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Winter 2012 Anime Thread 2.22: You Can (Not) Outpost Cajunator
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my revised Post-ME3 watch list:
tsuritama
lupin
apollon
hyouka
fate/zero s2
genderbent uguu~ sengoku show
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Jesus Christ. Shaft have got their work cut out for them.
Well, Shinbo did say he wants to animate them all.Jesus Christ. Shaft have got their work cut out for them.
Anyway, now begins the wait until the first volume on April 25.
What I think of this all depends on whether or not I come out of Nazo no Kanojo X with a new fetish.
A season can't be considered terrible if it has FUCKING KOIKELUPIN airing during it!
firehawk12
Subete no aware
I suppose it depends on whether or not people buy Nise. As big a fan as I am of just having dudes talk at each other for 22 minutes, I don't know if they can do 4 or 5 more seasons.
What I think of this all depends on whether or not I come out of Nazo no Kanojo X with a new fetish.
How can you not be excited for any of those shows? I didn't even include the ones that are going to be bad, like Medaka Box, Accel world, Fate/zero, or AKB0048!
Given that people are going to buy Nise in droves, they can probably pull that off for quite a bit longer.
Out of respect towards the audience, I suppose they didn't wanted to show the EXCESSIVE BEATING and Yotsugi's BLOODY MESS of a body she leaves in the process. That certainly was a little disappointing...
It hasn't been on Bakemonogatari levels (that was expected for a second series like this), but it is selling very well...
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Did the first volume come out already? What were sales of that like?
Ah, well, there ya go. Japan doing something right!
It's called "BUY THE BDs" advertising
Not till April. Preorders are sky high as per usual, we don't know yet how it'll sell compared to Bake.
RurouniZel
Asks questions so Ezalc doesn't have to
You really shouldn't try to hide the abuse. It's always healthier to talk about it. We're your friends.
Yeah, I should stop bottling it up inside eh?
KuwabaraTheMan
Banned
Aim for the Ace 18:
So, the episode begins with an old man watching a video and commenting on Hiromi's legs in a dark room, and nobody finds this at all weird. I was also very impressed with the gravity defying scarves those girls were wearing that never slipped at all to reveal their identities. The episode was pretty good, even if it took Hiromi awhile to learn a pretty basic lesson.
So, the episode begins with an old man watching a video and commenting on Hiromi's legs in a dark room, and nobody finds this at all weird. I was also very impressed with the gravity defying scarves those girls were wearing that never slipped at all to reveal their identities. The episode was pretty good, even if it took Hiromi awhile to learn a pretty basic lesson.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Excite!
You know, I'm hoping they a) do in-character commentaries again and b) someone here licenses the show and subs those commentaries. Make up for the Bakemono set that never happened.
Haha, that whole match was rather silly. Although having the "villain" come back to help was kind of neat.
Infinite Justice
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[Nisemonogatari]
Those are confirmed already (episodes 1 and 2 actually get two of those each, in fact).
Please, how could you forget
all the womb shots at the beginning, and that incestuous kiss?
hosannainexcelsis
Member
I can't tell if you're being serious or not. I mean, Accel World?
It also featured some...
creative... shots of Karen...
Moeretsu Pirates 11
The Bentenmaru is now
I really like Marika as a protagonist, she isn't obnoxiously dumb or oblivious, needlessly depressed, she doesn't make silly gestures every time she does something, and that Pirate outfit looks so cute.
XX, I'm sure that
must have made some people happy down there!
The Bentenmaru is now
trapped inside the ghost ship and warping off to somewhere else, Usagi's little sis is out for the throne, and Usagi seemed a bit too eager to go off into the ghost ship alone at the end. I wonder what the big secret behind the ghost ship is, an old ancestor of the royal family would be a bit too cliche I think, but we'll see how it turns out.
I really like Marika as a protagonist, she isn't obnoxiously dumb or oblivious, needlessly depressed, she doesn't make silly gestures every time she does something, and that Pirate outfit looks so cute.
XX, I'm sure that
bird-headed picture
I bailed a long time ago, but I still like seeing reactions and pictures people post.
It's really hard not to go back to see the wreck in all it's glory.
But for entirely different reasons! And I'll take Kaiba's WTF WHERE DID THE
giant exploding statues and EVIL KAIBA CHILD THING
I need to rewatch Kaiba something rotten, aside from the ending I thought it got so many things right and showed a real progression from Kemonozume.
Yeah, add Jormungand and remove fate, and the uguu and you have my list. Not as grand as the hype is making it seem, but the pedigree behind a few of them; so good.
RurouniZel
Asks questions so Ezalc doesn't have to
Because we need closure on this wreck, that's why.
hosannainexcelsis
Member
There isn't enough excitement for Space Bros. around here. It's honestly the spring show I'm most looking forward to right now, despite the Apollons and Lupins.
Ah, you're right; I swear, that show has no presence. I had forgotten all about it. I'm watching.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Whoever licenses this needs to do the right thing then!
hosannainexcelsis
Member
cosmicblizzard
Banned
Hey, it has a fat protagonist. Clearly the most progressive show of spring (not being sarcastic here.)
Something tells me people being adverse to long series around here has something to do with it.
Did they actually already formally license it for disc release? I must have missed that news somehow.
I haven't...yeah, I haven't seen any real adversity to long-running series. Shounens, yeah, but Space Bros isn't a shounen, from what I'm gathering.
hosannainexcelsis
Member
But it's a fat protagonist who gets to shed his fatness in the online world. Sounds like wish-fulfillment to me.
They haven't announced a disc release, but they're not going to let another publisher take it off their hands.
Space Bros. is straight-up seinen.
Of course! Hatoful Boyfriend players sure would like to see more of that kind of hybrid fan-service.
Dedication Through Light
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Yeah I wonder what the secret of the ghost ship is and if
there are stilll people living on it, or something. Though I almost feel like they are painting it to be something of a political icon for their home planet?
I am genuinely looking forward to seeing this and wouldn't be surprised if it was terrible.
Add me to that list. Long series are so long.
Nisemonogatari 11 (END):
Wow. I certainly wasn't expecting
. I was taken aback even with the blatant BUY THE BDs! going on in that scene. All told, an acceptable finale with the dispute fittingly resolved by
. Kagenui came and went too quickly to really shine as an antagonist, but her presence and the revelation that
has the potential to take future entries in -monogatari in an interesting direction. Hints of the world outside the barren suburban wasteland in which Koyomi and his friends reside have always been intriguing.
I'll leave a postmortem for the series to those who felt aggrieved enough by the shortcomings that their enjoyment was significantly affected, so I'll just say that yes, I was aware of the bad pacing, caricaturing of Koyomi's perversion, and tasteless fanservice, but no, it didn't really affect my enjoyment. I'll always be a whore for Nisioisin's interminably rambling, self-indulgent dialogue, SHAFT's stylistic conceits, and complete lack of shame in pandering. Nisemonogatari is a step down from Bakemonogatari's more careful crafting, but I'll never declare it a bad series. I'm very happy to have watched it and can't wait for Kizumonogatari, whenever that eventually is.
Wow. I certainly wasn't expecting
the battle to be that horrifically gory for Koyomi
a discussion on the series' recurring theme of truth versus falsehood
she belonged to the same occult club as Oshino, Kaiki, and potentially other onmyouji in college
I'll leave a postmortem for the series to those who felt aggrieved enough by the shortcomings that their enjoyment was significantly affected, so I'll just say that yes, I was aware of the bad pacing, caricaturing of Koyomi's perversion, and tasteless fanservice, but no, it didn't really affect my enjoyment. I'll always be a whore for Nisioisin's interminably rambling, self-indulgent dialogue, SHAFT's stylistic conceits, and complete lack of shame in pandering. Nisemonogatari is a step down from Bakemonogatari's more careful crafting, but I'll never declare it a bad series. I'm very happy to have watched it and can't wait for Kizumonogatari, whenever that eventually is.
I assume you'll be getting Kid Icarus too!I boycotted Nintendo home consoles for 6 years, lasted 5 months from when Zelda SS released. It was a good fight me.
No. Because no.
My nakama!
Also read your posts in the P4 Golden Background thread and I am 100% in agreement
Regarding Nise: Also of importance is that I want to thank whoever made that 45 gif collection of the toothbrush episode. They did good.
Nakama!
Nakama!
It is 100% wish-fulfillment, the protagonist's fatness is only used as a slightly more realistic reason for him to be all "waaaaaaaaaaah I can't do this" that every other shonen protagonist is. Otherwise, he has the most beautiful girl in the school fall for him in about 5 minutes after their first meeting, he quickly
becomes a leading member of one of the most wellknown groups in the online world,
I watched Hotarubi no Mori E just now. It reminded me why I never watched more than four or five episodes of Natsume Yuujincho - because it essentially was a double episode of Natsume Yuujincho. I liked Natsume (and I liked Hotarubi) but it's one of those properties where once you've seen one episode you've basically seen them all, and unsurprisingly this was how Hotarubi felt. Emotionally manipulative as hell, though - despite being incredibly predictable, they had to plonk that pretty piano music in there to make it as melancholy as possible. And that ending song!
That'll do for anime watching for the next few weeks until the new season starts, probably.
That'll do for anime watching for the next few weeks until the new season starts, probably.
hosannainexcelsis
Member
Nothing wrong with being predictable when you're so good at it. As I've said in the past, the episodes of Natsume that do try to go outside its comfort zone tend to be its weakest episodes.
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