Equal opportunity fanservice.
AOTY decided.
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Fall 2013 Anime |OT2| The Rise and Fall of Kyoto
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Aw man, the second half of F/Z is even better than the first. Have fun!
By fun I mean crushing depression.
I'm fairly certain that Akio was conceived of the pheromones like Anakin Skywalker.
Blood C 7
It's Morphing Time!!
I swear I've seen this multi armed Samurai swordsman giant somewhere before, I just don't remember where . . .
I can't shake the feeling that I have definitely seen this cryptic, yet adorable little mammal mascot intent on granting school girl's wishes before, but where?
So yeah, here are my wild guesses based on what I have seen so far:
Saya is her own mother, or rather Saya is an Elder Bairn, has no mother, and that's all a lie that Tadayoshi's fed her to keep her fighting the Elder Bairn for him. Tadayoshi is the one who broke the covenant, which was a St. George's Dragon set up, where humans fed humans to the Elder Bairns in exchange for not total annihilation. Tadayoshi's wife was the last sacrifice, possibly to Saya, and that's what that is about.
Edward Cullen is also an Elder Bairn who made a bet with Saya that humanity couldn't beat the Elder Bairns or something, and Saya made a deal with Kyubey to become a Magical Girl to beat him, but sold her memory as the price. Edward Cullen's barometers are because it is getting hot in here, so take off all your clothes.
Saya is having an anneurism, and none of this is real at all. The lancing light pain in her skull is piercing glimpses of reality where she is dying /90skidsshowconspiracytheory.
Edward Cullen is also an Elder Bairn who made a bet with Saya that humanity couldn't beat the Elder Bairns or something, and Saya made a deal with Kyubey to become a Magical Girl to beat him, but sold her memory as the price. Edward Cullen's barometers are because it is getting hot in here, so take off all your clothes.
Saya is having an anneurism, and none of this is real at all. The lancing light pain in her skull is piercing glimpses of reality where she is dying /90skidsshowconspiracytheory.
Has CLAMP ever made a show which was not Awesome/"Awesome"?
ZachDeKoromaru
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These aren't bad guesses. I'm not saying if any of them are right or wrong per se, but there is logic behind most of them.
KirbYuuYuu
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So I take it his amazing powers of seduction aren't a plot point? He's just that good?
We need some joint Touga Akio stripping action like in the Sega Saturn opening. The car doesn't count, despite being pretty great.
rhizomatic
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I blame TV Tropes for causing people to seem to believe this.
I'm watching KnK for the animation, I swear.
Hack writers existed long before TVTropes, unfortunately.
It's pretty much Babby's First Media Analysis. Not really the site's fault though, it just gets misused.
KirbYuuYuu
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It also doesn't help that the site itself feels like You have to be in the Know to even get what's being referenced. It's so dumb.
peaceiscloser
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You're right, and in the end it does figure itself out, but I'm probably just saying stupid things because the hurt from that twist is still fresh in my mind lol
on the topic of Geass, I found this part hilarious on a Code Geass Wiki:
Yeah, most of the time when I browse the examples it tends to be a really big stretch.
chickdigger802
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I think they've been moving away from the let's-make-all-the-trope-names-in-jokes thing, although I haven't visited it extensively in a while.
dakkumauji
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Ookiku Furikabutte - The Summer Tournament Chapter 01
The first thing that pops is the visual improvement to the show. Everything just looks nicer and cleaner and it shows when they flash back to the first season, lol.
I thought it was pretty nice to get two rival characters to basically recap the big game and it was a nice and deep look into strategy.
Already looking forward to watching one whole game in the next 12 episodes!
The first thing that pops is the visual improvement to the show. Everything just looks nicer and cleaner and it shows when they flash back to the first season, lol.
I thought it was pretty nice to get two rival characters to basically recap the big game and it was a nice and deep look into strategy.
Already looking forward to watching one whole game in the next 12 episodes!
KirbYuuYuu
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I haven't either. That sounds nice, but at the same time... I really don't want the chance to get sucked in to see if they did.
As far as I know, Google shut down the site, and it's been dead ever since.
KirbYuuYuu
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rhizomatic
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They have, and a lot of people were pissed about it.
Although I think more people were pissed off when they took off the hentai and porn stuff, which I think was around the same time.
Twilight Gap
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which is why they need more fanservice eps to lessen the pain.
KnK isn't doing so hot on fanservice either. That outfit is an eyesore.
I've let the first 2 episodes lead me on for what will most likely end up being a decidedly mediocre attempt.
Well, goes to show I can still make edumukatud guesses every once in a while.
Akio is sexy. Don't worry your pretty little head about why.
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This is easily the least most professional censorship job in the history of anime. And I've watched the dubbed versions of DBZ and Tenchi Muyo.
As far as I care to know, I'm entirely correct.
A Black Falcon
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Some stuff from the last thread I wanted to reply to...
I like the series, but that's one bad ending.
Also, yeah, it's the best TV anime ever for a reason! Such an incredible show. So the question is, how long will it be until you can look at power lines in the same way again...
Also, Gundam Age sounds really, really horrible.
On that note, it wasn't quite on that level, but the events of ep. 18 of Gosick, where the main characters cross a moral event horizon of sorts... just because I wish I HAD been spoiled for that, so I'd have known to drop the series at ep. 17. The series was on a decline anyway, but I did not expect that... unfortunately. I could explain it again, but I've said before about how disturbing that episode was.. but the main characters' behavior at the end was awful.
Save 'N Quit said:
Unforgivable!Save 'N Quit said:
Just having a 'he does end up with Akane' end wouldn't be THAT bad, but having Shikuzu cry, and Akane loses her more interesting side, and Natsuru loses his as well (girl version)... ugh! What a horrible ending!
I like the series, but that's one bad ending.
Okay, losing their Kampfer powers makes sense given that in the end they surely beat the Moderators, stop the awful "game", etc... but still, pretty disappointing stuff. Worst of all of course is that Shikuzu doesn't win; I don't dislike Akane, but Shikuzu is so much better... it's a predictable move, since Akane is the main female character, but it wasn't a good one.
The characters in that act like complete idiots, then, I assume? I imagine I wouldn't be able to withstand it. I did manage to watch all of Sailor Moon, but that was quite a trial sometimes, between all of the repetition and how incredibly stupid the main character is... never tried to watch any Precure other than a couple of episodes of HeartCatch, though, and it didn't interest me enough to keep watching.KirbYayoi said:
Wair, are you confused, or not? You say you don't understand it, but then that it wasn't as confusing as you expected... so which is it? I thought the last episode did a great job of explaining just about everything, so as to avoid Evangelion's problem just about completely.fertygo said:
Also, yeah, it's the best TV anime ever for a reason! Such an incredible show. So the question is, how long will it be until you can look at power lines in the same way again...
Dual's good... might even be my favorite Tenchi-related thing apart from the first two seasons of the Tenchi OVA. It's reasonably well thought through, for its genre particularly, as you noticed.CorvoSol said:
Also, Gundam Age sounds really, really horrible.
Yeah, this is a good point. Natsume's look and voice are both pretty much entirely feminine. Sure, she's in a boys' uniform, but that doesn't mean she look anything like a boy. She doesn't, and isn't trying very hard to seem like one either. How exactly have her classmates not noticed that she's a girl? The series hasn't even attempted to explain it.Basileus777 said:
Sometimes I read descriptions of the story of something before watching/playing it, so I can decide whether I actually want to watch it or not... so yeah, I don't like surprises either. I'd often rather spoil myself first, so I can avoid the pain of watching something I would end up hating... such as, perfect example, that horrible atrocity of a series there, Code Geass! I mean, I disliked the first episode and would not have continued watching anyway (stupid pointless violence mixed, no thanks), butpeaceiscloser said:
reading about how the MC proves himself to be a villain protagonist and not any kind of hero when he murders someone who did nothing wrong except for obeying an instruction that she was under HIS magical compulsion to obey? Conclusive moral event horizon indeed.
On that note, it wasn't quite on that level, but the events of ep. 18 of Gosick, where the main characters cross a moral event horizon of sorts... just because I wish I HAD been spoiled for that, so I'd have known to drop the series at ep. 17. The series was on a decline anyway, but I did not expect that... unfortunately. I could explain it again, but I've said before about how disturbing that episode was.. but the main characters' behavior at the end was awful.
Little would those people complaining know that the TV ending of Evangelion was actually by far the better one, compared to the EoE ending that followed... and given the way the new movies are going, I expect it to probably be even worse.JCG said:
Beyond the Boundary 4
It was okay I guess.
Beyond the Boundary 5
Now watch eps 6
There should be a dating sim where you play as Akio. It'd be the easiest game ever.
Revolutionary Girl Utena 31
This is how I always answer the door
This was the
incest
Akio's harem is now every girl in the show except Jury.
"People tend to trust the people they're in love with, they can't tell if they're being used." HINT HINT.
Show, I told you to stop making me feel sorry for Nanami.
Make it a harem building competition between Akio and Sexy Sensei.
KirbYuuYuu
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TVTropes is still there though ._.
Yes.
I'm betting that it would be difficult to even make it past the intro due to the stupidity.
I would preorder that 50 times.
Jex
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Much better than Hyouka
And this is why KyoAni is dying.
AnathemicOne
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Fate/Zero 15
This episode was great for each of the Servants were featured doing battle.
I say that the new OP and ED are nice to listen to with the new ED being superior to the first. As for the new OP, I really like the intro of it... the rest of it makes me wish for the previous OP back.
This episode was great for each of the Servants were featured doing battle.
Caster finally got taken out and Matou got pwnt by Tousaka. Really interested in what Berserker's identity is (also Assassin's as I don't recall it being revealed earlier, if it did then I forgot).
I say that the new OP and ED are nice to listen to with the new ED being superior to the first. As for the new OP, I really like the intro of it... the rest of it makes me wish for the previous OP back.
peaceiscloser
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- Neon Genesis Evangelion 06
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...so ridiculous!"
Wair, are you confused, or not? You say you don't understand it, but then that it wasn't as confusing as you expected... so which is it? I thought the last episode did a great job of explaining just about everything, so as to avoid Evangelion's problem just about completely.
Also, yeah, it's the best TV anime ever for a reason! Such an incredible show. So the question is, how long will it be until you can look at power lines in the same way again...
I get most of it, which by far so much more than I'd expect to.
The bit that I didn't understand is the one in last eps.
Lain revert the time? considering what that happened to the 'god'
I get the whole series is about memory manipulation, but does Lain have power to control time too lol
I get the whole series is about memory manipulation, but does Lain have power to control time too lol
FSmh liking Lisa over Kalafina song
Jex
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Well that's not quite true. The camera is up girls butts quite often you just don't see any panties or actual 'butts'.
Madoka Magica The Rebellion Story is now officially over 1 billion yen in box office revenue (1,004,538,650 yen to be exact), setting a new late-night anime film record for reaching that total the fastest (13 days).
http://www.cinematoday.jp/page/N0057935
http://www.cinematoday.jp/page/N0057935
killer rin
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I think what really got me about it all was that Hozuki basically fell in love with Theo, so when he died, Hozuki was broken down into tears and it all just came through. I guess also it was because I never expected them to introduce characters, build them up through the main characters (and by giving them a basic story), then kill them all in the same episode. I was just completely unprepared.
I am with you though, hopefully they take the opportunity given by these characters death to really build out Hozuki in the future episodes.
I am with you though, hopefully they take the opportunity given by these characters death to really build out Hozuki in the future episodes.
Admiral Woofington
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So uh Katte Ni Kaizou is very... open about its non-televized status.
There's erections everywhere. Very similar humor to Zetsubou Sensei though.
There's erections everywhere. Very similar humor to Zetsubou Sensei though.
Passive Assassin
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so someone mentioned there was fanservice in kyoukai no kanata 6
And my lawd there is. kyoani fanservice is the best. half the eps is shower scenes.Other half is other pandering stuff.
we do get some neat dance thingy though.
undulation away.
sexy guys and gals!
what the fuck is this? >:l
KirbYuuYuu
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Pandarin Oranges
I approve
Jex
Member
Good animewatch.
The inner me is the enemy.
AnathemicOne
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Fate/Zero 16
The end of honor indeed. What can I say I really like this episode for showing the flaws of positive concepts such as hope and honor; Saber is cool and all but I find her ideals naive
Kiritsugu is such a badass compared to
The end of honor indeed. What can I say I really like this episode for showing the flaws of positive concepts such as hope and honor; Saber is cool and all but I find her ideals naive
(which is also carried onto Fate/Stay Night)
his adopted son Shirou.
Revolutionary Girl Utena 32
I told you to stop making me feel sorry for Nanami! ;_;
EDIT: Oh also
Yeah, this was a great episode.
I told you to stop making me feel sorry for Nanami! ;_;
Nanami's right though, Anthy is starting to get pretty creepy.
EDIT: Oh also
IS KANAE DEAD
Yeah, this was a great episode.
Lancer and Kayneth's deaths were nasty, but it's really easy to sympathize with the way Kiri works.
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