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

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darkside31337 said:
The OP was fantastic though, the only good part of the show :(
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Dynedom said:
Isn't the whole point of AnimeGAF to find well-received Anime and somehow shit on them anyway? Did you guys think stuff that you liked was off limits?
"Well received" presumably means "well received by modern anime fans", which is about the same thing as saying it's "well received by Youtube commenter's".
 
Denpa Onna's OP is GOD TIER.
Seriously, I love it. I know its off key and all that shit but I don't care. Its memorable and adorable.
 
cajunator said:
Denpa Onna's OP is GOD TIER.
Seriously, I love it. I know its off key and all that shit but I don't care. Its memorable and adorable.

Exactly. It's not supposed to sound good. If it did the song would lose all of its appeal.

Jexhius said:
"Well received" presumably means "well received by modern anime fans", which is about the same thing as saying it's "well received by Youtube commenter's".

I was going to vehemently disagree with this post but realized

CatPee said:
But they go "Myuh" and do awesome things such as spray on cockroaches and fry chicken. What's not to love about that?

it's basically a knock on people who like MPD. Long live Utena.
 
Jexhius said:
"Well received" presumably means "well received by modern anime fans", which is about the same thing as saying it's "well received by Youtube commenter's".

You have to take an aggregate of opinions from somewhere. I take any metric of anime shows/movies/OAVs on any website with a gigantic grain of salt in general though. The only website I use as a starting point anymore is AniDB and even then I tend to be skeptical (I'm pretty sure the place is a den of 14 year old girls and pedophiles). I've lost count of the number of times I've checked out high rated shows there to be bitterly disappointed.

That being said, I would have never checked out shows like The Irresponsible Captain Tylor if it wasn't for that site.
 
Branduil said:

Not sure what he's referring to but I think there is some kind of appeal to slightly off-key j-pop singers that still sound "cute".

I personally just wish every OP of every show I cared about was done by NICO touches the walls, Kelun, Last Alliance or Galneryus.
 
Dynedom said:
Not sure what he's referring to but I think there is some kind of appeal to slightly off-key j-pop singers that still sound "cute".

I personally just wish every OP of every show I cared about was done by NICO touches the walls, Kelun, Last Alliance or Galneryus.

That's exactly what I was referring to. Erio's moe factor comes from the fact that she's completely off-key. The song was made to fit this (or at least I hope).
 
darkside31337 said:
That's exactly what I was referring to. Erio's moe factor comes from the fact that she's completely off-key. The song was made to fit this (or at least I hope).

It's moe and acceptable to be musically unpalatable. Get with the times guys!

Pretty sure Nano.Ripe is going to make a career of being off-key in their songs (or at least, unpleasant to listen to at times).
 
Lol I just noticed when rewatching penguin drum ep 8 that
Penguin #2 got laid out by the car as well.
 
/XX/ said:
Sorry, but I still am... as I keep thinking expressions in my mother tongue it always seems like something is lost in the translation, or I don't make it clear enough (I know some of my posts are unnecessarily wordy because I'm not sure if the idea will come across well, it is some kind of... compensation). I won't try to always justify myself like this, though, because I know I'll end up being annoying to you, guys.
And I'll always say you're a bit overly concerned about it. I don't think your posts are "unnecessarily wordy" either. Some phrases sound stiffly formal to me sometimes, but it's not a bad thing at all.
 
darkside31337 said:
Exactly. It's not supposed to sound good. If it did the song would lose all of its appeal.
"It's only good because it's bad"? That only makes sense if the music is supposed to be a parody, along the lines of Mozart's A Musical Joke. I don't see Denpa Onna's OP as attempting that.
 
darkside31337 said:
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Which part did you disagree with? The OP being fantastic or my dislike for Denpa :([/QUOTE]

The part I edit quoted?

Can't dog on the music too much because it's one of those awful things that makes its way onto your MP3 for some reason, but the OP itself, is one of the most boring SHAFT have done.
 
Dresden said:
I know u trolling, but u going 2 far.

To be fair, I've only heard Maxon. I mean, if the point of the song was to make me laugh, then they are A+.

It actually fit that OP/Song perfectly.

Shit, I need to at Super Robot Wars OG - The Inspector to the MANime thread.
 
GaimeGuy said:
Lol I just noticed when rewatching penguin drum ep 8 that
Penguin #2 got laid out by the car as well.

Yes, also
#2 probably absorbed the impact of the car so Shouma is alive and we have been trolled again.
 
hosannainexcelsis said:
"It's only good because it's bad"? That only makes sense if the music is supposed to be a parody, along the lines of Mozart's A Musical Joke. I don't see Denpa Onna's OP as attempting that.
Nah, it's good because it helps convey the character's emotions in a sense...
It's "sung at the top of lungs", as if its message is liberating, or as a last desperate attempt to convey the feelings. That's why it's not out of place.
 
cajunator said:
Kannagi had a really fun OP that wasnt off key.

I'm referring to the Karaoke scene
where Takako sings a song perfectly (albeit a bit TOO perfectly) and everyone is disgusted. Zange follows up and she's horribly off key but people can't stop watching/listening because she sounds cute
.

Not sure why I spoiler tagged that...
 
Dynedom said:
You have to take an aggregate of opinions from somewhere. I take any metric of anime shows/movies/OAVs on any website with a gigantic grain of salt in general though. The only website I use as a starting point anymore is AniDB and even then I tend to be skeptical (I'm pretty sure the place is a den of 14 year old girls and pedophiles). I've lost count of the number of times I've checked out high rated shows there to be bitterly disappointed.

That being said, I would have never checked out shows like The Irresponsible Captain Tylor if it wasn't for that site.
I avoid crowd-sourcing for anime recommendations and go by specific critics. The fanbase has pretty bad taste overall, which is my way of saying I don't like that they like.
 
Eversynth said:
Nah, it's good because it helps convey the character's emotions in a sense...
It's "sung at the top of lungs", as if its message is liberating, or as a last desperate attempt to convey the feelings. That's why it's not out of place.
Sounds more like something is getting shoved in her throat as she hoarsely muffles the song out.

Maybe it's a hint at being sexually abused by Meme's husbando when she was young. Deep!
 
Dynedom said:
I'm referring to the Karaoke scene
where Takako sings a song perfectly (albeit a bit TOO perfectly) and everyone is disgusted. Zange follows up and she's horribly off key but people can't stop watching/listening because she sounds cute
.

Not sure why I spoiler tagged that...
Oh yeah that. I remember now. But Zange is voiced/sung by KANA HANAZAWA the goddess.

Dresden said:
Sounds more like something is getting shoved in her throat as she hoarsely muffles the song out.
Well, she does
eat pizza a lot and she is also tied up in a futon most of the time.
 
Jexhius said:
I avoid crowd-sourcing for anime recommendations and go by specific critics. The fanbase has pretty bad taste overall, which is my way of saying I don't like that they like.

I guess I just haven't found a singular critic I can respect, although I should probably look a bit harder.

edit: Holy shit, AnimeGAF actually likes JAM Project? Maybe I need to listen to more of their songs.
 
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