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Winter 2012 Anime Thread 2.22: You Can (Not) Outpost Cajunator
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KO Traveling Hobo
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But we don't want to erase Medabots!
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Fresh Prince of Secret Base.
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It's over. *sobs*
It's not like I liked anime anyway. Hmph.
I wonder myself, but their situation seems to be pretty tense... you only have to check Cédric Hérole (or Bambin, as I explained here http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=35654147&postcount=8802) posts to asses their situation; apparently, as of March, 9 they still didn't even handed to him some of the corrected parts of his animation work for the first episode (http://www.catsuka.com/interf/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=5099&start=60).
Femmeworth
Banned
If you're worried about KoikeLupin now, you're REALLY not going to want to hear what I have to say next. I read a report from the Lupin 40th Anniversary event last week, where they apparently said that right now they are only in production for episode 3 of the series. That sounds pretty terrible honestly, considering it airs in a week.
Oh dear.
Ano Natsu 12 END
Fuck yeah
Still, this was a pretty good show in a rather disappointing and forgettable season. It's not only had the best ending of the season so far but it's also had the best character, Remon!
Fuck yeah
MIB Remon owning it up as usual. While I'm glad it showed Ichika managed to make it back to Earth at the very end (typical) I'm kinda disappointed it didn't resolve any of the relationships with the other characters.
I have to give props to this short for making Kafka's short story even more incomprehensible.
I didn't expect to have any feels in the last episode. They built that part up good because it was adorable and so cute, and then BAM!
Fund it!....
Oh wait a second...
Basileus777
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Ano Natsu 12
Predictably they went pretty heavy on using elements from Please Teacher here. At least there was no pocky or
this time. I suppose the ending worked fine, though I'd have preferred something that wasn't identical to the first show.
Predictably they went pretty heavy on using elements from Please Teacher here. At least there was no pocky or
memory wipe
I don't understand how they could have started contributing in episode 1 and 4 way back in June 2011, and still not be done with episode 1 in March 2012. It really makes no sense.
Hell no. Noir is a great series.
You make me sad. Sad penguin.
Soooooooo jelly
checkeredknight
Member
Oh dear. Now I'm growing concerned again, that does seem awfully fishy. Also, it seemed weird for that PV to show off concept art and hardly any footage... guess it makes sense seeing as they've only done three episodes. Maybe it's to do with licencing? Getting everybody confirmed and on-board? Maybe it's had multiple revisions.
I'm hoping, praying this series is good. Please don't fuck this up.
Dedication Through Light
Member
Another 12 (end)
Sums the whole anime.
I enjoyed the series even if it had a slow start but it picked up fast. Background imagery was its selling point as well as cool cast designs and intriguing setting and music. Enjoyable characters interactions and mystery throughout kept it fun. A bit intense in the blood department for me but I managed. Anamnesis is great. 7 / 10.
Favorite Character: Sakakibara, Mochizuki, Teshigawara
Worst Character: Head of Countermeasures, Teshigawaras friend
Best Scene:
and the Dance scene.
Hopefully it gets dubbed and released in the Fall for at most 49.99...
Episode 12 was actually pretty great and shocking. Seeing how predictions turned out was a fun part, of course
Sums the whole anime.
I enjoyed the series even if it had a slow start but it picked up fast. Background imagery was its selling point as well as cool cast designs and intriguing setting and music. Enjoyable characters interactions and mystery throughout kept it fun. A bit intense in the blood department for me but I managed. Anamnesis is great. 7 / 10.
Favorite Character: Sakakibara, Mochizuki, Teshigawara
Worst Character: Head of Countermeasures, Teshigawaras friend
Best Scene:
Both scenes with glasses shattering, lightning striking umbrella
Hopefully it gets dubbed and released in the Fall for at most 49.99...
Episode 12 was actually pretty great and shocking. Seeing how predictions turned out was a fun part, of course
I was dead wrong, but the shock of Reiko was baffling and actually pretty ingenious. I like when series do the unexpected. I thought my favs would die but they all made it, which was great. Some of the deaths were brutal but intense, glass from the lightning was pretty and that scene memorable.
If they have really only completed 3 episodes by the time it starts airing, I think there is almost no hope. Even if the other 10 episodes are in various stages of completion, it doesn't seem like there is enough lead time at all. The season would run for 3 months, which is probably enough to complete maybe 3-4 episodes at best. Even then you have to consider the lead time. By the time episode 4 is due to air, that would have given them 3 weeks to finish ep4. But only 1 extra week to finish ep5, 2 extra weeks to finish ep6, etc.
I just don't see it, and it doesn't make sense at all. For a typical 13 episode series, you usually need about a 6 episode lead by the time the show starts airing, to give a solid buffer to complete the remaining episodes before they are due to air.
I just don't see it, and it doesn't make sense at all. For a typical 13 episode series, you usually need about a 6 episode lead by the time the show starts airing, to give a solid buffer to complete the remaining episodes before they are due to air.
Femmeworth
Banned
It has the writer of Black Rock Shooter (TV) and the director of Michiko to Hatchin, what could go wrong?
firehawk12
Subete no aware
They can air some sketches and then finish it up for the BD.
Don't forget the mechanical designer of Iron Man, and the prop designer of Guilty Crown!
Okay guys, stop hitting me, I'm sorry. I'll repent.
checkeredknight
Member
Then it can't be true... surely they'd delay it? What would happen if they start airing on the 4th and can't keep up? Would they just end up cancelling it?
Don't do this to me. Don't. /rocks back and forth
Femmeworth
Banned
Okay, that was mean. I'm sorry.
I hope it turns out okay.Didn't Koike only do the pilot?
Do you ever watch Shaft anime? Lol.
Basileus777
Member
Are Remon and Ichigo actually the same person? If they are, she hasn't aged much, though I suppose there's still that standstill nonsense.
Ultimadrago
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Milky Holmes 7
*looks at clock* It's beach time already?!
N(looked upon kindly)FWork:http://i.imgur.com/a3EFy.jpg
Ha, I swear these girls have spoken on food for over five minutes in every episode thus far!
The walkie-talkie scene transitions made me chuckle. If anything, for how random they felt.
Dat eyecatch.
Okay, so I'm not getting this. Is the relationship between Phantom Thieves and Detectives hostile or more of a light-hearted rivalry?
Henriette seems to be one of the main thieves Milky Holmes kept an eye on in their "powered" detective days, but yet Henriette/Arsene never fails to help, understand and assist Milky Holmes. It's kinda confusing me. Either I'm taking the tension between the groups too seriously, or there's an underlying factor yet unexplained?
as well.
Also Cordelia is confirmed to be a batshit crazed delusional again. I love it!
Also coolio,
Overall, fun episode with some typical beach elements.
Note: Yes, the NSFW's I put up aren't bad, but I'd rather take it safe just in case anyone's employer/employee/whoever saw it scrolled through.
*looks at clock* It's beach time already?!
N(looked upon kindly)FWork:http://i.imgur.com/a3EFy.jpg
Ha, I swear these girls have spoken on food for over five minutes in every episode thus far!
But if all I got were a potato a day, I would too.
The walkie-talkie scene transitions made me chuckle. If anything, for how random they felt.
N(looked upon kindly)FWork one: http://i.imgur.com/TwLmC.jpg
Dat eyecatch.
Okay, so I'm not getting this. Is the relationship between Phantom Thieves and Detectives hostile or more of a light-hearted rivalry?
Henriette seems to be one of the main thieves Milky Holmes kept an eye on in their "powered" detective days, but yet Henriette/Arsene never fails to help, understand and assist Milky Holmes. It's kinda confusing me. Either I'm taking the tension between the groups too seriously, or there's an underlying factor yet unexplained?
Ha, the Cordelia knockouts got me a bit. The
stripping scene
"Just Strip NORMAL, WOULD YOU?!
Also Cordelia is confirmed to be a batshit crazed delusional again. I love it!
Also coolio,
Nero got some powa back in this one. She's my fav Milky member thus far, so this pleases me.
Overall, fun episode with some typical beach elements.
Note: Yes, the NSFW's I put up aren't bad, but I'd rather take it safe just in case anyone's employer/employee/whoever saw it scrolled through.
To sleep to!
He'll have to shack up with Mitsuo Iso.
Inu x Boku SS 3
Cute episode in its own right. I still can't seem to learn to remember the names of the characters in the show and I'm too lazy to go look them up, but I keep liking the main girl's personality, though I feel she should be proud of her ability to put such a front and tell assholes off like it's the easiest thing in the world.
Cute episode in its own right. I still can't seem to learn to remember the names of the characters in the show and I'm too lazy to go look them up, but I keep liking the main girl's personality, though I feel she should be proud of her ability to put such a front and tell assholes off like it's the easiest thing in the world.
hosannainexcelsis
Member
If this show ends up being a bust, it'll be a huge one considering the importance of the franchise involved. Couldn't you see it being big enough to be career-killing? And maybe not just for Koike.
checkeredknight
Member
To be honest, I've only ever watched five or six different animes. I'm assuming they tend to do everything last minute and end up with rushed artwork?
I'm wondering how the old Lupin Part II series was done exactly. A lot of the episodes got passed between studios, some taking longer to complete their episodes than others. I assume there was a six or so episode gap with that too.
Well let's hope it's good then, so it can end his career with a BANG!!!
Femmeworth
Banned
Well, if he sinks TMS Entertainment and we extrapolate... dear god, he'll destroy the entire industry. D:
I really need to go back and watch the show because I don't remember a damn thing from it. After watching the episode again, it's implied these events takes place many years (25? 30?) after
Onegai Teacher
Mizuho's recorded message was playing
Garbage? Lol.
When I say 6 episode gap, I'm referring to how many episodes are generally pretty much completed by the time a 13 episode series goes on air. For longer series, the buffer is also much larger if the production management at the studio is good. The reason for this is that While a 6 episode buffer is considered pretty good for a 13 episode series (since by the time you catch up on it the series is over), it would not work as well for a 26 episode series, since you will eat through the buffer by episode 15 or so at best, and it becomes extremely hard (impossible?) to finish one episode per week for another 11 weeks, even if you have 4 production teams working on rotation.
This is another reason why split-seasons are getting more and more popular in terms of making it easier for the production staff to not kill themselves. By airing 13 episodes first, and then taking a break, they are able to start airing a series with a shorter lead time, and once they hit the middle they can stop and take an airing break, while money is already rolling in from CD sales, DVD/BD sales, etc. Meanwhile the studio can continue working on the rest of the series and they have 3 months to buffer up for the next 13 episodes again.
Basileus777
Member
The alien from Please Teacher was half-human, so there is some history of aliens and humans having children. It'd be weird if Please Teacher took place 30 years before Ano Natsu.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Wait, are there actual ties between the two shows?
checkeredknight
Member
Makes sense. Sounds like you're right then. If the 3 episode thing is true, they are buggered. Hopefully they'll either delay it or scrap it all together (thought I can't see that happening this late in.) Rather have no new series than a terrible unfinished one...
Mein eyes! Yeah, that is terrible.
chickdigger802
Banned
Ano Natsu END
A bit of a 'downer' ending even though it fits the whole summer thing well (He doesn't even get to bang the alien like in onegai sensei!).
Remon steals the show though. Shame that MiB3 will probably be dog shit.
Best animes start and end with headtilts.
Aquarion 4
This show is my kind of dumb.
A bit of a 'downer' ending even though it fits the whole summer thing well (He doesn't even get to bang the alien like in onegai sensei!).
Remon steals the show though. Shame that MiB3 will probably be dog shit.
Best animes start and end with headtilts.
Aquarion 4
This show is my kind of dumb.
Another 4
Final Destination: the anime
There was one point in the cafe where they had a long shot showing the entire seating are, and normally that kind of shot is an excuse for minimal animation, but I was impressed that they actually had people moving and talking in the background. You don't usually see that kind of effort in a TV show.
Final Destination: the anime
Too bad about the nurse, she totally had the hots for him too.
There was one point in the cafe where they had a long shot showing the entire seating are, and normally that kind of shot is an excuse for minimal animation, but I was impressed that they actually had people moving and talking in the background. You don't usually see that kind of effort in a TV show.
Basileus777
Member
Before the last episode Ano Natsu could have just been a re-imagining, but there
Mizuho from Please Teacher speaks about the events of the first show at the Lake she crash landed at.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
I really can't remember the original show... but isn't she
allowed to stay? I seem to remember her mother appearing and giving them her blessing.
Basileus777
Member
She leaves and everyone gets their memories wiped. She comes back a year late and the main character remembers everything because of pocky.
The thing is, it just cannot be true. Even if Koike turns out to be the most incompetent animation director of all time, I find it highly unlikely that something which started production in mid-2011 at the latest, is this incomplete after 9 months.
I'm going to provide a silver lining here, and suggest that what the producer actually meant when they said they're in production for episode 3 now, is that they're recording the voices for episode 3 now, which is the near-end process for the production of an episode. This doesn't suggest that the other episodes are far from completion, just that they haven't entered the recording stage yet, which is done in a linear fashion, unlike the production on the actual animation. This means they could be well on schedule.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Oh yes, now I remember. So wouldn't that mean that
she's still there? I guess she set up the whole MIB thing.
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