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[Jarmel]

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http://www.microsoft.com/business/smb/ja-jp/campaign/virtualization/default.mspx

Best Microsoft animu girl.

Has he done any work recently?

 

[firehawk12]

http://boonce.org/up/1310874396963.png

http://www.microsoft.com/business/sm...n/default.mspx

Best Microsoft animu girl.

I'd let her handle my virtual boxes!

 

[InfiniteNine]

http://i.imgur.com/lrjb3l.jpg[IMG]
I'd let her handle my virtual boxes![/QUOTE]
It matches your avatar!

 

[firehawk12]

It matches your avatar!

Nose-picking moe!

 

[Articalys]

Kino's Journey 10-13

"The world is not beautiful, therefore it is."
I sure can see why they use that as the key phrase of the series.
Another set of some one-off stores and really messed-up villages, but man, that last episode was some powerful stuff. They couldn't have possibly made the

Spoiler

parallels as a "good"/reformed alternate version of Kino's hometown any more obvious, including the hints towards Kino's original name

, and the ending...
And the original author is still writing the novels! Impressive.
A great series overall, if somewhat dark at times. Glad I finally got around to watching it.

I presume the movies aren't worth the effort to track them down?

 

[Crash Station]

Nose-picking moe!

It's bigger than you would think.

 

[Burning Man]

Yeah, Nichijou 16 was great. If they had done this from the beginning I'd regard it much higher than I do.

Do you guys watch it raw?? O_O

 

[Risette]

stuff

Crunchyroll simulcasts it like a few hours or less after it airs. Legally.

 

[Branduil]

Kino's Journey 10-13

"The world is not beautiful, therefore it is."
I sure can see why they use that as the key phrase of the series.
Another set of some one-off stores and really messed-up villages, but man, that last episode was some powerful stuff. They couldn't have possibly made the

Spoiler

parallels as a "good"/reformed alternate version of Kino's hometown any more obvious, including the hints towards Kino's original name

, and the ending...
And the original author is still writing the novels! Impressive.
A great series overall, if somewhat dark at times. Glad I finally got around to watching it.

I presume the movies aren't worth the effort to track them down?

The movies are basically just extra episodes, so they're worth it in that context.

 

[Izayoi]

.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY0WxgSXdEE&t=0m47s

 

[Hitokage]

Also, you took my statement out of context.

Quite frankly, I had a hard time parsing that part of your post IN context, which is why I responded to it later than the rest. As far as I could tell, you were talking about recycled animation.

That wasn't a dig at Sailor Moon, though if CCS is any indication I won't be watching any more mahou shoujo ever again after I've finished it.

Not really.

I'm less like Kirino and more like Kuroneko in what I like, if you follow.

I didn't watch that shitty show, so no, I don't.

 

[trejo]

Nichijou 16

I literally fell asleep halfway through. For some reason I'm in no big rush to watch the episodes I skipped. Or any more of this show, for that matter.

 

[Branduil]

I didn't watch that shitty show, so no, I don't.

 

[Burning Man]

Crunchyroll simulcasts it like a few hours or less after it airs. Legally.

Nice. Apparently, most of the summer stuff is unavailable in my region. Plus, even the generally available vids refused to play. Hmm.

 

[Izayoi]

I didn't watch that shitty show, so no, I don't.

He likes the pretentious lolis.

 

[Dresden]

yukko's miserable life - the name of the goat we rode that day - 16

The good:

Nano and Yukko being bros

Mio's yaoi fan gag

The bad:

Child abuse

Hakase (sometimes it's easy to forget that she's still just a child)

 

[Jintor]

Official -tans?

Well, that makes sense

 

[Trojita]

Hahaha, yes.

So we agree on something.

 

[Articalys]

Is Nichijou still only about trolling, or is it trying to recover some of the slapstick comedy it had in the first few episodes?

 

[Instro]

Is Nichijou still only about trolling, or is it trying to recover some of the slapstick comedy it had in the first few episodes?

In general most episode have some form of slapstick. It varies from episode to episode as to how much.

 

[Steroyd]

Nichijou - 16

What the hell is up with this show, the last 3 episodes make the 13 episodes before it feel like filler, as a show that relies on random gags, that's an abomomination.

 

[Geneijin]

Edit: Ano Hana Spoilers Again

Did you want their entire lives to be sob stories? What might appear to be a minor event to me or you can have strong implications for the people involved. Stuff like that leaves scars. Adults whose parents divorce have a higher rate of suicide Whenever there is guilt or loss involved, it hurts and it affects people in different ways. I personally know a mother who committed suicide after she lost her child in a train accident. The only thing that was a stretch was the cross dressing and I wouldn’t be surprised if I looked at some psychiatric records if there were cases like that.

You misunderstand my purpose for not wanting that one flashback to not be used as such a clutch to explain everything. We need other reasons for why they became like they did, which Ano Hana didn't sufficiently provide. Anaru's love for Jintan was absurd. There's no reason given for why Anaru still loves Jintan other than that flashback of when Anaru was smitten for Jintan. And clinging onto that one event to justify it exemplifies the bad writing of Ano Hana.

If anything it would be a love rectangle or whatever the term is.

And the love rectangle is another example of bad writing. The same reasons Tsuruko still loves Yukiatsu is as shallow as Anaru's.

It showed how screwed up the group was. Half the group wanted to be the other half.

You're misunderstanding my point. When it was discovered Yukiatsu was crosdressing, the status quo of the show was the same as when it started. We already knew the group was screwed up. So what was the payoff for Yukiatsu's crossdressing? Nothing but a flashback later about Yukiatsu liking Menma because that's supposedly enough of a reason to understand why he likes Menma.

Yukiatsu became alot more open with his feelings when talking with Anaru and Tsuruko. He also started to become more envious of Jintan as the series progressed, initially he was rather cold and indifferent and if you look at the end where he was talking with the father or kicking the post after talking with Jintan, he’s starting to revert to how he was initially in the group. Being envious of Jintan but not being able to do anything about it.

His personality and character remained relatively intact before and after he was exposed for his crossdressing. The conversations he had with Anaru was for his own selfishness and were mainly used to setup the love triangle between Anaru, Tsuruko and Yukiatsu.

The thing that rekindled his friendship with Anaru was when he foiled the attempted rape. We never saw his interactions with Poppo and so that leaves Jintan. They could talk again but that’s pretty much it. He pretty much near punches Jintan in ep.8(either 8 or 9 but relatively sure 8) and spends 9 and 10 fuming.

That's not my point. I'm saying Yukiatsu being exposed is equivalent to Poppo reuniting Anaru and Jintan. It automatically mended old wounds and forced everyone together like they were never apart after Menma's death. The scene you're talking about that rekindled Anaru and Yukiatsu's friendship was more like a setup to the future love triangle.

*Shrug* Alot of stories could be resolved by simple things or seeking professional help. The point being all of them weren’t in a normal frame of mind.

You said the point of the story was for them to seek professional help, which I disagree with. It certainly brings up a point about professional help being helpful, but it does not make it a point besides the sign in Episode 1.

I don’t think we’re going to agree on the reasoning for this and I can’t see this part of the argument going anywhere. He was jealous of Jintan but your reasoning that he wanted to egg them on makes no sense. Why would he want to taunt them? He believed that Jintan was making it up at that point and showing Menma would only confirm Jintan was right. Before you say that showing up as Menma so everybody could see would make Jintan not special, Menma still came to Jintan first.

Your quote:

At the point they had caught him, he knew they were going back to the base. In the beginning of episode 4 he went back to the base. He didn't initially dress up to get caught as he wasn't aware of Poppo moving back but that night he must have gone there with the intent of getting caught on some level. You dress up as the person that your friends are looking for and then walk near by them.

Your reasoning for him wanting to be "subconsciously caught" doesn't make much sense to me either. I'll agree the taunting might be a weak reason, but how could being caught work? Why would he subconsciously want to be caught when he wanted to expose Jintan as lying? You're saying Yukiatsu wished to be caught while not also acknowledging he was jealous of Jintan.

They made a point of showing despite how close they were, the two were really quite apart. Yukiatsu didn’t understand what Tsuruko was going through and likewise. He wanted a friend he could talk to and he really didn’t have one with Tsuruko despite her always being around him. Tsuruko notes that she couldn’t even be the replacement for Anaru in the final ep.

You're misunderstanding my comment.
Quote:

Yes I meant Tsuruko. He wanted somebody to talk to about it, let it out, or just communicate with. He had lost Anaru after the break up and was starting to depend on Tsuruko. He never really confided in her though as she notes later.

This goes back to why you think Yukiatsu wanted to be caught. The love triangle was poorly done.

Yes he did, when the group broke apart he lost a confidant in her. Everyone pretty much split apart. Tsuruko never was able to become that close to him.

A confidant to what? Once Menma was dead, the purpose of them being friends ended because they both had a mutual interest in learning of Jintan and Menma's feelings. Tsuruko was often ignored by Yukiatsu and the story barely developed her. Hell, Ano Hana didn't develop why Anaru and Yukiatsu were such chums either.

The point I was making about that was the show focused more on the present effects but I would have liked to see more of the original chemistry to show how broken up they had become. Not to give more reasons as to why they are the way they are now but show what they used to be like.

But the reasons for why they are the way they are is superficial. Just because of the confession scene, we're suppose to believe Anaru's love and almost everyone's jealousy of Menma is plausible when the show hasn't fortify those reasons beyond one flashback? It was poor writing in general for Ano Hana.

 

[Jex]

Is Nichijou still only about trolling, or is it trying to recover some of the slapstick comedy it had in the first few episodes?

Both?

 

[Burning Man]

Nichijou - 16

What the hell is up with this show, the last 3 episodes make the 13 episodes before it feel like filler, as a show that relies on random gags, that's an abomomination.

I was hoping this wouldn't happen.....

Sigh.

Why does every silly show insist on getting serious towards the end? It's perfectly okay to be silly throughout. We can get our story fixes elsewhere.

 

[Geneijin]

I was going to try and stay away from the Ano Hana stuff going on in here but I figured I would just post my own impressions on the show as a getting off point.

The show started strong with an interesting premise but I am with the people saying that it was basically 9 episodes of filler ( For the same reasons that have already been stated). The show seemed to build up and build up and build up more only to have a joke said about

Spoiler

an eye lash

let all the character brush their shoulders off. I will agree though that the ending was well done and felt properly emotionally charged. I mean what else do you expect with Secret Base

Pretty much.

Is Anohana really worth this much discussion?

Nope. It's terrible.

 

[Hellsing321]

Nichijou 16
This episode was actually really good. Thats 3 in a row now? Mio going terminator on everyone who saw her yaoi art was great. Also like the jab at Starbucks at the beginning. Not that thats a very original joke.

 

[Dresden]

I was hoping this wouldn't happen.....

Sigh.

Why does every silly show insist on getting serious towards the end? It's perfectly okay to be silly throughout. We can get our story fixes elsewhere.

Asides from a rather sweet moment at the end of 16, it's the same old shit.

 

[Branduil]

Geneijin has gone full ABF/Macodin.

 

[Defuser]

Tiger And Bunny ep 16

And a good one too.

 

[Unknown Soldier]

Quite frankly, I had a hard time parsing that part of your post IN context, which is why I responded to it later than the rest. As far as I could tell, you were talking about recycled animation.

Okay. You did interpret the context more or less correctly then. My point was indeed that the magical girl shows such as Ikuhara's previous efforts on Sailor Moon like to reuse animation a lot, especially during transformations, and that Utena has roughly the same thing, except with bizarre lyrics operatic rock music.

I didn't watch that shitty show, so no, I don't.

Oh, right. Hito-chan's a Class S on cosmic's table. Nevermind then, forget I ever talked about any other show than whatever you consider to be a good show.

 

[Hellsing321]

I was hoping this wouldn't happen.....

Sigh.

Why does every silly show insist on getting serious towards the end? It's perfectly okay to be silly throughout. We can get our story fixes elsewhere.

You're misinterpreting what hes saying. There wasn't any "story" going on this episode. Just the usual gags and jokes.

 

[Jex]

Nichijou - 16

What the hell is up with this show, the last 3 episodes make the 13 episodes before it feel like filler, as a show that relies on random gags, that's an abomomination.

I know, right? The last three episodes have all been excellent.

Most of the sketches that are like, under a minute, still aren't very good. I prefer the long form stuff, and most of this episode featured those extended scenes. However, it also featured some fairly sweet moments as well. Quite the feat!

Also, this show is truly the kind of reaction shots.

 

[Branduil]

Oh, right. Hito-chan's a Class S on cosmic's table. Nevermind then, forget I ever talked about any other show than whatever you consider to be a good show.

 

[Dresden]

You're misinterpreting what hes saying. There wasn't any "story" going on this episode. Just the usual gags and jokes.

 

[Instro]

I know, right? The last three episodes have all been excellent

I'd say basically since episode 12(which had the amusement park bit) and beyond.

 

[Hellsing321]

http://i.imgur.com/JIE2D.gif[IMG][/QUOTE]
That poor goat. :(

 

[Jex]

Ah, the goat-twister. Classic.

 

[Dresden]

 

[Black Republican]

where are my ass gifs anime gaf?!

 

[Articalys]

http://i.imgur.com/JIE2D.gif[IMG][/QUOTE]
Okay, if a majority of the stuff I've missed is like this, I'm catching up right now. I'll just fast-forward through the Mai segments when they show up.

 

[weeaboo]

Spinning Yuko!

Godlike animation this week

 

[Geneijin]

Well this thread had an indepth discussion about Infinite Stratos so I guess anything goes.

This is anime dood. Boom Chika Boom

Geneijin has gone full ABF/Macodin.

There's one other accomplice!

Spoiler

Wait, why am I admitting I have transformed

 

[Branduil]

where are my ass gifs anime gaf?!

 

[Unknown Soldier]

Well played.

 

[A Black Falcon]

Geneijin has gone full ABF/Macodin.

You forget, he was #3 in our IS talk if I remember right, and had a substantial role in the discussions about that fine show!

 

[Jintor]

W-w-what the fuck are those gifs from?!?!?

 

[Dresden]

W-w-what the fuck are those gifs from?!?!?

Nichijou.

 

[Go_Ly_Dow]

Tiger and Bunny

Such a dark episode. Lunatic's life just seems like a wreck.

Next weeks episode will be a tear jerker judging by the preview ;_;

 

[Jex]

W-w-what the fuck are those gifs from?!?!?

RahXephon, Nichijou, Nichijou, Nichijou and Glass Fleet.

 

[duckroll]

Sacred Seven ep3

This continues to be to most pandering shounen action series of the season! Action packed! Mecha! Transformations! Battle Suits! Monsters! Secret Organizations! Ancient Powers! Lots of cool shit. Lots of cool action. Pretty bad/pointless storytelling. But oh so entertaining.

If I watched this when I was 12, I would probably think this is the best show of the season. Lol.