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Summer 2013 Anime |10th Dimensional OT| the first ignoble truth: all of life is anime

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rhizomatic said:
Gintama - 1-7

The pilot two-parter was great, and really whetted my appetite. The only problem now is that these early episodes before everyone's been introduced properly aren't anywhere near as zany as the pilot.

Nevertheless, I'm sticking with it, because I know it's supposed to get pretty good in just a few more episodes.
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Oh wow, you are one of the odd ducks. Most people dislike the filler pilot episodes and recommend skipping them. Welcome to the Gintama club, you're in for a ride. :)


Dedication Through Light said:
Up to episode 15 or so. Surprised people say sket dance is inferior,when I can never recall sket dance being as dull as some of these episodes have been when introducing new characters.
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For anyone here who has a hard time getting in to Gintama, feel free to scout out the arcs and single out pieces that seem interesting. Why torture yourself? While I like to watch a show in episode order, it doesn't mean you have to . :)

Arcs

Memory Loss - Episodes 31-32: Haven't watched this one in ages. If I recall it gives a glimpse at what Sorachi can do in a non-comedy/semi-serious/non-action arc.

Umibozu - Episodes 40-43: We get more exposure to the power of the Yato, lots of heavy hitting.
Plus it Kagura's pappy!

Infant Strife - Episodes 51-52: Introduces a character featured in the Benizakura arc. Semi-serious at times with some cute baby interaction.

Mother - Episodes 54-55: Dat Afro.

Benizakura - Episodes 58-61: Not my favourite serious major (by Gintama standards) arc but it holds the candle as being the first. It gave me the feeling, "am I even watching the same series". I haven't watched the movie retelling so I can not say how it compares. From what I've read I recommend watching the TV version first. I get the impression the movie version is Gintama porn for existing fans.

Fuyo - Episodes 69-71: A semi-serious arc with some touching moments. I believe there were GAFfers who shed tears over this one.

Okita Mitsuba - Episodes 86-87: Watch it. I had a very hard time not shedding man tears by the end of this arc.

Owee - Episodes 98-99: Yes, a parody of the great Wii explosion. Hilarious.


Other singular episodes I'd recommend watching:

17 - Sons Only Take After Their Fathers' Negative Attributes
25 - A Shared Soup Pot Is A Microcosm Of Life
27 - Some Things Can't Be Cut With A Sword

Going through the first 100 episodes that should give a person a good taste. :)
 
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I think Sket Dance is a good manga, but the anime was pretty meh apart from a few episodes, the flashback arcs, which were the top tier parts of the manga anyway, so hard to mess them up.

Never read the Gintama manga but the random arcs just come across better than the Sket Dance anime ones, and god damn them "plot" arcs are crazy, I randomly watched the one that introduced Tsukuyo when I was just checking out all the OPs, shit was awesome.
 
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cnet128 said:
Hang on, who are we talking about here? Yamada Takashi?

Looking at the relevant JP Wikipedia articles, I can see he was lead scriptwriter for Heartcatch and Doremi, and a prominent scriptwriter on RPG Densetsu Hepoi, but there doesn't seem to be any indication of him being involved in Jewelpet Kira Deco. It looks like the Jewelpet series he scripted episodes for were the original and Twinkle (plus he scripted the movie, Sweets Dance Princess).
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That is correct; he worked on the two seasons before Jewelpet became primarily comedic and the movie. The ANN listing of him as a scriptwriter on Kira Deco is inaccurate.
 
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Westlo said:
I think Sket Dance is a good manga, but the anime was pretty meh apart from a few episodes, the flashback arcs, which were the top tier parts of the manga anyway, so hard to mess them up.

Never read the Gintama manga but the random arcs just come across better than the Sket Dance anime ones, and god damn them "plot" arcs are crazy, I randomly watched the one that introduced Tsukuyo when I was just checking out all the OPs, shit was awesome.
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I find Gintama and Sket Dance should not be compared. Other than both having an "odd jobs trio" and comedy they are completely different. I liked both series and each had strengths. In general Gintama was more awesome and definitely my favourite of the two. Sket Dance easily trumps Gintama's weakness (though I don't consider it much of a weakness) of character growth. While there can be a lack of main character growth in Gintama, the series excels at introducing robust side characters. I can easily say Sorachi puts the majority of his character exposition in to non-main characters.
 
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Danganronpa: The Animation Episode 8 (Not) Normal Arc: All All Apologies
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Was my favorite moment, both so sincere and good. Otherwise cared much more about the past history of Hopes Peak instead of the current events. Only interesting part of current events is
Togami. Would be funny if by the end he is still around and was just as good as Naegi. Additionally, Kirigiri's past needs to be elucidated. She is too skilled at murder analysis.
 
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cajunator

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Chaos;Head 1-6

This is is of the best comedies ever.
I havent laughed this hard at anime in ages.
I fully recommend this show based on this but its also turning out to be a lot like Fight Club which is cool.
 
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The behind-the-scenes feature on the LWA Blu-Ray is good. Nothing mind-blowing, but it's a nice look at all the effort it takes to put a good anime together.

A few small tidbits from it:
- All five "young animators" are ex-Gainax staff that did in-betweens on TTGL. One, Yuto Kaneko, had a year of experience as a key animator. Another was the animation director on Medaka Box, Masaru Sakamoto. The latter seemed to have the most difficult time getting all his cuts done.
- Those animators each handled particular sections of the animation. The opening magic show, and pretty much everything from the start of the treasure hunt onwards, was their work. Yoshinari would often draw detailed corrections for their layouts, but they had to implement those suggestions themselves.
- Yoh Yoshinari made the storyboard in two weeks. "I've never made a storyboard this quickly before," he remarks to the camera. "You have, you just don't remember," says Imaishi, standing over his shoulder.
- During crunch time, Trigger blocks off small areas of the office and puts some sleeping bags inside. A lot of the animators seem to just sleep at their desks, though.
- In-between checking seems like the most soul-crushing job in existence.

During the weekend, I sort of realized that I had dropped so many shows out of apathy that I'd wound up watching almost nothing. I decided to catch up a bit on Silver Spoon (4 and 5) and Servant x Service (3), and both sets of episodes were pretty fun. I guess I'm back in on both.
 
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BluWacky said:
Stolen from Twitter, thank you 7th for retweeting, but this interview with Zack Snyder reveals some interesting influences on Man of Steel's fight sequences:

Honnyaku Konnyaku has posted Youtube links for comparison between Birdy Decode and Man Of Steel.

I like the Birdy sequence, but pretty much hated the Zod fight in Man Of Steel. I think the difference is that for me in live action everything has to look believable (or at least believably stylised, if that makes sense) whereas Man Of Steel slips into blockbuster CG mode and it's completely impossible to believe that anyone's actually doing anything you see on the screen. Birdy, on the other hand, is consistent within its own universe (well, consistent-ish when you've got individual animator styles all over the place!).
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Well, I didn't think of that at first, but the
superpowered fights in a decimated cityscape are certainly similar.
 
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Branduil

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dimb said:
Rozen Maiden Zurückspulen 01
Well this is a pretty good way to get me to not want to watch the rest of a series. It's not that the amount of information was overwhelming, but the breakneck pacing and complete lack of emotion simply result in something wholly uninteresting. Visually it seems like there are certain concepts that would be striking if the execution was not quite so inept. It probably doesn't help that each scene is set back so far by hideous and distracting backgrounds. There is some kind of cohesion that is just missing here, and the even when the show seems like it is close to attaining something lousy filter work seems to drag things back into an aesthetic muck.
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The series doesn't really start until episode 2. Episode 1 was just their futile attempt to summarize an entire manga series.
 
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cajunator said:
Its 5 am and one of the vid rooms is showing Chaos Head next. Ive heard its terrible. Cant wait!
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Has one of the best First episode, gets worse and worse as it ends on a terrible harem note, but damn those two or three episode at the start is awesome.

Missed opportunity, I say.

whoa, that was fast; on Eps 6 already?
 
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Dedication Through Light

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Day Break Illusion Episode 8 – The Overflowing Water
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Cerebrum is amazing, they really know how to keep me interested. Cheering him on for all of his endeavours as this goes on and whatever it is that he has for his goal.
Cant only stop with that one businessman hopefully. Dont really like him as just his pawn.
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Really amazing episode
even shed a tear when that final hit landed on Ginka. I thought Luna would have been first to go but Ginka did seem to get more fully developed with family involvement and etc. At this rate, Akari might be the only one left by the end of the anime unless some countermeasure or secret card skill is involved. Need to start preparing for a really sad ending.
 
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Articalys

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Oh, the third season of Teekyu is going to start airing right away in October after the second season finishes, huh. Not terribly surprising given the amount of effort that it probably takes to make each episode.
 
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Conan-san

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Dedication Through Light said:
Day Break Illusion Episode 8 – The Overflowing Water
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Cerebrum is amazing, they really know how to keep me interested. Cheering him on for all of his endeavours as this goes on and whatever it is that he has for his goal.
Cant only stop with that one businessman hopefully. Dont really like him as just his pawn.
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Really amazing episode
even shed a tear when that final hit landed on Ginka. I thought Luna would have been first to go but Ginka did seem to get more fully developed with family involvement and etc. At this rate, Akari might be the only one left by the end of the anime unless some countermeasure or secret card skill is involved. Need to start preparing for a really sad ending.
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They accepted their fate. As far as I'm concerned, an ending where they all
Die Horribly
is them getting off easy.
 
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Articalys

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Boy, I know some of you are going to be salty about these results, but there's just no defeating the powerhouses of the Saki machine.
8/25: Round 1, Group A Day 3

A03
1st 240 (55.43%) Yozora Mikazuki @ Boku Wa Tomodachi Ga Sukunai
2nd 117 (27.02%) Kukuru Anrakutei @ Joshiraku
3rd 76 (17.55%) Ringo Sugisaki @ Seitokai No Ichizon

A06
1st 249 (51.23%) Yuu Matsumi @ Saki
2nd 195 (40.12%) Kurumi Tokisaki @ Date A Live
3rd 42 (8.64%) Io Nitta @ Devil Survivor 2

A09
1st 195 (44.62%) Yui Yuigahama @ Yahari Ore No Seishun Love Comedy Wa Machigatteiru
2nd 144 (32.95%) Nanami Aoyama @ Sakurasou No Pet Na Kanojo
3rd 98 (22.43%) Kanon Nakagawa @ The World God Only Knows

A12
1st 238 (46.03%) Toki Onjouji @ Saki
2nd 221 (42.75%) Frenda Seivelun @ A Certain Magical Index
3rd 58 (11.22%) Leviathan @ Zettai Bouei Leviathan
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Uchouten Kazoku 08

....wut? Is it a Tanuki thing that their
spirit can visit people before it leaves
or was the translation just bad? It sounded a lot like he was
faking being boiled in a hotpot so that no other tanuki had to be
or....something? Probably just a mistranslation?

Wut?
 
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Dedication Through Light

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LordCanti said:
Uchouten Kazoku 08

....wut? Is it a Tanuki thing that their
spirit can visit people before it leaves
or was the translation just bad? It sounded a lot like he was
faking being boiled in a hotpot so that no other tanuki had to be
or....something? Probably just a mistranslation?

Wut?
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I thought he was speaking to the professor after he had been boiled and was on his way to leave for the afterlife and made one stop to speak to him since the place was all white and in the far back of the diner and what not, making it look like it was on the border of the next world.
 
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Articalys

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Okay, I give up. I can't rely on people to properly mark spoilers for anything Monogatari series related, so I'm just going to get out and stay out until I've caught up on the show.
 
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Black Lagoon 1-5

This should be called "Murica: the Anime". It has guns, daisy dukes, and
Nazis being shot
. This show is awesome.
 
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Uchouten Kazoku 08

Dedication Through Light said:
I thought he was speaking to the professor after he had been boiled and was on his way to leave for the afterlife and made one stop to speak to him since the place was all white and in the far back of the diner and what not, making it look like it was on the border of the next world.
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Aah, upon first watch, I just thought that was a special
VIP section for Tengu or something.

Upon watching it again, yeah, it's a weirdly
otherworldly glow at the end of the hallway.
I'm sure this is some part of Tanuki/Tengu mythology that I'm not aware of.

Right now I'm still a little fuzzy (no pun intended) on why he didn't just
escape from the cage.
He was unable to
transform while drunk, but a lot of time had elapsed.
I guess he figured that if not him,
it would have been some other tanuki.
 
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cajunator said:
Chaos;Head 1-6

This is is of the best comedies ever.
I havent laughed this hard at anime in ages.
I fully recommend this show based on this but its also turning out to be a lot like Fight Club which is cool.
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This anime has one of my favorite stories of all time. I literally watched this show in one day because I loved how different the MC was and his game avatar floating around him made me laugh.

Too bad
that the anime kinda turned into crap in the last few episodes :( I think if they would have left out the whole sword, and hallucinations being powers crap. The show could have went down as one of the greatest. I think a show just about a guy who has hallucinations and social problems would have been more interesting, then a show about the world disappearing. This is one of those shows that start out too good to be true but gets ruined in the end. I can't wait to hear your thoughts about the ending because I know I didn't like the ending that much.
 
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Makai Ouji: Devils and Realist Episode 8 – Pillar 8 - Pain and Ecstasy
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Finally Kevin gets a perfect partner for himself since William Twining is for Dantalion
the scene when he is asked to think of whats important
. And every character really likes to the the hand to the chin thing and get up close and personal, not that Im complaining kind of nice even. Anyway, he's the best Archangel Michael in anime.

Cheat trial was intense, they actually hold it in front of everyone in the class or school even. Would be embarrassing to be guilty of it if it were done IRL. Michael is a nice role and so powerful versus Dantalion, though he needs a power up if he wants to remain relevant. I hope he sticks around the school.
 
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Silver Spoon - Episode 6-7

I really like how this adaptation eventually turned out. It's very faithful, but it's also enjoyable to watch as a fan of the manga. It's really fun seeing Hachiken learn more about the farming business as he works over the Summer holidays, and see different aspects of his classmates and their families. I'm really looking forward to the rest of the adaptation, especially the second season, when many of the developments early on here start to pay off in more complicated character arcs. I sure hope they plan on making more than two seasons though, because if season 2 ends with the end of the Fall story arc, it's not going to be a very conclusive ending.
 
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rhizomatic

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cajunator said:
Chaos;Head 1-6

This is is of the best comedies ever.
I havent laughed this hard at anime in ages.
I fully recommend this show based on this but its also turning out to be a lot like Fight Club which is cool.
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I've never seen the anime (mainly because I've heard it's a fairly bad adaptation), but the visual novel is great.
 
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KirbYuuYuu

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Conan-san said:
No complaints here, Toei needed to do something smart given it's dirth of Sailor Moon related nonsense.
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Well I guess it's also because DokiDoki has been rather lackluster. But hay, if this results in more merchandising (and I mean figures) then more power to them. I'm all for it.

Heartcatch! ReAirCure 1

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Guess I'll rewatch this on a weekly basis, because why not? I think what I noticed was how dynamic the movement is in regards to pedestrian moments (not the violence part, but the lifestyle), something that makes One Piece Film Z look rather shameful. There's a lot of movement in regards to facial expressions as well as body movement, that... I don't see as often as it should.

Being as how I already see Tsubomi being utterly adorable as fuck, I turned my attention back to Erika, who we already know is fucking amazing. I originally looked at her antics and laughed at how much of a jackass she was, but looking at her now with what I know, even she looks adorable, and full of life.
 
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