hosannainexcelsis
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Fireball Charming
Fireball, only with more charming. And variety in both visuals and gags. Crazy finale.
Fireball, only with more charming. And variety in both visuals and gags. Crazy finale.
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Fall 2011 Anime Thread |OT2| The Tampire is Coming
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Then its not for me. Pass
Jex
Member
Huh, there's quite a lot of fanservice in that trailer. I don't even mean minor instances, there's some pretty NSFW (Kanbaru) stuff in there. It's not surprising to learn that there will be fanservice in the show, but it's weird to put so much of it in the trailer. I mean, if you want people to watch the show then you have to hold some of it back!
Looks like they've got around to animating enough scenes to have a trailer, now we'll just have to see how well they do with a real TV productions schedule!
I know, but most of the 13 episode adaptations nowadays are mostly meh because of the sucky pacing. I wish more studios would make stuff like True Tears
Jex
Member
Well adapting a manga or novel into 13 or less episodes is definitely challenging, so I can see why pacing problems would arise. Then again, I feel that lots of anime titles have problems with pacing so I think it's a problem that's wider than just adaptations.
The recent trend towards shorter and shorter shows isn't necessarily a bad thing, however, when titles like Wandering Son and Usagi Drop are strong throughout their run.
At least there's lots of older shows that you can go and check out, if you're so inclined!
Right, it's Christmas/New Year week off and I've just beaten Arkham City. Anime plans:
i) Finish Penguin Drum (4 eps to go!)
ii) Finish Mouryou no Hako (8 eps to go!)
iii) Maybe try and catch up on Chihayafuru (only watched 2 episodes so far)
Watch me fail to do any of these things!
I haven't even really kept up with what's airing next season - for a monocle is there anything worth paying attention to? I'll watch Aquarion Evol because I hate myself, but nothing else springs to mind...
i) Finish Penguin Drum (4 eps to go!)
ii) Finish Mouryou no Hako (8 eps to go!)
iii) Maybe try and catch up on Chihayafuru (only watched 2 episodes so far)
Watch me fail to do any of these things!
I haven't even really kept up with what's airing next season - for a monocle is there anything worth paying attention to? I'll watch Aquarion Evol because I hate myself, but nothing else springs to mind...
cosmicblizzard
Banned
I disagree. I thought the ending was great. YMMV of course, but the show keeps escalating, getting better by the episode, at least in the second half.
I feel like i've finished most of the good older stuff (I usually only watch stuff that have at the least a romantic subplot) Do you know any website that's good for browsing anime (Sort of like how for manga, we have mangaupdates.com)
Be gone, fiend.
cosmicblizzard
Banned
Animenewsnetwork?
Also, I find it odd you are primarily a romantic guy when you have a Shin Angyo Onshi avatar.
hosannainexcelsis
Member
I feel that pacing is a problem inherent to the television medium; it's not restricted to anime.
Season 4 of Natsume, I suppose. And it's not a monocle show, but you should get on the Daily Lives of High School Boys hype train if you like funny things.
Jex
Member
I haven't really watched many, or any, romance anime this year, so I don't know how true that is. However, as Chihayafuru doesn't exclusively focus on romance-plot I think the show as a whole is more enjoyable then it would have been if it had a narrower focus. Then again, by that loose definition, Wandering Son is a 'romance anime' and it's even better than Chihayafuru.
Also, why do you think Chihayafuru is a good 'romance anime'? Is it something simple, like the characters, or is there some other reason that you like it?
Hey, I was the one broadening that argument, I don't need someone coming in and broadening my broadening !
SAO is one of the few exceptions, among some others that I enjoyed despite no romantic plot.
A Huge Battleship
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And other intelligent comments that express how hyped I am about this.
Jex
Member
So it's great?
cosmicblizzard
Banned
If you say so. It's good, but not really structured any differently than your typical battle shounen outside some minor politics, so I just found it interesting.
But you said you're a romance fan!
hosannainexcelsis
Member
Even though romance isn't the only or even dominant aspect of Chihayafuru, it wins by default, since I can't think of any other show worth watching this year with romance as a major part. Of course, I haven't seen Wandering Son yet (I'm getting to it, I promise!).
Mostly the characters, Chihaya in particular, but also the overall production quality of the show - the direction, the art, the music are all strong. Their beauty compliments the core narrative and makes it all the more emotionally powerful.
Wait, when you said "romance" did you really mean "harems"?
Jex
Member
Well, as there are thousands of shows out there (well, only a few hundred of those are worth watching) there's probably quite a lot of other works that you might enjoy. We have a few threads that might provide you with some ideas:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=173356
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=347831
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=414748
Now I'm really confused.
The anime of Usagi Drop doesn't really fall into any typical shoujo/josei sins.
Hellsing321
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Chihayafuru is interesting because the romantic interest for the main girl is a card game.
Only if it's Shounen/Seinen!
So uh, A Town Where You Rage, ToLoveRu, Good(bad) Ending, etc?
For me watching Taichi getting friendzoned* is half the fun**.Hellsing321 said:
* by a cardgame
** by 'fun' I mean a deep sense of sadness regarding things forever lost
I have pretty particular tastes, I guess. I mean it's not like I hate shoujo/josei works (I liked wallflower, though my tastes changed a lot since then) so i'll still try both of them out still
Don't like any of those, honestly (especially kimi machi). I prefer shounen/seinen romantic subplots so (if I had to use manga as an example) it would be stuff like Pretty Face, World Embryo, Sugar Dark, Unbalance x2 (
ending sucked ass though
Btw, right now i'm watching Gosick and it's pretty good
Jex
Member
Hey now, she picked it up to win his heart!
Have you tried kuragehime that came out last year? Its Jusei/Seienn? and it might be the one that you are looking for.
Have not, i'll add it to my backlog. I remember hearing this one was good. Thanks
Kurenai OVA - 1 & 2
Oh dear, these OVA's were good and bad at the same time.
The good part is that it was more Kurenai, mainly focusing on basically light hearted harem hijinks which is probably in line with what to expect with an OVA.
But.
As someone who has only watched the anime, I did not like how the OVA basically did a manga reset with the OVA's, initially I thought I missed a season 2 somewhere and I had to go on wikipedia and research on the character traits that changed between manga and anime, and to read up on the characters they just suddenlyintroduced appeared with near indecipherable millisecond flashbacks, which left me confused about everything throughout nearly the whole thing.
Oh dear, these OVA's were good and bad at the same time.
The good part is that it was more Kurenai, mainly focusing on basically light hearted harem hijinks which is probably in line with what to expect with an OVA.
But.
As someone who has only watched the anime, I did not like how the OVA basically did a manga reset with the OVA's, initially I thought I missed a season 2 somewhere and I had to go on wikipedia and research on the character traits that changed between manga and anime, and to read up on the characters they just suddenly
Winter is saved x 1000
hosannainexcelsis
Member
Gintama 211
*jaw on floor*
The ED must have been made specifically for this episode.
*jaw on floor*
The ED must have been made specifically for this episode.
Jex
Member
If you have watched Tiger and Bunny episode 15 you've reached the shows highest point and I'm sad to say it goes downhill from there, largely because Sunrise do their Sunrise thing in an extremely obvious and clunky manner.
Bakemonagatari is really good. It just has lots of text and SHAFTNESS in it.
But it has Kana Hanazawa and a catgirl in it so there you go.
Im starting to reach a point where I have to work so much extra and have so little free time that I am hopelessly backlogged to a point where I dont think I will EVER catch up with hardly any shows.
But it has Kana Hanazawa and a catgirl in it so there you go.
Im starting to reach a point where I have to work so much extra and have so little free time that I am hopelessly backlogged to a point where I dont think I will EVER catch up with hardly any shows.
It's okay, just stare at moe gifs.
Just put the anime on an iphone or something and try hard not to hnng or fap at work.... actually that may be impossible for you. :|
Jex
Member
Hey, at least someone knows their terminology. I believe the phrase that you're looking for is "asynchronous breast movement".
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
That would give leeway for horizontal mammary movement. I don't think I've ever seen a case of horizontal GAINAX bouncing!
Dedication Through Light
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bodacious Space Pirates PV
Awkward title, regardless, the song was nice and the action during the climax. Maybe I will stick around with it for episode 1.
Awkward title, regardless, the song was nice and the action during the climax. Maybe I will stick around with it for episode 1.
RurouniZel
Asks questions so Ezalc doesn't have to
I...uh... that's good, right?
Jex
Member
Hmm, I've just been made aware of this:
I think it speaks for itself.
This is truly going to be a bad week for anime.
I think it speaks for itself.
aw damn you mean it's not airing at all this week? I thought it was just late.
This is truly going to be a bad week for anime.
Did I tell you, or DID I TELL YOU? Next episode is going to be sooooooooo hax~
however, they did very well to create all the little hints that next episode is looking up, even if it's a huge set-back (Sky Russians returning a favor, and that wasn't those black clad hax-ninjas that shut the engine down~).
darkside31337
Tomodachi wa Mahou
You were right
for once! D:
I agree next episode should just be as crazy as this one.
Dem Sky Russian girls are obviously going to get involved.
I'm really curious as to what role
Alvis
cosmicblizzard
Banned
Steins;Gate 5
Liking the direction this is going in. The scene with the newspaper articles on the IBM was pretty tense.
Liking the direction this is going in. The scene with the newspaper articles on the IBM was pretty tense.
Jim E. Rossler
Banned
I always have to lock my door when I watch this
Why do you have to lock your door?
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