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[Haly]

I kind of blame Jexhius for making me notice this stuff.

AotY.

 

[kayos90]

Heck. Even the END Card for episode 21 is suggestive. lol.

 

[Basileus777]

Premiered Fall 2011 so unfortunately no.

Fate Zero counts because it's split cour but Chihayafuru doesn't, this seems like a silly distinction.

 

[Regulus Tera]

certainly gave me a new perspective on Chiaki Omigawa's role in Soul Eater.

that wasn't even the worst voice acting of 2008 (hellooooooooooooooo shikabane hime)

 

[darkside31337]

I kind of blame Jexhius for making me notice this stuff.

AotY.

 

[hosannainexcelsis]

Pictures which are not safe for work should be linked with that warning, IMO.

 

[SDBurton]

My List AoTY 2012:

1. Fate/Zero
2. Chuunibyou
3. Hidamari Sketch x Honeycomb
4. Nisemonogatari
5. Nazo no Kanojo X

 

[cajunator]

Heck. Even the END Card for episode 21 is suggestive. lol.

Please explain to me the appeal of her.
I dont see it.

 

[Pooya]

I kind of blame Jexhius for making me notice this stuff.

AotY.

wow LOL

 

[kayos90]

My Anime of the Year
1.) Fate/Zero
2.) Hyouka
3.) Chuunibyou
4.) Accel World
5.) Fate/Zero

 

[dimb]

Please explain to me the appeal of her.
I dont see it.

TL

 

[firehawk12]

Little Busters 8

Uguu? Wafuu~~~~~~.

 

[Dresden]

I kind of blame Jexhius for making me notice this stuff.

AotY.

so she... splits the cabbage? :kayos

 

[Pooya]

AoTY 2012:

1. Fate/Zero
2. Hyouka
3. Blasty (for best cast)

 

[Soma]

My Anime of the Year
1.) Fate/Zero
2.) Hyouka
3.) Chuunibyou
4.) Accel World
5.) Fate/Zero

Fate/Zero twice?

It's just that good.

 

[cajunator]

Little Busters 8

Uguu? Wafuu~~~~~~.

Wan >>>>>>>>>>> wafu
Golden truth.

 

[Pooya]

so she... splits the cabbage? :kayos

It's a heart not cabbage. >.>

 

[kayos90]

so she... splits the cabbage? :kayos

Thank you for doing this. I was actually waiting for someone to get confused so they'll explain it. I don't get the cabbage thing. Can anyone explain this?

It's a heart not cabbage. >.>

Oh.

 

[Dresden]

It's a heart not cabbage. >.>

sure looks like a cabbage to me

is this where the startling incestuous betrayal happens

 

[Soma]

It's a heart not cabbage. >.>

2deep4me

 

[OceanBlue]

I kind of blame Jexhius for making me notice this stuff.

AotY.

I don't get it...

 

[dimb]

Boy, these early AOTY lists make me feel like my tastes are really strange.

 

[Basileus777]

Boy, these early AOTY lists make me feel like my tastes are really strange.

Wait till DTL leads the charge for Guilty Crown as AOTY.

 

[Haly]

The cabbage leaf is shaped like a heart, when she hears that her onii-chan wants to visit his waifu, she splits it in half, symbolizing her breaking heart.

 

[SDBurton]

Boy, these early AOTY lists make me feel like my tastes are really strange.

I already edited mine twice already.

 

[Dresden]

i hate these things where you need the context of watching the episode

 

[kayos90]

The cabbage leaf is shaped like a heart, when she hears that her onii-chan wants to visit his waifu, she splits it in half, symbolizing her breaking heart.

Kawahara is a fucking genius.

 

[Tomat]

Boy, these early AOTY lists make me feel like my tastes are really strange.

Where is your list? Come on now.

 

[Haly]

i hate these things where you need the context of watching the episode

I would've posted the entire sequence but I was too lazy to grab all the screen caps.

Kawahara is a fucking genius.

I am pretty sure Kawahara is not responsible for this, it would make for some very weird prose.

 

[cajunator]

This show is not bad.

 

[hosannainexcelsis]

Fate Zero counts because it's split cour but Chihayafuru doesn't, this seems like a silly distinction.

My personal belief is that TV shows which air during the year, whether or not they started that year, should be eligible for Anime of the Year voting. If someone wants to vote for, say, the new Hunter X Hunter in their 2012 list because they feel that the portion of it that aired in 2012 was some of the best anime to come out during the year, why shouldn't they be allowed to? In particular, restricting two-cour anime spanning fall and winter and saying you have to judge them before they're finished seems rather arbitrary to me. (The latter wouldn't be such a problem if voting was held later than January, of course.)

Same for OVAs spanning multiple years (e.g., Akito, Yamato).

 

[OceanBlue]

This show is not bad.

It's been a while, but I think it was kinda unremarkable to me. I don't remember much about it, anyway.

 

[dimb]

Where is your list? Come on now.

Too early. I have to check on some stuff again and look over what came out.

#1 is that hidden box Imouto show where the guy has to marry a girl but one of them is his sister. Obviously.

 

[cajunator]

It's been a while, but I think it was kinda unremarkable to me. I don't remember much about it, anyway.

I just really like Feena Fam Earthlight.
Also they fixed the cabbage on the dvd version I have.

 

[madp]

still not posting my list until the AotY thread is up. Lists are sacred, yo.

Fate Zero counts because it's split cour but Chihayafuru doesn't, this seems like a silly distinction.

It is, but I only say it because that's how it's been done in the past. For those who think that the rule is dumb, what would be preferable: shows airing in two different years being eligible in both years of their airing, or only being eligible the year that they finish?

 

[dakkumauji]

Genshiken 01

Time to start a new show! This wasn't a bad first episode. Rather impressed with the direction of the show such as walking to the club room and during the whole choose your club hallway. It was mostly an intro episode though it did have a trollish opening where I thought I was watching the wrong show.

 

[Basileus777]

still not posting my list until the AotY thread is up. Lists are sacred, yo.



It is, but I only say it because that's how it's been done in the past. For those who think that the rule is dumb, what would be preferable: shows airing in two different years being eligible in both years of their airing, or only being eligible the year that they finish?

You should be able to vote on anything that airs (or for movies, released to the home market) in that calendar year, I don't see the need or purpose for arbitrary restrictions. And I seem to recall a bunch of people saying they wanted to see how Chihayafuru ended up before voting on it last year.

 

[RurouniZel]

Acchi Kocchi is my favorite happy squee junkfood but its not AOTY material.

Oh well, I guess it's cuteness is enough for me.

I'll be interested to see who ranks their stuff critically and who ranks their stuff based on personal fun factor, although for most people here I assume it'll be one and the same.

For me it's always kind of a mix of both.

I guess right now it'd be:

1) Ano Natsu de Matteru
2) Chuu2Byou
3) Acchi Kocchi
4) Hyouka
5) Space Brothers
6) Daily Lives of High School Boys
7) Bodacious Space Pirates
8) Kids on the Slope
9) Yuru Yuri S2
10) I don't have a number 10 yet.

 

[jbug617]

I'm sad no one has Kokoro Connect on their list. It's a good show.

 

[firehawk12]

Wan >>>>>>>>>>> wafu
Golden truth.

Wafuu > Gao > De Geso > Wan > Uguu.

 

[Basileus777]

I'm sad no one has Kokoro Connect on their list. It's a good show.

I'll have it, I'm just kind of lost on how to order things past my top 4. My list will probably be something like this:

1) Hyouka
2) Fate/zero
3) Space Brothers
4) Kids on a Slope
Daily Lives of High School Boys
Kokoro Connect
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
Humanity has Declined
Blast of Tempest
Dusk Maiden of Amnesia

Tempest could drop out if it falls hard, and the ordering is mostly arbitrary for now, but I actually want to list 10 shows this year. And I need to finish Tsuritama.

 

[Soma]

I'm sad no one has Kokoro Connect on their list. It's a good show.

I enjoyed it but at the same time it wasn't remarkable enough to have much impact on me. I liked the characters, their interactions between each other, and I personally thought the drama and romance was handled relatively well. Other than that though I can't say it was memorable enough to warrant a spot on my list. I am still curious to see how the series end with the last arc.

 

[Dedication Through Light]

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure 8

Perhaps my anime interests are just failing to align with this but I just cant get into it anymore. The whole episode was a drag, mind kept wondering off comparing the green sparkles to those of Aeolia Schenberg's GN particles and stuff, and then just being unexcited through the fight. For a vampire of sorts, Dio is sure falling down in being a good one compared to others ones I encountered and characters seem way more blocky than usual which is disappointing. JoJo himself was kind of disappointing too

Spoiler

is he trying to kill himself, I mean consistently going right in harms way, being frozen, and really only winning because of some small fluke and technicality, no way that what he did got rid of Dio for good, especially after what we saw in the previous episode...the laser from dio was amazing though

. Someone said not to watch the preview, so I didnt.

The section of the ED used for the ending moment of the episode is my favorite, like the final twenty or so seconds of it.

 

[madp]

You should be able to vote on anything that airs (or for movies, released to the home market) in that calendar year, I don't see the need or purpose for arbitrary restrictions. And I seem to recall a bunch of people saying they wanted to see how Chihayafuru ended up before voting on it last year.

All I know is that we already do the "home market release" exception for films due to obvious geographic restrictions. For instance, Hells Angels will be eligible this year even though it was originally screened in 2008 because it finally got a home release this year.

Series that air in two different calendar years are definitely the more difficult issue to consider. I'm personally okay with it (although ultimately, my vote would be for eligibility being based on the calendar year in which a series ends rather than begins), but I guess that the main concerns are that no one wants to risk one show winning two AotYs or that no one wants the endless shounens siphoning votes every year off of smaller shows that deserve more visibility. Of course, there can be rules implemented to prevent these scenarios from happening, but that's the issue as I understand it.

 

[Maedhros]

Odd, because her singing voice seems way less off this time. Maybe she just tweaked it. Either way, it seems less off this time because I'm pretending that the cast of SEED are all adults now, even though they're probably teens. Also, where did

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Andy Waltfeld get another arm? He only had one at the end of SEED.

Gurren Lagann 10 I've changed my mind. I hate Nia completely and totally and this show will be considered on a downhill slope if I have to go two more episodes of Simone pulling a damn Shinji Ikari over

Spoiler

Kamina's death. Also if Kamina is dead for the rest of this show, I will be inclined to agree that the second half is bull. First 8 episodes are fun and fast-paced and I'm now two or three episodes into this mopefest and tired of it.

.

I hate Nia because she's an obvious and painfully annoying Mary Sue. Red cross eyes are frustrating to look at, weird sky and cloud hair, too, but the worst part is that she's sickly-sweet and perfect princessy. She's like Lacus but worse.

Oh and I hate Hime and Gime and wish they had died in that village's ceremony. I'm hoping they've been kept alive solely for the purpose of killing them off and allowing Rossio some more character development. Because Rossio gets no damn respect on that boat.

It gets much better, seriously. I like you already for hating Nia.

 

[Dedication Through Light]

I'm sad no one has Kokoro Connect on their list. It's a good show.

Hard to rank it considering it was in season of really good anime like Arcana Famiglia, Kurokos Basetball, and Koi to Senkyo to Chocolate.

 

[Regulus Tera]

It's a heart not cabbage. >.>

next thing you are gonna tell me is that the guitars in FLCL are penises

 

[madp]

Hard to rank it considering it was in season of really good anime like Arcana Famiglia, Kurokos Basetball, and Koi to Senkyo to Chocolate.

Weren't you the sole vote for all ten anime on your top ten list last year? That's kind of an impressive feat.

 

[KuwabaraTheMan]

Fate Zero counts because it's split cour but Chihayafuru doesn't, this seems like a silly distinction.

Yeah, it seems silly. Either Fate/Zero shouldn't count because it was a 2011 show, or Chihayafuru should because it continued airing in 2012. I would be fine with either one, but having one count and one not is kind of silly.

 

[Diablos54]

So does Ghost in the Shell SAC have any overlying plot, or is it just a bunch of unrelated one shot episodes?