread78

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ultimatemegax said:
The novels are very different than the anime adaptation due to the format differences. Volume 1 is purely about
Yuuta being assigned to help Rikka pass a math re-try after she failed the first one spectacularly. It also has some bits like a random field trip one day. It's not the best written novel I've read, but I enjoyed it a lot. The content focused nearly 100% on Yuuta/Rikka with a fair amount of Nibutani, Isshiki, and Kannagi. It ended with Yuuta and Rikka getting together, kissing, and Rikka failing her re-try.

Volume 2 takes place a month later
with Yuuta planning a celebratory first date. They go on the date and kiss again at the end. The next day, Shichimiya, Yuuta's old friend, shows up while Yuuta is alone. Rikka comes in and catches them together and starts to get jealous. Shichimiya battles Rikka (chuuni-style) and loses, thus runs away. She comes back the next day and Yuuta blows off Rikka to show her around the school (running into Nibutani, their mutual old friend). Rikka catches them together again and is even more jealous. She ignores him all the next day and they make up after school. The following day Rikka catches Yuuta again with Shichimiya and runs away crying. Yuuta later finds her bag all alone and gets a call from a kidnapper who kidnaps Rikka. With Nibutani's help, he finds where the kidnapper is and it's revealed to be Shichimiya. He and Shichimiya battle again for him to find Rikka's location. During the battle, she confesses that she loved him but couldn't express it before she moved away. She and Rikka make up as Rikka now knew that Yuuta had no feelings for her. A couple weeks later, Shichimiya transfers to their school.
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Holy crap that is a HUGE departure from the anime. How did they come up with something so different? I think I agree with the anime being much better if that is the case, although that event in S2 would have been pretty interesting, but all that angst would have been even tougher to deal with to what we got already in S2...
 
John Blade

John Blade

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Arcadius said:
Mahou Tsukai ni Taisetsu na Koto (Someday's Dreamers)

I'm really really sorry, I'm positive someone in this thread did a write up of this and to whomever you are, it caught my eye and because of it, I decided to watch this. (Should start writing down names of people that inspire me to watch something).

Someday's Dreamers is.... well it's an odd slice of life anime. Imagine a world where magic was possible, but in this world, the mages are working for the government and a lot of what you can and can't do is regulated and constantly being watched; sounds scary right?

Someday's Dreamers follows Kikuchi Yume, our emotional/sensitive protagonist. She's a mage in training and has come to Tokyo to better understand her powers, what it's like to be a mage and to become a certified mage. Throughout Someday's Dreamers, we follow her time in Tokyo and all the issues she faces.

Now even though Kikuchi Yume is our protag and it's all about her, the supports, Angela, another girl who is an apprentice mage is also slightly important and is shown; there are clear arcs that involve her and Kikuchi too. The other "main" person would be the sensei or the mage who helps Yume with the mage training, Masami Oyamada. He's the teacher for Yume and is involved with just about everything that Yume does, although he's laidback and has some issues of his own that we eventually get to explore.

The story, for the most part is very conjoined, it's a slice of life with an episodic format (Which I feel isn't the best choice for Someday's Dreamers, I would have preferred a story that flowed in an easier to follow format). When we're first introduced to Yume, we're told she has extraordinary capabilities and that her mother was a great mage as well. She's able to make money from thin air, lift cars in a city straight into the sky and things that really show, she's powerful. Unfortunately, this angle is never really explored and is essentially forgotten throughout the rest of the episodes.

Although Someday's Dreamers does us it's nigh-on episodic format, it's not "bad" enough to make a big difference, there is just no clear cut time line for us to follow and it feels like there are time skips that keep occurring, though that might be my problem and not the anime.

The sound and music in Someday's Dreamers is gorgeous though, it's a huge "job well done", big thumbs up and all that. The instrumental, orchestrated music that will pop up during scenes is phenomenal and well worth a listen to. The OP (Flowers of the Wind) is fantastic and so peaceful, relaxing and slow; the singer is so beautiful and the way the song is setup, it just sounds so good. The ED (Under the Blue Sky) is just as good, although using a slightly quicker tempo (still plenty slow though), beautiful vocalist, great lyrics. In Episode 12, we get to hear the ED in an acoustic way and it is quite amazing, you can hear (or I think) the passion and depth of the song with how it's performed in an acoustic environment; it's 10/10 stuff.

Seiyuu performance: Normally I don't comment on this, because I love the squeeful, extra cute, moe stuff and since that's all I watch, nothing to say. In Someday's Dreamers however, it sounds like all the seiyuu are very quiet and I don't mean I'm listening to the anime with low volume. It's as if they're near whispering, talking very softly, ya know? This isn't a problem for me, since I seem to talk the same way, soft and "peaceful", but the problem is, it feels like the performances fell flat. Expressions weren't adjusted as much as you'd think and it's a little weird to hear all the performers speak in this low tone type of voice. Now again, not an issue for me, but I feel like the way they speak could most definitely put someone off from this.

Animation: Another aspect in which Someday's Dreamers isn't so hot. It's not fluid, at all. I guess this is what a cheap budget would look like. The mouths just open and close, there are no intricacies in the movements, the animation is .... well I guess not as smooth as it could be. There are many stills used to prolong scenes, and things of that nature. It's a warning, the animation in Someday's Dreamers is not a strong point at all, but fortunately for Someday's Dreamers, it doesn't have to be perfect and extra smooth. The way the entire anime is shown to us, the lack of polish and depth to the animation is almost a non issue...... except for the mouths, I swear there are scenes that literally only have open and close mouth frames with nothing in-between. Again, it's not.... that bad to scare you off, but it's something I noticed and was noticeable throughout all 12 episodes. A good point on animation is when the "special" powers are used. The powers are shown by using holograms, so Yume for instance has a dolphin. Those scenes are incredible and are both drawn and animated well.

Art Style: If we take the animation away from the picture and focus on art, I'd say it's good enough for the way Someday's Dreamers wants to be presented. The colors aren't bold, they're subdued and honestly, almost realistic in how it's shown. The characters are drawn really well and I actually like how it all looks. The eyes aren't so big compared to the faces (I know people hate big eyes). It's a good looking show, even if there isn't so much detail.

Overall: Someday's Dreamers is a solid slice of life story about decision making and always trying to get the best out of any given situation. It's kind, light hearted, sincere and sometimes even serious in how it presents itself. Not everyone will understand what it's like to be a mage, not everyone will understand that you can't do everything, but always try your best, failures and mistakes can help you grow and become better. Yume was a fantastic Main and the concept and theme of the story worked well, I just wish we could have seen more of her capabilities and things of that, because we don't witness much strong magic. (If you're interested, Someday's Dreamers is on Hulu, if you don't want to buy the DVD)

Note: No idea where to put it, but this is a very slow, unfolding type of Slice of Life. I mean... very slow. (I obviously enjoyed it though)
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The person who did a write up for this show is me. I do hope you like the 1st season of the show. If you have a chance and still interested in the idea, go for season 2. It won't have the characters you follow in the 1st season as it's basically a new show really. The only thing the same is the same style of idea as what if the world they is Mage people who can use magic. The 2nd season take the magic stuff but not go into those magic protocol but more focus of the people of how they use the magic in the everyday world and how it affect them.

For my opinion both are very good show but kind of like the 1st season a bit more mostly because of how they structure the show of the main character and how she develop alone the way before she become a full mage. Doesn't mean the 2nd season isn't better. Actually it's strength is actually how a main character in the show affect everyone around her when she went to training. I do hope you finish the 2nd season to complete this show.
 
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striferser

Huge Nickleback Fan
Maximilian Kolbe said:
"There will be no Shirobako season 2 because the director has anime lined up for the next several years"
http://yaraon-blog.com/archives/65829

Well i guess it's not really a bad news, a great doesn't really means need a sequel.
Plus according to PA Works history, they don't know to count to 2, even worse than Valve.
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Eh, that's okay. I love the series, but no sequel is really needed for that one.

Jitsu wa watashi wa 1
Shiragami look so moe in this adaptation. Not sure if i can handle it. At least Kuromine reaction face is more funny here. Also, lol, friendzone

Ushio and Tora 1
Feel like your regular shonen. Eh, i'll watch it
 
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Gbraga

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phaze said:
Welcome !

Gangsta 02


What is up with Japanese fixation on the C,B,A,S ranks to measure the power combat levels ?

I liked the new addition to the cast but other than that it was again pretty meh. Gonna drop this and maybe pick it up again, if it starts getting good reviews here. Don't really have the patience for mediocre shows anymore.
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Wow, really? I was about to post how amazing I thought it was, haha. They actually nailed a kid character, color me surprised, I liked a child in an action anime.

Alex still best girl of the season, of course.

I feel like Gangsta's pacing is on point, it doesn't just dump a ton of exposition on you and moves on, it's mixing action and exposition in a very pleasant way to watch. It's the nicest surprise of the season IMO, only started watching because it looked nice, but I'm really really liking it.

If it wasn't for Non Non Biyori Repeat, it would be my #1 show of the season so far.

striferser said:

Ushio and Tora 1
Feel like your regular shonen. Eh, i'll watch it
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Maybe I'm just not following recent shounens closely enough, but I feel like a generic 90s shounen is much better than what I'd expect out of a battle anime these days. You're right, it didn't have anything special or particularly original about it, but just being a regular shounen felt so refreshing to me.

I'm not very into battle anime though, so maybe I'm just uninformed and recent shounens are fucking awesome.
 
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Jarmel

Banned
R_thanatos said:
I actually disagree.
The princess is actually show as lively. A this point in the show we had a character , that actually get into a jail , just to ask a guy questions. AND THEN the storyboard actively depict her as fearless ( the head in the hole ) and lively ( she is moving left and right), suggesting that either the conversation lasted longer than one would think or that she is really lively.

In that same scene, the MC even confident as he is , doesn't even attempt to do anything, many moments in this part actually show the MC moving ( a little thanks to the injuries ). I think the whole scene does what it intended to do , that is actually show the various personnalities of the 2 characters.
The calm and confident prisonner and the curious and energetic "maid". As for the framming , one could say that it's useless at times but not really .. The hole is treated as a device to see the "maid" suggesting that she could be something else if the whole device ( the jail ) isn't there.
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Well there the problem isn't so much her movement inside the scene but rather how the storyboarding portrays that movement and her location. For example the show uses an overhead shot twice inside the conversation but neither provide the audience any information nor is it done as an interesting shot composition-wise. Another example is when he shakes her hand and they introduce themselves, the camera judt pands back and forth between the bars of the jail cell.
 
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Robotguy

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Maximilian Kolbe said:
"There will be no Shirobako season 2 because the director has anime lined up for the next several years"
http://yaraon-blog.com/archives/65829

Well i guess it's not really a bad news, a great doesn't really means need a sequel.
Plus according to PA Works history, they don't know to count to 2, even worse than Valve.
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I'm fine with this. The Shirobako stands fine on it's own. A sequel could be nice but isn't really necessary.
 
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Arcadius

Banned
John Blade said:
The person who did a write up for this show is me. I do hope you like the 1st season of the show. If you have a chance and still interested in the idea, go for season 2. It won't have the characters you follow in the 1st season as it's basically a new show really. The only thing the same is the same style of idea as what if the world they is Mage people who can use magic. The 2nd season take the magic stuff but not go into those magic protocol but more focus of the people of how they use the magic in the everyday world and how it affect them.

For my opinion both are very good show but kind of like the 1st season a bit more mostly because of how they structure the show of the main character and how she develop alone the way before she become a full mage. Doesn't mean the 2nd season isn't better. Actually it's strength is actually how a main character in the show affect everyone around her when she went to training. I do hope you finish the 2nd season to complete this show.
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Oooooh, well then John Blade, thank you for your write up of Someday's Dreamers, made me want to watch it. I will be watching the Sora version next, since I'm curious on what they do. It's a good anime, I mean I watched it and gave it an 8, so that's pretty good.

Puruzi said:
No more Shirobako?

Thank fucking god
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AquaWateria said:
RIP all the Shirobako fans. ��
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Haven't seen it yet, but I know I'd really enjoy it, so this is quite some sad news =(.
 
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javac

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Peco said:
Kurayami Santa 01

Can't wait to watch more of this!
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Never heard of this, looks interesting. So apparently its animated over old stock footage? Thanks for bringing to to my attention, the trailer for it looks up my alley, maybe 2015 actually has something that I want to watch after all.
 
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ThreePiMatt

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I think Shirobako ended on a good spot. The ending was certainly such that they could easily make more if so inclined, but for the most part everything wrapped up quite nicely.
 
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MetroidPrimeRib

Banned
Mandelbo said:
A couple of days ago some people here were saying Zankyou no Terror didn't end up being very good. Now, I stopped watching it around episode three because I thought the premise was too silly for the tone and the way the police acted after a major terrorist attack wasn't exactly believable, but I was under the impression that most people enjoyed it. What exactly went wrong with it? Did it just have a bad or inconclusive ending or something?
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Zankyou no Terror became extremely dumb when Five was introduced because she overall added pretty much nothing but bad engrish and bad writing to the show. The other girl who I forget because she was forgettable because she also did nothing was silly as well. Show would have been better if it was Twelve vs. Shibazaki.

Admiral Woofington said:
It was probably a temp "go cool off" ban
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Robotguy said:
Monster Musume 1
I like it. The constant cockblocking is going to get really old really fast though.
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u dont even know

speedlolita said:
I'm a little scared to watch Monster Musume. Love the manga but I can't see it being well adapted. I guess this is an issue other people run into more frequently than myself.
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Nice avatar

Maximilian Kolbe said:
"There will be no Shirobako season 2 because the director has anime lined up for the next several years"
http://yaraon-blog.com/archives/65829

Well i guess it's not really a bad news, a great doesn't really means need a sequel.
Plus according to PA Works history, they don't know to count to 2, even worse than Valve.
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Fuckin' boo. PA Works is so spotty most of the time it was great to see them make something good.
 
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ultimatemegax

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Cornbread78 said:
Holy crap that is a HUGE departure from the anime. How did they come up with something so different? I think I agree with the anime being much better if that is the case, although that event in S2 would have been pretty interesting, but all that angst would have been even tougher to deal with to what we got already in S2...
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Ishihara and Hanada wanted to include and focus more on different characters in an anime format. While you can have a novel with 2 main characters, it's tougher to formulate a 12/13 episode series only around those two without others coming in. Thus they formed Kumin (Ishihara) and Dekomori (Hanada). Additionally, the numerous study scenes would've gotten old, so Ishihara/Hanada decided to focus on the concept of "how to fall in love with a chuunibyou girl?" In the novels, Yuuta already thought she was cute and kinda liked her, so that wasn't developed much.

The angst was easily offset by the difference in chuunibyou Shichimiya was. She knew that she was just playing along and wanted to have fun. Rikka truly believed in what she was talking about/doing. Shichimiya was a good alternative to Rikka and behaved admirably IMO. The loss of what made her special turned me off of the "adaptation."
 
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Cornbread78

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Non Non Biyori ep. 1-6:
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I don't even kow what to say about this one. It's a straight SoL with nothing but cuteness, more cuteness, a little comedy and not much else, lol. Renge is the cutest 1st grader ever and poor senpai, just keeps getting dumped on. A whole lot of anime cuteness in here. Entertaining to say the least.
 
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Rainy

Banned
ultimatemegax, do you think Kyoani will produce another series this year? I mean definitely not right, because of the Free movie, so next year probably?
 
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JKTrix

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I was at the E-Sakuga panel at Anime Expo too. The large black guy answering all the questions ('that guy in the picture is Hideaki Anno/Mitsuo Iso directed Denno Coil') and hung around afterwards to ask more questions and look at the Eva genga book he brought. A lot of what he said was 'I was told this in secret, please don't tweet about it' kind of stuff, mostly related to the work Mitsuo Iso has done/is going to do. I bought the Eva 3.0 version of their product, but haven't dug into it just yet.
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Not sure who went in the end, but both founders Kenji Fujita & Shinichirō Tanaka (@konoro_shin), this last one acting as translator, were supposed to be at that panel this year.
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Thanks for this, I was there before it started but I didn't catch his name either.

If you (Jarmel) joined when he was already talking about Giovanni's island, at the beginning he was just talking about the early days of regular people (that is, non-professionals) being 'sakuga' fans. Animage was the first magazine that gave these people a look into how anime was actually created, talked about the animators and the 'genga'/keyframes, and the techniques they used to draw poses and things like that.

One example of this was an animator who worked on Fist of the North Star, he also practiced Karate. So he would do karate moves for his fellow animators to copy the forms and poses for that show. Then it showed an image of this karateka crouched on the floor, drawing a picture of Candy from Candy Candy--he was also working on that show at the same time.

Fujita mentioned a manga by Mamoru Oshii called 'Todo no tsumari', which is apparently about animators at the time (including a young Anno). Wish I could find it.

He also gave a tip to anyone if they're going to meet a Japanese animator and want to get on their good side/get invited for drinks: mention that Galaxy Express 999 is your favourite anime. Just say Three-nine, not NineNineNine. Another cute thing that happened was when they were doing their Eva Q segment, the presenter referred to 'Kaworu Kyuun' while the translator just said 'Kaworu-kun'. After the translator did that a couple of times, the presenter stressed that it was 'Kyuun', not 'kun'. What a delightful nerd.

Adding a few of my panel observations in bold to what Jarmel already said:
(I removed stuff I'm not commenting on, definitely look at his full post if you missed it)
Jarmel said:
E-Sakuga Panel

-Hiromi Hayazaki came up with a style of running that is commonly used. Issue with leg being straight when landing. Animators today are trying to go beyond that and have the legs slightly bent when landing. Utsunomiya did a scene with a girl running. Wrote long list of instructions about how legs should be slightly bent instead of the usual straight when landing, he really seems to be into motion.
::Jarmel meant Hayao Miyazaki here (unless I'm missing some kind of in-joke--I don't really lurk here much). Miyazaki established a method of animating a running character during Future Boy Conan (they actually called it 'Conan run' or something like that) that had been the standard in anime ever since, and this animator believes his way is more accurate/realistic.

-He showed off a picture of Iso and another Eva animator (Tadashi Hiramitsu) after they had gone drinking.

-Some clips from Eva 3.0 were shown with Anno having done these 2D animations for a scene where one of the EVAs was falling and there were explosions all around it. God damn it, it looks so good in gengas. Itano did the CGI for the mech falling and explosions scene.
::More to this: the shape of the explosions are curved, which apparently was one of the original Gundam's innovations according to the lecturer. Itano worked on Gundam (and its explosions) and was a mentor to Anno at one point. So that particular scene he showed had Anno drawing 'curved' explosions that Itano pioneered back in the day, coupled with what would eventually be Itano's own CG of the 2D-drawn EVA-02. Mentor and mentee working together in the same frame. Lovely.

-Overheard someone ask about Iso after the panel, he’s going 3D.
::I stuck around afterwards as well, when he mentioned that I said to him 'Just like Itano-san' in Japanese. He laughed.
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I also asked how did people associate an animator to a certain scene, and he responded that he doesn't like the trend of Sakuga fans treating it like a quiz (to figure out who drew). Would rather that people focus on what is good and why it's good. Maybe a tinge of 'you're 10 years too early to worry about that' in that answer, but it led me to make a dumb tweet to them. Someone else asked how accurate Shirobako was as we were being rushed out of the room, and he responded "Not Real" in English. Clarifying that real life was not as interesting.

For Trigger, I kind of got the impression that Yoshinari was a downer after all the insecurity he displayed and expressed during the two panels and the LWA2 screening, so I'm glad to hear that it's just his personality in general. More Jarmel piggybacking:
Jarmel said:
Trigger AX 2015 Panel

New Trigger original anime shown. Only character designs and one shot of setting was shown. The character designs reminded me of Persona in that they’re all 16-17 and have that sort of casual attire that looks like modified school uniforms...Designs definitely don't look like Imaishi.
::The character designs looked kind of like huke (minus all the post processing) or mebae's styles to me.

LWA Panel

Yoshinari: “Imaishi might respect me but I don’t want to draw (think he meant direct) anymore. I haven’t had any days off for the past half year.”
Yoshinari: “My hands were aching with things I wanted to fix last night.”
::I think he actually did mean 'draw' here, particularly when he talked about his hands aching later. The hand-aching probably had more depth to it than just one interpretation. After all, they just stopped working on it a few days prior which could mean he was still drawing stuff a few days prior, and after months of 'crunch' his hands still hurt. And then, as he saw things he wanted to fix/redraw, his hands instinctively hurt again. So they ached with the desire to change them, but they also just plain hurt from being worked so much.

Q9:To Yoshinari and Imaishi, have you ever had arguments with each other over animation or direction styles?
Imaishi: "Our styles were different to begin with".
::With this exchange and some prior comments in the other panel when they were talking about Inferno Cop and the like compared to LWA, I got the impression that there's a sort of rivalry between Imaishi and Yoshinari within Trigger. Kind of like Miyazaki and Takahata.
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Other AX tidbits: I skipped Danganronpa in favour of the LWA panel, but the creator of Danganronpa showed up later in the 'Art of Localization' panel, which was secretly all about the Zero Escape creator Uchikoshi who was also present. Uchikoshi and Kodaka are very friendly with each other and want to make a game together.

Went to Ayako Kawasumi panel and was pleased that the questions she was asked was a good split between Fate and other stuff she'd worked on that I was more interested in. The very first question she was asked was about Lafiel, and later on in the questioning she said that one of her favourite moments was the quote in GAF user Lafiel's tag. "You may call me Lafiel." That was a good show.
 
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AquaWateria

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Cornbread78 said:
Non Non Biyori ep. 1-6:
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I don't even kow what to say about this one. It's a straight SoL with nothing but cuteness, more cuteness, a little comedy and not much else, lol. Renge is the cutest 1st grader ever and poor senpai, just keeps getting dumped on. A whole lot of anime cuteness in here. Entertaining to say the least.
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Since I really love Non Non Biyori I don't mind you watching it before Barakamon. I really love both shows so it's nice seeing you enjoy this one.

Although once you're done with Non Non Biyori could you provide some impressions of Barakamon.
 
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striferser

Huge Nickleback Fan
Gbraga said:
Wow, really? I was about to post how amazing I thought it was, haha. They actually nailed a kid character, color me surprised, I liked a child in an action anime.

Alex still best girl of the season, of course.

I feel like Gangsta's pacing is on point, it doesn't just dump a ton of exposition on you and moves on, it's mixing action and exposition in a very pleasant way to watch. It's the nicest surprise of the season IMO, only started watching because it looked nice, but I'm really really liking it.

If it wasn't for Non Non Biyori Repeat, it would be my #1 show of the season so far.



Maybe I'm just not following recent shounens closely enough, but I feel like a generic 90s shounen is much better than what I'd expect out of a battle anime these days. You're right, it didn't have anything special or particularly original about it, but just being a regular shounen felt so refreshing to me.

I'm not very into battle anime though, so maybe I'm just uninformed and recent shounens are fucking awesome.
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Well, some of the GOAT shonen battle did come from the 90's, stuff like Naruto, One piece, Rurouni kenshin, Shaman king, ARMS, so it was understandable
For recent battle shonen anime, there's full metal alchemist, hunter x hunter, Soul and Magi. Now, if we're going into manga territory, i could recommend few more good shonen battle manga.

Mandelbo said:
A couple of days ago some people here were saying Zankyou no Terror didn't end up being very good. Now, I stopped watching it around episode three because I thought the premise was too silly for the tone and the way the police acted after a major terrorist attack wasn't exactly believable, but I was under the impression that most people enjoyed it. What exactly went wrong with it? Did it just have a bad or inconclusive ending or something?
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Well directed, great OST, but plot fell apart during finals...

Monster Musume 1
AOTS
AOTY
AOTYAY
I'm liking the adaptation so far, tough they did make a mistake where darling suddenly clothed again when he splash cold water to Mia. And wow, Yuyoyuppe compose the ending song!? NICE!
 
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R_thanatos

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Jarmel said:
Well there the problem isn't so much her movement inside the scene but rather how the storyboarding portrays that movement and her location. For example the show uses an overhead shot twice inside the conversation but neither provide the audience any information nor is it done as an interesting shot composition-wise. Another example is when he shakes her hand and they introduce themselves, the camera judt pands back and forth between the bars of the jail cell.
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Well i guess "intresting" is something i can understand , even if i disagree.
 
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Rainy said:
ultimatemegax, do you think Kyoani will produce another series this year? I mean definitely not right, because of the Free movie, so next year probably?
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I think there's a good chance we'll see something else. Hiroko Utsumi was not involved during the production of the Kyoukai films (but was on the production committee) or Sound! Euphonium. She's up to something. Additionally, the animation producer credit for the High Speed! movie do not list Animation Do unlike the two Free! TV series. There's reason to believe Do's working on something else. They've got an announcement that they hoped to make last month that they're planning on announcing this month, so that could be a new project.

Additionally, this is the 30th anniversary of Kyoto Animation's business founding (they were initially established as a small company in 1981 via Yoko Hatta's painting side-business, but were officially made into a small business in July 1985). There's likely to be an announcement very soon to celebrate that. Kigami's latest blog post said they were already at work on their next project (which wasn't stated) but High Speed's location scouting was sighted this week.

Furthermore, the KyoAni & Do event list Chuunibyou, Tamako, Free/High Speed, Kyoukai, and Euphonium as participating, but include "and more!."

Thus we're expecting something to be said very soon about a possible fall show, directed by Utsumi and heavy Do involvement.

(Side publicity: I'm holding a "From Painting to Publishing: 30 years of Kyoto Animation" panel at Otakon as well. It was waitlisted, but I was told to expect it to move to the main schedule.)
 
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Mandelbo

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Cornbread78 said:
Non Non Biyori ep. 1-6:
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I don't even kow what to say about this one. It's a straight SoL with nothing but cuteness, more cuteness, a little comedy and not much else, lol. Renge is the cutest 1st grader ever and poor senpai, just keeps getting dumped on. A whole lot of anime cuteness in here. Entertaining to say the least.
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Yessssss, I didn't realise you hadn't watched Non Non Biyori yet! Renge is the best, and brings a smile to my face whenever she's on screen. When I first started watching, I thought she might be the sarcastic, pessimistic type based off her facial expressions - man, I'm glad I was so, so wrong.
 
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Rainy

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ultimatemegax said:
I think there's a good chance we'll see something else. Hiroko Utsumi was not involved during the production of the Kyoukai films (but was on the production committee) or Sound! Euphonium. She's up to something. Additionally, the animation producer credit for the High Speed! movie do not list Animation Do unlike the two Free! TV series. There's reason to believe Do's working on something else. They've got an announcement that they hoped to make last month that they're planning on announcing this month, so that could be a new project.

Additionally, this is the 30th anniversary of Kyoto Animation's business founding (they were initially established as a small company in 1981 via Yoko Hatta's painting side-business, but were officially made into a small business in July 1985). There's likely to be an announcement very soon to celebrate that. Kigami's latest blog post said they were already at work on their next project (which wasn't stated) but High Speed's location scouting was sighted this week.

Furthermore, the KyoAni & Do event list Chuunibyou, Tamako, Free/High Speed, Kyoukai, and Euphonium as participating, but include "and more!."

Thus we're expecting something to be said very soon about a possible fall show, directed by Utsumi and heavy Do involvement.

(Side publicity: I'm holding a "From Painting to Publishing: 30 years of Kyoto Animation" panel at Otakon as well. It was waitlisted, but I was told to expect it to move to the main schedule.)
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Thanks for the info!
 
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Gbraga

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Eh, didn't really like Snow White with the Red Hair at all, kind of a stupid first episode, most of the dialogue makes no sense at all.

WOW, ZEN, YOU'RE SO SMART, SUGOI.

The ending did make it feel like it'll only actually begin in episode 2, so I'll give it two more episodes to make up my mind.

Let me check Umaru-chan and the Nipple Wife thing episode 2.
 
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Shard

XBLAnnoyance
Ranpo Kitan: Game of Laplace Episode 2:

I am not sure what to make of this and I don't think this anime itself quite knows what it wants to be. It is throwing elements of mystery, horror, dark comedy and then fucking god damned ANIME! comedy that kills everything dead no pun intended. Also, I am half convinced that this work formulated somehow from the mind of the Dedication Through Light.
 
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