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Summer 2011 Anime Thread II of IKUHARA'S RETURN, Penguins, and Idols

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A Black Falcon said:
Just because Monty Python is one of the greatest comedy shows ever doesn't mean that everything else in the genre is an unfunny waste of budget! :)

pretty sure i never mentioned "everything else in the genre"
 
A Black Falcon said:
Oh come on, when you put it that way it's pretty obvious that it's criticism.
To anyone else reading, sure. But I think Instro knew about my intentions since we already know each other a bit. "nakama" gives it away that it's in jest.
 
A Black Falcon said:
I would hope that sales will pick up in the second half, but darnit, the first half was good too.
It's just worth noting if the sales for volumes of the 2nd half of Nichijou will even be much higher than the 1st half volumes since I'm assuming many buyers have a collector's mentality when buying a series. And when we're talking about 2-3 episodes per volume, I can't imagine much of a sales spike but who knows. I don't follow sales.
 
Unknown Soldier said:
I really wonder if Steroyd purposely makes avatars with distorted aspect ratios. Ugh.

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A Black Falcon said:
Nichijou is funnier than Fumoffu.

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Branduil said:
ninj4junpei
Only watches Evangelion dubbed

Actually I'll admit I only watch Eva dubbed as well. Well, I'll watch in Japanese if English isn't available, but since I grew up with Spike Spencer as Shinji, I just can't get quite used to hearing Shinji as anyone else. :/
 
Been watching Yakitate!! Japan after having it on my to watch list for months on end. Now I want to take up bread baking.
 
Mayo Chicki - 09

Worst episode since the first one, and it's nice to know chick-kun's skill of tripping into a girl and ripping her clothes off, while still groping her was used this ep.
 
Steroyd said:
Mayo Chicki - 09

Worst episode since the first one, and it's nice to know chick-kun's skill of tripping into a girl and ripping her clothes off, while still groping her was used this ep.
What else would you expect from a treasure chest of lewdness?
 
Steroyd said:
Mayo Chicki - 09

Worst episode since the first one, and it's nice to know chick-kun's skill of tripping into a girl and ripping her clothes off, while still groping her was used this ep.

They really used that again?
really?
 
Special A 1-3

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I shouldn't have enjoyed Episode 3 as much as I did yet I did anyway
- a girl-who-can't-cook-making-an-obento episode.

I guess what made the episode work for me was the fact these two perfect individuals are also superhuman apparently. Now why would it be a surprised? Well, I blame the premise and me really. For some reason, I thought there would be some actual wrestling involved, but really, it could have been anything (I know I should have known better). All that matters is Hikari's loss to Kei has made her absolutely competitive against him, and she wants to compete against him in anything to beat him at something yet she can't win ever.
Perfect man
She even followed him to the same school he attends. Yeah, a standard shoujo romcom.

Anyway, the box vaulting in Episode 1 already left me the impression they were inhuman. So when Hikari began to make Kei an OBENTO since she lost a bet in Episode 2, she got kicked out of her house because she had uncontrollable strength that made her Mom ban her from the kitchen ever since Hikari's first cooked and she wrecked everything. I thought that particular bit was funny, and it helped established the theme and joke of the episode. And when Hikari was able to use the kitchen at school to make Kei's OBENTO (an Onigiri), Hikari breaking the pot she used to wash the rice, splashing the rice out of the pot with centrifugal force as Akira said, and crushing the rice so badly that "it lost its original form" got me laughing. I think the best part of Episode 3 was when Hikari gets ready to serve the obento to Kei, but before she could, she trips and drops it, and Megumi pops up with a caption saying, "it sunk in," with a reference to the onigiri, which was shaped as cannonball.

As for the romance, nothing to really write about besides Jun Fukuyama surprisingly assuming such a role well.

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Hate to post this near the bottom of the page, but gotta make up for being so late before.
C02
1st 178 Mio Isurugi @ MM!
2nd 107 Tomoe Wajima @ Hanasaku Iroha
3rd 91 Yoshimoto Imagawa @ Sengoku Otome ~Momoiro Paradox~

C06
1st 210 Hercule Barton @ Detective Opera Milky Holmes
2nd 109 Chizuru Aizawa @ Squid Girl
3rd 69 Mikako Satsukitane @ Sora No Otoshimono

C10
1st 194 Meiko Honma @ Ano Hi Mita Hana No Namae Wo Bokutachi Wa Mada Shiranai
2nd 150 Kaoru Tanamachi @ Amagami SS
3rd 62 Aisa Himegami @ A Certain Magical Index
Preview:



Touwa family vs. Char should be interesting.

Bonus: insanely cute Erio Nendoroid: http://www.goodsmile.info/product/en/3273/Nendoroid+Erio+Touwa.html
 
@ Blood-C
its like the show has decided that gore is its only appeal so they have to have these type of scenes where saya just sits around

and yet they censor it all anyway?

Where are you Lafiel
we need to talk
 
Branduil said:
I don't see how they'd learn that lesson, the K-on manga is quite terrible.
I disagree, I find it rather enjoyable, but who cares.
Articalys said:
Hate to post this near the bottom of the page, but gotta make up for being so late before.

Preview:

http://i.imgur.com/1mCNMl.jpg

Touwa family vs. Char should be interesting.

Bonus: insanely cute Erio Nendoroid: http://www.goodsmile.info/product/en/3273/Nendoroid+Erio+Touwa.html
Meme vs Erio, with Charlotte thrown into the mix? Assholes!
Mercelida... hope slut mom wins!
 
Steroyd said:
Mayo Chicki - 09

Worst episode since the first one, and it's nice to know chick-kun's skill of tripping into a girl and ripping her clothes off, while still groping her was used this ep.

Yeah, it was pretty terrible. >_>. Hopefully next week is better.

Also, Saya just watches as her classmates get skewered, decapitated, and eaten. So awesome.
 
LTTP: The iDOLM@STER - 1

I liked the documentary style of this. Great way to get insight about the girls' lives without it feeling to forced.

Props to anyone who could actually decipher what Yukino was saying though. I swear she's a bunch of mice under a human skin.

Iori = flawless victory.
 
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