dakkumauji
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Gatchaman Crowds 07
Dat FABULOUS Mamoru Miyano.
Dat FABULOUS Mamoru Miyano.
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Summer 2013 Anime |10th Dimensional OT| the first ignoble truth: all of life is anime
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Theonik
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Well especially not having your perception being shaped by TOEI anime of all things. (Research is hard for them)
You mistake.
When talking about logistics, efficiency has a different meaning for the carriers than you'd guess. Shipping something from California may well be cheaper for them than putting it on a truck for ~50 miles to get to you. (that truck probably only having 2-3 packages postage being too low to cover wages/gas.)
Thanks, I tried.
KirbYuuYuu
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Gambler Club has blessed us again with one of its Precure works.
Theonik
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Praise Candy!
Needs more Kenya Boy.In the videorooms they have had Lagrange, MGX, and Future Diary. Next up Juden chan and Blood C
Love Lab 8
"The Mild One" and Suzu's various insecurities/athletic inabilities were definitely the highlights of the episode. I hope the ending isn't gonna lead to more of the cringeworthy drama from a couple episodes ago.
oh and the blackface stuff was really fucking dumb and i'm glad it didn't last for long
Its called ganguro style. It literally stands for "black face" but its more like a heavily tanned dark look. Its not racist.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganguro
KirbYuuYuu
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Other part of Ganguro is the bleached hair, one that's heavily associated with the style. Soul Singing is also not part of Ganguro. The face can be a style. The problem with associating with what happend in Love Lab as Ganguro is that there's other elements that makes you think black first, ganguro later (the soul singer part, aka the part that made me laugh like mad).
This is a bit weird seeing as I normally get packages very quickly regardless of where theyre shipped from. They usually take very direct routes here from Houston, cali, or Chicago.
KirbYuuYuu
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All this did is make me wonder if there was an additional Smile Doujin from them, on top of lamenting that I can't see the Suite stuff.
Bring on the next DDPC one. Needs Makoto and Regina.
Chuck Norris
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Wtf is with this guys anatomy?
Theonik
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Upper body.
Wtf is with this guys anatomy?
Wtf is with this guys anatomy?
Kyoani cant draw guys.
Chuck Norris
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Is it an Anime about a guy with a triple jointed left arm and giant tumour on his shoulder that has caused him to have a hunchback?
cajunator said:
Doesn't seem to understand how shadows work either
Jex
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Maybe I should actually try to catch up.
If you try hard not to look at the screen, the script by itself can be fun!
Seems that way.
Jex
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[Space Battleship Yamato 2199]: 1 - 8
I had been deliberately avoiding the existence of this series for sometime because I knew that the final volume wasn't out but I recently decided to bite the bullet because I needed to get some Space-series into my life.
2199 is an odd beast of a series. It's mainly a direct remake of the original series, which I had found to be rather dry and boring, but it's been updated for the post-Battlestar Galacticca generation. In practical terms that the series is slightly more gritty and 'realistic' without being especially grim, which is a fairly thin line to tread given the material of the story e.g. Yamato is the last help of an Earth that's been almost completely destroyed. Still, the series (so far) hasn't really lingered on how terrible the situation for the Earth is, as a modern title would do, and instead it remains a sense of almost naive optimism that is far more reminiscent of the 70's original.
Another sign of the Battlestar Galacticca-ising of the series comes in the increased focus on the Yamato's fighter planes whose pilots now include a plucky women and who are all given their mission briefings in a room straight out of Battlestar. However, as I mentioned earlier the series is an odd beast because all these elements from elsewhere are then portrayed through the same kind of lens you'd expect in anime which means that although the show now features a greatly expanded cast of female characters (compared to the originals sole female) a large number of them are in love with the main character and they nearly all have large breasts and wear skintight latex suits where men somehow get away with normal clothing.
Most of the time the 'anime' part of the series, by which I mean: stupid fanservice, silly character gags, inappropriate frivolities and unlikely cosplay doesn't distract from the series main strengths. It's a nearly pure science fiction action series with an extremely optimistic world view which is not the kind of series you see made anymore. Hell, there's an episode where the ship gets chased by a giant ball of intelligent gas which is something right out of Star Trek. The show really excels at this level - there's exciting space battles, tense action, surprisingly understated characterization (in parts), cracking pacing and a great sense of adventure and wonder. Given all the great things that 2199 brings to the table I can ignore the 5% "anime nonsense" and even the CG spaceships (which aren't actually that bad) to get the chance to watch a great, classic sci-fi series.
They really are. You'll have to wait awhile to get to the most amazing one as it's in the final set of OVA's.
I don't understand hating on ∀ Gundam's art style, it's got excellent and unique designs for nearly all the mechas in the show as well as the characters themselves. It doesn't always look that good because Sunrise were clearly in transition between cell and digital but for the most part but it's a cool looking series.
I had been deliberately avoiding the existence of this series for sometime because I knew that the final volume wasn't out but I recently decided to bite the bullet because I needed to get some Space-series into my life.
2199 is an odd beast of a series. It's mainly a direct remake of the original series, which I had found to be rather dry and boring, but it's been updated for the post-Battlestar Galacticca generation. In practical terms that the series is slightly more gritty and 'realistic' without being especially grim, which is a fairly thin line to tread given the material of the story e.g. Yamato is the last help of an Earth that's been almost completely destroyed. Still, the series (so far) hasn't really lingered on how terrible the situation for the Earth is, as a modern title would do, and instead it remains a sense of almost naive optimism that is far more reminiscent of the 70's original.
Another sign of the Battlestar Galacticca-ising of the series comes in the increased focus on the Yamato's fighter planes whose pilots now include a plucky women and who are all given their mission briefings in a room straight out of Battlestar. However, as I mentioned earlier the series is an odd beast because all these elements from elsewhere are then portrayed through the same kind of lens you'd expect in anime which means that although the show now features a greatly expanded cast of female characters (compared to the originals sole female) a large number of them are in love with the main character and they nearly all have large breasts and wear skintight latex suits where men somehow get away with normal clothing.
Most of the time the 'anime' part of the series, by which I mean: stupid fanservice, silly character gags, inappropriate frivolities and unlikely cosplay doesn't distract from the series main strengths. It's a nearly pure science fiction action series with an extremely optimistic world view which is not the kind of series you see made anymore. Hell, there's an episode where the ship gets chased by a giant ball of intelligent gas which is something right out of Star Trek. The show really excels at this level - there's exciting space battles, tense action, surprisingly understated characterization (in parts), cracking pacing and a great sense of adventure and wonder. Given all the great things that 2199 brings to the table I can ignore the 5% "anime nonsense" and even the CG spaceships (which aren't actually that bad) to get the chance to watch a great, classic sci-fi series.
They really are. You'll have to wait awhile to get to the most amazing one as it's in the final set of OVA's.
I don't understand hating on ∀ Gundam's art style, it's got excellent and unique designs for nearly all the mechas in the show as well as the characters themselves. It doesn't always look that good because Sunrise were clearly in transition between cell and digital but for the most part but it's a cool looking series.
foxuzamaki
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Senki Zesshou Symphogear episode 11
this show is so bad, that its good, chief is the best character in the show, his character makes no sense and he knows it.
this show is so bad, that its good, chief is the best character in the show, his character makes no sense and he knows it.
Well, they barely resemble swimmers.
Swimmers have a different physique dont they?
Trojita
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How am I supposed to know about a thread that is in a state of being dead and alive?
Theonik
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Different forms of exercise give birth to different muscular development. Look at Phelps for example.
Tenkai Knights is indeed by BONES:
Director: Mitsuru Hongo
Character Designs: Toshihiro Kawamoto, Shigeru Fujita
Series Composition/Script: Jin Kanada
Animation Producer: Yoshihiro Oyabu (BONES C Studio)
Animation Production: BONES
Brb, cutting myself, then drowning myself, then hanging myself. RIP.
Director: Mitsuru Hongo
Character Designs: Toshihiro Kawamoto, Shigeru Fujita
Series Composition/Script: Jin Kanada
Animation Producer: Yoshihiro Oyabu (BONES C Studio)
Animation Production: BONES
Brb, cutting myself, then drowning myself, then hanging myself. RIP.
Dedication Through Light
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R_thanatos
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Just be glad your order didn't have to go through Paris. I'm convinced the FedEx route through Paris goes through the city's catacombs or a black hole or something, because more than once I've had experiences like this:
Ah it goes both ways ..
When a fedex order goes trought paris , even I, a french resident have problems ( and usually i have more taxes to pay for some reasons ?
One time i was called by the friend customs because of a anime figurine ... confused i sent them by mail the order details and 2 days later i was called again asking what was in the box . Again confused because i was unable to explain to the guy what was an anime figurine ( he wasn't understanding the concept of an anime figurine , true story ) i was forced to send him a picture of te fig by email ...
and you know what ? that ******* of [redacted] send the fig back to japan ...
Seriously... Customs services in paris ? Avoid AVOID at all costs
Google Michael Phelp body, those athlete just look weird. The "problem" of Free's design is they took sample from olympic swimmer for high school character.
I'm well aware of what swimmers look like, and they don't resemble that. I think that they appear so muscular, as to look like caricatures. Proportionally, it's just jarring. Though to go back to what you said, they probably looked a lot more accurate when they depicted as 'children', during those initial flashbacks.
R_thanatos
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Love Lab - 08
This episode demonstrated how deadly some "cute" are and how it's wrong to go against the flow.
is tripping , moe ? is this a new game ? can i stop laughing ?
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This episode demonstrated how deadly some "cute" are and how it's wrong to go against the flow.
is tripping , moe ? is this a new game ? can i stop laughing ?
Trojita
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Wtf is with this guys anatomy?
It looks like their bodies were chipped out of stone poorly.
Cute is deadly usually.
Ffffffuuuuuuuuuu...
I cannot express in words the rage I would have felt in your situation >.>
hosannainexcelsis
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Just as an addition to this, the CG studio Shogakukan Music and Digital Entertainment is also credited for animation production; they must be handling the 3D parts with the robots, while BONES handles the 2D parts on Earth.
Yeah. Wouldnt put up with that shit.
hosannainexcelsis
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Glad you like it!
R_thanatos
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You're a special case, cajun.
I couldn't belive my hears when i learned about it. i was forced to pay another shipping from the manufacturer ...AND it happenned again !
i lost the fig in the end .. this guy didn't want to let my package go. When i talked to the guy in japan he showed me the box they sent ( that came back ) and i saw that it had everything they needed to let my package go.... Anyway this is one of my bitter experiences with roissy customs ( roissy charle de gaule is the airport name ) ... i lost money ( twice ) , time and didn't get my fig.
And unfortunatly i have other experiences , just as scary and annoying from them.
I once ordered a limited anime edition from NISA ( forgot what was the anime ) and was met with the most ridiculous travel log i've ever seen. ( you're lucky your package stayed in paris ) how about paris , new york, paris , miami as a change of scenary ?
In any case , now i do my best to avoid paris if i can , especially during certain months ( february , may , november & december ) it's horrible... HORRIBLE i tell you.
Delusibeta
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There was a story whereby it was revealed that The Hut Group was shipping stuff from the US to evade the UK's sales tax. For a UK user using what's by all appearances is a UK site, getting your stuff sent from the US isn't great.
Wtf is with this guys anatomy?
This is some rob liefeld shit going on.
Destroyed.
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