Psycho_Mantis
Banned
Its still at the top when I see it?
Surprised many people watch it there considering the amount of Naruto dedicated sites that have lasted for years and years.
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Its still at the top when I see it?
Surprised many people watch it there considering the amount of Naruto dedicated sites that have lasted for years and years.
Crimson_Echidna
Banned
Not too surprising. There's no longer any premiering episodes so it's only natural that it will start falling behind other popular series that are still producing new episodes.
Full length, but it contained two standalone stories so you could see it as a double bill of shorts.
Sibersk Esto
Banned
Mobile Fighter G Gundam 22
Another big strategy battle episode. Who says G Gundam isn't a real Gundam show?
Domon and Rain had some nice moments, and Natasha was the real MVP.
Another big strategy battle episode. Who says G Gundam isn't a real Gundam show?
Domon and Rain had some nice moments, and Natasha was the real MVP.
I have no sway on what people here watch lul
SliceSabre
Banned
I value your opinion.
GoldCrusader
Member
That's the popular list I mean. it's 5th. I was just kind of surprised. I never saw it go below 3. But yea like others said it was coming.
Infinite_Respawn
Member
Since I'm waiting for the third episodes of shows to hit this season before watching any (I did this when I wrote my preview last season, and my previews were far better for it), I've planned to spend my time in between work and P5 watching a bunch of one cour shows I've had sitting on my shelf that I've picked up via various sales and such over the past several months.
I picked Overlord up on a whim during a sale since I'd heard good things from some friends of mine (and I've been a bit of a Madhouse kick lately since watching ACCA this past season), so I wasn't really going in expecting much, but curious of why this was the second show Madhouse has worked on in the past that was getting a sequel season after One-Punch Man. It didn't take long for the answer to that question become blatantly obvious.
It's interesting in the slew of stories that have come out since the explosive popularity of SAO, very few have felt like such a direct refutation of those tropes that many MMO anime and manga seem to adhere to. From the get go, Momonga is alone, and that fact really drives home the difference here. He may have subordinates to command, and a place to call home, but all of these are attached to memories of a time long past, where he was surrounded by his guild family. There's an air of bittersweet sadness over every victory in Overlord, contrasted by setbacks that carry a similar level of grisly brutality that harshly remind the viewer that consequences in this game are different for the NPCs who populate this post-apocalyptic game-state.
That's not to say there isn't a lot of fighting in Overlord, as is typical of the genre, but here it's represented as far more brutal than I had initially anticipated: people are decapitated and/or sliced apart with an almost wild abandon, and darker deaths await those who cross the wrong members of Nazarick. But for all its gore, it never becomes cartoony; instead, the show manages to maintain a steady amount of gravitas throughout, only lightened occasionally by some light comedy (usually at the expense of MMO player stereotypes). But generally, the atmosphere can best be described as triumphantly bleak, befitting the tale of a lone lich sorcerer and his entourage.
I might be alone in this, but of the three arcs that make up the show, I'm glad they're all quite drastically different from one another. It was a little jarring at first, but I think it works to the show's benefit to find ways to morph so it can focus on different aspects of the genre rather than risk being too one-note in its approach to Momonga's subjugation of the world. It might make the overall pacing a little odd, but each of the three arcs work well as their own self-contained story, making the show feel a little more episodic in that regard than most shows of this kind.
Visually, the show is... pretty good. The 2D animation is quality Madhouse, no denying that, and I think the animators did a fine job translating the art style of the LNs into something more conventional while still lending it a distinctive edge. There were parts that made me wonder what exactly the budget of the show was, but the fight scenes were not a disappointment, so I can forgive it. The 3D was... not as consistent. There were parts that looked great and others that looked... well, good enough. There was a lot more 3D than I expected, but I didn't think anything here looked as bad as say, the recent Berserk, so I was happy.
In the end, I was pleased with Overlord, and I'm happy Madhouse is resurrecting the show for a second season. Praise be to the Supreme One!
I picked Overlord up on a whim during a sale since I'd heard good things from some friends of mine (and I've been a bit of a Madhouse kick lately since watching ACCA this past season), so I wasn't really going in expecting much, but curious of why this was the second show Madhouse has worked on in the past that was getting a sequel season after One-Punch Man. It didn't take long for the answer to that question become blatantly obvious.
It's interesting in the slew of stories that have come out since the explosive popularity of SAO, very few have felt like such a direct refutation of those tropes that many MMO anime and manga seem to adhere to. From the get go, Momonga is alone, and that fact really drives home the difference here. He may have subordinates to command, and a place to call home, but all of these are attached to memories of a time long past, where he was surrounded by his guild family. There's an air of bittersweet sadness over every victory in Overlord, contrasted by setbacks that carry a similar level of grisly brutality that harshly remind the viewer that consequences in this game are different for the NPCs who populate this post-apocalyptic game-state.
That's not to say there isn't a lot of fighting in Overlord, as is typical of the genre, but here it's represented as far more brutal than I had initially anticipated: people are decapitated and/or sliced apart with an almost wild abandon, and darker deaths await those who cross the wrong members of Nazarick. But for all its gore, it never becomes cartoony; instead, the show manages to maintain a steady amount of gravitas throughout, only lightened occasionally by some light comedy (usually at the expense of MMO player stereotypes). But generally, the atmosphere can best be described as triumphantly bleak, befitting the tale of a lone lich sorcerer and his entourage.
I might be alone in this, but of the three arcs that make up the show, I'm glad they're all quite drastically different from one another. It was a little jarring at first, but I think it works to the show's benefit to find ways to morph so it can focus on different aspects of the genre rather than risk being too one-note in its approach to Momonga's subjugation of the world. It might make the overall pacing a little odd, but each of the three arcs work well as their own self-contained story, making the show feel a little more episodic in that regard than most shows of this kind.
Visually, the show is... pretty good. The 2D animation is quality Madhouse, no denying that, and I think the animators did a fine job translating the art style of the LNs into something more conventional while still lending it a distinctive edge. There were parts that made me wonder what exactly the budget of the show was, but the fight scenes were not a disappointment, so I can forgive it. The 3D was... not as consistent. There were parts that looked great and others that looked... well, good enough. There was a lot more 3D than I expected, but I didn't think anything here looked as bad as say, the recent Berserk, so I was happy.
In the end, I was pleased with Overlord, and I'm happy Madhouse is resurrecting the show for a second season. Praise be to the Supreme One!
That's the popular list I mean. it's 5th. I was just kind of surprised. I never saw it go below 3. But yea like others said it was coming.
Love that HxH is still on there despite ending 3 years ago lol
Psycho_Mantis
Banned
That's the popular list I mean. it's 5th. I was just kind of surprised. I never saw it go below 3. But yea like others said it was coming.
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Seems random tbh. Its still the first show they advertise on Google though lol
GoldCrusader
Member
You are probably on a different region. Changing region will change the popular list.
I definitely like the format of it. It lets it tell some nice, simple stories that don't drag on too much. It's very to the point.
Cross Game - 16 "How Should I know?"
What a charming show. I'm finally starting to see some development between Aoba and Kou which is nice. Their relationship has been fun to watch all along though. I really like that even with the romance tropes that they do include, they tone them way down and mute them. It doesn't feel like the show is tripping over itself to do... anything. It's giving the characters and the plot room to breath and grow, and I'm enjoying that. While it's generally on fairly predictable rails, there's enough curveballs to make me unsure as to where the show's going or what will happen. On that note, Azuma is one of those curveballs. Not sure where he's going to fit into this story at all, but I like him more and more as the episodes pass.
It's truly been a joy to watch and I'm more than happy to sit down and watch an episode or two before bed every few nights.
Edit: Also on the side, been watching JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. Episode 13 as of yesterday. Dope show.
What a charming show. I'm finally starting to see some development between Aoba and Kou which is nice. Their relationship has been fun to watch all along though. I really like that even with the romance tropes that they do include, they tone them way down and mute them. It doesn't feel like the show is tripping over itself to do... anything. It's giving the characters and the plot room to breath and grow, and I'm enjoying that. While it's generally on fairly predictable rails, there's enough curveballs to make me unsure as to where the show's going or what will happen. On that note, Azuma is one of those curveballs. Not sure where he's going to fit into this story at all, but I like him more and more as the episodes pass.
It's truly been a joy to watch and I'm more than happy to sit down and watch an episode or two before bed every few nights.
Edit: Also on the side, been watching JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. Episode 13 as of yesterday. Dope show.
Cornbread78
Member
Ai Yori Aoshi ep.1-2
Seen this type of set-up a bunch of times, but the MC sounds like an OK dude so far. Just wondering how long it takes for before Kaoru starts taking advantage of Aoi's kindness and starts up the drama. Hopefully, the show has some fun in it as well.
Excellent choice. This show was such a pleasure to watch. Did ep.1 get you?
Been sitting on this one for a long tine now.
Seen this type of set-up a bunch of times, but the MC sounds like an OK dude so far. Just wondering how long it takes for before Kaoru starts taking advantage of Aoi's kindness and starts up the drama. Hopefully, the show has some fun in it as well.
Excellent choice. This show was such a pleasure to watch. Did ep.1 get you?
MetroidPrimeRib
Banned
LWA TV 13
Eh. I still felt pretty much nothing from this.
Warau Salesman New 01
So since this show is called "New" I'm gonna assume this is a new series for some old, old manga I've never heard of because it looks very late 60's (kinda like Osomatsu-san)
The first episode was okay and the premise is enough to get me to watch at least another episode. I like how the show looks too.
Eh. I still felt pretty much nothing from this.
Warau Salesman New 01
So since this show is called "New" I'm gonna assume this is a new series for some old, old manga I've never heard of because it looks very late 60's (kinda like Osomatsu-san)
The first episode was okay and the premise is enough to get me to watch at least another episode. I like how the show looks too.
hosannainexcelsis
Member
Correct. The original Warau Salesman manga ran from 1968-1971 and was from Fujiko Fujio, the creative duo most famous for Doraemon. There was a previous anime adaptation that ran from 1989-1992.
Crimson_Echidna
Banned
I wonder if playing on Toonami helps? I know I finally got around the binging the series after watching the first portion of the Hunter Exam dubbed on Toonami.
Of course it did! I wasn't sure what I was in for, it just seemed like a 100% pleasant, cute show. I was in disbelief at the end of it. I love stories like that though. It sort of lets you know that it's a controlled safety, and that the writer isn't afraid to go where they need to go.
LWA 13
Great episode, funny, charming, and heartwarming all around. I especially liked how Akko had her own sequence of goofy mid-air transformations that paralleled the one from Chariot's flashback.
You can tell Diana's shaken by Akko's performance, she knows it demonstrated more effort and character than her own.
Great episode, funny, charming, and heartwarming all around. I especially liked how Akko had her own sequence of goofy mid-air transformations that paralleled the one from Chariot's flashback.
You can tell Diana's shaken by Akko's performance, she knows it demonstrated more effort and character than her own.
I have mixed feelings about it. I liked the story about the main characters, but more often than not it got pushed to the side to focus on college hijinx. Not that I wanted that excised, I just wished the balance was better. I think I got more of what I wanted in the manga.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Naw, I'm in the minority when I think that the Benten thing was really pointless in S1. In my memory, I felt like the characters were acting stupid for the sake of plot (like all those DC comic book shows) rather than character development.
Moogster is the best.
Love, Election & Chocolate ep.11-END
I WAS WRONG!!!
I'm floored.... I'm speechless.... that final scene; my heart is melting as I'm 75% shocked at who "won" and 25% melted inside like chocolate, in a car, during a hot summer day...
This was pretty cute ending to the show that had some pretty fun moments throughout. I liked the various personalities of the characters, but the show could have used more sexual harassment from his male sidekick (the Yaoi stick joke never got old) A little forced drama that wasn't really needed, but they tied it all together nicely. I'm still floored at how this one finished in regards to the ship....
Someone get a giant spatula to get e off the floor....
I wondered how you would react to the turnaround.
The OVA is kind of OK as a where are they now thing iirc.
hosannainexcelsis
Member
Weird. Reminds me that I recently had a dream where I was watching a Kamikaze Douga produced CG OP for Jojo Part 5, even though I know nothing about what Part 5 actually is. I guess that's how you know you're in too deep.
Admiral Woofington
Member
just stop making the show and make the Harry Potter anime.
But you can bring techno witch with you. She's all right. Maybe Sandwitch too.
Alice & Zoroku - #1
I like the chemistry the two main characters have, but don't really care all that much about the little girls with special powers and the people who research them. Guess I'll have to wait for later episodes and see how things go from there.
At least from this episode, I think the main concern the men in black have is how the girl will react in a world were there's no strict supervision to the things she's being exposed to, but it seems like the old man was the perfect person for her to meet in order to learn more about the world outside the research facility while reigning her in and away from doing dangerous stuff due to still being too young and unexperienced to really know any better.
I like the chemistry the two main characters have, but don't really care all that much about the little girls with special powers and the people who research them. Guess I'll have to wait for later episodes and see how things go from there.
At least from this episode, I think the main concern the men in black have is how the girl will react in a world were there's no strict supervision to the things she's being exposed to, but it seems like the old man was the perfect person for her to meet in order to learn more about the world outside the research facility while reigning her in and away from doing dangerous stuff due to still being too young and unexperienced to really know any better.
OniBarubary
Banned
Since I'm waiting for the third episodes of shows to hit this season before watching any (I did this when I wrote my preview last season, and my previews were far better for it), I've planned to spend my time in between work and P5 watching a bunch of one cour shows I've had sitting on my shelf that I've picked up via various sales and such over the past several months.
I picked Overlord up on a whim during a sale since I'd heard good things from some friends of mine (and I've been a bit of a Madhouse kick lately since watching ACCA this past season), so I wasn't really going in expecting much, but curious of why this was the second show Madhouse has worked on in the past that was getting a sequel season after One-Punch Man. It didn't take long for the answer to that question become blatantly obvious.
It's interesting in the slew of stories that have come out since the explosive popularity of SAO, very few have felt like such a direct refutation of those tropes that many MMO anime and manga seem to adhere to. From the get go, Momonga is alone, and that fact really drives home the difference here. He may have subordinates to command, and a place to call home, but all of these are attached to memories of a time long past, where he was surrounded by his guild family. There's an air of bittersweet sadness over every victory in Overlord, contrasted by setbacks that carry a similar level of grisly brutality that harshly remind the viewer that consequences in this game are different for the NPCs who populate this post-apocalyptic game-state.
That's not to say there isn't a lot of fighting in Overlord, as is typical of the genre, but here it's represented as far more brutal than I had initially anticipated: people are decapitated and/or sliced apart with an almost wild abandon, and darker deaths await those who cross the wrong members of Nazarick. But for all its gore, it never becomes cartoony; instead, the show manages to maintain a steady amount of gravitas throughout, only lightened occasionally by some light comedy (usually at the expense of MMO player stereotypes). But generally, the atmosphere can best be described as triumphantly bleak, befitting the tale of a lone lich sorcerer and his entourage.
I might be alone in this, but of the three arcs that make up the show, I'm glad they're all quite drastically different from one another. It was a little jarring at first, but I think it works to the show's benefit to find ways to morph so it can focus on different aspects of the genre rather than risk being too one-note in its approach to Momonga's subjugation of the world. It might make the overall pacing a little odd, but each of the three arcs work well as their own self-contained story, making the show feel a little more episodic in that regard than most shows of this kind.
Visually, the show is... pretty good. The 2D animation is quality Madhouse, no denying that, and I think the animators did a fine job translating the art style of the LNs into something more conventional while still lending it a distinctive edge. There were parts that made me wonder what exactly the budget of the show was, but the fight scenes were not a disappointment, so I can forgive it. The 3D was... not as consistent. There were parts that looked great and others that looked... well, good enough. There was a lot more 3D than I expected, but I didn't think anything here looked as bad as say, the recent Berserk, so I was happy.
In the end, I was pleased with Overlord, and I'm happy Madhouse is resurrecting the show for a second season. Praise be to the Supreme One!
Overlord Season 2 is gonna adapt the best arc, so I'm looking forward to it a lot honestly. The Lizardman Arc in the manga is really goddam good.
Hellwarden
Member
Gundam Build Fighters Episode 7
Sweet Jesus, do I hate this character archetype.
Sweet Jesus, do I hate this character archetype.
Infinite_Respawn
Member
That's good to hear! I'm hoping that season two will give more screen time to the Pleiades we haven't seen much of, the short made me anxious to see them get a chance to shine a little more.
But I haven't even been watching anime! I don't even watch Kingdom!
Cornbread78
Member
Midori Days ep.1-2
I wasn't expecting the small amount of ecchi, but that aside, this was pretty fun stuff. The whoke plot is pretty original. Well, sort off, but Key has done similiar things, which means I'll probably love this show, lol.
hosannainexcelsis
Member
Planetes 5
The script of this episode was relatively ambitious in how it juggled four simultaneous intersecting plotlines: Hachi and Tanabe's vacation, the pickpocket, the porn film team, and the parents planning to commit suicide with their daughter. However the mediocre production, featuring notably poor animation and questionable design, prevented it from being as successful as it could have been.
The script of this episode was relatively ambitious in how it juggled four simultaneous intersecting plotlines: Hachi and Tanabe's vacation, the pickpocket, the porn film team, and the parents planning to commit suicide with their daughter. However the mediocre production, featuring notably poor animation and questionable design, prevented it from being as successful as it could have been.
KirbYuuYuu
Member
Let me clarify.
I'm referring to the show building up to Passions appearance as well as what causes her to change. On top that the characters exists from the get go, rather than introduced in the middle of a show and then come up with an excuse 4 episodes before converting her
The best part about Passion is how she was just another villain for a dozen episodes before the inevitable befriending even started. She wasn't a special snowflake destined to fall for the pink, but a natural buildup of betrayal and redemption.
OniBarubary
Banned
I'm unsure how much will just be the Lizardman arc but because it concentrates on a generally innocent/good group fighting against Nazareck you get to finally see Nazareck in a position that legitimizes and displays their "evil" traits. It might also be my favorite because the main guild peeps involved are Cocytus and the best Pleiades, Entoma.
I really hate how the LN focuses so much on the most boring Pleiades.
KirbYuuYuu
Member
This why she's the best.
No brainwashing plot devices either!
Edit: I'm mainly jabbing at Suite Precure as a whole since I'm currently rewatching it
Dedication Through Light
Member
What region are you, Im USA and Naruto Shippuden is still number 1. Wonder if we will somehow have both Shippuden and Boruto in 1 and 2, Wednesday.
GoPri was worse with it since Towa was only ever evil literally because of brainwashing. At least Siren had some emotional reasons to go bad in addition to brainwashing.
GoldCrusader
Member
Assuming the language is region, Canada and I'm on English(US).
John Blade
Member
Don't want to ruin it but if you read my impression of the show, you might be a bit disappointed going into the show, mostly how it set the show up and then do a change of the tone literally after few episode. Not saying it's bad when it was done but you will need to change your tone if you want to follow the show. Just a warming. Still, a good show.
Princess Nine ep.23-END
Damn, this was a LOT of drama is these last few episodes. I really wish the game was scripted better, with more baseball, but that moment with Kisaragi made it all worth while. You knew theLooks like they intended to make a season 2 by the end of everything but they just never got around to it, huh? For shame..... This was a fun experience with some good moments throughout and well worth my time.girls were going to lose, but that confession, lololol..
From what I can gather when look into this show, a manga was release few months during the show run and continue after the show end. I don`t know if it follow the show series and convert into manga or have additional story which isn`t shown in the show. Either way, both creator of the manga and anime don`t release other stuff under their name which is odd I have to say as the show isn`t bad to follow. In a way, it might be a good show to get into a sport anime but it`s little into sport.
Gundam Build Fighters Episode 7
Sweet Jesus, do I hate this character archetype.
Ah, Xellos... how many years has it been?
Like, an archetype is one thing, but using identical gestures for the exact same line sounds creatively bankrupt (I really wonder who was the first character to be characterized this way).
GoldCrusader
Member
Crunchyroll just posted a really great feature about My Hero Academia called:
This feature brings ou very good point about the way the series is handle and I grealy recommend checking it out.
Some quotes.
It's really well written, so check it out.
This feature brings ou very good point about the way the series is handle and I grealy recommend checking it out.
Some quotes.
It's really well written, so check it out.
Otakumegane
Member
Any good comedy and/or slice of life anime?
I really liked Non Non Biyori and to a smaller extent Konosuba. I think Gintama is a bit too long for me though.
I really liked Non Non Biyori and to a smaller extent Konosuba. I think Gintama is a bit too long for me though.
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