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Fall 2010 Anime Thread: Reboots, Retreads, and Rediscovery
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I've seen both. Just didn't think it could've been the same Max because he clearly didn't look like he had another 30 years on him.luka said:
I really didn't want to watch any more of Macross 7 after that first episode, but now I guess I'm stuck.
Edit: I'm never going to be able to recognize Jex now.
firehawk12
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Jexhius said:
Wow, fab avatar.
And yeah... that's true. :lol
It'd still be nice to see it anyway, even if I know exactly how it would happen.
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o jesus at this occult academy is it me or is anime getting more ecchi like
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Dresden said:
I stared in the eyes of the first one for a few seconds and they started swirling around while the pupils shrank and got bigger. Nearly banged my head against the wall.
I think it's time for bed :lol
thetrin
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So, is there any good anime this season? No? No...
I want Star Driver to be awesome, as I love Bones, but the trailer pretty much said "Don't watch this. This is incredibly stupid, and unless you're a complete idiot, you will hate this."
The whole "I get highlights when I'm in my Mech" thing was dumb enough, but pretty much everything I've seen has been painfully stereotypical or horrifically silly.
I want to love it, but the trailer basically said "skip".
I want Star Driver to be awesome, as I love Bones, but the trailer pretty much said "Don't watch this. This is incredibly stupid, and unless you're a complete idiot, you will hate this."
The whole "I get highlights when I'm in my Mech" thing was dumb enough, but pretty much everything I've seen has been painfully stereotypical or horrifically silly.
I want to love it, but the trailer basically said "skip".
Sengok--oh, you mean Fall.thetrin said:
I wanted to mention Panty & Stockings, but if you found Star Driver's trailer ridiculous you probably think the same way of P & S as well. Yakumo kind of looks interesting, but it's a Bee Train show so it'll probably suck. No idea how you feel about stuff like Kuragehime, TWGOK, or OreImo.
It really was.trejo said:
firehawk12 said:
I just wanna say that I generally love how they handled the dialog in the anime, I think almost every interaction with the apartment complex neighbors was gold. They could have taken out the incestuous family and violence and just made it everyone looking after Murasaki and it would have been just as good, maybe better.
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Is he, I don't really feel like going back and confirming that but it'd explain why they're even looking for Nostradamus' key, I didn't think a real military or whatnot would ever do such a mission.
I'm betting the aliens and the key are completely unrelated and the whole mission was just to save his daughter if he's in on the time travel.
I'm betting the aliens and the key are completely unrelated and the whole mission was just to save his daughter if he's in on the time travel.
Fuck yes!luka said:
One complaint I actually wouldn't level against the show. It'll just be one episode and it was a natural progression of what had been occurring the whole time.spiderman123 said:
Making curry for him was going to lose it's effect sooner or later. The White Mage reveal was nuts, lol, looked ripped right out of a classic Final Fantasy game.
Lies, I bet Setokai Yakuindomo's written by whatever's a step below a high schooler!Branduil said:
Also, I approve of the Spice and Wolf appreciation, got my DVDs of season one and both English novels they've released, love the franchise. Hope some of the stuff in the novels they skipped gets animated! I wanna see more Horo but not any of that aerobics shit please.
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It's a nice little "single dad brings home new mom" moment. :loltrejo said:
mAcOdIn said:
If the books were meant to be an allegorical indictment of conservative Japanese society, I suppose it works. Murasaki's "adopted" family is much better than her "real" family. It's just that the anime never really goes into that territory.
Why does this even matter? :lol
I just finished the Warehouse 13 finale and the plot made no sense whatsoever, but I love the interaction between the two leads... so, I just let it go!
firehawk12
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Edit: Speaking of which, now it's my turn to double post. 
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Branduil said:
Aishiteruze Baby: Brotherhood!
That's just me guessing, I don't think the story matters much anymore although it was fun to hop over to animesuki's forums and see people speculating that this show and Sora no Woto were connected. Lol. I won't go that far in crazy predictions. Although, who fucking knows, it could be true.firehawk12 said:
I suppose my problem with the show is it didn't have the right kind of comedy to make me laugh, the right kind of drama to make me care or the right kind of story to keep me intrigued. Maya herself is a strong and decent character who had no one to really play off. The show did excel in animation and facial expressions and some of them were genuinely funny but that just doesn't make a show for me. But yeah, at this point the ending doesn't matter anymore, people who like the show for what it is will like it and people who didn't won't. Like Hitokage mentioned way back in the thread, the show wasn't near as bad as I make it out to be. The show kinda fell victim to the same gripes I had with Index or Sora no Woto, wherein I think a talented capable studio with a decent amount of cash takes an interesting concept and didn't go where I wanted with it so the disappointment is higher. With Index, I've resigned myself that they have a story they have to follow, with Sora no Woto and now Occult Academy being completely original works I feel just this huge sense of a missed opportunities. They could have been truly daring, unique and memorable and instead they're just throwaway properties.
I still feel animation is a storytelling medium primarily and the way they handled it almost makes me feel like they're emphasizing the visual over the story, almost turning the art of animating into some weird kind of fetish where one's supposed to tune into what "looks cool" as opposed to what tells a good story. And again, it's really annoying because you can see all the pieces, I feel if things were just rearranged a bit instead of a throwaway show that some people had fun with like Sora no Woto or Occult Academy that they could have built real franchises that people wanted to continue to see, things that might be talked about years later as recommendations and not just a passing comment on what the Studio's done before.
Perhaps that doesn't fit with their block, perhaps I'm an idiot, but that's what I feel.
I would pay to see this.Branduil said:
I'm starting to think Aishiteruze Baby is something I might like as well, God damnit, as if my backlog isn't big enough and it gets no real ending!
Shinja was a pain in the ass to watch, and all the characters were too broken for me to really relate to, but I think characterizing a boy as a boy instead of just the generic hero that does whatever needs to be done just because was actually a good choice. They should have toned down the emo a tad but not take it out entirely.
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