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Spring Anime 2016 |OT| Get a Season So Complicated
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Turin Turambar
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It could be Joker Game, though not as much as Rakugo, and not as good.
Already watch that, not as good but yeah.
striferser
Huge Nickleback Fan
Space Patrol Luluco season 2 ep.1
Hm, loving the lyrical change in the OP.
Armageddon, anime version. Oh hey, candidate for best anime mom for this season.
Hm, loving the lyrical change in the OP.
Armageddon, anime version. Oh hey, candidate for best anime mom for this season.
NeonZ
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Funny thing about this is that people had figured out that Rainbow Knight was based on a Batman-type super hero (Gekkou Kamen/Moonlight Mask),
so this is just following in line with the original reference.
MikeHattsu
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The meanness of Narag
Basileus777
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Sakamoto 2
I actually think the first episode was funnier. This may be fated to be the same as the source material which also lost its novelty real quickly.
I actually think the first episode was funnier. This may be fated to be the same as the source material which also lost its novelty real quickly.
Because they're the only ones who would agree to something this stupid. No seriously, it's like someone PMing you on NeoGAF saying you passed a test and are 1 of the chosen 30 to go live in the middle of fucking nowhere with people you've never met. Only complete idiots or creeps with nothing to lose would go for it.
So after rewatching the latest episode of Lost Village/Mayoiga, I'm pretty damn sure that everyone's seeing
illusions of their own personal fears/anxieties/mental hangups. That would explain why Yottsun in episode 3 said "Why are you here?" to the thing he saw offscreen, Judgeness saw Jack in the woods despite no one else seeing him, Driver saw his dead daughter (probably the thing that knocked on the bus window in ep 2), and MaiMai saw a giant Mitsumune (since she seems to be having mixed feeling about him).
PdotMichael
Banned
Yeah, that was pretty blatant. The only thing I don't know is how the strange e-mail ties things together, since that'd lead me to believe a human was behind it all, but all these happenings are just impossible to carry out "normally".
Then again, given how Another worked, I don't think spending any time trying to think about the plot is going to do us any good, since chances are the actual phenomenon behind the weird stuff is just a device to drive the plot forward and the show won't even bother making a ruleset that isn't a contrived mess.
And it's going to be 2 cours. :|
Sir Blaming
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Dedication Through Light
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Hundred episode 3
Okay, finals are behind me, and I’ve had a few days of rest, so let’s chip away at this piece of shit.
While I didn’t get to it in my previous episode assessments, let me just say that I absolutely hate the character designs of the Cat-girl (Her name is fucking Mai-mei… its like someone heard someone mispronounce meme and said “yeah that’s what we should call her”and the Black Butler reject (Chris). They don’t fit, and the proportions are all weird on those two. Its very very jarring when they are on screen, but HAY we see them on screen together here! This episode doesn’t start off strong, lets just say that…
Anyway, we see a look at the first “Savage” other than the one in the flashback and its… lackluster to say the least. Kinda boring looking. Very generic, insect big-enemy looking creature. We see it clearly and then they change the camera angle for no discernible reason only to go “Its Huge! A Giant!” Well no shit. When was there a small savage? We’ve never seen one, how could we assume there would be small ones? Well, right after that we get a back and forth of characters going “you’re not going, yes we are” which doesn’t tell us anything about the characters. Its just fluff writing.
Then we get the opening. I must say, I actually like the OP in this show. The visuals... some of them could be better. That’s all I’ll really say about it. The scene after the OP isn’t bad, just mission exposition. We get into the actual battle. Defeating these “Savages” actually doesn’t look that hard, if the people fighting them weren’t so damn incompetent. Most of the issues arising from these fights seem to be incompetence or lack of contingent planning, which for a military-esque mission like this, is pitiful.
I’ll get back to that in a second, but let me just say that the exposition in this show is kinda bullshit WHILE its being demonstrated. “A Savage’s skin is said to be as strong as steel, but an attack from a Hundred can slice it like butter” is said just as a strong energy blast does nothing but break the glass-like weakest part of the savage (which is shielding the core… kind of a huge design error, eh?). We then see the green-haired side character pierce the core with a drill weapon (not quite like butter), and then immediately exclaim “Did you see that, Emile Crossforde?!” which made me question her sanity, intelligence, and the writing in general. Why does she say this? Emile is still on the plane, waiting to deploy. Sure she doesn’t like Emile, but just piercing a core like that isn’t very impressive. If she had done that single handed and the Savage wasn’t tied up and incapacitated, then sure go and gloat. But here it just looks really petty. Maybe that’s what they were going for, but I doubt that. I think the writers wanted to write her as “proud”. I didn’t get that here. This is only 7 minutes in.
Emile then pushes Hayato off before being clear for deployment and whatever, slight comedy and mid-air planning. Nothing offensive. But then we’re given a few shots that screw with the constancy of the toughness of the Savages. We see that Emile’s blasts do… nothing (I get that she’s putting up a smokescreen, but why?), then Hayato’s slash cracks the glass-like core shield, but then Emile slices off the Savages arm no problem. This begs the question, are slices stronger, or are blasts? Because Queen Drill’s blast decimated the shield, but left everything else without a scratch, but slashes seem to have the opposite effect. They seem to be have an easy time taking apart limbs, but have problems with the shield. Whatever, just something dumb I noticed.
We see that one of the side-character’s abilities (a poor man’s Chain Jail) is inconsistence in tying up enemies, and so shit hits the fan. Because of this, the 2 side characters are out of the fight and Queen Drills tries to use here supped up suit thing to finish the job. We then see that she doesn’t have enough energy because of the fight with Hayato in episode 2 (HOW WAS THIS NOT CHECKED PRIOR TO DEPLOYMENT?!). To be fair we do see that Savages do have the power to do strong energy blasts, so maybe they kind of are a threat… but still… We then see Hayato saving Queen Drills while grabbing her side boob, because why not. And Queen Drills falls more in love with him for saving her and princess caring her and side boob grabbing her because why the fuck not? Both Queen Drills and Hayato then shield from a blast from the Savage, and while this should have been kinda cool, I couldn’t help but wonder why the hell was he still carrying her? He had ample time to put her down. We’re halfway through the episode now, I’ll speed thing up now.
Emile ends up holding her own a little and then gets into danger. Hayato then remembers that Emile is really, wait for it, EMILIA (dun dun DUN!) who was the girl in the first part of episode 1 (not like anyone didn’t know at this point). How do they show that she’s a girl? By ripping her battle uniform to show side boob, of course! Hayato saves her, goes berserk like in episode 2. He goes nuts and is about to throw a red spirit ball until Emilia comes up and kisses him, which calms his shit down. She even gets some tongue in there. Hayato is now able to control his supped up form and defeats the savage (The “Hayato goes nuts to win” formula is very apparent here… I don’t expect that to change). Everything's over, Hayato is exhausted and Queen Drills is flustered over the kiss and the fact that Emilia is a girl. They return to Mother Base and Hayato and Emilia talk. Here we hear all the exposition: Hayato and Emilia are infected with the Savage virus which normally kills people, and if not makes them go nuts when close to death. The only way to stop them from going nuts close to death is through heavy training or through kissing someone whose virus isn’t active (because why not).
Narag proposed that this might be foreshadowing for Emilia to go nuts with no one able to help her, but that doesn’t hold water here. The only way for her to not get help is if Hayato also goes nuts at the same time. At that point everyone would be just fucked and honestly, that would be a LOT more interesting that what we have so far. Sort of a 2 lovers turned monsters destroying the world story. I’d actually enjoy it if that’s how they went, but that would be giving the writers and scenario builders way too much credit.
Well, after that whole shtick, we then get some hammy kissing romance BS from Hayato and Emilia as she “administrates her inactive virus” into him. At this point, we are 22 minute into the episode, the credits are about to roll, but 1 thing that I saw in pictures hasn’t happened yet. Suddenly, in the 11th hour, Queen Drills enters the room to see Emilia on top of Hayato (because why not), then Hayato tries to get up and trips on Emilia (because why not), and then lands on Queen Drills. Lips locked, boobs grabbed. Because, why the fuck not? Everyone’s slightly flustered and everything that you’d expect from an anime like this that would happen, happens. But we do get a good slight gag from the hall mates.
And that’s the episode. I promised a long write up, and here it is. Around 1300 words. Its good to be back.
This anime is so shitty. I love it.
I'll talk about the other episodes I've watched since last week later.
A lengthy post on concrete revolution would have been a better use of your time and energy
Also thats offensive to Chris
Cornbread78
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firehawk12
Subete no aware
You don't need 1300 words to talk about Hundred. You just need one.
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NHarmonic.
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Assassination Classroom's new opening is outstanding. Great animation, great song.
Sir Blaming
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KenjiGlove
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JoJo 04
Damn, curious to see what's in the mystery egg.
I'd choose the one that isn't a sped up Imgur gif
Damn, curious to see what's in the mystery egg.
I'd choose the one that isn't a sped up Imgur gif
I'd take the top then. No room for such low res sprites in today's world.
Dedication Through Light
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RIN-NE Season 2 Episode 28 The Missing Membership Fee
Wow that was one of the funniest episodes this season. Kain and Rokudo finally gave an episode where I didn't feel annoyed at Kain.
The counter scene is the best.
Wow that was one of the funniest episodes this season. Kain and Rokudo finally gave an episode where I didn't feel annoyed at Kain.
The counter scene is the best.
Texhnolzye 7-8
Well that escalated quickly. Yoshii is pretty terrifying character considering how easily he goaded and manipulated all three sides to go to war. Ichise is still the odd man out in that, what side would even want him? He's a personification of rage and hatred, he's too uncontrollable for anyone to really make use of.
It's interesting that characters mention the "city" itself as a character when its actually seems purposely designed to be an incomprehensible labyrinth of samey architecture and narrow streets. Its like a shithole maze that traps all the characters rather than somewhere were they actually live. And all the characters inside just have no purpose to fight each to see who's king of the trash heap.
Its telling that Yoshii, the one guy from outside, is the only character that seems to have any agency to change things and he seems to actually have some vitality unlike everyone else (though i thinks its hinted that Ichise might have the potential to change things as well, hence why people seem interested in him).
Well that escalated quickly. Yoshii is pretty terrifying character considering how easily he goaded and manipulated all three sides to go to war. Ichise is still the odd man out in that, what side would even want him? He's a personification of rage and hatred, he's too uncontrollable for anyone to really make use of.
It's interesting that characters mention the "city" itself as a character when its actually seems purposely designed to be an incomprehensible labyrinth of samey architecture and narrow streets. Its like a shithole maze that traps all the characters rather than somewhere were they actually live. And all the characters inside just have no purpose to fight each to see who's king of the trash heap.
Its telling that Yoshii, the one guy from outside, is the only character that seems to have any agency to change things and he seems to actually have some vitality unlike everyone else (though i thinks its hinted that Ichise might have the potential to change things as well, hence why people seem interested in him).
Kind of spoils the big reveal 15 minutes too early though!
Oldbag hype!
Fuck yeah.
It's not sped up.
Admiral Woofington
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I'd say Tonkatsu dj feels more like jet set radio or an adult swim show than Anime.
PdotMichael
Banned
Wilhelmina Braunschweig Ingenol Friedenburg.
What a girl, what a name!
Shit is also hitting the fan now.
Aaronrules380
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I kind of expected it, especially since I knew his tag was "immoral" from the special
Dedication Through Light
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Favorite moment from todays Tanaka.With this for the school life BL and Super Lovers for the home life BL, this is a good BL anime season.
Admiral Woofington
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Sakamoto 2
"And one smile for take-out" lmao 10/10
"And one smile for take-out" lmao 10/10
BassForever
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Sakamoto 2
Probably my two least favorite manga chapters adapted together was pretty resident sleeper
Next week has a pretty good chapter being adapted
Probably my two least favorite manga chapters adapted together was pretty resident sleeper
Next week has a pretty good chapter being adapted
metal gear sakamoto
Asterisk #16
Action continues to be on point.
Those damn twins were really annoying. The character-type I hate the most. However this also meant it was really satisfying when Ayato just smashed his shitty face in. So good.
Should be doubly humiliating for them, because if they hadn't continued to fuck around because of overconfidence, they would have won five times.
On the other hand, Kirin and Saya are fighting against the robots now. Ardi and Rimsi are so good. Definitely belong to my favorite characters.
...Which cannot be said for Flora. Whoever was responsible for deciding on her voice and being all 'yes, that's how it should be' deserves to rot in hell. Never have I hated a voice as much as this. It's physically painful listening to this high-pitched shrieking abomination. Please, someone just write her out. /rant
Kiznaiver #3
This is the best. Goes right below JoJo for me this season. It's just too much fun. Special shout out to Nico and Tenga, those two are gold.
That twist at the end, did not expect that, lol.
Action continues to be on point.
Those damn twins were really annoying. The character-type I hate the most. However this also meant it was really satisfying when Ayato just smashed his shitty face in. So good.
Should be doubly humiliating for them, because if they hadn't continued to fuck around because of overconfidence, they would have won five times.
On the other hand, Kirin and Saya are fighting against the robots now. Ardi and Rimsi are so good. Definitely belong to my favorite characters.
...Which cannot be said for Flora. Whoever was responsible for deciding on her voice and being all 'yes, that's how it should be' deserves to rot in hell. Never have I hated a voice as much as this. It's physically painful listening to this high-pitched shrieking abomination. Please, someone just write her out. /rant
Kiznaiver #3
This is the best. Goes right below JoJo for me this season. It's just too much fun. Special shout out to Nico and Tenga, those two are gold.
That twist at the end, did not expect that, lol.
ThatChairMan
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Ace Attorney 4
No Turnabout Sisters theme. No Turnabout Sisters theme. No Turnabout Sisters theme.
I was willing to tolerate a lot of the bad moments if I could at least get some good music remixes out of it, but this is disappointing.
No Turnabout Sisters theme. No Turnabout Sisters theme. No Turnabout Sisters theme.
I was willing to tolerate a lot of the bad moments if I could at least get some good music remixes out of it, but this is disappointing.
DeadRockstar
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Kiznaiver 3
Despite the melodrama (read: Okada) being built into the premise, there are consistent, deliberate attempts to lighten the mood that give me hope for this show long term on top of being entertaining. Additionally, my favourite reveal this episode was the declaration that the Kiznaiver project will take place over summer, meaning that developments won't be completely school-bound going forward (though they've already managed to happen fairly independently of school obligations). The 7th Kiznaiver is the perfect foil for the other characters and maybe I'm reading too much into this, but it feels a bit like Okada poking fun at herself?
Despite the melodrama (read: Okada) being built into the premise, there are consistent, deliberate attempts to lighten the mood that give me hope for this show long term on top of being entertaining. Additionally, my favourite reveal this episode was the declaration that the Kiznaiver project will take place over summer, meaning that developments won't be completely school-bound going forward (though they've already managed to happen fairly independently of school obligations). The 7th Kiznaiver is the perfect foil for the other characters and maybe I'm reading too much into this, but it feels a bit like Okada poking fun at herself?
The show deliberately indicates that his character might be what you'd expect of her writing, before turning the reveal into a gag.
Kiznaiver Episode 3:
This show certainly at the very least is on of the most interesting shows of the season and I think the Mari Okada chip was placed on the wrong horse. I really do like that the whole shared pain concept is putting a new and kind of dark spin on that most Shonen of tropes, the bonds of friendship.
This show certainly at the very least is on of the most interesting shows of the season and I think the Mari Okada chip was placed on the wrong horse. I really do like that the whole shared pain concept is putting a new and kind of dark spin on that most Shonen of tropes, the bonds of friendship.
Interesting that the Hikikomori ended up being a masochist and it makes sense making that a reinterpretation of the sin of lust. Also, it is nice that this series confirmed my thought that I have been watching a bunch of TVTrope listings interact with each other.
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