Crash Station
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Summer 2011 Anime Thread of Idols, Penguins, and IKUHARA'S RETURN.
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InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
I wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy.Takao said:
Infinite Justice
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Branduil said:
i'll read the manga instead.
Crash Station
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Infinite Justice said:
Still a little miffed they fucked up the Dog Race and Ganta's heroic speech during it :/
Dedication Through Light
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I guess Bandai is next or something. I hope they give a release date and cast for Star Driver and Gundam 00 on Blu-Ray.
A Black Falcon
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The B Gata H Kei manga is funny... not so sure about the anime, though.Branduil said:
Holy shit, Hellsing VIII is finally coming? Yes please.
Also, I think i'll pick up about 5 shows this season, but will give everything a shot for 2 episodes.
There's a lot of 24-26 episode shows from spring that are going to carry over that i've been following, so it's all good.
Also Haruka is the best.
Also, I think i'll pick up about 5 shows this season, but will give everything a shot for 2 episodes.
There's a lot of 24-26 episode shows from spring that are going to carry over that i've been following, so it's all good.
Also Haruka is the best.
So it seems Viz will be streaming Boob Dragon uncut starting July 22. Of all the series they unceremoniously killed, they bring back this steaming pile of shit that no one in the world wanted. What a useless company given they dubbed all of Hikaru No Go, and Full Moon and are just sitting on it.
Master Milk
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Boob Dragon . . . that can't be the real name of the show.Takao said:
Master Milk said:
Nah, that's the real title of the show, in fact they released a limited edition GBA SP:
LOL No
It's my name for Blue Dragon. There's a character who has a rather large bust size that is the butt of many jokes, that Viz painstakingly digitally erased in nearly every shot of the character (this character is one of main ones as well, and appears often).
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Hidan no Aria 12: Bad show ends as expected. They couldn't even resist one last bullshit character reveal.
Denpa 11-12: I take it we're supposed to believe that weird things can happen in the real world with that ending, which seems to be antithetical to the supposedly theme of the first half of the show anyway. It seems as if the show slowly entered boring Harem mode the moment they "solved" Erio and that ending pretty much gave the dude the harem ending without coming out and saying so.
Denpa 11-12: I take it we're supposed to believe that weird things can happen in the real world with that ending, which seems to be antithetical to the supposedly theme of the first half of the show anyway. It seems as if the show slowly entered boring Harem mode the moment they "solved" Erio and that ending pretty much gave the dude the harem ending without coming out and saying so.
Unknown Soldier
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Idolmaster: Xenoglossia 8 -
The moment I got trolled by Sunrise in this episode: When Haruka
LOL. I still can't believe that Sunrise is taking this show seriously at all but I guess I'm not at the Grimdark Junction just yet. The show changes to a new OP in just 4 more episodes, and I guess that is when I reach L1 (the Lagrange Point) between the two celestial bodies Moemecha and Grimdark and cross from the gravitational pull of one to the other.
iDOL= "Immortal Defender of the Lagrange" according to the briefly shown document on screen.
This show's first OP is really addictive, I find myself humming it to myself now at work. The ED, which apparently doesn't change during the show's run, is still better, but I can't help myself.
Binetsu S.O.S.!! (OP1)
The moment I got trolled by Sunrise in this episode: When Haruka
took her shirt off for her mecha boyfriend and the screen switched to RECORD.
iDOL= "Immortal Defender of the Lagrange" according to the briefly shown document on screen.
This show's first OP is really addictive, I find myself humming it to myself now at work. The ED, which apparently doesn't change during the show's run, is still better, but I can't help myself.
Binetsu S.O.S.!! (OP1)
hosannainexcelsis
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Jintor said:
I started working on Japanese after noticing I had picked up a few basic phrases from anime/VNs without even trying. Currently, I use anime to reinforce the vocabulary and grammar I'm learning, attune my ear to pronunciation, and occasionally pick up a new word if it's used often enough. It's only a supplementary tool though; you'll want a textbook such as Genki to learn grammar and standard Japanese.
Crash Station
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One Outs 16
Wait, these guys are minor league? That should make the One Outs contract even more of a big deal if Tokuchi keeps screwing over the president.
Wait, these guys are minor league? That should make the One Outs contract even more of a big deal if Tokuchi keeps screwing over the president.
Jex
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Well if a real company put it out it would actually happen!Branduil said:
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Azazel-San 13
Oh God, you joker!
A strange end to a highly entertaining series. I'd like to see more.
Dedication Through Light
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[C]: The Money of Soul and Possibility Control (complete)
Kimimaro was so epic in the last two episodes, and that Overheated Economy! I wish the ending had been complete. Wouldnt mind knowing what happened to Mashu, Mikuni, if Kimimaru still has access to Financial District. The anime made America look good.
Kimimaro was so epic in the last two episodes, and that Overheated Economy! I wish the ending had been complete. Wouldnt mind knowing what happened to Mashu, Mikuni, if Kimimaru still has access to Financial District. The anime made America look good.
hosannainexcelsis
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Jintor said:
If you're going to take up Japanese seriously, I highly encourage you to get Anki or a similar flashcard review program. I use it to review kanji using Heiseg's method and target sentences with vocabulary I want to learn, and it's been very helpful in organizing my review sessions.
Unknown Soldier
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Everything that I've heard about anime Japanese is that it has very little to do with how real Japanese people speak. But we have several animu-Gaffers who actually live in Japan who would be able to shed more light on this, including Ducky.
Idolmaster: Xenoglossia 9 -
The last idol from the game who has yet to appear in the show is now revealed.
The moment I wasn't trolled by Sunrise in this episode, having never played the games:
The weird integration of the source material and this universe results in a calibration process for the mechas called Harmonization which involves playing a keyboard to synchronize it's essential functions for improved operation.
More background is provided about Triavita as well, the "enemy organization" which opposes Mondenkind. Since 'Mondenkind' is badly pronounced in the show, it's not all that clear that the spelling is intentional just from the speaking of the word, but it's actually spelled 'Mondenkind' in the logo. Whether that's an intentional corruption of 'Modernkind' is entirely at Sunrise's discretion, and they ain't saying shit about that apparently.
Idolmaster: Xenoglossia 9 -
The last idol from the game who has yet to appear in the show is now revealed.
The moment I wasn't trolled by Sunrise in this episode, having never played the games:
Futami Ami and Mami, the twin idols from the games, are revealed to be separated in the show. Mami vanished when the iDOL she was piloting, Prometheus 4 "Tempestus", apparently exploded and was destroyed during a test.
More background is provided about Triavita as well, the "enemy organization" which opposes Mondenkind. Since 'Mondenkind' is badly pronounced in the show, it's not all that clear that the spelling is intentional just from the speaking of the word, but it's actually spelled 'Mondenkind' in the logo. Whether that's an intentional corruption of 'Modernkind' is entirely at Sunrise's discretion, and they ain't saying shit about that apparently.
InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
Yup, I do this too. Throw in Tae Kim's grammar guide and you got a good thing going on.hosannainexcelsis said:
KuwabaraTheMan
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My effort to get caught up on massive backlog from last season...begins?
Digimon Xros Wars 39: Wow, that was pretty awesome, actually. Taiki proves his status as a magnificent bastard here, managing to fool everyone including his own allies (even tricking Kiriha into getting into an argument so he'd go work on his own where Taiki wanted him to be). Then he shows how great a general he is with his great strategy to take down Splashmon. I only wish Splashmo could have lasted another episode or two. He was a really great antagonist with the way that he got into everyone's heads and tried to play on their fears and negative emotions. I'd say he's one of the better villains Xros Wars has had for that fact alone.
It can certainly help as a supplement. Listening to anime will obviously help you gain an ear for the language, and it's pretty easy to start picking up bits and pieces of vocabulary in that way.
Speaking is a bit different since you're not really speaking while watching anime, but it can't really hurt (although you could wind up talking like a genki girl).
Digimon Xros Wars 39: Wow, that was pretty awesome, actually. Taiki proves his status as a magnificent bastard here, managing to fool everyone including his own allies (even tricking Kiriha into getting into an argument so he'd go work on his own where Taiki wanted him to be). Then he shows how great a general he is with his great strategy to take down Splashmon. I only wish Splashmo could have lasted another episode or two. He was a really great antagonist with the way that he got into everyone's heads and tried to play on their fears and negative emotions. I'd say he's one of the better villains Xros Wars has had for that fact alone.
Jintor said:
It can certainly help as a supplement. Listening to anime will obviously help you gain an ear for the language, and it's pretty easy to start picking up bits and pieces of vocabulary in that way.
Speaking is a bit different since you're not really speaking while watching anime, but it can't really hurt (although you could wind up talking like a genki girl).
Jex
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Someone clearly made a deal with the devil to get such a high quality work out in it's entirety, that's the kind of Faustian bargain I can get behind. I hope someone makes another one so we can get Pluto made into an anime, which, due to the complications of licensing Astro Boy characters, would surely require at least two souls in exchange.Branduil said:
Unknown Soldier
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KuwabaraTheMan said:
I don't see how that could be a bad thing. :3
Idolmaster: Xenoglossia 10 -
Note to just about everyone making any kind of sci-fi media of any kind: There can't be any sound in space, because there isn't any atmosphere to transmit sound waves!
The moment I was trolled by Sunrise in this episode: An explosion where there was no sound. The whole rest of the show, when things smash into other things, there are loud noises as is conventional with all sci-fi media except maybe for 2001: A Space Odyssey. Here it is used with amazing dramatic effect, a climactic moment where everything suddenly falls silent as explosions occur in space.
In unrelated news, it turns out iDOLs can be trolling their masters too. Poor Iori.
WHAT THE HELL?! JEXHIUS CHANGED HIS AVATAR?!
Jex
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[C]: The Money of Soul and Possibility Control (Complete)
As a Kenji Nakamura directed title, this is a disappointment. As 'just another' anime series, it's average or above average. If you dislike [C] the scale of your dislike will probably defend on which of those two lenses you view the work through. I can understand both sides. However, I sit in neither camp.
I, personally, kind of liked [C] Now now, no need to grab your internet-pitchforks yet, I'm not claiming this was a good show overall. I enjoyed the episodes that were 'good' and even a few that were 'average'. However, tt was far too spotty and inconsistent for that to be true. What's worse, is it also had an identity crisis, which surely stopped it from achieving it's potential in any one area.
It had a brief flirtation with being an interesting, creative show but it also had a slightly more lasting interest in being a battle show. As is often said "and never the twain shall meet". These two competing sides of the show never really gelled in any meaningful manner. Each side suffers at the expense of the other. When the show was focused on battles and action I was disappointed that we weren't experiencing any stories about [C] and it's detrimental effects on reality. Whenever they took a battle away, people looking for that content were disappointed. It was an awkward mix from the start.
Which kind of makes me wonder if [C] was original conceived as it is now. The actual world this show takes place in is oddly fleshed out and explained, all the way up to devices such as the 'Rotary Press' which in other works would simply be deux ex machinas. To match this detailed word-building is an equally impressive symbology (see here) which just seems needlessly complicated for a battle-work. Was the original idea about this show combined with a battle work? We'll probably never know, but I think the show would have been better served by resting on what makes it unique and different, not doing the same stuff that other shows have been doing since the dawn of time.
As a Kenji Nakamura directed title, this is a disappointment. As 'just another' anime series, it's average or above average. If you dislike [C] the scale of your dislike will probably defend on which of those two lenses you view the work through. I can understand both sides. However, I sit in neither camp.
I, personally, kind of liked [C] Now now, no need to grab your internet-pitchforks yet, I'm not claiming this was a good show overall. I enjoyed the episodes that were 'good' and even a few that were 'average'. However, tt was far too spotty and inconsistent for that to be true. What's worse, is it also had an identity crisis, which surely stopped it from achieving it's potential in any one area.
It had a brief flirtation with being an interesting, creative show but it also had a slightly more lasting interest in being a battle show. As is often said "and never the twain shall meet". These two competing sides of the show never really gelled in any meaningful manner. Each side suffers at the expense of the other. When the show was focused on battles and action I was disappointed that we weren't experiencing any stories about [C] and it's detrimental effects on reality. Whenever they took a battle away, people looking for that content were disappointed. It was an awkward mix from the start.
Which kind of makes me wonder if [C] was original conceived as it is now. The actual world this show takes place in is oddly fleshed out and explained, all the way up to devices such as the 'Rotary Press' which in other works would simply be deux ex machinas. To match this detailed word-building is an equally impressive symbology (see here) which just seems needlessly complicated for a battle-work. Was the original idea about this show combined with a battle work? We'll probably never know, but I think the show would have been better served by resting on what makes it unique and different, not doing the same stuff that other shows have been doing since the dawn of time.
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