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Fall 2013 Anime |OT2| The Rise and Fall of Kyoto

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I dunno, this community has its share of perverts (hey I'd even include myself in this to an extent).

If I only like ninja girls-themed fanservice, does it count ? ;p


I don't get people who complain about Yozakura Quartet's fanservice as I find the pantyshots easy to ignore most of the time. Maybe I'm jaded. But it's the kind of the series you watch for its charm, anyway.

Considering the Go Nagai influences (among others) in Kill La Kill, I really don't understand people who complain about Ryuko's kamui. What were they expecting ?
 

Vito

Banned
Digging through news while I was asleep, Kamiaso is getting an anime:

http://www.animate.tv/news/details.php?id=1386578207

Edit: been told it's in the official site's source code that Brains Base is doing it.


Meanwhile ANN still leaks Japanese magazine scans and watermarks them even when there's a public raw already out. But I was told by a Kodansha US representative a few days ago about the first amendment:

https://twitter.com/benapplegate/status/409266253614698496

which apparently also covers scanning magazines.
 

cnet128

Banned
I never thought I'd hear somebody say the fanservice was tasteful in Yozakura Quartet.

In fact most of the people here that I've read have started out with "oh look panty shots, I guess I can live with them" to "was that even necessary?" to "now it's just harming the show for being unnecessary"

I'll just chime in here and say I find the fanservice in Yozakura Quartet to be most pleasing and it doesn't feel out of place to me at all.

Sakura Momoi - Yukari Tamura

aaaahhhhhhhh Yukarin in my Samumenco, I don't know how to feel about this

Madoka Magica Rebellion!
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[praise and stuff]

Madoka Magica Rebellion!
GO WATCH IT.

Ooh yes, these positive impressions of the new Madoka movie are giving me new hope. I thought all may be lost after the first spoilers came out and everyone was suddenly laughing at the movie (though I refused to read any spoilers myself), but now I feel justified in looking forward to it again.

...the god-knows-how-many months I'm going to have to wait before I'm able to see it are still going to sting, though =/

If Kizumonogatari looks anything like this film, it's going to be fucking amazing.

Hnnnnnghhhhh Kizu had better hurry up and exist because I am feeling the hype right now.

Ah, I see. Why do they do the previews? I can't think of other animes that have done something like that, it's kind of weird...

Well, previews in general tend to be a spot for anime to do whatever-the-heck-they-feel-like (as long as it's not actually previewing the next episode, that is...) And idols do love publicity!
 

Shard

XBLAnnoyance
Anybody who thinks the fanservice in Kill la Kill or even Yozukura Quartet was bad should watch YuuShubu, I can take a lot, but the fanservice just utterly killed that show for me.
 
Anybody who thinks the fanservice in Kill la Kill or even Yozukura Quartet was bad should watch YuuShubu, I can take a lot, but the fanservice just utterly killed that show for me.

The fan service is kind of the point of that show. It's not really the same as out of place fan service in a show that isn't built around it.
 

Shard

XBLAnnoyance
The fan service is kind of the point of that show. It's not really the same as out of place fan service in a show that isn't built around it.

On the other hand this also a program about about an RPG world set in modern times with magical appliances and more to the point a generation of characters who were gearing up to fight a great war all of a sudden find themselves with a very sudden peace and warriors on both side are struggling to adjust in this strange, new world. This premise got corroded by cheap gags and softcore fanservice that I'll be honest, when goes that far, go all the fucking way. Find a digital channel and be the hentai we all know you want to be. For all of this YuuShbu has earned my hatred.
 

cnet128

Banned
Anybody who thinks the fanservice in Kill la Kill or even Yozukura Quartet was bad should watch YuuShubu, I can take a lot, but the fanservice just utterly killed that show for me.

Ahahah, yeah, I wasn't expecting YuuShibu to be such a massive fanservice-fest when the season started, and my first episode impressions were basically a giant rant about its utter shamelessness.

Then I accepted it for what it was and moved on. =p
 
Anybody who thinks the fanservice in Kill la Kill or even Yozukura Quartet was bad should watch YuuShubu, I can take a lot, but the fanservice just utterly killed that show for me.

If you're okay with the fanservice and rape jokes in Kill la Kill I don't see why you should have problems with the fanservice in YuuShibu.
 

Shard

XBLAnnoyance
Ahahah, yeah, I wasn't expecting YuuShibu to be such a massive fanservice-fest when the season started, and my first episode impressions were basically a giant rant about its utter shamelessness.

Then I accepted it for what it was and moved on. =p

Pretty much, I accept that this what the show was going to be and dropped it. It is really more about squandered potential then anything else.
 

Shard

XBLAnnoyance
If you're okay with the fanservice and rape jokes in Kill la Kill I don't see why you should have problems with the fanservice in YuuShibu.

Not the same thing actually since the fanservice is controversial, but it isn't as gratuitous as some people think it is either and is actuallty kind of important to the show narrativly speaking. How important remains to be seen.
 

Jarmel

Banned
I remember back in the last thread when people were ranting and screaming about the ending because of how blatant the spoilers were (along with me). Everybody was screaming it was terrible when they haven't actually SEEN The film (again, along with me).

Yea I now understand why the summaries for the movie were a mess and hard to decipher as the movie is kinda complex and dense. If I wrote a summary right now, people would be asking what the fuck is going on.

I also really have no clue why the Japanese reception to this was so insanely negative. There are certainly some issues with the movie but it's not utter derisive dog shit.
 
Anybody who thinks the fanservice in Kill la Kill or even Yozukura Quartet was bad should watch YuuShubu, I can take a lot, but the fanservice just utterly killed that show for me.

But the scrnes for ryuko, camera angles chosen while shes being whipped, the constant thin strapes coming up her bewbies often, kind of keeps killing kill la kill, its awkward, painful, and an extreme turnoff.

Ikkitousen has worst fanservice, its actually droppable in mere minutes.
 

Kazzy

Member
The elevator pitch back of the poster marketing quote: "Madoka Magica Rebellion is what Rebuild of Evangelion could only imagine achieving."

The faintest of praise!

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Also, I must apologize to Nafe. Someone informed me (when they wished my Happy Birthday) that my MAL profile is wrong. Now it all makes sense. It's the 31st of December, not today!

Oops.
 

fertygo

Member
Yea I now understand why the summaries for the movie were a mess and hard to decipher as the movie is kinda complex and dense. If I wrote a summary right now, people would be asking what the fuck is going on.

I also really have no clue why the Japanese reception to this was so insanely negative. There are certainly some issues with the movie but it's not utter derisive dog shit.

I thought the movie doing great in blockbuster?

EDIT : Apparently its on pace to pass K-ON Movie box-office gross : http://www.mania.com/aodvb/showthread.php?p=2010470#post2010470
 

cajunator

Banned
The most unassuming shots and situations, somehow managed to contrive an up-skirt shot. There was also their fondness for having lingering focus on underwear, whenever they wanted a transition between scenes.

It definitely became less common as the series progressed, but it was something that was definitely noticeable.



Thanks! Though I realize that you're thinking about my Birthday before I am!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

There are people here who actively enjoy and seek out fanservice, such as Zach and Theonik, so you can't generalize too much.

Some of us seek out very specific things :p

Fanservice? Depends how fluffy the tail is.

Hell yes


Winner winner crawfish dinner!
 

Gbraga

Member
Candy Store is secret best girl, never expected that :D

I can't believe it's ending, my life won't be the same without Non Non Biyori, it's seriously one of my favorite animes ever.

I guess I'll start K-ON when it's over, I've been interested in it for a while.
 

cajunator

Banned
Got two packages from Rightstuf today with:

Dirty Pair TV
Garden of Words
Grave of the Fireflies
K-ON! the Movie
Michiko and Hatchin
Rose of Versailles Part 2

But my order of Wolf Children is still MIA... :(

This is a pretty good pick up post.

Yozakura Quartet


Anyway, I'm just really enjoying the show and look forward to whatever it is that comes next. :)

Who is that in your avy? so cute

I am vehemently opposed to all forms of fanservice in anime with the exception of everything that appeals to my own personal proclivities.

Such as hair colored eyelashes?

Best hype!

Best STUDIO

Alright guys, time to watch some more baby-raping Arjuna. I'll make up for lost episode 6 and try and get through episode 10.

Yayyyyy

Arjuna 6

This episode begins with a lengthy bludgeoning about how free trade is almost as shitty as freedom. Yes, that's right, Arjuna hates freedom. At this point I would like to ask BluWacky to explain why he likes this show, because I'm interested in actually hearing an opinion of this show that's very different from my own. Until such time, though, all I can say is how does this show fucking get away with shitting on FREEDOM?

It's interesting to see that Juna DID try and go back to normal. Chris' brainwashing won't let her, I bet. Oh boy Juna goes out for an awkward lunch with her deadbeat (I assume) dad! What preachy hijinks will we get into now?

OH FUCK YES. Juna starts out with the balls to chastise her dad for leaving her, and what does he say "It was easier for me to leave." NOW, before we go any further, in the real world divorce is a complicated and touchy issue and a smart and polite person whose job it is not to study divorce will just shut his goddamn mouth. BUT NOT OUR AUTHOR. He gone shove his points about divorce right down our throats! I mean, I might even agree with some of the points he makes, but I can't wait to have it hamfisted to the point of parody.

"You may be able to build sturdy boats, but you can't build a sturdy family!" Well, I mean, for one, Juna, he just told you even sturdy boats break and it was his metaphor for families, but also don't be such a jerk to your dad. Still, this is the most believable thing she's ever done, sooooo.

I can't tell if this episode is more depressing than it is awkward or not.

OH BOY IT'S A TWOFER! Not only are we tackling the subject of divorce, we're gonna take the bull of children's education by the horns and run with our pants down! Oh here it is, then. The education system boxes us all in to our boxed in lives and so teaching people is evil. You should learn from shit eating ephebophilic hermits and not from dudes whose faces are glued to books! I mean look at this teacher. He's a goddamn caricature with his face shoved into the book and with his flat out ignoring Juna after she stands up in the middle of class.

LET ME HEAR YOUR TRUE VOICE. Okay, because he's muttering or because the education system trains us to be



Cabbages? I don't know. Oh it IS education, okay. So glad to know that LEARNING is symbolized as vomiting a freaky red worm demon. The show flat out SAYS it: "The Teacher is Bad. The School is Bad." The writer friggin HATES human civilization.

THEN SHE FIGHTS A FUCKING SCHOOL BUILDING. WHAT IN ALL THAT IS HOLY IS THIS SHIT.

Stalking your teachers is a good thing and not at all creepy or illegal. Teacher has a lot of books. I bet THEY ruined his marriage. Yup. "There's no meaning to books." This fucking show. Are there even characters or is everyone just a head to spout the author's undying hatred for humankind?

"Why is it necessary to raise efficiency?" PROBABLY SO MORE PEOPLE CAN RECEIVE THIS AMAZING SHIT WE'RE MAKING, DUDE. Grocery stores carry perfect produce because people don't want to eat shit. Why is this show so obsessed with making human beings eat shit?

Oh so now we just hate easy things? Boy this guy'd fit in with half of Gaming Side. That said, the argument that things should be harder is bullshit, because man evolves his extensions and not his body, and ease allows for further progress. Of course since the author hates human beings on a fundamental, basic level, this should really come as no surprise to me.

This show is special needs.

God I love your writeups so much Corvy.

But by that you mean all together and not "Watch these at once, young man!" right? Because nobody should have to watch 5 episodes of this show in 1 day.

I marathoned the whole show in one go. I might also be masochistic and an alien.
 

cajunator

Banned
Golden Time 01 - 04

This is really a fun show, after the first 3 episodes I was wondering how the show going to have enough material for 26 episodes. Then I got to the end of episode 4,
this is going to be one hell of a roller coaster ride.

Yes indeed. Golden Time is pretty good. Shit gets real and it gets real fast.

Unbreakable Machine Doll

2 more episodes left? I'll miss Yaya. :(

Me too. Luckily I will have a figurine of her soon so she will always be around :D

Anybody who thinks the fanservice in Kill la Kill or even Yozukura Quartet was bad should watch YuuShubu, I can take a lot, but the fanservice just utterly killed that show for me.

Yuushibu isnt that bad. I kinda find it hilarious how Fino always ends up covered in white goo of some kind. Its so utterly shameless that its magnificent.

Hey cajun, do you approve of my FF14 character? This is important.

I do approve.

Candy Store is secret best girl, never expected that :D

I can't believe it's ending, my life won't be the same without Non Non Biyori, it's seriously one of my favorite animes ever.

I guess I'll start K-ON when it's over, I've been interested in it for a while.

YES START K-ON
 

Jintor

Member
Non non biyori 5

Holy cap this show is so good. I wanted to screencap, like, ten moments from this ep. Except I tend tui watch on my tablet... sigh
 

sonicmj1

Member
No there were some animegaf impressions too.

As an author of one of those impressions, I really didn't like it.

The ending rubbed me the wrong way a lot, but even besides that, a lot of the visual symbolism, and especially all the scene-setting faffing about early on, felt like it was wasting my time. Reminded me of a lot of the stuff I hated about Bake before I dropped it.

It's possible that the language barrier caused me to miss something, but I don't feel like the movie's density really served it in any way. It had its moments, but I don't feel like it properly built to where it ended up.

3.0 had a lot of the same problems, but it didn't stink of money-grubbing and fanservice the way Rebellion's conclusion and various cameos do.
 

Jarmel

Banned
As an author of one of those impressions, I really didn't like it.

The ending rubbed me the wrong way a lot, but even besides that, a lot of the visual symbolism, and especially all the scene-setting faffing about early on, felt like it was wasting my time. Reminded me of a lot of the stuff I hated about Bake before I dropped it.

It's possible that the language barrier caused me to miss something, but I don't feel like the movie's density really served it in any way. It had its moments, but I don't feel like it properly built to where it ended up.

3.0 had a lot of the same problems, but it didn't stink of money-grubbing and fanservice the way Rebellion's conclusion and various cameos do.

Yea I was discussing this in the spoiler thread briefly but I actually think the scene-setting stuff early on is actually crucial compared to
the school shit in Code Geass R2. The stuff in R2 was a reset because of producer demands and directorial ineptitude. In Rebellion, it serves as a partial driving force for Homura's decisions later in the movie and ultimately the climax. The movie unfortunately then later has to explain what's going on, which causes the weak 4th act due to Kyubey explaining shit.

The movie really is dense and like I mentioned earlier, it should have been expanded into a full fledged sequel or something of that nature.

The ending is what is going to make or break a lot of impressions and whether people think it's justified or not in the context of the movie.
It is foreshadowed and the movie does built up to but the problem is the extent to which Homu goes off the deep end is too much.
 

Acosta

Member
Yesterday I watched the first episode of Ranma 1/2. Feelings were served, I used to get up at frigging 7 in the morning to watch it in a national channel when I was way younger than I am (anime in normal TV, where those times went?)

Holds much better than I expected and the intro song is still as lovely as I remembered.

I would watch the whole series it if I had some time... Hopefully I will, some day.
 

cnet128

Banned
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Horo and Maou Sadao as support characters.....wtf SEGA.

If Maou is support, surely Emi must be in as a playable character, right? ...Right?

...Ah, who am I kidding, she'd play too similarly to Asuna. Hataraku Maou-sama is just going to get shafted in general.
 

Hagi

Member
Ghost In The Shell Arise - 2

I made my piece a long a time ago with the fact we were never going to get a 3rd Gig and watching this I'd be lying if i said said the wound didn't sting. I can't really find much to say about it except from that the OP is great but in general the episode was pretty mediocre.
 

Hattori

Banned
Non non biyori 5

Holy cap this show is so good. I wanted to screencap, like, ten moments from this ep. Except I tend tui watch on my tablet... sigh
It's definitely the best SoL anime this season for sure!

If you have an iPad:
- use screenshot feature
- crop
- upload w/ imgur app
- ???
- Profit
 
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