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Winter 2014 Anime |OT2| Waiting for Sakamoto

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JoeFu

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Well at least according to websites it's a 12 episode anime. I might be mistaken. I hope I'm mistaken but this doesn't really scream 20+ episode anime.


In other news, I want Monster in blu-ray but probably wont ever see it.

yeah wiki has it at 12 as well. Looked at the manga and saw this is about the halfway point. Hopefully there'll be another season in the future.
 
But Kanon? T_T

Allow me to bold the pertinent part of the post of mine you quotted.

How funny, I just noticed this on Crunchyroll the other day. Put it in my queue, looks hilarious. It's giving a Kiniro Mosiac type vibe with the lols.

I've been busy, mang. I haven't had time for much other than an odd episode of Golden Time and KLK. I even watched episode 1 of Kanon, just haven't had time to fully get into review mode. Why else do you think I haven't even been active in the Keion thread lately?

Don't worry. I told you I'd watch it all and I will, just a busy time of year for me. ;)
 
I am not mean! It's a simple case of "I can't think of something I want from you so I can't take that deal" and simply pushing it over the tomboys and mofus on my schedule is out of the question.

I was kidding. Hence the *wink*.

But whenever you do find the time let me know. And I'll watch whatever you want me to watch.

Clannad After Story 19-20

Fuko, why are you here? Stop ruining all the crying scenes. Also, don't play with my heart anime, Ushio :(

Daw.... I can't wait to see how you take the end. I hope it feels like a big payoff for you like it did me.

Looking forward to your review of the entire series.
 
D-Frag 11

This latest arc is ok at best. I guess this'll be the end of the show. I feel like the show would've ended better if they had finished it with a regular episode over this. The new characters just don't interest me. And it heavily lacks Takao.

Agreed, the new characters are passable but nothing special, would rather they focus more on the main cast
 
From the New World 13

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Crap just hit the fan. This is infinitely more exciting now.

Please let there be an
Ogre
appearance soon. All this bloody history with Karmic Demons and Ogres just makes me really want to see stuff get crazy. Last episode when it showed a crazy
Ogre
, that was the most interesting 7 minutes of story telling in this anime. So I want more of that. I demand it!!!
 
I've been busy, mang. I haven't had time for much other than an odd episode of Golden Time and KLK. I even watched episode 1 of Kanon, just haven't had time to fully get into review mode. Why else do you think I haven't even been active in the Keion thread lately?

Don't worry. I told you I'd watch it all and I will, just a busy time of year for me. ;)

Just a little joke. No worries. I know you've been busy. ;)
 

kayos90

Tragic victim of fan death
Clannad After Story 18

that entire scene in the flowers field ;_; it's raining a lot

I found the part before that to be extremely heartfelt as well. I think often times we have extremely skewed memories of the experiences that we had with our
parents and granted, Tomoya's dad was an asshole and fucked things up for him real bad
but it hit me right in the gut that there were some really hard times but despite that
Tomoya's dad
persevered and moved forward. The entire episode is a field of feels.
 

Syrinx

Member
Happiness Charge Precure 7

This is what happens when you're too pushy, Megumi.

I forgot that guy Megumi's friends with was there. Based on Hime's reaction when he showed up at the door, she kinda did too.

Hime should channel Archer and make Ribbon eat a big bowl of spider webs.
 
In my opinion, the VN and movie don't hold a candle to the show but if you don't want to that's fine. I know 48ish episodes sounds daunting but it's good. I hope one day you can start it.

I don't know about that. I mean, the anime can't do justice to the Tomoyo and Kyou arcs, which are aside from the majority of After Story the two best parts of the VN.
 

jgminto

Member
Gintama 265 END

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Dog episodes always get to me. Guess I'll watch the new movie soon, dunno if it's worth watching the Benizakura movie as well.

I'll also probably start another long anime now that I'm done with that, was thinking Hunter x Hunter, seems like people enjoy that and it's not insanely long like One Piece at this point.
 
I don't know about that. I mean, the anime can't do justice to the Tomoyo and Kyou arcs, which are aside from the majority of After Story the two best parts of the VN.

the whole anime should've just been two separate stories. One for Kyou and one for Tomoyo. They are always argued for in the Best Girl fight, so it would've been nice if they had just given them each a season.
 
I'll also probably start another long anime now that I'm done with that, was thinking Hunter x Hunter, seems like people enjoy that and it's not insanely long like One Piece at this point.

Awww yeaaaah Hunter X Hunter! Man that show was a blast. Biggest surprise of an anime that I've ever watched. I was legit not expecting to get so invested in Hunter X Hunter as I was.

You're in for an awesome adventure anime.
 
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Yowamushi Pedal 23

Nice to see Andy and Frank again.

Freaking cliffhangers making me excited for next week.

lol that Kinjou laugh at the end.

Damn i was really loving this anime until this Episode, he was way behind and caught up in a flash Hakone Academy is loaded with guys like Generation of Miracles from Kuroko no Basket, please don't go that route, really don't want to see Goku on a bike..
 
I don't know about that. I mean, the anime can't do justice to the Tomoyo and Kyou arcs, which are aside from the majority of After Story the two best parts of the VN.

The pacing of After Story in the VN kind of ruined it for me, so I could see that being better in the anime. I remember mountains and mountains of text with nothing happening, it was bad even by VN standards.
 
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Dog episodes always get to me. Guess I'll watch the new movie soon, dunno if it's worth watching the Benizakura movie as well.

I'll also probably start another long anime now that I'm done with that, was thinking Hunter x Hunter, seems like people enjoy that and it's not insanely long like One Piece at this point.

Benizakura has some new scenes, but that's pretty much up to you to watch it. but yes. Start with Hunter x Hunter next after the movie.
 

cajunator

Banned
Lol the twist. Oh well Another was pretty funny to watch. No regrets.

Watch Humanity Has Declined.

I'm pretty good at this anime watching thing. Not sure I can match Kirby or whatever, but the other week I caught up to Koroko's Basket in 2 and a half days. Watched Durarara Sat night/ rest a bit/ finish Sun afternoon because I read the news on the new season and wanted to watch something.

I think my peak was marathoning 30ish episodes of CCS or Full Moon in a day.
 
I didn't think it was too bad, but then I'm a quick reader.

Reading speed doesn't really have anything to do with it though, that's a weird way to brush aside talk of pacing in written works. I just remember all the stuff about Tomoya's job getting really tedious. It doesn't help that After Story was partially machine translated and reads like it.
 

Zeppeli

Banned
Watch Humanity Has Declined.



I think my peak was marathoning 30ish episodes of CCS or Full Moon in a day.

I marathon watched all 429 episodes of Dragon Ball + Dragon Ball Z during Summer break with two friends during High School when we were bored and had nothing to do.

I have never, and will never stay up that late again. I have no idea how we handled that.
 

survivor

Banned
After Story 18
I found the part before that to be extremely heartfelt as well. I think often times we have extremely skewed memories of the experiences that we had with our
parents and granted, Tomoya's dad was an asshole and fucked things up for him real bad
but it hit me right in the gut that there were some really hard times but despite that
Tomoya's dad
persevered and moved forward. The entire episode is a field of feels.
Yeah, that part was really well done.
Showing how Tomoya's dad actually was at one point a dad that cared about his son and how Tomoya almost fell to the same hole. Fuck, some good emotional stuff that hits hard.

THE FEELS TRAIN NEVER STOPS.
;_;
 
More DokiDoki Precure stuff from the Complete Works

While a lot of this was already posted, I'm going to pick and select several things that set me off

  • Alice going to a different school was to set the atmosphere. We thought of an episode with just Mana and Alice without any of the other leads, but this was discarded because if Cure Sword didn't show up for many episodes, we'd betray the hopes of the kids who liked her. Meanwhile betraying Sword fans. Also, pisses me off that they even did this
  • We also thought of having Mana notice Rikka's jealousy of MakoP at episode 10, but it was scrapped because it wasn't that good.
  • We thought of having Cure Sword become part of the team at halfway through the series, but was rejected because of her appearance in NS2. Halfway want her to appear later, because she'd have more time, but it usually fucks things over for already established Cures. Buuuuuuut...
  • We thought of a development where Ira dies protecting Rikka. It would be an instant dramatizer and would leave a powerful scene, but it was scrapped because we felt we'd be doing an injustice to those that loved the character. Meanwhile with Alice and MakoP//
  • Having more people being surprised at Davi's identity rather than Cure Sword's in episode 6 was a mistake. Why was this a fucking mistake?
  • Leva and Gula were thought up in a rush as power-ups for the enemy when Cure Ace appeared. Because you know, we need more evidence of half assed writing.
  • I'd like to make this spin-off work based on the characters, like "Day in the Life of Alice" or "Regina's School Days" I would watch this. Either of them

Augh

Rest of the goods (spoiler stuff I guess)
 

Branduil

Member
today i found out the cover for the From The New World Manga has a boob window.

also, newtype is expensive.

From what I understand the manga "adaptation" is basically softcore pornography.

In other words they didn't understand/care to understand the story at all.
 
Reading speed doesn't really have anything to do with it though, that's a weird way to brush aside talk of pacing in written works.

I'm just saying I tend to read quickly/skim over certain sections of VNs, so I've noticed that complaints of wordiness tend to not bother me as much. Though some sections of Umineko got pretty bad. At any rate, it's been a while since I've read Clannad so I may also not have the clearest memory regarding it.
 

Zeppeli

Banned
Also, question about Bakemonogatari, but spoilers up to SS:

Was Sengoku's hair green in the opening "Renai Circulation" a reference to Medusa and who'd she eventually become?
 
I found the part before that to be extremely heartfelt as well. I think often times we have extremely skewed memories of the experiences that we had with our
parents and granted, Tomoya's dad was an asshole and fucked things up for him real bad
but it hit me right in the gut that there were some really hard times but despite that
Tomoya's dad
persevered and moved forward. The entire episode is a field of feels.

ENDING SPOILERS

This is what makes the reset so infuriating. All that work spent showing us how one can overcome adversity and get over the horrible things in our lives. That entire learning and growing process of dealing with grief, sorrow and moving on. And the forgiveness for those who wronged us as we ask for forgiveness from those we have wronged. All that destroyed because they wanted a magical happy ending.
 

survivor

Banned
Daw.... I can't wait to see how you take the end. I hope it feels like a big payoff for you like it did me.

Looking forward to your review of the entire series.

Oh yeah, I will try to write some overview of both series when I finish watching it. Will probably save it till when the new thread starts at this rate.
 

jman2050

Member
The pacing of After Story in the VN kind of ruined it for me, so I could see that being better in the anime. I remember mountains and mountains of text with nothing happening, it was bad even by VN standards.

Eh, not really. After Story actually moves pretty quickly even in VN form, especially as it reaches the climatic portions. The School Life section is where all the mountains of unnecessary text are.

Stuff like
Nagisa's death and the flower field scene
are obviously done better in the anime, but that's the difference in mediums (+KyoAni) for you.
 
ENDING SPOILERS

This is what makes the reset so infuriating. All that work spent showing us how one can overcome adversity and get over the horrible things in our lives. That entire learning and growing process of dealing with grief, sorrow and moving on. And the forgiveness for those who wronged us as we ask for forgiveness from those we have wronged. All that destroyed because they wanted a magical happy ending.

Well, that's Key. I think the only story of theirs
without a magical happy ending is Planetarian,
which wasn't written by Jun Maeda.
Eh, not really. After Story actually moves pretty quickly even in VN form, especially as it reaches the climatic portions. The School Life section is where all the mountains of unnecessary text are.
The climax works, but the stuff about Tomoya's job is really slow and long. And machine translated.
 
ENDING SPOILERS

This is what makes the reset so infuriating. All that work spent showing us how one can overcome adversity and get over the horrible things in our lives. That entire learning and growing process of dealing with grief, sorrow and moving on. And the forgiveness for those who wronged us as we ask for forgiveness from those we have wronged. All that destroyed because they wanted a magical happy ending.

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Completely agree.
We had actually good drama in anime and then it was all for nothing. I know that it goes that way in VN but they could have changed it...
 
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