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Winter of Anime 2013 |OT -4| It's not my fault!

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Regulus Tera

Romanes Eunt Domus
Oh yeah, I forgot that my brother and I watched 3 more episodes of Bebop last night.

Cowboy Bebop 11

Episode was kind of a mixed bag. On one hand, there were certainly tension and some outright scary scenes in this one. I was particularly scared for Ein, because he's a dog and I didn't know how the illness would affect him. But, the reveal that the problem was a rock lobster Spike left in the fridge a year ago was...well, I feel like it played off the dark humor of the series a bit, and it gave me a good chuckle, but it was pretty underwhelming considering how real shit seemed to be getting. How did they all get better?
That episode is one I've come to appreciate a lot more as I got older. It's a parody of horror action movies like Alien, but it still manages to emphasize how utterly pathetic everyone in the show is. Except Ein cause he's a dog and he cares not for silly human conditions.
You didn't improve anything.
 
Shakugan no Shana Movie

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So this is basically taking the first arc and squeezing it together into a 90 minute film. So, it keeps all the cringe worthy stuff with MC's friends and school crap and all the holy crap nice action of the fight against the first boss.

Have I said the action is really nice. Cause it is really nice, especially the last fight of the movie. They made the villain even more fun and creepier than the TV show which is awesome.

Of course, there was still time spent on MC's horrible friends. While it was nice they spent the money on an insert song for Not|Shana's whole thing, time was still wasted on WORSTGIRLEVER.

It is a very solid recap/remix/reimgaination/redo of the first arc. It's too bad they couldn't get cut the whole school crap and just did made it all action instead.
 

Jintor

Member
I couldn't get past this, personally. I appreciate the unusual premise of casting an older female as protag, but it's like two steps forward & one step back in terms of portraying gender dynamics in the workplace - which, given its prominence and combination with an obnoxious faux-shounen presentation, I was unfortunately unable to ignore.

I haven't seen the episode yet, but if that's how Japanese workplaces are still operating, then doesn't that become a realistic depiction as opposed to a perpetuation of old-school gender dynamics?
 

jgminto

Member
THE UNLIMITED seems pretty cool. Decent action, potentially interesting characters and story set up. There wasn't really anything amazing about the first episode but there was enough there to keep me watching.
 

BluWacky

Member
I couldn't get past this, personally. I appreciate the unusual premise of casting an older female as protag, but it's like two steps forward & one step back in terms of portraying gender dynamics in the workplace - which, given its prominence and combination with an obnoxious faux-shounen presentation, I was unfortunately unable to ignore.

For better or for worse, I shrug it off in a "lol japan u so crazy and backward" way, but yours is a completely understandable way of looking at it - and probably a "better" one. (Probably not the right word for what I mean...)

The office dynamic does seem slightly strange in the show in other ways, though. Not only are there two "editors" in their early 20s at a seemingly high profile magazine (when the likelihood is, surely, that they'd be sub-editors doing grunt work, not writing whole articles), but the young employees talk to their bosses in a way I find very surprising, regardless of this being a Japanese show.
 
Wait! That pink haired girl. This isn't the source for slamyourbuttsintheairlikeyoujustdontcare.gif is it?

These 2 seem to be a pair.

If you use 2 screens you can put the gif and the respective pictures of pink haired girl and blonde girl and then there is a high possibility that these will match CSI-Style.

The internet needs a gif-master on this show.
 

So, Roman is the best thing ever
(since Lupin himself.)
Mine Fujiko was a big disappointment for me. I can appreciate why people enjoyed the series so much and I did like some aspects of it, but ultimately I ended up getting frustrated with it and stopped around ten or so episodes in.

I like everything about Roman. I probably shouldn't judge it from only the first episode, but wow. The animation is great, I love the characters and the premise. I think Monkey Punch's art style really shines through here, it's so cool. I'm really looking forward to next week.
 
Definitely feel that if Sentai has it, it would have already been announced by now.

Maybe it'll just be something that won't get licensed.

They need to save announcements for cons and stuff. Penguindrum was like announced only 3 or so months before release even, so it cant be that unlikely that they could be sitting on it...
 

jbug617

Banned
Senran Kagura 1

Things I take from the show.

1. Big Boobs combat
2. Futomaki
3. Best couple so far
Yagyu X Hibari

Interest in how they will play out
the fight between the rival schools
 

Extollere

Sucks at poetry
You guys notice how posts always slow down in the plus **40's and **90's post numbers on each page? It's like nobody wants to be at the bottom of the page!
 

cajunator

Banned
Sailor Moon 34

Mamoru is seen
staggering home with injuries suffered from his earlier encounter with ZOicite.
As he rests at home,
Zoicite appears on his TV and says he wants to battle for the remaining crystals.
Stupid Usagi runs up to him on the street and
slaps him on the back where he got stabbed.
Nice work idiot.
He mentions how energetic she is and then runs off. Usagi
notices blood on her hand and notices he in injured. She follows him. They end up in the park, and zoicite transports them to Star Light tower.
The other girls are at Rei's shrine, wondering where Usagi is since she's even later than usual and nowhere to be found.
Minako appears and tells them she went to the tower
(because she's awesome and knows her shit). This scene is playing some of my favorite BGM from the series. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPlS47yXeAA
Mamoru confronts Zoicite in the tower. Both of them place their crystals in a pile in the middle of the room. Zoicite tells Mamoru he fucked up as Kunzite appears and takes all the crystals.
Shoulda seen that coming dude >_>.
Usagi wakes up as zoicite is leaving, but overhears his comments about the rainbow crystals.
Usagi begins to figure it out.
Zoicite turns the ceiling into icicles and as they are running Usagi thinks about tuxedo Kamen's wound and how similar it is to Mamoru's. they make it to the elevator to go meet Zoicite.
the senshi are down below and Mercury uses her computer visor to find out they are in the elevator shaft.
Jupiter summons the motherfucking wrath of god and blasts a hole in the tower entrance. Shes pretty awesome.
In the elevator, Usagi asks Mamoru why he needs to crystals. He says he needs to regain some lost memories. his parents were killed when he was young in a car crash that left him with amnesia. He needs the silver crystal to remember who he is as told in a recurring dream he has about the moon Princess telling him to find it.
Usagi starts to understand him a bit
and suspects he might be Tuxedo Kamen.
Kunzite turns the tower into an evil shithole. Zoicite throws a deadly energy beam down the elevator shaft and Usagi realizes she better transform or they will both die. Mamoru realizes that Usagi is Sailor Moon and shits bricks. Zoicite thinks they are dead, but Sailor moon and Mamoru appear unharmed at the top.
Fuck you Zoicite!
Then Zoicite says something about Tuxedo Kamen and Sailor moon is all WUT but then Mamoru transforms in front of her. This is a coming out party!
He makes Zoicite promise not to hurt Sailor moon. He will fight alone. Zoicite promises, but then he creates a shard to kill Sailor Moon
because he's an asshole like that.
Tuxedo Kamen realizes and gets in the way, getting stabbed in the process. The senshi arrive too late to save him.
(I have to admit this show is getting more interesting. Hadnt seen this particular episode when I watched the dub)
Anyway, Sailor moon is crying over Mamoru and there is a reaction in the crystals Kunzite is holding. They go to Sailor moon and transform into the Phantom Silver Crystal. It also does something to her wand.
Yay upgrades!
Sailor moon also transforms into Princess Serenity of the moon,
complete with dead eye moe.
The cats are like "fucking finally
the princess showed up
".

Why wouldn't I? I just... I thought I knew anime, then this stuff happens. And apparently I missed a whole lot more last night too.

Yeah, you THOUGHT you knew anime. but oh no, you didn't. And there's much more you don''t know that you will learn soon enough! Bwahahahahahaha!

Like the AoD simulcast predicted, Sentai Filmworks has licensed Tamako Market.

YES. ALL OF MY YES. DO YOU SEE THE VAST MULTITUDE OF YES? HOLY SHIT ITS A LOT!

You guys added like ten pages in the eight hours I was gone.

Get a job or something people. Jeesh.

I have a job ;_;
 

BGBW

Maturity, bitches.
You guys notice how posts always slow down in the plus **40's and **90's post numbers on each page? It's like nobody wants to be at the bottom of the page!

Or maybe everyone went off to watch Senran Kagura.

And I don't care if this is at the "bottom".
 

Extollere

Sucks at poetry
You'll appreciate episode 9.

Alright.

Manyuu Hiken-chou 9

I watched this raw - so while I missed out on the swan songs of the artist, I think I got the gist of it. This really is just boob porn, isn't it? I don't mind it so much, but I'm pretty happy they addressed and acknowledged me this time! More on that in a moment.

Anyways, boobs:


Chet, how do you keep yourself composed when confronted with content like this in animation? When it's 24 minutes long without any breaks? Do you just like, pass out?

Oh, Oh! Choose the one on the left! THE ONE ON THE LEFT!!!!

This wasn't a bad episode, the orchestrated music was excellent throughout, and the OP was pretty nice! The animation is a mixed bag though, at times it looked really good, and it's obvious where all the talent and money went, lol - other times I had issues with derp faces, no faces, long faces, and bad foreshortening (especially arms that were stretched out).


What is that on the left, a muppet?


Come on dawg!! This is almost an isometric drawing! Are you guys fuckin with me?? From this distance we should be close enough to easily see converging lines along the Y axis! You're shrinkin that building son!


Kaede got them GOODS ya'll. :D
DFC, wide hips, thighs to die for! It's sort of a shame she looks so weird and stick-like in every scene where she isn't being sexualized - and that seems to be pretty much all of them. For shame.

But in the end, Artist-san drew a beautiful image of Kaede (nsfw!). And I mean beautiful! Of course it's a very simplistic Japanese wash with no background - but her soft gaze, her delicate disrobing and feminine fingers are all handled with care and sensitivity. Her subtle barely-there mounds have been played down every so slightly - choosing instead to allow the curvature of her torso to peak with the nipple before being picked up again by the outer pectoral muscle by a line that tapers gracefully up to her clavicle. A choice that reflects the sensibilities of a fine and caring man, who pours of all his passions, and every ounce of attention to the creations below his fingertips.

While the majority of the episode did little to entertain me, the finishing shot of this illustration makes me very, very happy.
 

jbug617

Banned
Discotek announced on their facebook page some release dates.

4/30- Legendary Ninja Cats (Samurai Pizza Cats) Complete Series (Eng Sub only)

5/21- Gunbuster 2: Diebuster Complete Series (Eng Sub)
5/21- Lupin the 3rd. Green VS Red (Eng Sub)
 

wonzo

Banned
puchimas 6

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the producer finally realises how worthless he is and the mini version of the worst girl goes and changes all that. smh
 

BGBW

Maturity, bitches.
puchimas 6

the producer finally realises how worthless he is and the mini version of the worst girl goes and changes all that. smh

Er... the Miki Puchi has blonde hair just like Miki herself. It's not that hard to work out.
 

Syrinx

Member
Sailor Moon 34

Mamoru is seen
staggering home with injuries suffered from his earlier encounter with ZOicite.
As he rests at home,
Zoicite appears on his TV and says he wants to battle for the remaining crystals.
Stupid Usagi runs up to him on the street and
slaps him on the back where he got stabbed.
Nice work idiot.
He mentions how energetic she is and then runs off. Usagi
notices blood on her hand and notices he in injured. She follows him. They end up in the park, and zoicite transports them to Star Light tower.
The other girls are at Rei's shrine, wondering where Usagi is since she's even later than usual and nowhere to be found.
Minako appears and tells them she went to the tower
(because she's awesome and knows her shit). This scene is playing some of my favorite BGM from the series. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPlS47yXeAA
Mamoru confronts Zoicite in the tower. Both of them place their crystals in a pile in the middle of the room. Zoicite tells Mamoru he fucked up as Kunzite appears and takes all the crystals.
Shoulda seen that coming dude >_>.
Usagi wakes up as zoicite is leaving, but overhears his comments about the rainbow crystals.
Usagi begins to figure it out.
Zoicite turns the ceiling into icicles and as they are running Usagi thinks about tuxedo Kamen's wound and how similar it is to Mamoru's. they make it to the elevator to go meet Zoicite.
the senshi are down below and Mercury uses her computer visor to find out they are in the elevator shaft.
Jupiter summons the motherfucking wrath of god and blasts a hole in the tower entrance. Shes pretty awesome.
In the elevator, Usagi asks Mamoru why he needs to crystals. He says he needs to regain some lost memories. his parents were killed when he was young in a car crash that left him with amnesia. He needs the silver crystal to remember who he is as told in a recurring dream he has about the moon Princess telling him to find it.
Usagi starts to understand him a bit
and suspects he might be Tuxedo Kamen.
Kunzite turns the tower into an evil shithole. Zoicite throws a deadly energy beam down the elevator shaft and Usagi realizes she better transform or they will both die. Mamoru realizes that Usagi is Sailor Moon and shits bricks. Zoicite thinks they are dead, but Sailor moon and Mamoru appear unharmed at the top.
Fuck you Zoicite!
Then Zoicite says something about Tuxedo Kamen and Sailor moon is all WUT but then Mamoru transforms in front of her. This is a coming out party!
He makes Zoicite promise not to hurt Sailor moon. He will fight alone. Zoicite promises, but then he creates a shard to kill Sailor Moon
because he's an asshole like that.
Tuxedo Kamen realizes and gets in the way, getting stabbed in the process. The senshi arrive too late to save him.
(I have to admit this show is getting more interesting. Hadnt seen this particular episode when I watched the dub)
Anyway, Sailor moon is crying over Mamoru and there is a reaction in the crystals Kunzite is holding. They go to Sailor moon and transform into the Phantom Silver Crystal. It also does something to her wand.
Yay upgrades!
Sailor moon also transforms into Princess Serenity of the moon,
complete with dead eye moe.
The cats are like "fucking finally
the princess showed up
".



Yeah, you THOUGHT you knew anime. but oh no, you didn't. And there's much more you don''t know that you will learn soon enough! Bwahahahahahaha!



YES. ALL OF MY YES. DO YOU SEE THE VAST MULTITUDE OF YES? HOLY SHIT ITS A LOT!



I have a job ;_;

'Bout fucking time.

This show really knows how to make shit real. Wait till next episode. I think.
 
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